Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2011
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THE ANT, THE PRAYER, AND THE CONTACT LENS
A true story: Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was scared to death, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took a hold on the rope, and started up the face
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Jan 2, 2008
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Under New Management
A certain Army man had been a heavy drinker for 35 years. For all those years he had been angry; angry with everyone and everything. Finally, he encountered Christ and his whole life changed.
He was speaking once before a group of medical people. He told them of his
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Baptist
Contributed by Steve Stewart on Apr 6, 2004
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A NEW SPIRIT AND OPPORTUNITY
A few years ago a young girl by the name of Sofi was born in Siberia, a bitterly cold and desolate area of Russia. A difficult place to be a child but Sofi’s life was going to be even rougher than most. She was an orphan. Then suddenly at the age of 2 she was adopted,
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Baptist
Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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Focus on the Family compiled the following conclusions of the effectiveness of 25 years of addressing the search of intimacy with "safe sex" ideology. (From Fresh Illustrations)
Ten percent of all 15 to 19 year-old females become pregnant each year. ("Kids Having Kids," A Robin Hood Foundation
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Baptist
Contributed by David Yarbrough on Oct 15, 2001
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A brand new lawyer in his brand new office on his first day in practice sees a prospective client walk in the door. He decides he should look busy, so he picks up the phone and starts talking: "Look, Harry, about that amalgamation deal. I think I better run down to the factory and handle it
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Dave Kinney on Jan 27, 2008
The USS New York, it’s a new powerful class of warship just being delivered to the Navy. It is designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered on shore by helicopters and assault craft.
But
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Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 13, 2007
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New Every Morning
Yea, “new every morning,” though we may awake,
Our hearts with old sorrow beginning to ache;
With old work unfinished when night stayed our hand
With new duties waiting, unknown and unplanned;
With old care still pressing, to fret and to vex,
With new problems rising, our minds
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Baptist
Here’s the bad news
It’s the fact that none of us can ever be worthy; it’s the truth that no one can ever earn or merit God’s grace or favor that is the bad news of the gospel. It has been a universal disease of humanity that we want to be worthy. When we have toiled through the heat of the day and
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Greg Buchner on May 31, 2005
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The Serenity Prayer – written by Reinhold Niebuhr
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
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Methodist