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  • Time For Jesus

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Sep 19, 2008
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    Time for Jesus Suppose you walked into your kitchen one morning and found Jesus sitting at the table. What would you do? Would you say: "Jesus! I'm thrilled to see You! I just wish I had time to talk, but right now I'm running late for work. When I get home tonight, we'll have a nice visit"? ...read more

  • N India This Week (Early Oct., 2008), Here Is The ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 15, 2008
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    n India this week (early Oct., 2008), here is the latest: "Christians feel unsafe even under government protection, and are leaving the refugee camps to escape to other areas of India. In Kandhamal, the destruction has continued for more than a month. Bhubaneshwar (AsiaNews) - About 12,000 people ...read more

  • Don't Underestimate The Power Of Your Prayers For ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Oct 17, 2008
     | 1,848 views

    Don’t underestimate the power of your PRAYERS for our Nation. George Flurry wrote: “Prayer is political action. Prayer is social energy. Prayer is public good. … Prayer is an act of patriotism in the largest sense of the word … The single most important action contributing to whatever health ...read more

  • Celebration Fires

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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     | 4,598 views

    CELEBRATION FIRES During the dark winter of 1864, at Petersburg, Virginia, the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee faced the Union divisions of General Ulysses S. Grant. Late one evening one of Lee's generals, Major General George Pickett, received word that his wife had given birth to a beautiful ...read more

  • The Best News No One Heard

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    THE BEST NEWS NO ONE HEARD Take the year 1809. The international scene was tumultuous. Napoleon was sweeping through Austria; blood was flowing freely. Nobody then cared about babies. But the world was overlooking some terribly significant births. For example, William Gladstone was born that ...read more

  • Liberals Give Less Than ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    LIBERALS GIVE LESS THAN CONSERVATIVES A couple years ago, a Syracuse University professor named Arthur C. Brooks wrote a book called "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism". He was not particularly excited about the outcome of the study he’d done (he’d been raised ...read more

  • Alcoholics Anonymous

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 23, 2009
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    ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS By 1934, alcoholic Bill Wilson had ruined a promising Wall Street career because of his constant drunkenness. He was introduced to the idea of a spiritual cure by an old drinking buddy Ebby Thacher. While in a hospital, Wilson underwent what he believed to be a spiritual ...read more

  • Despite His Busy Schedule During The Civil War, ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 26, 2009
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    Despite his busy schedule during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln often visited the hospitals to cheer the wounded. On one occasion he saw a young fellow who was near death. “Is there anything I can do for you?” asked the compassionate President. “Please write a letter to my mother,” came the reply. ...read more

  • Rich So You Can Be Generous

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Mar 4, 2009
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    RICH SO YOU CAN BE GENEROUS While I’m not a proponent of the health and wealth gospel, I find verses 8-11 of 2 Cor. 9 to be nothing short of amazing in terms of a Biblical promise. How else would you interpret words like these? "You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on ...read more

  • You Can Trust ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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    YOU CAN TRUST GOD A Canadian pastor, in a period of great turmoil, received the faithful help of God he needed from reading about the following true incident. In his town the local parks commission had been ordered to remove the trees from a street they were going to widen. As they were about to ...read more

  • Growing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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    GROWING PLURALISM Most Americans don’t believe their religious tradition is the only way to eternal life, even if their denomination teaches otherwise, finds a Pew Forum study. 57% of evangelical church-attenders believe many religions can lead to eternal life. 70% of Americans with a religious ...read more

  • When I Get Straightened Out

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 4, 2009
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    WHEN I GET STRAIGHTENED OUT When a new family moved into the community, the pastor went to invite them to his church. The husband said, "We are just getting moved in, Parson, but I will come when I get straightened out." After a few weeks, the Rev. went again with the same invitation. The ...read more

  • Soil And Spiritual Seasons  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 19, 2009
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    SOIL AND SPIRITUAL SEASONS Jesus says these people resemble the soil next to the path which in Palestine could look like decent soil but only an inch deep. Because the soil has settled there maybe blown by the wind or pushed there by the run off from the rain, it can be very fertile. People are ...read more

  • Ignoring The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    IGNORING THE WARNINGS On Sep. 28, 1986 heavy rains flooded many low-lying areas of the Midwest. Two years before, there was a flood that many remember as the "Memorial Day Massacre" that claimed the lives of twenty people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as small creeks and drainage ditches became killer ...read more

  • The Real Miracle  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Jun 27, 2009
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    THE REAL MIRACLE Several years ago, a very peculiar sight could be seen at a large downtown church in England. On the first Sunday of the New Year, an ex-convict knelt to receive communion beside the judge who had sentenced him to seven years in prison. After being sentenced, the young convict was ...read more

  • Lighthouse Laws

    Contributed by Doyle Hayes on Jul 7, 2009
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    LIGHTHOUSE LAWS In U.S. Navel Institute Proceedings, the magazine of the Naval Institute, Frank Koch illustrates the importance of obeying the Laws of the Lighthouse. Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvers in heavy weather for several days. I was serving on ...read more

  • The Rich Man Had No Excuse As Lazarus Sat Right ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 13, 2009
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    The rich man had no excuse as Lazarus sat right outside his gate. He can’t claim that he didn’t know or didn’t see the poor. Sound familiar? “I don’t know any poor.” We live in the suburbs so we don’t have to see the poor. We applaud laws that keep the homeless from sleeping where we can see them ...read more

  • The Apostle Paul Specifically Tells Us In I ...

    Contributed by Sidney Sumida on Oct 6, 2009
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    The apostle Paul specifically tells us in I Thessalonians 3:3, that our afflictions are God appointed. That means God specially designs our trials to the right specifications with the intent of reaching our hearts! I remember when I was growing up and entering the adolescence years of my life ...read more

  • How Linus Deals With Problems: Run ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 29, 2009
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    How Linus Deals With Problems: Run away Remember the cartoon series, Peanuts? In one of the scenes, Linus and Charlie Brown are walking along and chatting with one another. Linus says, “I don’t like to face problems head on. I think the best way to solve problems is to avoid them. In fact, this is ...read more

  • Compassion For The Elderly, Post Office ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
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    Compassion for the Elderly, Post Office Style [FINDING MAMIE IN YOUR CHURCH] Mamie was an elderly woman, plagued with arthritis and a number of other ailments. So people were surprised to see her going regularly to the post office to buy stamps. One Christmas the lines were particularly long, but ...read more