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  • Lois K. Blanchard Pictures Christ As Still ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Lois K. Blanchard pictures Christ as still walking the streets today. She asks these pointed questions: If Jesus came to your home to spend a day or two-- If he came unexpectedly, I wonder what you’d do? I know you’d give your nicest room to such an honored Guest, And all the food you’d serve to ...read more

  • There Is A Hill In The Lake District Called Rash ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 2,740 views

    There is a hill in the lake district called Rash Judgment Point and that it was given that name by William Wordsworth. The story goes that while he and his sister were standing at the top of this hill one day during the harvest season looking down on the lake below, they saw a man in a boat ...read more

  • I Want To Close By Sharing The Devil's ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I want to close by sharing the Devil’s Beatitudes with you. 1. Blessed are those who are too tired, too busy, too distracted to spend even an hour once a week with their fellow Christians – they are my best workers. 2. Blessed are those Christians who wait to be asked and expect to be thanked -- ...read more

  • I Like To Read The Tombstones To Find Out When ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I like to read the tombstones to find out when people lived and died. Occasionally someone writes a scripture verse on their tombstone but most of them just give a name and the dates they lived between. I didn’t find any interesting tombstone comments in Alden MN where My great Aunt Frieda was ...read more

  • The Power Of Love

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Power of Love Newspaper columnist and Minister George Crane tell of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. “I do not only want to get rid of him; I want to get even. Before I divorce him, I want to hurt him as much as he has me.” Dr Crane suggested an ingenious ...read more

  • The Lord Provides

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Who do you belittle? Someone with less money, who can’t speak clearly Someone who does not speak English? With a disability? God says be there for those at risk Because, You could be AT RISK ANYTIME Reality is any of us could lose everything People here have and listen to their lessons Elderly ...read more

  • While We Are Reviewing The Ten Commandments, Let ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 12, 2007
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    While we are reviewing the Ten Commandments, let me also give you some “sign language” to remember all ten in order. 1 – Raise your index finger – I am the Lord, your God. You shall have no other gods before me. 2 – Raise your first two fingers – The second looks like the first – but it isn’t. ...read more

  • My Friends, If You See A Temptation Coming, And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
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    My friends, if you see a temptation coming, and you can avoid it, run! Don’t wait around, don’t play around, run. You drop a match in your lap, you don’t sit there and wonder how long it can sit there before it burns you. You get rid of it. … > 1 Samuel 17:48 When the Philistine started ...read more

  • There's A Popular Email That's Gone Around Most ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jul 31, 2007
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    There’s a popular email that’s gone around most businesses concerning time off. It says: So you want a day off. Let’s take a look at what you are asking for. There are 365 days per year available for work. There are 52 weeks per year in which you already have 2 days off per week, leaving 261 ...read more

  • I Remember The Church Where I Was Youth Leader. ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Aug 23, 2007
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    I remember the church where I was youth leader. None of the 12 members of the board but me were under 60. And I came before them with a proposal. "Give me the permission and several Bibles to go door to door around the tires factory where I worked for a while. I’ll go there with young people from ...read more

  • How About Michael Vick? He Confessed To Find ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2007
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    How about Michael Vick? He confessed to find Jesus. I think the loving approach is to pray for him. It is not my place to judge him and whether or not his confession was sincere. I don’t know. God does. I will leave that up to God. However, I can discern and even judge that his comment in the ...read more

  • Author Ken Jones Tells About A Lesson He Learned ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Opperman on Dec 28, 2007
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    -Author Ken Jones tells about a lesson he learned about hearing God: [When I walked into my office] I noticed something I had never seen before. It was round, about the size of a dessert plate, and plugged into the wall, giving out a constant noise. It wasn’t a loud noise, just constant. What in ...read more

  • A Little Boy Who Was Misbehaving One Night When ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Jan 16, 2008
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    A little boy who was misbehaving one night when his father was trying to get him to go to bed. The boy’s mother had gone to a meeting and his father was taking care of things at home. Long after the little boy had been tucked in for the night, he was doing the classic drink of water routine: ...read more

  • Does Christ Have Authority Over You? Do You ...

    Contributed by Charles Whitmire on Jan 20, 2008
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    Does Christ have authority over you? Do you submit to his will for your life? Here’s the real question: Who’s in charge of you? A few years ago a certain bracelet became popular with Christian youth. I’m sure you saw them... WWJD was the inscription, right? I had a police officer friend in Bastrop ...read more

  • To Be Saved, One Has To Understand That I Am A ...

    Contributed by Charles Whitmire on Jan 20, 2008
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    To be saved, one has to understand that I am a sinner, and my sin has separated me from God. I can try to earn my way back to God all I want, or I can realize that is hopeless - nothing I can do can wash away my sin - only Christ’s blood - only his sacrifice is acceptable to God, so I have to give ...read more

  • First We Must Understand -"Stuff Does Not Bring ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 13, 2008
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    First we must understand -“Stuff does not bring Happpiness” The most toured home in America is the white house. But does anyone know where the second most toured home in America is? The second most toured home in America is in Memphis Tennessee. It’s the 23 room home of the King of Rock and Roll ...read more

  • After The Collapse Of The Berlin Wall In 1989, No ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 16, 2008
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    After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, no person in all of East Germany was more despised than the former Communist dictator Erich Honecher. He had been stripped of all his offices. Even the Communist Party rejected him. Kicked out of his villa, the new government refused him and his wife ...read more

  • Addiction | Angeles Arrien, A Cultural ...  PRO

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Feb 21, 2008
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    ADDICTION | Angeles Arrien, a cultural anthropologist, describes our situation this way. She says our condition is one of universal addiction. She has written that we are all afflicted with addictions, not necessarily to drugs or alcohol or other substances -- those are merely symptoms -- but ...read more

  • While Josh Mcdowell Was Attending Seminary In ...

    Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Feb 22, 2008
     | 1,536 views

    While Josh McDowell was attending seminary in California, his father went Home to be with the Lord. His mother had died years earlier, but Josh was not sure of her salvation. He became depressed, thinking that she might be lost. Was she a Christian or not? The thought obsessed him. “Lord,” he ...read more

  • Easter

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 22, 2008
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    EASTER Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid 1950s her father, British minister W. E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a dragging in his leg. When he went to the doctor, he found that he had an incurable disease that caused progressive muscular atrophy. His ...read more

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