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  • Chuck Swindoll: Joseph's Life Story

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 2, 2009
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    Chuck Swindoll: In the fifty chapters of Genesis Joseph’s life story takes up one-fourth of the chapters. His life can be divided up into three sections: • Birth to Seventeen Years (Genesis 30:24-37:2) o During this time Joseph’s family was is transition-everyone was unsettled, on the move. A ...read more

  • Little Things - Big Blessings  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 5, 2009
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     | 3,397 views

    LITTLE THINGS - BIG BLESSINGS When we lived in Houston, Texas, our oldest Spencer was born. Spencer was placed in one of the vast Texas-sized nurseries at this hospital. There in that nursery, I met a group of volunteers who were all from a nearby church. The job of these volunteers in the nursery ...read more

  • Biblical Stories From Children  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,217 views

    BIBLICAL STORIES FROM CHILDREN The church is meant to supplement what is done in the home. We have a tough job in this department, don’t we? I came across some true statements that kids made in a Sunday School class: "Moses led the Hebrews to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, ...read more

  • Poem On Risk

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 28, 2009
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    POEM ON RISK This is a poem on risk from a classroom wall: To laugh is to risk appearing the fool To weep is to risk appearing sentimental To reach out for another is to risk involvement To expose feelings is to risk exposing, your true self To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to ...read more

  • Facing The Truth: Beverly Sills

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Apr 26, 2010
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    fACING THE TRUTH: BEVERLY SILLS Confession is admission of something; it is an act of disclosure. Here's a story in the Ladies’ Home Journal as once quoted in The Reader’s Digest: Being general director of the New York opera took a toll on Beverly Sills; she ballooned into obesity. "It made me ...read more

  • Impact Of Prayer In The Life Of David ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2010
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    Impact of Prayer in the Life of David Wilkerson Several years ago, a pastor of a small church in rural Pennsylvania decided to convert the two hours a night he spent watching TV into prayer time. Soon after that, there were some gang members in New York City who had been involved in a brutal, ...read more

  • More Than A Golf Ball

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2011
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    MORE THAN A GOLF BALL Curtis Strange, one of the golfers in the Master’s Tournament, teed up on the 12th hole and hit a beautiful shot. It rolled right up and dropped in the cup for a hole-in-one. The crowd went crazy with applause and cheering. Then Curtis Strange did an interesting thing. He ...read more

  • Jehovah Is Still God

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 14, 2011
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    JEHOVAH IS STILL GOD Gladys Aylward, missionary to China more than 50 years ago, was forced to flee when the Japanese invaded Yangcheng. But she couldn't leave her work behind. With only one assistant, she led a 100+ orphans over the mountains toward Free China. During Gladys's harrowing journey ...read more

  • Overwhelming Forgiveness

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 12, 2011
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    OVERWHELMING FORGIVENESS A wonderful example of how to practice the lifestyle of grace comes from an incident in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 2006, when a man entered an Amish schoolhouse and murdered 5 girls while wounding 5 others before killing himself. As horrific as this ...read more

  • The Trouble Telescope  PRO

    Contributed by Perry Greene on May 8, 2013
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     | 4,536 views

    THE TROUBLE TELESCOPE Most of you have seen the wonderful images from the Hubble Space Telescope. From the far reaches of space, we're able to see God's most breathtaking creations. Do you remember that in the beginning the Hubble Space Telescope was not the wonderful machine that it is today. ...read more

  • Too Wicked For Ministry

    Contributed by Keith Foskey on Apr 16, 2014
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    Paul Washer is a powerful preacher and evangelist. He once had a seminary student send him a message. He was afraid that he was too bad to enter the ministry. He sent him a message that simply said, "I think I am too wicked to be in the ministry." And Paul Washer wrote him back and said, "You are ...read more

  • Mothers

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Feb 29, 2016
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    To Mama and Jesus, You and He, You gave me life and He extended it. You saved me from the cold and He from sin. You taught me hope and He defended it. From you I once was born . . . from Him again. You let me skip in fields that He had made. He bid me bless the loaves you baked for me. You ordered ...read more

  • I Wonder What God Would Say To Us Today As He ...

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Apr 22, 2007
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     | 2,199 views

    I wonder what God would say to us today as He sees all of our so-called Christian organizations in constant activity but with little action or movement. The huge building program proclaiming astronomical figures in cost and “people reached” is indeed impressive. The mushroom growth of both churches ...read more

  • There Was A Man Walking With His Son Down A ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Apr 23, 2007
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    There was a man walking with his son down a country road. On the left was a beautiful country ESTATE. A big black LIMOUSINE pulled onto the circular DRIVEWAY. Out of the automobile stepped a FINELY DRESSED and WELL-GROOMED gentleman, who NODDED to the man and the boy and then went into his ...read more

  • When I Was A Boy, My Father, A Baker, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    “When I was a boy, my father, a baker, introduced me to the wonders of song,” tenor Luciano Pavarotti relates. “He urged me to work very hard to develop my voice. Arrigo Pola, a professional tenor in my hometown of Modena, Italy, took me as a pupil. I also enrolled in a teachers college. On ...read more

  • Ship Captain

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Ship Captain The story is told about a ship Captain who had a route that ran from California to Columbia. One day, as he was preparing to leave California, he was approached by some drug dealers who offered him $50,000 to allow a small shipment of drugs on his vessel. He immediately said no. On ...read more

  • He Declares That He Was An Eyewitness To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    He declares that he was an eyewitness to the majesty of Jesus Christ. There is more to the word ‘eyewitness’ than the way we commonly use the word. Here is what William Barclay wrote about it. “In the Greek usage of Peter’s day this was a technical word. We have already spoken about the Mystery ...read more

  • I Was Nearly 50 Years Old Before I Learned The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I was nearly 50 years old before I learned the positive definition of mercy in Peter Wagner’s book on spiritual gifts. Let me illustrate it. Long ago a poor woman from the slums of London was invited to go with a group of people for a holiday at the ocean. She had never seen the ocean. When she ...read more

  • I Wonder What God Would Say To Us Today As He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,439 views

    I wonder what God would say to us today as He sees all of our so-called Christian organizations in constant activity but with little action or movement. The huge building program proclaiming astronomical figures in cost and “people reached” is indeed impressive. The mushroom growth of both churches ...read more

  • Many People Claim That Their Faith Is A Personal ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Sep 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,871 views

    Many people claim that their faith is a personal matter, not public. So it’s OK to tear down the symbols of our faith, like a cross on Mt. Soledad, or removing a small cross from the official seal of Los Angeles, while leaving a large image of the goddess Pomona intact — a pagan image of the Roman ...read more