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  • On The Same Page

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Mar 28, 2010
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    ON THE SAME PAGE The man came in and sat down. I'd say he was in his mid-thirties; he looked a bit rough around the edges and hadn't shaved for a few days. We introduced ourselves and the question was asked, "How are you surviving?" "Well I can't get the benefit right now, so I'm doing a few ...read more

  • When We Buried My Father Ten Years Ago (2000), My ...

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Apr 1, 2010
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    When we buried my father ten years ago (2000), my mother had him buried in his bathrobe and pajamas. She wanted to communicate the truth that the Christian’s body is only asleep at death, that one day his body will awake, and there will be a resurrection! The bathrobe and pajamas were a beautiful ...read more

  • Peer Pressure In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2010
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    Peer Pressure in the Classroom A few years ago psychologist Ruth W. Berenda and her associates carried out an interesting experiment with teenagers designed to show how a person handled group pressure. The plan was simple. They brought groups of ten adolescents into a room for a test. Subsequently, ...read more

  • Failure To Disembark

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 14, 2010
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    FAILURE TO DISEMBARK There was an important business executive who boarded the New Orleans to Washington train. He had a very important business engagement and he needed to be awakened in order to get off the train in Atlanta about five o'clock in the morning. Since he was a heavy sleeper he found ...read more

  • A Little Girl's Alphabet ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2010
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    A Little Girl’s Alphabet Prayer A father walked by his daughter’s bedroom door which was cracked just enough so that he could see that she was kneeling beside her bed in prayer. Interested to find out what subjects a child would bring before God, he paused and listened. He was puzzled though to ...read more

  • I Work In A Building Called The Shalom Centre In ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 14, 2010
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    I work in a building called THE SHALOM CENTRE in Sydney. Recently Kathryn, a Jewish girl said she found it unusual that we would call a building Shalom, since it is a Jewish term for saying HI AND GOODBYE. It literally means "PEACE BE WITH YOU". Shalom is a Biblical word. This got me thinking and ...read more

  • Parental Influence On Children Compared To Sunday ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 8, 2010
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    Parental Influence On Children Compared To Sunday School It is well known that crabs and small shellfish of the same class walk in the “sideways” fashion. Once upon a time, the other fishes resolved to teach these mistaken fellow inhabitants of the deep the proper mode of locomotion, namely, to go ...read more

  • A Clergyman From New York, During A Call On ...

    Contributed by George Bannister on Jul 1, 2010
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    A clergyman from New York, during a call on President Lincoln at the White House said: "I have not come to ask any favors of you, Mr. President; I have only come to say that the loyal people of the North are sustaining you and will continue to do so. We are giving you all that we have, the lives of ...read more

  • True Thankfulness: John Wesley

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 26, 2010
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    TRUE THANKFULNESS: JOHN WESLEY John Wesley was about 21 years of age when he went to Oxford University. He came from a Christian home, and he was gifted with a keen mind and good looks. Yet in those days he was a bit snobbish and sarcastic. One night, however, something happened that set in ...read more

  • Rooting For You

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2010
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    ROOTING FOR YOU Zig Ziglar tells of the time he took his young son golfing. The boy was still relatively new to the game, so Zig was very impressed by his son’s performance on one of the par 4 holes. At the tee, the boy lifted the ball straight and true down the fairway. A second shot got him ...read more

  • Dirty Laundry

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Mar 15, 2011
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    DIRTY LAUNDRY I have to admit, I dislike washing the laundry, but I detest wearing filthy clothes even more. Okay, truth be told, I don’t usually have to wash the clothes. My wife does most of it, and she does it well. I’m thankful, though, she doesn’t toil in the same manner as our ...read more

  • Lost And Found

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Mar 15, 2011
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    LOST AND FOUND Our tummies rumbled --it was time for lunch. "What do ya say we head-in," I asked, as the girls strapped in. We careened down the mountain and caught the chairlift. My baby and I rode on one chair, behind her two, older sisters in another. The view ahead would make a great shot, ...read more

  • Reality Therapy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2011
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    REALITY THERAPY Aaron was an eleven-year-old boy whose behavior was described by Dr. William Glasser, his psychiatrist, as horrible. In his book, Reality Therapy, Glasser says Aaron was the most obnoxious child he had ever met. The boy would kick, scream, run away and hide, become withdrawn, ...read more

  • Hidden Prayer Results In Revival

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2011
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    HIDDEN PRAYER RESULTS IN REVIVAL I heard Brother John Harrell of Bridge City, Texas tell of a church up in the piney woods of east Texas that began to have a tremendous breakthrough revival. An evangelist came in and they started their series of meetings and from the beginning of the meeting, all ...read more

  • The Man Who Loved To Work

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 25, 2011
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    THE MAN WHO LOVED TO WORK John Ortberg states: "Once there was a man who loved to work. He loved creating value. He loved the way his work made him grow. He didn’t always like the problem he ran into, but he felt joy when he came up with a solution that...well, worked. He loved being a part of a ...read more

  • Self-Centered Christianity  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2011
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    SELF-CENTERED CHRISTIANITY John Koessler pastored for years before becoming a professor in the pastoral studies department at Moody Bible Institute. In 2007 he wrote, A Stranger In The House of God, chronicling his experience in various churches. "Most of the Christians I know are disappointed ...read more

  • The Storms Of Matthew 8

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 15, 2011
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    THE STORMS OF MATTHEW 8 When I was a teen living in Okinawa, I remember some of my friends and I taking a boat from the main island of Okinawa to visit one of the smaller islands. It was during the typhoon season and though we were not in a typhoon, it was a really, really scary storm. We were in ...read more

  • Complicated Directions

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
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    COMPLICATED DIRECTIONS Matt Woodly, a father of four, talks about buying his children a swing set, about 15 years ago, as an early Christmas present. It was an extra long metal set with two swings, a two-seater swinging bench, a slide, monkey bars, and a series of hanging rings. He thought the ...read more

  • I Don't Want To Be A Fireman

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 20, 2011
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    I DON'T WANT TO BE A FIREMAN I recall a conversation I once had with a precocious little boy we once had in the church I pastored for 10 years in Wiesbaden. I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. "Well," he replied, "I don't want to be a fireman." I'd never had a kid tell me what ...read more

  • A Dying Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2011
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    A DYING CHURCH An artist was once asked to put on canvas what he considered to be the picture best symbolizing a decaying and dying church. After several months, he returned and reported that he had finished the task. The hour finally arrived when the painting was to be unveiled. Several people ...read more

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