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  • No Light On The Runway

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Sep 20, 2006
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    NO LIGHT ON THE RUNWAY Consider the experience of a friend of mine, who was a recreational pilot when he was younger. On one occasion, he flew his single-engine plane toward his home base at a small country airport. Unfortunately, he waited too long to start back and arrived in the vicinity of ...read more

    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Heaven Is A Place Of "No-More." It Is A Place ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
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    Heaven is a place of “no-more.” It is a place where there are no more tears. These verses tell us that God will wipe away the tears of His children. Oh my friend, at the banquet Jesus has prepared for us, the tears of the lonely will be wiped away, because there they will find a “Friend who ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • The Carpet

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 28, 2007
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    The Carpet True story, hard to believe, but true. We had friends at seminary who got a house sitting job back home in Ontario, Canada. It was a great gig, free housing for a whole summer. It was just like any other house sitting job except for one detail – the carpeting. They were instructed that, ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • The Ninety-Five Year Old Woman At The Nursing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    The ninety-five year old woman at the nursing home received a visit from one of her fellow church members. "How are you feeling?" the visitor asked. "Oh," said the lady, "I’m just worried sick!" "What are you worried about, dear?" her friend asked. "You look like you’re in good health. They ...read more

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  • Shaping The Stone Down Here

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
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    SHAPING THE STONE DOWN HERE A famous evangelist told the following incident: I have a friend who in a time of business recession lost his job, a sizable fortune, and his beautiful home. To add to his sorrow, his precious wife died; yet he tenaciously held to his faith -- the only thing he had ...read more

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  • Rough Seas Call For Distress Preparations" From ...

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Mar 17, 2009
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    "Rough Seas Call for Distress Preparations" From Fox News, 3/5/09 "Two days before NFL player Marquis Cooper took a doomed fishing trip with three friends in Florida Gulf Coast waters, a friend urged him to buy a life-saving device used to locate boats in distress. "Cooper hadn’t heard of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • What A 95-Year-Old Woman Worries About  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
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     | 5,483 views

    WHAT A 95-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WORRIES ABOUT A ninety-five year old woman at the nursing home received a visit from one of her fellow church members. "How are you feeling?" the visitor asked. "Oh," said the lady, "I'm just worried sick!" "What are you worried about, dear?" her friend asked. "You look ...read more

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  • False Teaching: Sinlessness  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 1, 2012
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    FALSE TEACHING: SINLESSNESS The Apostle John wrote: "My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense-- Jesus Christ, the Righteous One." Now I want to digress for a moment and address a false teaching ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • John Newton, The Writer Of The Most Popular Hymn ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2001
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    John Newton, the writer of the most popular hymn in history, "Amazing Grace" said: "… if two angels in heaven were given assignments by God at the same time, one of them to go and rule over the greatest nation on earth and the other to go sweep the streets of the dirtiest village, each angel would ...read more

  • Someone Tells About A Woman Who For Many Years ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on May 14, 2003
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     | 3,408 views

    Someone tells about a woman who for many years couldn’t sleep at night because she worried that her home would be burglarized. One night her husband heard a noise in the house, so he went downstairs to investigate. When he got there, he found a burglar. The husband said to the burglar, "Come ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • The Children Of A Well-To-Do Family Decided To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Visneskie on Feb 13, 2004
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     | 2,317 views

    The children of a well-to-do family decided to give their father as a birthday present a book containing their family’s history. They commissioned a professional biographer to write the book, carefully cautioning him about the family’s “black sheep”—their Uncle George had been executed in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • United States Runner Marla Runyon Has Been ...

    Contributed by R. Darrel Davis on Sep 17, 2004
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    United States runner Marla Runyon has been legally blind for 22 years. Even so, she competed in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. In fact she qualified for the finals in the 1500 meter race. (Marla finished eighth, three seconds behind the medal winners.) How does she do it? ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • When England Closed It's Libyan Embassy Muammar ...

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 3, 2005
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    When England closed it’s Libyan Embassy Muammar Qaddafi became so angry that he ordered England to be removed from all maps in Libya. If you buy a map in that country today, that area will be represented by a new arm of the North Sea bordered by Scotland and Wales. Simply removing England from all ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • God Wants To Spread His Word Through Us To The ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Mar 7, 2007
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    God wants to spread His Word through us to the World. He wants to use the whole man, spirit, soul and body. In 1936 a radio broadcast was transmitted to America from England. Just before the voice of King Edward VIII was to be heard, someone stumbled over a wire in the control room of WJZ (now ...read more

  • We Have A Custom Of Viewing The Body, Not Just ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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    We have a custom of viewing the body, not just out of curiosity or to judge the mortician’s skill but to face reality. In doing that we grieve, which ventilates our sorrow and helps to bring emotional healing and relief. A young boy in my former pastorate suffered the death of his thirty-year-old ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • A Popular Play And Movie This Time Of Year, One I ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    A popular play and movie this time of year, one I always enjoy watching is A Christmas Carol. There is one scene that has always fascinated me. The Ghost of Christmas Past has just paid a very discomforting visit to Ebenezer Scrooge. Clearly the old miser is shaken by the entire ordeal. But when he ...read more

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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer Said, "He Who Is Alone With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 3,474 views

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, not withstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final breakthrough to fellowship does not occur because, though ...read more

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  • A.w. Tozer's Definition Of A Christian  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A.W. Tozer’s Definition of a Christian A Real Christian: • He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, • Talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, • Expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, • Empties himself in order to be full, • Admits he is wrong so he can be ...read more

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  • A Few Years Ago There Was A Tv Show Called Early ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 20, 2008
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    A few years ago there was a TV show called Early Edition. The main character in this program would receive a paper every day that showed what was going to happen the next day. He would then set out to correct the bad things before they happened. Through a series of events in which he often put ...read more

    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • I Was Reading An Article This Week About Some Of ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jul 12, 2008
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    I was reading an article this week about some of the dangers that face our young people simply because they imitate what they see. The article told about the Reebok company pulling an ad which showed an athlete jumping over an oncoming car - because some teenagers in Kentucky were trying to do the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational