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  • Last Week At The Soup Supper We Heard A Story ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Last week at the Soup Supper we heard a story from Rudy Kuyten about his missionary work in Japan. Rudy told about a woman who was sold by her parents when she was a young lady to be a geisha, which is basically a prostitute in Japan. She went through life being beaten and abused by men. She was ...read more

  • Ron Mehl: Love Found A Way

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Dec 7, 2007
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    QUOTE: By Ron Mehl (Love Found a Way). “Some people think I get a little carried away with Christmas. No, they don’t actually say anything (who wants to offend the pastor?). But I can tell. I’ve caught them rolling their eyes or changing the subject. I know that they’re thinking. They think I’m too ...read more

  • Being Bap-A-Tized

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 22, 2008
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    BEING BAP-A-TIZED Years back when our youngest daughter, Kimberly, was about 4, she saw her first baptism. We were explaining the meaning, and her response was, "I want to be bap-a-tized!" We talked her into waiting until she was old enough to pronounce it --- but the attitude was right. More ...read more

  • As The [prayer Shawl] Was Placed Over The Head, ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 20, 2008
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    “As the [prayer shawl] was placed over the head, it formed its own tent. WINGS of the garment were formed when the arms were held out. For this reason, the corners of the prayer shawl are often called "wings." During the first century there were several traditions associated with the tzitzit ...read more

  • Howard Hughes' Life

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Jun 19, 2008
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    HOWARD HUGHES' LIFE All he ever really wanted in life was more. He wanted more money, so he parlayed inherited wealth into a billion-dollar pile of assets. He wanted more fame, so he broke into the Hollywood scene and soon became a filmmaker and star. He wanted more sensual pleasures, so he paid ...read more

  • Forgiveness Sets Me Free.

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    "FORGIVENESS SETS ME FREE." Kenneth Hart, a psychology professor at the University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada), studied sixty-six recovering alcoholics. The individuals had one thing in common: They were all angry with someone. Teaching forgiveness, Hart found, is one way to break the cycle that ...read more

  • John Taylor Recently Invented A Clock Called The ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jan 19, 2009
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    John Taylor recently invented a clock called the Chronophage. Literally it means time eater. It was donated to Corpus Christi College at Cambridge. It combines the Greek word for time, chronos, and the word phageo meaning “to eat”. A monster-looking grasshopper with a mouthful of teeth devours ...read more

  • Gossip: What Will They ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    GOSSIP: WHAT WILL THEY SAY? Three elderly men were talking about what their grandchildren would be saying about them fifty years from now. The first one said, "I would like my grandchildren to say, ’He was a hard worker." The second one said, "50 years from now, I want them to say, ’He was a ...read more

  • A Wise Bible Teacher Once Said, "Sooner Or Later ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 12, 2009
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    A wise Bible teacher once said, “Sooner or later God will bring self-sufficient people to the place where they have no resource but Him – no strength, no answers, nothing but Him. Without God’s help, they are sunk.” He then told of a despairing man who confessed to his pastor, “My life is really ...read more

  • The Secret Garden Is A Fascinating Children's ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 20, 2009
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    The Secret Garden is a fascinating children’s classic. It is the story of a British child, Mary Lennox, who lived in India but is orphaned because of her parents’ death due to a cholera breakout. They send her to England to live with her only surviving relative, her uncle who is still mourning the ...read more

  • The Practice Of ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 6, 2009
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    The Practice of Restitution. Do those lofty ideals ever get put into practice? Yes, by specific individuals. Years ago we had in this church a man who had been saved after beginning to attend here. He was serious about Christ and had a strong desire to witness for Christ. The apostle Peter gave a ...read more

  • Anthropology And Jesus' Appearance

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
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    ANTHROPOLOGY AND JESUS' APPEARANCE This past week I attended a series of lectures at Anderson University in which the presenter, Dr Rodney Sadler, Jr from Union Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina showed this picture. (Slide 2) Source: ...read more

  • The Doubting Of Thomas  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2010
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    THE DOUBTING OF THOMAS In 1943, Dorothy Sayers created a series of dramatic readings from the life of Christ for broadcast on the BBC. They are published under the title, The Man Born to Be King. For each of the plays, Sayers offers notes on the characters and the way they should be read. She ...read more

  • Have You Ever Knowingly Passed A Phony Five ...

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 27, 2010
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    Have you ever knowingly passed a phony five dollar bill? According to the United States Treasury Department, you may have. One of the reasons is because of a counterfeiter named Blinky, perhaps the greatest counterfeiter of all times. He made five dollar bills that defied detection. It was ...read more

  • Yearning For Your Beloved

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Nov 27, 2010
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    YEARNING FOR YOUR BELOVED Hearing God’s voice begins as a matter of affection. We have to listen for the voice of God the way a lover listens for the voice of the beloved. During the year before my wife and I were married, I lived in a remote city, and what I discovered is that there is no pain ...read more

  • The Counsel Of The Wicked

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 28, 2011
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    THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED I remember talking with a young man in jail. He was telling me that his family had hired a lawyer to get him out (whom I always heard was a good attorney) but he wasn't sure he wanted to trust the lawyer. I asked him why. He responded that the other guys in his jail ...read more

  • Held Up By Our Father

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 17, 2011
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    HELD UP BY OUR FATHER 3-year old Tyler felt secure in his dad's arms as Dad stood in the middle of the pool. But Dad, for fun, began walking slowly toward the deeper end, gently chanting, "Deeper and deeper and deeper," as the water rose higher and higher on Tyler. Tyler's face registered ...read more

  • Stop Or Slow Down  PRO

    Contributed by Akinsanya Adubi on May 6, 2011
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    STOP OR SLOW DOWN Pastor John Hagee told us a story of a driver that refused to stop at a STOP sign; he was then pulled over by a cop. The cop told him that the reason he pulled him over was because he refused to stop at a STOP sign. He replied that he slowed down, the cop then explain to him that ...read more

  • Pretender Dr. Nick

    Contributed by Michael Walther on May 24, 2011
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    PRETENDER DR. NICK What does it take to be turned around if you are a pretender? Dr. Nick Yphantides can help us. Although he was a true Christian he was living part of his life in a purely hypocritical manner. Dr. Nick’s specialty was preventative medicine. Every day he was trying to help ...read more

  • The Impact Of Optimism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
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    THE IMPACT OF OPTIMISM Just a few years ago (2004), Fox News reported on a study that came from the Archives of General Psychiatry. Researchers studied 1,000 people aged 65-85 trying to determine the importance of a positive attitude in dealing with life. After almost 10 years of follow-up, these ...read more

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