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  • The Disease Of "Me"

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2011
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    THE DISEASE OF "ME" Basketball coach Pat Riley in his book The Winner Within tells about the 1980 World Championship Los Angeles Lakers. They won the NBA Championship that year, and they were recognized as the best basketball team in the world. They began their 1980-1981 season considered likely ...read more

  • The Story Of Bertha Smith

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 27, 2013
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    Bertha Smith is a name that we are not familiar with. Bertha Smith was a missionary many years ago in China. There was an uprising throughout China at that time and the Christian missionaries were forced to leave their congregations and flee to coastal cities for safety. Many of them, while ...read more

  • A Family Is Like Many Things, Perhaps Most Like ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Dec 28, 2006
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    A family is like many things, perhaps most like a garden. It needs time, attention, and cultivation. The sunshine of laughter and affirmation. It also needs the rains of difficulties, tense moments, serious discussions about the issues that matter. And there must be spade work, where hardness ...read more

  • In His Book Integrity, Ted Engstrom Tells This ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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    In his book Integrity, Ted Engstrom tells this story: For Coach Cleveland Stroud and the Bulldogs of Rockdale County High School [Conyers, Georgia], it was their championship season: 21 wins and 5 losses on the way to the Georgia boys’ basketball tournament in March, then a dramatic ...read more

  • It¡¦s So Easy To Criticize What Others Are Doing. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Aug 20, 2001
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    It¡¦s so easy to criticize what others are doing. If you look diligently enough you can find something wrong with everything. A farmer¡¦s neighbor was so negative, criticizing everything and anything. The farmer bought a new plow, the neighbor said it would rust soon. The farmer remarked how it ...read more

  • All For One  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 27, 2002
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    ALL FOR ONE "According to Bill Jauss and Steve Rosenbloom in the Chicago Tribune, on July 19, 1996, Chad Kreuter, a reserve catcher for the Chicago White Sox, severely dislocated and fractured his left shoulder on a play at home. He underwent surgery, and the Sox placed him on the sixty-day ...read more

  • Three Men Died On Christmas Eve And Were Met By ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Three men died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the pearly gates. “In honor of this holy season,” Saint Peter said, “You must each possess something that symbolizes Christmas to get into heaven.” The first man fumbled through his pockets and pulled out a lighter. He flicked it on. ...read more

  • In His Book Integrity, Ted Engstrom Tells This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,674 views

    In his book Integrity, Ted Engstrom tells this story: For Coach Cleveland Stroud and the Bulldogs of Rockdale County High School [Conyers, Georgia], it was their championship season: 21 wins and 5 losses on the way to the Georgia boys’ basketball tournament in March, then a dramatic ...read more

  • When Do We Usually Want To Know God's Will? When ...

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Jul 29, 2008
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    When do we usually want to know God's will? When we've run out of answers. Thank God for the times the answers run out and we must look to him! Tony Dungy is the coach of the Indianapolis Colts who won the Super Bowl last season. He is a devout Christian and has written a book, not about ...read more

  • The Perfect ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    THE PERFECT STORY The story is told about a perfect man who met a perfect woman. After a perfect courtship, they had a perfect wedding. Their life together was, of course, perfect. Then one stormy, Christmas Eve this perfect couple was driving along a winding road when they noticed someone on ...read more

  • Shirley Maclaine On Self

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    SHIRLEY MACLAINE ON SELF Actress Shirley MacLaine said one time, "The most pleasurable journey you take is through yourself...the only sustaining love involvement is with yourself... When you look back on your life and try to figure out where you've been and where you're going, when you look at ...read more

  • Charles Simeon Devoted The Hours From Four Till ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Charles Simeon devoted the hours from four till eight in the morning to God. John Wesley spent two hours daily in prayer. He began at four in the morning. Of him, one who knew him well wrote: "He thought prayer to be more his business than anything else." Martin Luther said: "If I fail to spend ...read more

  • In His Book, Integrity, Ted Engstrom Told This ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 20, 2009
     | 885 views

    In his book, Integrity, Ted Engstrom told this story: For Coach Cleveland Stroud and the Bulldogs of Rockdale County High School (Conyers, Georgia), it was their championship season. They had 21 wins and 5 losses on the way to the Georgia boys’ basketball tournament in March, then a dramatic ...read more

  • Blind Man Rows On River Using A Bell As Reference ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2009
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    Blind Man Rows On River Using A Bell As Reference Point--From "To Catch An Angel" the Autobiography of Robert Russell (From The Preacher’s Commentary) “I recently heard the story of another commuter, a traveler of sorts. To Catch an Angel, by Robert Russell, is the autobiography of a young blind ...read more

  • A Christmas Story: Filling The Hole

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 30, 2009
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    A CHRISTMAS STORY: FILLING THE HOLE One of the most popular films [of this season] is a little vignette set in the 50s called A Christmas Story. In the plot, young Ralphie sets his heart on an air rifle for Christmas, enduring ridicule and scorn in his quest for this gift he believes will make him ...read more

  • Stay And Wait And Watch

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2011
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    STAY AND WAIT AND WATCH A little boy was told by his father to wait on a corner by a department store, while the father had a tire changed on his car. It turned out that the car required more attention than the man had anticipated, and it took over an hour. The father anxiously hurried back to ...read more

  • On Shepherds  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 11, 2014
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    What do we know about the shepherd's life? It's a full time commitment. Sheep are helpless to defend themselves against attack from their natural enemies: lions, bears, wolves, hyenas and foxes which can come in both the day and night so there is never a moment a shepherd can relax. Sheep must be ...read more

  • We Have To Be Continually Reminded Of What We ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Aug 17, 2003
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    "We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither the belief in Christ nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed, and as a matter of fact, if you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn ...read more

  • A. Man Sends Himself To Hell By Rejecting God's ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 25, 2007
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    a. Man sends himself to hell by rejecting God’s plan of salvation. b. Receiving Jesus Christ as your own personal Saviour is how we accept God’s plan of salvation. a. Hell is prepared for those who prepare for it by rejecting Christ. b. There are good parking places on the road to hell. c. Every ...read more

  • When I Opened My Computer I Found Emails Sent To ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on May 6, 2009
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    When I opened my computer I found emails sent to a friend but somehow also sent to me. I inquired as to the reason and was told that a hacker had got into his computer address book and was spewing out messages to all his correspondents. Fortunately it didn’t result in giving my computer a virus. ...read more