Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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There is the story of a lady who had just completed university
She had been offered a job with an accounting firm
She is a mother of three who were at the time were 12, 15 and 18
but just before she takes up the position she has a regular check up and her doctor discovers she has cancer
not long
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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There is a story of two brothers who on completing their apprenticeship decide to set up their own butcher shop. One day one of their customers invite the older brother to church. Some time later he asks for forgiveness for all his sins, and commits his life to following God. He continues working
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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During construction of Emerson Hall at Harvard University, president Charles Eliot invited psychologist and philosopher William James to suggest a suitable inscription for the stone lintel over the doors of the new home of the philosophy department.
After some reflection, James sent Eliot a line
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Sometimes the cup of iniquity is full and the people are ripe for judgment. In such a case it may happen as it did in the flourishing and extraordinarily beautiful city of Messina, Sicily, the third largest city in Italy. In the early morning of December 28, 1908, the city was almost entirely
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A boy and his father were riding in their car one summer day with the windows rolled down. A bee flew in and the boy, who was very allergic to the bee’s sting, panicked. The father reached out as the bee flew around the boy and caught the bee in his hand.
A few seconds later, the father released
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A supermarket in the Midwest could not understand why at a certain time every winter there sales plummeted. They studied their product line and interviewed customers. They did everything possible to uncover the mystery. Finally someone made a remarkable discovery that changed everything.
It seemed
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Early in his career, some one said that Vince Lombardi, the Hall of Fame Football Coach of the Green Bay Packers, knew very little about the game of Football. Thomas Edison’s teachers gave up on him and said that “He was too stupid to accomplish anything.” Henry Ford, failed and went broke 5 times,
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Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 25, 2007
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When King Louis XIV of France was dethroned, someone kidnapped his son. They tried to spoil him and dethrone him. The people who captured him exposed him to vulgar language, excessive alcohol and women—anything to feed his passions and to try to keep him from fulfilling his destiny. After 6 months
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Methodist
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jul 4, 2007
The widow of Stephen Oake whose husband was a special branch police officer who was stabbed to death in Manchester by a terrorist, said in the Daily Telegraph article… That while she realized there was going to be some dark day’s ahead, she felt assured that “God is real.”
After sentencing in
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Baptist
Contributed by Don Hawks on Jul 10, 2007
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When King Louis XIV of France was dethroned, someone kidnapped his son. They tried to spoil him and dethrone him. The people who captured him exposed him to vulgar language, excessive alcohol and women—anything to feed his passions and to try to keep him from fulfilling his destiny. After 6 months
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Methodist
Contributed by Traci Loewe on Jul 30, 2007
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In the eleventh century, King Henry III of Bavaria grew tired of court life and the pressures of being a monarch. He made application to Prior Richard at a local monastery, asking to be accepted as a contemplative and spend the rest of his life in the monastery. "Your Majesty," said Prior Richard,
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Methodist
When a mother eagle builds her nest she starts with thorns, broken branches, sharp rocks, and a number of other items that seem entirely unsuitable for nesting material. Then she lines the nest with a thick padding of wool, feathers, and fur from animals she has killed, making it soft and
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 12, 2007
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A father is reading his newspaper when his small son jumps up into his lap and tugs at the bottom of the paper, wanting his father’s attention. The father feels a surge of anger within. Why? He at first perceives that his right to read the paper without being disturbed is being
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Charismatic
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Aug 12, 2007
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The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Church enables us to share unity as follows
• We have one Spirit - who activates our fellowship
• We are one Body – the fellowship of believers
• We share one Hope - The glorious future
• We have one Lord – Jesus Christ to whom we belong
• We share one Faith -
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Baptist
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