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  • Godly Sorrow Results In A Willingness To Change. ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 1, 2006
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     | 2,597 views

    Godly sorrow results in a willingness to change. Worldly sorrow results in hanging on to the sin. Worldly sorrow sees the sin as precious, as something you know is wrong yet you find yourself desperately trying to figure out some fool proof way to keep it close to you. Video Clip: Lord of the ...read more

  • Transformation  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 18, 2002
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     | 6,856 views

    TRANSFORMATION The motor home has allowed us to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now he can park a fully equipped home on a cement slab in the midst of a few pine ...read more

  • Saving Faith May Thus Be Defined As A Voluntary ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 26, 2003
     | 1,013 views

    Saving faith may thus be defined as a voluntary turning from all hope and grounds based on self merit, and assuming an attitude of expectancy toward God, trusting Him to do a perfect saving work based ...read more

  • In John Steinbeck's Story The Wayward Bus A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 15, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,011 views

    In John Steinbeck’s story The Wayward Bus a dilapidated old bus takes a cross country shortcut on its journey to Los Angeles, and gets stuck in the mud. While the drivers go for assistance, the passengers take refuge in a cave. It is a curious company of people and it is obvious that the author ...read more

  • I Have Learned Quite A Bit About Wolves This Year ...

    Contributed by Jane Willis on Dec 25, 2004
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    I have learned quite a bit about wolves this year in preparation for a winter trip to Yellowstone. One of my favorite photographs of a wolf pack shows them traveling over the crest of a hill, through very deep snow. It is an aerial photograph, which shows an exquisitely organized approach to such ...read more

  • That Song Your Grace Is Enough, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration: that song Your Grace is Enough, the three Hebrew children, Philip Crosby, in his book March Till They Die, tells of a forced march of American and European soldiers in Korea. In November of 1950, Philip Crosby and his friends, as they passed close to those GI’s who were having a hard ...read more

  • If God Did Not Bless, Not One Hair, Not A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,824 views

    If God did not bless, not one hair, not a solitary wisp of straw, would grow; but there would be an end of everything. At the same time God wants me to take this stand: I would have nothing whatever if I did not plow and sow. God does not want to have success come without work, and yet I am not to ...read more

  • There Is A Story Of Two Brothers Who On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 2,878 views

    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 ...read more

  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Once Suggested That There ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 2,786 views

    Harry Emerson Fosdick once suggested that there are three kinds of people in the world. First are the proud and self-satisfied, the impenitent (feeling no sorrow or regret) who do not even realize the mess they are in. Second, there are the penitint who are so crushed by their contrite ...read more

  • Ralph Barton, A Successful Cartoonist, Left This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Ralph Barton, a successful cartoonist, left this note pinned to his pillow as he took his own life: “I have had few difficulties, many friends, great successes; I have gone from wife to wife, and from house to house, visited great countries of the world, but I am fed up with inventing devices to ...read more

  • W. A. Criswell Tells Of A Man, In The Days Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    W. A. Criswell tells of a man, in the days of Queen Victoria, who was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit. A friend on the outside, convinced of his innocence, worked untiringly for his release. Finally, after years of research, the friend found the information he ...read more

  • The Story Of George C. Wallace Sounds Like ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
     | 1,811 views

    The story of George C. Wallace sounds like something from Paul Harvey’s "The Rest of the Story." It comes in two parts: the sad, earlier life and the hard but hopeful latter life. A dramatic and tragic event in the middle brought life-changing consequences for the man from Alabama. In 1962, ...read more

  • We Are Living Life, Liberty And The ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Aug 16, 2008
     | 2,380 views

    We are living Life, Liberty and the Pursuit But sometimes we are pursuing the wrong things in the wrong direction. Did you hear the story about the elderly lady that had heard on the news about a car driving the wrong way on the interstate She was so worried that her husband was in danger that she ...read more

  • Those Of Us Who Have Been Shocked By God's Truth ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 13, 2008
     | 1,377 views

    Those of us who have been shocked by God’s Truth at some point in our lives often realize that what we have been doing in good faith and, we thought, to honor God was in fact just the opposite of what God wants. And, I hasten to add, we often spend the ...read more

  • So We Preach Repentance To You Today. We Call ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 14, 2008
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     | 2,112 views

    "So we preach repentance to you today. We call you as the Spirit constantly calls all of us, to turn from sin, to turn from worldly thinking, to turn outward from ourselves, to God, to seek Him, to seek Godly thinking and acting so that we might effectually follow ...read more

  • Noah's Message From The Steps Going Up To The Ark ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2008
     | 2,644 views

    Noah’s message from the steps going up to the Ark was not, “Something good is going to happen to you!” Amos was not confronted by the high priest of Israel for proclaiming, “Confession is possession!” Jeremiah was not put into the pit for preaching, “I’m O.K.; you’re O.K.!” Daniel was not put ...read more

  • Quantum ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
     | 1,550 views

    Quantum Leaps The best discoveries are the discoveries made by accident, the things you did not set out to find, but found anyway. The five dollar bill tucked in between the pages of the book you picked up to read. The charming little boutique around the corner from where you really intended to ...read more

  • The Tax Farmers In Israel, Here Called ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 15, 2008
     | 1,491 views

    The tax farmers in Israel, here called tax-collectors, were somewhat different from IRS agents. They were more like Mafia enforcers, employing thugs to shake down local citizens and merchants. The Romans specified how much each tax man was supposed to pay them, and the architelōē or ...read more

  • A Homeless Drug Addict In June 1984, John Corapi ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 30, 2008
     | 1,858 views

    A homeless drug addict in June 1984, John Corapi stumbled back into his mother’s house, with what he called all the forces of hell riding on his shoulder. He prayed for the first time in years and experienced the mercy of God, a sense of peace that replaced the wrath he had felt until then. He ...read more

  • For Real Spiritual Victory, Your Will Must Be ...

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Dec 2, 2008
     | 2,199 views

    For real spiritual victory, your will must be broken. We are like that horse my son got when he first got out of the army. Ben got a wild mustang that wasn’t must good for anything. You couldn’t ride him. You couldn’t use him to pull a buggy. It was even risky to be around him. He might bite ...read more

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