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  • Elementary School Student Doubts President's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 1, 2009
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    Elementary School Student Doubts President’s Identity On March 11, 1991, eight-year-old Anthony Henderson upset the distinguished leader of our nation, President George Bush. President Bush was visiting Anthony’s school and had sat down beside Anthony to read him a book. Suddenly in the midst of ...read more

  • How Satan And The World Are Like A Pack Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2009
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    How Satan and the World are Like a Pack of Dogs While visiting Loretta’s parents in Indiana last summer I spent each morning walking several miles. They live in the middle of farm country. The roads are straight and long with corn and bean fields lining them. There are few houses and fewer cars. As ...read more

  • Tending Your ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jan 9, 2010
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    TENDING YOUR GARDEN Suppose 2 women were planting a vegetable garden. On the same day, they prepared the earth and planted their seeds. One then neglected her garden and waited for her vegetables to grow. The other woman worked in her garden regularly. She put cages around the young tomato ...read more

  • Power Of The Word Of God-----A Friend Of Mine, ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 16, 2010
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    POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD-----A friend of mine, Bill, was a bible translator for Wycliff Bible Translators in some very remote mountains in Bolivia. Bill was on the second Wycliff team. The first Wycliff team went into the most prominent village in the area and learned the local Bolivian language. ...read more

  • Tending Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
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    Tending Your Garden Suppose 2 women were planting a vegetable garden. On the same day, they prepared the earth and planted their seeds. One then neglected her garden and waited for her vegetables to grow. The other woman worked in her garden regularly. She put cages around the young tomato plants, ...read more

  • Power Of The Translated Word Of God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    POWER OF THE TRANSLATED WORD OF GOD This is a strategy still used today, because it works and this is how it is still used today: A friend of mine, Bill, was a bible translator for Wycliff Bible Translators in some very remote mountains in Bolivia. Bill was on the second Wycliff team. The first ...read more

  • Phantom Guilt

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 9, 2010
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    PHANTOM GUILT Amputees often experience some sensation of a phantom limb. Somewhere, locked in their brains, a memory lingers of the nonexistent hand or leg. Invisible toes curl, imaginary hands grasp things, a "leg" feels so sturdy a patient may try to stand on it. For a few, the experience ...read more

  • Communion Meditation: Compassion In A Deli

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2011
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    COMMUNION MEDITATION: COMPASSION IN A DELI Dr. Fred Craddic tells of the time he was asked to speak in Winnipeg, Canada. While he was there he stopped into a deli get something to eat. He said the place was packed but people moved over and made room for him. Many people in there where just in to ...read more

  • Persecution Of Baptists In The Colonies

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011
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    PERSECUTION OF BAPTISTS IN THE COLONIES Throughout their long history as a people of faith, Baptists have consistently opposed any diminution of the rights of the individual to seek and to pursue their own faith, or for each person to decide to be without faith if that is the choice. Though ...read more

  • The "Regard For Others" Ethic

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Jan 24, 2012
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    THE "REGARD FOR OTHERS" ETHIC John Sommerville currently teaches history at the University of Florida. He has been carrying out an exercise with his students for years. He challenges his students with the following thought experiment. Imagine that you see a little old lady coming down the ...read more

  • Jesus Reached Out To Uncomfortable People… ...

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 29, 2012
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    Jesus reached out to uncomfortable people… and that made others uncomfortable. ILLUS: When I was a young boy, my home church had a church bell that they rang every Sunday at 9:00 in the morning. It was a college town, and one of the local college students had apparently been up “partying” the ...read more

  • Being A Blessing

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Jan 25, 2013
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    BEING A BLESSING Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were 8 children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell ...read more

  • Lesson Of The Good Samaritan

    Contributed by Darian Hybl on Aug 21, 2013
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    Recently I read an article that convicted me of my ‘blind spots’ where I have not wanted to ‘cross the road’ or enter deeper into relationship. Alex Early penned an article entitled, “A Pastor Walked into a Gay Bar And…” At first I avoided the article because I thought this article was more a ...read more

  • Selling Your Cow  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 31, 2014
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    Daniel Overdorf: One of my older sisters and her husband served for 12 years as missionaries to Haiti. Among various other ministries, such as church plants, a school and feeding programs, they discipled a few young men who today lead various churches and ministries. One participant in this was ...read more

  • Teach Discipline?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jun 18, 2021
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    PARENTS MUST LEARN AND TEACH WHAT GODLY SELF DISCIPLINE CAN DO FOR THEIR HOME AND FOR THEIR CHILDREN. COME LET US CONSIDER WHAT SELF DISCIPLINE CAN DO TO CHANGE THE VALUE OF ONE’S DAILY LIFE… (Unknown, adapted) Place a guitar in my hands and it is worth $300. Put a guitar in the hands of B.B. ...read more

  • A Luge Ride Is Like Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A Luge Ride is Like Life While we were away last weekend, we went on the luge at the top of the gondola ride in Queenstown. You go up on the gondola to the hill above Queenstown. The restaurant and café has a luge track running around it. For those who have not seen it or been on one, the luge is a ...read more

  • At The Time Of This Writing, The Story ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    At the time of this writing, the story dominating the national news involves the execution of former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein. On December 30, 2006 the gun-toting dictator, who ruled Iraq with an iron fist for 24 years, was taken to the gallows. This 69-year-old despot, who ruled in ...read more

  • A Bundle Of Rags

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Why does sometimes the change seem so slow? This happens more promptly in some folks than others. Because, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come Sometimes people ask, ‘why don’t we see a lot of change? Why don’t we see all these folks living but for ...read more

  • Imagine You Are On Your Way To Church One Sunday ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Imagine you are on your way to church one Sunday morning. You have had a more difficult week than normal. You are physically, emotionally and spiritually drained. You realize that you are running on fumes and are looking forward to getting your tank filled up so you can face the world again Monday ...read more

  • There Is A Story About An Old Farmer Whose Mule ...

    Contributed by Darren Rogers on Jan 11, 2008
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    There is a story about an old farmer whose mule fell into a well. After many unsuccessful attempts to haul the mule out of the hole, the farmer decided it was hopeless. With sadness, he instructed his boys to fill up several truckloads of dirt and just bury the old mule right in the well. The boys ...read more