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  • At The Lake Near My Home There Was An Old Tree ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    At the lake near my home there was an old tree that was truly majestic. It was 70 feet tall and set right at the water’s edge. It provided shade to generations of fishermen and was home to countless squirrels and birds over the years. In the fall its colorful leaves were glorious to gaze upon. By ...read more

  • What Would Have Happened Had Moses Tried To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    What would have happened had Moses tried to figure out what was needed to accomplish God’s command? One of the biggest arithmetical miracles in the world was required in the desert. Moses led the people of Israel into the desert….Now what was he going to do with them? They had to be fed, and ...read more

  • Crisis And Trauma Counseling

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 25, 2006
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    Dr. H Norman Wright tells this story: My wife and I had just arrived home from vacation, and the phone rang. It was our house painter. He said, “I remembered that your son died. My daughter just lost two of her little boys. Can you help her?” We agreed, so my wife and I made an appointment. This ...read more

  • Let Me Tell You About C.s.lewis, The Author Of ...

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Feb 7, 2006
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    Let me tell you about C.S.Lewis, the author of the Chronicles of Narnia. In 1952 he had been writing to one of his fans an American woman named Joy Gresham, a recent convert to Christianity, and who had been a Communist Jew. She was also going through a hard divorce. He autographed her copy of his ...read more

  • When The 10-Year-Olds In Mrs. Imogene Frost's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    When the 10-year-olds in Mrs. Imogene Frost’s class at the Brookside, N.J. Community Sunday School expressed their views of "What’s wrong with grownups?" they came up with these complaints: 1. Grownups make promises, then they forget all about them, or else they say it wasn’t really a promise, ...read more

  • The Story Is Told That During His College Years, ...

    Contributed by Patrick Lublink on Oct 18, 2006
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    The story is told that during his College years, Samuel Logan Brengle was a brilliant law student who was very gifted in the art of speaking. The Lord called him to the ministry of preaching. After he received his Bachelor of Arts degree, he became a circuit preacher with the Methodist ...read more

  • A Prominent Pastor In The Valley Shared His Past ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Oct 28, 2006
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    A prominent pastor in the Valley shared his past one day in Bible study. He referred to the passage in John 3:19-21. Before he came to Jesus as Lord he would visit bars in the area to drink his troubles away. One bar in particular was his favorite because it was cool, dark, and generally very ...read more

  • There Once Was A Little Boy Who Wanted To Meet ...

    Contributed by Clayton White on Nov 17, 2006
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    There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his backpack with cupcakes, several cans of root beer and started on his journey to meet God. When he had gone about three blocks, he saw an elderly woman sitting on a park bench ...read more

  • Seeing The Rainbow From God's Side  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Nov 26, 2006
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    Seeing The Rainbow From God’s Side Some years ago it was my privilege to be one of the speakers in a state-wide Bible Conference held in Dallas, Texas. Inasmuch as I was conducting a revival meeting in Houston that same week, it was necessary for me to fly to and from the Dallas appointment. My ...read more

  • C. S. Lewis, The Great British Christian Writer, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    C. S. Lewis, the great British Christian writer, has another answer in his book The Problem of Pain. Some of you may have seen the Anthony Hopkins’ movie Shadowlands which tells the story of Lewis’s faith and grief at the death of new bride. Lewis married late in life to an American women after ...read more

  • Bishop Ryle Points Out That Jesus, Through The ...

    Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Mar 12, 2007
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    Bishop Ryle points out that Jesus, through the Holy Spirit and the ministry of the faithful church, would “raise up a standard of morality and purity and knowledge of which formerly men had no conception.” (Ryle, ibid. p. 159) This was seen in the days immediately following the birth of the early ...read more

  • It Was A Sunny Saturday Morning And The Man ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Mar 24, 2007
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    It was a sunny Saturday morning and the man decided to bring his seven-year-old son along to work with him to show his son what his daddy did. He showed him the big gears which raised and lowered the bridge and how to pull the levers here and there. The boy later played along the river skipping ...read more

  • A Science Professor At Westmont College Wrote A ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Apr 1, 2007
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    A science professor at Westmont College wrote a book explaining how only one person could possibly have fulfilled the prophecies. He worked with 600 students to calculate the mathematical probability of just eight of the Old Testament prophecies being fulfilled in any one person up to the present ...read more

  • The Little Satellite That Could

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    THE LITTLE SATELLITE THAT COULD In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. According to Leon Jaroff in Time magazine, the satellite’s primary mission was to reach Jupiter, photograph the planet and its moons, and beam data to earth about Jupiter’s magnetic field, radiation ...read more

  • The Richest Man In The World

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on Apr 16, 2009
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    THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD After 13 years, Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. The technology tycoon was not ranked Richest Man in the World for the first time in over a decade. Bill Gates fell from his spot on the top to a lowly number three position. His net worth of $58 ...read more

  • Legacy: The Amazing Randi

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Apr 26, 2009
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    LEGACY: THE AMAZING RANDI How many of you have heard of "The Amazing Randi?" He was a stage magician, "mentalist," and escape artist (in the tradition of Houdini). He once escaped from a block of ice and once escaped from a straitjacket while hanging upside-down over Niagara Falls. He once broke a ...read more

  • Egg Delivery

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on May 19, 2009
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    EGG DELIVERY Acts 1:1-11 I delivered eggs one summer for an extra job. I had a huge white delivery van and I would load up with cases of eggs in Oakland and deliver them to small markets, omelet restaurants, bakeries, mini markets and a neighborhood co-op or two. It was a fairly easy job, while I ...read more

  • Object Lesson: Holy Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on May 25, 2009
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    OBJECT LESSON: HOLY SPIRIT I have a children's sermon to try to explain the Holy Spirit. It isn't original to me or to the first person I heard use it, but I think it's powerful. I take an empty glove and tell the kids that it's a magic glove. I tell them it is amazing because it can pick things ...read more

  • Hold The Fort, For I Am ...

    Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
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    HOLD THE FORT, FOR I AM COMING I am told that when General Sherman went through Atlanta toward the sea, through the southern states; he left in the fort, in the Kenesaw mountains, a little handful of men to guard some rations that he brought there. And General Hood got into the outer rear and ...read more

  • Transfigurations Are Big ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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    Transfigurations are Big Business The church calls this event the Transfiguration of Christ. Jesus was "transfigured": the figure, the image, the look that he had, the face that showed to others was changed over. The appearance of his face changed. Jesus had a different look. Transfigurations are ...read more