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  • Why Worry?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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     | 7,197 views

    WHY WORRY? In a 2006 article in Time magazine called "Why We Worry About the Things We Shouldn’t" Jeffrey Kluger, writes: As human beings, we pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk. Yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ...read more

  • Holy Images

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2012
    based on 1 rating
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    HOLY IMAGES There are three true stories about holy images: A few years ago a woman in New Mexico was frying tortillas. One of the tortillas burned and the result was an image that looked like a face; she thought it looked like Jesus. She took the tortilla to her priest and he agreed it looked ...read more

  • What Mothers Cannot Do

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 19, 2022
     | 575 views

    I gave you life, but I cannot live it for you. I can teach you things but I cannot make you learn. I can give you directions but I cannot always be there to lead you. I can allow you freedom but I cannot account for it. I can take you to church but I cannot make you believe. I can teach ...read more

  • The Seventeen Year Cicada Locust Lives Up To Its ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on May 1, 2007
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    The seventeen year cicada locust lives up to its name. When my children were little the locusts invaded. The little bugs had lived as larvae in the ground for a long seventeen year snooze. When they awoke one Saturday morning, it sounded like all the chain saws in the county had been ...read more

  • One Famous Business Man: About A 100 Plus Years ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
    based on 10 ratings
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    ONE FAMOUS BUSINESS MAN: ABOUT A 100 PLUS YEARS AGO A YOUNG MAN HAD TO LEAVE HOME BECAUSE HIS FAMILY COULD NOT AFFORD TO FEED AND HOUSE HIM. ON HIS WAY TO HIS FUTURE HE MEET AN OLD FRIEND WHO WAS CAPTAIN OF A CANAL BOAT. THE CAPTAIN ASKED WHERE HE WAS OFF TO. HE REPLIED, “I DON’T KNOW.” HE TOLD HIM ...read more

  • Let Us Remember The Little Birds... No Room In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    Let us remember the little birds... NO ROOM IN THE INN? There was a little bird that came and lived at my house a few weeks. He and I became friends. I felt so sorry for that little bird. He seemed happy to jump around on the ground. He could no longer fly, but he could still sing. Could I ever be ...read more

  • In His Book, A Hunger For Healing, Keith Miller ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 29, 2006
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    In his book, A Hunger For Healing, Keith Miller shares a situation that illustrates the challenge for those who want to get out of their life’s ruts. It was an observation of a conversation between a newcomer to a 12 Step group that Miller was in and a long-time member of the group. The new member ...read more

  • I Have A Friend Who Had An Accident And Now Lives ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 21, 2009
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    I have a friend who had an accident and now lives in constant pain. I ring him up occasionally and seek to encourage him. He loves God but is totally incapacitated. What do you say? How can you provide them with a window of hope? Job expresses his frustration to his friend for his insensitivity to ...read more

  • Culture's Collaborators  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 3, 2013
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    Tim Woodroof: We live in a world that has shaped our priorities, skewed our perspectives, and taught us what to value. Rather than permitting God to challenge those values--to confront and replace them--a great deal of energy is expended in the attempt to win God’s approval and support of the ...read more

  • Raising Cain

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jun 26, 2023
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    Cain was so angry he would not be talked out of his sin—even by God. Eve, however, had to be talked into her sin by Satan; but Cain “belonged to the evil one” (1 John 3:12). It is as if he could not wait to destroy his brother—a natural man’s solution to his own failure. God’s advice was that ...read more

  • Spiritual River Rafting  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 5, 2012
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    SPIRITUAL RIVER RAFTING The necessary safety equipment for river rafting and spiritual river rafting: i. The Helmet – Helmets protect the most vital and vulnerable part on a person their head – their thinking! 1. Spiritually: We need to be wearing the helmet of salvation as we ride the wave of ...read more

  • Hell Is Real  PRO

    Contributed by Frederick Baker Ii on Apr 5, 2008
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    Hell Is Real ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I went into my classroom Ready for another year at school. I didn’t want the work, Just wanted to hang and be cool. I had on new clothes, New sneaks on my feet. I was there for class on time Went to the back and took my seat. Yeah, I’m moving up. I’m ...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

  • It Was A Fog-Shrouded Morning, July 4, 1952, When ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 12, 2001
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    It was a fog-shrouded morning, July 4, 1952, when a young woman named Florence Chadwick waded into the water off Catalina Island. She intended to swim the channel from the island to the California coast. Long-distance swimming was not new to her; she had been the first woman to swim the English ...read more

  • Divorced Life Is Not Being There When Your Little ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 11 ratings
     | 1,705 views

    Divorced life is not being there when your little girl is crying from a bad dream and wants her daddy but you’re not there because that night was not your parenting night. (And you won’t even know she had a bad dream because no one will tell you.) Divorced life is not having any idea what your ...read more

  • In The Movie "The Color Purple" There Is A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Dec 8, 2003
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    In the movie “The Color Purple” there is a character named “Sug Avery.” She grew up in preacher’s home; but fell into deep sin. She was the same kind of sinner as the woman in our text. Early in the movie we see her father rejecting her because that sin. He won’t even speak to her. Sug longs ...read more

  • Listen To How Bill Hybels Described What Hell ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 13, 2005
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    Listen to how Bill Hybels described what Hell might feel like: “The bottomless pit…conjures up dreamlike feelings of falling away -- falling, falling, falling. You’ve all had dreams like that; where when you woke your heart was beating because you were falling. Picture in your mind hanging over a ...read more

  • Some Of You Are Familiar With The Television ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 24, 2006
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    Some of you are familiar with the television show Deal, or No Deal. It consists of 26 cases, each containing a different amount of money. The contestants don’t know the sum of money in each case, and they try to pick the one with the greatest amount of money. They open the cases, one by one, ...read more

  • When I Lived In San Antonio There Was A Lot Of ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 27, 2007
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    When I lived in San Antonio there was a lot of building going on and limestone was used in building a lot. It was everywhere, Dig a hole and chances are – limestone. I had a chance to watch some of the stone masons in action. These guys were very fast in their work. As they built a wall, or a ...read more

  • Suffering For The Right Reasons

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
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    SUFFERING FOR THE RIGHT REASONS Richard Wurmbrand is the founder of a ministry called "Voice of the Martyrs." Some of you receive their publication. Richard Wurmbrand was a Romanian Pastor who was imprisoned by the Russians and tortured for his faith in Christ. In May of 1966 Pastor Wurmbrand ...read more