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  • A. Swindoll Reminds Us All,

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 2, 2009
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    a. Swindoll reminds us all, “We’re free today because, in June 1944, during the three month battle of Normandy, nearly fifty-three thousand “nobodies” paid the ultimate price to defeat Nazi tyranny…Visitors to the patch of land near Colleville-sur Mer, France, ...read more

  • George Washington Carver Had Always Dreamed Of ...

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
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    George Washington Carver had always dreamed of getting an education. There was one thing standing in his way. He was born black in a country and at a time when whites oppressed black people. When George Carver reached the age of twenty he was ready to start college. He submitted an application ...read more

  • Two Firemen Died In A Fire In California,but ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Sep 3, 2009
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    Two firemen died in a fire in California,but they saved many people before they died. Their lives were cut short, but they were not wasted. Success is not based on how long we live or how ...read more

  • Giving Up Is Better Than Ecstasy

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 4, 2009
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    GIVING UP IS BETTER THAN ECSTASY Scott Peck writes in his book "The Road Less Traveled: "I spent much of my ninth summer on a bicycle. About a mile from our house the road went down a steep hill and turned sharply at the bottom. Coasting down the hill one morning, I felt my gathering speed to be ...read more

  • When I First Came Into Ministry Many Years Ago ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 28, 2009
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    When I first came into ministry many years ago now, Julie and I realized that the only way we could train in the Bible College was to sell everything we owned except our car and our children (actually our children already belonged to God, so they didn’t come into the equation). There was no ...read more

  • Mother Sheep Sacrifices Her Life To Save Her Lamb ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    Mother Sheep Sacrifices Her Life to Save Her Lamb from a Tiger William Faulkner tells the story of a mother sheep who had warned her little ones, “Do not go near the river, for a bad tiger lives there, and he will kill and eat you.” One lamb kept toying with the thought that the grass near the ...read more

  • Victor Shepherd Tells The Story Of A Missionary ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 3, 2010
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    Victor Shepherd tells the story of a missionary surgeon from the Gaza Strip in Israel. On one occasion this doctor stopped at a shack to see a woman on whom he had performed surgery. She and her husband were dirt poor. Their livestock consisted of one rabbit and two chickens. For income the ...read more

  • I Read Of A Teenager Who Bought His Girlfriend An ...

    Contributed by John Perry on Apr 2, 2010
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    I read of a teenager who bought his girlfriend an orchid. It was the first orchid he had ever bought anyone & the first one she had ever received. There was a card attached ...read more

  • What Is A Martyr?

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 30, 2010
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    WHAT IS A MARTYR? A Christian Martyr is one who: Chooses to suffer death rather than to deny Christ, or His work...Sacrifices something very important to further the Kingdom of God...Endures great suffering for Christian ...read more

  • Elements Of A Seder

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 15, 2011
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    ELEMENTS OF A SEDER Jesus was Jewish. He celebrated the Passover every year that He was on this earth. He is also clearly pictured in all the symbols of Passover and in the message of Passover itself. Wine: used various times during the meal (Cup of blessing, Cup of Plagues, Cup of Redemption, ...read more

  • Keeping The Last Note

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 21, 2011
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    KEEPING THE LAST NOTE When little Elena was diagnosed with the rare and terminal form of pediatric brain cancer in 2006, her parents were told she had just 135 days to live. The distraught couple vowed to make each moment special for Elena and her sister Gracie, then four. "We wanted to protect ...read more

  • Ministry During Black Plague

    Contributed by Dr. Nicholas M. Muteti on Jun 20, 2011
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    MINISTRY DURING BLACK PLAGUE Many years ago, in Europe, there was a great plague that killed one third of the population. It was called the black plague. Tens of thousands were killed each and every month and the population was terrified by the thought of facing death in their families and homes, ...read more

  • Machine Gun Preacher

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 27, 2011
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    MACHINE GUN PREACHER Video Clip Illustration: From wingclips.com (From Machine Gun Preacher clip) SYNOPSIS: Machine Gun Preacher is the inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the ...read more

  • Surrender Is The First Step

    Contributed by Tim White on Jan 23, 2012
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    SURRENDER IS THE FIRST STEP I have been told that there is a certain live animal trap that, if the trapped animal would simply back up a little, the trapping device would relax and he could escape. That is the shape of mankind. If we would just let go of control of our lives, we would find ...read more

  • The Place Of Abundant Adventure

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 26, 2012
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    THE PLACE OF ABUNDANT ADVENTURE Mike Slaughter tells the story of going to Darfur, Africa to minister to the refugees. "It was the first time in my life I knew I was going into a situation with a probability I could die; a situation that was utterly dangerous. There were people with guns. We would ...read more

  • Children Are Entitled To Their Otherness, As ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    "Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer ...read more

  • What's On The Other Side  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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    WHAT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE A sick man turned to his doctor, as he was preparing to leave the examination room and said, "Doctor, I am afraid to die. Tell me what lies on the other side." Very quietly the doctor said, "I don’t know." "You don’t know? You, a Christian man, does not know what is on ...read more

  • Other Faiths On Heaven  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 14, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,840 views

    OTHER FAITHS ON HEAVEN Heaven has many cartographers, and through the centuries many different heavens have been charted. To the variety of celestial landscapes in the West, Islam and Buddhism have raised their own particular paradises: the Koran details a heaven filled with beautiful, large eyed ...read more

  • The Other Side Of Islam  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Oct 30, 2001
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    THE OTHER SIDE OF ISLAM As Dr. Samuel Schlorff, an expert on Islam with Arab World Ministries puts it, "The truth is that there is another side to Islam, a side that embraces violence ’in the way of Allah.’ . . . It holds that all men are created to live in submission to Allah, as prescribed by ...read more

  • God's Other Names  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2001
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    GOD'S OTHER NAMES A mother walked by her young son’s room one night and heard him praying, "Andy, please forgive me for my sins". This worried the mother; so she asked her son why was he praying to "Andy", not God. The son responded, "I was praying to God, Andy is his nickname." This really ...read more