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  • Here Is A Spiritual Insight From Charles A. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Here is a spiritual insight from Charles A. Lindbergh: "Short term survival may depend on the knowledge of nuclear physicists and the performance of supersonic aircraft, but long term survival depends alone on the character of man. We must remember that it was not the outer grandeur of the Roman ...read more

  • The Christian Sees Through Kinder Eyes-Like ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Christian sees through kinder eyes-like Jesus. He gives from a bigger heart-like God. He speaks with a purer tongue-like Christ. He serves with more willing hands-like Jesus. He walks with a greater faith-like his Lord. He thinks with a spiritual mind-like Christ. He sees the needs of ...read more

  • James Madison The 4th President Of The U.s. Said ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    James Madison the 4th President of the U.S. said of grace, “Grace, it is a free gift of God...to neglect grace is to neglect Him.” The Book of Mormon disgraces grace as in Moroni 10:32-33 “Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny ...read more

  • The Cookie Thief

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Cookie Thief by Valerie Cox A woman was waiting at an airport one night, With several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops. Bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was engrossed in her book but happened to see, That the man sitting beside ...read more

  • The Happy Hypocrite." It Is A Story About A Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    “The Happy Hypocrite." It is a story about a man who was born with an awful facial deformity. He grew up alone and lonely. When reaching adulthood, he decided to move from his town to begin a new life. On his way he discovered a beautiful mask that fit his making him look handsome. At first the ...read more

  • Oswald Chambers Said, "The Surest Sign That God ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Oswald Chambers said, "The surest sign that God has done a work of grace in my heart is that I love Jesus Christ best: not weakly and faintly, not intellectually, but passionately, ...read more

  • A Few Years Ago Jack Eckerd, Founder Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A few years ago Jack Eckerd, founder of the Eckerd drugstore chain, committed his life to Christ. Shortly afterward, as he walked through one of his stores, he noticed the magazine racks with their glossy copies of "Playboy" and "Penthouse." Although Eckerd was retired from active management, he ...read more

  • Missionary/Evangelist Stanley Jones Wrote: ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Missionary/evangelist Stanley Jones wrote: "Swami Shivananda, a famous swami in India, used to tell his disciples: ’Kill the mind and then, and then only, can you meditate.’ The Christian position is, ’You shall love the Lord thy God with all your mind’--the intellectual nature; ’with all your ...read more

  • Adults Often Don't Grasp Mature, Christian Love. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Adults often don’t grasp mature, Christian love. Chuck Swindoll told about the guy who fell in love with an opera singer. He hardly knew her, since his only view of the singer was through binoculars--from the third balcony. But he was convinced he could live happily ever after married to a voice ...read more

  • Author Dwight Small Made An Eloquent Application ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Author Dwight Small made an eloquent application of godly love to marriage: "Godly love is not born of a lover’s need, nor does it have its source in the one loved. God’s love empties itself to give what the other needs. "Its motives rise wholly from within its own nature. Godly love lives in ...read more

  • William Barclay Describes A Cold, Legalistic ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    William Barclay describes a cold, legalistic religion whose followers always do the right thing, but in a rigid, austere fashion. They are people who go through the proper moves, but are not the warm type to whom you could pour out your heart in grief and tears. Theirs ...read more

  • He Asks Not That Our Love Should Equal His But ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    He asks not that our love should equal his but resemble his; not that it should be of the same strength, but of the same kind. A pearl of dew will not hold the sun, but it may hold a spark of its light. A child by that sea, trying to catch the waves as they dash in clouds of crystal ...read more

  • One Of The Most Influential Christians Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One of the most influential Christians who exhibited “Grace Living” and touches lives as powerfully today as he did in the late 1700 and early 1800’s is John Newton, the writer of “Amazing Grace.” His own evaluation of himself was, “a wretch who was once lost but then was found, saved by amazing ...read more

  • In Pop-Culture: Do You Remember Milli Vanilli? ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In Pop-Culture: Do you remember Milli Vanilli? They sold 30 million singles and 10 million albums before they were discovered to be lip-syncing pop fraudsters and became the laughing stock of pop entertainment In the Sports Arena: CBS senior sports writer, Clark Judge, wrote on CBS Sportline.com in ...read more

  • In Politics: Remember When Howard Dean Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In Politics: Remember when Howard Dean was running for the Democratic nomination for president and let out an aggressive squeal at the conclusion of a speech in Iowa? He immediately went from being the darling of the party to the party pariah? No one knows for sure if he was just high-spirited ...read more

  • Fickle People Are Marked By Erratic Change In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Fickle people are marked by erratic change in attraction and affection. Fickly people love you or hate you depending on if you are performing satisfactorily and meeting their expectations… in which case you remain the next great hope. But heaven help you if you blow it The crowd that welcomed ...read more

  • A Sunday School Teacher Decided To Have Her ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Shafit on Aug 4, 2007
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    A Sunday school teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible: Psalm 23. She gave the youngsters a month to learn the chapter. Little Rick was excited about the task, but he just couldn’t remember the Psalm. After much practice, he could barely get ...read more

  • More To Follow

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 31, 2008
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    MORE TO FOLLOW Sam Ducanannan was a simple man with very few talents, but he had a great desire to do something for the Lord. So he made it his practice to cut out pictures from cards and magazines and to paste onto these pictures appropriate verses and poems. He would then give them as simple ...read more

  • A Man Purchased A White Mouse To Use As Food For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 5, 2008
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    A man purchased a white mouse to use as food for his pet snake. He dropped the unsuspecting mouse into the snake’s glass cage, where the snake was sleeping in a bed of sawdust. The tiny mouse had a serious problem on his hands. At any moment he could be swallowed alive. The mouse needed to come up ...read more

  • U.s. Retailers Are Expected To Add Up To 600,000 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    U.S. retailers are expected to add up to 600,000 people to their employment rolls between now and December. Target alone will hire 50,000 to 80,000 seasonal workers. Retail staffs increase an average of 5% during the holidays, but some stores boost employee rolls by as much as 50%, a number to ...read more