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  • Back To One Of David's Legacy's His Mighty Men. ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 22, 2009
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    Back to one of David’s legacy’s his mighty men. The people are now saying, “Wow, have you seen David’s mighty men, talk about quality leaders and warriors. Hero’s who once where rift-raft and discontented, in debt, stressed out men and women’ Wow, how they are now “Mighty!” All because David ...read more

  • The Cross: Solution To Alignment Problems  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
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    THE CROSS: SOLUTION TO ALIGNMENT PROBLEMS I remember when my first car, a beautiful 92 Chevy Cavalier, developed and alignment problem. I would be driving down the freeway, and it pulled to the right pretty hard. In fact, you really had to work against the car to make it get in the left lane. On ...read more

  • Proud Former Famous Athlete Humbled At Nursing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
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    Proud Former Famous Athlete Humbled at Nursing Home We have a choice of either humbling ourselves or being humiliated. There was an elderly man who was once a famous, award-winning athlete in track and field. He had a room full of plaques and statues and framed certificates. Years after retiring ...read more

  • J. Wilbur Chapman Meets General Booth Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
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    J. Wilbur Chapman Meets General Booth of Salvation Army A willingness to obey is the first step toward spiritual understanding John 7:17 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. When J. Wilbur Chapman was in London, he had an opportunity to meet General ...read more

  • Stowell: How People Go Astray  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
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    STOWELL: HOW PEOPLE GO ASTRAY Dr. Joseph M. Stowell, in his book, Following Christ, asks the question: HOW DO PEOPLE GO SO FAR ASTRAY SPIRITUALLY? The question was prompted when Dr. Stowell read an article given to him from the local paper the about Tom Wilson who died, gunned down as a member ...read more

  • Chief Justice Of Supreme Court Humble Enough To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2009
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    Chief Justice of Supreme Court Humble Enough to Stand Next to a Chinese Laundryman As Christians, we are to trust God the Holy Spirit by being completely humble. Let me share a story which gives us a picture of humility; maybe you will see yourself in this story: When Charles Evans Hughes was ...read more

  • Judgment For Yawning: Is God Fair?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    JUDGMENT FOR YAWNING: IS GOD FAIR? It’s a given that some judges in the American legal system are more severe than others. But Circuit Judge Daniel Rozak-—from Will County, Illinois—-may be the only federal judge who has sentenced a man to prison because of a yawn. That’s right. In August of ...read more

  • Abraham's Upheaval

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Mar 9, 2010
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    ABRAHAM'S UPHEAVAL I understand the UPHEAVAL OF MOVING to a different city. Packing endless boxes of books, dismantling beds and throwing out all the junk we have accumulated over time - big job. Then watching a huge truck back into our driveway, and take it all away. We have done all that many ...read more

  • This Past Sunday Night We Heard About Conditions ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 14, 2010
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    This past Sunday night we heard about conditions in Zimbabwe. I can remember growing up hearing those words every child heard when we complained about not wanting to eat what was being served for dinner- “You need to eat your vegetables. There are children in Zimbabwe who are starving right now.” ...read more

  • Perpetua's Story

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 30, 2010
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    PERPETUA'S STORY In A.D. 202, Emperor Septimius Severus disallowed conversions to Christianity. In the wake of that act, severe persecution broke out against Christians, particularly in North Africa. Living in Carthage at the time was a young woman of nobility named Perpetua, age 22. She had ...read more

  • God Answers Prayer In World War I ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    God Answers Prayer in World War I Battle An officer in the first World War gives this account of God’s willing and ability to save men from shot and shell when they will pray. A German machine gun crew had their gun trained on an angle of our trenches where troops frequently passed back and forth, ...read more

  • A Change Of Words, A Change Of Focus  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    A CHANGE OF WORDS, A CHANGE OF FOCUS Here is a story that I believe show how our journey is made better simply by a change in words. A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign, which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat. ...read more

  • God's Power Vs. Our Power

    Contributed by Douglas Stull on Dec 4, 2010
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    GOD'S POWER VS. OUR POWER "Millions for defense and not a penny for tribute." I learned what that quote meant while in the Army. I was assigned, as were all junior officers In the 82d Aiborne Division, to escort Generals and Colonels from the parking lot to a set of bleachers located in a ...read more

  • Fallen Human Nature  PRO

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Feb 20, 2011
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    FALLEN HUMAN NATURE The fate of the women from Judges 19 touches the most troubling question of our modern time. Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel describe the most traumatic memory of his life, a scene from the year 1945, when he and his family were sent to the concentration camp by the German ...read more

  • The Impact Of Put-Downs On A Marriage

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2011
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    THE IMPACT OF PUT-DOWNS ON A MARRIAGE In order to uncover the processes that destroy unions, marital researchers study couples over the course of years, and even decades, and retrace the star-crossed steps of those who have split up back to their wedding day. What they are discovering is ...read more

  • Intending To Grow

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2011
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    INTENDING TO GROW In the 1920s there was a young African American child who was growing up in Cleveland. One day a famous athlete named Charlie Paddock, came to his school to speak to the students. At the time Paddock was considered "the fastest human being alive." He told the children, "Listen! ...read more

  • We Don't Know Her Story

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 22, 2011
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    WE DON'T KNOW HER STORY They called her their troubled one, or their feisty one. She had wild flyaway hair much like that of a punk rocker, but jet-black. And she was only, at the oldest, a couple of weeks old. So small, she looked as if she could fit in one hand. The ICU nurses all took turns ...read more

  • Rubbing Shoulders With God

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 5, 2011
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    RUBBING SHOULDERS WITH GOD We visited Our Lady of Quebec, the Cathedral Basilica in old Quebec City. I had a plethora of emotions upon entering this bastion of structures, dating back 365 years, having been built in 1647. It continues its stately gaze as the oldest parish church in North America. ...read more

  • Only In Obedience Are We Free

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 19, 2012
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    ONLY IN OBEDIENCE ARE WE FREE In his book "Run with the Horses," Eugene Peterson tells how he saw a family of birds teaching their young to fly. Three young swallows were perched on a dead branch that stretched out over a lake. One adult swallow got alongside the chicks and started shoving them ...read more

  • Salvation: The Three Envelopes

    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 2, 2012
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    SALVATION: THE THREE ENVELOPES When a pastor was trying at assure a teen of her salvation during times she didn't feel it, the pastor asked her if she had ever trusted and called upon Jesus. She said, "Yes, I did that." The pastor asked, "Did God do His part and save you?" She said, "Oh yes, ...read more