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  • But It Doesn't Always Go According To Plan; In ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Oct 5, 2009
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    But it doesn’t always go according to plan; in fact some days do anything but go according to plan. I can remember a day when I was on faults (I was for years a faults-man in the power distribution industry) I was called out in the wee small hours, to a Ute that had hit a pole and the lines had ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

  • Deadly Civil War Gun Powder Explosion Due To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2009
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    Deadly Civil War Gun Powder Explosion Due To Carelessness by Troops When the Federal troops occupied Cheraw, South Carolina, the Confederates left so much gun powder behind that the Union troops decided to dump most of it in a little creek. Some of the Union troops were looking for some ...read more

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  • A Curious Fellow Died One Day And Found Himself ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A curious fellow died one day and found himself waiting in the long line of judgment. As he stood there he noticed that some souls were allowed to march right through the pearly gates into heaven. Others, though, were led over to Satan who threw them into the burning pit. But every so often, ...read more

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  • There Was A College Girl Who Wrote This Letter ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There was a college girl who wrote this letter to her Dad: Dear Dad, Sorry I haven’t written sooner. My arm really has been broken. I broke it, and my left leg, when I jumped from the second floor of my dormitory . . . when we had the fire. We were lucky. A young service station attendant saw the ...read more

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  • A Young Boy Had To Feed His Father Every Day ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A young boy had to feed his father every day when he came home from school. His father had been so injured and couldn’t do many things for himself and to help with things the mother gave him one job to do and that was to feed his father every day, once a day. But on this particular day, the boy, ...read more

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  • Six Humans Trapped By Happenstance In Bleak And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 13, 2001
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    Six humans trapped by happenstance in bleak and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, or so the story goes. Their dying fire in need of logs, The first man held his back, For on the faces around the fire He noticed one was black. The next man looking across the way Saw one not of his ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • On Facebook I Have Noticed That You Have The ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Apr 10, 2010
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    On facebook I have noticed that you have the opportunity of reading your HOROSCOPE for some kind of guidance each day. Apparently it was Empedocles, a fifth century BCE Greek philosopher, who started it all off when he originated the terms FIRE, EARTH, AIR, AND WATER associating them with a persons ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Fools

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Aug 16, 2021
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    It was a cold and silent night. The weather was freezing cold. A group of monkeys were on a tree. They were clinging to its branches. One of the monkeys said, “I wish we could find some fire. It will help us to keep warm.” Suddenly they noticed a flock of fireflies. One of the young monkeys ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Suppose A Keg Of Gun Powder Has Been Placed Under ...  PRO

    Contributed by Oneal Stover on Feb 26, 2004
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    Suppose a keg of gun powder has been placed under a man’s house right beneath the furnace where a fire is burning, but he is ignorant of its presence there. After awhile THE HEAT of the furnace causes the gun powder to burn its way through the top of the powder keg and there is a terrible explosion ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Quote: "Prayer Has Divided Seas, Rolled Up ...  PRO

    Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 10, 2006
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    Quote: “Prayer has divided seas, rolled up flowing rivers, made flinty rocks gush into fountains, quenched flames of fire, muzzled lions, disarmed vipers and poisons, marshaled the stars against the wicked, stopped the course of the moon, arrested the sun in its rapid race, burst open iron gates, ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

  • The Danish Philosopher, Kierkegaard, Tells A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sandra Jean on Aug 26, 2006
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    The Danish philosopher, Kierkegaard, tells a parable of a theater where a variety show is proceeding. Each show is more fantastic than the last, and is applauded by the audience. Suddenly the manager comes forward. He apologizes for the interruption, but the theater is on fire, and he begs his ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • The Danish Philosopher, Kierkegaard, Tells A ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 6, 2012
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    1. The Danish philosopher, Kierkegaard, tells a parable of a theater where a variety show is proceeding. Each show is more fantastic than the last, and is applauded by the audience. Suddenly the manager comes forward. He apologizes for the interruption, but the theater is on fire, and he begs his ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Winnowing Fork

    Contributed by Subasini Peter on May 8, 2024
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    God's winnowing fork Imagine God being so good, loving and kind now will have a winnowing fork in His hand to separate the chaff from the grain. All our works in a lifetime we have done will be judged by God. All the works that do not glorify the name of Jesus Christ will be separated. We ...read more

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  • We Hear You Now Lord!

    Contributed by David Holwick on Sep 14, 2012
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    On July 1, 2003, a visiting evangelist at the First Baptist Church of Forest, Ohio, was conducting an evening revival. Rev. Don Hardman had just finished his sermon on repentance and was closing with prayer. Apparently he felt that he had not accomplished what he was there for. A storm was ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Mortally Wounded—communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 3, 2002
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    MORTALLY WOUNDED- COMMUNION MEDITATION "On the 19th of November 1967, in the vicinity of Dak To, Viet Nam Chaplain Charlie Waters was moving with one of the companies of his Battalion when it engaged a heavily armed enemy battalion. As the battle raged and the casualties mounted, Chaplain Waters, ...read more

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  • Sunbeam  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    SUNBEAM This illustration concerns an incident one day when C.S. Lewis was in the tool shed in his garden. He noticed a sunbeam shining across the shed. It was showing up the dust particles. He must have seen the same thing many times before, but this time he was captivated by it. He traced the ...read more

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  • Suburban Outreach

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2010
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    SUBURBAN OUTREACH Calvin Miller teaches in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Beeson Divinity School. He recently wrote a provocative article entitled, "Rethinking Suburban Evangelism," on the challenge taking the gospel to people who sense no need: "Suburbia: the push-button Zion of those who have made ...read more

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  • Christians Still Persecuted

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 23, 2011
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    CHRISTIANS STILL PERSECUTED * Last year (July 2009), Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City was told that she would help a doctor perform an abortion or be fired. Even though the hospital knew it was against her Christian values. * In September of 2009 at Pace ...read more

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  • Is God Good?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011
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    IS GOD GOOD? Randy Alcorn talks about what happened to his friend, Ethel Herr in his new book, What Good is God. She had had a double mastectomy. Then two months later, doctors discovered that the cancer had spread. One of Herr's friends in shock asked her, "And how do you feel about God now?" ...read more

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  • They're Not Ready For Heaven

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011
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    THEY'RE NOT READY FOR HEAVEN The movie The End of the Spear tells the true story of five missionaries who gave their lives to reach the violent Waodoni tribe in the jungles of Ecuador in the 1950s. Led by Nate Saint, the missionaries were eager to reach the Waodoni people before they all died off ...read more

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