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  • Clement Of Rome [1st Century]: Let The Strong ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Clement of Rome [1st Century]: Let the strong take care of the weak; let the weak respect the strong. Let the rich man minister to the poor man; let the poor man give thanks to God that he gave him one through whom his need might be satisfied. Let the wise man manifest his wisdom not in words ...read more

  • Aristides [early 2nd Century Ad]: They ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Aristides [early 2nd century AD]: They [Christians] love one another. They do not overlook the widow, and they save the orphan. He who has ministers ungrudgingly to him who does not have. When they see strangers, they take him under their own roof and rejoice over him as a true brother, for they do ...read more

  • Irenaeus [130-200 Ad]: And Instead Of The Tithes ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Irenaeus [130-200 AD]: And instead of the tithes which the law commanded, the Lord said to divide everthing we have with the poor. And he said to love not only our neighbors but also our enemies, and to be givers and sharers not only with the good but also to be liberal givers toward those who take ...read more

  • Our Lives Should Always Be The First Things To ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 3, 2008
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    "Our lives should always be the first things to speak; and if our lips speak more than our lives, it will avail very little. So often the tragedy has been that people proclaim the gospel in words, but their whole life and demeanor has been a denial of it. The world does not pay much attention to ...read more

  • Margaret Mead, The Noted Anthropologist, Has Said ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    Margaret Mead, the noted anthropologist, has said a lot of controversial things, but you will find no authorities debating her statement in her article Grandparents and Educators. In it she said, "Somehow we have to get the older people, grandparents, widows and widowers, spinsters and bachelors, ...read more

  • Preaching To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    PREACHING TO THE HEATHEN Gordon Hall’s selfless motto: "Duty is ours, consequences God’s." When offered an attractive pastorate his reply came, "No... Others will be left whose health or pre-engagement requires them to stay at home, but I can sleep on the ground, can endure hunger and hardship. ...read more

  • Charles Spurgeon Said, "...on The Ground Of L...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    Charles Spurgeon said, "...On the ground of law, if he would deserve eternal life as a reward, he must be as good as GOD, and keep the commandments to perfection. There the rugged way of works was set before him; not that he might attempt to win eternal life, but that he might perceive his own ...read more

  • Sheep Are Stubborn

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    As Joel Preston says: -Sheep are stubborn. Sheep can get easily lost because they tend to go their own way. Like sheep, believers have a tendency to go their own direction rather than follow the divine Shepherd's plan. So Ps 119:176 says, "I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for ...read more

  • Henry Wingblade Used To Say That Christian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Henry Wingblade used to say that Christian personality is hidden deep inside us. It is unseen, like the soup carried in a tureen high over a waiter's head. No one knows what's inside--unless the waiter is bumped and he trips! Just so, people don't know what's inside us until we've been bumped. But ...read more

  • Phillip Brooks, A Great American Preacher Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Phillip Brooks, a great American preacher of another day, said, "Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger people; do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work may be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall ...read more

  • Salt-Craving

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    SALT-CRAVING Salt creates thirst. Try eating just one Ruffles potato chip. You cannot eat just one chip. They are salty which creates a thirst for more. When people look at our lives here do they thirst more for the living Jesus? Chuck Swindoll says an appropriate grave marker for many might be ...read more

  • When Nasa First Started Sending Up Astronauts, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including ...read more

  • High Cost Is Expected

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 12, 2009
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    HIGH COST IS EXPECTED In the past missionaries boarded ship not expecting to ever see their homeland again. Some even sold themselves into slavery because that was the only way other slaves could have a chance to hear the gospel. High cost and sacrifice was something expected of the body of ...read more

  • Changing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    CHANGING ME There’s an old story about a man who tried to save the city of Sodom from destruction by warning the citizens. But the people ignored him. One day someone asked, "Why bother everyone? You can’t change them." "Maybe I can’t," the man replied, "but I still shout and scream ...read more

  • In Regards To "Blessing Those Who Persecute ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Mallory on Jun 5, 2007
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    IN REGARDS TO "BLESSING THOSE WHO PERSECUTE YOU," D.L. MOODY, IN ONE OF HIS SERMONS, PORTRAYS THE LORD JESUS GIVING DIRECTION TO PETER AFTER HIS RESURRECTION ON THIS VERY CONCEPT. MOODY SAID, "GO, FIND THE MAN WHO THRUST HIS SPEAR INTO MY SIDE AND TELL HIM THERE IS A MUCH QUICKER WAY TO MY ...read more

  • Louis Albert Banks, In His Book ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration: Louis Albert Banks, in his book Windows for Sermons, tells of a father who had to punish his little daughter. Later that day the youngster, who was upset at first, came to her daddy and climbed up onto his lap. Hugging him tightly around the neck, she said, “Daddy, I do love ...read more

  • Yogi Berra ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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    YOGI BERRA QUOTES Yogi was a catcher for the New York Yankees. • I really didn’t say everything I said. • You should always go to other people’s funerals. Otherwise they won’t come to yours. • Never answer an anonymous letter. • If you come to a fork in the road, take it. • It ...read more

  • Not So Sure

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2009
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    NOT SO SURE The famous preacher and founder of the Methodist church, John Wesley, once said, "When I was young, I was sure of everything. But after a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before. And at present, I am hardly sure of ...read more

  • Luther On Fear  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    LUTHER ON FEAR Martin Luther made this interesting observation in his Table Talk: "God and the devil take opposite tactics in regard to fear. The Lord first allows us to become afraid, that he might relieve our fears and comfort us. The devil, on the other hand, first makes us feel secure in our ...read more

  • Theodore Roosevelt's Thoughts On Family

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
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    Theodore Roosevelt’s Thoughts on Family Theodore Roosevelt said in 1917, "No other success in life--not being president, or being wealthy, or going to college, or writing a book, or anything else--comes up to the success of the man or woman who can feel that they have done their duty and that ...read more