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  • A. Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book: Mowgli, The ...

    Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 22, 2006
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    A. Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book: Mowgli, the man cub, asks the animals what’s the most feared thing in the jungle. He’s told that when two animals meet on a narrow path that one must step aside and let the other pass. The animal that steps aside for no one would then be the most ...read more

    Denomination: Free Methodist

  • Dr. Norman Wright Says That The Church Must ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 27, 2007
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    Dr. Norman Wright says that the church must prepare the members of the Body of Christ for Crises. Why? Because crises will come whether you are prepared or not and your survival is based on knowing what to do, what to say and how to handle the unexpected crises. He states, “Helping those in crisis ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • The Blight Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    THE BLIGHT OF SIN Blight is a destructive plant disease that can infect any plant, even trees. Infected trees exhibit a blackening of the blooms, leaves and twigs, and the whole tree is eventually involved. The blight causes the tree to decay outwardly and the decay can eat all the way to the ...read more

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    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    ON ENTHUSIASM A bee’s stinger is 1/16th of an inch long...the rest of what you feel is enthusiasm! Here’s an illustration of a man with too much enthusiasm: The storekeeper had only one fish left in his icy barrel. A lady asked for a big fish, and he reached in and showed it to her. She wanted a ...read more

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  • An Outstretched Hand

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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    AN OUTSTRETCHED HAND In Stockholm, Sweden, a woman was injured as she rushed to catch a streetcar. She stumbled in front of the moving car and was caught beneath it. The police sent for a crane to lift the car off her body. While waiting for the crane, a crowd of people gathered out of curiosity. ...read more

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    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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    ON PERSPECTIVE An airline pilot flying over the southeastern U.S. called the local tower and said, "We are passing over at 35,000--give us a time check." The tower said, "What airline are you?" "What difference does it make? I just want the time." replied the pilot. The tower responded, "Oh, ...read more

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  • Getting Organized  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    GETTING ORGANIZED In a Peanuts cartoon, Lucy demands that Linus change TV channels and then threatens him with her fist if he doesn’t. "What makes you think you can walk right in here and take over?" asks Linus. "These five fingers," says Lucy. "Individually they are nothing, but when I curl ...read more

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  • The Life Of Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    THE LIFE OF YOUR MIND "The French sculptor Auguste René Rodin, an innovative and sometimes controversial artist, created masterpieces such as The Man with the Broken Nose, St. John the Baptist, The Bronze Age, or the uncompleted Gates of Hell. But he is most likely known for his work entitled The ...read more

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  • Simply Put The Person Asking For Bread In The ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 3, 2009
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    Simply put the person asking for bread in the middle of the night is not admirable but is rude. He does not know or does not care about shame. By the way does everyone know what BFF is? It is part of the new lingo of texting, which is kind of like shorthand. BFF is “Best Friends Forever.” And now ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • William Tyndale On Romans

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
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    William Tyndale on Romans William Tyndale, the pioneer English Bible translator, wrote these famous words in his prologue to Romans (in the 1534 edition of the English New Testament): "Forasmuch as this epistle is the principal and most excellent part of the New Testament, and most pure [gospel]. ...read more

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  • God Settles His Accounts  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009
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    GOD SETTLES HIS ACCOUNTS An atheist farmer often ridiculed people who believed in God. He wrote the following letter to the editor of a local newspaper: "I plowed on Sunday, planted on Sunday, cultivated on Sunday, and hauled in my crops on Sunday; but I never went to church on Sunday. Yet I ...read more

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  • A Grapevine In England Is 1,000 Years ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
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    A Grapevine in England is 1,000 Years Old Jesus reminds them that apart from Him, they will not have life. In Hampton Court near London, there is a grapevine which is about 1,000 years old. This grapevine has one root which is at least 0.6m thick, and some of the branches are 60m long. Despite its ...read more

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  • Freedom To Choose One's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 8, 2009
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    FREEDOM TO CHOOSE ONE’S ATTITUDE There is a book called, “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl. Frankl was a Holocaust survivor who wrote about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. Everything was taken away from these prisoners. They were stripped of their clothing, their pictures, ...read more

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  • People Dare God To Send Them To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 12, 2009
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    People Dare God to Send Them to Hell J. Michael Shannon tells how some young people put up a web site to encourage atheism. The site invited people to dare God to send them to hell. More than 400 young people took the challenge. People who took the challenge received a free copy of documentation ...read more

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  • Brother Reassure His Sister In Carlsbad Caverns ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2009
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    Brother Reassure His Sister in Carlsbad Caverns When Lights Turned Out Bob Woods tells the story of a couple who took their son, 11, and daughter, 7, to Carlsbad Caverns. As always, when the tour reached the deepest point in the cavern, the guide turned off all the lights to dramatize how ...read more

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  • A Medical Missionary Learns How One Group Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    A Medical Missionary Learns How One Group of People in India say, "Thank You" A medical missionary in India had found a way to heal people who were going blind. He said that once he’d done this operation on the local people they never said, "Thank you," because that phrase was not in their dialect. ...read more

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  • Chrysostom On Prayer--Without The Spirit Our ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 4, 2009
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    Chrysostom on Prayer--Without the Spirit Our Prayer Bouquets are Like Weeds Chrysostom, a 4th century preacher, used this analogy for prayer. A young boy wanted to give a gift to his father who had been away a long time. His mother sent him to the garden to pick a bouquet of flowers. The boy ...read more

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  • What Presidents Have In Common With O.t. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2009
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    What Presidents Have in Common with O.T. Heroes What do the following presidents all have in common. James A. Garfield (1881) 20th Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) 31st Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) 33rd Gerald Ford (1974-1977) 38th Ronald Reagan (1981 -1989) 40th George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) 41st Bill ...read more

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  • A Flattered Pastor Becomes ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 14, 2009
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    A Flattered Pastor Becomes Proud A pastor received a Christmas card with a note in it, from a lady in his congregation. He said she was very complimentary about his preaching and compared him with Chuck Swindoll. She finished by writing, "I think you are one of the really great preachers of all ...read more

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  • The Impact Of Imitating ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    The Impact of Imitating Christ The Christian walk of Will Houghton, a preacher who became the president of Moody Bible Institute during the 1940s, played a large role in the conversion of an agnostic who was contemplating suicide. The skeptic was desperate, but he decided that if he could find a ...read more

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