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  • Miracles: The Two Boxes

    Contributed by Michael Walther on Jun 7, 2011
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    MIRACLES: THE TWO BOXES Ron Nash spoke to a group of Russian scientists who had been taught all their lives that there is no such thing as miracles. He put two cardboard boxes in front of them. The first box was closed. Ron said, "This is the way you see the world. The box represents the material ...read more

  • One Traveler, Who Toured That Area Of The World ...

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Jul 27, 2007
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    One traveler, who toured that area of the world before it became commercialized, wrote this description of how evening banquets at rich guys’ houses went in 1894. He said, “…entertainment is a public affair. The gateway of the court, and the door… stand open… A long, low table, or more often ...read more

  • Some Time Ago, There Was A Comic Strip In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Aug 31, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,076 views

    Some time ago, there was a comic strip in Peanuts that showed Lucy in her psychiatrist booth. She is trying to analyze Charlie Brown. She says, "Charlie Brown, life is like a deck chair." "Like what?" "Charlie, have you ever been on a ship when the passengers try to open up one of those chairs so ...read more

  • French Novelist/Playwright Alexandre Dumas Once ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 30, 2008
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    French novelist/playwright Alexandre Dumas once had a heated quarrel with a young politician. The argument became so intense that a duel was inevitable. Since both men were superb shots they decided to draw lots, the loser agreeing to shoot himself. Dumas lost. Pistol in hand, he withdrew in ...read more

  • There Is The Old Saying "When In Rome." The Idea ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sullivan on Feb 18, 2008
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    There is the old saying “When in Rome.” The idea of course is that if you are a particular area or with a group of people you act like they do. If you are with a sophisticated people you act sophisticated. If you are Red Necks you act like a Red Neck. If you are among Pagans then act like one. ...read more

  • If God Is Omnipresent, He Must Needs Be ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 12, 2008
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    “If God is omnipresent, he must needs be omniscient; but he is omnipresent; this supposes the infinite and immensity of his being, from which follows the ubiquity of his presence; heaven and earth include the whole creation, and the Creator fills both (Jer. 23:24); he not only knows both, and ...read more

  • Why Forgive?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 13, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 4,746 views

    WHY FORGIVE? Two decades ago (1981) there was an attempt on the life of Pope John Paul. Fortunately, the Pope lived. After he recovered, he shocked the world when he made a visit to Rome’s Rabbibia Prison to see the man who had attempted to assassinate him on Christmas day. Millions watched on ...read more

  • Steve Brown, A Popular Radio Bible Teacher, Says ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 27, 2002
    based on 43 ratings
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    Steve Brown, a popular radio bible teacher, says that one morning after a Church service a lady came up to him and said, "I wanted to meet you because I have listened to your sermons on the radio and they have turned my life around. I didn’t know the Lord, and my whole life has been changed because ...read more

  • I Am The New Year  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 23, 2002
    based on 40 ratings
     | 6,318 views

    I AM THE NEW YEAR I am the new year. I am an unspoiled page in your book of time. I am your next chance at the art of living. I am your opportunity to practice what you have learned about life during the last twelve months. All that you sought and didn’t find is hidden in me, waiting for you to ...read more

  • David Peterson, Former Pastor At The First ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Clark on Nov 29, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 1,965 views

    David Peterson, former pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Spokane, Washington, told about a time when he was preparing his sermon. His little daughter came in and said, "Daddy, can we play?" He answered, "I’m awfully sorry, Sweetheart, but I’m right in the middle of preparing this sermon. ...read more

  • A New Phrase  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 30, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,171 views

    A NEW PHRASE About 25 years ago, a new phrase slipped into the American vocabulary. Actually, the expression is as old as the New Testament itself, but for many years the world had generally ignored the term. But then Charles Colson, who was a former aide to Richard Nixon and was involved in ...read more

  • College Students Fail To Be Good ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
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    College Students Fail to be Good Samaritans Real compassion looks beyond the faults of people to see the pain beneath it all and to see the hunger in people’s hearts. In research done by Darley and Batson at Princeton in 1973, a group of theology students was told that they were to go across ...read more

  • The Importance Of Gratitude

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2011
     | 5,862 views

    THE IMPORTANCE OF GRATITUDE A few years ago Dr. Nick Stinnett of the University of Nebraska conducted a group of studies called the "Family Strengths Research Project." Stinnett and his researchers identified six qualities that make for strong families. The first quality and one of the most ...read more

  • When Does God Settle Accounts?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 13, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,019 views

    WHEN DOES GOD SETTLE ACCOUNTS? The story is told of a farmer in a Midwestern state who had a strong disdain for God. As he plowed his field on Sunday morning, he would shake his fist at the church people who passed by on their way to worship. October came and the farmer had his finest crop ...read more

  • Philip Caught A Gold Mine

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    PHILIP CAUGHT A GOLD MINE On Sept. 27, 1998, Philip Ozersky went to a baseball game and saw his life changed in a big time way. All it took was one swing of the bat, and Philip caught not just a baseball, but a gold mine. Lots of fans have caught home runs, but this was no ordinary home run. Lots ...read more

  • Who Created The Universe?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
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    WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE? In 2005, Newsweek and Beliefnet asked Americans this question: "Do you believe that God created the universe?" Eighty percent of those responding said the universe was created by God. That's good news! And it's pretty amazing that after all of the money and effort spent ...read more

  • Surely This Is What Jesus Meant When He Said, ...

    Contributed by John Tung on Apr 25, 2007
     | 1,038 views

    Surely this is what Jesus meant when he said, when he said in Jn. 14:12 (slide) “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” Jesus didn’t go to China, but our church has sent missions ...read more

  • God's Word Helps Us As We Reflect, As We ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 1, 2008
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    God’s Word helps us as we reflect, as we meditate, and as we seek direction. Going to His Word helps challenge us, correct us, and encourage us. The early Church of God gave themselves the designation as a “People of the Book.” I like that. We are to be a People of the Book. I believe the Words ...read more

  • Hannah More Once Said, "Prayer Is The Application ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
     | 1,947 views

    Hannah More once said, "Prayer is the application of want to Him who alone can relieve it, the voice of sin to Him who alone can pardon it. It is the urgency of poverty, the prostration of humility, the fervency of penitence, the confidence of trust. It is not eloquence, but earnestness; not ...read more

  • R.c. Sproul Described The Relationship Between ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    R.C. Sproul described the relationship between science, God and omniscience: "God is a God of knowledge. He is concerned with science; indeed, He invented science. The root word of science means simply "to know." Science is the business of acquiring knowledge. ...If God is truth, then all true ...read more