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  • Gladstone: Risk For The Greater Victory  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2010
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    GLADSTONE: RISK FOR THE GREATER VICTORY WILLIAM GLADSTONE, a prime minister of England in the nineteenth century, one night was working late on an important speech he was to give to the House of Commons the next day. At about two o'clock in the morning a woman knocked on his door, asking the ...read more

  • The Lion And The Dog  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 24, 2011
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    THE LION AND THE DOG D.L. Moody one time saw a man beat his dog at a zoo one time because he was mad at him. He had made a bet and boasted about him being so obedient and when he tried to get the dog to so something he wanted, it wouldn’t do it and he lost his bet. He got so mad at that dog and ...read more

  • The Conversion Of George Whitefield

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 29, 2011
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    THE CONVERSION OF GEORGE WHITEFIELD In the 1730's in England, a young man named George Whitefield desperately wanted to be right before God. As a student at Oxford, he was part of the Holy Club, along with John and Charles Wesley. The members of that club rose early every day for lengthy ...read more

  • Walk With You  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2011
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    WALK WITH YOU During WW2, two young Jews lived as close friends, (BFFs, we can call them), more than real brothers in a dingy Nazi concentration camp jammed with helpless-hopeless-exhausted-abused Jews. They shared everything, literally everything. One day, one of them felt weak and started to ...read more

  • False Hope In A Gold Coin

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
    based on 1 rating
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    FALSE HOPE IN A GOLD COIN George Dixon was a lieutenant in the Confederate Army who carried around a $20 gold piece that his fiancée had given him in the early days of the war. During the battle of Shiloh, a union musket ball struck him--actually it struck the gold coin, which saved his life. From ...read more

  • Cheap Purchase—high Price  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
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     | 4,814 views

    CHEAP PURCHASE--HIGH PRICE In Decision magazine some time ago, Karen Morerod wrote about shopping in a store for a sweater. She was looking for one at minimal cost, so she went to the clearance rack. As she flipped through the sweaters, one caught her eye. It was the right color and the right ...read more

  • What Occupies Your Heart?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    WHAT OCCUPIES YOUR HEART? I squirmed a bit as I forced myself to listen to my friend cataloging her problems. After three hours, I interrupted her gently to ask, "If you were to draw a circle to represent your life, what would be in the center?" She thought a moment, then said, "My problems." My ...read more

  • Ray Bradbury's Message

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2012
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    RAY BRADBURY’S MESSAGE Avid readers often will credit this or that writer for luring them into a lifelong love of a genre. For those who love science fiction, it offers grand, cosmic landscapes on which to project the boundless possibilities of life. Yet for one writer, Ray Bradbury (August 22, ...read more

  • Spurgeon On Experiencing Fullness In Heaven

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2013
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    SPURGEON ON EXPERIENCING FULLNESS IN HEAVEN The renowned 19th-century English preacher C. H. Spurgeon told this story about King Cyrus, the man who conquered Babylon and freed the Jews from captivity: A visitor who was admiring Cyrus' gardens said it gave him much pleasure. "Ah," said Cyrus, ...read more

  • Do Not Trust Your Eyes

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 12, 2013
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    DO NOT TRUST YOUR EYES The enemy's strategy is to be invisible, so we have to always be on guard. Mike Slaughter tells the story of his mission trip back to Darfur and traveling from their compound in Ed Daein to Adilla Town, which is a six-hour round trip over rough desert terrain. On this ...read more

  • Boxer Illustration For Spiritual Battles

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Jul 9, 2024
     | 1,394 views

    Paul said in 1 Corinthians 9:26: “I do not fight like a man beating the air (NIV).The NLT says, “I am not like a boxer who misses his punches.” A boxer can throw a lot of punches, but if none of them hit the opponent, he will lose the fight. This is one reason a boxer trains so that he punches with ...read more

  • Humpty Dumpty

    Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Sep 18, 2021
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    I am sure that you all know the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty. I think you can all say it with me. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. So what was Humpty Dumpty? Everybody knows ...read more

  • Power For Holy Living

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2022
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    Ludwig Nommensen traveled to begin mission work with a tribe in southeast Asia. The village chief welcomed Ludwig and said, "You have 2 years to learn our customs and convince us you have a message worth hearing." After 2 years, the tribal leader asked the missionary how Christianity ...read more

  • The Apostles Were A Great Example Of The ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jun 3, 2007
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    The apostles were a great example of the difficulties of loving one another, and Jesus knew it. There’s a scene in the epic Franco Zefferelli movie, Jesus of Nazareth, in which Jesus arrives at the house of Matthew, the tax collector, for dinner as he told Matthew he would. Peter and the other ...read more

  • The Scriptures Were Not Given For Our ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    The Scriptures were not given for our information, but for our transformation. (Source: D.L. Moody. From a sermon by ...read more

  • One Minister Says That He Does Not Mind A Man ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,200 views

    "One minister says that he does not mind a man looking at his watch during a sermon, but he does resent his ...read more

  • A River Funny  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 16, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 18,550 views

    A River Funny A preacher was winding up his temperance sermon with great fervor: "If I had all the beer in the world, I’d take it and throw it into the river." The congregation cried, "Amen!" "And if I had all the wine in the world, I’d take it and throw it in the river." The congregation ...read more

  • Maddy And I Moved To Frisby From New Romney At ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 3, 2009
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    Maddy and I moved to Frisby from New Romney at the end of 2007 As we were taking the bedroom apart, I was surprised to find a small basket underneath our bed with three eggs and £1000. I was a bit puzzled and so I called Maddy and asked her what this was all about. She said: “Well I have to be ...read more

  • Falling Asleep In Church

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 22, 2009
     | 3,561 views

    FALLING ASLEEP IN CHURCH Please don't think I'm complaining about folks who fall asleep in church. I understand some people can’t help it. I am convinced that some people fall asleep in church during the sermon because their have a physical ailment. Some folk must have a snooze button attached at ...read more

  • Cookie Ingredients And Kids

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2010
     | 3,977 views

    COOKIE INGREDIENTS AND KIDS One time a preacher had a minute with the children before the sermon. He called them up front and he spoke about the ingredients required to make up a church, using a chocolate chip cookie as an example. He explained to the children that, as with a cookie requiring ...read more