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  • The Big Announcement

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 1, 2011
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    THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT We hear good news in lots of different ways, and I am glad that we got to hear the Easter story told by some of our children this morning. There is something about hearing a child tell this great story that gives it new power. I can no longer hear the Resurrection story ...read more

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  • A Reggie Jackson Perspective

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2011
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    A REGGIE JACKSON PERSPECTIVE Dave Bosewell tells the story of Earl Weaver who was the manager of the Baltimore Orioles and how he handled slugger Reggie Jackson. Weaver had a rule that no one could steal a base unless the steal sign was given. This upset Jackson because he knew pitchers and ...read more

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  • A Confession Of Stealing

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    A CONFESSION OF STEALING Jack removes the envelope from the small pile of mail and draws in a deep breath. It is from his former employer. He has lost sleep waiting for it. What he is about to read could lead to his exoneration or to imprisonment. He had written to this man two weeks ago, ...read more

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  • Works-Driven Rituals

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
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    WORKS-DRIVEN RITUALS Every year a great throng of people make pilgrimage to the Shrine of Guadalupe in Mexico, a site where supposedly the Virgin Mary once stood...however unlikely that is. They go there hoping to get her attention, and to get her to intervene for them with her son Jesus. They ...read more

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  • The Rug: Making And Keeping Good Boys

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
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    THE RUG: MAKING AND KEEPING GOOD BOYS A preacher tells how he was once entertained by a teacher and his wife who had two boys in their middle teens. He writes, "Immediately on entering, I felt the home atmosphere. They were evidently a fine Christian family. However, I noticed that the carpet in ...read more

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  • It Is Not Good...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
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    IT IS NOT GOOD... God made a woman to keep him company and to be his companion. The fact is we men don't do too well without such a companion. Researchers from the Universities of Utah and South Carolina recently collected data from 148 different studies, conducted over three decades, involving ...read more

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  • Navy Seals

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
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    NAVY SEALS I don’t know much about the army but here is something I read recently about those Navy Seals who shot Osama Bin Laden. It’s good to be a Navy SEAL right now. The elite sailors are being showered with praise for their successful operation in Pakistan that resulted in the killing of ...read more

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  • Special Delivery: Miracle Mandy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2011
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    SPECIAL DELIVERY: MIRACLE MANDY The doctor told Marsha Mark and her husband they needed to accept the fact they would never have biological children. Amid the discouragement, Marsha clung to a friend's words: "Somehow, Marsha, God is going to use your struggle with infertility for his glory." ...read more

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  • Where Can I Get A Heart Like Yours?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    WHERE CAN I GET A HEART LIKE YOURS? Bill White of Paramount, California talks about being in Compton, California, working with volunteers from several different churches on a Saturday doing projects to serve the city. At lunch time, he was headed down a narrow side street when he saw dozens of ...read more

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  • You're Beautiful To God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL TO GOD R.C. Buckner, a big, bold and brash man, lived about 100 years ago in Texas. This imposing figure had a very tender heart for children, starting Buckner's Children's Homes all across the state. The children affectionately called him "Papa Buckner" and would run up to him ...read more

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  • The Last Letter Of Karen Watson

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
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    THE LAST LETTER OF KAREN WATSON Our International Mission Board is working on a project called "The Last Letter." It’s actually an old tradition of soldiers and missionaries who as they boarded a ship, wrote their family and friends a letter that they think might be their final ...read more

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  • I Was Waiting For You  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
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    I WAS WAITING FOR YOU A family was out vacationing at the lake one summer. Dad had been puttering out by the boat house. Two of his sons, a 12 year old and a 3 year old were down playing along the dock. The 12 year old was suppose to be watching his little brother, but he got distracted. The 3 ...read more

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  • The Village Of The Book

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 17, 2012
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    THE VILLAGE OF THE BOOK It was early in 1945. As United States forces pushed deep into Okinawa they came across a village unlike any they had ever seen. Here at Shimabuku they were met and welcomed by two old men who invited the troops in as "fellow Christians." Correspondent Clarence W. Hall ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • The Happiness Of Heaven

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 7, 2012
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    THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN In 1871 Fr. J. Boudreau wrote a short story entitled "The Happiness of Heaven." It's a story about a kindhearted king who is hunting in the forest when he discovers a blind, poor orphan boy living there. The king takes the blind orphan to his palace and adopts him as his ...read more

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  • The Stress Of Uncertainty

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2012
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    THE STRESS OF UNCERTAINTY Daniel Gilbert (a psychologist at Harvard), citing a recent Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, said "that Americans are smiling less and worrying more than they were a year ago, that happiness is down and sadness is up, that we are getting less sleep and smoking more ...read more

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  • John D. Rockefeller's Transformation

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 14, 2012
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    JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER’S TRANSFORMATION John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was strong and husky when he was a youth. He early determined to earn money and drove himself to the limit. At age 33, he earned his first million dollars. At age 43, he controlled the biggest company in the world. At age 53, he was ...read more

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  • A True Church Family

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2012
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    A TRUE CHURCH FAMILY Fred Sigle, preaching minister at Garfield Christian Church in Indianapolis tells about Mark Knutson. On August 28, 1993, he was diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of cancer. When diagnosed, he was already in the late stages and was only given a short time to ...read more

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  • Jim Buskirk Was Pastor Of Tulsa First Umc For ...

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Jul 30, 2012
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    Jim Buskirk was pastor of Tulsa First UMC for many years. He’s been a mentor in my ministry. I listened to his sermon tapes for years. He once told this story. A man named Henry got off the bus near his church. As he walked up the street, he noticed a young boy sitting by a flower bed near a ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Worship At A Garbage Dump

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2012
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    WORSHIP AT A GARBAGE DUMP Imagine a town built atop an active landfill. That is "Garbage City" in Cairo, Egypt, longtime home to an impoverished, marginalized community of Coptic Christians for whom life is only going to get harder. The so-called Zabbaleen have been the trash collectors of Cairo ...read more

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  • How To Send An Ultra Top Secret ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2012
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    HOW TO SEND AN ULTRA TOP SECRET MESSAGE There is a distinguished British gentleman by the name of Sir Oliver Franks. He had been a professor of philosophy at Oxford, and president of a couple of different colleges during the turbulent years of the 1960s and following. He had also been the chairmen ...read more

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