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  • President Bush Speaks Words Of Hope At Memorial ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    President Bush Speaks Words of Hope at Memorial Convocation, April 17: People who have never met you are praying for you. They’re praying for your friends who have fallen and who are injured. There’s a power in these prayers, a real power. In times like this, we can find comfort in the grace and ...read more

  • When The 6'4" 250 Pound Giant Of A Man Lyndon ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    “WHEN THE 6’4" 250 POUND GIANT OF A MAN LYNDON JOHNSON WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, HE WAS ON THE TARMAC OF AN AIR FORCE BASE, VISITING THE TROOPS IN VIETNAM IN 1965 AND HE WAS BEING ESCORTED TO HIS HELICOPTER BY A LOWLY CORPORAL. THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS, THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF HELICOPTERS ...read more

  • A Young Man Accepted The Call To Become An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    A YOUNG MAN ACCEPTED THE CALL TO BECOME AN AFRICAN MISSIONARY BUT FOUND ON FURTHER EXAMINATION THAT HIS WIFE COULD NOT STAND THE CLIMATE OF AFRICA. IT MADE HER VERY SICK. HE WAS HEARTBROKEN, BUT HE PRAYERFULLY RETURNED TO HIS HOME AND DETERMINED TO MAKE ALL THE MONEY HE COULD TO BE USED IN ...read more

  • Pastor Jack Hyles Once Wrote That, "When The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Pastor Jack Hyles once wrote that, “When the average person thinks of eternal life, the first thing that would enter into his mind is endless life. Certainly endless life is included in eternal life, but there is far more than endlessness to eternal life. It is not only endless, but it is ...read more

  • This Is A Picture Of Johnny. Johnny's Mother Saw ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 14, 2008
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    This is a picture of Johnny. Johnny’s mother saw him playing church with the family cat. The cat was sitting there quietly while Johnny preached his sermon to the cat. Johnny’s mother smiled and went back to her work. A little while later, she heard a huge commotion where Johnny was supposed to ...read more

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sheep Know Shepherd's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
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    Sheep Know Shepherd’s Voice The contrast with the shepherd is even greater for the shepherd knows each sheep by name and his sheep follow his voice alone. Lloyd Ogilvie, the former Chaplain of the Senate and Pastor of Hollywood Presbyterian Church tells of being in the Middle East and watching a ...read more

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Lincoln's Planned Treatment Of Southerners After ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2010
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    Lincoln’s Planned Treatment of Southerners After the Civil War Likened to God’s Forgiveness of Our Sins Abraham Lincoln was interviewed by someone right before the end of the Civil War. The reporter said “What are you going to do to those rebellious southerners after the war is over? How are you ...read more

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