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  • The Prison Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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     | 4,620 views

    The Prison of Bitterness Because we live in a world full of people that don’t know grace. It’s foreign to them. They don’t know it. And if they don’t hear about it and experience it from the body of Christ, they will never know it. I first learned of this story from Max Lucado. Each week Kevin ...read more

  • Former Convict And Judge Together At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2010
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    Former Convict and Judge Together at Communion A large prosperous city church had three mission churches under its care that it had started. On the first Sunday of the New Year all the members of the mission churches came to the city church for a combined Communion service. In those mission ...read more

  • Reflection On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
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    Reflection on Blindness When I first met PETER SUMNER he was blind. As a young man a terrible accident burned his eyes and left him without his sight. He walked down the aisles of the first Church I served in and his hand knocked the edge of the pew with quite some force. Until that time it didn’t ...read more

  • God Uses Tragedy To Draw Couple To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2010
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    God Uses Tragedy to Draw Couple To Himself Cathy’s story: A few years ago a woman and a man who were living together started coming to the church I pastor. She had gotten pregnant and was expecting. Though they weren’t saved, they were beginning to seek the Lord. I was much in prayer for them. When ...read more

  • Not Success But Faithfulness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2010
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    NOT SUCCESS BUT FAITHFULNESS Jordan was a man of unusual abilities and commitment. He had two Ph.D.s, one in agriculture and the other in Greek and Hebrew. He was so gifted he could have chosen to do anything he wanted. He chose to serve the poor. In the 1940s, he founded a farm in Americus, ...read more

  • James Von Moltke: For What A Mighty Task

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2011
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    JAMES VON MOLTKE: FOR WHAT A MIGHTY TASK James von Moltke came from a long line of German warriors and soldiers. For two centuries the name Moltke resounded proudly in the history of the Prussians and Germans. But James would serve a different fate. He was just as brave and just as devoted but his ...read more

  • The City And Its Crosses

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
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    THE CITY AND ITS CROSSES Two water towers have always served as landmarks for travelers heading for their homes near Wauconda, Illinois. But especially at the holidays. More than 40 years ago, John Kuester, then village police chief, suggested mounting large twin crosses on the towers to ...read more

  • Rejoicing In Pain  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    REJOICING IN PAIN Richard Stearns, the president of World Vision, visited a church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, nearly a year after the devastating earthquake. The church's building consisted of a tent made from white tarps and duct tape, pitched in the midst of a sprawling camp for thousands of ...read more

  • I Prayed Her Home  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Dec 10, 2011
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    I PRAYED HER HOME Praying in Tongues From August 2002 to December 2010 my family suffered the affliction of brain cancer which was placed by Satan (2 Corinthians 12:7; Luke 13:10-17) upon my “helpmate,” (Genesis 2:18-25) Bonnie K. Laughlin. Just like many conservative preachers of the Word of ...read more

  • A White Man Would Come

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 12, 2011
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    A WHITE MAN WOULD COME At 2006 when the National Missionary Convention was held in Indianapolis, IN, the invited guest for the Bible study was a man named Mont Cox, a professor at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. He told a story I think I will never forget. As a young man growing up he ...read more

  • Sin: Prison Without Bars

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 15, 2011
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    SIN: PRISON WITHOUT BARS It's easy to live in denial--to live in sin and think everything is going our way. So sooner or later God gets our attention. In 1989, Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hit leader, was banished from baseball by Major League Commissioner. [Bart Giamatti]. The ...read more

  • John Macarthur On Knowing God's Will

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 27, 2012
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    JOHN MACARTHUR ON KNOWING GOD'S WILL God’s will is that you be saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering. God’s Word makes all this clear. Do not read on until you have grasped these five principles. You say, "MacArthur, you were going to tell me what school I should go to. You ...read more

  • Tough Love  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2012
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    TOUGH LOVE "Living in this house is like living in hell," screamed the young girl as she stamped her feet on the way upstairs to her room. The mother stood looking at her daughter, a hint of tears forming in her eyes. She wanted to run up the stairs and hug her daughter but she knew the timing ...read more

  • Jesus Reached Out To Uncomfortable People… ...

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 29, 2012
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    Jesus reached out to uncomfortable people… and that made others uncomfortable. ILLUS: When I was a young boy, my home church had a church bell that they rang every Sunday at 9:00 in the morning. It was a college town, and one of the local college students had apparently been up “partying” the ...read more

  • Humility: The Balloon Game  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 26, 2012
    based on 27 ratings
     | 15,911 views

    HUMILITY: THE BALLOON GAME Robert Roberts writes about a fourth grade class in which the teacher introduced a game called "balloon stomp." A balloon was tied to every child's leg, and the object of the game was to pop everyone else's balloon while protecting one's own. The last person with an ...read more

  • Unusual Banquet

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 22, 2013
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    Unusual Banquet Boston Globe's account in June 1990 of a most unusual wedding banquet. Accompanied by her fiance, a woman went to the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Boston and ordered the meal. The two of them poured over the menu, made selections of china and silver, and pointed to pictures of the ...read more

  • Selling Your Cow  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 31, 2014
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     | 5,419 views

    Daniel Overdorf: One of my older sisters and her husband served for 12 years as missionaries to Haiti. Among various other ministries, such as church plants, a school and feeding programs, they discipled a few young men who today lead various churches and ministries. One participant in this was ...read more

  • Great Endurance Produces Great Reward

    Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Jun 23, 2019
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    I’m reminded of the story of a man born in the late 1800s. One of several children being the oldest, took care of the younger children and began to cook for them at a young age of seven yrs old. His father died when he was young leaving him even more responsibility. He worked many jobs in his ...read more

  • Breathtaking

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Nov 19, 2019
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     | 2,108 views

    I recently had a conversation with a woman who is a double lung transplant recipient. The transplant took place over 20 years ago and I had known part of her story, but there was a detail she included in this retelling that stopped me in my tracks. She gave some facts about the disease, when she ...read more

  • He Did So With Desmond Tutu In South Africa. Jim ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    He did so with Desmond Tutu in South Africa. Jim Wallis tells the story of a visit he made during the days of apartheid. i. I see it happening all over the country and I’ve learned a lot about hope from the streets and I’ve learned a lot about hope in other places. I saw hope happening in South ...read more

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