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  • Missionary, Fred Craddock, Buys Pastries For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 12, 2009
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    Missionary, Fred Craddock, buys pastries for German-Jewish Refugees In the 1940s, Fred Craddock began serving as a missionary to India. When World War II ended, Craddock’s church wired him funds for a steamer ticket to return home. Arriving in his port of departure on Christmas day, Craddock ...read more

  • Parents Of Young Soldier Killed In Action Donate ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 19, 2009
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    Parents of Young Soldier Killed in Action Donate to a Church as a Memorial "The parents of a young soldier killed in action gave their church a gift of money as a memorial for their son. During the presentation service, the mother of another soldier overseas whispered to her husband, "Let’s give ...read more

  • Image Is Not Everything But It Sure Helps To Send ...

    Contributed by John Perry on Apr 17, 2010
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    Image is not everything but it sure helps to send a positive message to people. Tom was a man in our church. He was from the old school & believed that he needed to live his everyday life dressed in a suit & tie. Naturally he would come to church in his suit & tie. A suit that looked as though he ...read more

  • A Young Girl Got Saved In A Powerful Revival That ...

    Contributed by Steven Spence on Jul 20, 2010
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    A YOUNG GIRL GOT SAVED IN A POWERFUL REVIVAL THAT WAS BEING HELD AT HER CHURCH. AND THAT AFTERNOON SHE WAS RUNNING THROUGH THE HOUSE SINGING AND DANCING AND JUST FULL OF JOY. WHEN HER GRANDFATHER STOPPED HER. AND SAID... “YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF. YOU JUST JOINED THE CHURCH AND ...read more

  • The Old Rugged Cross

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 4, 2011
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    THE OLD RUGGED CROSS About an hour away from where I used to live in Coventry (England), there is a little village called Bredwardine. It is in the county of Herefordshire. A lady who attended the Anglican Church in that village died, and in her will she left some money for the Church. As well as ...read more

  • First-Century Fire

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on May 16, 2012
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    FIRST-CENTURY FIRE Billy Graham, that great and uncompromising preacher, once in a Revival meeting held at Los Angeles, shared a passionate message on the Early Church, outlining what needs to be done for the Churches of modern era to become more effective. While many were moved by it, some ...read more

  • Faith Like That

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jul 2, 2012
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    FAITH LIKE THAT The bishop's car ran out of petrol. His wife, who was a passenger remembered seeing a garage half a mile back down the road. He got out the car and started to search the boot of the car for a container, but the only one he could find was his baby grandson's potty - so that had to ...read more

  • Joining For The Perks

    Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Nov 13, 2012
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    JOINING FOR THE PERKS Lay down our lives? You mean total sacrifice? Partial commitment is not allowed. I remember a man in a church I attended long ago who had a grandson who was in the Army and his grandson was about to be deployed into a war zone. This man got up in church and with tears ...read more

  • The Meaning Of Life. The Wasted Years Of Life. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kevin Karhoff on Mar 23, 2013
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    The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: grace. We talk as though we understand the term. The bank gives us a grace period. The seedy politician falls from grace. Musicians speak of a grace note. We describe an ...read more

  • The "repenters"

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 19, 2022
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    It is interesting that before the "Iron Curtain" went down, the believers in the anti-Christian Communist countries were often known as "Repenters." Why? Because they were not just "professors", but "possessors", and showed the Spirit of Christ was in them ...read more

  • Fire Of The Holy Spirit

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jul 17, 2024
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    The New Testament church (during Pentecost) did not have good instruments, equipment’s, music, and large buildings, but they had the fire of the Holy Spirit. This fire produced many miracles and wonders. When the shadow of disciples fell on people, they were healed. There was fire in the preachers, ...read more

  • When I Was In Atlanta I Saw A Young Lady With ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2001
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    When I was in Atlanta I saw a young lady with blue hair and bright red streaked hair with yellow mixed underneath setting on a bench. -She had ear rings, nose rings, eyebrow rings and a lip ring. I went over to talk to her. I told her that I liked her hair. (I really did -she looked nice.) ...read more

  • Construction Workers Attempt To Use God To Take ...  PRO

    Contributed by Al Schifano on Oct 21, 2002
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    Construction workers attempt to use God to take what is Caesars. (Matt 22:15-21) In the late 1970’s large numbers of skilled construction workers, commonly referred to as “Boomers”, traveled the country looking for work on electric power plant maintenance projects. These were short-term (4-8 ...read more

  • A Preacher Walked Through A Cemetery One Day And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    A preacher walked through a cemetery one day and saw a man desperate and distraught lying on one of the graves and pounding the sod with his clenched fists. The grave was obviously not a new one. The sod had established itself and the headstone showed signs of weathering. As the preacher ...read more

  • A Good Preacher Friend Of Mine Told Me ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    a good preacher friend of mine told me personally this story. One day while visiting the nursing home, he came across a lady who was very discouraged. In fact, she wanted to die. He made it a point to visit her every time he went, and one day she finally opened up to him and told this very sad ...read more

  • Liz Curtis Higgs Was One Of The Best-Known Disc ...

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Aug 30, 2007
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    Liz Curtis Higgs was one of the best-known disc jockeys in America, and she lived quite a…wild lifestyle without God. In fact, Howard Stern was the A.M. show, and Liz Curtis Higgs was the P.M. show. And one day Howard Stern said to Liz, “You know, you need to clean up your act.” Now, that really ...read more

  • Pastor And Author Stuart Briscoe Writes: I Was In ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ritter on Feb 2, 2008
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    Pastor and author Stuart Briscoe writes: I was in Edinburgh about a year ago speaking at Charlotte Chapel, and a delightful young lady gave her testimony. She had come back from Kabul, Afghanistan, where she was a missionary nurse. She said how she was really enjoying the work she was doing there, ...read more

  • Recently I Read About A Pastor Who Had A Thorn. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Recently I read about a Pastor who had a thorn. He had just started - getting involved in teaching and preaching and sensing that it might be some area of calling for him. It was on a Sunday morning at this church and five minutes into his message he started to get dizzy and woozy and the room ...read more

  • Silent Night

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    SILENT NIGHT Europe in the early 1800s was a place of great war, turmoil and upheaval. Even after the Napoleonic Wars officially ended in 1815, it's effects continued to take their toll. The year 1816 was one in which national and municipal borders were divided, changed and reset. Areas, such as ...read more

  • Would You Hire Him?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2011
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    WOULD YOU HIRE HIM? A certain church found itself suddenly without a pastor, and a search committee was formed. In due course it received a letter from a man applying for the vacant position. The committee chairman read: "I am considered to be a good preacher, and I have been a leader in most of ...read more