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  • Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), Former ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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    Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), former president of Harvard University, had a birthmark on his face that bothered him greatly. As a young man, he was told that surgeons could do nothing to remove it. Someone described that moment as “the dark hour of his soul.” Eliot’s mother gave him this ...read more

  • I Will Tell You The Secret: God Has Had All That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,690 views

    I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind ...read more

  • Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), Former ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,333 views

    Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), former president of Harvard University, had a birthmark on his face that bothered him greatly. As a young man, he was told that surgeons could do nothing to remove it. Someone described that moment as "the dark hour of his soul." Eliot’s mother gave him this ...read more

  • A.m. Hunter Says, "'remembering,' In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Darryl Bell on Apr 17, 2006
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    A.M. Hunter says, “’Remembering,’ in the biblical idiom, is not to entertain a pallid idea of a past event in one’s mind, but to make the event present again so that it controls the will and becomes potent in our lives for good or ill” (quoted in David Garland, The NIV Application Commentary: Mark, ...read more

  • Michael Nelken], A Connecticut Psychiatrist And ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on May 23, 2006
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    [Michael Nelken], a Connecticut psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has written a book about Adolf Hitler contends that people are more in danger of doing evil than they realize…[He writes,] “temptations to do wanton things don’t just come now and then, but are ever present. Impulses to do evil fly ...read more

  • Beulah Church In Lawrence County, Illinois, Was ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 17, 2006
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    Beulah Church in Lawrence County, Illinois, was a country Church I served for over four years beginning in 1980. Beulah has never had a financial crisis one reason being the fact that nearly all the Church family tithe. Another reason is that they are missionary minded people. They support I ...read more

  • Jesus' Broken Hands

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 22, 2006
     | 2,916 views

    Illust. Jesus BROKEN HANDS Story told of a large cathedral church that was hit by a earthquake. The disaster destroyed the church, and all that remained was a century old statue of Jesus stand ing with his arms out stretched, only the rubble that fell from the earthquake fell and broke off the ...read more

  • Back When I Was A Teen, We Used The Word "Cool." ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 12, 2007
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    Back when I was a teen, we used the word "Cool." It has turned into "Khuuul" but still means the same thing. What you think is "cool" is where your mind is going to be If you think walking closely with God is cool, you are more likely to walk with God… if you feel like your faith was forced upon ...read more

  • Polycarp, The Bishop Of Smyrna Was Brought ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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    Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna was brought before the Roman authorities and told to curse Christ and he would be released. He replied, "Eighty-six years have I served him, and he has done me no wrong: how then can I blaspheme my king who saved me?" The Roman officer replied, "Unless you change ...read more

  • A Young American Engineer Was Sent To Ireland For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 8, 2001
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    A young American engineer was sent to Ireland for a year. When he left, his fiancé gave him a harmonica. She said, "I want you to learn to play this: it will help to keep your mind off those Irish girls." He wrote to her often and told he her that he was practicing his harmonica every night. ...read more

  • The First Glimmers That Excluding Design ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2001
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    The first glimmers that excluding design artificially restricts science come from admissions by scientists opposed to design. The arch-Darwinist Richard Dawkins begins his book The Blind Watchmaker by stating, "Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been ...read more

  • Earlier In His Life, Gandhi Was Actually ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Craver on Sep 27, 2001
    based on 59 ratings
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    Earlier in his life, Gandhi was actually considering becoming a Christian. He was attracted by the life and teachings of Jesus. Gandhi attended the services of a church in Pretoria, South Africa. He later wrote, "The congregation did not strike me as being particularly religious; they were not ...read more

  • The Tale Is Told Of A Soldier During The Civil ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The tale is told of a soldier during the Civil War who simply could not make up his mind which side of the conflict he supported. So, he dressed in a blue coat and gray pants, and walked down the center of the battlefield confident of his approval by both sides...and was immediately shot by both ...read more

  • Jack Hayford And His Wife Anna Were Vacationing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Jack Hayford and his wife Anna were vacationing in Britain during the 25th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. While there the Hayfords saw constant reminders of royalty. That, along with visits to several castles, caused Hayford to sense what it might be like to be "raised as a ...read more

  • What Do We Have To Worry About?

    Contributed by Alan Tison on Jul 9, 2007
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    What do we have to Worry about? Consider the following… 40% of our worries never happen. Anxiety is the result of a tired mind. 30% of our worries concerns past decisions which cannot be changed 12% of our worries centers on criticism by others, meant to make us feel inferior 10% is related to ...read more

  • Alive Or Not?

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 26, 2007
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    Alive Or Not? Medical authorities determine a person to be "alive" if there is either a detectable heartbeat or brain-wave activity. With that in mind, it is eye-opening for some to realize that unborn children have detectable heartbeats at eighteen days (two and one-half weeks) after conception ...read more

  • Our Kids Are Wet Cement!

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 17, 2008
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    Our kids are wet cement! When cement is still wet, it will take the form of the form into which it is poured. Once it dries and becomes hard, it can take a jack hammer to break it up and all you will have left is broken pieces. It will never be the same again! Our children are wet cement! ...read more

  • So Far We Have Seen That God Is A Real Being Who ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 9, 2008
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    "So far we have seen that God is a real being who is perfect, necessary and unlimited, but nothing has been said about the fundamental nature of that being. Invoking the language of substances, we note that things that exist independent of mind are made of one of two types of substance (or of ...read more

  • Polycarp, The Bishop Of Smyrna Was Brought Before ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 25, 2008
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    Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna was brought before the Roman authorities and told if he cursed Christ he would be released. He replied, "86 years have I served him, and he has done me no wrong: how then can I blaspheme my king who saved me?" The Roman officer replied, "Unless you change your mind, I ...read more

  • Bill Graham ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
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    Bill Graham said: “We are rich in the things that perish, but poor in the things of the spirit. We are rich in gadgets, but poor in faith. We are rich in goods, but poor in grace. We are rich in know-how, but poor in character. We are rich in words, but poor in deeds.” Jesus said that our ...read more