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  • Lead By Example

    Contributed by John Bright on Oct 3, 2025
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    Lead by example. This is different than ordering folks around. When James and John ask for places of authority, Jesus warns them against acting like the world. Jesus describes what it will look like in the church: Mark 10:43-45 “43 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become ...read more

  • There Was Once A Christian Celebration On The ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 14, 2004
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    There was once a Christian celebration on the west coast of Africa, when converted natives brought of their meager possessions to show their devotion to Christ, a young girl only recently saved from paganism brought a silver coin worth about eighty-five cents, and handed this to the missionary as ...read more

  • The Importance Of Really Living The Christian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jun 28, 2001
    based on 59 ratings
     | 2,914 views

    The importance of really living the Christian life is illustrated in the life of the famous author Mark Twain. Church leaders were largely to blame for his becoming hostile to the Bible and the Christian faith. As he grew up, he knew elders and deacons who owned slaves and abused them. He heard men ...read more

  • Someone Told This Story: It Is Easy To Become A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Someone told this story: It is easy to become a slave to hatred in our hearts. A good friend of mine, "Roy", became angry with another friend of mine, "Lee", several years ago. "Roy" has never forgiven "Lee" for the trespass, and "Lee” never knew that "Roy" was angry with him. Recently, I bumped ...read more

  • William Wilberforce

    Contributed by John Bright on Feb 16, 2025
     | 418 views

    One example of living for Christ in the midst of suffering is William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833). There is a wonderful movie about him that came out in 2006 – “Amazing Grace.” You can watch is for free on Youtube. The movie opens in the year 1797 with Wilberforce suffering and feeling very ...read more

  • Maya Angelou, A Great Contemporary American Poet, ...

    Contributed by James Westmoreland on Aug 27, 2005
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    Maya Angelou, a great contemporary American poet, writes about how she dealt with slavery and prejudice in her moving poem entitled, "Still I Rise." Her words could well have been written by Joseph, who had been made a slave in Egypt. Can we face our own difficulties with this kind of confidence ...read more

  • Today We Seek To Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Jan 15, 2007
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    Today we seek to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and we will start with a portion of Dr. King’s "I have a dream speech". …And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this ...read more

  • Diversity In The Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    DIVERSITY IN THE CHURCH Philip Yancey put it this way in an article in Christianity Today just this last November. He writes, "As I read accounts of the New Testament church, no characteristic stands out more sharply than [diversity]. Beginning with Pentecost, the Christian church dismantled the ...read more

  • I Plead Guilty!" The Great "Prince Of Preachers" ...

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jul 1, 2004
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    “I PLEAD GUILTY!” The great “prince of preachers” Charles Haddon Spurgeon used to tell this story: “A certain duke once boarded a galley ship. As he passed the crew of slaves, he asked several of them what their offenses were. Almost every man claimed he was innocent. They laid the blame on someone ...read more

  • How Would It Have Felt To Grow Up In Slavery, To ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 23, 2006
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    How would it have felt to grow up in slavery, to give birth to children who were slaves, and then to die in slavery? Wouldn’t you wonder, "Where is God in all this? If we are God’s people, why isn’t he doing something?" But God thinks in the long term --decades, centuries, and even millennia. ...read more

  • Throughout History, Women Have Been Treated By ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chad Wright on Apr 25, 2002
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     | 2,205 views

    Throughout history, women have been treated by men as lesser humans. Athenian women were of inferior status, often guarded by dogs, treated as fickle, contentious, and uncultured in comedy. In Jesus’ day, there was a prayer said by Jewish men thanking God in this manner, “Thank you for not making ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis Observed, "If You Read History, You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    C.S. Lewis observed, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English ...read more

  • Old-School Church Discipline

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
     | 4,635 views

    OLD-SCHOOL CHURCH DISCIPLINE The Amish practice shunning – ignoring, turning away from, avoiding. When a person is disciplined by the community, relationships are severed between parents and children, or brother and sister, or even husbands and wives. Because the Amish are so isolated from those ...read more

  • This Was Something That Blessed Me From Craig ...

    Contributed by Tunde Edu on Jan 15, 2008
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    This was something that blessed me from Craig Hill’s book, Deceived! Who me? Some of you have seen this small radios that can only operate in two bandwidths or range of frequencies, AM and FM. If set to AM you can only get certain stations that you will not get on FM and if you tune it to FM you ...read more

  • Chess Game With Satan

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
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    CHESS GAME WITH SATAN From a great chess player of Cincinnati, we learn that in the early part of the last century an artist who was also a great chess player painted a picture of a chess game. The players were a young man and Satan. The young man manipulated the white pieces; Satan the black ...read more

  • Chess Game With Satan

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Jan 10, 2012
     | 4,954 views

    CHESS GAME WITH SATAN From a great chess player of Cincinnati, we learn that in the early part of the last century an artist who was also a great chess player painted a picture of a chess game. The players were a young man and Satan. The young man manipulated the white pieces; Satan the black ...read more

  • I Heard The True Story The Other Day Of A ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 19, 2004
     | 2,736 views

    I heard the true story the other day of a grandmother who was going to be baptized and her whole family was there to watch. They had tried to tell the 6 year old grandson what was happening, how Grandma was dying to sin and being baptized into Christ and so as they waited for Grandma to come out ...read more

  • The May 1984 National Geographic Showed, Through ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Searles on Nov 24, 2006
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     | 1,785 views

    The May 1984 National Geographic showed, through color photos and drawings, the swift and terrible destruction that wiped out the Roman Cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79. The explosion of Mount Vesuvius was so sudden, the residents were killed while in their normal routines of life: men ...read more

  • Two Hundred Years Ago, On 25th March 1807, The ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Mar 27, 2007
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    Two hundred years ago, on 25th March 1807, the British parliament voted in favour of a law that would have consequences all around the known world. This new law was the abolition of human slavery. This act of 1807 was one of the most humanitarian pieces of legislation ever enacted in a British ...read more

  • Two Hundred Years Ago, On 25th March 1807, The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,084 views

    Two hundred years ago, on 25th March 1807, the British parliament voted in favour of a law that would have consequences all around the known world. This new law was the abolition of human slavery. This act of 1807 was one of the most humanitarian pieces of legislation ever enacted in a British ...read more