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  • 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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     | 6,583 views

    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

  • Fire Of The Holy Spirit

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jul 17, 2024
     | 1,355 views

    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

  • The "repenters"

    Contributed by Garris Hudson 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

  • Baptism Of Ivan The Great Tsar Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 8, 2009
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    Baptism of Ivan the Great Tsar of Russia Ivan the Great was Tsar of Russia during the Fifteenth Century. He brought together the warring tribes into one vast empire. As a fighting man he was courageous. As a general he was brilliant. He drove out the Tartars, establishing peace across the ...read more

  • Giving Potential If Americans Who Identify With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Giving Potential If Americans who identify with the historically Christian church increased their giving to an average of 10% of income; there could be an additional $78 billion dollars available ...read more

  • How Little Chance The Holy Ghost Has Nowadays. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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    "How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a ...read more

  • A Cartoon By Joe Mckeever...  PRO

    Contributed by Aaron Householder on Sep 30, 2004
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    A cartoon by Joe McKeever... A smiling woman greeting a surprised pastor as she leaves church says, "All my life I heard pastors say they were ...read more

  • C. We Must Position Ourselves To Be A Prophetic ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 30, 2008
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    C. We must position ourselves to be a prophetic voice to our generation. D. We may not know the future but we know who holds the future. E. On a ...read more

  • Holy Ghost Fire  PRO

    Contributed by Hugh Laing on Jan 19, 2010
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    HOLY GHOST FIRE This may be a cliche, but I still get a lift out of saying it... "I believe that today the world is going to hellfire because the church ...read more

  • Heart Of Worship  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Garrett on Apr 11, 2005
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    “HEART OF WORSHIP” There’s a recent song that was written by a young man who lead the worship at church. He was an extremely talented singer, but the preacher there took him aside and told him that he could not lead the singing at church until things changed because he saw that he was more ...read more

  • There Is A Picture Mounted On One Of The Original ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 5, 2007
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    There is a picture mounted on one of the original Norman pillars of our Church here at St Nicholas’ Church in New Romney, Kent, England. You will find it on the pillar closest to the war memorial at the back of Church and it is about a game of Chess. In the picture, Faust is engaged in a ...read more

  • A Small Defiant Boy  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Dec 8, 2003
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     | 2,160 views

    A small defiant boy When I was a youth minister 30+ years ago I told a young 5 year old boy to stop running in church. He stopped and then turned to me and said I couldn’t make him. Well... I couldn’t let a challenge like that go by so I got down on his level and firmly took him by the arms. I ...read more

  • I Want To Close By Sharing The Devil's ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I want to close by sharing the Devil’s Beatitudes with you. 1. Blessed are those who are too tired, too busy, too distracted to spend even an hour once a week with their fellow Christians – they are my best workers. 2. Blessed are those Christians who wait to be asked and expect to be thanked -- ...read more

  • There Was A Small Boy In Sunday School And The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2007
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    There was a small boy in Sunday School and the teacher told them that next Sunday was "bring a friend day." So the next Sunday this little one brought his little friend. All the kids were participating in the "old" activity where you put your hands together and interlock your fingers and build the ...read more