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  • Some Of You Know Helen Schaaf. I Shared With The ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 16, 2009
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    Some of you know Helen Schaaf. I shared with the church her current physical struggles a few weeks ago. She had debilitating back pain that was making walking excruciatingly painful; finally, her doctor diagnosed a treatment for her. She had an injection in her spine so that she could walk ...read more

  • The Choice: Build Up Or Tear Down  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 11, 2009
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    THE CHOICE: BUILD UP OR TEAR DOWN Years ago I picked up a poem named "The Choice." I do not know where I got it nor the author, but it illustrates the importance of building others up. This poem raises the question of whether we will "tear down or build up." "I watched some men tearing a building ...read more

  • Don't Tape The Trees

    Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Mar 13, 2009
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    DON'T TAPE THE TREES I was talking to a man a few years back, and he told me how he used to have a farm and how he had tried to grow different things to make money. Well, one day he said he hired a young guy to mow his lawn ,but he explained to him that he had just planted about fifty Christmas ...read more

  • A Study In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    A STUDY IN SERVICE As a student in seminary, my roommate had a job as a custodian with the school. After the first day on the job, he told he had been assigned to work on the first floor of a four-story building. "Basically there are four guys responsible for their own floors. I take care of the ...read more

  • P ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Mar 23, 2009
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    Powerless! Dr. Joe McGee sent the following story that might make you watch for the floor sweeper the next time you are in the hospital! “In a hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed on Sunday morning at about 11:00 AM. Regardless of their medical condition, death ...read more

  • Honesty (Or Not) In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    HONESTY (OR NOT) IN AMERICA In the book, The Day America Told the Truth, of the people surveyed, the authors found these results – 91 percent of American lie about trivial matters; 36 percent of Americans lie about important matters; 86 percent regularly lie to parents, 75 percent regularly lie ...read more

  • A Few Months Ago I Went Into Hospital For An ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 21, 2009
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    A few months ago I went into hospital for an operation. I had my wisdom tooth removed as well as a chipped tooth fragment removed, which had found it’s way into my sinus cavity. I was under anaesthetic so I didn’t feel a thing and woke up on the operating table after the procedure was finished. I ...read more

  • She Is Almost Ninety Years Old, And Apparently ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 17, 2010
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    She is almost ninety years old, and apparently she's BEAUTIFUL. I am a Chaplain in an aged care facility and I meet a lot of 90 year olds. Some look pretty good for their age but SARAH catches your attention. The perfect Hollywood star, aging gracefully and looking years younger without the use of ...read more

  • Ever Feel Like Job?

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Sep 2, 2010
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    EVER FEEL LIKE JOB? I have been speaking with a friend on the internet of late who has been saying that GOD IS HARD TO FIND. What do you do when you come to God and all you get is SILENCE, and it feels like He has completely ABANDONED YOU? Have you ever felt like God doesn't care about you because ...read more

  • Fake Gems

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    FAKE GEMS Anything that is extremely valuable will be counterfeited. Fake gems have been around for thousands of years, but as the technology for making them has advanced, fakes are now harder to detect with the naked eye. Gem buyers today must be aware of three types of gems that are made to ...read more

  • Tchaikovsky And Time Management

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    TCHAIKOVSKY AND TIME MANAGEMENT Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the great Russian composer, put a sign on his gate: "Visiting hours Monday and Tuesday between 3 and 5 p.m. Other times please do not ring." By posting that sign, Tchaikovsky was announcing to the world that he was a great composer, and as ...read more

  • The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration: The Leo Burnett advertising agency did a nationwide telephone survey a few years ago on lying, cataloging when we lie, how we lie and why we lie. The results were interesting. Ninety-one percent of all Americans confessed that they regularly lied… One out of every five admitted that ...read more

  • An Audacious Rescue

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Dec 16, 2010
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    AN AUDACIOUS RESCUE On 5th August this year the San Jose copper mine, in the Atacama Desert in Chile collapsed. 33 men were trapped in darkness. The world and their relatives feared that there was no hope. The depth of the mine, the lack of food and water, and the absence of any signs of life all ...read more

  • A Bone Or A Steak?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2011
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    A BONE OR A STEAK? Which is better, a bone or a steak? Think of it this way. It’s easy to give a dog a bone, but it’s almost impossible to take a bone away from a dog. Even our little Schnauzer, Betsy, the world’s friendliest dog, will growl at me if I try to take a bone away from her. But ...read more

  • First Things First  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Nov 3, 2011
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    FIRST THINGS FIRST When Coach Bobby Bowden played baseball in college, he never hit a home run. His senior year at Howard College, he was the only player not to hit a home run. One day, he hit a line drive against Auburn. As he approached third, the coach was waving him on. As he made his turn, ...read more

  • A Sacrifice Of Praise Hurts!

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Mar 1, 2012
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    A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE HURTS! Several years ago, there was a song on Christian radio that said, "We bring a sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord." It had a happy, upbeat tune. Listening to it, I had the feeling that the singers were intrigued by the words but had not personally ...read more

  • How Well Do You Obey?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 7, 2012
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    HOW WELL DO YOU OBEY? How we admire the obedience a dog shows to its master! Archibald Rutledge wrote that one day he met a man whose dog had just been killed in a forest fire. Heartbroken, the man explained to Rutledge how it happened. Because he worked out-of-doors, he often took his dog with ...read more

  • God Is For Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2012
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    GOD IS FOR US Keith Hartsell of Wheaton, Illinois, was driving around with a friend of his in California, when he noticed that his friend's cell phone was locked with an unusual password -- pro nobis. Keith asked him what pro nobis meant and why he chose that for a password. Keith's friend told ...read more

  • Love Obedience And The Law

    Contributed by Roger Whipp on Dec 31, 2014
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    Anyone that has been zapped by a speed camera or pulled over by the Police and gets a fine and endorsement is likely to be a bit more careful in the future, especially if the loss of their driving licence is threatened. Our obedience to the law doesn’t come about by our love for the policeman who ...read more

  • Encouragement

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Mar 1, 2016
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     | 7,844 views

    In August 1995, the church I pastored made the decision to do a major renovation on our thirty-five-year-old sanctuary. The first step was to put together a crew of people to do internal demolition. Around forty people showed up to take care of this task. Dust was everywhere as we ripped up ...read more