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  • We Need Hope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    WE NEED HOPE Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Dusk was falling on the Saturday before Christmas in 1927 the S-4 submarine (S-class submarines, were the first class of submarines built ...read more

  • I See It But I Can't Get There

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    I SEE IT BUT I CAN'T GET THERE A man named Floyd Collins, in 1925, was exploring near Mammoth Cave in Kentucky and got stuck fifty-five feet from the surface. Icy water was dripping in his face. The rescuers came in and diverted the water, and they talked with him, they calmed him down, but they ...read more

  • Identify With The Lost

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 3,357 views

    IDENTIFY WITH THE LOST In her famous book and film, "The Hiding Place" Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family, her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people. Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the ...read more

  • Nizhizaka Hill Is The Place In Nagasaki, Japan ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    Nizhizaka Hill is the place in Nagasaki, Japan where the 26 martyrs were executed on 15 February 1597, 400 years ago. They went to their deaths singing Psalm 113. Paul Miki was preaching. Contrary to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan’s expectation the Christians’ faith was strengthened. ...read more

  • He Knows What Can't Be Seen

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    HE KNOWS WHAT CAN’T BE SEEN There is no way to grasp, even remotely, what God knows about me, my life, and anything to do with me. There is a story of a photographer who went to the docks to take a picture of the "The Great Eastern". Its hull was black, having been coated with tar. That same day ...read more

  • We Need Fixing

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    WE NEED FIXING There was a barber in a small local town who had been the only barber in town for years. Everyone went to this barber to get their hair cut. Then, one day a big hair salon franchise came to town and opened up shop. They advertised, "All Haircuts for $3.00" Slowly, the barber's ...read more

  • On May 18, 1992, Time Magazine Put Roger Keith ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    On May 18, 1992, Time magazine put Roger Keith Coleman on its cover with the caption: “This man might be innocent. This man is due to die.” Reporter Jill Smolowe began her story by asking, “Must this man die? . . . That could be a tragic mistake.” Two days later Mr. Coleman was executed for ...read more

  • 99% Is Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    99% IS NOT ENOUGH Back in the 90’s a California research firm considered the advertising slogan for a popular soap that was 99.4% pure. And they asked themselves the question: “What if everything in the world operated at 99% efficiency?” They discovered: - drinking water would be unsafe one hour ...read more

  • Doctrine: Be Like Moses

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 17, 2008
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    Doctrine: Be Like Moses James Packer writes: "Many of us would agree with Peter when he says that parts of Paul's letters are hard to understand! And there are difficulties and apparent discrepancies in other parts of the Bible too. On this matter of discrepancies, I remember reading something ...read more

  • Grace Is A Force A Power That We All Need To ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 26, 2008
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    Grace is a force a power that we all need to experience and to tap because it has power: Grace has the power to transform a life filled with sorrow to a life filled with joy. Grace has the power to deliver one from them self. Grace has the power to bring love into a loveless life. Grace has the ...read more

  • Righteousness Credit

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 16, 2008
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    RIGHTEOUSNESS CREDIT The meltdown in world wide economic markets is seen by many economists over the issue of the sub-prime mortgage failure in the United States. Basically, it revolves around giving credit to those who did not deserve it. You may have received in the mail those tantalizing ...read more

  • Don't Quit

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 17, 2008
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    DON’T QUIT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low, and the debts are high, and you want to smile, but you have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is queer ...read more

  • The Pilgrims Who Arrived On The Mayflower Were ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 24, 2008
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    The Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower were not the first to celebrate Thanksgiving in the New World. Several groups before them had done similar things. But the Plymouth Rock Thanksgiving is the one we model our celebration after; for one thing, it included turkey: Governor William Bradford ...read more

  • There Was A Welsh Woman Who Lived In A Valley Far ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 23, 2009
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    There was a Welsh woman who lived in a valley far away from any town or city. She was s simple minded, hard working person who knew little about the ways of the world. At a great sacrifice to herself, she had electricity installed in her little cottage. "You use the electric lights so little, I ...read more

  • At The Crossroad  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 5,926 views

    At the Crossroad “I encountered a man on the Road of life, so sure of himself – so convinced he was right. He had (his) religion, but he didn’t know God, And though he had eyes, I thought that rather odd: He only could see what he wanted to see. So, blind to the truth that could set his soul ...read more

  • You Know Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
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    YOU KNOW NOT WHEN The people of Martinique sent representatives to that smoldering volcano, Mount Pelee, to see what the condition was. They returned and gave false reports and the city slept on, in all its vice. Nature took warning and the reptiles commenced crawling down the mountainside, birds ...read more

  • You Are A Full-Time ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    YOU ARE A FULL-TIME MINISTER In his book, Doing Church as a Team, Pastor Wayne Cordeiro, wrote the following: "Every member is a minister. God calls us to be full-time ministers! Full-time? Yes! Not just on Sundays, not just at Bible studies, but full-time. Do we love God just part-time? Do we ...read more

  • The Bible Changes Lives

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    THE BIBLE CHANGES LIVES Research consistently shows what a person believes translates into behavior. A major survey of more than 3,700 teens involved in evangelical churches reveals that, compared to teens who possess a solid, biblical belief system, young people who lack such basic biblical ...read more

  • In 1990, There Were Only Three Known Christia...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 3, 2009
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    In 1990, there were only three known Christians in Kazakhstan and no Christians in Uzbekistan, but now more than 15,000 in Kazakhstan and 30, 000 in Uzbekistan. There were only 500 Christians in Iran in 1979, but more than one million Iranians believing Jesus Christ today, most of whom meet in ...read more

  • Self-Gratification, Nfl ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
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    Self-Gratification, NFL Style Dexter Manly, has two Super Bowl rings, and amassed over 100 sacks during his career-heard voices. They were voices calling him into personal and instant gratification as a star. Clothes, meals, cars and drugs took over his life. In 91 he was banned from the NFL. His ...read more