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  • Where Is Your Treasure?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    WHERE IS YOUR TREASURE? Long ago, in a kingdom far, far away, a rich king hired a "fool" to entertain him and make him laugh when he was sad. He gave the fool a golden scepter and told him that when he met a greater fool than he, to pass the golden scepter to that person. Years passed and one ...read more

  • I Was About Six Years Old, First Grade Student… ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Jul 29, 2008
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    I was about six years old, first grade student… And half of the school facilities were under construction, remodeling the classrooms. So they put all the grades, from 1 to 8 on a condensed schedule. Grades 5- 8 in the morning, from 7:00 to 1:00 PM, and grades 1 to 4, afternoon, from 2:00 to 6:00 ...read more

  • Slide 9) The First Conviction Is ‘there Are ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2008
     | 1,328 views

    (Slide 9) The first conviction is ‘there are things that are better than money.’ He names ‘good health, a cultivated intelligence, a clear conscience, and a sympathetic heart.’ He goes on to say, ‘There are some things that we can do without, and one of these is wealth. But there are some things we ...read more

  • There Are Some Real Benefits To God's ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Sep 21, 2008
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    There are some real benefits to God’s commands. His commands are there for our protection. I have rules in my house. Things like – “Clean your room before doing going anywhere.” “Get your homework done.” “Don’t tell what’s going to happen in the movie.” (That one risks the death ...read more

  • In The First Half Of The 17th Century, Germany ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 14, 2008
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    In the first half of the 17th century, Germany was in the midst of wars and famine and pestilence. In the city of Eilenburg lived a pastor by the name of Martin Rinkart. During one especially oppressive period, Rinkart conducted up to 50 funerals a day as a plague swept through the town and as the ...read more

  • Light Of The World

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 25, 2008
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    A boatman and a scholar were once travelling on a boat. During the journey, the scholar asked the boatman, "Do you know philosophy?" "No," he replied. "Do you know psychology?". "No." "What about geology?" "Nope!" "I suppose you don’t know accountancy, huh?" "No, not at all." "Hm... ...read more

  • Matt 5.10-12 "Blessed Are Those Who Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 1,713 views

    Matt 5.10-12 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." On June 17, 2004, when Sister Jiang Zongxiu went to the market in Guizhou Province, China, she thought it would be just another day. Along with her mother-in-law, Jiang went through ...read more

  • Blessed Are The Persecuted

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    BLESSED ARE THE PERSECUTED Matt 5.10-12 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." On June 17, 2004, when Sister Jiang Zongxiu went to the market in Guizhou Province, China, she thought it would be just another day. Along with her ...read more

  • The Joy Of Salvation

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 7, 2009
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    THE JOY OF SALVATION The late great English Congregationalist clergyman and church leader, Robert William Dale (1829-1895), once wrote: "We do not please God more by eating bitter aloes than by eating honey. A cloudy, foggy, rainy day is not more heavenly than a day of sunshine. A funeral march ...read more

  • Everyone Dies…all Flesh Is Grass…what Did You ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Mar 16, 2009
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    “Everyone dies…all flesh is grass…what did you expect? Did you really think that Christ would blunt the spear-points, deflect the lash, cause the chains to melt away when they touched your skin? Did you expect to walk in sunlight and not feel the heat, or to go without water and not grow thirsty? ...read more

  • One Mother's Day I Was Preaching In Another State ...

    Contributed by Jim Blevins on May 16, 2009
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    One Mother’s Day I was preaching in another state and during the Sunday School class I told about one of the two times that I sassed my mother. Now my mother is about 4 foot 11 inches tall and I was approaching 6 foot so I towered over her. She had told me to do something and I told her she wasn’t ...read more

  • Study Shows Divorce Won't Make You Happier

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    STUDY SHOWS DIVORCE WON’T MAKE YOU HAPPIER One research team studied the responses of over 5,000 married adults who were first interviewed in the 1980s. Five years later, the survey re-contacted those people. Even though the study really wasn’t centered on divorce, they found that some of the ...read more

  • Do You Know Him?

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 1, 2009
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    DO YOU KNOW HIM? Do you know Jesus? I’m not asking if you know about Jesus. Some people know Jesus about as well as they know Stephen Harper (PM of Canada), Rick Warren (Pastor and best-selling author), Sara Palin (Governor of Alaska who ran for Vice President for Republican John McCain), or Carl ...read more

  • Missionaries' Lives Spared From Marytrdom As They ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    Missionaries’ Lives Spared from Marytrdom As They Sang the Hymn, "Face to Face" Many years ago, a band of Chinese terrorists had captured Rev. and Mrs. Porteous, who were serving as missionaries in China with the old China Inland Mission. The terrorists led them to a lonely spot on a hill and ...read more

  • A Man Came Back From A Weekend Retreat Experience ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 28, 2010
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    A man came back from a weekend retreat experience and, when a friend asked him how it was, he said, "I died!" The friend asked him what he meant. "You see," the man answered, "I went to this thing not knowing what to expect. But in the process of that long weekend, I discovered that I had spent ...read more

  • Picked From The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2010
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    Picked From the Fire John Wesley never forgot a terrible night of his childhood. He was only six years old at the time, and he had awakened in the family’s old rectory to find it ablaze from top to bottom. Everyone else had been dragged from the building, but by some extraordinary oversight he had ...read more

  • Hanging Onto The "Bomb"

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2010
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    HANGING ONTO THE "BOMB" For four hours he held the cylinder, waiting for rescue or an immediate death. After digging up what appeared to be an unexploded WWI bomb, David Page held on to it, afraid that letting go would detonate the device. While holding the bomb, the terrified 40-year-old from ...read more

  • Spirit: A Life Changing Force

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 8, 2010
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    SPIRIT: A LIFE CHANGING FORCE There are those who think the Spirit is a thing. They view Him as a lifeless blob that God sets inside of us that doesn’t physically affect us during our lives. They tend to view God’s Spirit like a coin you put in a pop machine or a candy machine. The coin goes in ...read more

  • Why Should I Let You Into Heaven?

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Aug 5, 2011
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    WHY SHOULD I LET YOU INTO HEAVEN? If you were to die today and God were to ask you, 'Why should I let you into my heaven?' what would you say?" Over the years I would have to say that 85% of the answers I get are "I have tried to be a good person, I have tried to be a good parent, I have tried to ...read more

  • More Accustomed To Action Than Talk  PRO

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Aug 11, 2011
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     | 5,414 views

    MORE ACCUSTOMED TO ACTION THAN TALK All great enterprises begin at a critical moment--a moment when a decision is made and someone launches himself into a never-to-be-forgotten enterprise. PIZARRO, the noted Spanish explorer, faced such a moment. He languished with his men on a small island ...read more