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  • An Obstetrician Approached An Anxious Father In ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 10, 2008
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    An obstetrician approached an anxious father in the waiting room of a New York City hospital and said, “I am sorry to inform you, but your baby lived but two hours after his birth. We did everything we could to save his life.” As the sympathetic doctor was about to leave, the quick thinking ...read more

  • Selflessness Sparks A Whole Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    SELFLESSNESS SPARKS A WHOLE CHURCH When Yoido Full Gospel Church in South Korea was building its prayer mountain, they struggled in raising the funds for its construction. Pastor David Cho challenged the people again and again and still they could raise the funds they needed for the project. Then, ...read more

  • In High School, A Boy Named Tony, Came To Be One ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In high school, a boy named Tony, came to be one of my best friends. After high school, Tina and I married and bought a home in Myrtle. My friend also married a pretty, young girl and bought the house next door. By this time, Tina and I had been saved and were trying to live for the Lord. But our ...read more

  • The May 1984 National Geographic Showed Through ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    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 79 A.D. The explosion of Mount Vesuvius was so sudden that the residents were killed while in their routine: men and women were ...read more

  • A Foolish Old Farmer, So The Story Goes, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A foolish old farmer, so the story goes, concluded one day that the oats he had fed his mule for years were simply costing him too much. So he hatched a plan he mixed a little sawdust in with the feed, and then a little more the next day, and even more the next, each time reducing the amount of ...read more

  • Fully Furnished!  PRO

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Aug 30, 2007
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    Fully furnished! Leander McCormick-Goodheart was a recruiter for the Ford Motor Company in 1944. He toured fifty universities across the United States to recruit the outstanding graduating student of each institution. At Leigh University, he met a young man named Lee and offered him a position at ...read more

  • In A Book Called The Grace Awakening, Chuck ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Oct 11, 2007
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    In a book called The Grace Awakening, Chuck Swindoll tells about a Missionary family who left their Work because of Condemnation from other Missionaries. What was the theological disagreement over? Peanut butter. You see, the Mission field where they went did not have access to Peanut Butter. ...read more

  • John Macarthur Noted "Perhaps The Best Way To ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 3, 2007
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    John MacArthur noted “Perhaps the best way to illustrate the idea of ceaseless prayer is to compare it to breathing. Inhaling and exhaling is so natural for us that it often seems totally involuntary; it’s actually harder to hold your breath than to breathe. The same should be true of prayer for ...read more

  • Marjorie Thompson Makes An Interesting Point When ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
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    Marjorie Thompson makes an interesting point when she says, ‘As people become hungrier for spiritual nurture, they often become more dissatisfied with their own tradition of corporate worship. Part of the problem is that average person in the pew has little say over how worship is planned, much ...read more

  • Have You Ever Bump Or Push Started A Car? It's ...

    Contributed by Peter Bines on Jan 22, 2008
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    Have you ever bump or push started a car? It’s pretty exhausting especially if it doesn’t work first time. If a manual transmission car won’t start because the battery’s flat or the starter motor’s broken the driver puts the car into gear and keeps the clutch down whilst a couple of people push ...read more

  • Unknown Inheritances  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2009
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    UNKNOWN INHERITANCES A Michigan factory worker, earning less than ten thousand dollars a year, was an unknowing heir to a half-million dollars. When located by an investigator some years after his benefactor’s death, the worker explained that he had neither returned home nor kept in touch with his ...read more

  • Watch Out For The Weeds  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Feb 23, 2010
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    WATCH OUT FOR THE WEEDS Watch out for the weeds in your life – the things that come between you and God; between you and serving God. I like the way Rick Warren illustrates weeds. • You don’t have to plan for weeds to grow; it just grows. • The difference between a plant and a weed is this. ...read more

  • Blackaby Shares From His Book "The Power Of ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 26, 2010
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    Blackaby shares from his book “The Power of the Call” pages 10-14 on a clear picture of what one looks like who is called by God into pastoral ministry: i. The pastor is chosen ii. He is chosen by God iii. He is chosen by God to be His servant iv. He is chosen by God to shepherd His people v. He ...read more

  • Ignorance Of One's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010
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    Ignorance of One’s Inheritance A Michigan factory worker, earning less than ten thousand dollars a year, was an unknowing heir to a half-million dollars. When located by an investigator some years after his benefactor’s death, the worker explained that he had neither returned home nor kept in touch ...read more

  • Two Kinds Of Giving

    Contributed by T D on Dec 28, 2010
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    TWO KINDS OF GIVING I have witnessed in my years of ministry people come to church and when they do not like a decision of the leadership or the minister, they decide to stop giving as a protest or decide to shift their giving to missions in order to inflict pain on the ministry of the church. ...read more

  • God Cares For The Birds

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2011
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    GOD CARES FOR THE BIRDS Several years ago I was mowing the yard on my lawn tractor and I came across a killdeer bird which many call a kill dare bird.. A Kill dare for those who don’t know is a small bird that lays its eggs on the ground usually near rocks, and when any other animal approaches it ...read more

  • Not All Good Deeds Are Good

    Contributed by Tony Salisbury on Feb 12, 2011
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    NOT ALL GOOD DEEDS ARE GOOD For Valentine's Day several years ago I bought chocolates for everyone in my family. To help everyone remember which chocolates belonged to whom I bought different ones. One got rich dark Belgian chocolate. Another one received smooth creamy milk chocolate. All went ...read more

  • Tying Off The Tap Root  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    TYING OFF THE TAP ROOT The Japanese introduced a tree to the world that is called a Bonsai tree. It is measured in inches instead of feet as other trees are measured. It is not allowed to reach anywhere near its full growth potential but instead grows in a stunted miniature form. The reason for ...read more

  • The Adam And Eve Virus

    Contributed by Daniel J. Little on Nov 15, 2011
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    THE ADAM AND EVE VIRUS The Genesis narrative (chapter 3) tells us how God gave Adam and Eve His wisdom as well as His authority, and then how they pursued a counterfeit authority and an alien wisdom—actually satanic wisdom. The moment they introduced that dark wisdom into their lives a radical ...read more

  • The Style Of Indiana Jones In Discovering ...

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Dec 20, 2011
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    The style of Indiana Jones in discovering "Biblical treasures"!!! Yes, Indiana Jones stories are juicy and spicy, for they stoke the fires of inherent sense of discovery in all of us. Add to that breathtaking stunts and adventure, you have a heady mix guaranteed to give one some goose bumps. ...read more