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  • My Friends, If You See A Temptation Coming, And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
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     | 3,136 views

    My friends, if you see a temptation coming, and you can avoid it, run! Don’t wait around, don’t play around, run. You drop a match in your lap, you don’t sit there and wonder how long it can sit there before it burns you. You get rid of it. … > 1 Samuel 17:48 When the Philistine started ...read more

  • I Shall Never The First Time That I Was Able To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Aug 29, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,227 views

    I shall never the first time that I was able to take communion. For years, I had sat back and took far too much heart and thought into those who took on communion “unworthily.” The first time that I took communion was the Thursday of the preceding Easter Sunday of 1990. I was at Texas Bible ...read more

  • The Date For Easter Moves Around Each Year. In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,468 views

    The Date for Easter moves around each year. In the year 2018 (and in 2029) it will land right on April 1st --April Fool’s Day. A lot of us have played April Fool’s jokes on others, or have had these jokes played on us. But what if history’s worst joke turned out to be that we were counting on a ...read more

  • Surgery For The "New Born"

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 23, 2007
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    Surgery for the “New Born” Several years ago an orthopedic surgeon performed an operation on my son to repair a torn ACL. The operation didn’t restore his knee to its original condition, but it did allow him to walk, even though he still experiences pain from time to time. Recently my wife had ...read more

  • Thomas Andrew Dorsey Was A Black Jazz Musician ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,388 views

    Thomas Andrew Dorsey was a black jazz musician from Atlanta. In the twenties he gained a certain amount of notoriety as the composer of jazz tunes with suggestive lyrics, but he gave all that up in 1926 to concentrate exclusively on spiritual music. "Peace in the Valley" is one of his best known ...read more

  • Judzia Dax Was Unique Among The Characters Of ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Nov 24, 2006
     | 1,115 views

    Judzia Dax was unique among the characters of Star Fleet. She was a humanoid life form from the planet Trill. Thus, our title today, Trill Theology. Trill is a scarcely populated planet with only a few million humanoid inhabitants. The Trill Humanoids share their planet with a wormlike oceanic life ...read more

  • Stanley Jones Writes About A Crucial Moment In ...

    Contributed by Mark Ferrante on Jan 12, 2007
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     | 2,101 views

    Stanley Jones writes about a crucial moment in his life when he found himself on his way to what could have been a spiritual disaster: For months after my conversion, I was running under cloudless skies. And then suddenly I tripped, almost fell, pulled back this side of the sin, but was shaken ...read more

  • Stand By Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    STAND BY YOUR SIGN When an individual or a congregation has the attitude of compromise in regard to spiritual values and truths, dark days are ahead. All who strive to be Christians feel a certain amount of pressure from the world. Through the strength that Christ gives, we can overcome the world ...read more

  • Crocodile Dundee

    Contributed by Dan Stires on Aug 12, 2009
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    CROCODILE DUNDEE Do you remember the movie called "Crocodile Dundee?" It was a good one. Crocodile Dundee comes from the land down under. He is completely out of his realm when he came from Australia to New York City. Crocodile Dundee and his girlfriend are out for a walk at night, when all of a ...read more

  • Battlefield Away From Home

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Sep 15, 2009
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    BATTLEFIELD AWAY FROM HOME He cherished every letter that came from her. His deployment had started six long months ago. No end date was in sight. These were the days before emails and webcams. Those handwritten letters from his sweetheart was his only lifeline out of those trenches to back home. ...read more

  • Imagine You Are Watching The Olympics. All ...

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on Sep 22, 2009
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    Imagine you are watching the Olympics. All these different skaters come out with their impressive performances. Now in the Olympics the athlete will be judged on the difficulty of their routine as well as the precision and grace with which the carry it out. In evaluating then you are looking for ...read more

  • Who Are You?

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 19, 2009
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    WHO ARE YOU? Sheila Walsh is a Christian singer, writer, and former host of The 700 Club. She describes how her disconnected spirituality literally hit a wall. "One morning I was sitting on national television with my nice suit and inflatable hairdo and that night I was in the locked ward of a ...read more

  • Roll-Up-Your-Shirt-Sleeves Christianity  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
    based on 10 ratings
     | 6,868 views

    ROLL-UP-YOUR-SHIRT-SLEEVES CHRISTIANITY When DAVE THOMAS died in early 2002, he left behind more than just thousands of Wendy’s restaurants. He also left a legacy of being a practical, hard-working man who was respected for his down-to-earth values. Among the pieces of good advice that have ...read more

  • In The Trenches Of Life When Decisions Need To Be ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 9, 2009
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    In the trenches of life when decisions need to be made quickly, we often depend upon short principles that offer us immediate direction and give us spiritual instincts. C. Everett Koop is a great medical ethicist; when addressing end of life decision-making in a booklet he wrote for ...read more

  • The Incomparable Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2009
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    THE INCOMPARABLE JESUS The late great Swiss-born, German-educated American Protestant theologian and historian of the Christian Church, Rev. Philip Schaff (1819 - 1893), once said, "Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, and Napoleon. ...read more

  • The Only Thing About Christmas That Bothers Me Is ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 22, 2009
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    The only thing about Christmas that bothers me is that people see Jesus as a baby, meek and mild but they don’t see Him for all that He really is. It always used to bother me that I was called a gentle man. I longed to be seen as strong and courageous and visionary, but people mainly see me as ...read more

  • My Mother Has A Fairly Rare Heart Condition Known ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
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    My mother has a fairly rare heart condition known as Hypertropic Cardiomyopathy. It is a disease of the muscle of the heart in which a portion of the muscle of the heart is thickened without any obvious cause. It’s a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in any age group and causes disabling ...read more

  • I Can't Imagine What It Would Be Like To Lose My ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
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    I can’t imagine what it would be like to lose my son. When he and his wife were living in New Zealand, we went to visit them. On my return I dreamed that he had died and woke up in tears. I quickly rang him to say how much I loved him. He must have thought I was losing it, but my grief was real and ...read more

  • A Little Girl's Security In A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    A Little Girl’s Security in a Storm There was a devout Christian mother who was always teaching her daughter lessons of faith and trust, especially telling her that she need never be afraid at any time because God was always near. One summer evening she tucked her little girl in bed after her ...read more

  • Sphere Of Influence

    Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Feb 15, 2010
     | 4,292 views

    SPHERE OF INFLUENCE There's another interesting definition I want to look at -- it relates to astrodynamics A sphere of influence (SOI) in astrodynamics and astronomy is the spherical region around a celestial body where the primary gravitational influence on an orbiting object is that body. ...read more