Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 29, 2007
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Remember the show, “To Tell the Truth?” There would be one person who did something strange or different perhaps for a living while two others would try to pretend to be that person. The object was to try and fool the panel of stars and the audience. Sometimes the person would be something strange
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2001
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ANYWHERE BUT HERE
"It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens."
SOURCE: Woody Allen, CITATION: Courage - You Can Stand Strong in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2002
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GOD'S DESTRUCTION
Back in May of 1969 a national magazine told the story of Port Royal, Jamaica…. “Cities have been smothered with volcanic ash, leveled by hurricanes, shaken apart by earthquakes. But no disaster quite matches the one that struck Port Royal, Jamaica, at 11:43 a.m., on June 7,
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Nov 1, 2002
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[America’s Sin of Self-Sufficiency, Citation: Richard Halverson, "The Question Facing Us," Preaching Today, Tape 46.]
In 1863 President Lincoln designated April 30th as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer. Let me read a portion of his proclamation on that occasion:
"It is the duty
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 7, 2002
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Many years ago, a captain of an English ship sailing near Turkey was caught in a storm. As there was no harbour nearby he let down the anchor, but the wind blew so fiercely that it began to drag the anchor. It couldn’t get a grip on the sandy seabed and so the ship began to drift. Another anchor
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Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Nov 20, 2002
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Because of her late arrival at a railroad station, a lady had but five minutes to make connection with an outgoing train. As she ran toward the train, a Pullman car porter waved her to slow down and said, “Lady, you better take it easy or you are going to come down with Americanitis.” “What’s
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Jeff Simms on Aug 10, 2003
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If you ever seen the movie “Cast Away” with Tom Hanks then you
probably know who Wilson is. The story goes that Hanks plays the part of
Chuck Nolan, a fast paced FedEx executive who gets stranded when his plane
goes down in the middle of the South Pacific. In trying to survive, he started
a fire
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Suter on Sep 16, 2006
I got my driver’s license early in 1974, and some of you remember that was right around the time of the first Arab oil embargo. That wasn’t the best time for a young guy to start driving, because after all, the price of gas shot up to 50 or 60 cents a gallon, and that’s when the speed limit was
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Methodist
Contributed by Nathan Parker on Mar 10, 2007
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Life Examples: Elijah: Responding to Stress (1 Kings 19:3)
Stressful situations can drive us to inappropriate responses. The prophet Elijah illustrates the importance of viewing circumstances from God’s perspective.
God sent the prophet to rescue Israel from its moral and spiritual decline.
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Baptist
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In 1863 President Lincoln designated April 30th as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer. Let me read a portion of his proclamation on that occasion:
"It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, who owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Nov 19, 2007
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I heard about a man and his four-year-old son traveling in the family car. As Dad turned the corner the door flew open and the son rolled out into the street. The dad looked back and noticed that another vehicle traveling at a fast rate and was nearly upon his son.
All of a sudden the father
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Christian Church
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 11, 2008
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This anchor holds in day of adversity,
When all else threatens to give way.
This anchor keeps my vessel from drifting,
Never letting my ship run astray.
This anchor holds midst angry seas battering,
When waves and winds battle for my soul.
This anchor holds in the lonely night hours,
When darkness
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Contributed by Michael Mcbrien on Jan 10, 2012
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN: MALICE TOWARD NONE
Abraham Lincoln, America's most beloved president, was anything but beloved while he was in office. The South hated him. The anti-war activists hated him. Democrats hated him, calling him a widow-maker. The media ridiculed his eyes, looks, and body, calling him
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Feeling footloose and frisky, a foolish fellow forced his father to fork over his fourth of the family farthings and flew far to a foreign field where he fast frittered his father's fortune feasting foolishly with faithless friends. Fleeced by his fellows and folly, and facing famine he found
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by John Young on Nov 23, 2004
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Billy Sunday, the great Evangelist of yesteryear wrote, “I am a Christian because God’s Word says so, and I did what He told me to do, and I stand on
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 2, 2008
"All you idiots, fall out!" shouted the sergeant at the soldiers standing in formation. As the rest of the squad dispersed, one soldier remained at attention. The sergeant stalked over and raised a single eyebrow. The
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Independent/Bible