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  • Mothers Have Taught Us With Faithful Words Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 1, 2006
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    Mothers have taught us with faithful words of instruction (listen to some of these from a Mothers Day website) To Value A Job Well Done "If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning." Time Travel "If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of ...read more

  • Bishop Asbury Was A Circuit-Riding, Methodist ...  PRO

    Contributed by Myron Loss on Jun 9, 2006
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    Bishop Asbury was a circuit-riding, Methodist preacher who lit gospel fires all across the American frontier, and who was no stranger to hardship and suffering. Asbury suffered from one chronic ailment after another, so much so that one biographer calls him a "Job of old on horseback." Migraine ...read more

  • In North Shore Baptist Church, In Chicago, The ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Aug 12, 2006
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    In North Shore Baptist Church, in Chicago, the Sunday School Director and one of the deacons in the church was a man named James L. Kraft. As a young man, just beginning, he wanted to be the most famous manufacturer and salesman of cheese in the world. He was going to be rich and famous, and he ...read more

  • Introduction: Did You Hear The One About The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    Introduction: Did you hear the one about the chauffer whose job it had been to drive a famous scientist to a series of presentations about a new discovery. After several days, the two began to become pretty good friends. This despite the fact that the scientist taught bio-chemistry at a major ...read more

  • Sleeping Through The Storm

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Nov 10, 2008
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    SLEEPING THROUGH THE STORM Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands. Most people were reluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic. They dreaded the awful storms that raged across the Atlantic, wreaking havoc on the buildings and ...read more

  • Forget The Cup--Enjoy The Hot ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    FORGET THE CUP--ENJOY THE HOT CHOCOLATE A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering ...read more

  • A Young Woman Named Sally Was Going Away To ...

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 17, 2007
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    A young woman named Sally was going away to college. Her mother worked two jobs so her daughter could go to college. Sally was nervous and afraid about leaving home for the first time to go and live in a far away place. She was also afraid of not having her mother’s guidance. Before Sally left, her ...read more

  • Roy Anthony Borges Was Sentenced To A Term Of 45 ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Mar 5, 2008
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    Roy Anthony Borges was sentenced to a term of 45 years in a Florida penitentiary for robbery. He has become a Christian and is a law clerk in the prison library. Roy tells this story in an article he wrote for DISCIPLESHIP JOURNAL and MEN OF INTEGRITY magazine in 1998: “Where the strong prey on ...read more

  • Power Of The Flesh  PRO

    Contributed by Daniel Olukoya on Apr 17, 2009
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    POWER OF THE FLESH A certain man was in very big trouble. He was sacked from five jobs. When he could not feed his family again, his wife ran away, leaving him with three daughters. To worsen his sorrow, his first daughter became pregnant while in form three. When he tried to beat her, she said, ...read more

  • Integrity And Faithfulness In Work Yields Peace ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    Integrity and Faithfulness in Work Yields Peace of Mind The late great American Methodist clergyman and author, Rev. Charles Livingstone Allen (1913 - 2005), told this story in his sermon entitled "How To Sleep Well On A Windy Night:" "A boy went to a farmer and asked to be given a job as a hired ...read more

  • Italian Composer Antonio Rossini Didn't Know Why ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2009
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    Italian Composer Antonio Rossini Didn’t Know Why His Watch Was So Valuable You cannot go forward when you have plenty when you are empty on the inside. Harry Emerson Fosdick said that, “No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ...read more

  • The Importance Of Church In The Face Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 4, 2010
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    The Importance of Church in the Face of Disillusionment The church has fallen on tough times. Sadly, some of the negative perceptions are the church’s fault. Stories of sexual abuse by a few ministers and avarice and greed by others have tarnished the testimony of the church. I am convinced that ...read more

  • Radical Faith  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jan 24, 2011
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    RADICAL FAITH I want to read to you the opening story from David Platt's book "The Radical Question" (Multnomah Press). Imagine a scene that took place in Asia not so long ago: A room in an ordinary house, dimly lit, all the blinds on the windows closed. Twenty leaders from churches in the ...read more

  • The Bill Always Comes Due

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2011
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    THE BILL ALWAYS COMES DUE Bob Harris, weatherman for NY TV station WPIX-TV and the nationally syndicated independent Network news, had to weather a public storm of his own making in 1979. Though he had studied math, physics and geology at three colleges, he left school without a degree but with a ...read more

  • The Tenacity Of Edison And Lincoln

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 23, 2011
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    THE TENACITY OF EDISON AND LINCOLN Look at the life of Thomas Edison. At 21, he patented his first major invention: the Electrical Vote Recorder (a device 100 years ahead of its time!). At 26, he invented the automatic telegraph and paraffin paper. At 30, the phonograph (earliest record player). ...read more

  • I Wish I Could Live Life Over Again

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Jun 14, 2011
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    I WISH I COULD LIVE LIFE OVER AGAIN I remember when I was an assistant pastor in TN visiting a man who had lived his whole life in sin and selfishness. He finally came to the Lord in his sixties. When he was diagnosed with cancer, I went to visit him at his home shortly before his death. The day ...read more

  • Dying For Someone Like That

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 12, 2011
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    DYING FOR SOMEONE LIKE THAT During the war in Vietnam, a young West Point graduate was sent over to lead a group of new recruits into battle. He did his job well, trying his best to keep his recruits from ambush and death. But one night, when they had been under attack, he was unable to get one of ...read more

  • Under The Influence

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Apr 13, 2012
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    UNDER THE INFLUENCE David Kupelian's book The Marketing of Evil, published in 2005, is an eye-opening study of what we face today. I wish every parent would read it. Does anyone here remember what happened to Robert Bauman in 1980? He was elected in 1973 as representative of the First ...read more

  • The Stress Of Uncertainty

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2012
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    THE STRESS OF UNCERTAINTY Daniel Gilbert (a psychologist at Harvard), citing a recent Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, said "that Americans are smiling less and worrying more than they were a year ago, that happiness is down and sadness is up, that we are getting less sleep and smoking more ...read more

  • So Many Valuable Possessions  PRO

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Sep 26, 2012
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    SO MANY VALUABLE POSSESSIONS Waylon Prendergast, 37, of Tampa, Florida, committed a spur-of-the-moment robbery while on his way home from a late-night drinking session. A very inebriated Mr. Prendergast forced his way into the house through an open upstairs window, filling a suitcase with cash and ...read more