Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Many today try to explain away their sin by denial. "I live a good moral life" they say or "I’m just as good as the next guy". They over estimate themselves with too high a view of their condition.
Muhammad Ali, who is one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century and maybe the best boxer of
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GRIEF DOESN'T ALWAYS GO AWAY
"Jimmy had died just yesterday." I listened closely as details spilled out. Jimmy had been a handsome guy, thoughtful and very caring. "It was a summer day. He and some friends had gone to a meeting. On his way – heart attack. Dead within two minutes."
It did not
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 20, 2022
Cable television mogul Ted Turner criticized conservative Christianity and said, "Jesus probably would be sick at his stomach" over the way his ideas have been "twisted" by today's preachers, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Turner made his remarks at a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 23, 2003
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Dave Stone recently told a story about his trip to Ft. Worth Texas where he was the guest speaker for the Richland Hills Church of Christ. When he arrived, the preacher met him at the airport and being a good host as he was, the preacher insisted that Dave come a play golf with him before the
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Contributed by Jack Kale on Sep 30, 2017
Rain on the Rocks
We were on the last morning of a five day float down the Buffalo River in Arkansas. Our family joined another for the second annual Kale-Parker river trip. Everyone had their own boat and each was packed with supplies ranging from coolers, cook-wear, clothes, fishing gear, and
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 24, 2001
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[God Is Just One Squeal Away, Citation: Rod Cooper, "Worship or Worry?" Preaching Today, Tape No. 108.]
We raised pigs.
We raised about a thousand pigs a year.
In one field we had two or three hundred little oinkers running around.
Every day, at four in the morning, as I’d walk into the field
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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 Stephen Ring on Apr 9, 2004
In September of 1982, my Mother passed away very unexpectedly. Through a series of events, I was actually spending the weekend at my parent’s home sick with a stomach flu, in order that my wife would be able to work and get a good night’s sleep. Early on the Sunday morning, my mother had a stroke
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Francis on Aug 31, 2005
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I was five and running fast away from my parents, just did not understand the word stop. As I ran I was just trying to get around that long wooden things called a breakwater, just wanted to run through that puddle on the end, it only looked to be an inch deep and ran into it and whoosh, down I
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 14, 2005
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I was coming home from a meeting an hour away. It was in the evening and as I was driving home, I was amazed at the beauty of the sunset. It was so beautiful that I didn’t listen to the radio or even notice that my lights were not on. The amazing thing about a sunset or sunrise is that its
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Andrew Chan on Apr 28, 2006
“Will The Da Vinci Code drive millions away from the historic Christian faith?” asks Phil Cooke, a media expert. “Doubtful,” he says. “The Barna Research Group reported that less than one-tenth of 1% of the people who watched ‘The Passion of the Christ’ actually accepted Christ as a result of
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 22, 2008
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It’s amazing what you can get away with these days, especially if you’ve got a good lawyer: Have you heard of a lawyer Dubbed "Mr Loophole" owing to his talent for finding unusual technical defenses, Mr. Freeman has represented celebrities from footballer David Beckham to snooker player Ronnie
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Baptist
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