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  • The Power In Touching The Untouchable  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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    THE POWER IN TOUCHING THE UNTOUCHABLE Jesus, the Christ, is still in the business of touching the untouchable! You may feel like you are too dirty or too wicked for Jesus, the Christ, to touch you with His forgiveness today! As an illustration, you may remember the move enitled "The Elephant ...read more

  • Created By God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2009
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    CREATED BY GOD A little girl was visiting over at grandpa's house. She crawls up into his lap and says "Grandpa, did God make you?" He says "Oh, yes, my dear, God created me a long time ago." She says "Did God make me, too?" He says "Oh, yes, my dear, God created you a little while ago." She ...read more

  • Can't Win For Losing  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
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    CAN'T WIN FOR LOSING A man named Fred inherited a huge land grant, but the will provided that he could choose land in either Chile or Brazil. He chose Brazil. Unhappily, if he had chosen Chile, he would have received his inheritance in land on which they had recently discovered uranium, gold and ...read more

  • Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell Injured During 9/11 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 1, 2009
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    Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell Injured during 9/11 Attack on Pentagon On September 11, Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell watched the television in his boss’ office as a second hijacked airplane slammed into the World Trade Center. The Army officer had no idea that minutes later madmen would ram a Boeing 757 into ...read more

  • Margaret Waage Wrote Of An Especially Important ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 26, 2009
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    "Margaret Waage wrote of an especially important Christmas eve in her life. She got off her job at noon and stood dejectedly in the crowd waiting for the subway train. She had worked by herself all morning since her fellow workers had been given the day off. Now many people around her were talking ...read more

  • God Uses Tragedy To Draw Couple To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2010
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    God Uses Tragedy to Draw Couple To Himself Cathy’s story: A few years ago a woman and a man who were living together started coming to the church I pastor. She had gotten pregnant and was expecting. Though they weren’t saved, they were beginning to seek the Lord. I was much in prayer for them. When ...read more

  • In The Film Version Of Ray Bradbury’s ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on May 29, 2010
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    In the film version of Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” the action starts with a cold October wind blowing through a Midwestern town. Let’s look at the theater film preview of this film and give you an idea of what I’m talking about. The “October People” had come with their ...read more

  • How Basketball Weighed In On Racial ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2010
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    How Basketball Weighed in on Racial Integration On Friday we watched the film, Glory Road, the 1966 story of how the integrated Texas Western basketball team defeated Adolph Rupp’s all-white Kentucky Wildcats. At a time when schools in the Southeastern Conference refused scholarships to black ...read more

  • Back To Reality---It Was 2:00 In The Morning, ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 27, 2010
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    BACK TO REALITY---It was 2:00 in the morning, freezing cold, and we were huddled together under the only streetlight for at least 100 miles. There we were, in the middle of the Sinai desert, waiting in an empty lot behind St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox Monastery, with high stone walls, St. ...read more

  • The Legend Of Jose Rivera

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 30, 2010
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    THE LEGEND OF JOSE RIVERA Have you heard the folk story of the bandit Jose' Rivera, who became notorious in several little towns in Texas for robbing their banks and businesses? Finally the townsfolk, weary of the constant plundering, hired a ranger to track down Jose' Rivera in his hideout in ...read more

  • Our Need For Pain  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2011
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    OUR NEED FOR PAIN There is no tougher dilemma in the Christian life than the problem of pain. It could be the pain of broken relationship, the pain of rejection, or the pain of insults. Or it could just be plain old physical pain. Nothing tests the faith like pain. It was physical pain that ...read more

  • The Impact Of Fatherlessness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2011
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    THE IMPACT OF FATHERLESSNESS Several years ago the TV show 60 Minutes ran a segment that tells us something important about fatherlessness. The park rangers at a South African wildlife preserve were concerned about the slaughter of 39 rare white rhinos in their park. It turned out that the rhinos ...read more

  • The Wizard Of Oz: Getting Home

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 10, 2011
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    THE WIZARD OF OZ: GETTING HOME I remember watching the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy is trying to find her way home, and along the way she runs into a scarecrow with no brain, a tin man with no heart, and a lion with no courage. But they learn that there is a wizard in the land of Oz who can help them ...read more

  • Daughter Of A Jew-Catcher

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2011
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    DAUGHTER OF A JEW-CATCHER I recently read an article by a minister who had been invited to preach to a church Congregation in Holland. His visit coincided with the Dutch Day of Remembrance, held each year on the anniversary of Holland’s liberation from the Nazis. His talk was preceded by several ...read more

  • You Can't Come In...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2011
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    "YOU CAN'T COME IN..." There was once a town drunk who gave his heart to Jesus Christ. He immediately stopped drinking and began to look for a church and had purposed in his heart that he would attend the first church he found. Determined to turn his life around he found a church and went in. He ...read more

  • Our "In Jesus" Voice

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 28, 2011
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    OUR "IN JESUS" VOICE I'm always intrigued by the phrase some parents and care-givers use with children: "Now children, we need to use our 'indoor' voices." What Ephesians 4 is saying is that when in the church (not the building) we need to use our "in Jesus" voices. Those voices need to lift up, ...read more

  • Don't Do Change Alone

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 5, 2012
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    DON'T DO CHANGE ALONE With a new year just around the corner, most of us are busy scribbling down resolutions. We desire radical change in the way we look, the way we behave, the way we make our living. But if research regarding New Year's resolutions is at all true, most of us will fall short of ...read more

  • Follow Instructions: Rafting The Rio Grande

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2012
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    FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS: RAFTING THE RIO GRANDE A few years ago, my family climbed aboard a rubber raft for a ride down the rapids of the Rio Grand River. We had never been on such an adventure, but all of us were experienced swimmers, and the river seemed to be fairly shallow. It seemed to be a ...read more

  • That Little Khaki-Covered Book  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2012
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    THAT LITTLE KHAKI-COVERED BOOK We Thought We Heard The Angels Sing, written by Lieutenant James Whittaker who was one of seven men whose plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean on October 21, 1942. Their leader was the famous Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, and these seven men found themselves stranded ...read more

  • He Has My Best Interests At Heart

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
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    HE HAS MY BEST INTERESTS AT HEART A few years ago I had a scary encounter with a masked man wielding a knife. I remember him with gratitude, though, since he was an orthopedic surgeon to whom I paid thousands of dollars to correct some problems with my left foot... For 3 months the surgeon ...read more