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  • Watermelon Seed

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Watermelon seed In my first pastorate in Alabama, we had a Sunday night watermelon fellowship. We fellowshipped together eating watermelon. During our time, we began a watermelon seed-spitting contest. Unknown to us, a few seed made their way into the soil between a brick wall and the driveway. A ...read more

  • Heart Prints

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Heart Prints Whatever our hands touch We leave fingerprints On walls, on furniture On doorknobs, dishes, books. There’s no escape. As we touch we leave our identity. Oh God, wherever I go today Help me leave heartprints Heartprints of compassion Of understanding and love. Heartprints ...read more

  • To "Love Your Neighbor As Yourself" Is Best ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 1, 2007
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    To “love your neighbor as yourself” is best described in Matthew 7:12 - "Do for others what you would like them to do for you.” In other words to love God supremely and to love other people purely is the Bible in a nutshell. It is the beginning and end of life the way God intended it to be lived. ...read more

  • Some People Are Asleep Because They Have Never ...

    Contributed by Kermit Reaves on Jul 24, 2007
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    Some people are asleep because they have never been awake. I am familiar with that state because I was once in it myself. I attended church, heard God’s Word preached, sang the great hymns, listened to others pray — but with no depth of comprehension. I was simply present where others worshiped. I ...read more

  • Two Paddleboats Left Port About The Same Time ...

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Aug 30, 2007
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    Two paddleboats left port about the same time down the Mississippi River. As they traveled side by side, the sailors began to taunt one another; challenging words were exchanged until finally a race began. After a time, one boat began falling behind; its fuel supply nearly expended. Although there ...read more

  • Fact: Since 1900, The Percentage Of The World's ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 7, 2007
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    Fact: Since 1900, the percentage of the world’s atheistic and non-religious peoples (agnostics, secularists, com­munists, and so on) has grown from 0.2 percent to 21.3 percent - in other words from less than one-fifth of one percent to over one fifth of the world’s population. This is the most ...read more

  • Just Believe By Joel Vicente

    Contributed by Joel Vicente on Oct 16, 2007
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    JUST BELIEVE by Joel Vicente THOUGH TIME MAY BE TOUGH AND THE ROAD REAL ROUGH JUST BELIEVE THOUGH YOU’VE CRIED MANY TEARS AND WAITED MANY YEARS JUST BELIEVE IF GOD SAID HE WILL THEN JUST BE STILL AND BELIEVE FOR GOD WILL TRULY DO WHAT HE PROMISED YOU IF YOU JUST BELIEVE JUST BELIEVE IN HIS ...read more

  • Never Give In

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Nov 5, 2007
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    "Never Give In" "This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." ...read more

  • A Six-Year-Old Boy Came Home With A Note From ...

    Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 8, 2007
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    • A six-year-old boy came home with a note from his teacher in which it was suggested that he be taken out of school, as he was “too stupid to learn.” That boy was Thomas A. Edison. • Alfred Tennyson’s grandfather gave him 10 shillings for writing a eulogy for his grandmother. Handing it to the ...read more

  • Writing In The Christian Reader, Laura Conklin ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Mar 23, 2008
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    Writing in The Christian Reader, Laura Conklin shares a family story. “My husband and I home school our two children, Seth and Glenna. One day, the lesson was on opposites. “Glenna, who was six at the time, was being quizzed. I would say a word and she would give its opposite. “When I said, ...read more

  • What God Can Do

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 17, 2008
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    WHAT GOD CAN DO A young boy traveling by airplane to visit his grandparents sat beside a man who happened to be a seminary professor. The boy was reading a Sunday school take-home paper when the professor thought he would have some fun with the lad. "Young man," said the professor, "If you can ...read more

  • Last October, The Dalai Lama, The Exiled Tibetan ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 13, 2008
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    Last October, the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist monk, visited Canada. He started his tour in Ottawa to a crowd of 5,000 people and Parliament gave him an honorary Canadian citizenship. Wherever he has travelled, thousands have congregated to hear his words. What people want is a key to ...read more

  • You Can't Have A Triumph Without A Trial, You ...

    Contributed by John Davis on Nov 25, 2008
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    You can’t have a triumph without a trial, You can’t have a Testimony without a test and you can’t have a great Victory until you’ve gone through a great Battle! It’s like the Andre Crouch song "Through it All" one line in the song says "If I never had a problem I wouldn’t know that God could solve ...read more

  • Paul Prayed Three Times To Have His Thorn ...

    Contributed by Michael Wiley on Feb 4, 2009
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    Paul prayed three times to have his thorn removed. We don’t know what the thorn was. The Greek word used in the original text meant thorn or stake. Some believe it was some sort of chronic ailment that plagued him (thorn in the flesh). Some believe it was all the ongoing trials of the previous ...read more

  • No Witnesses

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Apr 13, 2009
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    NO WITNESSES Think about this. There were no witnesses to creation except the angels. God created, and He created man last. So He had to have told Adam what He did, and the information was passed down from there. So we either believe the Creation account, or we disbelieve and we accept some ...read more

  • Joseph Stalin

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 4, 2009
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    JOSEPH STALIN Despite the mind-numbing brutality of the Joseph Stalin regime in the Soviet Union, his propaganda machine did its job well. Many Russians hailed him as a hero and a savior, including a young school girl who was chosen to greet Stalin on one occasion. Years later, this woman ...read more

  • Solzhenitsyn: Men Have Forgotten God  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 24, 2009
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    SOLZHENITSYN: MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD In his 1983 acceptance speech for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn recalled the words he heard as a child, when his elders sought to explain the ruinous upheavals in Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has ...read more

  • Italian Poet Dante Alighieri Criticized By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2009
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    Italian Poet Dante Alighieri Criticized by Enemies During Church Service Deeply immersed in meditation during a church service, Italian poet Dante Alighieri failed to kneel at the appropriate moment. His enemies hurried to the bishop and demanded that Dante be punished for his sacrilege. Dante ...read more

  • For Bible Knowledge (The ...

    Contributed by Timothy Brown on Jan 23, 2010
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    Illustration for Bible Knowledge (The Apostles’ Doctrine/Teaching) - Think of the Scriptures as an absolutely accurate map. A map tells you how to get to a certain destination. But just looking at a map won't automatically transport you to Arizona or England or Peru. Getting to those places means ...read more

  • Bill Hybels On Prayer As An Unnatural ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    Bill Hybels on Prayer as an Unnatural Activity Bill Hybels begins his book Too Busy Not to Pray with these words: “Prayer is an unnatural activity. From birth we have been learning the rules of self reliance and self sufficiency. Prayer flies in the face of such deep seated values…. It is an ...read more