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  • David Limbaugh Has Written A Book Called, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    David Limbaugh has written a book called, Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity, and in it he observed: "It’s one thing for Christophobes to be nervous about Easter and Christmas, given their obvious association with Jesus Christ, but surely holidays like Valentine’s Day ...read more

  • I Have Been To The Eye Doctor Many Times. ...

    Contributed by James Chandler on Apr 5, 2007
     | 1,768 views

    I have been to the eye doctor many times. Sometimes they would dilate my eyes and everything would get so blurry and out of focus. It would be hours before I could really get my focus back and see clearly. Sometimes things were blurry not because my eyes were dilated but because my eyesight ...read more

  • The Great British Baptist Pastor Alexander ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Apr 15, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
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    The great British Baptist pastor Alexander McClaren reminds us, “Only he who can say, ‘The Lord is the strength of my life,’ can say, ‘Of whom shall I be afraid?’” [--Alexander McClaren, Christian Reader, Vol. 32, no. 3. Thomas a Kempis, the 14th century German Catholic monk, wrote in The ...read more

  • The Great British Baptist Pastor Alexander ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Apr 16, 2007
     | 1,301 views

    The great British Baptist pastor Alexander McClaren reminds us, “Only he who can say, ‘The Lord is the strength of my life,’ can say, ‘Of whom shall I be afraid?’” [--Alexander McClaren, Christian Reader, Vol. 32, no. 3. Thomas a Kempis, the 14th century German Catholic monk, wrote in The ...read more

  • Faith Is Like This – You Are A Paratrooper. You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Faith is like this – You are a paratrooper. You learn how to pack your chute. You crease the silk in just the right way, making sure that all the lines of the chute are not tangled. You fold it and pack it perfectly. You get in the plane and you fly to the drop zone. You hook up and wait for the ...read more

  • Someone Told This Story: It Is Easy To Become A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Someone told this story: It is easy to become a slave to hatred in our hearts. A good friend of mine, "Roy", became angry with another friend of mine, "Lee", several years ago. "Roy" has never forgiven "Lee" for the trespass, and "Lee” never knew that "Roy" was angry with him. Recently, I bumped ...read more

  • There Was A Revival Going On. The Evangelist Was ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 8, 2007
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    There was a revival going on. The evangelist was a warm, gracious man. He always had a kind word for everyone. As he was walking with the pastor through the church parking lot there sat a Cadillac. In that Cadillac there was a man who was a paraplegic. He was able to drive that Cadillac because of ...read more

  • You Can't Judge The Spirituality Of A Christian ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Oct 19, 2007
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    "You can’t judge the spirituality of a Christian on the basis of his prayers, since praying is often done for its effect on the listeners. Nor can you measure a person’s spiritual status by the loudness of his "AMENs" and "hallelujahs." The generosity of one’s giving is not an infallible test for ...read more

  • Dr. James Dobson Writes In "Preparing For ...

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
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    • Dr. James Dobson writes in “Preparing For Adolescence” that there are several important things to note about emotions (Pgs. 124-136): o They are cyclical-no one stays up to long or down to long…we go from high to low and back again. o Don’t rely solely on impressions…be sure your inner voices are ...read more

  • Guard Your Name

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 21, 2007
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    Guard Your Name You got it from your father, it was all he had to give So it’s yours to use and cherish, for as long as you may live. If you lose the watch he gave you, it can always be replaced. But a black mark on your name, son, can never be erased. It was clean the day you took it, and a ...read more

  • David Watson Stated In His Book, I Believe In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    David Watson stated in His book, I Believe in the Church the following: To love all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one.… Wrap it carefully round with ...read more

  • Trying To Win Their Case Some Lawyers Have Been ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
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    Trying to win their case some lawyers have been known to ask some incredibly unbelievable questions. The Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyer’s Journal gave the following example Question: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? No Did you check for blood pressure? ...read more

  • Man's Anger Toward God

    Contributed by Clarence Clough on Aug 7, 2008
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    MAN'S ANGER TOWARD GOD ...is more disastrous than the following: As a passenger boarded the Los Angeles-to-New York plane, he told the flight attendant to wake him and make sure he got off in Dallas. The passenger awoke just as the plane was landing in New York. Furious, he called the flight ...read more

  • Faith: A Living, Daring Confidence

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Nov 16, 2009
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    FAITH: A LIVING, DARING CONFIDENCE "Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times. This knowledge of and confidence in God’s grace makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures. ...read more

  • How May We Be Forgiven? Some People May Think ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 11, 2010
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    How may we be forgiven? Some people may think they can outrun the judgment. A Spaniard committed a murder at a castle many years ago. He jumped upon a horse and rode wildly into the night. He rode for hours to escape. Finally, exhausted, he lay down to sleep for a couple of hours. When he awoke it ...read more

  • A Professor At Cornell University Wrote This ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 22, 2010
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    A professor at Cornell University wrote this poem. I can’t decide if he were a disciple of Christ or an opponent. What was our trust, we trust not; What was our faith, we doubt. Whether we must or must not, We may debate about. The soul perhaps is a gust of gas, And wrong is a ...read more

  • Are You Prepared?

    Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Sep 25, 2011
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    ARE YOU PREPARED? One day, a king died. His servants spread the unbelievable news all over the palace. He had died in his bed of natural causes. "Where has he gone?" asked one of the king's wisest counselors "Why, to Heaven of course!" answered all the others. "No", said the other gravely, "I ...read more

  • Heaven And The Post Office

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 5, 2012
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    HEAVEN AND THE POST OFFICE When I was a teenager, we went to a meeting with Billy Graham in a high school football stadium. There were probably 20,000 people sitting in the bleachers in the cold of the morning to hear Billy Graham. And he related a story about how he arrived in a small village ...read more

  • Because He Lives  PRO

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Sep 25, 2014
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     | 6,828 views

    It’s because He lives we should be able to face tomorrow, it’s because He lives all fear should be gone. Because He lives we are pretty sure who holds the future. Is that the lyrics Bill Gaither wrote? No, but that’s the way many Christians feel. The first verse of Because He Lives says it all. God ...read more

  • You Are The One On Trial

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 17, 2017
     | 4,112 views

    Some people come to the Bible or to any work of great literature without the capacity to understand what is in it. They are like a person who comes to a well for a drink of water, only to find that there is no bucket to draw the water out of the well. When people say, "I don’t get anything out ...read more