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  • Working For Food

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2011
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    WORKING FOR FOOD I like the story of the rich executive who announced to his church one morning that he was going to give up all he owned so that he had to depend on his faith in God for everything he needed. He sold everything, gave it to the poor, and moved into a rented home down on the bad ...read more

  • The Blob: A Thriving Environment

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Feb 10, 2012
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    THE BLOB: A THRIVING ENVIRONMENT Years ago, there was a movie called The Blob. This cosmic Jell-O had come down from space, fell into a little crater, and cracked open. An old man came and had a little stick in his hand and was playing with it, and it ran up on his arm and began to consume him. ...read more

  • The Ram And The Cowboy

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 4, 2012
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    THE RAM AND THE COWBOY A couple of years ago in the Rocky Mountains a bighorn ram approached the home of a man named Ed Bailey while he was watching football on television. The bighorn stopped suddenly, seeing its reflection in a plate glass window. Thinking it was another ram, the bighorn bowed ...read more

  • The Hilarious Baptism Experience!

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Mar 2, 2014
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    I remember the time I came to the platform to officiate in a formal wedding. I had just come out of the bathroom and didn't realize until I was in front of all those people that stuck to my shoe and trailing behind was an eight-foot stream of toilet paper I remember the time I looked down in ...read more

  • In This Society Of Today People Are Fearful O...

    Contributed by Chinita Richardson on Jun 22, 2016
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    In this society of today people are fearful of a lot of things. We are afraid to shake each other’s hands. Our cars, homes and work places are filled with sanitizing lotions of all brands. We are afraid to eat certain foods at certain times of the year according to what the trend is at the time. We ...read more

  • As A Part Of An Assignment For A Doctoral ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    As a part of an assignment for a doctoral thesis, a college student spent a year with a group of Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest. As he did his research he lived with one family, sleeping in their hut, eating their food, working with them and generally living the life of a 20th ...read more

  • Out Of Our Depth

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Out Of Our Depth The 3-year old felt secure in his father’s arms as Dad stood in the middle of the pool. But Dad, for fun, began walking slowly toward the deep end, gently chanting, "Deeper and deeper and deeper," as the water rose higher and higher on the child. The lad’s face registered ...read more

  • In The 1800's Many People Decided To Leave Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In the 1800’s many people decided to leave their homes on the East Coast and travel out West to start a new life. One day a wagon pulled up to a log cabin, and the man who was driving the wagon told the man who owned the cabin that he was looking for a place to settle down. He then asked the man ...read more

  • Mike Freeman, An Elder Here At Mcc, Shared This ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Sep 17, 2007
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    Mike Freeman, an Elder here at MCC, shared this with me this past week. When he was finishing up his college he had an opportunity to do his internship at a really swanky resort in Missouri or to do it a children’s camp called Spring Hill in upper Michigan. The resort was one of these all ...read more

  • In The Movie, "Hook," Robin Williams Plays Peter ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 29, 2007
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    In the movie, “Hook,” Robin Williams plays Peter Pan, who had left Neverland and had grown up to be a corporate attorney. He is completely focused on his job, and ends up neglecting his son over and over. There is a line that he quotes from time to time in the beginning of the movie that sets the ...read more

  • The Star Of David

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 23, 2007
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    The Star of David Unless you subscribe to The Atlanta Journal Constitution, you probably missed the story that was in the May 17, 1987 edition. A rock hound named Rob Cutshaw owns a little roadside shop outside Andrews, North Carolina. Like many in the trade, he hunts for rocks, then sells them to ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About A Woman Who Spent All Day ...  PRO

    Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
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    I heard a story about a woman who spent all day in a hot kitchen preparing a five course meal for some out of town guests. It was summer, it was 100 degrees outside; it was probably 120 in that kitchen. She worked hard, and everything turned out great. When everybody sat down to eat, this woman ...read more

  • Years Ago, In The Pioneer Days Of Aviation, A ...

    Contributed by George Mansfield on Feb 23, 2008
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    Years ago, in the pioneer days of aviation, a pilot was making a flight around the world. After he had been gone for some two hours from his last landing field, he heard a noise in his plane which he recognized as the gnawing of a rat. He realized that while his plane had been on the ground a rat ...read more

  • The Lord's Will

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    THE LORD'S WILL A farmer is out working his fence line near the road when he sees a neighbor from a few farms down walking toward him with a cow. "Where are you headed with that cow?" the farmer asks. "I'm heading into town to sell it," comes the neighbor's reply. "You mean, if it's the Lord's ...read more

  • Talk About Doing Good, Or Do Good

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
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    Talk About Doing Good, or Do Good In A Pretty Good Person, Lewis Smedes wrote: A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public school to African-American children. The white parents decided that, if they had to let black children in, they would keep their children out. They let it ...read more

  • Salman Rushdie, Is An Author Who Had A Fatawah, ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 14, 2008
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    Salman Rushdie, is an author who had a fatawah, or Islamic death edict, put on his life several years ago for writing a book critical of Islam called Satanic Verses. In another book he wrote entitled Imaginary Homelands he notes one of the family traditions of his home: “In our house, whenever ...read more

  • The Powerhouse  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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    The Powerhouse Stephen Kuusisto grew up feeling a stigma about being legally blind. For him, sight consisted of a kaleidoscope of shapes, colors, and shadows. Privately he would press his face close to the page of a book and memorize street names in an exhausting attempt to appear more able to see ...read more

  • How Easy It Is To Give Credit And Thanks To ...

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Nov 24, 2008
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    How easy it is to give credit and thanks to everything and everyone but the real source of al our blessings! God deserves our thanks. For some of us there may be many reasons to be thankful this coming Thursday. Perhaps we may even see it as the best year we have ever had. For others of us, it ...read more

  • That In Fact, Jesus Is Prophecy Fulfilled For He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    That in fact, Jesus is prophecy fulfilled for He fulfilled almost 200 Old Testament prophecies! What are the odds of a man even fulfilling just a few prophecies? Dr. Peter Stoner, Professor Emeritus of Science at Westmont College, authored a book entitled Science Speaks, (Moody Press, 1969, P.109) ...read more

  • Buyer's Remorse And A Dead ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    BUYER’S REMORSE AND A DEAD DONKEY A city boy, Kenny, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died." Kenny replied, ...read more