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  • Someone You Know

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Apr 12, 2008
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     | 2,781 views

    SOMEONE YOU KNOW A gray haired lady, long a member of her community and Church, shook hands with the minister after the service one morning. "That was a wonderful sermon, she told him, just wonderful. Everything you said applied to someone I know." What is often missed is that God’s word ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of A Teacher Who Gave Her Class ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on May 12, 2008
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    The story is told of a teacher who gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a written test, she included this question: "My full name has six letters. The first one is M. I pick up things. What am I?" When the test papers were turned in, the teacher ...read more

  • As A Way Of Acknowledging The All-Star Forward's ...

    Contributed by Jerry Hillyer Ii on May 23, 2008
     | 2,091 views

    As a way of acknowledging the All-Star forward’s impact, Nike has hung a billboard of James on the side of a building near Quicken Loans Arena, home of the Cavaliers that is 110 feet high and 212 feet wide. On the massive mesh banner, James soars toward an unseen basket with his right arm extended ...read more

  • After This Manner The Blessed Virgin Advanced In ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 13, 2008
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    "After this manner the Blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross, where she stood, in keeping with the divine plan, grieving exceedingly with her only begotten Son, uniting herself with a maternal heart with his sacrifice, ...read more

  • Spiritual Perfection

    Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 29, 2008
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    Spiritual Perfection A man once came up to C. H. Spurgeon, the great English preacher, at a Christian retreat, and said that he had reached a state of spiritual perfection. Without a word Spurgeon picked up a pitcher of ice-cold water and poured it on the man's head. When the man became angry ...read more

  • Churchhill's Father

    Contributed by Bill Purvis on Oct 20, 2008
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     | 5,189 views

    Churchhill’s Father Winston Churchhill’s father was jealous of Winston. He couldn’t speak a kind word of him. Curchhill, the greatest leader of the day, in the book, "The Last Lion" says, "I would rather had been an apprentice for a brick layer, or run errands as a messenger boy, or dressed the ...read more

  • As We Read This Text, According To Dr. Schmit, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
     | 1,409 views

    As we read this text, according to Dr. Schmit, and I quote, "We know that we too are individual members of a large flock of faithful disciples who seek to live as citizens of the kingdom of heaven. In other words, the work we do is never ours alone to accomplish. We do our part and trust that God ...read more

  • What Is It That Causes Trouble In Marriages? It ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "What is it that causes trouble in marriages? It is amazing how many people don't seem to know. Essentially, it is one thing: Sin I don't care whether it the sin of pride, hard-hearted unwillingness to forgive or to humble oneself or to admit mistakes, selfishness, lust, or whatever other sin of ...read more

  • S.d. Gordon On Who The Great People ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 4, 2009
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    S.D. Gordon on Who The Great People Are Let me share the words of S.D. Gordon. "The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I ...read more

  • Every Day Over 25,000 People Die Of Hunger. ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Apr 28, 2010
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    Every day over 25,000 people die of hunger. That's over 1,000 people an hour. In other words, as many people die of hunger every hour as are killed in the world's deadliest wars in a year. One person every 3 seconds ... most often, children. If the effects of death by famine in the world today were ...read more

  • No Wonder The People Wept When They Heard The ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 11, 2010
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    No wonder the people wept when they heard the message! (The Hebrew word Bochim means “weepers.”) However, their sorrow was because of the consequences of their sins and not because the wickedness of their sins had convicted them. It was a shallow and temporary sorrow that never led them to true ...read more

  • Sinful ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 14, 2010
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     | 7,462 views

    Sinful Nature How does a worm get inside an apple? Perhaps you think the worm burrows in from the outside. No, scientists have discovered that the worm comes from inside. But how does he get in there? Simple! An insect lays an egg in the apple blossom. Sometime later, the worm hatches in the ...read more

  • Are Your Life's Priorities ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 4, 2010
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     | 5,670 views

    Are Your Life’s Priorities Reversed? Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, used to say that the three most important things in his life were God, his family, and McDonald’s and that when he got to the office, the order was reversed. As Christians we must never reverse that order. We are an ...read more

  • We Are Told In Scripture To Work Out Our ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jun 2, 2010
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    We are told in scripture to work out our salvation. The interesting thing about this is that when we work we need a few tools and the better the quality of the tools the easier the job usually goes and the better the results. (Here I pulled a couple of nails out of a peice of wood with a jemmy bar ...read more

  • Sprouting To New Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2011
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    SPROUTING TO NEW LIFE A few years ago, when archaeologists began excavating in the courtyard of a medieval monastery, they found seeds that had been dormant for more than 400 years that had begun to grow. King Henry VIII had closed the monastery in 1539, and herbs tended by the monks died. But ...read more

  • Let Your Adorning Be Hidden

    Contributed by David Hodgin on Oct 9, 2011
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    LET YOUR ADORNING BE HIDDEN Author Jennifer McBride wrote, "Ladies and gentlemen, I exhort you to dress in such a way that does not capture anyone’s gaze, but actually gives others something else, besides your attire, to think about. Discretion is a godly trait. At times, it is better to ...read more

  • Distortions

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 29, 2012
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     | 1,753 views

    DISTORTIONS I know you have heard the story of the man that was on the ocean on a huge yacht. They had cruised for days and somehow had gotten lost. The captain noticed the owner’s little son had placed his toy magnet next to the casing around the compass. The magnetic force had distorted the ...read more

  • Leonardo Da Vinci Painted The Last Supper Scene ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 17, 2012
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    Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Last Supper scene on a dining room wall in Milan. As a visitor stood viewing the finished work, he commented on the realism of several goblets on the table, exclaiming that they were so real he felt as though he could reach out and pick them up. Upon hearing those ...read more

  • What Jesus Believed About The Scripture

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 15, 2020
     | 2,205 views

    WHAT DID JESUS BELIEVE ABOUT THE SCRIPTURE? The Scripture is without error (John 17:17). The Scripture is historically reliable (Jonah – Matthew 12:40). The Scripture is God’s authority over Satan (Matt. 4:1-11). The Scripture is accurate according to Creation (Matt. 19:4). The Scripture is ...read more

  • Be Careful Who You Accuse

    Contributed by John Bright on Apr 6, 2025
     | 458 views

    Miss Abigale was the one church member sure to stick her nose into everyone’s business. One day, she accused George, a new member and a man of few words. She told him, in front of others, that he must be a drunk because his truck had been seen in front of the town’s only bar. George did not ...read more