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  • Accountability Questions For Men  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 22, 2009
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    ACCOUNTABILITY QUESTIONS FOR MEN Accountability requires being vulnerable enough to allow someone to explore your habits, priorities and neglect. Chuck Swindoll for example, has seven questions that he and a group of fellow pastors challenge each other with regularly: 1. Have you been with a ...read more

  • Billy Graham's Rebuttal To Johnny Carson About ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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     | 9,264 views

    Billy Graham’s Rebuttal to Johnny Carson about Second Coming Several years ago Johnny Carson had Billy Graham as a guest on his show. At one point there was a lull in the conversation and Johnny said, "You know what Billy, I bet if Jesus ever came back to earth, I bet we’d do him in again!" Billy ...read more

  • Life Begins At The Cross

    Contributed by James Mercer on Dec 8, 2009
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    LIFE BEGINS AT THE CROSS We don’t begin to live until we believe on Jesus and receive this everlasting life. A popular book a generation ago was entitled, Life Begins at Forty, where the author sought to prove that a person just enters the prime of life at forty years of age. The new saying is ...read more

  • When Robinson Crusoe Was On A Deserted Island ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Dec 15, 2009
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    When Robinson Crusoe was on a deserted island after his ship had wrecked, he found a bible among the chests he had salvaged. His heart was changed upon reading it and he uttered these words. “I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider ...read more

  • Charlemagne's Final ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
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    Charlemagne’s Final Communication In 1000 AD, 186 years after the death of Emperor Charlemagne, officials of the Emperor Otto re-opened Charlemagne’s tomb. Before them was an extraordinary sight. In the midst of all the finery buried with him—the gold, the jewels, the priceless treasure—there was ...read more

  • Submission?

    Contributed by Tim Chinn on Apr 4, 2011
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    SUBMISSION? A poll was taken a few years ago asking, both men and women this question, “Should wives submit to their husbands?” (In 1998, the Southern Baptists also sparked controversy with their statement that wives should "submit graciously" to the "servant leadership" of their husbands. At that ...read more

  • Consequences For Karla Faye Tucker

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2011
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    CONSEQUENCES FOR KARLA FAYE TUCKER Karla Faye Tucker was convicted in 1983 for the murders of two people. While on death row in 1985, she picked up a Bible from the prison ministry program and prayed to receive Christ after reading it. On June 22, 1992, Tucker requested that her life be spared on ...read more

  • Religion And Sexual Satisfaction  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 18, 2014
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     | 3,362 views

    RELIGION AND SEXUAL SATISFACTION Several years ago, Redbook magazine did a computer survey on sexual attitudes and practices (not surprising). What was surprising in the survey was they sprinkled questions about religion in with the study. The survey of about 19,000 women showed that "strongly ...read more

  • Gold, Frankincense, & Myrrh

    Contributed by Gerald Manning on Dec 21, 2015
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    The little boy was no more than seven years old. It was time for Church, and he wanted to take his teddy bear, whom he had always called Frank. His parents protested, but he insisted that he had to take Frank, today, and they finally relented. When the offering plates were passed, he put the ...read more

  • Cheeful Giver

    Contributed by Rev. Duraimony Dickson on Nov 20, 2020
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    A missionary in Africa was preaching his first sermon in a mission church. When time came for the offering, the people danced their offerings forward. They danced and sang praise to God as they brought their offerings to the altar. For they were “coming before God's presence with ...read more

  • What Does A Line That Goes Down The Middle Of The ...

    Contributed by Art Good on Jun 7, 2007
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    What does a line that goes down the middle of the road mean? Solid line, no passing. Stay on your own side of the road. Dotted line, like one in picture means you can pass if there is nothing coming the other way. Whether solid line or dotted line, reminds you that you are supposed to drive on ...read more

  • He Died On January 28, 814. Many Years Later, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 17, 2007
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     | 1,047 views

    He died on January 28, 814. Many years later, archaeologists discovered the tomb of Charlemagne, the great king and emperor of France. When the tomb was opened, after being closed for centuries, the men who entered it found something amazing. They found certain treasures of the kingdom, of course. ...read more

  • Last Tuesday Night On Prime Time They Showed The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Last Tuesday night on Prime Time they showed the new Christ, De Jesus from Puerto Rico. He claims to be the better Christ and declares there is no sin, no Satan, and no one will go to hell. They interviewed several church members as to what they thought about their Christ. And they believe in him ...read more

  • What Those Oats Can Do

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    What Those Oats Can Do Henry Crowell, founder of the Quaker Oats Company and a significant contributor to the work of Moody Bible Institute knew how to use money wisely. As a young man, he received Christ as his Savior. When he began his business career in a little Ohio factory, he promised God ...read more

  • Isa 57:20-21 "…the Wicked Are Like The Tossing ...

    Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Jun 28, 2007
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    Isa 57:20-21 “…the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest… God says, ‘There is no peace for the wicked.’" After a family dinner one Sunday afternoon my dad and uncles were sitting around the living room talking politics. Uncle Walter kept dozing off and dad would tickle his ear with ...read more

  • The Ability To Read And To Study God's Word For ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 23, 2007
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    The ability to read and to study God’s Word for yourself, gives you a great step up in your battle with temptations and trails. The Puritans thought reading was so important that in 1647 they passed the “Old Deluder Satan Act”, the first law in the United States requiring public education be ...read more

  • How Can You Be So Narrow-Minded?

    Contributed by Rick Balmer on Sep 20, 2007
     | 1,836 views

    “How can you be so narrow-minded?” The question jolted Steve from the newspaper he was reading in the teacher’s lounge. Jenna, the school librarian, was frowning and pointing at his coffee mug, which bore the message “One Way: Jesus”. Jenna was a follower of New Age religion. She believed there ...read more

  • Rico Tice Makes An Interesting Observation In ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 20, 2007
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    Rico Tice makes an interesting observation in his book, Christianity Explored: “I didn’t have a particularly religious upbringing myself. In fact, my experience of Christianity was limited to a few dull sermons, slightly spooky people in strange garments, hanging about in dank halls and religious ...read more

  • Glory Can Be Defined. In My Research I ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 30, 2007
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    Glory can be defined. In my research I discovered that it means a desirable brightness that is very rare! a. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia states this about Glory - FROM THE HEBREW WORD KĀBHŌDH. i. The fundamental idea of this root seems to be “weight,” “heaviness,” ...read more

  • William Carey Is Considered The Father Of Modern ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 8, 2007
     | 767 views

    William Carey is considered the father of modern missions. The man who spent his early years as a cobbler became one of the greatest linguists the church has ever known. It’s reported that Carey translated parts of the Bible into as many as 24 Indian languages. When he first went to India, some ...read more