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  • Warren Wiersbe Makes The Observation, "The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Warren Wiersbe makes the observation, “The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless...the world around us is ...read more

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  • I Have Heard That Light From The North Star ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I have heard that light from the North Star takes thirty-three years to reach our vision. If that is true, theoretically the star could have “died” thirty years ago, but we ...read more

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  • J. Ghandi Said It Best When He Said, "Our ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    J. GHANDI SAID IT BEST WHEN HE SAID, “OUR CIVILIZATION TODAY, IS LIKE A MONKEY WITH A BLOW TORCH IN A ROOM FULL OF DYNAMITE.” K. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A FRENCH CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHER WHO WRITES, "THE END OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS A MINOR EVENT COMPARED WITH WHAT WE BEHOLD. WE ARE LOOKING AT THE ...read more

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  • Billy Graham On Johnny Carson

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Billy Graham on Johnny Carson I was reading the other day. Years ago Billy Graham was a guest on the Johnny Carson Show. At one point in the conversation Johnny Carson said, “You know what, Billy? I bet if Jesus ever came back to earth, we’d do Him in again” Billy Graham leaned forward in his ...read more

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  • I Wonder What God Would Say To Us Today As He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I wonder what God would say to us today as He sees all of our so-called Christian organizations in constant activity but with little action or movement. The huge building program proclaiming astronomical figures in cost and “people reached” is indeed impressive. The mushroom growth of both churches ...read more

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  • I Was Reading The Other Day. ‘soviet President ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I was reading the other day. ‘Soviet President Khrushchev used to tell a story of a time when a wave of thefts in the Soviet Union forced he authorities put guards at all their factories. One Friday evening in Leningrad, out comes Peter Petrovich pushing a wheelbarrow. And on top of the wheelbarrow ...read more

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  • Rebellion In China

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration from Tai Ping Rebellion in China We don’t learn much world history anymore in school. Back in the 1860s, a man arose in China who claimed to be a Messiah. [11] His name was Hong Xiuquan. Hong was this disturbed young salesman who read a bunch of heretical Christian literature, ...read more

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  • While Touring, Europe A Tourist Visited A Lovely ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    While touring, Europe a tourist visited a lovely estate in Italy. He admired the beautiful garden encountering the gardener he said, "You've done a beautiful job. How long have you worked here?" "Twenty-five years," came the answer. "How often has the owner been to this estate?" "Four ...read more

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  • Divine ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    DIVINE D-DAY The operation was the largest single-day invasion of all time. Just under 200,000 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel delivered over 130,000 troops along a stretch of the Normandy coast in France. They, in turn, were supported by 12,000 aircraft flying 14,000 sorties. These ...read more

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  • This World Is Not Ours; Don't ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    THIS WORLD IS NOT OURS; DON’T UNDERESTIMATE A farmer noticed that every autumn, a tragedy played out in his cornfields. All summer long, families of field mice had made their homes among the growing plants. They ate and slept, they worked and played and raised their families. The mice imagined ...read more

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  • In A Little Fishing Village In Scotland, The ...

    Contributed by Betty Johnson on Sep 22, 2008
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    In a little fishing village in Scotland, the people gathered to welcome home a fishing vessel that had been away at sea for many days. As the boat neared the shore, the men gazed eagerly toward the dock where a group of their loved ones were waiting. The skipper, looking through his telescope, ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Condoleeza Rice, Sec. Of State Recently Said ...

    Contributed by John Herrmann on Nov 7, 2008
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    Condoleeza Rice, Sec. of State recently said after another failure of Peace talks in Israel and Palestine that Peace will not come in a sudden and dramatic event, but rather gradually.” Not so this second coming of Christ. It is an act of God confronting us as something from the other side, ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Conrad Lehndorff Writes In His East Prussian ...

    Contributed by John Herrmann on Nov 7, 2008
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    Conrad Lehndorff writes in his East Prussian Diary, that the housewives still did their housework and their Easter baking and the theaters continued to show movies while the Soviet army, near but as yet undetected, launched its deadly pincers movement. “We go to work in the morning and sit in ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • What Side Have You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
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    WHAT SIDE HAVE YOU CHOSEN? C.S. Lewis said, "When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over. God is going to invade, all right; but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else comes crashing in? ...read more

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  • You Know Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
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    YOU KNOW NOT WHEN The people of Martinique sent representatives to that smoldering volcano, Mount Pelee, to see what the condition was. They returned and gave false reports and the city slept on, in all its vice. Nature took warning and the reptiles commenced crawling down the mountainside, birds ...read more

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  • Stay Busy Until The Master's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    STAY BUSY UNTIL THE MASTER’S RETURN "The disciple is not called to eliminate his ignorance of the timing of the end, he is called to cope with it and respond to it appropriately." "How can a doorkeeper fulfill his duties if he spends his time calculating how long the delay will be?" In the ...read more

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  • The Day Daddy Came ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    THE DAY DADDY CAME HOME Some time ago, a mother was tucking her little girl into bed when the young daughter asked, "Mother, can you tell me the greatest day of your life?" The mother thought for just a second and then said, "Honey, I can tell you the greatest day in my life. As you know, my ...read more

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  • So In Case It Has, I'd Like To Read The ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 27, 2009
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    So in case it has, I’d like to read the concluding paragraph from the NIV Application Commentary about this section of Scripture: On a different note, there is strong encouragement in Jesus’ statement. Even though at times opposition appears to be insurmountable, true Christianity will assert ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • A Priest And Pastor From The Local Parishes Are ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 27, 2009
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    A priest and pastor from the local parishes are standing by the side of the road holding up a sign that reads, "The End is Near! Turn yourself around now before it’s too late!" "Leave us alone you religious nuts!" yelled the first driver as he sped by. From around the curve they heard ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • The Uppertaker

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    THE UPPERTAKER Alexander MacLaren said, "The primitive church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death or about heaven. The early Christians were not looking for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory. They were watching not for ...read more

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