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  • My Colleague And Friend, Rev David Snuggs, Spent ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Feb 3, 2006
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    My colleague and friend, Rev David Snuggs, spent three weeks in Israel recently and he was deeply affected by hearing young Hebrew voices calling out, “abba!” One young lad was really excited about showing something to his dad: “abba, abba!” At the beach a boy was struggling in the water and he ...read more

  • Porn Plague: Today, There Are Over 200,000 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Porn Plague: Today, there are over 200,000 pornographic listings on the Internet. Newsweek Magazine claims that visits to adult sites comprise 33% of all on-line usage. Dr. Laura Schlessinger claims at any given time 62% of those on the Web are visiting a porn site—the discrepancy probably lying in ...read more

  • When John G. Mitchell, Of Multnomah School Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    When John G. Mitchell, of Multnomah School of the Bible, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, Washington, he heard Dr. G. Campbell Morgan preach. The man knew his text, and young Mitchell was impressed. In fact, he asked the visiting Bible teacher how he understood Scripture so ...read more

  • British Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham Wasn't A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham wasn’t a great admirer of the music of his fellow Briton, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. During the rehearsal of a Williams symphony, Beecham seemed to be doing little more than listlessly beating time. In fact, he was still beating time after the orchestra ...read more

  • Beulah Church In Lawrence County, Illinois, Was ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 17, 2006
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    Beulah Church in Lawrence County, Illinois, was a country Church I served for over four years beginning in 1980. Beulah has never had a financial crisis one reason being the fact that nearly all the Church family tithe. Another reason is that they are missionary minded people. They support I ...read more

  • Tomorrow  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2006
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    TOMORROW He was going to be all that a mortal should be Tomorrow No one would be better than he Tomorrow Each morning he stacked up the letters he would write Tomorrow It was too bad indeed he was too busy to see Bill, but he promised to do it Tomorrow The greatest of workers this man would ...read more

  • Collegiate Online 43% Of College Students Go ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Collegiate Online 43% of college students go online at least 10 hours a week, while 31% spend 6 to 10 hours a week online and 19% visit the Web for 3 to 5 hours a week, finds a recent Experience study. By contrast, just 17% watch TV more than 10 hours a week, and a mere 1% spend 10 hours a week ...read more

  • The Bigger, The Better

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 25, 2007
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    The Bigger the Better Joseph Stowell recounted a story: I was in West Africa—Timbuktu to be exact—and the missionaries were telling me that in that culture the larger the women were the more beautiful they were thought to be. In fact, a young missionary who had a small, trim wife said that the ...read more

  • The Light That Some Christians Give Off Is Like ...

    Contributed by W F on Jul 23, 2007
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    The light that some Christians give off is like the moon – it gives light, but it’s pretty dim. So dim in fact that you can look directly at the moon without it effecting you. You can’t look at the sun like that. But this is the kind of light that is needed. The sun light’s up everything; nothing ...read more

  • When The Unsinkable Titanic Sank, Warning After ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    When the unsinkable Titanic sank, warning after warning had been sent to tell them they were speeding into an ice field. But the messages were ignored. In fact, when a nearby ship sent an urgent warning, the Titanic was talking to Cape Race about the time chauffeurs were to meet arriving passengers ...read more

  • Not Too Many Years Ago Newspapers Carried The ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on May 9, 2008
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    Not too many years ago newspapers carried the story of Al Johnson, a Kansas man who came to faith in Jesus Christ. What made his story remarkable was not his conversion, but the fact that as a result of his newfound faith in Christ, he confessed to a bank robbery he had participated in when he was ...read more

  • Keeping The Aquarium

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 18, 2008
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    KEEPING THE AQUARIUM "With all our education, our fine buildings, our image of the church, we are doing less to win people to Christ than our unschooled forefathers did. We're no longer fishers of men, but keepers of the aquarium, and we spend most of our time swiping fish from each other's bowl." ...read more

  • Don't Ignore The Child

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    DON'T IGNORE THE CHILD Recently, I read the story of a traveler in China who remarked on the fact that all the time he was there, some two and a half years, he never saw a single monument or tombstone marking the grave of a child. This is very remarkable, remembering the people's ancestor and ...read more

  • Dr. Neil Warren - (The E-Harmony Guy) Said,

    Contributed by Tim Harlow on May 13, 2009
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    Dr. Neil Warren - (the e-Harmony guy) said, "My years as a psychologist have slowly taught me a difficult-to-believe fact. The amount of conflict in a marriage only determines the speed at which the marriage is moving towards greatness or destruction. If you want to sit still in your marriage, rule ...read more

  • Prayer And Growth  PRO

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Sep 13, 2009
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    PRAYER AND GROWTH There is a type of bamboo in Asia which grows to amazing heights and at amazing speeds - sometimes as much as 20 metres in six weeks! However, before that growth spurt, the seed lies in the dark beneath the ground for up to 5 years. Those farmers who make a profitable living from ...read more

  • Not Too Many Years Ago Newspapers Carried The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2009
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    Not too many years ago newspapers carried the story of Al Johnson, a Kansas man who came to faith in Jesus Christ. What made his story remarkable was not his conversion, but the fact that as a result of his newfound faith in Christ, he confessed to a bank robbery he had participated in when he was ...read more

  • Pride Is Deceitful

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Oct 4, 2023
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    You can even have pride in the fact that you aren’t proud • An Amish farmer put on a new pair of overalls • Of course the Amish are famous for their simplicity • So, as he was shaving his mustache one morning he stepped back and admired his new clothes in the mirror • He said This will never do, ...read more

  • During The 1st Part Of The 20th Century, J. C. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ted Mulder on Dec 11, 2004
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    During the 1st part of the 20th century, J. C. Penney presided over a very powerful empire of over 1,700 stores. At the time he had the country’s largest chain of department stores, each one bearing his name. Although his enterprise made him incredibly wealthy, J.C. Penney’s life was not devoid ...read more

  • Are You Tired? I Am.

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 22, 2023
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    Can you believe it? Another year is in the books. I don’t know about you, but as magical and wonderful this time of year is, it is exhausting. I’m tired! And the fact is that it’s not just this time of year. I find myself getting weary and tired often. Life is like that. It can wear you down. ...read more

  • [056]. A Message From A Poem – Death Is Not A Mystery

    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 12, 2025
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    [056]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DEATH IS NOT A MYSTERY We just had a poem on Death for the Christian, and in this one now, the concept is continued, though the poems are separated by over 20 years. Each stanza deals with a different aspect of life. For me the poem is a testimony of the ...read more