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  • I Heard About A Small Country Church That Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 2,162 views

    I heard about a small country church that was holding a revival in a packed building. It was so crowded that they had to put up chairs everywhere, right up to the pulpit. The evangelist was preaching about the second coming of Christ and had really warmed up to the subject. He was one of those fire ...read more

  • Phil Vischer's Fresh ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
     | 3,924 views

    PHIL VISCHER’S FRESH START Phil Vischer is the creator of Veggie Tales. He is the voice of Bob the Tomato and other various characters. In 2004, Phil was one of the guest speakers at my minister’s convention that I attend each year. Phil told about his dream coming to an end. He told about Big ...read more

  • Grace Is For Everyone: 3:10 To Yuma

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 28, 2009
     | 2,450 views

    GRACE IS FOR EVERYONE: 3:10 TO YUMA One of the main themes that we find in a lot (although not all) of Jesus’ parables is God’s grace. Specifically, they often point towards God’s limitless grace. That was a central part of last week’s parable: Grace demands our response. I want to start with a ...read more

  • Go Get Your Own

    Contributed by Louis Pantelis on May 21, 2009
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    GO GET YOUR OWN One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come along way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God and said "God, we’ve decided that we no longer need you; We’re ...read more

  • Sheep Need Fresh Pasture And Water Daily And In ...

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on May 26, 2009
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    Sheep need fresh pasture and water daily and in the desserts of Palestine that can be no easy task. A shepherd will search for water sometimes for hours every day. He carries a pail with him that he will fill over and over again for any sheep who cannot access the water. A shepherd will lead his ...read more

  • Evangelism Is Just The Beginning

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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    EVANGELISM IS JUST THE BEGINNING Many feel that the mission of the church is to merely be witnesses to a lost world. It is true that we are to bear witness of the risen Christ and His transforming power. We are told in Acts 1:8 that we are to be His witnesses to the ends of the world. Again we are ...read more

  • A Fasting Story

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 11, 2009
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    A FASTING STORY Barbara Gordon tells about her first time fasting. (I don’t want to lose my reward) She fasted one day a week for 9 weeks. She was lead to pray for 9 individuals that had requested prayer. At the end she said, "God moved in many ways during that time. While most of the answers ...read more

  • Lou Gehrig Was Such A Clumsy Ball Player That The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 1, 2009
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    Lou Gehrig was such a clumsy ball player that the boys in his neighborhood would not let him play on their team. But he was committed. He did not give up. Eventually, his name was entered into baseball’s Hall of Fame. Woodrow Wilson could not read until he was ten years old. But he was a ...read more

  • Martha Ballard: Revolutionary Helper

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2009
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    MARTHA BALLARD: REVOLUTIONARY HELPER Historian Laurel Ulrich received a Pulitzer Prize for her book The Midwife's Tale. The book was based on the diary of Martha Ballard, who lived during the American Revolution. Martha was a midwife who traveled by canoe, horse, or sometimes on foot to assist ...read more

  • A Heart For ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 1, 2010
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    A Heart for Praise Louis Albert Banks tells of an elderly Christian man, a fine singer, who learned that he had cancer of the tongue and that surgery was required. In the hospital after everything was ready for the operation, the man said to the doctor, “Are you sure I will never sing again?” The ...read more

  • When My Hat Is Here...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 21, 2010
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    WHEN MY HAT IS HERE... So, it’s not true that you can be just as good a Christian without going to church. You can’t simply say "Well, I’m there in Spirit… but I don’t have to be there in body." It’s kind of like the true story of an incident that took place at a University. This university had a ...read more

  • I Can Remember Things In My Life That Struck Me ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Aug 6, 2010
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    I can remember things in my life that struck me as if something had changed and would never be the same again. Things that may strike some as a little strange, moments when everything just sort of toppled on a point of balance and fell into a new place. Things would never be the same again. Like ...read more

  • One-And-A-Half Degrees Off

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2011
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    ONE-AND-A-HALF DEGREES OFF On October 31, 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 departed from Anchorage, Alaska, for a direct flight to Seoul, Korea. Unknown to the crew, however, the computer engaging the flight navigation system contained a 1 1/2 degree routing error. At the point of departure, the ...read more

  • Be Like Mike...?  PRO

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jun 2, 2011
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    BE LIKE MIKE...? Gary Thomas, in his book Authentic Faith, describes a friend of his named Mike. He met Mike when he went to college. Mike was a leader among students. He had everything: a contagious personality, athletic ability, good looks, and natural appeal. And everybody wanted to be around ...read more

  • Satisfied

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Jul 31, 2011
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    SATISFIED News flash: I like food! You know -- with a dash of seriousness -- it doesn't take a master chef to see that I've had a love-affair with food for some years. I'm like a lot of Americans; I often eat more than I need in order be "satisfied." A number of years ago, I went to ...read more

  • Do You Believe The Easter Story?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
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    DO YOU BELIEVE THE EASTER STORY? I heard a story about a family that tragically lost three of their four children within just two weeks to a deadly, virulent disease. One child was left--a four year old boy. The family had buried the third child just two weeks before Easter. On Easter morning ...read more

  • Understanding "Ask, Seek, Knock"

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Oct 12, 2011
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    UNDERSTANDING "ASK, SEEK, KNOCK" Imagine you are looking for someone – let’s say it’s your long lost friend from high school. The first step is to ask around from people who might know him and where he lives, what he’s doing, how you might locate him. Now that might satisfy your curiosity, but if ...read more

  • You Can't Turn Off Time

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 17, 2011
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    YOU CAN'T TURN OFF TIME James W. Moore says, "One of the greatest comedy acts in the history of show business was the beloved husband and wife team of George Burns and Gracie Allen. In real life, Gracie Allen was a bright, wise businesswoman, but she always played the part of a naive, off-the-wall ...read more

  • Excuses, Excuses

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Dec 24, 2011
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    EXCUSES, EXCUSES We live in a word of excuses. Here are some complied by the Readers Digest that have been offered for not showing up for work: "I dreamed I was fired, so I didn't want to get out of bed." "I was up all night arguing with God." "A raccoon stole my work shoe off my porch." "I ...read more

  • The Ring And The Carrot

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 9, 2012
     | 1,431 views

    THE RING AND THE CARROT "A Swedish woman who lost her wedding ring 16 years ago was flabbergasted when she found it again, around a carrot growing in her garden, media reported Saturday. Lena Paahlsson had taken off the white gold ring before a Christmas baking session with her daughters in 1995, ...read more