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  • Before You Judge

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 6, 2009
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    BEFORE YOU JUDGE Steven Covey recalls riding on the New York subway one Sunday morning. It was a quiet time with many simply reading the paper, resting, or thinking quietly to themselves. But the quiet was shatter when a man and his children entered the car Covey was sitting in. The man sat down ...read more

  • George Barna Wrote The State Of The Church In ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 17, 2009
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    George Barna wrote The State of the Church in 2002. Barna conducted a survey of self-pronounced Christians and here’s what he found about their knowledge of the Bible. These are Christians. • 48% could not name the four Gospels. • 52% cannot identify more than two or three of Jesus’ ...read more

  • Give Me All, And I'll Give You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    GIVE ME ALL, AND I’LL GIVE YOU ME In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote: Christ says, "Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I ...read more

  • The Doubting Of Thomas  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 12,397 views

    THE DOUBTING OF THOMAS In 1943, Dorothy Sayers created a series of dramatic readings from the life of Christ for broadcast on the BBC. They are published under the title, The Man Born to Be King. For each of the plays, Sayers offers notes on the characters and the way they should be read. She ...read more

  • The Counsel Of The Wicked

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 28, 2011
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    THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED I remember talking with a young man in jail. He was telling me that his family had hired a lawyer to get him out (whom I always heard was a good attorney) but he wasn't sure he wanted to trust the lawyer. I asked him why. He responded that the other guys in his jail ...read more

  • Christians Are Known For...

    Contributed by Troy Borst on May 3, 2011
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    CHRISTIANS ARE KNOWN FOR... If you were to Google the phrase "Christians are known for" what do you think the results would be? What are people who call themselves followers of Christ known for... whether good or bad? The following are some of the results you would find: ... being trustworthy ...read more

  • The Signet Ring

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Sep 4, 2011
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    THE SIGNET RING "...I will make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you,' declares the LORD Almighty" (Haggai 2:23). We don't often hear about signet rings anymore; but in Bible times, they were very significant. f In other words, you knew something was from the king because it was marked ...read more

  • Match Made In Heaven

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Oct 16, 2012
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    There is a story about a couple that went to heaven and in this life they loved each other, but from a distance. So when they got to heaven, they decided to get married. They said to Peter, "Pete, we want to get married." And Peter says, "You have got eternity, why don't you think of it for 50 ...read more

  • The Unthankful Pig

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 6, 2022
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    HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE LESSON OF THE PIG? Seems a big fat pig is roaming around the forest and finds all likes of delicious juicy acorns on the ground. The acorns are strewn on the ground. The pig eats and eats the acorns until the acorns are gone. The pig takes a long nap. When the pig wakes up ...read more

  • In "People" Magazine, Madonna Said Her Life Has ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2002
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    In "People" magazine, Madonna said her life has been exhausting since she started her world tour. She said there isn’t a second of her life that isn’t taken up looking after her family or thinking of her show--her day is filled with problems of ...read more

  • We Have No Control Over How We Feel, How We Act – ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2003
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    We have no control over how we feel, how we act – our attitudes, and actions – except as they are determined by our thoughts. All these element are irrevocably tied together. But since we do have control over what we think, it is possible to control our attitudes and ...read more

  • You And I Cannot Stuff Jesus Or Our Experience ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Nov 4, 2005
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    "You and I cannot stuff Jesus or our experience with Him into our old ways of thinking and living. Life with Jesus is a new and exciting thing. He Himself wants to fill us, to expand our personalities, and to reshape us to fit who He is. When Jesus, the Man with all power, ...read more

  • Grace Coolidge, The Wife Of President Calvin ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    Grace Coolidge, the wife of President Calvin Coolidge, tried to surprise her husband by having his portrait painted. When it was finished, she hung it in the library of the White House. Later the same morning the President happened to walk into the library accompanied by a senator. They stared at ...read more

  • The Answer We Give To The Question Probably Says ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 31, 2007
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    The answer we give to the question probably says as much about who we are as it does about our knowledge of who Jesus is. We may find ourselves like the German philosopher Schleiermacher. He was sitting on a park bench when a policeman, thinking him to be a street person, ...read more

  • A Little Over Ten Years Ago, Rush Limbaugh Burst ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A little over ten years ago, Rush Limbaugh burst on the national landscape with his daily three hour radio show. One of the trademark lines that you often hear him say is, "Talent on loan from God." Regardless of what you think about ...read more

  • Tame The Tongue  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
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    TAME THE TONGUE Employed by the human-development center of a corporation in the Midwest, a young woman was training the employees in proper dress codes and etiquette. One day as she was stepping onto the elevator, a man casually dressed in jeans and a golf shirt got on with her. Thinking of her ...read more

  • Media Wary 57% Of American Parents Are More ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Media Wary 57% of American parents are more concerned about their children’s overuse of media than smoking, drinking, sexual behavior, being overweight or developing eating disorders, finds a Common Sense Media poll. 68% think media influences the health and well-being of their kids with TV as ...read more

  • Our Society Has Adopted The Use Of An Ancient ...

    Contributed by David Dewitt on May 12, 2008
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    Our society has adopted the use of an ancient Greek word as a type of prefix. The Greek word is mega which means great. Think about it. We use mega a great deal. • Mega-mall • Megabytes • Mega-size drinks • Megachurches I argue that we need to be people ...read more

  • We Praise What We ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 2, 2008
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    We Praise What We Enjoy C.S. Lewis said: “I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till ...read more

  • We Are Not Meant To Live In Darkness. We Were ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 14, 2008
     | 1,946 views

    We are not meant to live in darkness. We were created to live in the light—in God’s light. I worked with a young lady several years ago whose boyfriend surrendered to the darkness. He blew his brains out with a shotgun just as she entered their bedroom. It was devastating. I knew the guy. ...read more