Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2002
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE?
Behavioral scientists have discovered that we usually see things that we are prepared to see. This is all centered in a network of nerve cells called the "Reticular Activating System." Everybody has this system.
The "Reticular Activating System." works like this: Once
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 7, 2004
✎ Let’s imagine today is payday only instead of a check we are all given cash. What do you notice about the money we have all worked so hard for? It’s not enough right? No, M is not for “more” it’s for “MERCY,” so in your minds eye take a close look at your money, and what do you see?
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 14, 2004
Lynn and I recently watched a late September program of Larry King Live. The topic for discussion was “God, Anger, War & Religion”, and his five guests were a Muslim, a Jew, a Christian, a Roman Catholic priest (and I thought it interesting that he saw Christian and Catholic as two separate
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Orthodox
Contributed by Darryl Bell on Apr 17, 2006
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In China police and Public Security Bureau (PSB) officers raided the home of a Christian we’ll call “Ling.” “When the officers entered, they found ample amounts of contraband: Bibles, Christian literature, … and other Christian materials. But what was more troubling in their eyes than the large
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Once in his dream a man was haunted and thwarted by a mysterious, veiled figure. As soon as he had gained a fortune, the veiled form snatched it away from him. When he was about to enter into peace and joy, the veiled figure attacked his mind with fear and anxiety. When he was hungry and sat
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Nov 21, 2006
The year 1636 was unbelievable for German pastor, Martin Rinkart. Amid the darkness of the Thirty Year War, Pastor Rinkart is said to have buried 5000 of his parishioners, including his wife, in the year 1636, an average of 15 per day. In the heart of that kind of grief and pain, his parish
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Church Of God
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jan 14, 2007
Back in 1905, there was baseball game at Salt Lake City, Utah. The Rhyolites were playing the Beattys and the Beattys were up to bat. The pitcher threw the ball, the batter swung - and the ball rocketed toward 1st base.
The 1st baseman was a man named William Giffiths, and as he saw the ball
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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Our faith in the God of Creation is NOT blind or without reason. As Believers we don’t need to fear looking at the evidence around us. Allan Rex Sandage is the leading Observation Cosmologist in the world by pretty much all accounts. He spent his career quantifying the expanse of the universe,
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Doris Sparks on Apr 5, 2007
If you ask anyone in my family if they have ever seen an angel; they would tell you the story that occurred on winter Sunday. We were driving up a very steep hill in town in a van. This was before mini-vans and this big 9-passenger van was not good on slippery roads. The road was snow packed and
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Lutheran
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 4, 2007
Max Lucado tells of a friend of his who teaches under-privileged children in an inner city church. Her class is a group of 9 year olds who love life and aren’t afraid of God. There is one exception though, a timid girl named Barbara. She lives in a home that has left her afraid and insecure. For
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Christian Church
Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 22, 2007
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A man was being tailgated by a stressed out woman on a busy boulevard.
Suddenly, the light turned yellow, just in front of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.
The tailgating woman was
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 6, 2007
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AF Sgt. Arthur Powell told his story in the July (1994) "Guideposts."
When I was a kid growing up in St. Nicholas Project in Harlem, I was scared. I was afraid of shooting, gang harassment and threats from drug dealers. Dad wasn’t around much, and Mom, who wasn’t well, had her hands full
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 2, 2007
* On the night of April 14, 1912, during its first trip from England to New York, the Titanic struck an iceberg. The collision tore a 300-foot gash in its hull, and in 2½ hours the unsinkable ship sank. Some 1500 people died.
* On May 6, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey, the mighty German Zeppelin,
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Baptist
Contributed by Anne Benefield on Dec 3, 2007
On Thursday, Carolyn Chou came by to see me. You may remember her. She and her husband, Yuan, were married here and we baptized their children, Matthew and Sabrina, who is now 20 month old daughter. Carolyn brought Sabrina with her. Sabrina is in the throws of separation anxiety. As Sabrina
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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