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  • One Day As My Two Year Old Daughter And I Had ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2007
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    One day as my two year old daughter and I had finished our shopping at the mall, I was walking ahead of her continually asking her to "hurry up." I wanted to get home, but she was enjoying all the sights and sounds. As she walked right behind me, I looked back to see my daughter had stopped to ...read more

  • In Coping With Your Own Death  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In Coping With Your Own Death. 1. WINSTON CHURCHILL had planned his funeral, which took place in Saint Paul’s Cathedral. He included many of the great hymns of the church and used the eloquent Anglican liturgy. At his direction a bugler, positioned high in the dome of Saint Paul’s, intoned, after ...read more

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  • We Often Here About Hostages Being Taken And ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 20, 2007
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    We often here about hostages being taken and held in captivity recently we have heard of those British workers held in captivity in Iraq for over 6 months not yet knowing their fate, it must be a fearful time for them and their families. They are held in bondage, they are in need of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • When I First Came Into Ministry Many Years Ago ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 28, 2009
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    When I first came into ministry many years ago now, Julie and I realized that the only way we could train in the Bible College was to sell everything we owned except our car and our children (actually our children already belonged to God, so they didn’t come into the equation). There was no ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Carnival Christians

    Contributed by Major Gerardo Balmori on Apr 2, 2011
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    CARNIVAL CHRISTIANS What’s a "Carnival Christian?" A Carnival Christian is someone who enjoys the fun. Someone who gets caught up in the excitement of cheering for Jesus, but sometimes has a hard time taking a personal stand for him when the crowd isn’t around. Commitments for them are difficult ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

  • Lost Alasdair

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jul 10, 2011
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    LOST ALASDAIR In October 1984 my brother-in-law Alasdair got lost. As a family they had visited Venice – long before I knew them – Sandy and Valerie my in-Laws, Moira my wife who was 14 at the time, and Alasdair who was 11. They were at St. Mark’s square, Venice – at the same time as Queen ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Misdirection In A Football Game Is Fun. ...

    Contributed by David Nuhfer on Jul 16, 2008
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    Misdirection in a football game is fun. Misdirection from Satan is deadly. He has been doing it for thousands of years, from the time in the Garden of Eden when he got Eve to believe that God was holding out on her and Adam, to Exodus when he got the Israelites focused on hating Moses, to the time ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • The Rusted Out Car  PRO

    Contributed by John Sears on Jan 18, 2012
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    THE RUSTED OUT CAR A few weeks ago, I was driving home on the interstate and saw a pickup truck pulling a trailer with the rusted out shell of an old car on it. All I know was that the car on that trailer was an antique. And it was covered in rust from bumper to bumper. I could tell from the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • An Ever-Rolling Stream!" Genesis 6: 1-3 Key ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Dec 30, 2004
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    “An Ever-Rolling Stream!” Genesis 6: 1-3 Key verse(s): 3: “Then the Lord said, ‘My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for hie is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.’” “It can wait until tomorrow!” Despite that old adage, “Never put off to tomorrow the things that you can do ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • My Stripes

    Contributed by Scott Jensen on Oct 8, 2008
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    My Stripes Many years ago I was enlisted in the Air Force and competed for promotion to Technical Sergeant. I was a Staff Sergeant that had been recognized as one of the best. I had fire wall 5 performance reports and had been Group NCO of the Year for two consecutive years. I had all the right ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • There Is No Substitute Or Shortcut To Gain The ...

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on Dec 15, 2006
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    There is no substitute or shortcut to gain the measure of God you desire in your life. Time before God in His presence releases the store house of heaven that is full of blessings and opens the flood gate of revelation you desire! Intimacy with the living God is the hall mark of every great man or ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Robert Raines - My Ten-Year-Old Son, Bob, Had ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Robert Raines - My ten-year-old son, Bob, had made the all-star football team in school. As I rubbed his back while putting him to bed one night, out of the quiet came a still, small voice, "Dad, is this the first time you ever rubbed an all-star’s back?" ...read more

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  • Moving And Friendships

    Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 27, 2009
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    MOVING AND FRIENDSHIPS We live in a society where people, especially young adults, move so often they don’t have time to develop deep friendships. My mom and step father lived in the place where I grew up for about 25 years. During that 25 years, I moved ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Editors Evolve

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    EDITORS EVOLVE As print's dominance wanes, publishers are asking editors to expand their skill sets and become much more public brand stewards. The volume of content and pages online is not just two or three times that in print, it is 50 to 1,000 times, states Steve Fox, Editor and chief of ...read more

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  • The Power Of An Angry Attitude

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 27, 2008
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    THE POWER OF AN ANGRY ATTITUDE You may say, "I am allowed to do anything." But I reply, "Not everything is good for you." And even though 'I am allowed to do anything,' I must not become a slave to anything. -- 1 Corinthians 6:12 (NLT) An athletic young man stood before his peers. An ordinary ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • First Class Upgrade

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 8, 2008
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    FIRST CLASS UPGRADE Why is it, by the way, that First Class passengers board the plane first? Sure it is great to get off the plane first, but is it so great to board the plane first? Shouldn’t First Class Passengers be the last ones on the plane and the first ones off the plane? For me the idea ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Ten Signs Of A Frustrated Mother  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 28, 2002
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    TEN SIGNS OF A FRUSTRATED MOTHER 1. Your children know how to read HTML code but can’t operate a vacuum cleaner. 2. Your children tell you that you said "yes" and you don’t even remember the question. 3. You go to the grocery store and find yourself having a good time. 4. Your husband asks how ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • We Have A Famous Poem On Our Kitchen Wall. Let Me ...  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jul 9, 2001
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    We have a famous poem on our kitchen wall. Let me read it to you: One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonged to him, and the other to ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • You See, The Witch Knew Of The Deep Magic From ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 27, 2005
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    You see, the Witch knew of the Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time. But she was not aware of the Deeper Magic from Before the Dawn of Time, as Aslan explained it to Susan and Lucy. He said that according to a decree from before the Witch’s time, “when a willing victim who had committed no treachery ...read more

    Denomination: Orthodox

  • Books Are Ships Which Pass Through The Vast Seas ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    Books are ships which pass through the ...read more

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