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  • Romans 6:11 "So You Should Consider Yourselves ...

    Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Jan 14, 2008
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    Romans 6:11 "So you should consider yourselves dead to sin and able to live for the glory of God through Christ Jesus." Something that’s dead is unresponsive. I’ve brought one of my daughter’s stuffed animals today, a large dog. When she was little she called him James T. Bone. It’s not really ...read more

  • Swindoll States From His Book Living On Ragged ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 8, 2008
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    Swindoll states from his book Living on Ragged Edge, “But the flesh will answer back, ‘Aw what’s the rush? Why not wait until you have sown a few wild oats? Why not wait thirty or forty years until you’ve had a pile of fun doing things your own way then turn to God? I mean, you get the best of both ...read more

  • There Is Only One Left In The United States Of ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Feb 24, 2008
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    There is only one left in the United States of America. Since Harry Richard Landis died 2 weeks ago, there is only 1 left. Landis was the oldest U.S. veteran of World War I. He died on February 11 at the age of 108. More than 4 ½ million Americans joined the military in 1917 and 1918 to serve ...read more

  • Out Of The Depths

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
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    OUT OF THE DEPTHS Author Bernard Anderson in Out of the Depths speaks of this remembering the multitudes and the house of God and makes a worthy observation. He says, "This is not a longing for a one-to-one relationship with God in mystic solitude. The poet yearns to be surrounded by the believing ...read more

  • You Hear The Jokes About Hell Being Some Big ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    You hear the jokes about hell being some big party. Hell can also be a seductive for all those fans of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. One of them, a kid from an Ohio Christian school named Brian Warner is today better known as Marilyn Manson. For more than a decade, he has made millions with his ...read more

  • God Wants You To Rejoice In Your Relationship!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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     | 2,735 views

    God wants you to rejoice in your relationship! *God wants our churches and our marriages to be alive and overflowing with joy. So the Old Testament tells us that the joy of the Lord is our strength; the New Testament tells us to “rejoice in the Lord always.” Then in Proverbs 5 in words too vivid ...read more

  • Is Your Faith The Real Thing?

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
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    Is your faith the real thing? There are many different flavors of faith available Is your faith the real thing? Diet Coke - says Coke, but without the guilt this is like the person that says they are saved, but lives however they want Diet Caff. Free - says Coke, no guilt and no power, same as Diet ...read more

  • Fearfighter, A Kind Of Psychiatric Computer, Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
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    Fearfighter, a kind of psychiatric computer, is one of two programs endorsed by Britain’s health advisory watchdog for people with panic attacks, mild depression, or phobias. People uncomfortable with getting advice from a computer can still choose to see therapists, but the option of logging on ...read more

  • Recently I Read An Article A Pastor Wrote On ...

    Contributed by Ryan Reed on May 30, 2008
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    Recently I read an article a pastor wrote on today's church: "I look around at church people who really, by any standards, just love Christ a little bit. They don't care for worship, not much of it anyway. Prayer bores them to tears. The Bible is tedious. Their offering is only a token to ease the ...read more

  • Temptation And Sin: Steve's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    TEMPTATION AND SIN: STEVE’S STORY A young man was in a parking lot just shortly after being saved and he found a pack of cigarettes lying unopened on the ground near his car. His first thought was to keep them and smoke them as he had always done, but he felt prompted to do something different. He ...read more

  • In James 5:15, God Promises Us That A Prayer ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on May 26, 2009
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    In JAMES 5:15, God promises us that a prayer offered in true faith will even make the sick person well. Let’s take that model of prayer and hold it up against the way we pray today. Most of us, being honest, pray something like this: ‘God I want you to make me well.’ And then in the back of our ...read more

  • Not The Huddle, But The Game

    Contributed by Rev Dr Randall M Deal Sr on Jun 7, 2009
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    NOT THE HUDDLE, BUT THE GAME The job of the church is not to impact the church, but to impact our community, our world! It’s like a huddle in a football game. This afternoon, the Cardinals will host the Eagles for the NFC Championship Game. 70,000+ people didn’t pay way-too-much money to watch the ...read more

  • Something Better Down The Road  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    SOMETHING BETTER DOWN THE ROAD A football game was being played in Badger Stadium in 1982 in Madison, Wisconsin with more than 60,000 fans in attendance. The home team was losing. But out of the blue during time outs, when play was a at stop, the fans would jump up and roar with excitement. Why? ...read more

  • It Could Be Done

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 14, 2009
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    IT COULD BE DONE "Why are you bothering yourselves with a knitting machine?" asked Ari Davis of Boston, a manufacturer of instruments. "Why don’t you make a sewing machine?" That particular question was overheard by a young man of twenty - Elias Howe. No one took that question seriously, except ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer And Andrew Murray On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    A.W. Tozer and Andrew Murray on Humility Humility and dying to myself are inseparable. A.W. Tozer nailed the nail on the head, saying, “In every Christians heart there is a cross and a throne and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross he remains on ...read more

  • Saving Blood Drives! Kalani, Kaiser Holding ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
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    Saving blood drives! Kalani, Kaiser holding life-saving blood drives! Everybody has it! Everybody needs it! „» Cancer „» Heart and blood vessel disease „» Emergencies such as car accidents/burns This red liquid carries oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body, and carries carbon dioxide ...read more

  • Joshua Challenges Us To Put Away Our Idols! Now, ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Mar 9, 2010
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    Joshua challenges us to put away our idols! Now, we have a TV show called American Idol, but let me show you some real idols. These were given to my mother by Art & Ruth Morris, founders of South India Church of Christ Mission. What you are looking at are Hindu pocket gods. Hindus have many gods, ...read more

  • From A Cave To A Castle  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2010
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    FROM A CAVE TO A CASTLE Flat broke and homeless, brothers Geza and Zslot Peladi literally lived in a cave near Budapest for years. They left their dank home only to scrape together whatever money they could through selling scrap metal and candy. Theirs was a hopeless situation. But then ...read more

  • Ordinary People Talking. And That's How It Should ...

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Apr 8, 2010
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    Ordinary people talking. And that’s how it should be. Look at our reading. Jesus invested a lot of time in his 12 disciples. He invested even more in the four key disciples; Peter, Andrew,James and John. Yet it wasn’t the four who first asked to tell the people the good news of the resurection It ...read more

  • In The 1940's There Was Race, A Race To Get The ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jun 6, 2010
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    In the 1940’s there was race, a race to get the mightiest weapon this world had yet seen. The United States had the Manhattan Project. Hitler had his heavy water experiments. After the war it was learned that Hitler was much farther away from developing the atomic bomb than some had feared. But ...read more