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  • The Next Time You Become Upset And Blame Someone ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,470 views

    The next time you become upset and blame someone for your response, think about your tube of toothpaste. This morning you squeezed your toothpaste tube, and out of it came toothpaste. The reason the toothpaste came out is because that is what is in the tube. Someone may have squeezed you once, ...read more

  • What's God Got To Do With It?  PRO

    Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 12, 2004
    based on 17 ratings
     | 5,068 views

    WHAT'S GOD GOT TO DO WITH IT? If you “Google” the word love, and you have to be very careful doing this, you will find all sorts of websites,120,000,000 to be exact. Here are some examples that you will find: I love Dogs.com I love Cats.com (Although this one is a plea to spay or ...read more

  • When A Child Doesn't Get His Or Her Own Way The ...  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Sep 20, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,106 views

    When a child doesn’t get his or her own way the common response to the parent is, “You don’t love me.” Of course this isn’t true. The parent’s love hasn’t changed. It’s just that at that moment their love is expressing itself differently than how the child wants it. God’s love is like that. ...read more

  • In The Fields Of France There Are Many Rolling ...  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Sep 20, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,558 views

    In the fields of France there are many rolling green hills and open fields, some of you may have seen them. Yet beneath many of these picturesque landscapes lies the horror of hundreds of mass graves - remnants of the many battles fought there. Imagine just one of these graves being opened soon ...read more

  • The Movie Rudy  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 20, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,445 views

    Video Illustration: The Movie Rudy The Movie: Based on the true story of Rudy Ruettiger, this film is about friendship, courage, and sacrifice. Rudy (Sean Austin) grew up in a small steel town with the dream of someday playing football for Notre Dame. Despite many obstacles, he refused to give up, ...read more

  • Some Years Ago Gladys And I Bought A Computer ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Oct 16, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,436 views

    Some years ago Gladys and I bought a computer that was a display model. We used it for a number of years. As a matter of fact, Steve just finished rebuilding it so the church can use it while the church’s computer is being repaired. Now, that computer served us well and I was able to do a number ...read more

  • Being Heard By The Judge  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,897 views

    BEING HEARD BY THE JUDGE To understand the story of the persistent widow, we need to understand its New Testament setting, Wiersbe describes it this way, “The courtroom was not a fine building but a tent that was moved from place to place as the judge covered his circuit. The judge, not the law, ...read more

  • Christ Meets You Outside The Throne Room, Takes ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2005
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    Christ meets you outside the throne room, takes you by the hand, and walks you into the presence of God. Upon entrance we find grace, not condemnation; mercy, not punishment. Where we would never be granted an audience with the king, w are now welcomed into his presence. If you are a parent ...read more

  • The Gifts Of Service Are Sometimes Considered ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Fox on Dec 20, 2005
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    The gifts of service are sometimes considered "second-rate." compared with gifts like "evangelism." Without faithful Christians exercising their gift of service, the gifts of evangelism are powerless. It is quite true that people don’t “care how much you know until they know how much you ...read more

  • What Makes A Good Church?  PRO

    Contributed by Al Edmonds on Dec 27, 2005
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,682 views

    "WHAT MAKES A GOOD CHURCH?" If all the lazy folks will get up, And all the sleeping folks will wake up, And all the discouraged folks will cheer up, And all gossiping folks will shut up, And all the dishonest folks will confess up, And all the estranged folks will make up, And all the ...read more

  • Born-Again Doesn't Mean What It Used To: ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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     | 2,183 views

    Born-Again Doesn’t Mean What It Used To: According to University of California-Santa Barbara researcher and author Wade Clark Roof, 1/3 of American’s 77 million baby boomers identify themselves as born-again, but only 55% of those have any link to a conservative Protestant church. 50% say that ...read more

  • Titles Of Jesus Christ To The Architect, He Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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     | 4,934 views

    "Titles of Jesus Christ To the architect, He is the chief cornerstone (1 Peter 2:6) To the bride, He is the bridegroom (Matthew 25:1) To the carpenter, He is the door. (John 10:9) To the engineer, He is the new and living way. (Hebrews 10:20) To the farmer, He is the Lord of the harvest (Matthew ...read more

  • Gentle Dogmatism  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 18, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,569 views

    GENTLE DOGMATISM We have gotten accustomed to the blurred puffs of gray fog that pass for doctrine in churches and expect nothing better. From some previously unimpeachable sources are now coming vague statements consisting of a milky admixture of Scripture, science, and human sentiment that is ...read more

  • Fruitfulness As God's Work  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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     | 5,711 views

    FRUITFULNESS AS GOD’S WORK A few years ago, the Associated Press released a study done by an agricultural school in Iowa. It reported that production of 100 bushels of corn from one acre of land, in addition to the many hours of the farmer’s labor, required 4,000,000 pounds of water, 6,800 pounds ...read more

  • A Gentle Dogmatism

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 11, 2009
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    A GENTLE DOGMATISM A. W. Tozer said, "We have gotten accustomed to the blurred puffs of gray fog that pass for doctrine in churches and expect nothing better. From some previously unimpeachable sources are now coming vague statements consisting of a milky admixture of Scripture, science, and ...read more

  • Children Of The King

    Contributed by Nigel Heath on Aug 17, 2009
     | 4,083 views

    CHILDREN OF THE KING Living as a child of the King will be noticeable in the way others experience us. Madonna has been in the headlines over the last couple of years for famously trying and succeeding to adopt African children from Malawi. Whatever we think of Madonna’s actions or motives on ...read more

  • Have You Ever Watched A Cat Hunt? I Saw A ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2009
     | 1,633 views

    Have you ever watched a cat hunt? I saw a neighborhood cat creep up on a rabbit. When the cat was about 20’ away, the rabbit saw the cat. They both froze not moving a muscle. The rabbit’s heart was probably beating 200mph waiting to see if this thing was a threat. They actually sat there for a good ...read more

  • Christians Give In Too Easily To The Devil In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
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    Christians Give In Too Easily to the Devil in Spiritual Warfare In his book Fuzzy Memories, Jack Handey writes: There used to be this bully who would demand my lunch money every day. Since I was smaller, I would give it to him. Then I decided to fight back. I started taking karate lessons. But then ...read more

  • Reading Someone Else's Mail

    Contributed by Nigel Heath on Jan 25, 2010
     | 2,715 views

    Reading Someone Else's Mail Have you ever read somebody else's mail? Come on, admit it. Surely there was a time you can remember when you saw an opened letter somewhere and you invented some reason why it would be the responsible thing to do to read it! Or perhaps I'm preaching to a congregation ...read more

  • In The Play A Raisin In The Sun, There's A Scene ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 25, 2010
     | 2,807 views

    In the play a Raisin in the Sun, there’s a scene where Walter has lost all of the family’s savings, savings that were going to make his family’s dream come true. His sister, Beneatha, is so disgusted with him she says, “There ain’t nuthin’ left to love.” In an emotion filled moment, Mama puts her ...read more