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  • If You Love Me

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 1,983 views

    If you are ever going to love me, Love me now, while I can know The sweet and tender feelings Which from true affection flow. Love me now While I am living. Do not wait until I’m gone And then have it chiseled in marble, Sweet words on ice-cold stone. If you have tender thoughts of me, Please ...read more

  • Not All Quotations About Life Have Been ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,374 views

    Not all quotations about life have been negative, for example: Norman Thomas (1884-1968), “The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.” Oswald Spengler, a German historian and philosopher (1880-1936), “This is our purpose: to make as ...read more

  • The Name Of The Author Was Not Attached To This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The name of the author was not attached to this story where I found it. But the story makes a telling point. Listen to him/her: I heard an interesting comment at a meeting I attended in New York, and I made a note of it: Because Jean-Claude Killy, the world-famous skier, was three-tenths of a ...read more

  • Have You Heard The Statement, "Conscience Gets A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,221 views

    Have you heard the statement, “Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet”? Think through the implications of that. There are many evil things that many people would do if they didn’t fear getting caught. Another expression of that says we are only one light bulb away from ...read more

  • The Greed Trap

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2011
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    THE GREED TRAP It is true that sin is a self snare. In a move against the Mafia’s control of the Fulton Fish Market in New York City, the case was broken open when investigators discovered that the mob boss had transferred $168,000 from a high interest fund to a low interest bank account so that ...read more

  • Ministry: A Character Profession

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
     | 2,458 views

    MINISTRY: A CHARACTER PROFESSION Ministry is a character profession. To put it bluntly, you can sleep around and still be a good brain surgeon. You can cheat on your mate and have little trouble continuing to practice law. Apparently, it is no problem to stay in politics and plagiarize. You can be ...read more

  • The World: A Temporary Container

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 3, 2012
     | 2,627 views

    THE WORLD: A TEMPORARY CONTAINER The first garbage day after Christmas must be the biggest garbage day of the year. You can tell what most people got for Christmas by just looking at the garbage pile in front of the house. We usually throw out all the boxes--unless you have children who like to ...read more

  • The Substance Of Faith

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Mar 1, 2012
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    THE SUBSTANCE OF FAITH Example: Give some play-doh to 2 people and ask them to create something out of that "substance" In the millennia-old Aristotelian tradition, as well as early modern traditions that follow it, substances or ousia are treated as having attributes and modes or things. This ...read more

  • Quotes On Scripture

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Mar 17, 2013
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    Napoleon, Emperor of the French said "The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades everything that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure." Abraham ...read more

  • This Is Not Going To Be A Debate About Creation ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 24, 2009
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    This is not going to be a debate about creation or evolution, but I do want to share a quote from a well known pastor named Randy Croft: Astrophysicists have found that there are over 60 criteria that are necessary for life on earth. For you and me to live. Life could not exist or form if any one ...read more

  • I Want To Show You Another Subtle Lie That I Was ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 25, 2009
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    I want to show you another subtle lie that I was held captive by in my teens. It is the doctrine of suffering from Buddhism, one of the three biggest religions in the world. It says that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, (sounds pretty good ...read more

  • Humility And Experience

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009
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     | 8,685 views

    HUMILITY AND EXPERIENCE Listen to this true story: "My father began teaching business classes at the local prison through a community college. On his first night of class, he started a chapter on banking. During the course of his lecture, the subject of ATMs came up, and he mentioned that, on ...read more

  • Elf

    Contributed by James Tilley on Dec 1, 2009
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    ELF Story of a child who stows away. He is raised as an elf. They dress him like an elf and treat him like an elf. They teach him to make toys like an elf. As time passes it becomes clear that he is not an elf. One major clue is that he grows six feet tall. Anther is how slowly he makes toys. ...read more

  • Love And Service--Mark Dever And J.c. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2010
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    Love and Service--Mark Dever and J.C. Ryle JC Ryle: “True greatness does not consist in being an admiral or a celebrity. It consists of devoting yourself, body, soul and spirit to the blessed work of making the people around you more happy and holy.” Mark Dever, at 9Marks Conference. This quote ...read more

  • Spiritual Near-Sightedness  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 25, 2010
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     | 3,259 views

    Spiritual Near-Sightedness One of my favorite riddles is this one Q: What did the near-sighted porcupine say when it backed into a cactus? A: Pardon me, honey! If you are near-sighted, you see objects that are near, but distant objects are blurry or unclear. To put is simply, you are equipped to ...read more

  • Generosity

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Oct 21, 2010
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    You all probably remember the photos that Eve [our former children’s worker] brought back from Zambia of bags of grain lying in church as people had brought a true tithe, ten per cent of their crop to give to God. People in Africa have very little and yet are very generous. In this country ...read more

  • Internal ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    Internal Audit My wife Tina is an internal auditor for T. Marzetti. When she walks into a plant to do an audit she can tell a lot about that plant by what she sees. If she finds that the financials, employment records, inventory, and quality control aspects of the plant are good it is an indication ...read more

  • Rest In Peace Until I Come

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Aug 7, 2023
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     | 1,955 views

    The wife ... of a man who had recently died ... assumed ... they were well off financially, ... so she gave him a very nice funeral ... and a fancy tombstone that read, ... Rest in Peace. However, ... when the estate was settled ... she was informed by their attorney ... that he had wasted all ...read more

  • Conditional Promise

    Contributed by John Bright on Mar 4, 2025
     | 396 views

    This is the beginning of that story where God tells them what they needed to do: 1 – Kill the Passover lamb 2 – Collect the blood in a bowl 3 – Put the blood on the two sides and top of the door The result would be what God promised to do – pass over their houses with the final plague of the death ...read more

  • The House God Moved

    Contributed by David Dunn on Nov 12, 2025
     | 189 views

    The story of that little church in Swan Quarter, North Carolina, still stirs my heart. In 1874 the congregation built a modest wooden building, but the land they truly wanted had been refused by its owner. Two years later a storm struck the town, the kind of storm that tears apart homes and ...read more