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  • Every Time I Read This Story In Genesis I Recall ...

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on May 2, 2007
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    Every time I read this story in Genesis I recall a scary situation that happened to me as a boy. I was in Jr. high (my exact age slips me, but I know I couldn’t drive yet), and I was riding my bike to the gym, which was about 30 minutes away in another part of Chattanooga. I had no sooner left the ...read more

  • Kicking Rocks By Gary Williams (From Seniors ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 22, 2007
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    Kicking Rocks by Gary Williams (from Seniors Quiet Time Miscellany) One day a nine-year-old boy and a man began a walk to the beach. The man’s body was on vacation, many miles away from home and business, but his heart was still business-blinded. He thought his duty was to make sure that he and ...read more

  • Gordon Was A Skinny, Underweight Lad Of 17 When ...

    Contributed by Mack Armstrong on Jun 14, 2007
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    Gordon was a skinny, underweight lad of 17 when he talked his mother into signing him up so he could join the Marines. The week he left for "Boot Camp" he was in my office and told me the following. He said he wished for one thing only in this life. And, if he could get his wish, he would never ask ...read more

  • Phineas Could Not Sleep. He Was Up Before The ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 16, 2009
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    Phineas could not sleep. He was up before the sun. He had his bag packed, and he was downstairs, ready to begin the day. The year was 1820. Phineas was finally to see an island- his very own island. Phineas had received the island as a gift from his grandfather. As a baby, Phineas had been ...read more

  • Walter Reich Wrote In A Column From Washington: ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 8, 2009
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    Walter Reich wrote in a column from Washington: I’m a man of bad habits, one of which is reading the newspaper while eating. Since I don’t have time for either activity, each one provides a good excuse for the other. The result is that I eat too much, and probably read too much, with the deep ...read more

  • Character: Prototype Plus Pneumatic Force  PRO

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 14, 2009
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    CHARACTER: PROTOTYPE PLUS PNEUMATIC FORCE Jesus is the very imprint or prototype of God’s essential reality. The word used in the Greek here is pronounced "kah-rahk-TEER" (sometimes "kah-rahk-TAYR") and it is the word from which we get "character." In the original Greek usage, it meant an imprint ...read more

  • Ignoring The Barriers Of The Past

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    IGNORING THE BARRIERS OF THE PAST Every four years, the world’s attention turns to the summer Olympic games. For a few days, men and women from around the globe gather to compete against the best. Amazing records are broken and new ones are set at these games. The Four-Minute-Mile: Just a few ...read more

  • Created By God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2009
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    CREATED BY GOD A little girl was visiting over at grandpa's house. She crawls up into his lap and says "Grandpa, did God make you?" He says "Oh, yes, my dear, God created me a long time ago." She says "Did God make me, too?" He says "Oh, yes, my dear, God created you a little while ago." She ...read more

  • Elementary School Student Doubts President's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 1, 2009
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    Elementary School Student Doubts President’s Identity On March 11, 1991, eight-year-old Anthony Henderson upset the distinguished leader of our nation, President George Bush. President Bush was visiting Anthony’s school and had sat down beside Anthony to read him a book. Suddenly in the midst of ...read more

  • Object Lesson: Energy Drinks

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 12, 2010
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    OBJECT LESSON: ENERGY DRINKS (Show the energy drink.)This drink has energy in it, and when you drink, it is released into your body. (Take a drink of the energy drink!) Energy drinks are soft drinks advertised as providing energy to improve physical activity of the drinker, as compared to a ...read more

  • Reason Why Helicopter Pilot Stopped A Massacre In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2010
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    Reason Why Helicopter Pilot Stopped a Massacre in Vietnam I would like to close with another quote from Thomas Long, who relates an illustration that many of us hear this morning can recall. Long writes, and I quote: “The school where I teach gave an honorary degree several years ago to a man named ...read more

  • Rene' Gets Lost

    Contributed by Paul Kendall on Apr 23, 2010
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    RENE' GETS LOST In her freshman year of college, my daughter Rene’ agreed to take some friends to the Tampa airport as they returned home for Christmas break. They showed her the way there-—and to get back-—she would simply follow the same route backwards and then come on home to celebrate ...read more

  • Same, Same

    Contributed by Scott Wakefield on May 17, 2010
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    Found at http://www.christianstandard.com/articledisplay.asp?id=783 In an article for Christian Standard magazine, preacher and college president Matt Proctor reflects on the Incarnation: My 5-year-old, Carl, and my 3-year-old, Conrad, love it when I dress like them. After they put on jeans and a ...read more

  • God Uses Tragedy To Draw Couple To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2010
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    God Uses Tragedy to Draw Couple To Himself Cathy’s story: A few years ago a woman and a man who were living together started coming to the church I pastor. She had gotten pregnant and was expecting. Though they weren’t saved, they were beginning to seek the Lord. I was much in prayer for them. When ...read more

  • Thankful People Are Happy People  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2011
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    THANKFUL PEOPLE ARE HAPPY PEOPLE I read a news story once of a woman who was getting ready to jump off a 44 story building in New York City. Witnesses said that she did not look like the type of person who would do such a thing. She was very distinguished and well dressed. All the attempts ...read more

  • Our Need For Pain  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2011
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    OUR NEED FOR PAIN There is no tougher dilemma in the Christian life than the problem of pain. It could be the pain of broken relationship, the pain of rejection, or the pain of insults. Or it could just be plain old physical pain. Nothing tests the faith like pain. It was physical pain that ...read more

  • Communion Meditation: Compassion In A Deli

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2011
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    COMMUNION MEDITATION: COMPASSION IN A DELI Dr. Fred Craddic tells of the time he was asked to speak in Winnipeg, Canada. While he was there he stopped into a deli get something to eat. He said the place was packed but people moved over and made room for him. Many people in there where just in to ...read more

  • God Wants To Pull The Stickers Out  PRO

    Contributed by Tim White on Jun 6, 2011
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    GOD WANTS TO PULL THE STICKERS OUT The little girl hopped away screaming. Obviously, the fear of living forever with a sticker in her foot was not as terrifying as the thought of me pulling it out. But a five-year-old could not out-run the preacher. Not hopping on one foot, anyway. After I ...read more

  • John Stott, A Humble Man

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 7, 2011
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    JOHN STOTT, A HUMBLE MAN I like the way Thomas Carlyle put it some time ago. He said, "One example is worth a thousand arguments." (Thomas Carlyle, quoted in Men of Integrity, July/August 2000; www.Preaching Today.com) In difficult times, we don't need dictators and arguments. We need leaders ...read more

  • Our "In Jesus" Voice

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 28, 2011
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    OUR "IN JESUS" VOICE I'm always intrigued by the phrase some parents and care-givers use with children: "Now children, we need to use our 'indoor' voices." What Ephesians 4 is saying is that when in the church (not the building) we need to use our "in Jesus" voices. Those voices need to lift up, ...read more