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  • Culture War Invades Corporate America: The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Culture War Invades Corporate America: The culture war over homosexuality has moved into the workplace. Millions of employees are being commanded to not just tolerate homosexual behavior, but to respect and even promote it reports the 1/4 issue of Christianity Today. At least 300 of the Fortune ...read more

  • It Was Said That Those Who Worked With President ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    It was said that those who worked with President Dwight D. Eisenhower found him very bright, tough and commanding. But Ike liked to verbalize his leadership role in a softer way: He said “I am not one of the desk-pounding type that likes to stick out his jaw and look as if he is bossing the show. I ...read more

  • Nicholson Shed

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
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    Nicholson Shed William Pattison Nicholson has been called the 'tornado' of the pulpit. He was mightily used by God in Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century. Nicholson was as Irish as the turf and as rugged as the hills of Donegal. But Holy Ghost power rested upon him. In the ...read more

  • Judson Cornwall Was A Prominent Teacher In The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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    Judson Cornwall was a prominent teacher in the charismatic renewal in the sixties, seventies and eighties. He said a major facet of Israelite worship was gift giving. Three times God discussed the compulsory feast that His covenant people were to attend and all three times He commanded that they ...read more

  • One Day In Pittsburg, Pa, A Car Was Stolen. As ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 3, 2010
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    One day in Pittsburg, PA, a car was stolen. As the thieves began stripping the vehicle they came across papers identifying the owner as Fred Rogers, host of the children’s television program Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. They quickly reassembled the car, cleaned and vacuumed it, and returned it with ...read more

  • There's An App For That

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Feb 10, 2011
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    THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT So is your sin and guilt getting the better of you? Well, now "There’s an app for that." CBS News reports (February 9, 2011) a new application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch called the "Confession Booth app. All you do is confess to your iPhone! It sells for $1.99 ...read more

  • We Can Witness, But We Cannot Convert

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 18, 2019
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    We may use all means, by but we cannot command success. We may teach, but we cannot convert. We may show those around us the bread and water of life, but we cannot make them eat and drink it. We may point out the way to eternal life, but we cannot make others walk in it. ‘It is the Spirit that ...read more

  • Just To Be Noticed  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2003
    based on 28 ratings
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    JUST TO BE NOTICED Every spring, hundreds of Hollywood “stars” gather for the Academy Awards. Very few “slip in the back door:” instead, they make an entrance. They walk down the long red carpet, smiling at the cameras and waving to the people in the stands (who, by the way, all had to apply and ...read more

  • William Carey Was An Impoverished English ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
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    William Carey was an impoverished English shoemaker. . After William Carey (1761-1834) was well established in his pioneer missionary work in India, his supporters in England sent a printer to assist him. Soon the two men were turning out portions of the Bible for distribution. Carey had spent ...read more

  • King Of The Jungle

    Contributed by Randy Wilson on Aug 1, 2011
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    KING OF THE JUNGLE I'm reminded of the lion who woke up one morning and decided it was time to stroll through the jungle and check on his kingdom. He came first to a giraffe chewing on some leaves up in a tree. "Hey, long neck," he asked, "Who's the king of the jungle?" "Why you are on great ...read more

  • Now I'm A Fisherman And The First Rule Of Fishing ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Schlenker on Aug 7, 2002
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    Now I’m a fisherman and the first rule of fishing is to stay afloat in your boat. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I would wake up and walk outside to take a deep breath and smell the air to catch an understanding of the humidity. I’d then look up at the horizon and I see how many clouds ...read more

  • Pax Romana  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 30, 2012
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    PAX ROMANA About 27 years before Jesus was born Rome experienced something unique that history has called Pax Romana = the peace of Rome. Beginning with the reign of Augustine, Emperor of Rome and lasting till about 180 A.D. (a period of 200 years) Rome was at peace. They had few internal ...read more

  • When I Consider The Power Of These Little ...  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on May 26, 2002
    based on 15 ratings
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    When I consider the power of these little narratives, I’m reminded, on this Memorial Day weekend, of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, a speech he gave in 1863 to dedicate a portion of that battlefield as a cemetery for the Civil War dead. It begins: “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers ...read more

  • For Many Years A Country Church In Iowa Set ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 29, 2004
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    For many years a country church in Iowa set aside one Sunday annually for youth to conduct the entire service. The young people did it all; call to worship, invocation, prayer, special music, announcements, choir, and one young person would deliver the sermon. One year a 16 year old boy was told ...read more

  • You May Have Read The Following On A Bookmark Or ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Apr 1, 2007
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    You may have read the following on a bookmark or plaque, but it has special significance today. He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in still another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant ...read more

  • The Famous Preacher D.l. Moody Told About A ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Nov 13, 2007
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    The famous preacher D.L. Moody told about a Christian woman who was always bright, cheerful, and optimistic, even though she was confined to her room because of illness. She lived in an attic apartment on the fifth floor of an old, rundown building. A friend decided to visit her one day and ...read more

  • John The Baptist Lived A Simple Life, Even By ...

    Contributed by Dale Harlow on Dec 17, 2007
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    John the Baptist lived a simple life, even by their standards. In Luke 3 he gives us an important teaching that tends to get eliminated in our society. Luke 3:11 John answered, “The man with two tunics should share with him who has none, and the one who has food should do the same.” Think about ...read more

  • Majority Rules?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    Majority Rules? A rabbi was at odds with his congregation. The president of the synagogue said, "Rabbi, we must have a conference to settle this dispute once and for all." So the rabbi, the president an the ten elders met together to discuss the issue -- but the rabbi soon discovered that he was ...read more

  • A Simple Hose Clamp Causes Failure Of Balloon's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2009
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    A Simple Hose Clamp Causes Failure of Balloon’s Attempt to Circle the Earth Piccard and Richard Conniff writes in National Geographic that on January 12, 1997, two Swiss men, Bertrand Piccard and Wim Verstraeten, set out to be the first to CIRCLE THE EARTH in a balloon. Their aircraft was called ...read more

  • Complicated Directions

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
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    COMPLICATED DIRECTIONS Matt Woodly, a father of four, talks about buying his children a swing set, about 15 years ago, as an early Christmas present. It was an extra long metal set with two swings, a two-seater swinging bench, a slide, monkey bars, and a series of hanging rings. He thought the ...read more