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  • Bill Bradley Was The Basketball Star Of The 1964 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Bill Bradley was the basketball star of the 1964 Olympics. Someone said to him, “I wish I could shoot baskets like you.” Bradley replied, “Would you stay in one place until you hit 24 consecutive baskets?” That can apply to almost any ministry. Practice makes perfect in almost ...read more

  • J. Wilbur Chapman Was A Great Preacher Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    J. Wilbur Chapman was a great preacher of the past but he wasn’t always that way When he started preaching in one church, the leaders got together and said, “This man can’t preach for sour grapes. We’re going to have to fire him.” The chairman of the board asked who would go tell him that he was ...read more

  • A Guest Preacher Was Speaking About "Seeing Jesus ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 4, 2008
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    A guest preacher was speaking about “seeing Jesus in others” when God used Meghan as a living illustration of someone who had surrendered everything to Jesus as part of her community of faith. During the worship set, Meghan spontaneously went to the front of the church and began dancing…wildly. ...read more

  • The Great Divide Between Jew And Gentile Was ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 18, 2008
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    The great divide between Jew and Gentile was symbolized by the wall in Herod’s Temple that separated the outer court of the Gentiles from the inner Courts of Israel. Gates leading into those inner precincts were posted with signs warning that Gentile trespassers would be killed. In fact, the Book ...read more

  • Gracious Father, I Humbly Beseech Thee For Thy ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 8, 2008
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    “Gracious Father, I humbly beseech thee for thy Holy Catholic Church; fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purge it; where it is in error, direct it; where it is superstitious, rectify it; where anything is amiss, reform it; where it is right, strengthen and ...read more

  • Did You Hear About The Story Of The Great ...

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Dec 9, 2008
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    Did you hear about the story of the GREAT ARGUMENT... FIVE FINGERS GOT TOGETHER AND IN A HEATED DISCUSSION THE ARGUMENT AROSE: WHO IS THE GREATEST OF THE FIVE FINGERS? The THUMB laid his claim: I am the greatest, I am the only opposing digit. I am used to HITCHHIKE. The INDEX FINGER... I am the ...read more

  • John ...

    Contributed by Michael Wiley on Jan 7, 2009
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    John 3:16 Introduction: Finished Shopping? What kind of gifts are you looking for? We look for gifts for Christmas that show our love for others. Joke; one man asked another, “what are you getting your wife?” “I’ll wrap myself.” “I’m not getting my wife much either.” ILL Little Sammy Williams ...read more

  • The Bridge ...

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Feb 23, 2009
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    THE BRIDGE BUILDER (Unknown) An old man, going down a lonely highway, Came at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and wide, Through which was flowing a swollen tide, The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The swollen stream had no fear for him. But he turned when safe on the other ...read more

  • The God Squad

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 26, 2009
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    THE GOD SQUAD This week, we finished remodeling our old house and started moving into our new house. But last Monday I threw my back out while working on the house. I was frustrated and hurting. But the pain was not as bad as the feeling of not being able to finish my tasks which what I wanted to ...read more

  • Binding Sticks  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 12, 2009
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    BINDING STICKS One of Aesop’s fables is about a father who had seven sons. To each son he gave a stick. Each was asked to break his stick, which was easily done. Then the father took seven other sticks and bound them together. He than ask the seven sons to break the sticks. Not one of the sons ...read more

  • Book Of Ezra. The Idea Was That They Gathered In ...

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 12, 2010
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    Book of Ezra. The idea was that they gathered in unity for the same purpose. Unity is one of the basic foundations for accomplishing a work for God (Phil 2:1-4). Lack of unity is one of the ...read more

  • Shooting At The Saints

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    SHOOTING AT THE SAINTS It is said that when the British and French were fighting in Canada in the 1750s, Admiral Phipps was the commander of the British fleet. He was given orders to anchor outside Quebec. His orders were to wait for the British land forces to arrive, then support them when they ...read more

  • Response To Hurting People  PRO

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 3, 2011
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    RESPONSE TO HURTING PEOPLE In his book Soul Talk, Larry Crabb writes: "Which is worse? A church program to build community that doesn’t get off the ground or one person sitting every Sunday in the back of the church who remains unknown? A Sunday school class that once drew hundreds but has now ...read more

  • Musalaha In Jerusalem

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 30, 2011
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    MUSALAHA IN JERUSALEM Musalaha is a charity in the Holy Land working for reconciliation. It is an Arabic word that means "reconciliation" and I recently received this communication from the head of Musalaha - Salim Munayer, who writes: At the end of 2010, more than 150 people assembled, stood ...read more

  • When We Come Together

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2011
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    WHEN WE COME TOGETHER Dr. J. Vernon McGee told a story about a little community where there were three churches on the same corner, a Presbyterian church, Methodist church and Baptist church. One Sunday night, all the windows were open and they could hear each other singing. They didn't get along ...read more

  • If We'd Only Joined Hands Sooner  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2011
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    IF WE'D ONLY JOINED HANDS SOONER A number of years ago in Canada, a little two-year-old girl wandered away from her neighborhood. It was a cold, winter day. Her parents alerted the neighbors and they saw some tracks in the snow, but there were a lot of other tracks, so for several hours the ...read more

  • Teamwork Is The Ability To Work Together Toward ...

    Contributed by Gary Kelly on Nov 16, 2011
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    “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that ...read more

  • Crossing The Line

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on May 15, 2012
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    CROSSING THE LINE A business training exercise shows how people from different cultures look at the same task in different ways. A leader draws an imaginary line on the floor, and puts one person on each side. The purpose is to get one person to convince the other, without force, to cross the ...read more

  • A Single Snow Flake That Looks Beautiful And ...

    Contributed by Francis Balla on Aug 24, 2012
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    "A single snow flake that looks beautiful and innocent. If it remains on its own it can easily fly away or quickly melt away. On it’s own it does no harm and poses no threat to any one does it? But when it unites with other snow flakes, they gain more strength and power. Those of us who live in ...read more

  • Let Me Read One Of Aesop’s Greek Fables; In ...

    Contributed by Francis Balla on Aug 24, 2012
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    Let me read one of Aesop’s Greek fables; In the forest, there lived four oxen. They were very good friends and always went together to graze in the fields. However, every time they went, a hungry lion tried to attack them. The lion longed for their meat. But they withstood his attack by fighting ...read more