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  • I Owe My Life Twice

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 17, 2011
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    I OWE MY LIFE TWICE A wealthy English family once invited friends to spend some time at their beautiful estate. The happy occasion was almost plunged into a terrible tragedy on the first day. Because the children went swimming, and one of them got into deep water and started drowning. ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren

  • How Did You Become A Christian?  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 21, 2011
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    HOW DID YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN? A couple of years ago a 22-year-old woman spent the night at our house before flying out of San Antonio to return to her country of China. She was a Chinese Christian who had come to America to translate some Christian literature into Chinese for the house churches ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Longing

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 15, 2012
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    LONGING In his book The Spiritual Life of Children, the famous Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles tells the story of Alice, a ten-year-old girl who came from a family that did not believe in God. She expressed her doubts to him with these words: "I remember... I saw the people next door coming ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • What This Thing Is About

    Contributed by Randy Stephenson on Jan 15, 2012
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    WHAT THIS THING IS ABOUT In "The Green Berets," the crying child mouths those weighty words, "What will happen to me now?" Captain Kirby quickly takes the child’s hand and leads him off, speaking words of ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • A Far, Far Better Thing

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 29, 2012
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    A FAR, FAR BETTER THING In Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, the young Frenchman Charles Darnay was condemned to die by the guillotine. When Sidney Carton learned of his friend’s situation, he determined to lay down his life in place of his friend. He determined to do this, not because he ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • A King's Ransom

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 7, 2012
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    A KING'S RANSOM I Timothy 2:6 says Jesus "gave himself as a ransom." A ransom is a price paid to purchase someone's freedom. In 1193, the English King Richard I, also known as Richard the Lionheart, was returning from leading a Crusade to the Holy Land. As he returned through Europe, Leopold V ...read more

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  • The Most Watched Rescue Mission In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 27, 2012
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    THE MOST WATCHED RESCUE MISSION IN HISTORY "Estamos bien en el refugio, los 33. " ("We are well IN THE SHELTER, the 33.") That seven-word message set off a wave of euphoria in Chile and around the world. It had been written in red letters on a scrap of paper and taped to a drill bit that penetrated ...read more

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  • Jesus Christ Asks Each One Of Us, Not For ...

    Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
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    "Jesus Christ asks each one of us, not for obedience primarily, not for repentance, not for vows, not for conduct, but for a heart; and that being given, all the rest will ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • The Power Of Love A Force From Above ...

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Dec 17, 2012
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    The power of love a force from above that’s cleanses your soul, that’s saves and restores that opens the eyes of the blind, that gives the deaf hearing and free’s the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Our Greatest Need

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Dec 20, 2012
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    If we were to go out on the streets and ask people at random, “What is your greatest need?” we would probably get a number of different responses. We wouldn’t be surprised in this economy if we got several answers of people needing a job so they could provide for their home and family. If people ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • So The Blind Could See  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Mar 27, 2013
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     | 2,619 views

    SO THE BLIND COULD SEE There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend. One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • The Light Racing To Save Us

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Mar 31, 2013
     | 3,048 views

    THE LIGHT RACING TO SAVE US One of the most tragic stories of WW2 involves the tale of the survivors of the sunken USS Indianapolis. The ship went down in the last days of the war and the survivors remained unaccounted for five days. Many were in the water for that time with nothing more than a ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • The Sailboat Redemption

    Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 2, 2013
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    THE SAILBOAT REDEMPTION The story is told of a little boy who built a sailboat. He built the sail and had it all fixed up, tarred and painted. He took it to the lake and pushed it in hoping it would sail. Sure enough a wisp of breeze filled the little sail and it billowed and went rippling along ...read more

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  • The Cost To Cure Rebellion

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2013
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    THE COST TO CURE REBELLION "It cost God nothing, as far as we know, to create nice things, but to convert our rebellious wills, it cost Him crucifixion." C.S. Lewis (From a sermon by ...read more

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  • In A Hurry  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A news story out of St. Louis last year began… "He was a loving father and loved his grandkids," Linda Heath never imagined Wednesday would mark the first time she referred to her husband of 31 years in the past tense.” On April 26, 2006 Henry Heath was killed while directing traffic in a ...read more

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  • Also Put On Gentleness. The Word Is "Meekness". ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Also put on gentleness. The word is “meekness”. That’s not weakness, it’s strength under control. When I was working in dairy farm construction, our crew put in a comfort-stall barn for an Amish family in Indiana. There were children all over the place ranging in age from older teens to toddlers. I ...read more

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  • Reformation's Two Martins

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Reformation’s Two Martins At the beginning of the Reformation, Martin of Basle came to a knowledge of the truth, but, afraid to make a public confession, he wrote on a leaf of parchment: “O most merciful Christ, I know that I can be saved only by the merit of thy blood. Holy Jesus, I acknowledge ...read more

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  • One Woman Who Went To Church All The Time Would ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One woman who went to church all the time would always say, “I was ALWAYS a Christian. There was never a time that I was not a Christian. I didn’t NEED to get saved.” This is not scriptural because Romans ...read more

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  • Gladyce, A Widow, Attended Church Faithfully ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 3,491 views

    Gladyce, a widow, attended church faithfully every Sunday. She would get there about 20 minutes early to sit and pray. This was her ritual. Just her and Jesus. She had been doing this for years. Then one Sunday a new family sat behind her. This was disturbing. She said, “Oh, well, they’re visitors ...read more

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  • Our Christian Lives Is Summed Up In This Old ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Our Christian lives is summed up in this old English hymn. This is the message of Romans 3:20-31 Lord I was blind - 1856 Lord, I was blind: I could not see In Thy marred visage any grace; But now the beauty of Thy face In radiant vision dawns on me. Lord, I was deaf: I could not hear The ...read more

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