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  • I Want To Begin This Morning By Talking About A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,881 views

    I want to begin this morning by talking about a feud that started towards the end of the civil War in West Virginia and Kentucky. It began in January of 1865 when Harmon McCoy, who had joined the Union army, was found murdered, presumably by a group of men led by William Anderson Hatfield. This ...read more

  • Mistaken For Jesus  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 3, 2009
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     | 6,001 views

    MISTAKEN FOR JESUS Some years ago I heard an interesting story about a young boy living in Paris at the end of the World War II. He had been orphaned by the atrocities committed by the German forces. Now all alone, he was having to scrounge around the ruined city as best as he could to find ...read more

  • He Knows Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
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     | 5,543 views

    HE KNOWS ME David Redding tells of having a big, black Scottish shepherd as a pet when he was growing up on a farm in the country. He named the dog Teddy and they became inseparable companions. Teddy would wait on him to come home from school at the bus stop. Teddy slept at the foot of his bed. ...read more

  • Eat, Drink And Be Merry...?

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Sep 11, 2012
     | 2,350 views

    EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY...? After the "Cold War" was over, a squadron of Russian pilots was invited to participate in tactical war games at a U.S. Air Force base. A gala dinner was planned by the Base Commander. Thinking to relax the guests, he offered a WW II toast to open the meal. Smiling, he ...read more

  • The Peace Prayer Of St. Francis  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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    Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled ...read more

  • Pastor Neimoller A Doctor In Nazi Germany Wrote ...  PRO

    Contributed by Johnny Small on Mar 4, 2002
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    Pastor Neimoller a doctor in Nazi Germany wrote the following poem prior to World War II. It has a message that we need to consider today. In Germany they first came for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up ...read more

  • I Visited The Czechoslovakian Border During The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jul 2, 2002
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    I visited the Czechoslovakian border during the Cold War, when the 7th Armored Cavalry Regiment was responsible to monitor a likely means of invasion into Germany. The 7th ACR maintained a Quick Reaction Force to respond to any incidents or aggression. The QRF had 15 minutes to be in place. I ...read more

  • The Queen Mary Was The Largest Ship To Cross The ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 27, 2003
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    The Queen Mary was the largest ship to cross the oceans when it was launched in 1936. Through four decades and a World War she served until she was retired, anchored as a floating hotel and museum in Long Beach, California. During the conversion, her three massive smokestacks were taken off to be ...read more

  • Admiral Heihachio Togo, Whose Brilliant Tactics ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Admiral Heihachio Togo, whose brilliant tactics had destroyed the Russian fleet at the battle of the Sea of Japan in 1905, visited the United States shortly after the Russo-Japanese War. At a state dinner in Admiral Togo’s honor, William Jennings Bryan was asked to propose a toast. Because Bryan ...read more

  • Sacrifice Is What Milton Olive Iii Was All ...

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Nov 16, 2006
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    Sacrifice is what Milton Olive III was all about! As a Pfc. in the Vietnam War, he and four other soldiers were moving through a Vietnam jungle together when a grenade was thrown into their midst. Pfc. Olive saw the grenade, and then saved the lives of his fellow soldiers at the sacrifice of his ...read more

  • David Limbaugh Has Written A Book Called, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    David Limbaugh has written a book called, Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity, and in it he observed: "It’s one thing for Christophobes to be nervous about Easter and Christmas, given their obvious association with Jesus Christ, but surely holidays like Valentine’s Day ...read more

  • So Many Owed So Much To One  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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    SO MANY OWED SO MUCH TO ONE During World War II’s Battle of Britain, the Royal Air Force’s courageous defense of the skies over Britain foiled Hitler’s plans for an invasion of the British Isles. Afterward, Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in the House of Commons, "Never in the history of ...read more

  • Mistakes And The Certainty Of Son Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 27, 2009
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    Mistakes and the Certainty of Son of Man The late great English theologian and divine, Frederick William Robertson (1816 - 1853), once said, "Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he [or, she] is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest mistakes. Poor mediocrity may ...read more

  • So When That Adversary Learned Of The New Guy On ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 20, 2010
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    So when that Adversary learned of the new guy on the Jordan, whom John had baptized amid some sort of theophany, he did his own research. All these human messiahs had come and gone with a few carefully- placed temptation. Even the great King David had succumbed to a foreign woman bathing next ...read more

  • Water! Water!  PRO

    Contributed by Clarence Clough on Oct 5, 2012
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    "WATER! WATER!" After one of the great battles in the Civil War we were coming down the Tennessee River with a company of wounded men. It was in the spring of the year, and the water was not clear. You know that the cry of a wounded man is, "Water! Water!" especially in a hot country. I remember ...read more

  • Why Do I Give?  PRO

    Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
    based on 128 ratings
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    Why do I give? The first thing that popped into my head was that I don’t want to be a free loader. I know that it costs money to run a church. On average it takes 40 square foot of building space per person that attends church. Multiply that times $100.00 to $150.00 a foot to build and it doesn’t ...read more

  • Prayer's Best Position  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on May 20, 2002
    based on 83 ratings
     | 8,348 views

    PRAYER'S BEST POSITION Three ministers were talking about prayer in general and the appropriate and effective positions for prayer. As they were talking, a telephone repairman was working on the phone system in the background. One minister shared that he felt the key was in the hands. He always ...read more

  • On 29th October Ad 312 The First Roman Emperor ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Aug 22, 2005
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     | 2,602 views

    On 29th October AD 312 the first Roman Emperor converted to the Christian faith, Constantine the Great, entered Rome. He was a worshipper of the sun god, Sol. On 28th October the forces he commanded were trying to conquer Rome. There was a great battle to take a bridge leading to the city. His ...read more

  • Jimmy Long Of Intervarsity Outlined These Nine ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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    Jimmy Long of InterVarsity outlined these nine elements to the Young Leader Network of Leadership Network. A welcoming environment because people are looking for a place to belong. A place of intimate community where people find God and each other. Narrative evangelism that listens to their story ...read more

  • Fewer Than 1 Of Every 10 Born-Again Christians ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 2,108 views

    · Fewer than 1 of every 10 born-again Christians possesses a biblical worldview that impacts his/her decisions and behaviors. · The people who believe Christianity is losing its influence in our society outnumber those who say its gaining influence by more than 3 to 1. 50% of regular worship ...read more