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  • I Begin This Morning With A True Story About True ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    I begin this morning with a true story about true love. He first saw her in Sunday school when he was six and she was just five. Many years later he would recall: "She had golden curls and beautiful blue eyes. I thought she was the most beautiful and the sweetest person on earth." They graduated ...read more

  • Perhaps You've Seen The Commercial On Television ...

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Mar 11, 2007
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    Perhaps you’ve seen the commercial on television advertising one of those lending companies. This nice man with a painted on smile stands surrounded by this nice all-American family, and he says, “I’ve got a beautiful family.” The next scene shows a picture of a big house and the same man says, ...read more

  • There Is A Picture Mounted On One Of The Original ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 5, 2007
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    There is a picture mounted on one of the original Norman pillars of our Church here at St Nicholas’ Church in New Romney, Kent, England. You will find it on the pillar closest to the war memorial at the back of Church and it is about a game of Chess. In the picture, Faust is engaged in a ...read more

  • The Power Of Shame

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    THE POWER OF SHAME I remember how troubled I was after attending the funeral of an old lady who used to be my visitation partner for many years in a two-person team at a former church. Her brother and sister-in-law were deacons at the church. When I heard she had cancer some years after I left, I ...read more

  • Asking For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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    ASKING FOR GUIDANCE I heard a great joke this week about a man who himself had a great joke to share. He was in a dimly lit restaurant and he leaned over to the lady at the table next to him and said, "Hey, would you like to hear a very funny blond joke." The lady replied, "I’m 6’3" blonde and am ...read more

  • Peer Pressure And Flies  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    PEER PRESSURE AND FLIES Once a spider built a beautiful web in an old house. He kept it clean and shiny so that flies would patronize it. The minute he got a "customer" he would clean up after him so the other flies would not get suspicious. Then one day this fairly intelligent fly came buzzing ...read more

  • The Temper Of Andrew Kehoe

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on Apr 16, 2009
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    THE TEMPER OF ANDREW KEHOE Andrew Kehoe was born in 1872. His mother died when he was young and his father remarried. It was reported that Kehoe did not get along very well with this stepmother. Kehoe lived on a farm just outside the village of Bath, Michigan. The community was known as the Bath ...read more

  • So How Do We Avoid Deception? There's Only One ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 27, 2009
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    So how do we avoid deception? There’s only one main way to do that: By studying the truth. I had heard years ago that bank tellers and such are trained to spot counterfeit money by studying the real stuff so much that they can spot the phony stuff right away. I wasn’t sure if that was really ...read more

  • Born Losers

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Apr 28, 2009
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    BORN LOSERS Susan Boyle has taken the world by storm. Here is this middle aged homely spinster who has never been kissed--and she has won the hearts of not only Britain, but nearly everyone in the world. Why is that? Is it because she is such a fantastic singer? I don’t think so. There are ...read more

  • Let Me Just Say That When In My Mother’s ...

    Contributed by Jim Blevins on May 14, 2009
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    Let me just say that when in my mother's house, you do not have to worry about ever moving if you don't want too. I grew up not doing anything around the house. Oh, I worked outside some but my mom was a perfectionist and still is, so we kids never had to do anything because we exploited her desire ...read more

  • No More Rules

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Jun 27, 2009
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    NO MORE RULES More than 28 years ago, before I married Sandy, I was a lousy cook. I could maybe cook hot dogs and beans (out of a can), and those didn’t always turn out so well. That’s because I was confined to a set of instructions called a "cookbook." It was a list of rules and regulations, a ...read more

  • History Is Always A Great Teacher To Those Who ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 2, 2009
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    History is always a great teacher to those who want to learn it’s lessons. Abraham Lincoln knew this and one author had this to say about him. o He was not a born king of men…but a child of the common people, who made himself a great persuader, therefore a leader, by dint of firm resolve, patient ...read more

  • A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    AMAZING In 1997, Reeve Lindbergh, daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh, was invited to give the annual Lindbergh Address at the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum to commemorate the 70th anniversary of her father’s historic solo flight across the Atlantic. On the day of the speech, ...read more

  • Miraculous Protection Of Matt And Lora Higgens ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2009
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    Miraculous Protection of Matt and Lora Higgens during the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya in 1960 in Answer to Prayer In 1960, the Mau Mau uprising gripped Kenya. During that time, missionaries Matt and Lora Higgens had to drive through hostile territory on their way to Nairobi, well aware that many had ...read more

  • A Farmer Plants Sour Apples Near Edge Of Orchard ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 3, 2009
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    A Farmer Plants Sour Apples Near Edge of Orchard To Camouflage The Sweet Ones in the Middle A farmer repeatedly invited his neighbor to come over to his orchard and pick some apples and make fresh, sweet apple cider. The neighbor kept turning down the offer. Finally, the farmer asked why the ...read more

  • In The Spring Of 1851, He Accepted A Newly ...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 8, 2009
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    In the spring of 1851, he accepted a newly created teaching position at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), in Lexington, Virginia. He became Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Instructor of Artillery. Despite the high quality of his work, he was not popular as a teacher. His ...read more

  • A True Story About Frank Abagnale Jr. Who, Before ...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 28, 2009
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    A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. Eventually he was caught in France in 1969 when an Air France attendant recognized his face from a wanted poster. When the ...read more

  • Evans On The Virgin Birth

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2009
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    EVANS ON THE VIRGIN BIRTH Dr. William Evans, who pastored College Church from 1906-1909, was an unusually accomplished man. He had the entire King James Version of the Bible memorized as well as the New Testament of the American Standard Version. Dr. Evans also authored over fifty books. His son, ...read more

  • How To Get Attention  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    HOW TO GET ATTENTION This is the story of George Phillips of Mississippi, who was going to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the shed. George opened the door to go turn off the light but saw there were people in the shed in the process of stealing things. He immediately ...read more

  • Who's Educating Our Kids?

    Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Mar 10, 2010
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    WHO'S EDUCATING OUR KIDS? Now here's the thing. Often times we will tell ourselves, "Well it's the church's job to give my children a religious education, and it's the schools job to educate my children in other matters. And the Church will balance out the secular. But let me show you something ...read more