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  • One Of The Golfers On The Pro Tour Some Years Ago ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    One of the golfers on the pro tour some years ago was a pompous egomaniac with the emotional maturity of a six-year-old. He could do nothing wrong and always had a quick excuse for any loss: it was a lousy course, the other golfers were cheating, the weather was terrible, etc. As if these faults ...read more

  • God Calls You To The World  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 15, 2006
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    God Calls You To The World “Where are you?” the stranger said. I didn’t understand, “What do you mean? I am right here.” “But where is that?” he persisted. “Right here on the planet earth,” I said. He went on: “Who put you here?” “I’m proud to say that God did, of course.” The stranger smiled, “Who ...read more

  • The Sinner's Prayer

    Contributed by James Chandler on Mar 19, 2007
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    I once visited the practice of a College basketball coach who coached for Bobby Knight, Coach K from Duke. At the end of his practice he “shared” Christ. He led them in the Sinners prayer. The problem that I have with the Sinner’s ...read more

  • Bill Bright, Founder And President, Campus ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Bill Bright, founder and president, Campus Crusade for Christ - I know two law partners who used to hate each other. When one became a Christian, he asked me, "Now that I’m a Christian, what should I do?" I said, "Why not ask him to forgive you and tell him you love him?" "I could never do that" he ...read more

  • The Bible Is Similar To That Scenario. Many ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Bible is similar to that scenario. Many writers, from many different backgrounds, writing over a period of 1500 years, but all writing about the same man - - Jesus. And that is why the Bible is unique. That is why the Bible stands out among every other religious book we have. But how can it ...read more

  • If We Want The Respect Of Others, We Must Also ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    If we want the respect of others, we must also give them the respect they deserve. This is a lesson that Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa learned at a very young age. When he was a child growing up in South Africa, Racism was still a big problem. If a black person and a white person met while ...read more

  • We Seem To Have An Almost Infinite Capacity For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    We seem to have an almost infinite capacity for making excuses. In the book, The Sports Hall of Shame, a place kicker for the Dallas Cowboys named Raphael Septian is mentioned. He was a good kicker, but he was an even better master at making excuses when he missed a kick. For example, when he was ...read more

  • There's A Story About A Rich Man Who Loved ...

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jul 10, 2007
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    There’s a story about a rich man who loved horses. So he bought about a dozen beautiful, powerful horses. He hired a man to coach and train the horses. The guy happened to be inept and wasn’t very passionate about training horses. After a couple of weeks the horses were getting dull and lazy and ...read more

  • Here's How Several Elementary School Students ...  PRO

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 22, 2007
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    Here’s how several elementary school students answered the following questions about moms: Why did God make mothers? • She’s the only one who knows where the Scotch tape is. • Mostly to clean the house. • To help us out of there when we were getting born. How did God make mothers? • He used ...read more

  • The Battle Is Not To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    THE BATTLE IS NOT TO THE STRONG A few centuries before Christ, Alexander the Great conquered almost all of the known world with his military strength, cleverness, and diplomacy. One day, Alexander and a small company of soldiers approached a strongly defended, walled city. Alexander, standing ...read more

  • What He Heard His Wife Say,

    Contributed by Tim Harlow on May 13, 2009
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    WHAT HE HEARD HIS WIFE SAY, "You’re way too stupid to be trusted driving alone in bad weather at your age." WHAT SHE ACTUALLY SAID, "Drive carefully, dear." WHAT HE HEARD HIS WIFE SAY, "Honey, why don’t you put your head in a vice and I’ll turn the handle until your skull explodes." WHAT SHE ...read more

  • The Bible Is The Blueprints

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Aug 5, 2011
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    THE BIBLE IS THE BLUEPRINTS Can you build a real house without blueprints? Sure you can throw up a square storage shed maybe without them, but do you not need to have some kind of visual plan of the dimensions, how many rooms, where the rooms go, and so on in order to start building an actual ...read more

  • What Is Not God's Will

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Oct 7, 2011
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    WHAT IS NOT GOD'S WILL Sometimes we want things we know is not God's will. Jay Kesler wrote of a time when he caused an auto accident. He prayed that it did not happen, but it did. I know how the young Jay Kesler felt. I've done things that I wanted to undo and said things that I wanted to ...read more

  • The Old Man And The Savior

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Nov 9, 2011
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    THE OLD MAN AND THE SAVIOR Jan Weinert wrote: "The old man came into the service shortly after it started. He sat at the end of my row, with two vacant seats between us. A noticeable hearing aid was in his ear, and he held the bulletin up to within inches of his thick glasses to try to read it. As ...read more

  • God Is For Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2012
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    GOD IS FOR US Keith Hartsell of Wheaton, Illinois, was driving around with a friend of his in California, when he noticed that his friend's cell phone was locked with an unusual password -- pro nobis. Keith asked him what pro nobis meant and why he chose that for a password. Keith's friend told ...read more

  • A Preacher's Little Girl Went To Bed Sick One ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    A preacher's little girl went to bed sick one evening. A few minutes later she got up and said to her mother, "Mama, I must see daddy right now." Her mama replied, "Honey, you can't talk to daddy right now. He's working on his sermon." She said, "Mother! I'm a sick woman and I must see my ...read more

  • Not Any ...

    Contributed by Alan Kraft on Jan 8, 2009
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    NOT ANY EXPERIENCE Doug Roberts, a contributor to Glamour magazine, once wrote: "One of the things I love about [porn] is that it’s sex with anybody I want: Halle Berry, the weather woman, the blond who brushed against me on the subway...I can summon any one or two of these ladies for a romp ...read more

  • Surrounded By Idiots

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 10, 2021
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    Do you ever feel like you are surrounded by idiots? One web site collected stories… I was signing the receipt for my credit card purchase when the clerk noticed that I had never signed my name on the back of the credit card. She informed me that she could not complete the transaction ...read more

  • God's View Of People

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Nov 16, 2022
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    Genesis 8:15-22 Devotional After the flood had dried up, God instructed Noah (v15) and Noah obeyed (v16). Isn’t it interesting that we note birds from the ark but not fish…. Noah, did you keep fish in the ark??? – either he kept fish in the ark or God kept fish in the clouds or God recreated ...read more

  • Hudson Taylor And True Friendship

    Contributed by Rolando Delgado on Sep 22, 2010
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    HUDSON TAYLOR AND TRUE FRIENDSHIP (Translation follows) Hay una breve reflexión sobre esto en la vida de Hudson Taylor. Después de haber estado largo tiempo en China, lejos de su país y de su esposa, él vino a casa y su esposa lo fue a recibir al barco. Tomaron un transporte juntos, y, desde ...read more