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  • A Couple Found A Beautiful Log House In Color...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2008
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    A couple found a beautiful log house in Colorado that was high in the mountains. It had a beautiful view, and they had their heart set on buying it. They prayed about the house, but one thing after another went wrong. The timing was not right, their financing didn’t go through. They had prayed ...read more

  • Ideas Of Other People

    Contributed by Samuel Wilder on Nov 10, 2008
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    IDEAS OF OTHER PEOPLE Thomas A. Edison, the great inventor, was talking one day with the governor of North Carolina, and the governor complimented him on his inventive genius. "I am not a great inventor," said Edison. "But you have over a thousand patents to your credit, haven’t you?" asked the ...read more

  • Hell Should Break Your Heart

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
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    HELL SHOULD BREAK YOUR HEART It is difficult for any of us to receive a hard truth, however necessary it may be for us to hear it. But it is always much easier to hear it if it is told in love. Pastor and author Ray Stedman tells of a congregation that had dismissed its pastor. Someone asked a ...read more

  • What Would You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    WHAT WOULD YOU DO? "Here’s the scenario," the instructor announced to his class of novice truck drivers. "You’re in an 18-wheeler with a heavy load, barreling down a mountainous two-lane highway. Ed, your co-driver, is asleep. There are six trucks behind you, and as you come over the top of a ...read more

  • What Is Love, As Defined By The Online ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 17, 2009
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    “What is love, as defined by the online world? Resisting a YouTube video of the 1993 hit song, the first click plunges you into a world of pink carnation- tainted tackiness. The website’s designer no doubt spends all afternoon baking cookies, sending chain emails and sighing at the "Home Sweet ...read more

  • Who Told You It's The Word Of God?

    Contributed by Sharon Stonestreet on Mar 2, 2009
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    WHO TOLD YOU IT'S THE WORD OF GOD? A young woman who was soundly converted immediately began to read her Bible. A friend who disbelieved the Scriptures and took delight in ridiculing them asked her, "Why do you spend so much time reading a book like that?" "Because it’s the Word of God," replied ...read more

  • Just As Afraid Of You...?

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 22, 2009
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    JUST AS AFRAID OF YOU...? The late great trumpet player Louis Armstrong tells a story about while growing up in Louisiana, having to go down to the pond and getting water for Allie May. He gets down there and is about to scoop the water out of the pond, and all of the sudden coming out of the ...read more

  • Looking For Answers  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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    LOOKING FOR ANSWERS Sometimes we look in the wrong places to find answers. The story is told of a drunk who was seen by a police officer looking for something. The drunk was down on his hands and knees and explained in slurred speech to the police officer that he was looking for his wallet. The ...read more

  • Where Else Could I Go?

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 9, 2009
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    WHERE ELSE COULD I GO? "My little boy gave me a great awakening," said an intelligent and spiritually-minded mother. "Jimmy is getting to an age when he often wants to try his own way instead of mine. Then he generally meets with a difficulty that hurts his feelings, and he comes at once to me ...read more

  • In James 5:15, God Promises Us That A Prayer ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on May 26, 2009
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    In JAMES 5:15, God promises us that a prayer offered in true faith will even make the sick person well. Let’s take that model of prayer and hold it up against the way we pray today. Most of us, being honest, pray something like this: ‘God I want you to make me well.’ And then in the back of our ...read more

  • Something Better Down The Road  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    SOMETHING BETTER DOWN THE ROAD A football game was being played in Badger Stadium in 1982 in Madison, Wisconsin with more than 60,000 fans in attendance. The home team was losing. But out of the blue during time outs, when play was a at stop, the fans would jump up and roar with excitement. Why? ...read more

  • John Macarthur On Forgiveness

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 22, 2009
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    JOHN MACARTHUR ON FORGIVENESS John MacArthur gives us reasons why we need to forgive in his book and series, The Art of Giving and Receiving Forgiveness. a. Un-forgiveness imprisons people in the past. i. I always say don’t let the past dictate the future. b. Un-forgiveness provokes ...read more

  • Dale Carnegie In Yellowstone  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009
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    DALE CARNEGIE IN YELLOWSTONE Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. This command is again repeated by Paul to the Colossians in 3:13, 13Bear with each other and forgive... The alternative to forgiveness is bitterness and ...read more

  • Purpose In Life, Nate Saint And Joan Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 8, 2009
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    Purpose In Life, Nate Saint and Joan of Arc Nate Saint said, “People who do not know the Lord ask why we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget they too are expending their lives, and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have ...read more

  • Four Christmases

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 7, 2009
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    FOUR CHRISTMASES Four Christmases is a movie (I haven’t seen it) about one couple who has to go to 4 Christmas celebrations; One for her mother, one for her father, one for his mother, one for his father because all of them are divorced. Does anyone see a problem with this? However, for many ...read more

  • We Look For God In Tangible Ways – New Job, ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 4, 2010
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    We look for God in tangible ways – new job, any job, or our answers for healing prayer. We strain to see a favourable solution to a tough situation we’re asking God to deal with. When things begin to work out the way we expected we give him credit and praise him for what he’s doing. But when the ...read more

  • Ordinary People Talking. And That's How It Should ...

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Apr 8, 2010
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    Ordinary people talking. And that’s how it should be. Look at our reading. Jesus invested a lot of time in his 12 disciples. He invested even more in the four key disciples; Peter, Andrew,James and John. Yet it wasn’t the four who first asked to tell the people the good news of the resurection It ...read more

  • Roman Soldier Shares Coat With A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2010
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    Roman Soldier Shares Coat with a Beggar Martin of Tours was a Roman soldier and a Christian. One cold winter day, as he was entering a city, a beggar stopped him and asked for alms. Martin had no money; but the beggar was blue and shivering with cold and Martin gave what he had. He took off his ...read more

  • In The Last 5,500 Years Our World Has Only Seen ...

    Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
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    In the last 5,500 years our world has only seen 292 years of peace. Over 14,000 wars have caused nearly 4 billion deaths. According to recent reports, stress-related claims rose 700% since the 80′s; in fact, 3 out of 5 doctor visits are stress-related. All kinds of factors today contribute ...read more

  • Priority Of The Word (As Seen In Ezra)

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 12, 2010
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    PRIORITY OF THE WORD (AS SEEN IN EZRA) "There is an application here for us. What men say and think is not important. The Scriptures are all-sufficient and contain all of the instruction that is needed for the guidance of those who would be faithful to God in any particular period of church ...read more