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  • We Need To Understand That When We Share Our ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    We need to understand that when we share our faith, we cannot get discouraged when others do not accept Christ, because there are those in this world that will NEVER accept Christ… I recently read an account of a young Christian in the military who tells about sharing his faith with another ...read more

  • There Was A Man In A Community That Had The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Apr 6, 2007
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    There was a man in a community that had the reputation for always being able to catch fish. Regardless of the time of the year it was, or whether anybody else was catching fish, this man was always managed to come back with a boat load of fish. His brother-in-law, who happened to be a Game Warden ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Most United Methodists Are Aware That One Of Our ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 2, 2002
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    Most United Methodists are aware that one of our practices is the use of unfermented juice of the grape for Holy Communion. While some other Protestant bodies share this practice, the possibility of the practice goes back to the late 19th century and a Methodist dentist named Thomas Bramwell ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • 300,000 Visits For Myself  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
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    300,000 VISITS FOR MYSELF Jimmy Carter, in his autobiography WHY NOT THE BEST? shared an incident that made him aware of his lack of evangelical fervor. Each year the congregation of Plains Baptist Church holds a one-week revival service. In preparation for the week, the leaders of the ...read more

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  • In The Power Of The Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 30, 2002
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    IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT As a young man, Oswald Chambers, who wrote the materials that became My Utmost For His Highest, battled a persistent sense of barrenness in his Christian life. He finally wrote: I was getting desperate. I knew no one who had what I wanted; in fact I did not know what ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Frederick Buechner Was Twenty-Seven And Living ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 19, 2004
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    Frederick Buechner was twenty-seven and living alone in New York trying to start a novel. He tells of going to hear a famous preacher in New York on impulse. He was not a churchgoer, but the church was right next door. It was around the time that Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Joke: Disappointment Is One Of Those Emotions We ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Joke: Disappointment is one of those emotions we would rather avoid. A small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness to the stand in a trial -- a grand-motherly, elderly woman. He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?" She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. ...read more

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  • Who Has Ever Heard The Name, Edward D. Kimball? ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Who has ever heard the name, Edward D. Kimball? Doesn’t ring a bell? Well, let me tell you about him. Many years ago, Mr. Kimball was a Sunday School teacher at Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Chicago. It was a tiny little church, and Mr. Kimball’s class consisted of just a handful of teenage ...read more

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  • There Was A Man In A Community That Had The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,812 views

    There was a man in a community that had the reputation for always being able to catch fish. Regardless of the time of the year it was, or whether anybody else was catching fish, this man was always managed to come back with a boat load of fish. His brother-in-law, who happened to be a Game Warden ...read more

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  • There Are People Who Believe That The Nt Was ...

    Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jan 3, 2008
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    there are people who believe that the NT was written so long after the life of Christ that it is not an accurate reflection of what really happened. In other words, all that Jesus said and did was blown out of proportion- kind of like a myth or a legend. Lee Stobel answers this well in his book The ...read more

    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Peace Child  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    Peace Child In 1962, missionaries named Don and Carol Richardson went to New Guinea to bring the Good News of Christ to a group of people known as the Sawi. The Sawi was a headhunting, cannibalistic tribe who used the skulls of their victims as pillows. He wrote a book about his experience called ...read more

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  • Fight For Joy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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    Fight for Joy John Piper offers 15 Biblical things we must do to fight for joy. (I can only list them today, and commend to you his book, "When I Don’t Desire God.") This list reminds me that faith does not produce inactivity, but God-centered activity: 1) Realize that authentic joy in God is a ...read more

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  • In 1962, Missionaries Named Don And Carol ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    In 1962, missionaries named Don and Carol Richardson went to New Guinea to bring the Good News of Christ to a group of people known as the Sawi. The Sawi was a headhunting, cannibalistic tribe who used the skulls of their victims as pillows. He wrote a book about his experience called "Peace ...read more

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  • Silent When Needed

    Contributed by Wayne Presnell on Feb 10, 2009
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    SILENT WHEN NEEDED In the late 1990’s, our family lived in a split level apartment in Union Township, just north of Cincinnati, OH. It was a great location in many ways: it was close to a major freeway, but not so close that we had to listen to its traffic; it was just five minutes from the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Sifting

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on May 31, 2009
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    *In vs. 31 Jesus told Peter, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.” *Satan is certainly still at work in the world today. Satan wanted to sift Peter, and Christian, you can be sure that he wants to sift us. *In Bible days grain was sifted a couple of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • How Many Christians To Change A Light ...

    Contributed by Michael Carbaugh on Jun 11, 2009
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    How Many Christians to Change a Light bulb? CHARISMATICS: Only 1 - Hands are already in the air. PENTECOSTALS: 10 - One to change the bulb, and nine to pray against the spirit of darkness. PRESBYTERIANS: None - Lights will go on and off at predestined times. ROMAN CATHOLICS: None, they only use ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • I Had Been A Christian Only A Few Months When I ...

    Contributed by James Wallace on Nov 12, 2009
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    I had been a Christian only a few months when I felt compelled to witness to my father. In the midst of the discussion, I remember a question which he blurted out in frustration. He said, “Well, if God exists, why doesn’t He just blow a big hole in the ground or something?” In other words, why ...read more

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    Denomination: Bible Church

  • Chief Justice Of Supreme Court Humble Enough To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2009
     | 3,843 views

    Chief Justice of Supreme Court Humble Enough to Stand Next to a Chinese Laundryman As Christians, we are to trust God the Holy Spirit by being completely humble. Let me share a story which gives us a picture of humility; maybe you will see yourself in this story: When Charles Evans Hughes was ...read more

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  • Eichmann Is In All Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    Eichmann Is In All Of Us In 1960, Israeli undercover agents orchestrated the daring kidnapping of one of the worst of the Holocaust’s masterminds, Adolf Eichmann. After capturing him in his South American hideout, they transported him to Israel to stand trial. There, prosecutors called a string of ...read more

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  • Jesus. The Teacher

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 1, 2010
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    JESUS. THE TEACHER Of all the responsibilities and great offices that Jesus filled, His being a teacher rated near the top, if not at the top. When He gave the Sermon on the Mount, He seated Himself and His disciples came to Him: and He opened His mouth and taught them. Let us think of the ...read more

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