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  • In 1871, Tragedy Struck Chicago As Fire Ravaged ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In 1871, tragedy struck Chicago as fire ravaged the city. When it was all over, 300 people were dead and 100,000 were homeless. Horatio Gates Spafford was one of those who tried to help the people of the city get back on their feet. A lawyer who had invested much of his money into the downtown ...read more

  • Value In Work, Or Motherhood?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,560 views

    VALUE IN WORK, OR MOTHERHOOD? In a May 2005 report, USA Today says mothers enjoy their work as mothers, but they would like to feel more valued. 1 in 5 mother’s who took the survey say they feel less valued by society since becoming a mother. The survey was conducted by the University of ...read more

  • Work In God's Kingdom  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 23, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,349 views

    WORK IN GOD’S KINGDOM John Stott tells a joke against his vocation: a clefgyman is the last person in the world to write about work. For, as everybody knows, he has not done an honest day’s work in his life. As the old saying goes, he is ‘six days invisible and one day incomprehensible!’ The ...read more

  • Accidents In The Work Zone

    Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Mar 30, 2007
     | 1,863 views

    A news story out of St. Louis last year began… "He was a loving father and loved his grandkids," Linda Heath never imagined Wednesday would mark the first time she referred to her husband of 31 years in the past tense.” On April 26, 2006 Henry Heath was killed while directing traffic in a ...read more

  • Christianity Is Not Devotion To Work, Or To A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    "Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a ...read more

  • The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Not The Work Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 3,180 views

    The fruit of the Spirit is not the work of the believer. It is the work of Christ in his soul... That is being done in him and through him by the Lord Himself. It may be noted that the apple grows on the apple tree; the orchard owner does not ...read more

  • Working Hard At Complaining  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,280 views

    WORKING HARD AT COMPLAINING There was a lady who lived alone in a suburban apartment complex. Upset at the noise from the adjacent apartment that she claimed was disturbing her, she immediately picked up the phone and called her landlord. “You need to get up here right away,” she told him. “There ...read more

  • An Honest Day's Work  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
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    AN HONEST DAY'S WORK The USS Astoria (C-34) was the first U.S. cruiser to engage the Japanese during the Battle of Savo Island, a night action fought 8-9 August 1942. Although she scored two hits on the Imperial flagship Chokai, the Astoria was badly damaged and sank shortly after noon, 9 ...read more

  • A New Work Schedule  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 2, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
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    A NEW WORK SCHEDULE A union shop steward is addressing a union meeting... "Comrades. We have agreed on a new deal with the management. We will no longer work four days a week." "Hooray!", goes the crowd. "We will finish work at 4 PM, not 5 PM." "Hooray!", goes the crowd, again. "We will ...read more

  • I Work For Him

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jun 11, 2003
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    John Kenneth Gailbraith, in his autobiography, A Life In Our Times, illustrates the devotion of Emily Gloria Wilson, his family's housekeeper. It had been a wearying day, and I asked Emily to hold all telephone calls while I had a nap. Shortly thereafter the phone rang. Lyndon Johnson was ...read more

  • I Was Working In A Hospital In The ...

    Contributed by Randall Mitchell, Sr. on Jun 1, 2007
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    ILLUSTRATION: I was working in a hospital in the Facility Safety Department as the night supervisor. I received a call from the E.R. nurse that they needed someone to watch a patient in one of the rooms. The man wanted to leave because, as he said, "I just have a scratch." The man couldn’t see ...read more

  • Work For The Night Is Coming

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Work for the Night is Coming (Anna Coghill) Work, for the night is coming, Work through the morning hours; Work while the dew is sparkling, Work ’mid springing flowers; Work when the day grows brighter, Work in the glowing sun; Work, for the night is coming, When man’s work is done. Work, for the ...read more

  • There Is Time For Work. And There Is Time For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    There is time for work. And there is time for love. That ...read more

  • It Was Not The Matter Of The Work, But The Mind ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,471 views

    "It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that countedand the man who was not content to do small ...read more

  • Works Vs. Fruit  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 15, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
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    WORKS VS. FRUIT A machine in a factory works and turns out a product, but it could never manufacture "fruit." Fruit must grow out of life, and, in the case of the believer, it is the life of the Spirit (Gal. 5:25). When you think of "works," you think of effort, labor, strain, and toil; when you ...read more

  • Hard Work Is Worth It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    HARD WORK IS WORTH IT The story is told of a nursery worker about to plant a number of young saplings, some straight and some crooked, thus reasoned with himself – "These straight saplings will no doubt grow up to be fine trees without much attention on my part; but I will see if, by proper ...read more

  • Work Completed In Due ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    WORK COMPLETED IN DUE SEASON Adoniram Judson clearly was appointed by the Holy Spirit to minister the Word of God to the heathen. He reached Calcutta in the summer of 1812, ready to preach the Gospel, however was given orders to get out. He was saddened and could not understand how an effectual ...read more

  • All That Work For What?

    Contributed by Tim White on Jun 19, 2009
     | 1,187 views

    ALL THAT WORK FOR WHAT? In November 1975, 75 convicts started digging a secret tunnel designed to bring them up at the other side of the wall of Saltillo Prison in northern Mexico. On April 18, 1976, guided by pure genius, they tunneled up into the nearby courtroom in which many of them ...read more

  • Cleaning Is Hard Work

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 20, 2009
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    CLEANING IS HARD WORK When I was in Bible College. Fridays were not fun. Those were the nights we had "work sections." You heard me -- "work sections." We changed out of our holy threads to work-clothes and started cleaning the College, from scrubbing potatoes to scrubbing floors. And none of this ...read more

  • Fruitfulness As God's Work  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,283 views

    FRUITFULNESS AS GOD’S WORK A few years ago, the Associated Press released a study done by an agricultural school in Iowa. It reported that production of 100 bushels of corn from one acre of land, in addition to the many hours of the farmer’s labor, required 4,000,000 pounds of water, 6,800 pounds ...read more

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