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  • Genesis 37: God Knew Joseph Needed A Pit Stop If ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 3, 2007
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    Genesis 37: God knew Joseph needed a Pit Stop if his dreams were ever going to become reality. It makes me think of a young couple who had life going along just like they’d Dreamed. They were happily married with 2 good jobs and 2 healthy little children. Then --- unexpectedly of course --- ...read more

  • About 20 Years Back, I Had A Dream Of Going To ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 3, 2007
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    About 20 years back, I had a dream of going to India as a missionary. I’d visited there several times and felt a calling to work with the South India Church of Christ Mission. I was especially close to a young preacher named Ragu. But that vision died when Susan and I got our request for Visa’s ...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

  • Pastor Florescu, Jesus ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    PASTOR FLORESCU, JESUS FREAK The Communist torturers came towards Pastor Florescu again, this time with red-hot iron pokers. "Who else believes as you do? Give us their names." Florescu would not speak. They had already cut him again and again with knives and beaten him very badly. When he ...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

  • Your God Is Too ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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    YOUR GOD IS TOO SAFE The words that Mark Buchanan wrote of his own experience in his book entitled "Your God Is Too Safe." He wrote that when he was saved, "I hit the ground running. Immediately, I volunteered for everything, anything, that I felt vaguely interested in and marginally qualified ...read more

  • A Bad ...

    Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
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    A BAD BOY I once heard of a father who had a prodigal boy, and the boy had sent his mother down to the grave with a broken heart. One evening the boy started out as usual to spend the night in drinking and gambling, and his old father, as he was leaving, said, "My son, I want to ask a favor of you ...read more

  • What Do You See?  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Jul 7, 2009
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    WHAT DO YOU SEE? I don’t know if you’ve heard of Scott Ginsburg, but he is known for something very strange. As of today, he has worn a "Hello my name is..." tag for 3140 days. On one occasion he had given a speech to an employee group in South Dakota and told how he started wearing the name tag. ...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

  • Misconceptions

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 3, 2009
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    Jesus confronts all those misconceptions and says you can pray, this is how you do it (“Our Father”), and God does hear you. God is not out to punish you or play tricks on you by giving you poison when you need and ask for food. You don’t have to jump through all these man-made hoops. Ask, seek, ...read more

  • Violinist Hoped To Pleases His Father With His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2009
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    Violinist Hoped To Pleases His Father With His Performance More Than the Audience Paul was not a man pleaser, but a bondservant of Christ. His message had not changed and would not change to accommodate men. As the servant of Christ, he preached the truth revealed to him by Christ. His objective in ...read more

  • Swindoll On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    Swindoll on Time Swindoll stated this in His book Living on the Ragged Edge and its focus is about the importance of our time: Every morning someone who loves you very much deposits into your bank of time 86,400 seconds of time-which represents 1,440 minutes-which, of course, equal twenty-four ...read more

  • Jewish Marriages Often Were Prearranged. The ...

    Contributed by Jorge Acevedo on Feb 17, 2010
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    Jewish marriages often were prearranged. The young man and his father would negotiate a price for the girl with her dad (mohar). You could say the purchase price was sort of the engagement ring. Once the price was settled the couple was engaged and once engaged they were considered married but ...read more

  • No Hate For Evil

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 10, 2010
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    NO HATE FOR EVIL Story taken from Dr. David Jeremiah: The Ortiz family ministers to a small congregation in Ariel, about 40 miles north of Jerusalem. On the Feast of Purim, gifts of food and drink are sent to friends. As if in celebration of the holiday, a gift basket was delivered to the Ortiz ...read more

  • Tim Stafford Of "Christianity Today” ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 3, 2010
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    Tim Stafford of “Christianity Today” magazine said (September 14, 1992, p. 36): A pastor I know, Stephey Belynskyj, starts each confirmation class with a jar full of beans. He asks his students to guess how many beans are in the jar, and on a big pad of paper writes down their estimates. Then, ...read more

  • Cowardice Never Wins Against Temptation, Only ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010
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    Cowardice Never Wins Against Temptation, Only Courage On May 21, 1946 in Los Alamos, NM, a young and daring scientist, Louis Slotin, was carrying out a necessary experiment in preparation for the atomic test to be conducted in the waters of the South Pacific. He had successfully performed the ...read more

  • The Gifts In The Fries

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jul 8, 2010
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    THE GIFTS IN THE FRIES If you have one or more of the gifts of service, you are critical to the work and glory of God. Do not think lightly of your place in God’s plan. A man goes to buy a hamburger for lunch. The young lady behind the counter asks, “Do you want fries with that?” The man ...read more

  • Matryoshka Doll

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Aug 30, 2010
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    I purchased this doll a few years back when I visited in Russia. It’s called a Matryoshka doll (Russian Nesting doll). (taking dolls apart) If you’re familiar with these dolls, you know that you open up one and there’s another inside … and so on and so on. This continues until you get to the ...read more

  • Rooting For You

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2010
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    ROOTING FOR YOU Zig Ziglar tells of the time he took his young son golfing. The boy was still relatively new to the game, so Zig was very impressed by his son’s performance on one of the par 4 holes. At the tee, the boy lifted the ball straight and true down the fairway. A second shot got him ...read more

  • Vigilance, War, And The Price Of Freedom

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 6, 2011
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    VIGILANCE, WAR, AND THE PRICE OF FREEDOM "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom" -- a familiar saying in our country. We remember from Pearl Harbor what it's like to get caught off guard. The enemy can be so deceptive: Japan's peace envoys were seated at the negotiating table at the very ...read more