Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 27, 2001
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Friends are people with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with them. They ask you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. They do not want you to be better or worse. When you are with them, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Oct 28, 2005
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There was once a farmer who went to town to purchase seeds for his farm. As he was returning home one of the squash seeds he had purchased fell from his pocket onto the ground. It happened that within a few feet was another seed of a different type. The place where the two seeds lay was rather
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
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Being a parent and a father can be an interesting and trying experience.
Someone said, “Fathers spend the first part of a child’s life urging him to talk and walk, and the rest of his childhood telling him to sit down and keep quiet.”
A son who was in college wrote home to his dad. He said, “Dear
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 1, 2008
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ABOVE REPROACH
A friend told Plato of a terrible charge that had been leveled against the famous philosopher. Knowing it was not true, his friend said, "What are we going to do?" Plato replied, "We must simply live in such a way that all people will know it is false." Paul said that an elder is to
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Contributed by Tim White on Jun 5, 2011
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GOD WANTS TO PULL THE STICKERS OUT
The little girl hopped away screaming. Obviously, the fear of living forever with a sticker in her foot was not as terrifying as the thought of me pulling it out. But a five-year-old could not out-run the preacher. Not hopping on one foot, anyway.
After I
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Baptist
GROWTH IS ESSENTIAL OR ONE WILL GET STAGNATE AND BEGIN A DECREASE. Growth is essential to long term survival. We must learn to take advantage of opportunities and take risk.
GROWTH: improve, increase, develop, mature, progressive development, MATURITY, AGE, SIZE, WEIGHT, HEIGHT.
2 Peter 3:18
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Assembly Of God
HOW BIG IS JESUS????????
At the end of a worship service, a little girl came up to her Pastor and asked, "How big is Jesus?" The puzzled
pastor pondered and said, "I don’t know, sweetheart. The Bible doesn’t say. He was a carpenter, so I am sure
he had big hands and strong shoulders. Maybe
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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My father was born in 1911. His older brother, his only sibling, had already died. His father died two years later.
In that era no government programs existed to provide for them, so his mother, an Irish immigrant, moved in with his paternal grandparents. His grandfather was a blacksmith, and his
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PHILIPPIANS 1:29
"For it has been granted unto you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him."
No wound? No scar?
Yet, as the Master shall the servant be,
And piercèd are the feet that follow Me.
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Jewish novelist Chaim Potok (his novel "The Chosen" sold over 3 million copies) gave a lecture at Johns Hopkins University. He had wanted to be a writer from an early age. But when he was ready to go off to college his mother took him aside and said; “I know you want to be a writer but I
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Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jul 29, 2011
PHILIPPI AND EBAY
How would you rate your self as a Christian on a scale from 1 to 10? Better yet how would your family and friends rate you on the same scale? People see you and I on a different perspective than we do ourselves.
For the people who have Internet, I’m sure have encountered eBay at
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 1, 2011
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MACLAREN ON FACING DEATH
The great 1800s Scottish preacher Alexander MacLaren said:
"Many of us cling to life with a desperate clutch, like some poor wretch pushed over a precipice and trying to dig his nails into the rock as he falls. Some of us cling to it because we dread what is beyond, and
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An engineer had this note taped inside his desk drawer at his office: "This is not my life. This is my job. Christ is my life."
(Upon his tragic death in
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Pentecostal
The famous and very successful football coach Bear Bryant often told reporters, "I’d croak in a month if I quit coaching." After twenty-five years as the head coach at his alma mater, Bryant announced he would be stepping down at the end of the season. On December 29, 1982, he coached his
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Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 30, 2023
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Well ... This short discourse is called ... "Kissing Frogs"
Ever feel like a Frog?
Frogs feel slow, ... low, ... ugly, ... puffy, ... drooped, pooped.
I know! ...... One told me.
The Frog feeling comes when:
You want to be bright... but you feel dull.
You want to share...but you are
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Anglican