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  • Overcoming Evil  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 5,779 views

    OVERCOMING EVIL Overcoming locked gates, tall fences and snapping dogs presents a challenge for us meter readers in rural Oklahoma, where we are required to read all meters: no estimates are allowed. One time a co-worker succeeded in getting past a particularly vicious watchdog tied to a chain ...read more

  • Overcoming Evil With Good  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,529 views

    OVERCOMING EVIL WITH GOOD Watchman Nee, the Chinese evangelist, tells this true story. A poor, Christian Chinese farmer had rice fields high in the mountain. Every day he spent hours pumping water into the rice paddies; but when he returned to the fields the next morning, he would find that his ...read more

  • Overcoming Evil With Good

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,536 views

    OVERCOMING EVIL WITH GOOD Stuart Holden (1874-1934), the author of "Prevailing Intercessory Prayer", was in Egypt and met a sergeant in a Highland regiment. "How were you brought to Christ?" he asked this bright Christian. The sergeant responded: "There was a private in the same company as myself ...read more

  • Overcoming Evil With Good; David, Saul, And God

    Contributed by Nickolas Kooi on Aug 30, 2017
     | 6,932 views

    King Saul tried to kill David numerous times. When Saul would be in David’s hand, David would refrain from showing him evil. Instead, he would spare Saul. He showed respect for his office of king, which led him to showing the mercy that Saul didn’t deserve. Sometimes, this led Saul to seeing ...read more

  • Overcomers  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 6, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 5,720 views

    Overcomers 1. Johnny Fulton was run over by a car at the age of three. He suffered crushed hips, broken ribs, a fractured skull, and compound fractures in his legs. It did not look as if he would live. But he would not give up. In fact, he later ran the half-mile in less than two minutes. 2. Walt ...read more

  • Overcomers

    Contributed by Ronald Franklin on Jul 10, 2012
     | 4,377 views

    ILLUS: I watched Serena Williams win the Wimbledon tennis championship yesterday. She cruised through the first set. But in the second set, her opponent rallied and got hot, and won the set. Then, in the 3rd set, Serena got her game back on track and she just overwhelmed her opponent to win going ...read more

  • The Success In Overcoming  PRO

    Contributed by Thomas Ward, Sr. on Dec 11, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,527 views

    THE SUCCESS IN OVERCOMING A study of 300 highly successful people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Winston Churchill, Albert Schweitzer, Mahatma Gandhi, and Albert Einstein revealed that one-fourth had handicaps such as blindness, deafness, or crippled limbs. Three-fourths had either ...read more

  • The Blessing Of The Overcomers

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 28, 2010
     | 4,543 views

    The Blessing of the Overcomers What do the overcomers (the ones who defy gravity) of this world get according to Scripture? a. Revelation 2:7: i. 7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which ...read more

  • Sacrificial Love

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 13, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,871 views

    Watchman Nee, a Chinese evangelist, tells of a Christian he once knew in China. He was a rice farmer, and his fields lay high on a mountain. Every day he pumped water into the paddies of new rice. And every morning he returned to find that an unbelieving neighbor who lived down the hill had ...read more

  • Overcoming The Great Wall  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Oct 27, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,669 views

    OVERCOMING THE GREAT WALL In ancient China, the people wanted to defend themselves from the barbaric hordes in the North and they built the Great Wall of China. It was too high to climb over, too thick to break down, and too long to go around. Very secure. Yet during the first hundred years ...read more

  • To Overcome Difficulties Is To Experience The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 3,203 views

    To overcome difficulties is to experience the full ...read more

  • We Can Overcome

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
     | 3,533 views

    WE CAN OVERCOME Take for example Egyptian hieroglyphics. In seminary I had plenty of brilliant folks for classmates, just amazing people. One man, Kevin was with us on our trip to the Holy Land. Kevin finishing his M.Div at Princeton and was soon on his way to Harvard for a Ph.D. in biblical ...read more

  • Jerry Kramer: Overcoming

    Contributed by John Dobbs on Feb 26, 2010
     | 5,204 views

    JERRY KRAMER: OVERCOMING From the age of 5 Jerry was the victim of a series of strange and agonizing accidents. While holding an axe overhead, it slipped and cut a cleft into his chin. While a sophomore in high school, he backed into an electric lathe. When he was 17, he had an accident with a ...read more

  • The Greatest Evil  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 7, 2000
    based on 133 ratings
     | 2,611 views

    C.S.Lewis said it quite well: “The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white ...read more

  • Of Two Evils...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2006
     | 1,919 views

    “Of two evils, choose neither” Charles ...read more

  • They That Know No Evil

    Contributed by David Insell on Jul 23, 2003
     | 1,876 views

    They that know no evil will suspect ...read more

  • The Look Of Evil

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 17, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,828 views

    THE LOOK OF EVIL “The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven ...read more

  • Evil Will Not Compromise  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002
    based on 19 ratings
     | 5,326 views

    EVIL WILL NOT COMPROMISE Neville Chamberlain was known for his policy of appeasement. As the prime minister of Britain before World War II, he knew that the country was still weary from the first World War, and wanted to avoid a European war at all costs. The problem was that at the same time ...read more

  • Evil Rasputin

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 2, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,809 views

    Evil Rasputin Gregory Rasputin, the “Mad Monk of Russia” managed to get a strong hold on the royal family of his day. Some believe the corrupting power he exerted was a contributing factor in the takeover of communism. By currying the favor of the court he was able to influence many decisions ...read more

  • Evil In Us ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 21, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,741 views

    EVIL IN US ALL In 1960, Israeli undercover agents kidnapped one of the worst killers in Hitler’s army from his hideout in South America. His name was Adolf Eichmann. They took him to Israel to stand trial for crimes against humanity. Prosecutors called a long list of witnesses who had either seen ...read more