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  • A Single Battle  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 11, 2001
    based on 196 ratings
     | 4,403 views

    Great introduction to sermon: A single battle can determine the outcome of an entire war. Like Gettysburg and the Invasion at Normandy, a telling battle of the future of England had came. General Wellington of the British Army represented the last formidable opposition to the French army under ...read more

  • You Know, For Pastors, Ministry Is A Series Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Harvie Neatherlin on Aug 19, 2002
    based on 19 ratings
     | 3,532 views

    You know, for pastors, ministry is a series of good news and bad news. Listen to these scenarios: Good news: You baptized seven people today in the river. Bad news: You lost two of them in the swift current. Good news: The Women’s ministry voted to send you a get-well card. Bad news: The vote ...read more

  • Hard Times For Hell  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 3,466 views

    HARD TIMES FOR HELL Hell, it would seem, has fallen on rather lean times. It used to be that the vast majority of Christians, regardless of denominational affiliation, believed that Hell was a real place where the wicked and the impenitent go when they died. The very thought of the pains and ...read more

  • There Was This Young Art Student, Who Was Asked ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2002
    based on 71 ratings
     | 2,233 views

    There was this young art student, who was asked by his college professor to paint a picture of perfect peace. So this young man started to paint his rendition of perfect peace. And as time was drawing near for his task to be completed his professor made his rounds in the class. And as he approached ...read more

  • State Of The Church: "The Fact That There Has Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,658 views

    State Of The Church: “The fact that there has not been any measurable increase in church involvement or personal spiritual depth in the past decade challenges the widespread notion that the U.S. is as spiritually healthy and focused as ever. This has been an intriguing year regarding the spiritual ...read more

  • Signs That Your Childhood Is Finally Over  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,459 views

    SIGNS THAT YOUR CHILDHOOD IS FINALLY OVER - Just one peanut butter and jelly sandwich doesn’t do it anymore. - Driving a car doesn’t always sound like fun. - Being bad is no longer cool. - You’re taller than the slide at the McDonald’s Playland. - You have ever said, "Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, ...read more

  • Have You Ever Waited For Someone For Any Length ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Christian on Dec 8, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,201 views

    Have you ever waited for someone for any length of time? I don’t mean waiting for someone to show up when they are 15 minutes late. I mean really waited for someone. I think of the women who waited back home when their husbands and fiancés went off to war. Some of you may have experienced such ...read more

  • Christmas Survey  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 6, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,364 views

    CHRISTMAS SURVEY What do people believe about the birth of Christ? A few days ago Newsweek Magazine conducted a poll asking some questions about Christ and His birth.* Here are some of the results: 67% - believe that the entire story of Christmas is historically accurate 24% - believe the story ...read more

  • Do You Know This Man? His Name Is Thomas ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,988 views

    Do you know this man? His name is Thomas Jonathan Jackson. In 1851 he resigned from the army to teach at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. In the ensuing years tension arose between the Union states and the Southern states over slavery. In November 1859, Jackson was one of ...read more

  • Fifty-Six Men Signed The Declaration Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,463 views

    Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. Their conviction resulted in untold sufferings for themselves and their families. Of the 56 men, five were captured by the British and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the ...read more

  • Fifty-Six Men Signed The Declaration Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,428 views

    Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. Their conviction resulted in untold sufferings for themselves and their families. Of the 56 men, five were captured by the British and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the ...read more

  • On Feb. 27, 1991, It Was The Height Of The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 17 ratings
     | 2,735 views

    On Feb. 27, 1991, it was the height of the Desert Storm War. A woman by the name of Ruth Dillow received the worst news that a mom could ever receive. Her son, Clayton Carpenter, Private, First Class, had stepped on a land mine in the Persian Gulf and he was . For the next three days she grieved ...read more

  • David: Brokenness Leads To Loyalty

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 19, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,877 views

    DAVID: BROKENNESS LEADS TO LOYALTY Psalm 51 Our text was written by King David about a year after he had an adulterous affair. While his men were off to war he was home relaxing. The story results in a series of events that went from adultery to deception and finally murder to cover his tracks and ...read more

  • In Her Book "Smoke On The Mountain”, ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 31, 2010
     | 2,095 views

    In her book “Smoke on the Mountain”, Joy Davidson told of a missionary in a dark corner of Africa where the men had a habit of filing their teeth to sharp points. The missionary was working hard at trying to convert an old native chief. This missionary was very much Old Testament in his approach, ...read more

  • The Psychoanalyst Victor Frankl And His Friends ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 23, 2010
     | 1,424 views

    The psychoanalyst Victor Frankl and his friends were imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It was winter. They had been marched off to work in the morning, spent the day at hard labor, been given only a little thin soup to eat, and then staggered back to camp in the late ...read more

  • Surprise Gift

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
     | 6,384 views

    SURPRISE GIFT When Gabriel Hurles turned six a couple of years ago (January 2009), he was so focused on eating his birthday cake, that he hardly noticed the giant package in the corner of the room. When another child pointed out the large gift, Gabriel ran over and began to tear off the wrapping. ...read more

  • Jesus Freaks

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,967 views

    JESUS FREAKS In the book, Jesus Freaks, is the story of the Hine family. They lived in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. At that time it was very dangerous to be Christian in Cambodia. They were arrested one day for being Christians and thus enemies of the revolution and bad blood. One morning ...read more

  • Erased

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jul 25, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,958 views

    ERASED When we lived in Poland, I walked through one of the cemeteries in one of the cities. And as I was looking at the stones I was surprised to see many of the smooth stones scarred with a roughness right in the middle. Later I found out that the names had been gouged out because they were ...read more

  • The Yanov Torah

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 13, 2013
     | 2,102 views

    THE YANOV TORAH During World War II, Jewish inmates of the Yanov labor camp in occupied Poland defied their Nazi guards, secretly conducting religious services inside their darkened barracks. To observe their ritual, the Jews had cut religious scrolls into sections, bound the parchment pieces ...read more

  • Frank’s Combat Trauma

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 10, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,777 views

    Frank Bernadone bore the emotional wounds of his time in the military. His unit had already been through four years of battles when they came to Perugia. The town was heavily fortified, leading his unit’s assault against it to be disastrous. A bloody day of fighting culminated in what was almost ...read more

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