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  • Wikipedia On Sheep

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Aug 1, 2011
     | 2,925 views

    WIKIPEDIA ON SHEEP Wikipedia states, "Sheep have good hearing and are sensitive to noise when being handled. Sheep have horizontal slit-shaped pupils, possessing excellent peripheral vision with visual fields of approximately 270° to 320°, sheep can see behind themselves without turning their ...read more

  • Point Of View Is Everything

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 5, 2011
     | 2,250 views

    POINT OF VIEW IS EVERYTHING ABC's "The View" - the winner of the 2003 Daytime Emmy® Award for "Outstanding Talk Show" as quoted by its own website! ABC News correspondent Barbara Walters, the renowned Whoopi Goldberg, comedian Joy Behar, actress/comedian Sherri Shepherd, and The Australian Outback ...read more

  • Some Years Ago A Famous Actor Was Giving An After ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Feb 1, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,463 views

    Some years ago a famous actor was giving an after dinner speech. He asked his audience if there was any famous poem that they would like him to recite. There was a silence. Eventually an old vicar raised his hand and said: "Psalm 23 please." The actor agreed, on one condition: that the ...read more

  • Hotel Room ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
     | 1,680 views

    HOTEL ROOM THEFT Thefts from hotels and motels have reached 500 million dollars a year and probably more. Hotel managers count on one of every three guests stealing something. In a recent year, 4,600 Bibles were lifted from New York City hotel rooms. Professional thieves frequently strip motel ...read more

  • Billy Sunday, In A Sermon He Preached Called, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Mar 12, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,383 views

    Billy Sunday, in a sermon he preached called, "Wonderful," communicated with his congregation the sufficiency of Jesus Christ by saying, Christ for sickness, Christ for health, Christ for poverty, Christ for wealth, Christ for joy, Christ for sorrow, Christ today and Christ tomorrow; Christ my ...read more

  • The Hard Work Of Farming

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
     | 3,889 views

    THE HARD WORK OF FARMING I was raised in town and not on a farm. However, in 1969 I moved to a small farming town in Iowa called Bayard. It’s about 65 miles northeast of Des Moines, IA. And that’s where I began to learn a little about farming and harder work than I was used to! I had some grain ...read more

  • A Famous Actor Was An After Dinner Speaker At A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jul 9, 2001
    based on 254 ratings
     | 7,202 views

    A famous actor was an after dinner speaker at a big function and when he stood up to speak, he invited his audience to choose a poem for him to recite. There was a long silence until a retired clergyman raised his hand and asked for Psalm 23. The actor was slightly taken back, but agreed to do ...read more

  • The Making Of Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,284 views

    THE MAKING OF ME Thomas Edison once said, “I did not have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence which has lasted all my life. The good effects of her early training I can never lose. If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I ...read more

  • Something Positive Always

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 19, 2006
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    SOMETHING POSITIVE ALWAYS When Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a lonely island he thought of both the good and the bad. - He was cast onto a desolate island, but he was still alive, not drowned as all of his ship’s company was. - He was separated from mankind, but he was not starving. - He had ...read more

  • The Greek Exegesis Of The Greek Term

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 13, 2010
     | 1,755 views

    The Greek Exegesis of the Greek term "I am the gate". Gate or Door - Thura Thoo-rah! The opening or the closure. 1. Old Testament models for the shepherd image, for going in and out, and for door prediction (especially in the messianic context of Ps. 118:19-21: "Open for me the gates of ...read more

  • A Special Visitor

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 29, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,535 views

    A SPECIAL VISITOR This past Tuesday, it was difficult to drive in and out of our church parking lot because of a barrage of traffic down Webster Street. Where did this traffic come from? Downtown was blocked off because President Obama and Vice-President Biden were speaking at a closed meeting a ...read more

  • Ever Heard A Sheep Call?

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 6, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,409 views

    EVER HEARD A SHEEP CALL? Sheep don’t respond to calls they respond to Shepherds. A man in Australia was arrested for stealing a sheep but he claimed that it was one of his own that had been missing for many days. When the case went to court, the judge was puzzled, not knowing how to decide the ...read more

  • More To Follow

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 4, 2012
     | 4,279 views

    MORE TO FOLLOW Preacher Charles Spurgeon tells of a man to whom was entrusted a large sum of money for the benefit of a poor minister. He thought it would be best to distribute the gift, instead of sending it all at once. So he mailed the poor minister five pounds and, inside the envelope, he ...read more

  • The World Slept When Jesus Came.

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Dec 21, 2020
     | 1,308 views

    Ken Gire writes, “Where you would have expected angels, there were only flies. Where you would have expected heads of state, there were only donkeys, a few haltered cows, a nervous ball of sheep, a tethered camel, & a furtive scurry of curious mice. Except for Joseph, there was no one to share ...read more

  • People Have Wondered Why Carrier Pigeons Were ...

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 17, 2007
     | 1,047 views

    People have wondered why carrier pigeons were always able to navigate their way all over town and always find their way home. After much research scientists discovered that the pigeons were actually following the man-made roads like a map in order to get home. They would fly directly over the ...read more

  • Seven Ages Of Man

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 2,037 views

    SEVEN AGES OF MAN Someone described the seven ages of man in these ways: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills. Spills - Infancy. Drills - Childhood. We get drilled about doing this and that. Thrills - Teen years perhaps. I'm not sure they are all that thrilling, however. Bills - ...read more

  • Meliorism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 3,233 views

    MELIORISM Have you ever heard of Meliorism? Here is what one person said about it. "I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a Meliorist. Meliorism cancels out optimism as being too bright, too airy; and rejects pessimism as being too dull, too heavy. Take life as it is, says the meliorist, ...read more

  • Song Above The Noise

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,318 views

    SONG ABOVE THE NOISE A man said: While walking along a busy street one day, I heard someone singing. His sweet voice was distinguishable even above the noise of the traffic. When I located him, I noticed that he had no legs and was pushing himself through the crowd in a wheelchair. Catching up ...read more

  • I Know Of A Priest Back In New York City Who Went ...  PRO

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jun 3, 2007
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,126 views

    I know of a priest back in New York City who went to Ireland to visit his relatives. While he was staying at his cousin’s farm, they decided to have some fun with him. After doing some chores in the fields, they told him to come in for dinner just as soon as he was through rounding up the sheep ...read more

  • Not Mixed Veggies! (09.23.05--Grace ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 21, 2005
     | 1,934 views

    Not Mixed Veggies! (09.23.05--Grace Walks!--Isaiah 4:2-4) As we recently joined a local CSA, a farmer’s cooperative whereby we receive our vegetables on a regular basis from a local farm, our refrigerator has been pretty consistently stuffed with vegetables of all sorts. From squashes to ...read more

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