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  • Traditional Young ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 2,009 views

    TRADITIONAL YOUNG ADULTS 94% of 20-somethings respect parenthood, and 84% have great esteem for marriage, finds a survey by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. ...read more

  • Chuck Mistler Testifies  PRO

    Contributed by Izak Shipman on Jun 13, 2002
    based on 71 ratings
     | 2,468 views

    Chuck Mistler testifies A few years ago, we flew back to California late one Sunday night from a seminar in Washington State. Tired and hungry, we still had to face another one-hour drive home from the airport. Trying to check out of the airport parking lot, we found at least 30 cars in ...read more

  • Living Unaware Of Our Vast Fortune  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 47 ratings
     | 2,441 views

    Living Unaware of Our Vast Fortune Come with me into West Texas during the Depression. Mr. Ira Yates was like many other ranchers and farmers. He had a lot of land, and a lot of debt. Mr. Yates wasn’t able to make enough on his ranching operation to pay the principal and interest on the mortgage, ...read more

  • Morrie: In His Own Words  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Oct 16, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,188 views

    1. Morrie: In His Own Words By Morrie Schwartz: · Learn how to live, and you’ll know how to die. Once you know how to die, you know how to live. · Death ends life, not a relationship. · Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. · Everything that gets born ...read more

  • The Empty Gift  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
    based on 33 ratings
     | 7,285 views

    THE EMPTY GIFT "I was enjoying 1st grade to the fullest until one day in December when the little girl behind me set "it" on her desk. It was the tiniest Christmas present imaginable, less than an inch on each side with white glossy paper tied up with a sliver of red cellophane. Immediately I was ...read more

  • This Past Week I Sat By A Hospital Bed Of A Man ...

    Contributed by Bradford Robinson on Dec 18, 2002
     | 2,521 views

    This past week I sat by a hospital bed of a man who more than likely will never come home. I walked into the room, and it’s hard to explain the emotions going on in there. I started to initiate some small talk; we talked about his family, his home, and then his condition. I then told him that ...read more

  • A Silver Reminder  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2003
    based on 16 ratings
     | 3,862 views

    A SILVER REMINDER At Camp Udairi in the desert of Kuwait, the loss of the dining facility has brought with it an unlikely reminder of God’s protection. Chaplain (Major) Barbara K. Sherer tells the story in an article on Beliefnet.com. The dining hall caught fire one morning, and because of the ...read more

  • The True Story Is Told Of Two Drunks Who Were ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ethan Muse on Apr 2, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,460 views

    The true story is told of two drunks who were sitting in a bar late one night and having an argument about who had the best wife. As they were arguing, the first drunk decides to prove that his wife is the best, so he invites his friend home with him. They arrived at the house at 1:00 in the ...read more

  • The Pharisees And Teachers Of The Law Competed ...  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Mason on Feb 6, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 4,949 views

    The Pharisees and teachers of the law competed with one another in strictness. They had atomized God’s law into 613 rules and bolstered these with 1,521 emendations (Yancey 132). We can see the length to which this went from the following facts. For many generations the Scribal Law was never ...read more

  • Have You Tasted Jesus?  PRO

    Contributed by Jan Spencer on Mar 19, 2002
    based on 53 ratings
     | 6,042 views

    Have you tasted Jesus? One divinity school hosted an annual picnic, to which they invited one of the greatest minds to lecture in the theological education center. One year, the guest lecturer was a professor, who spoke for two and one-half hours "proving" that the resurrection of Jesus was ...read more

  • Growing Up In Middle Georgia I Would Help Pick ...  PRO

    Contributed by Howard Bagley on Apr 6, 2002
    based on 57 ratings
     | 2,800 views

    Growing up in middle Georgia I would help pick peaches during the summer to make a little spending money. And it was during that time that I learned the importance of "a time to every purpose under heaven". While working for this elderly gentleman, whom I will call Grif, He wanted to show me how to ...read more

  • The Church Has Never Been On Fire Before  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 16, 2002
    based on 69 ratings
     | 3,586 views

    The Church Has Never Been On Fire Before By Dan Adkins One Night At Almost Midnight, We Heard Tile Sirens Roar Everybody In The Neighborhood Was Looking Out Their Door Then In Bathrobes And Curlers, They Gathered Round To See The Church Was Going Up In Flames, It Burned ’Til Way Past Three Now ...read more

  • How Do We Know God Is Here With Us?  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Dec 15, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,108 views

    *Christmas is a time when God came near. And God comes near today. *Joe McKeever told the story of a little girl named Rachel. Like many preschoolers, Rachel had a problem waking up in the middle of the night, scared and crying. The only thing that would sooth her fears was crawling into bed with ...read more

  • Jesus Christ Is About To Leave His Disciples. He ...

    Contributed by Chris Edmondson on Feb 4, 2007
     | 1,538 views

    Jesus Christ is about to leave his disciples. He is about to go. He tells them in 14:1, “Let not your heart be troubled; I am going to leave you to prepare a place for you. I will come again to receive you unto myself.” I have to go right now, though. The disciples had been walking with Jesus for ...read more

  • Accidents In The Work Zone

    Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Mar 30, 2007
     | 2,188 views

    A news story out of St. Louis last year began… "He was a loving father and loved his grandkids," Linda Heath never imagined Wednesday would mark the first time she referred to her husband of 31 years in the past tense.” On April 26, 2006 Henry Heath was killed while directing traffic in a ...read more

  • God's Salvation ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
     | 6,635 views

    GOD’S SALVATION CHURCH In the 1990s, a cult from Taiwan relocated to San Dimas, California, and registered itself as God’s Salvation Church. In 1997, the Chen Tao cult, also known as the Flying Saucer cult, led by Hon-Ming Chen, headed to Garland (mistaken for "God Land"), Texas, where they expect ...read more

  • Everyday Reminder

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
     | 2,727 views

    EVERYDAY REMINDER Those of you who know me know that I love fishing. I do not however like hunting. For some reason the thought of shooting an animal is just not appealing to me. That does not mean I do not know how to shoot. When I was a kid I was in a gun club. I competed in target shooting and ...read more

  • Diversity In The Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,366 views

    DIVERSITY IN THE CHURCH Philip Yancey put it this way in an article in Christianity Today just this last November. He writes, "As I read accounts of the New Testament church, no characteristic stands out more sharply than [diversity]. Beginning with Pentecost, the Christian church dismantled the ...read more

  • Springing Into Action  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,179 views

    SPRINGING INTO ACTION On the day President Obama was inaugurated, Eliot Swainson happened to be in Washington, D.C. The city authorities had expected record numbers of people to attend the inauguration, so they asked for assistance from other cities to help with crowd control. Metro Officer ...read more

  • Live What You Believe  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,906 views

    LIVE WHAT YOU BELIEVE After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, no person in all of East Germany was more despised than the former Communist dictator Erich Honniker. He had been stripped of all his offices. Even the Communist Party rejected him. Kicked out of his villa, the new government ...read more