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  • Infinity

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,872 views

    INFINITY Let me introduce you to a person called Michael Rae. In his own words, he is on a path to immortality which involves a near-abstinence level of food, the dedication of an accountant to approve every calorie, and an obsession with death. The youthful, 38-year-old research assistant ...read more

  • James Dobson, New Man, October, ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 9, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,391 views

    [illustration, James Dobson, New Man, October, 1994, p. 36.] This is an exert from an article that James Dobson wrote in 1994 about Stephen Hawking, whom I believe has since died… Stephen Hawking is an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and perhaps the most intelligent man on earth. He has ...read more

  • Chasing A Wagging Tail  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 17, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,135 views

    CHASING A WAGGING TAIL Stephen Hawking is an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and perhaps the most intelligent man on earth. He has advanced the general theory of relativity farther than any person since Albert Einstein. Unfortunately, Hawking is afflicted with ALS Syndrome (Lou Gehrig’s ...read more

  • Years Ago, Before The Day When She Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Bravo on Jul 1, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 1,983 views

    Years ago, before the day when she was moth-balled and transformed into a floating museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, one of the largest, most powerful battleships that the world has ever known, the USS Missouri, was cruising off the coast of Nova Scotia in a gale wind blowing and whipping the waves into ...read more

  • Let Me Begin By Sharing With You A Letter That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joo-Ching Chng on Jan 4, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,296 views

    Let me begin by sharing with you a letter that was written by a young communist to his girl friend. He was breaking off his relationship with her because of his devotion to the communist cause. She gave the letter to her pastor, who gave the letter to Billy Graham. Billy Graham published the ...read more

  • Response To Hurting People  PRO

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 3, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,788 views

    RESPONSE TO HURTING PEOPLE In his book Soul Talk, Larry Crabb writes: "Which is worse? A church program to build community that doesn’t get off the ground or one person sitting every Sunday in the back of the church who remains unknown? A Sunday school class that once drew hundreds but has now ...read more

  • Sin Is Like Quicksand  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2011
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,512 views

    SIN IS LIKE QUICKSAND In his book, Homesick for God, Joel Gregory described a horrible pit from which Tony Chain was rescued. Tony and J. R. Hounchell went hunting the first day of duck season in 1981. They were in an area called Duck Flats, northeast of Anchorage, Alaska. Hours before, 10 feet ...read more

  • Second Coming Of Jesus

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,912 views

    In the 19th century, there was a wave of enthusiasm for prophecies predicting the actual date for the Second Coming of Christ. One such prophecy was an Adventist leader name William Miller. After studying Daniel 8, Miller predicted that Christ would return on March 21, 1842, but then revised the ...read more

  • Actions Speak Louder  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Dec 10, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,630 views

    ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER Andy Stanley tells the story of when he was 13 and learning the meaning of the phrase, "Actions speak louder than words." His dad was the Associate Pastor of First Baptist in Atlanta when the senior pastor was asked to resign. Charles Stanley was asked to preach on Sundays ...read more

  • An Overview Of The Signs - Dr. David Reagan ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 22, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,170 views

    An Overview of the Signs - Dr. David Reagan http://www.lamblion.com/articles/articles_signs3.php Let me present you with an outline overview of the signs of the times: I. Signs of Nature (Matthew 24:7; Mark 13: 8; and Luke 21:11) 1. Famine 2. Earthquakes 3. Plagues 4. Signs in the Heavens (Unusual ...read more

  • It’s Too Late To Hide

    Contributed by Mark Beaird on Dec 31, 2015
     | 5,796 views

    It’s Too Late to Hide I first noticed him as he shuffled past me while making his way through the crowd of excited children swarming around the room at the school for deaf and blind children outside Saigon, Vietnam. He moved slow, but steady. His arms and legs were twisted and drawn in such a ...read more

  • Jars Of Clay

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
     | 3,741 views

    JARS OF CLAY In his book "Disappointment with God," Philip Yancey offers a powerful metaphor for the church: I have a bright, talented, and very funny friend in Seattle named Carolyn Martin. But Carolyn has cerebral palsy, and it is the peculiar tragedy of her condition that its outward ...read more

  • On The Pharisees

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 11, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,371 views

    Who are the Pharisees? In 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered the Middle East, bringing Greek culture and philosophy to Israel. By 200 BC, Greek philosophy and its worldview called Helenism were significantly impacting Jewish young men. More and more of them were abandoning the Hebrew faith and ...read more

  • Andy Stanley Tells The Story Of When He Was 13 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 5,605 views

    Andy Stanley tells the story of when he was 13 and learning the meaning of the phrase, “Actions speak louder than words.” His dad was the Associate pastor of First Baptist in Atlanta when the senior pastor was asked to resign. Charles Stanley was asked to preach on Sundays until a suitable ...read more

  • Here!

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Feb 9, 2009
     | 1,158 views

    "HERE!" The Rogers are devout Christians who have built a strong family. The father has a special interest in the spiritual condition of each of his children and often would quiz them in order to know if they were sure of their salvation. Occasionally he would ask them to share in their own words ...read more

  • Josh Mcdowell, A Dedicated Christian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 23, 2001
    based on 149 ratings
     | 2,666 views

    Josh McDowell, a dedicated Christian intellectual, wrote, "I was invited to speak in a university in South America. Because of the university’s Marxist leanings, I was the first American to speak there in four years, & it was a tense situation. "Big photographs of me had been posted all over ...read more

  • One Of The Most Terrific Mothers Of All Time Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
    based on 60 ratings
     | 2,021 views

    One of the most terrific mothers of all time was Susannah Wesley. Susannah’s father was a minister and she was born in England in 1669 as the youngest of twenty-five children! Susannah was married at 19 to Samuel Wesley, also a minister and, not to be outdone, she had nineteen children herself. Her ...read more

  • Once Upon A Time There Was A Good And Kind King ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Jul 26, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,929 views

    Once upon a time there was a good and kind king who had a great kingdom with many cities. In one distant city, some people took advantage of the freedom the king gave them and started doing evil. They profited by their evil and began to fear that the king would interfere and throw them in jail. ...read more

  • The Gospel Came To Hawaii During The Period In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Bartosik on Oct 18, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,938 views

    The Gospel came to Hawaii during the period in American history called "The Second Great Awakening" (1785-1820). Henry Opukaha’ia was the first Hawaiian Christian. In the late 1700s his entire family was killed during a tribal war on the shores of Kealakakua Bay on the Big Island. As he fled from ...read more

  • Most Of Us Were Shocked In Early August When Flip ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,205 views

    Most of us were shocked in early August when Flip Benham, national director for Operation Rescue, baptized Norma McCorvey, the woman known as Jane Roe in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The events leading to the baptism started with an apology. Earlier this year Benhan relocated ...read more

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