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  • All Because Of Prayer

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2001
     | 2,440 views

    ALL BECAUSE OF PRAYER It’s a wonderful story about prayer, about a faith that can sustain people in good times and in bad times," said President Bush Monday, summarizing the tale of Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry, the two Shelter Now workers held by the Taliban for three months. As Mercer and ...read more

  • Our Forefathers Were Not So Much Thankful For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,650 views

    Our forefathers were not so much thankful for something as they were thankful in something. In bounty or in want they were thankful. In feast or in famine they were thankful. In joy or in misery they were thankful. There is a big difference between being thankful for things and being thankful in ...read more

  • The Divine Advocacy  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 16 ratings
     | 2,814 views

    Discipleship occurs only in community. Very few people are expert in anything all by themselves. They need a supporting community. Do you know a good musician who was not trained, nurtured and sustained by the music community? Show me an athlete who achieves excellence all alone, apart from the ...read more

  • Going No Where Fast  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Cairns on Feb 1, 2002
    based on 65 ratings
     | 10,340 views

    GOING NO WHERE FAST In his book "Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life", the author Charles Swindoll tells a story about the 19th Century agnostic Thomas Huxley (some of you might know that it was Huxley who promoted Darwinism and Humanism in his attacks on Christianity). Huxley was in Dublin and ...read more

  • Pastor D. James Kennedy Said In A Sermon, "I ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Mar 18, 2002
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     | 2,852 views

    Pastor D. James Kennedy said in a sermon, “I remember years ago talking to a man in his home about Christ and asking him who he thought Jesus was. He said, ‘Oh, He’s a wonderful man. He was the greatest man who ever lived, the most loving and gracious person who ever walked upon this earth.’ “I ...read more

  • Only In America  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
    based on 37 ratings
     | 5,179 views

    ONLY IN AMERICA 1- Only in America can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. 2- Only in America are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink. 3- Only in America do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions, while ...read more

  • Next Time, Try Faxing It  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,408 views

    NEXT TIME, TRY FAXING IT "When Russell Sealy was fired from his job after five years with Consignia, Britain’s postal service, he resolved to appeal on grounds that he had been treated unfairly. That was in in the fall of 2000. Now, it appears, he may lose because of a court’s ruling against ...read more

  • Leaving A Legacy  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jul 18, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
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    LEAVING A LEGACY Paul J. Meyer in his book "Unlocking Your Legacy" tells about the time his mother was found after having fallen in her home. She died a few days later in the hospital. The year was 1969. Mr. Meyer writes, "In the apron she was wearing the day she fell, I found a note that read: ...read more

  • In His Book The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 29, 2002
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    In his book The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis describes what is like a parable that is ongoing through different episodes of how a Senior Demon, whom he calls Screwtape trains his young and vulnerable apprentice nephew Wormwood how to disrupt, derail and hinder the growth and progress of ...read more

  • A Poem - "You See God" (From Twentieth Century ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Sep 25, 2002
    based on 31 ratings
     | 2,621 views

    A poem - “You see God” (From twentieth Century Christian) You see God it is like this: We could attend church more faithfully if your day came at some other time. You have chosen a day that comes at the end of a hard week, and we’re all tired out. No only that, but it’s the day following ...read more

  • Every Methodist Pastor Of The Last 250 Years Has ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian William on Oct 1, 2002
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    Every Methodist pastor of the last 250 years has answered the same set of 17 questions – questions that John Wesley himself asked of all his ministers. They range from the most basic and fundamental issues of Christianity: “Have you faith in Christ” to the complicated: “Have you studied the ...read more

  • In The Movie "Return Of The Jedi" Luke Skywalker ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Mills on Oct 24, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,288 views

    In the movie "Return of the Jedi" Luke Skywalker is learning to be a Jedi from the Jedi Master, Yoda. Luke is performing an exercise of mind over matter when he fails the exercise. Yoda tells him to raise his X-Wing fighter from the murky water where it sank upon his arrival on Degoba. He says ...read more

  • That's Why I Think We Should All Subscribe To The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kory Wilcoxson on Feb 19, 2005
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    That’s why I think we should all subscribe to the Southerner’s version of the Gospel. You see, there’s no such thing as a singular pronoun in the South. They don’t say you. They say y’all. Even if they’re talking to one person. “Y’all think Wal-Mart’s still open?” “Y’all going to the pig roast ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About A Family That Tragically ...  PRO

    Contributed by Klaus Mehrl on Mar 28, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,020 views

    I heard a story about a family that tragically lost three of their four children within just two weeks to a deadly, virulent disease. One child was left – a four year old boy. The family had buried the third child just two weeks before Easter. On Easter morning the parents and the remaining child ...read more

  • Hold On! Wait!

    Contributed by Robert Garrett on Apr 11, 2005
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     | 4,924 views

    "HOLD ON! WAIT!" A young convert told of his experience in the First World War. He was in the "Lost Battalion." We were cut off from our main army and all around us were Germans. Our food and water gave out and every once in a while a +German would come to say "Surrender." Only one shell was ...read more

  • Six Inches Beyond  PRO

    Contributed by Frank Gough Ii on Nov 4, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,237 views

    Do you any of you remember Bruce Lee? He was a world-champion martial artist and an actor, and he had a fighting style unlike any other because he developed it himself. In demonstrations, he often exhibited an almost inhuman ability in the force and power of his blows. He was once asked by ...read more

  • Two Years Before I Met My Wife, My Eventual Best ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Nov 12, 2005
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    Two years before I met my wife, my eventual best man Kevin set me up on a blind date. His girlfriend had a friend who was unattached and we all went off to the cinema together. I have to confess that I cannot remember the girl’s name but I can remember that when I got home that evening I was ...read more

  • In 1983 A Fifty-Year-Old Tradition Was Quietly ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
     | 3,178 views

    In 1983 a fifty-year-old tradition was quietly dropped by the U.S. House of Representatives. The tradition involved the annual reading of George Washington’s farewell address on the occasion of his birthday. Democratic and Republican leaders decided it was useless to continue to read the lengthy ...read more

  • Many Years Ago In A Moscow Theater, Matinee Idol ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,073 views

    Many years ago in a Moscow theater, matinee idol Alexander Rostovzev was converted while playing the role of Jesus in a sacrilegious play entitled Christ in a Tuxedo. He was supposed to read two verses from the Sermon on the Mount, remove his gown, and cry out, “Give me my tuxedo and top hat!” But ...read more

  • Gen. William Nelson, A Union General In The Civil ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,733 views

    Gen. William Nelson, a Union general in the Civil War, was consumed with the battles in Kentucky when a brawl ended up in his being shot, mortally, in the chest. He had faced many battles, but the fatal blow came while he was relaxing with his men. As such, he was caught fully unprepared. As men ...read more