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  • Two Boys Were Playing In The Snow One Day, When ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Chambers on Jan 2, 2003
    based on 70 ratings
     | 1,874 views

    Two boys were playing in the snow one day, when one said to the other, "Let us see who can make the straightest path in the snow." His companion readily accepted the proposition, and they started. One boy fixed his eyes on a tree, and walked along without taking his eyes off the object selected. ...read more

  • There Was A Pastor From A Small Rural ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2003
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,263 views

    There was a pastor from a small rural congregation who visited an old farmer from time to time in an attempt to share the gospel with him. Each time the farmer would tell the pastor, "I believe in God. It is impossible not to when you look around at the beauty of this earth and the way in which ...read more

  • The Cold Within

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Mar 11, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,899 views

    The Cold Within (unknown) Six humans trapped by happenstance in black and bitter cold. Each one possessed a stick of wood (or so the story’s told). Their dying fire, in need of logs, the first woman held hers back, For on the faces around the fire, she noticed one was black. The second, looking ...read more

  • No God At All  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,663 views

    NO GOD AT ALL Trinity Sunday is the day in which we celebrate God the Holy Trinity; the three persons, yet still only one God: the Father-Creator, Jesus the Son-Redeemer; and the Holy Spirit-the Sanctifier. Ever since day one, Christians have grappled in their language to adequately speak and ...read more

  • Many People Have Trouble With The Concept Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 22, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,439 views

    Many people have trouble with the concept of total depravity. While not denying they are sinners, many people feel that their sin isn’t bad enough to condemn them. What they don’t understand is that any sin is wholly unacceptable to God. Let’s suppose I invite you over to my house this Saturday ...read more

  • Brown Is Right About One Thing (And Not Much ...

    Contributed by Scott Weber on Mar 14, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,377 views

    Brown is right about one thing (and not much more). In the course of Christian history, few events loom larger than the Council of Nicea in 325. When the newly converted Roman Emperor Constantine called bishops from around the world to present-day Turkey, the church had reached a theological ...read more

  • For Practical Purposes The Words Infallible And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,626 views

    For practical purposes the words infallible and inerrant are interchangeable. When we apply them to the Bible, what we are saying is that only those who accept as from God all that Scripture proves to tell us, promise us, or require of us, can ever fully please him. Both words thus have religious ...read more

  • I Have Heard Evangelist David Ring Speak ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 9, 2006
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,463 views

    I have heard Evangelist David Ring speak numerous times. David is a shining example of an individual suffering from a human weakness, a thorn if you will, but with God’s help used that weakness to preach the Gospel. David was born October 28, 1953 and suffered from cerebral palsy. David said ...read more

  • When People Claim That Science And Faith Are At ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jan 16, 2007
     | 2,949 views

    When people claim that Science and Faith are at odds often point out that back in the Middle Ages the Catholic Church refused to accept Galileo’s theory that the earth revolved around the sun. (rather than the other way around.) That is true --- but the Church did not reject this theory based on ...read more

  • Don't Worry If You Feel Lost, Not Matter What It ...

    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 18, 2007
     | 1,624 views

    Don’t worry if you feel lost, not matter what it is Jesus loves you, turn to him today ask him for your meeting on the lake shore, lets all close our eyes now, imaging the mist, the gravel under your feet the smell of water and wood smoke, a beautiful aroma of fresh bread and fish sizzling on the ...read more

  • Lieghton Ford Tells This Story Of A Crusade With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Lieghton Ford tells this story of a crusade with Billy Gtraham. I was speaking at an open-air crusade in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Billy Graham was to speak the next night and had arrived a day early. He came incognito and sat on the grass at the rear of the crowd. Because he was wearing a hat and dark ...read more

  • The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration: The Leo Burnett advertising agency did a nationwide telephone survey a few years ago on lying, cataloging when we lie, how we lie and why we lie. The results were interesting. Ninety-one percent of all Americans confessed that they regularly lied… One out of every five admitted that ...read more

  • The Basics

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,440 views

    Charles Spurgeon, “A man’s life is always more forcible than his speech. When men take stock of him they reckon his deeds as dollars and his words as pennies. If his life and doctrine disagree the mass of onlookers accept his practice and reject his preaching.” Will Rogers, “Live in such a way ...read more

  • Two Boys Were Playing In The Snow One Day, When ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,604 views

    Two boys were playing in the snow one day, when one said to the other, "Let us see who can make the straightest path in the snow." His companion readily accepted the proposition, and they started. One boy fixed his eyes on a tree, and walked along without taking his eyes off the object selected. ...read more

  • There Was A Sad Thing I Saw When I Was In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,128 views

    There was a sad thing I saw when I was in Culion, Palawan. Yes, the multi-drug therapy or MDT cures people of leprosy. In fact a foundation made sure that people in Culion received the MDT. So, everyday they make the patients line up and gave it to them. But I noticed that after the patients placed ...read more

  • There's A Methodist Minister Named J. Gordon ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    There’s a Methodist minister named J. Gordon Melton who has an interesting hobby. He collects lists of church denominations in the United States... and his research has revealed there are 1517 different recognized denominations in USA. He includes all kinds of groups, including cults such as the ...read more

  • In Genesis 35, After Jacob's Daughter Dinah Was ...

    Contributed by Mel Shepherd on Jul 1, 2007
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    In Genesis 35, after Jacob’s daughter Dinah was raped by a Hivite named Shechem and Jacob’s sons took matters into their own hands by killing the people that had done this, in chapter 35, God gave this advice to Jacob because he was bitter with his sons, Simeon and Levi for destroying his ...read more

  • A Squirrel In The Road

    Contributed by Jim Heidebrecht on Jul 2, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,071 views

    A Squirrel in the road: This week as I was thinking about roads and signposts and choices, I was on our road right out here and as I turned the corner, I saw a squirrel He was halfway across when he noticed me I didn’t have room to stop He froze in the middle, he started across, started back, ...read more

  • By Life Or By Death

    Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    ILLUSTRATION: BY LIFE OR BY DEATH John Piper, in his book, “Future Grace”, reprinted a letter by Carl Lundquist, former president of Bethel College and Seminary. In 1988, the doctors told him he had a rare form of cancer which invaded the skin over his entire body and ended his life three years ...read more

  • From Rustle Of Angels  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 4, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,510 views

    From Rustle of Angels p88 In the book Rustle of Angels Jeanette Gable tells her experience. She was very fearful about her upcoming surgery. She told the doctor, but he didn’t give her any medication for her anxiety. As she was in the holding area awaiting surgery she began to literally shake ...read more