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  • Doing The Job Alone

    Contributed by Jim Mccutchen on Oct 10, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,175 views

    FROM: Joe Smith, Bricklayer RE: My Accident Claim I am writing in response to your request concerning Block #11 on the insurance form which asks for "the cause of injuries" wherein I put "trying to do the job alone." You said you needed more information, so I trust the following will be ...read more

  • Don't Do Change Alone

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 5, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,840 views

    DON'T DO CHANGE ALONE With a new year just around the corner, most of us are busy scribbling down resolutions. We desire radical change in the way we look, the way we behave, the way we make our living. But if research regarding New Year's resolutions is at all true, most of us will fall short of ...read more

  • Chuck Colson, Of Prison Fellowship, Tells About A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 2, 2001
    based on 101 ratings
     | 2,973 views

    Chuck Colson, of Prison Fellowship, tells about a prison in Sao Do Campos, Brazil, which was turned over to two Christians more than twenty years ago. It is run according to Christian principles. The prison only has two people on its staff. The inmates do everything else. Each prisoner has ...read more

  • Active Christians Who Volunteer Are The Best ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,338 views

    Active Christians who volunteer are the best donors. People really do put the treasure where their heart is, 90% of volunteers contribute to charity. The volunteer-donor is likely to be an active Christian. More than income, age, race, or education, faith predicts giving and volunteering. People, ...read more

  • Card Quandary: The Stationery Goods Market ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,554 views

    Card Quandary: The stationery goods market reached $36 billion in ‘04, up 6.3% over ‘02. While greeting cards account for $10.3 billion in ‘04, sales of cards declined 3.9% from ‘02. The market is mature, with 78% of adult Americans having bought a greeting card in the past year. A typical consumer ...read more

  • An English Preacher Of The Last Generation Used ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,798 views

    An English preacher of the last generation used to say that he cared very little what he said the first half hour, but he cared a very great deal what he said the last fifteen minutes. I remember reading many years ago an address published to students by Henry Ward Beecher, in which he gave a very ...read more

  • The Secure Man's 23rd Psalm Says…  PRO

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Jun 8, 2006
    based on 26 ratings
     | 7,104 views

    The secure man’s 23rd Psalm says… I am my provider, I shall not be in want I have stored up hay if the grass is not green in the valley I have a big canteen just incase the waters are dried up I have a map so I can find the right path Even if I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I have ...read more

  • The Triumphal Entry Has About It An Aura Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 22, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,705 views

    The triumphal entry has about it an aura of ambivalence, and as I read all the accounts together, what stands out to me now is the slapstick nature of the affair. I imagine a Roman officer galloping up to check on the disturbance. He has attended processions in Rome, where they do it right. The ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis, In His Essay "The Law Of Human ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
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    C.S. Lewis, in his essay "The Law of Human Nature," said, "Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining "It's ...read more

  • Be A Line-Guide

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 26, 2009
     | 1,998 views

    BE A LINE-GUIDE When they were teaching me to march in the Navy, for a while until they learned that I have eye problems (go figure) they made me a line-guide. A line-guide is in the front corner of the ranks and marches straight, so that everyone else can mark their place off him. The line-guide ...read more

  • How's My Driving?

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 28, 2009
     | 1,600 views

    HOW'S MY DRIVING? A lot of trucks have a sticker on the back that says, "How’s my driving? Call xxx-xxxx to report." This is supposed to make the driver accountable. In Ireland, most people drive very, very courteously. They have roundabouts instead of lights (they do have some lights) where ...read more

  • A Millionaire Leaves It ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2010
     | 3,956 views

    A Millionaire Leaves It All A famous millionaire died of cancer. For weeks he suffered intolerable agony. Although surrounded by every luxury and receiving every possible care, he died as wretchedly as a pauper. There was the usual publicity, flowers, telegrams, an expensive bronze casket and a ...read more

  • Biblical Fellowship  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 15, 2010
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,000 views

    BIBLICAL FELLOWSHIP If the local church is going to develop the kind of beauty that God says is possible, that which will attract others to Christ, we much commit to becoming together, the kind of church Christ calls us to be. A church that is a biblical fellowship. In his book, Rediscovering ...read more

  • Dead To Garlic

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 20, 2011
     | 2,946 views

    DEAD TO GARLIC The problem is we are so accustomed to sin we do not recognize it's gravity. I once read the news account of the two Lake Worth, Florida, high school boys. They were suspended from school because they ate so much garlic that no one could stand to have them around. They had read ...read more

  • Last Words

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Feb 6, 2013
    based on 1 rating
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    LAST WORDS My father worked for the railroad when I was younger. One night a train was backing up to hook up to some other cars and one man was not watching. He was in the way and the train made the connection right through his body. He did not die immediately, but he knew he had only a short ...read more

  • The Debt Is Paid

    Contributed by Daniel King, D. Min. on Jul 25, 2018
     | 5,450 views

    Main Idea: Because of our sin, we owe a great debt that is impossible to pay, but Jesus paid the debt. Verse: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23 NKJV). Illustration: One time I was buying a sandwich at a store and I did not ...read more

  • Helping Others

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 12, 2024
     | 887 views

    John Chrysostom once preached a message which said, “It is foolishness and a public madness, to fill cupboards with clothing and allow men who are created in God’s image and our likeness to stand naked and trembling with the cold so that they can hardly hold themselves upright… You are large and ...read more

  • Conflict Results When We Perceive That Our ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 12, 2001
    based on 67 ratings
     | 1,097 views

    Conflict results when we perceive that our rights or needs are being violated in some way. Most of you probably remember the horrible tragedy that occurred in Massachusetts this past December. On the morning of December 26, 42 year old software tester, Michael McDermott, entered Edgewater ...read more

  • In The Eleventh Century, King Henry Iii Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Dunn on Feb 1, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 2,809 views

    In the eleventh century, King Henry III of Bavaria grew tired of court life and the pressures of being a monarch. He made application to Prior Richard at a local monastery, asking to be accepted as a contemplative and spend the rest of his life in the monastery. "Your Majesty," said Prior Richard, ...read more

  • In The Eleventh Century, King Henry Iii Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
    based on 25 ratings
     | 4,563 views

    In the eleventh century, King Henry III of Bavaria grew tired of court life and the pressures of being a monarch. He made application to Prior Richard at a local monastery, asking to be accepted as a contemplative and spend the rest of his life in the monastery. “Your Majesty,” said Prior Richard, ...read more