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  • Some Years Ago, I Had The Sheer Joy Of Seeing ...

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Mar 7, 2008
     | 1,659 views

    Some years ago, I had the sheer joy of seeing the movie adaptation of Fulton Oursler’s novel, The Greatest Story Ever Told. I loved the way Max von Sydow brought the personality of Jesus to the screen; it was perhaps the most natural portrayal of our Lord that I’ve ever seen. It was a long movie ...read more

  • Six Chairs Of Prayer

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,237 views

    Six Chairs of Prayer Chair One: My attitude towards prayer is that it is not important. I have no motivation to pray and no desire to pray. Nothing is happening in my life in regards to prayer. Chair Two: My attitude towards prayer is that it is optional. I have a motivation and a desire to pray ...read more

  • The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
     | 1,321 views

    THE i-POD One day a woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist to the electric coffeepot he had in his hand. It seemed that he was being electrocuted. So - intending to jolt him away from the deadly current - she ...read more

  • He Leadeth ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
     | 4,743 views

    HE LEADETH ME When Joseph Gilmore was just out of seminary, he filled in a couple of weeks at FBC in Philadelphia, PA. And he gave this testimony: "At the mid-week service, on the 26th of March, 1862, I set out to give the people an exposition of the 23rd Psalm, which I had given before on three ...read more

  • Napoleon—when He Conquered Europe Took His Family ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 2, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,671 views

    Napoleon—when he conquered Europe took his family and he sat them every one in great places over the many kingdoms and states and nations of Europe that he’d conquered. Whenever he’d conquered a country, he’d put his relative over it to be ruler. He took his entire family and spread them around ...read more

  • A Medical Doctor Provides A Physical Description: ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,485 views

    A medical doctor provides a physical description: The cross is placed on the ground and the exhausted man is quickly thrown backwards with his shoulders against the wood. The legionnaire feels for the depression at the front of the wrist. He drives a heavy, square wrought-iron nail through the ...read more

  • Know What You Believe  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 23, 2002
    based on 27 ratings
     | 2,328 views

    KNOW WHAT YOU BELIEVE The contention of the atheist is logically unsustainable and realistically unlivable. English journalist Steve Turner, in a work entitled, “Creed” sums it up pretty well: We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin. We believe everything is OK as long as you don’t hurt ...read more

  • Receiving Signal  PRO

    Contributed by Tylor Cates on Jan 24, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
     | 3,567 views

    Receiving Signal Prop: A cell phone In our church we have a 5-minute kid story in the big church before we take the kids over to the Junior Church so I’ll tell you how I did it and you can adapt it to your needs. Good morning boys and girls today I’m going to teach you an important lesson. (I ...read more

  • I Will Never Forget The Day I Watched About 40 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 20, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,375 views

    I will never forget the day I watched about 40 khaki-clad men get off an old rattletrap brown bus in Houston, Texas. Some had scars on their faces. I especially remember one man whose arm had been amputated. Some of them looked tough. I remember thinking I would not want to meet some of those guys ...read more

  • Pablo Picasso. Picasso Was The Spanish Cubist ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Jan 13, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,029 views

    Pablo Picasso. Picasso was the Spanish cubist artist who sketched, sculpted, and painted his way into prominence in the early twentieth century. On the rare occasion, he painted live portraits. One such instance was his painting of Gertrude Stein, one of America’s foremost authors of a bygone ...read more

  • Follow The Trail

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
     | 2,755 views

    FOLLOW THE TRAIL In 1949, Mao Tse-Tung ran through China in a marauding storm. His communist army was wiping out anything in their path that would hinder an unrestrained dictatorship of communism. In the path of this malicious army, a CIA operative Douglas Mackiernan had to flee for his life. ...read more

  • Cheap Grace

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 15, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,654 views

    CHEAP GRACE (defined and adapted from Dietrich Bonhoeffer) a). Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace. b). Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God ...read more

  • Just Wanted To Tell You I Love You  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,983 views

    JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU I LOVE YOU Paul Powell tells the story of a well-known preacher from years ago. His name was Carter Jones. Carter had a small room in the attic of his home that he used as a place of prayer. When he was especially burdened, he would make his way up the winding staircase to ...read more

  • Lesson Of The Good Samaritan

    Contributed by Darian Hybl on Aug 21, 2013
    based on 1 rating
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    Recently I read an article that convicted me of my ‘blind spots’ where I have not wanted to ‘cross the road’ or enter deeper into relationship. Alex Early penned an article entitled, “A Pastor Walked into a Gay Bar And…” At first I avoided the article because I thought this article was more a ...read more

  • Teach Discipline?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jun 18, 2021
     | 1,868 views

    PARENTS MUST LEARN AND TEACH WHAT GODLY SELF DISCIPLINE CAN DO FOR THEIR HOME AND FOR THEIR CHILDREN. COME LET US CONSIDER WHAT SELF DISCIPLINE CAN DO TO CHANGE THE VALUE OF ONE’S DAILY LIFE… (Unknown, adapted) Place a guitar in my hands and it is worth $300. Put a guitar in the hands of B.B. ...read more

  • Wrong Righteousness  PRO

    Contributed by Tylor Cates on Jan 24, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 6,894 views

    Wrong Righteousness Quote: "If you don’t know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra Text: Romans 10:1-4 Prop: a new US $20 bill (or adapt for local currency) Summary: Some people try to get to heaven on their own by being a good person. The only righteousness that ...read more

  • Be Like The Spider  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 2, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,046 views

    BE LIKE THE SPIDER There was a man who was cleaning up his desk one Friday afternoon when he noticed an envelope that had been opened. Someone must have placed it there while he was on the phone. He opened it and read it, and to his shock and dismay it was a notice of being terminated, being ...read more

  • Whole World In His Hands

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 14, 2009
     | 2,246 views

    WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS Sam Cathey became a Southern Baptist evangelist in 1967. That first year, he had to rush back from a revival, because his daughter had gone in the hospital with acute appendicitis. They thought it might be ruptured. Sam got on a plane in Los Angeles about 2:30 in the ...read more

  • Wrong Priorities Illustrated In The Book, In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 12, 2009
     | 5,784 views

    Wrong Priorities Illustrated in the Book, In the Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work Ancient church father Augustine of Hippo once said, “Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.” Until those folks in Jerusalem moved God from the bottom of their list of ...read more

  • Mr. President? (07.13.05--Tomorrow--Mark ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jul 12, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,791 views

    Mr. President? (07.13.05--Tomorrow--Mark 13:33-34) We spend so much time preparing for some things. Whether it’s a birthday, a wedding, a family reunion or simply an evening dinner with the family, if there’s people involved, there’s always a goodly amount of preparation that precedes the event. ...read more