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  • Do You Remember "Do Overs?"  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 30, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
     | 4,058 views

    DO YOU REMEMBER "DO OVERS?" They were part of the "Good Ole" Days. I know, Let’s play a little game… Everyone stand up. Now sit down when you can’t remember what I mention next… How many of you remember… 90’s – Beanie Babies; Teenie Beanies; Grunge; and the phrase CHA-CHING!!! 80’s – PacMan; ...read more

  • James Abram Garfield Was Born November 19, 1831, ...

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Aug 6, 2005
     | 2,294 views

    James Abram Garfield was born November 19, 1831, in a log cabin in the back woods of Ohio. His father died at the age of 2. Young James somehow earned enough money to go to college. He graduated from college in 1856, and he became a professor and president of Hiram College in Ohio, the college of ...read more

  • In 1955, The New York Yankees Chose 22 Year-Old ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Feb 13, 2007
     | 982 views

    In 1955, the New York Yankees chose 22 year-old John Malangone as the probable REPLACEMENT for VETERAN catcher Yogi Berra. Though he could THROW a BALL from HOME PLATE and HIT the left field FENCE 368 feet away with a SOLID POP and had consistently BATTED over 300 through the MINOR ...read more

  • When "Old Blue Eye's" Died In May 1998 At The ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 27, 2004
    based on 16 ratings
     | 2,243 views

    >>When “Old Blue Eye’s” died in May 1998 at the age of 82 everyone agreed: There will never be another Sinatra. Sinatra had an amazing career; he even topped Elvis! He holds the record of 40 consecutive years with a song on the billboard charts. One of those chart topping songs was “I Did It My ...read more

  • Imagine A Banker Who Credited Your Account Each ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,881 views

    Imagine a banker who credited your account each morning with $86,400, and every evening took back whatever you didn’t use. What would you do? Draw out every penny and invest it, of course! Well, every morning God credits us with 86,400 seconds. Tonight, He’ll write off as lost what we do not ...read more

  • C. Over The Centuries People Have Come Up With A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,458 views

    C. Over the centuries people have come up with a lot of different ideas about Christian stewardship and giving. 1. There’s a story told about a couple of guys who were discussing their approaches to giving. a. One man said, “Here’s how I decide how much to give. I cash my paycheck in small bills, ...read more

  • Introduction: In 1976 Vince Papale Was A 30 Year ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,947 views

    Introduction: In 1976 Vince Papale was a 30 year old Substitute teacher and bartender in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He and his buddies spent most Sunday afternoons in the Fall either playing football at the park or watching the Philadelphia Eagles play on tv. Week after week they had high hopes, ...read more

  • How Many Of You Read Alice In Wonderland? There ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,846 views

    How many of you read Alice in Wonderland? There was a morning in Wonderland when Alice complained to the queen, “But I find it quite impossible to believe what you say” At which her majesty mumbled, “Well, maybe you do, my dear; but when I was your age I made it a point to believe six impossible ...read more

  • When I Was Working On My Undergraduate Degree I ...

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 3, 2007
     | 1,110 views

    When I was working on my undergraduate degree I took a couple of classes in geology. Most of the time I was asking myself the age-old question that many students ask as they go through some class that they don’t want to take, “Why do I have to take this class?” As the class went on we talked ...read more

  • When I Was In The Navy, Sailors Told Each Other ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Oct 28, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,052 views

    When I was in the Navy, Sailors told each other all sorts of stories about what happened on various deployments or on liberty. They were called sea stories, and were often far from being true. In fact we used say that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story was that a fairy tale begins ...read more

  • During The Early Morning Hours Of Sunday, January ...

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Feb 12, 2008
     | 1,468 views

    During the early morning hours of Sunday, January 27, just one week ago today, fire swept through Tim and Victoria Lasita’s Delhi Township home. The house was destroyed, and with it, practically all their possessions. Tim, Victoria and their two sets of triplets—6 children in all, under the age ...read more

  • One Of My Favorite Books Is Called This I ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Feb 19, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 979 views

    One of my favorite books is called This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women. It is a compilation of eighty essays based on the National Public Radio series of the same name. The essays are from the famous and the unknown. One of the essays that I found most moving is ...read more

  • A Man Was Watching A Little Tv On Sunday Instead ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
     | 1,839 views

    A man was watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, He was watch a Church service in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years...... The retired minister was 92 at that time and he wondered why the Church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to ...read more

  • Years Ago A Farmer Owned Land Along The Atlantic ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,325 views

    Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands. Most people were reluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic. They dreaded the awful storms that raged across the Atlantic, wreaking havoc on the buildings and crops. As the farmer interviewed ...read more

  • I Recall One Sunny Afternoon When I Was 13 Years ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Feb 5, 2009
     | 3,108 views

    I recall one sunny afternoon when I was 13 years old and had only recently moved to Butte, Montana where I lived for a couple of years during high school with my father and grandfather. One afternoon I was exploring a very old log cabin style garage on the back of the property where we lived. It ...read more

  • Death Makes People Angry

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,192 views

    DEATH MAKES PEOPLE ANGRY Back in September of 2004, Casey Neistat of New York City discovered that the battery in his first-generation 5 GB iPod could no longer hold a charge for more than an hour. So he called Apple. Unfortunately for him, Apple basically advised him to buy a new iPod (their ...read more

  • How To Evangelize Jehovah's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2010
     | 3,985 views

    How to Evangelize Jehovah’s Witnesses David Reed has much experience to draw from when teaching Christians to evangelize Jehovah’s Witnesses. He was a preacher and elder there for many years. Now his book, Jehovah’s Witnesses Answered Verse by Verse is in its 32nd printing and has sold more than ...read more

  • God's Chair

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Feb 26, 2011
     | 3,539 views

    GOD'S CHAIR When I was small, I used to play a game with my friends called musical chairs. Do you remember it? The object of the game was to be in possession of a chair when the music stopped. All through life it often seems we’re caught up in this game. There are different kinds of chairs and in ...read more

  • The Angel And Anthony Burger

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 22, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,560 views

    THE ANGEL AND ANTHONY BURGER Anthony Burger died at age 44. Many feel that he is the finest gospel pianist that ever lived. He spent the last ten years playing for the Gaither Vocal Band. He last played on a cruise ship. Fifteen hundred people were on the cruise, vacationing during the day, and ...read more

  • The Avoidance Of Death

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2011
     | 5,152 views

    THE AVOIDANCE OF DEATH I read a great book called The Art of Dying, by Christianity Today editor Rob Moll. In the forward, by Lauren Winner, we read: "We no longer allow people to say that they are dying – rather, they are “battling” an illness. Far from encouraging the perilously ill to ...read more