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  • Lucado On Alcoholism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 23, 2011
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    LUCADO ON ALCOHOLISM Max Lucado, one of America's great Christian leaders, found that out earlier in his ministry. He once said, "I come from a family of alcoholism. If there's anything about this DNA stuff, I've got it." For more than 20 years, drinking was not a major issue for Lucado, but about ...read more

  • Radical Faith  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jan 24, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,425 views

    RADICAL FAITH I want to read to you the opening story from David Platt's book "The Radical Question" (Multnomah Press). Imagine a scene that took place in Asia not so long ago: A room in an ordinary house, dimly lit, all the blinds on the windows closed. Twenty leaders from churches in the ...read more

  • Saved By Hope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,722 views

    SAVED BY HOPE An interesting item appeared in a Nashville newspaper, datelined Memphis (UPI): A woman named Hope pulled a man from chilly harbor waters after watching him drive his car off the bank in an apparent suicide attempt. Hope Phillips, thirty-eight, said Monday she was sitting in her car ...read more

  • The Big Announcement

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 1, 2011
     | 3,926 views

    THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT We hear good news in lots of different ways, and I am glad that we got to hear the Easter story told by some of our children this morning. There is something about hearing a child tell this great story that gives it new power. I can no longer hear the Resurrection story ...read more

  • Where Can I Get A Heart Like Yours?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,912 views

    WHERE CAN I GET A HEART LIKE YOURS? Bill White of Paramount, California talks about being in Compton, California, working with volunteers from several different churches on a Saturday doing projects to serve the city. At lunch time, he was headed down a narrow side street when he saw dozens of ...read more

  • You're Beautiful To God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,688 views

    YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL TO GOD R.C. Buckner, a big, bold and brash man, lived about 100 years ago in Texas. This imposing figure had a very tender heart for children, starting Buckner's Children's Homes all across the state. The children affectionately called him "Papa Buckner" and would run up to him ...read more

  • Declaration Of Dependence

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 11, 2011
     | 3,238 views

    DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE The Declaration itself laid the groundwork for our freedom as a Nation: And that declaration was to be based upon the nation’s faith in God. It was quite literally a declaration of “Dependence upon God.” In the first two sentences of the Declaration of Independence - ...read more

  • Authority At The Airport

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Oct 25, 2011
     | 3,940 views

    AUTHORITY AT THE AIRPORT Someone the other day told me they had a problem with Security at the airport from something they left in their carry on. Then it got me to thinking, which is a bad idea anyway, about my TSA encounter. I had an early morning flight and I got through security at about ...read more

  • The Beginning Of Marilyn Manson

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Feb 27, 2012
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    THE BEGINNING OF MARILYN MANSON Brian Warner started going to church with a friend years ago. Brian was a skinny pizza faced nerdy looking kid that nobody liked. He was also a loner who looked out of place most of the time. The youth group took a trip to an amusement park one weekend and when ...read more

  • Relying On Technology

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 15, 2012
     | 3,256 views

    RELYING ON TECHNOLOGY The following two news stories come from Reuters: "A Ukraine businessman who bought a pager for each member of his staff as a New Year gift was so alarmed when all 50 of them went off at the same time that he drove his car into a lamp post. The unnamed businessman was ...read more

  • Under The Influence

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Apr 13, 2012
     | 5,146 views

    UNDER THE INFLUENCE David Kupelian's book The Marketing of Evil, published in 2005, is an eye-opening study of what we face today. I wish every parent would read it. Does anyone here remember what happened to Robert Bauman in 1980? He was elected in 1973 as representative of the First ...read more

  • A Worry Satire  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on May 31, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,371 views

    A WORRY SATIRE Luke 12:22-34 (New Revised Updated Modernization Version for the E-Pad with notes) (NRUMVEPwN) Then Jesus said to his disciples: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, about evil people hurting you your family, or random biological terrorist attacks, or how the stock ...read more

  • Jim Buskirk Was Pastor Of Tulsa First Umc For ...

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Jul 30, 2012
     | 3,376 views

    Jim Buskirk was pastor of Tulsa First UMC for many years. He’s been a mentor in my ministry. I listened to his sermon tapes for years. He once told this story. A man named Henry got off the bus near his church. As he walked up the street, he noticed a young boy sitting by a flower bed near a ...read more

  • How To Send An Ultra Top Secret ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2012
     | 5,524 views

    HOW TO SEND AN ULTRA TOP SECRET MESSAGE There is a distinguished British gentleman by the name of Sir Oliver Franks. He had been a professor of philosophy at Oxford, and president of a couple of different colleges during the turbulent years of the 1960s and following. He had also been the chairmen ...read more

  • So Many People Believe They Can Be Right With ...

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Dec 10, 2012
     | 3,022 views

    So many people believe they can be right with God, they can have peace with God, they can deflect God’s anger from them by being good and doing good. They rightfully understand there’s a debt that they owe. But they don’t understand it’s a debt they could never repay. And to try to repay it does ...read more

  • Susie The Savior  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Mar 30, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,948 views

    SUSIE THE SAVIOR The story is told of a certain 9-year-old who is sitting at his desk in school when all of a sudden there is a puddle between his feet, and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop, because he knows when the boys find out, he'll never hear the end of ...read more

  • During Super Bowl Xxxvii, Fedex Ran A Commercial ...  PRO

    Contributed by Raymond L. Johnson on May 27, 2013
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,802 views

    During Super Bowl XXXVII, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie Castaway, in which Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker, whose company plane went down, stranding him on a desert island for years. Looking like Tom Hanks in the movie, the FedEx employee in the commercial goes up to the door of a ...read more

  • A Christmas Carol

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 22, 2014
     | 5,537 views

    Not that it is in the Bible but a story familiar around this time of the year is Ebenezer Scrooge. Ebenezer is a man incapable of joy. Scrooge is rich, but he lives alone in squalor. He takes pleasure in nothing and is indifferent to human suffering. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by a ...read more

  • The Boston Marathon

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 19, 2015
     | 6,815 views

    Around here in Boston, Patriots Day is famously known for “The Boston Marathon” in which runners from all over the world participate. I watched with keen interest as the gun shot went off for the 116th Boston Marathon. Upmost in every ones mind was the question “Who will get the grand prize worth ...read more

  • The Law, The Whole Law, And Nothing But The Law.

    Contributed by Larry Turner on Jun 5, 2016
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,349 views

    There is a story about a student at Cambridge University in England who entered the classroom on exam day and asked the proctor to bring him cakes and ale. The proctor refused, expressing astonishment at the young student’s audacity. At this point the student read from the four-hundred-year-old ...read more