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  • Full Of Hypocrites

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 24, 2025
     | 52 views

    Story: When was the last time you overheard a conversation like this? “Mary, how come you never shop at Asda.” And Mary answers, “Well, I used to. But the last time I was there the place was just full of hypocrites. So I’ll never go back there again.” You’ve never heard such a conversation ...read more

  • The Miraculous Human Body, Citation: Jeff ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Sep 7, 2001
    based on 157 ratings
     | 2,703 views

    [The Miraculous Human Body, Citation: Jeff Arthurs; references Dr. John Medina, genetic engineer, University of Washington, in 1995 lecture at Multnomah Bible College, Portland, Oregon] The average human heart pumps over 1,000 gallons a day, over 55 million gallons in a lifetime. This is enough to ...read more

  • Sometimes A Costume Is Just A Costume  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,458 views

    SOMETIMES A COSTUME IS JUST A COSTUME Who am I this time? That’s the question millions of kids and adults ask themselves in anticipation of Halloween each year. Their answer can say a lot about what’s going on within them, many experts say. In other words, think of Halloween as the ultimate ...read more

  • What Happened To Sunday School? New Barna Group ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,620 views

    What Happened To Sunday School? New Barna Group research has identified several significant changes affecting children’s programs: (1) A declining percentage of pastors viewing Sunday School as their top priority. (2) Fewer churches offering Sunday School for children under age 6 or for junior high ...read more

  • One Of The Great Things About Kids Is That Their ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2006
     | 951 views

    One of the great things about kids is that their perspective can often give us adults a new perspective on things that we take fore granted or they can give us an entirely new view of something unique and different. I am reminded of this in a heart-touching story about four year old Shane and the ...read more

  • How An Animal Migrates Is Significant In ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 27, 2006
     | 1,380 views

    How an animal migrates is significant in determining how much energy is needed as well as how much must be stored in the body. Flying, for example, is more physically intensive than walking or swimming, so migratory birds must build up large energy stores before they set off. Just before spring and ...read more

  • The Miraculous Human Body  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,538 views

    THE MIRACULOUS HUMAN BODY The average human heart pumps over 1,000 gallons a day, over 55 million gallons in a lifetime. This is enough to fill 13 super tankers. It never sleeps, beating 2.5 billion times in a lifetime. The lungs contain 1,000 miles of capillaries. The process of exchanging ...read more

  • Black Bart Was A Professional Thief Whose Very ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Hill on Jul 8, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,889 views

    Black Bart was a professional thief whose very name struck fear as he terrorized the Wells Fargo stage line. From San Francisco to new York, his name became synonymous with the danger of the frontier. Between 1875 and 1883 he robbed 29 different stagecoach. Amazingly, Bart did it all without ...read more

  • The Root Of Bitterness  PRO

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 16, 2007
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     | 4,617 views

    Illustration ------------ Years ago there was a terrible outbreak of disease in a tiny village in a remote part of Africa. Both children and adults were, getting sick and overcome with nausea. Several,weeks passed, and the sickness became widespread, and people started dying. Word of the disease ...read more

  • The Great Classical Cellist Pablo Casals, In His ...

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 4, 2007
     | 1,518 views

    The great classical cellist Pablo Casals, in his life story entitled Joys and Sorrows, tells readers his first memory of attending worship on Christmas Eve when he was five-years-old. He walked to the church in a small village in Spain, hand-in-hand with his father, who was the church’s ...read more

  • I Know A Fair Amount About President George W. ...

    Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 25, 2008
     | 1,193 views

    I know a fair amount about President George W. Bush. He is the son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and is now married to Laura, and they have young adult twin daughters. I also know that in his youth, George W. Bush was a little wild and crazy, and that a conversation with evangelist ...read more

  • Lying

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,302 views

    LYING Penn State researcher Dr. Nancy Darling reports 98% of teens reported lying to their parents in a recent study. They lied about what they spent their allowances on, whether they’d started dating, what clothes they put on away from the house, what movie they went to, and whom they went with. ...read more

  • Truth Stats In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
     | 3,942 views

    TRUTH STATS IN BELIEVERS A 2002 survey by the Barna Group found that adults, by a 3-to-1 margin believe that truth is relative to each individual person and his or her circumstances as opposed to the concept of absolute truth. And frankly, that isn’t all that surprising. But what is really ...read more

  • Living Poor To Give More: Excelling In Giving

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,686 views

    LIVING POOR TO GIVE MORE: EXCELLING IN GIVING The richest people in the world give a huge amount of money, yet their generosity is really a very small proportion of their wealth. And apparently the vast majority of Christ’s followers are not exactly excelling their giving either. So what does ...read more

  • Rome, Who Only 1 Year Old, Picked Up A Plastic ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 13, 2010
     | 1,434 views

    Rome, who only 1 year old, picked up a plastic spade and began playing it, pretending it was a guitar. It has the right shape. Anything can become a guitar in his hands. He has seen guitars at Church and as he danced he made sounds like he was playing one of the upbeat worship songs. We danced and ...read more

  • Furtick On Audacious Faith

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 18, 2011
     | 3,097 views

    FURTICK ON AUDACIOUS FAITH "We set a goal of reaching over one thousand people in our first year of ministry. Since the average church size in America is fewer than one hundred and twenty, and the first rule of goal setting is attainability, I guess we were overshooting it a bit. But we wanted to ...read more

  • Humorous Definitions  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,735 views

    HUMOROUS DEFINITIONS Definitions matter. Do you know what these words mean? ABDICATE: To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. ANTIQUE: An item your grandparents bought, your parents got rid of, and ...read more

  • Coronavirus And Our Need For The Transcendent

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 21, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,070 views

    Children, as Jesus said, Don't be afraid. Your family is probably founded on some kind of faith. Listen to your parents and other adults whom you trust, and know that nearly everyone is working hard to get us through this trouble. ? In fifty years you will remember this crisis as one of the ...read more

  • A Flag Of Rags  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 6,832 views

    A FLAG OF RAGS In the final years of our imprisonment, the North Vietnamese moved us from small cells with one or two prisoners to large rooms with as many as 30-40 men to a room. We preferred this situation for the companionship and strength we could draw from our fellow prisoners. In addition ...read more

  • When David Brainerd Took The Message Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Luthy on Nov 16, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 3,660 views

    When David Brainerd took the message of redemption to the North American Indians from 1743 to his death at age 29 just four years later, a revival broke out that impacted the Native American community. Baugh writes, "The revival had greatest impact when Brainerd emphasized the compassion of the ...read more