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  • My First Assignment 35 Years Ago Was To An Inner ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 16, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,593 views

    My first assignment 35 years ago was to an inner city parish in Wshington,D.C. Money was stolen from my room; the garage mechanic said my gas tank may have been sabotaged, destroying my engine; one weekend we had 34 windows broken in the school. When a new pastor was sent,the parish held a party ...read more

  • Gifted Does Not Equal "Successful"

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 12, 2009
     | 2,504 views

    "GIFTED" DOES NOT EQUAL "SUCCESSFUL" This week, I’ve begun reading a new book by one of my favorite authors, Malcolm Gladwell, titled "Outliers: The Story of Success." The premise of the book is simple: no successful person is a self-made man; everyone who gets to the top had a lot advantages, ...read more

  • Obituaries  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 14, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,468 views

    OBITUARIES Jeruselem 33 AD Calvary Jesus Christ, 33, of Nazareth died Friday on Mount Calvary, also known as Golgotha, the place of the skull. Betrayed by Judas, Jesus was crucified by the Romans, by order of the Ruler Pontius Pilate. The causes of death were extreme exhaustion, severe torture, ...read more

  • Barna On Parenting

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 22, 2009
     | 3,209 views

    BARNA ON PARENTING George Barna in his book "Revolutionary Parenting" gives us the bad news about the family today -- especially many Christian families: What does God measure? In other words how does God evaluate what is a healthy family and an unhealthy family? Barna states: What does God ...read more

  • Love Of God

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 16, 2010
     | 6,620 views

    LOVE OF GOD Let’s say you had a child who kept getting in trouble, you kept bailing him out as a child, and eventually as he grew up even you couldn’t bail him out anymore, you had to let him go live his life the way he was choosing because nothing you or anyone else did could stop ...read more

  • The Bible – For Mature Audiences Only

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Nov 5, 2019
     | 3,721 views

    Recently I have been preaching sermons on topics submitted by the members of the church. I thought that was a good idea until someone requested I preach from Genesis 38. It’s not your typical children’s bedtime Bible story. It’s more on the lines of a scandalous storyline for a daytime soap ...read more

  • Swim Club

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 23, 2006
     | 1,343 views

    Swim Club There once was a swim club in a certain town. It was very popular because everyone in town wanted to be a good swimmer. The founders of the club had worked very hard to raise the money and do the work of building a beautiful swimming pool inside a very stylish building. They ...read more

  • This Is A Pretty Cool Illustration. The ...

    Contributed by Robert Fox on Dec 18, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,782 views

    (this is a pretty cool illustration. The materials cost less than $3, and, though it was originally intended more for a junior high audience, it actually is pretty fascinating for all ages, including senior high and adults. Everyone likes to blow things up!) Let me give you a visual. Another ...read more

  • Can We Love Someone We Find Unloving? Galatians ...

    Contributed by Clifford Good on Jul 18, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,103 views

    Can we love someone we find unloving? Galatians 5:13-14 says that we are given freedom to serve one another in love. Whenever I take a trip I come home with lots of stories that come out of the things I see and the people I meet. Here is a story from the last trip to highlight this point about ...read more

  • Prayer And 19th Century Revival

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2011
     | 3,846 views

    PRAYER AND 19TH CENTURY REVIVAL Dr. A. T. Pierson once said, "There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer." Let me recount what God has done through concerted, united, sustained prayer. [J. Edwin Orr. Personal Notes.] Not many people ...read more

  • Guidance Behind Enemy ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2012
     | 4,597 views

    GUIDANCE BEHIND ENEMY LINES Every Monday night, when I was not sacking groceries at the Piggly Wiggly, we would go to the library in Dothan. One Monday evening, I “accidentally” found a paperback copy of William C. Anderson’s book, BAT-21. It was a story about Iceal "Gene" Hambleton, a U.S. Air ...read more

  • What Not To Do  PRO

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
    based on 17 ratings
     | 1,631 views

    WHAT NOT TO DO The new millenium brought out the worst in parenting, and no parenting methods were criticized more harshly than those of captured American Taliban, John Lindh Walker. When Lindh Walker was 10, the family from Washington State moved to socially liberal Marin County, just over the ...read more

  • Phan Thi Kim Phuc  PRO

    Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 12, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,434 views

    Phan Thi Kim Phuc (Illustration from Still More Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks” Wayne Rice. Printed by Youth Specialties) On June 8, 1972, a nine-year-old Vietnamese girl, her clothes flaming from gasoline bombs, fled the American-led assault on her village of Trang Bang. With her eyes ...read more

  • A Recent Front-Page Story In The Wall Street ...  PRO

    Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Feb 12, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,410 views

    A recent front-page story in the Wall Street Journal (January 6, 2004) reported U.S. Marines being trained for duty in Iraq are getting drilled in people skills as well as heavy weaponry. They are receiving instruction about staying respectful as well as about staying alive. Marines are still ...read more

  • When Is Jesus Coming? The Bible Is Very Clear ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Dow on Jun 12, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,870 views

    When is Jesus coming? The Bible is very clear that no one knows when that event will occur. It is kind of like trying to anticipate the next terrorist attack. People have their best guesses and the terror index goes up and down and so far nothing has happened here in the States. I actually ...read more

  • There Was A Man Who Was Born On August 19, 1843 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Sep 11, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,220 views

    There was a man who was born on August 19, 1843 near Clinton, Michigan. When he was 17 years old he moved to his sister’s home in Tennessee where he enlisted in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He got out of the army a year later in 1862 and he went to St. Louis to study law. On ...read more

  • But You Don't Have To Deliberately Break The ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jan 17, 2005
     | 1,834 views

    But you don’t have to deliberately break the rules to be disqualified. It’s possible to unintentionally break the rules and still be disqualified. At the ’88 Summer Olympics there was an American boxer named Anthony Hembrick. He was disqualified from competition because he didn’t show up at the ...read more

  • The Most Toys? (09.08.05--The Temporal ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 6, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,192 views

    The Most Toys? (09.08.05--The Temporal Things!--Matthew 16:26) The world teaches this--You can never have too much of a good thing! We must always have enough or we are being somehow cheated of that which we truly deserve. If one were to ever wonder why we live in such a greedy world, this tenet, ...read more

  • Heavenly Botox! (09.12.05--Heavenly Citizens!--2 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 8, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,218 views

    Heavenly Botox! (09.12.05--Heavenly Citizens!--2 Cor. 5:17) Make-overs! We are a people obsessed with them these days. We restore our cars, pump botox into our chins and eyelids, remodel our homes at a record pace and are transfixed by the various shows on television whose story lines are founded ...read more

  • Insurgency! (11.08.05--Christian ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 6, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,513 views

    Insurgency! (11.08.05--Christian Soldiers!--Revelations 12:7) What war? That was the response that I got from a friend recently when I referred to Operation Iraqi Freedom as a war. I looked at him and asked: “How would you define a war?” His response? “A war is when freedom is at stake and our ...read more