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  • I Remember Playing Basketball One Day With An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 7, 2001
    based on 71 ratings
     | 1,925 views

    I remember playing basketball one day with an African American boy. He was from Wilson High School in San Francisco. He was failing his biology class at Choate Rosemery. Although I was teaching biology and human anatomy at Choate, I didn’t offer to tutor him because he had no interest in study. ...read more

  • No Place For Pain  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 3, 2002
    based on 36 ratings
     | 5,736 views

    NO PLACE FOR PAIN In his sermon on dealing with trials, Nashville pastor Byron Yawn points out: "For most, especially American Christians, even the remotest suggestion that there could be value in our suffering is viewed as uncaring and insensitive. We have been conditioned by our culture to ...read more

  • State Of The Church: "The Fact That There Has Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,774 views

    State Of The Church: “The fact that there has not been any measurable increase in church involvement or personal spiritual depth in the past decade challenges the widespread notion that the U.S. is as spiritually healthy and focused as ever. This has been an intriguing year regarding the spiritual ...read more

  • Through The Valley Of Death  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,815 views

    THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DEATH Philip Crosby, in his book "March Till They Die," gives an account of a forced march that American and European soldiers who had been captured had to endure in Korea. It was November of 1950, and the North Koreans were being pushed north. As they went, they forced the ...read more

  • 3. On Sunday Morning, October 23, 1983, ...

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Oct 19, 2006
     | 1,776 views

    3. On Sunday morning, October 23, 1983, terrorist bombed the Marine barracks in Beirut. Hundreds of Americans were killed or wounded as they slept. Many of us can still recall the terrible scenes as the dazed survivors worked to dig out their trapped brothers from beneath the rubble. A few days ...read more

  • Aussie Common Sense  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,197 views

    AUSSIE COMMON SENSE Common sense is taking into consideration all the realities you see in front of you and coming to a right conclusion. After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, British scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ...read more

  • Ingersoll And The Patience Of God

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 5, 2012
     | 5,343 views

    INGERSOLL AND THE PATIENCE OF GOD Robert Ingersoll, an American Agnostic, after delivering one of his addresses, pulled his watch from his pocket and said, "According to the Bible, God has struck men to death for blasphemy. I will blaspheme Him and give Him five minutes to strike me dead and ...read more

  • Chuck Colson Tells This Amazing Story: "Nbc Has ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,439 views

    Chuck Colson tells this amazing story: “NBC has been running a gripping series on the emergency military triage facilities in Iraq. Last Thursday, NBC showed wounded Iraqi insurgents [terrorists] being brought to Camp Speicher near Tikrit. Two of them had been caught placing an explosive device on ...read more

  • An Increasing Number Of People In America And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
     | 2,421 views

    An increasing number of people in America and around the world don't believe in God. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has found 20% of Americans ages 18 to 25 say they have no religious affiliation or consider themselves atheists or agnostics, nearly double the rate of 20 years ...read more

  • The Priority Of God

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 1, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,866 views

    THE PRIORITY OF GOD Priorities are an issue in the church today, and David Wilkerson addresses this issue with the following thought from his most recent newslatter: "A priority is the importance you place on something. And Christians who neglect prayer have perverted their priorities! Many ...read more

  • Joseph Sung A Romanian Pastor Who Was Tortured ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Nov 22, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,421 views

    Joseph Sung a Romanian Pastor who was tortured and beaten under Communist rule for 25 years. The communists despised his Christianity. After the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe Joseph became a spiritual leader in Romania until his death in 1998. An American Pastor asked Joseph what he thought ...read more

  • One Time In College, I Was Sitting At A Table In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 29, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 1,843 views

    One time in college, I was sitting at a table in the student union having some lunch, when I overheard a buddy of mine complaining about all the “furry foreigners” at our college. I was blown away, and here’s the reason: his last name was Levondoski. You understand? He’s the descendant of ...read more

  • Pornography Revenues Now Exceed The Combined ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 1,717 views

    Pornography revenues now exceed the combined revenues of Coca-Cola and McDonnell Douglas. ’96 porn video sales & rental profits were $4.2 billion. Americans spend more money at strip clubs than at Broadway, off-Broadway, regional and nonprofit theaters; at the opera, the ballet, ...read more

  • Merchantmania: According To A July Ebay Survey, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,627 views

    Merchantmania: According to a July eBay survey, more than 724,000 Americans report eBay is their primary or secondary income source. Another 1.5 million say they supplement their income by selling on eBay. A separate MasterCard study estimates there are 5 million web-driven ...read more

  • Suffering = Service

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 10, 2009
     | 5,066 views

    SUFFERING=SERVICE Roger Staubach is an American football player. He was once asked when injured, "How do you keep on keeping on if you’re playing professional football"? Roger said something important, "If you’re not playing hurt, you’re not playing football." Paul expresses a similar ...read more

  • In A Hurry

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2011
     | 3,471 views

    IN A HURRY The American minister and writer Philip Brooks (1835-93); was noted for his poise and quiet manner. However, one day a friend saw him feverishly pacing the floor like a caged lion and asked him what the trouble was. "The trouble is," replied Brooks, "that I’m ...read more

  • Lambie Renounces Citizenship

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,830 views

    Illustration: 5179. Lambie Renounces Citizenship Dr. Thomas Lambie went to Ethiopia as a medical missionary. After some time he wanted to buy land for a mission station. An Ethiopian law said that no land could be sold to foreigners. Because Dr. Lambie had great love for Christ and the Ethiopians, ...read more

  • There Was A Spiritual Reason For This. For Three ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,036 views

    There was a spiritual reason for this. For three days, Jonathan Edwards had not eaten a morsel of food, nor closed his eyes in sleep. Over and over again, he cried out “Oh, God, give me New England Give me New England” Because of his total devotion to Jesus Christ, Edwards was able to preside ...read more

  • Volunteers Down

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 2,291 views

    VOLUNTEERS DOWN In ’06 more than 61 million Americans donated their time to charity, the fewest since ’02, and down 4.4 million from ’05, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experts note volunteering spiked after 9/11/01 and Hurricane Katrina may have played a role in that it wiped out ...read more

  • The Gospel

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Dec 9, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 972 views

    Pastor Martin Niemoeller confronted Hitler’s corruption of the German church and spent 8 years in prison. In 1945 he was freed by American forces. Remarkably he lived to the age of 92. A few days before his death he wrote - "when I was young I felt ...read more