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  • Above Reproach

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,695 views

    ABOVE REPROACH A friend told Plato of a terrible charge that had been leveled against the famous philosopher. Knowing it was not true, his friend said, "What are we going to do?" Plato replied, "We must simply live in such a way that all people will know it is false." Paul said that an elder is to ...read more

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

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Feb 5, 2009
     | 3,135 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

  • Made In His Image  PRO

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 31, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,162 views

    MADE IN HIS IMAGE In 1940 the Battle of Britain took place in the skies over England. Day after day hundreds of German bombers delivered to the targets below a cargo of death and destruction. The only thing stopping the certain defeat of the allies in western Europe was the Royal Air Force, whose ...read more

  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Had This Type Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 16, 2001
    based on 75 ratings
     | 2,005 views

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon had this type of experience. Even as a young lad he was conscious of sin, but couldn’t find peace. It so happened under the providential over-ruling of God that one Sunday morning he was prevented from attending his usual place of worship because of a snowstorm. He was ...read more

  • A Man Stood On The Side Of The Road Hitch Hiking ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Oct 24, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,177 views

    A man stood on the side of the road hitch hiking on a very dark night in the middle of a storm. The night was rolling and no cars passed. The storm was so strong, he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly he saw a car come towards him and stop. The guy, without thinking about it, got ...read more

  • There Are Some People That We Might Consider To ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Feb 10, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,540 views

    There are some people that we might consider to be a freak because of their disfigured appearance. Consider the story of John Merrick who was known more by his disfigured appearance and labeled as the "Elephant man". "John Merrick was born in Leicester, England in 1862. He suffered from a severe ...read more

  • The Cocoon  PRO

    Contributed by Dennis Jones on May 19, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
     | 3,053 views

    THE COCOON A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could ...read more

  • Prejudiced Toward Attractive People

    Contributed by Nathan Ingram on Nov 30, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,338 views

    PREJUDICED TOWARD ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE In her book Better Than Ever, Dr. Joyce Brothers, popular psych, shows we are prejudiced toward attractive people. We consistently judge beautiful people to be more sensitive, kind, intelligent, interesting, sociable, and exciting than less attractive people." ...read more

  • Have You Ever Been Told Something So Thrilling ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Dec 10, 2009
     | 1,518 views

    Have you ever been told something so thrilling that you could not be quiet? There had to be a party going on in heaven! Angels by their nature worship, serve, and represent God. Now the promise of the ages to all mankind had come. They could not shut up about it! The celebration overflowed, ...read more

  • Accepting The Good News  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,507 views

    ACCEPTING THE GOOD NEWS A promotion by H. R. Block Inc. in 2001 offered walk-in customers a chance to win a drawing for a million dollars. Glen and Gloria Sims of Sewell, New Jersey, won the drawing, but they refused to believe it when an H. R. Block representative phoned them with the good ...read more

  • Women And Proverbs

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 16, 2013
     | 3,854 views

    WOMEN AND PROVERBS From Chronological Life Application Bible: "Proverbs has a lot to say about women. How fitting that the book ends with a picture of a woman of strong character, great wisdom, many skills, and great compassion. Some people have the mistaken idea that the ideal woman in the ...read more

  • I Used The Famous Gene Kelly Scene From Singing ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2001
    based on 197 ratings
     | 8,110 views

    I used the famous Gene Kelly scene from Singing in the Rain as an illustration of Romans 5:17. The Sermon title was Singing in the Reign. Kelly’s dance was full of the child-like love we can feel and experience in knowing that God has freely given us His abundance of grace and the free gift of ...read more

  • Christian Merchandise Finds Alternative Market: ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
     | 1,595 views

    Christian Merchandise Finds Alternative Market: Sales of Christian-oriented card games, comic books and video games is on the rise as one market researcher says the current generation of teens appear to be more religious than Gen X. To promote their products as adventurous and exciting, some ...read more

  • Marriage Durability: Born Again Adults Who Have ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,204 views

    Marriage Durability: Born again adults who have been married are just as likely as non-born-again adults who have been married to eventually become divorced. Because the vast majority of born again marriages occurred after the partners had accepted Christ, it appears that their connection to Christ ...read more

  • A Story Is Told That A Huge Tree Was Not Put Down ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Santos on Oct 12, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,630 views

    A story is told that a huge tree was not put down by severe rains and storms, but to surprise or many, one sunny day it just fell. When they examined the inside, it was destroyed slowly by small insects eating the trunk. Small sins may appear harmless, but it is they that can blind the eyes! Don’t ...read more

  • The Army Of Alexander The Great Was Advancing On ...

    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Mar 8, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,617 views

    The army of Alexander the Great was advancing on Persia. At one critical point, it appeared that his troops might be defeated. The soldiers had taken so much plunder from their previous campaigns that they had become weighted down and were losing their effectiveness in combat. Alexander commanded ...read more

  • A Line From A Poem, "The New Colossus," By The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,270 views

    A line from a poem, “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus. “The New Colossus,” describing the Statue of Liberty, appears on a plaque at the base of the statue. It ends with the statue herself speaking: 1 Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning ...read more

  • Going Home

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 3,954 views

    GOING HOME For the first time since the Depression, more Americans ages 75 and older have been leaving the South than moving there, according to a New York Times analysis of Census Bureau data. The reversal appears to be driven in part by older people who retired to the South in their 60s, but ...read more

  • No Microscope, No Problem

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,441 views

    NO MICROSCOPE, NO PROBLEM A tribe in the jungle were all falling sick. A missionary doctor went into the village to try and help them. He suspected and soon discovered that it was the contaminated water they were drinking that caused their sickness. To show the natives the missionary set up a ...read more

  • Quote: C. S. Lewis

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
     | 2,278 views

    Quote: C. S. Lewis "Anyone who has ever taught or attempted to lead others knows the tendency in all of us toward exaggerating our depth of character while treating leniently our flaws. The Bible calls this tendency hypocrisy. We consciously or subconsciously put forward a better image of ...read more