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  • In April Of 2001 An Attorney Friend Of Mine Made ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Jun 3, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 1,558 views

    In April of 2001 an attorney friend of mine made a commitment to Christ. His life so changed in the last year that one his peers noticed. While he was in my friend office one day he asked what had brought about the change he saw. My friend told him that he had committed his life to Jesus. The ...read more

  • Don't Sweat Messing Up  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,067 views

    DON'T SWEAT MESSING UP Most men think that they have to be perfect when they’re with their kids. This is not only not good, it's bad training. Better you should just continue being a mess-up. Fall off your bike. Drop an easy pop fly. Order a really dumb product from some lame infomercial you ...read more

  • Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2001
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,836 views

    Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda describes his battle with bad habits: "I took a pack of cigarettes from my pocket, stared at it and said, "Who’s stronger, you or me?" The answer was me. I stopped smoking. Then I took a vodka martini and said to it, "Who’s stronger, you or me?" Again the ...read more

  • Christianity Asserts That Every Individual Human ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,231 views

    Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must either be true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am ...read more

  • Paul "Bear" Bryant. Bear Bryant Said Concerning ...

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Nov 28, 2005
     | 1,663 views

    Paul “Bear” Bryant. Bear Bryant said concerning his football team: “I’m just a plow hand from Arkansas, but I have learned how to hold a team together. How to lift some men up, how to calm down others, until finally they’ve got one heartbeat together, a team. There’s just three things I’d ever ...read more

  • Moral Confusion: Americans Hold A Confusing Mix ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 2,566 views

    Moral Confusion: Americans hold a confusing mix of ideas about morality, according to a new Gallup poll that took a snapshot of 16 moral issues of the day. The poll found that 66% of Americans think divorce is okay, but that extra-marital affairs are not (93%). Killing yourself is very bad (81%), ...read more

  • A Man Went To His Doctor For A Checkup. The ...

    Contributed by Mark Perryman on May 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,872 views

    A man went to his doctor for a checkup. The doctor did a very thorough examination and then asked the nurse to send the man’s wife into his office. The doctor said, “I have some very bad news, your husband is very sick. The good news is that there is hope. If you will take him home, cook him ...read more

  • The Legal System Should Be Reformed So People ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,891 views

    "The legal system should be reformed so people bear the consequences of their own bad choices. The best solution would be to make people who file baseless lawsuits pay the costs of defending against them. Loser pays, that system is called, and thats the way it works in most of the civilized world. ...read more

  • As We Begin Our Study Today It Is Necessary That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    As we begin our study today it is necessary that we understand that these temptations were very much real. C. S. Lewis made these insightful observations about temptation: “No man knows how bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what ...read more

  • Keeping Company With God  PRO

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jul 31, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,747 views

    Philip Yancey writes in his book, Prayer, that “… Keeping company with God also includes expressing the times of trial and frustration. In Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye keeps up a running dialogue with God, giving credit for the good things but also lamenting all that goes wrong. In one scene he ...read more

  • Writing In The Christian Reader, Laura Conklin ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Mar 23, 2008
     | 1,589 views

    Writing in The Christian Reader, Laura Conklin shares a family story. “My husband and I home school our two children, Seth and Glenna. One day, the lesson was on opposites. “Glenna, who was six at the time, was being quizzed. I would say a word and she would give its opposite. “When I said, ...read more

  • There Was A Story In The Newspaper Some Time Ago ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
     | 948 views

    There was a story in the newspaper some time ago about a burglar in Gastonia, NC, who broke into an apartment where he washed all the dirty dishes, mopped the kitchen floor, scrubbed the bathtubs and rearranged all of the furniture very neatly. (Some of you might want to leave your door unlocked so ...read more

  • Companies And Ministries That Don't Deliver ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,116 views

    Companies and ministries that don't deliver trust risk destroying potential customer/constituent goodwill and, ultimately, their businesses or ministries. Those that don't uphold their promises and values undermine brand awareness and constituent loyalty. Marketers build trust in their products, ...read more

  • Did You Hear About The Lady That Was Bitten By A ...

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 5, 2008
     | 2,226 views

    Did you hear about the lady that was bitten by a skunk with rabies? The doctor came into her room and informed her: "Yes, the skunk had a bad case of rabies, and rabies is a highly contagious disease. You are now infected with rabies." The doctor told her that rabies was deadly, and there was no ...read more

  • No One Stopped To Help  PRO

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 5, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,273 views

    NO ONE STOPPED TO HELP This past week in DC, a frightening thing happened. In a bad neighborhood where drunkenness and drugs are wide spread. Three men got into an argument, probably about a bottle of beer. One man was punched. They called it a "sucker punch." The man fell backwards and hit ...read more

  • Heathers And Gratitude

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Nov 6, 2009
     | 3,736 views

    HEATHERS AND GRATITUDE Some people think being thankful all the time is like going around with a goofy smile on your face all of the time and being insensitive to other people’s feelings. Some think it means to always be happy. We can be grateful, thankful, without being irrationally "happy" in ...read more

  • When God Forgives, He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
     | 4,400 views

    “When God Forgives, He Forgets” How different God’s pardon is from ours! So often we forgive as did the mother of the little girl who had been good a whole week, and asked mother for a favor. “I know” was the answer, “that you have been good all this week, but you know your were bad last week.” In ...read more

  • Selecting A Christmas Gift

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,548 views

    Selecting a Christmas Gift It is that time of the year when people really start to get serious about selecting Christmas gifts. When purchasing Christmas gifts one must first remember what is being celebrated. "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes ...read more

  • One Of My Favorite Comedies Is "Groundhog Day", A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
    based on 126 ratings
     | 3,472 views

    One of my favorite comedies is "Groundhog Day", a make-believe story about a weather man, Phil Conners who has a bad attitude, even worse manners, and a razor tongue. He was was reporting on Groundhog Day from a small town he cared little about. The fuss the folks were paying to a groudhog he ...read more

  • Gary Ingrid, Who Has Written Extensively On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2001
    based on 106 ratings
     | 3,649 views

    Gary Ingrid, who has written extensively on friendship, tells the tale of some parents on the East coast who got a telephone call from their son during the Korean War. They were thrilled, because they hadn’t heard from him for many months. He said he was in San Francisco on his way home. "Mom, ...read more

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