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  • Choosing Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,233 views

    CHOOSING LIFE Two paraplegics were in the news recently. One was Kenneth Wright, a high school football star and later an avid wrestler, boxer, hunter and skin diver. A broken neck sustained in a wrestling match in 1979 left him paralyzed from the chest down. He underwent therapy, and his doctors ...read more

  • Pain And Regret: A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,359 views

    PAIN AND REGRET: A GIFT? In 1999, Dr Paul Brand and Philip Yancey co-wrote a book called Pain: the Gift Nobody Wants. Dr Brand was born in India to missionary parents, and has spent most of his life caring for people with leprosy. One of Dr Brand’s greatest discoveries was that people with leprosy ...read more

  • And Now, Am Watching Larry King Live! Where There ...

    Contributed by Pastor Gbenga Shadare on May 6, 2010
     | 2,237 views

    And now, am watching Larry King Live! Where there is an interesting interview with Mrs Cindi Broaddus, the sister to Robin McGraw, Dr Phil McGraw’s wife. She was attacked five years ago by an unknown, hateful bigot who sprayed her with Sulfuric Acid from a highway overpass in the quiet countryside ...read more

  • The Year Of The Yes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,356 views

    THE YEAR OF THE YES Playwright Maria Hedley had her fill of terrible dates. Most of the dates she went on she thought the guys would be great candidates but they were totally unsatisfying. She got sick of her own taste and decided that fate couldn’t mess up her love life anymore than she could, ...read more

  • Fallen Human Nature  PRO

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Feb 20, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,322 views

    FALLEN HUMAN NATURE The fate of the women from Judges 19 touches the most troubling question of our modern time. Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel describe the most traumatic memory of his life, a scene from the year 1945, when he and his family were sent to the concentration camp by the German ...read more

  • A Desire To Know Him More

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Aug 20, 2011
     | 1,913 views

    A DESIRE TO KNOW HIM MORE Just imagine how wonderful it would be if our greatest desire was to know God more! Dennis Wise really loved Elvis Presley--so much so that not long after Presley died, Dennis had his face lifted by a plastic surgeon and his hair contoured so that he took on an ...read more

  • Margin Or Messiah?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,436 views

    MARGIN OR MESSIAH? Richard Swenson wrote a book in the 1990's titled, "Margin" in which he describes modern society as so overcommitted and over scheduled that we have no space left for rest. A reviewer writes: Overload is not having time to finish the book you're reading on stress. Margin is ...read more

  • Christianity Asserts That Every Individual Human ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2001
    based on 82 ratings
     | 2,947 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

  • The Smith's Were Proud Of Their Family Tradition. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on May 18, 2001
    based on 211 ratings
     | 3,797 views

    The Smith’s were proud of their family tradition. Their ancestors had come to America on the Mayflower. Their line had included Senators, Pastors, & Wall Street wizards. Now they decided to compile a family history, a legacy for the children. They hired a well known author. Only one problem ...read more

  • It Is An Old & Familiar Story, But Let Me Use It ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Aug 14, 2001
    based on 138 ratings
     | 1,535 views

    It is an old & familiar story, but let me use it again. Yakov Smirnoff, the Russian comedian, wrote a book, "Seeing the USA on Six Rubles a Day." In it he tells about being overwhelmed when he first entered an American supermarket & saw the great variety of products there. He just couldn’t ...read more

  • H.b. London, Jr. And Neil B. Wiseman, In Their ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,208 views

    H.B. London, Jr. and Neil B. Wiseman, in their book Pastors at Risk, present some statistics on risk factors related to ministers today. Some of these statistics are as follows: Ninety percent of pastors work more than forty-six hours a week. Eighty percent believed that pastoral ministry ...read more

  • There Was Once A Doctor Who Was Laughed To Scorn ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Apr 10, 2002
    based on 37 ratings
     | 1,653 views

    There was once a doctor who was laughed to scorn because of his theory. His doctor peers seemed to think of him as a waterboy among doctors where his theory was concerned. He had speculated that the reason that so many patients were dying following surgery was because of a poor sanitation factor. ...read more

  • When We Look Down At Earth  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,222 views

    WHEN WE LOOK DOWN AT EARTH On December 24, 1968 the world watched as Commander Frank Borman and his crew made history during the first manned flight to orbit the moon. The members of the Apollo 8 mission had an important message for the world that Christmas Eve -- they read from the biblical Book ...read more

  • Don't Sweat Messing Up  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,197 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

  • Your Son, Your Apprentice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,520 views

    YOUR SON, YOUR APPRENTICE "Consider your son to be your apprentice in life. That’s the way it used to be. The son was always with the father, either in the shop or in the field. So he learned from a very early age what being a man and a father was all about. Now we place more emphasis on our ...read more

  • Have You Notice How Much People Like To Talk... ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Jul 23, 2002
    based on 51 ratings
     | 1,292 views

    Have you notice how much people like to talk... Here are some statistics on the average American. If you are the average American you 30 conversations a day and you’ll spend 1/5 of your life talking. In one year your conversations will fill 66 books of 800 pages each. If you’re a man, you ...read more

  • A Man By The Name Of Von Neumann Was A Brilliant ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on Aug 8, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,093 views

    A man by the name of Von Neumann was a brilliant mathematician. He also had an incredible memory, His feats of memory are described by Herman Goldstine: As far as I could tell, Von Neumann was able on once reading a book or article to quote it back verbatim; moreover he could do it years later ...read more

  • Just Like Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 1,356 views

    JUST LIKE ME John Howard Griffin was a white man who believed he could never understand the plight of African-Americans unless he became like one. In 1959, he darkened his skin with medication, sun lamps, and stains, then traveled throughout the South. His book, Black Like Me, helped whites ...read more

  • The Famious Evangelist Bill Sunday Was Looking ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,787 views

    The famious evangelist Bill Sunday was looking for people to tell about Jesus. -Since he was going to be in this city he wrote a letter to the mayor in which he asked for the name of individuals he knew who had a spiritual problem and needed help and prayer. -How surprised ...read more

  • Christianity Asserts That Every Individual Human ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,353 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