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  • The Men's Thesaurus  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 10, 2001
    based on 198 ratings
     | 3,780 views

    THE MEN’S THESAURUS (men don’t always say what they mean) – excerpts: When a man says: "IT’S A GUY THING" He means: "There is no rational thought pattern connected with this, and you have no chance at all of making it logical" When a man says "CAN I HELP WITH DINNER" He means: "Why isn’t it ...read more

  • The Shame Of War.  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2003
    based on 86 ratings
     | 3,879 views

    The Shame of War. While living in Weil der Stadt, West Germany in 1989, my wife and I had a very profound experience with the local high school students. In order to make learning English a little more fun, the High School English teacher made an arrangement with the local theatre. The students ...read more

  • Receiving Signal  PRO

    Contributed by Tylor Cates on Jan 24, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
     | 3,712 views

    Receiving Signal Prop: A cell phone In our church we have a 5-minute kid story in the big church before we take the kids over to the Junior Church so I’ll tell you how I did it and you can adapt it to your needs. Good morning boys and girls today I’m going to teach you an important lesson. (I ...read more

  • The Seventeen Year Cicada Locust Lives Up To Its ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on May 1, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,754 views

    The seventeen year cicada locust lives up to its name. When my children were little the locusts invaded. The little bugs had lived as larvae in the ground for a long seventeen year snooze. When they awoke one Saturday morning, it sounded like all the chain saws in the county had been ...read more

  • The Apostles Were A Great Example Of The ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jun 3, 2007
     | 2,229 views

    The apostles were a great example of the difficulties of loving one another, and Jesus knew it. There’s a scene in the epic Franco Zefferelli movie, Jesus of Nazareth, in which Jesus arrives at the house of Matthew, the tax collector, for dinner as he told Matthew he would. Peter and the other ...read more

  • Our Flag Is A Banner  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Apr 22, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,865 views

    OUR FLAG IS A BANNER In February of 1945 Joe Rosenthal pulled out his camera and clicked a photo that would later become the most reproduced photograph in the history of photography: Five young Marines planting the American flag on the island of Iwo Jima. The photo of these young men raising the ...read more

  • Giftedness

    Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 1, 2008
     | 1,799 views

    GIFTEDNESS Every now and then, I will have a home repair project to do. I don't mind trying to do some of these things. When we lived in South Dakota, there was a time when the toilet got clogged up. Well, the first thing I did was use a plunger, and it cleared it. But the very next time we had ...read more

  • A Guest Preacher Was Speaking About "Seeing Jesus ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 4, 2008
     | 3,623 views

    A guest preacher was speaking about “seeing Jesus in others” when God used Meghan as a living illustration of someone who had surrendered everything to Jesus as part of her community of faith. During the worship set, Meghan spontaneously went to the front of the church and began dancing…wildly. ...read more

  • Psychology Today

    Contributed by Ryan Peters on Mar 10, 2009
     | 2,518 views

    Psychology Today The Dangers of Loneliness (Aug 2003) Friendship is a lot like food. We need it to survive. What is more, we seem to have a basic drive for it. Psychologists find that human beings have fundamental need for inclusion in group life and for close relationships. We are truly social ...read more

  • God Just Needs A Voice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,565 views

    GOD JUST NEEDS A VOICE John Stott, a well-known British pastor and theologian, was invited to preach at the University of Sydney in Australia; but after he got there, he lost his voice. He describes his experience as follows: "What can you do with a missionary who has no voice? We had come to ...read more

  • Trapped Coal Miners Discover Old ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 14, 2009
     | 4,726 views

    Trapped Coal Miners Discover Old Passage In one of the coal mines of the north, the top of the pit fell in while a considerable number of the miners were down below, and the shaft was completely blocked. Those who were in the mine gathered to a spot where the last remains of air could be breathed. ...read more

  • Rejoicing In Pain  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,069 views

    REJOICING IN PAIN Richard Stearns, the president of World Vision, visited a church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, nearly a year after the devastating earthquake. The church's building consisted of a tent made from white tarps and duct tape, pitched in the midst of a sprawling camp for thousands of ...read more

  • The Scariest Road  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2012
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,932 views

    THE SCARIEST ROAD Yahoo! Travel has released an article titled America’s Scariest Drives, and the results are frightening. Here is a brief list of some of the roads: Highway One that travels off the Big Sur Coast in California is both beautiful and breath-taking. This 122 mile stretch travels ...read more

  • Hush Puppies

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Aug 27, 2014
     | 6,278 views

    Are you familiar with the brush-suede shoe called Hush Puppies? It was popular when I was a kid. The brand was all but dead until late 1994. Sales were down to 30,000 pairs a year, mostly sold in backwoods outlets and small-town family stores. Wolverine, the company that makes Hush Puppies, was ...read more

  • Something For Nothing?

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Jan 13, 2020
     | 3,765 views

    Several years ago, I had to make an urgent flight across the country. Because the only airport with those kinds of connections was a good ways away, I took advantage of a shuttle service. Considering the cost of fuel and parking alone, I figured I could get a ride from the northern terminal all ...read more

  • Two Angry Brothers?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 20, 2022
     | 1,625 views

    ACCIDENTLY, COINCIDENCE OR ON PURPOSE? There were two precious brothers. They loved each other. Their parents owned a huge farm. The brothers worked in harmony alongside their mom and dad for years. Suddenly and unexpectedly the father and mother died. One brother went to a lawyer about the ...read more

  • What It Was, Was A Peach Tree

    Contributed by James Snyder on Aug 15, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,268 views

    For some reason, this week, I had been thinking of my maternal grandfather. I was named after him, and therefore we had a connection. I was thinking about him because this month I turned the same age as he was when he passed. I hope there's no connection there. As a young boy, I would spend a ...read more

  • Cultivating The Fine Art Of Listening

    Contributed by James Snyder on Dec 16, 2023
     | 590 views

    If confession is good for the soul, I must confess here, I have not been successful at everything in my life. Oh yes, there are a few things I have been successful at, which I won’t mention right now. But many things I have failed to succeed at. One thing I have failed to succeed at, even though I ...read more

  • I Used To Have A Principle Named Mr. Duchovich. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rolland Bouchard on Sep 11, 2002
    based on 43 ratings
     | 2,052 views

    I used to have a principle named Mr. Duchovich. He was a monster of a man. Not in Character, but in stature. When in trouble in Jr. High school, the students feared for their lives. I remember one day having another student at the school bet me that I couldn’t kick a clock that was 7.5 feet ...read more

  • Perpetual New Year's Resolutions  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,706 views

    PERPETUAL NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Share a funny story with ...read more