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  • Compromise And Anti-Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,145 views

    COMPROMISE AND ANTI-CHRIST Religious tolerance is not always a sign of good will. It can be a sign of careless, perhaps hypocritical religious indifference of the most high-handed philosophic relativism. It can also be a mask behind which to hide downright malice. During the Nazi era, for example, ...read more

  • Some Years Ago Gladys And I Bought A Computer ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Oct 16, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,563 views

    Some years ago Gladys and I bought a computer that was a display model. We used it for a number of years. As a matter of fact, Steve just finished rebuilding it so the church can use it while the church’s computer is being repaired. Now, that computer served us well and I was able to do a number ...read more

  • Christian Influencers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,006 views

    Christian Influencers Rank Greatest Influence On The Church (Barna) Ranked by U.S. Pastors Most Influential Christians In America (The Church Report) 1 Billy Graham (34%) George W. Bush 2 Rick Warren (26% Mel Gibson 3 George Bush (14%) Billy Graham 4 James Dobson (11%) Rick Warren 5 Bill ...read more

  • On The Nascar Circuit, They Have Their Own Form ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,843 views

    On the NASCAR circuit, they have their own form of church called the MRO (Motor Racing Outreach). Nascar great Darrell Waltrip helped found this organization and he commented that Nascar is a dangerous commercialized place and they can’t always get away to go back to their church. He said: “If you ...read more

  • Americans: Flabby Faith  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 16, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,623 views

    AMERICANS: FLABBY FAITH A dozen or so years ago, a Romanian pastor came to visit the church I belonged to. He had gotten to know my pastor, John Vawter, who had been involved in a Bible-smuggling ministry when the Iron Curtain was still up. John asked him what he thought of our country, and of the ...read more

  • Repent!

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 8, 2022
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,291 views

    Johnny the painter, was big on cutting corners so he could make more of a profit. So when a church hired him to paint their wooden building, Johnny submitted the lowest bid, and was hired. As always, he thinned his latex paint with water to stretch it. One day while he was up on the scaffolding ...read more

  • Knowledge In Ignorance!" Luke 2: 1-5 Key ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 12, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,473 views

    “Knowledge in Ignorance!” Luke 2: 1-5 Key verse(s): 2: “Some of the Pharisees asked, ‘Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?’” The story is told of a preacher who lived along a river in a northern clime. Sunday after Sunday throughout the year he would climb into his old Tin Lizzy ...read more

  • Counting The Cost - Paying The Price By Bobby ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,964 views

    Counting the Cost - Paying the Price by Bobby Welch-----Bakari was born and grew up in a Muslim tribe near the Indian Ocean in Southern Kenya. On a Wednesday night last March, Bakari was persuaded to attend a Baptist church. Bakari was only willing to go to a church because of personal illness, and ...read more

  • Stanley Hauerwas And William Willimon Open Their ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 19, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,218 views

    Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon open their book Resident Aliens with the following: Sometime between 1960 and 1980, an old, inadequately conceived world ended…and a new world began. When and how did we change? Although it may sound trivial, one of us is tempted to date the shift sometime on ...read more

  • Jingle Bells  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 23, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,082 views

    JINGLE BELLS The two of them were best friends in seminary, studying together, helping each other financially when one or the other got in a pinch, they stood by each other through thick and thin. When they graduated from seminary both coincidentally received a church call within the same state: ...read more

  • Jesus Didn't Just Sit Around The Synagogue All ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,811 views

    Jesus didn’t just sit around the synagogue all day. Jesus didn’t just hang around the temple courtyard all the time. Instead Jesus went out where the people were. He didn’t isolate himself alone on a mountain top. Although he certainly did retreat there from time to time for prayer and refreshment. ...read more

  • What Will You Give?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,005 views

    WHAT WILL YOU GIVE? On one of Matthew Rogers' recent work trips to the Dominican Republic, everyone in the group was encouraged to leave behind any clothes or gear they didn’t want, because someone there could certainly use them. He was just going to give away some of his old worn out clothes, ...read more

  • Quecreek Miners Kept Each Other Alive  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on Aug 8, 2002
    based on 51 ratings
     | 4,833 views

    Quecreek Miners Kept Each Other Alive In what the news called "The Miracle at Quecreek," nine miners trapped for three days 240 feet underground in a water-filled mine shaft "decided early on they were either going to live or die as a group." The 55 degree (Fahrenheit) water threatened to kill ...read more

  • Lynn Harold Hough Was A Methodist Pastor In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Dec 25, 2004
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     | 2,906 views

    Lynn Harold Hough was a Methodist pastor in the early part of the twentieth century and became the President of Northwestern University. In 1908 he became the first to write a “Pledge of Allegiance to the Christian Flag. Once when he was speaking to a conference of pastor in Los Angeles he told ...read more

  • A Christian Railroad Engineer Was Speaking To A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,135 views

    A Christian railroad engineer was speaking to a group of fellow workers about heaven. He said, “I can’t begin to tell you what the Lord Jesus means to me. In Him I have a hope that is very precious. Let me explain. Many years ago as each night I neared the end of my run, I would always let out a ...read more

  • What American Christians Want: Christen ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
     | 1,783 views

    What American Christians Want: Christen researchers, the Barna Group, recently polled American attitudes on God and country. Some of their findings are: Removing the Ten Commandments—18% of adults support “removing signs that list the Ten Commandments from government buildings.” 79% rejected this ...read more

  • One Of Every Eight Americans Has A Significant ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Sep 5, 2006
     | 1,217 views

    • One of every eight Americans has a significant problem with alcohol or drugs, with 40 percent of the group having a "dual diagnosis," or concurrent mental/nervous disorder; • Approximately 27 million Americans either use illicit drugs regularly or are "heavy drinkers." Of these almost 16 million ...read more

  • In April, 1988 The Evening News Reported On A ...

    Contributed by Jason Cole on Mar 21, 2007
     | 2,155 views

    In April, 1988 the evening news reported on a photographer who was also a skydiver. He had jumped from a plane along with several other skydivers and filmed the group as they individually dove out of the plane and opened their parachutes. As the video was being shown of each member of the crew ...read more

  • One Of The Greatest Battles In American History, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,341 views

    One of the greatest battles in American History, was the battle of the Alamo, which was fought back in 1836. There 150 Texans, under the command of Col. William B. Travis, at the Alamo. And for 13 days those 150 men, held off the siege of 5,000 Mexican troops under the command of General Santa ...read more

  • Several Christian Men Who Had Been Touched By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,168 views

    Several Christian men who had been touched by the Lord decided to do something practical for their pastor: pray for him. What is so unusual about that, you might ask. Well, for one particular pastor, it was a brand new sensation. These few laymen had just returned from a Bible study that ...read more