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  • The Bill Always Comes Due

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2011
     | 2,111 views

    THE BILL ALWAYS COMES DUE Bob Harris, weatherman for NY TV station WPIX-TV and the nationally syndicated independent Network news, had to weather a public storm of his own making in 1979. Though he had studied math, physics and geology at three colleges, he left school without a degree but with a ...read more

  • Navy Seals

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
     | 3,842 views

    NAVY SEALS I don’t know much about the army but here is something I read recently about those Navy Seals who shot Osama Bin Laden. It’s good to be a Navy SEAL right now. The elite sailors are being showered with praise for their successful operation in Pakistan that resulted in the killing of ...read more

  • Amazing Forgiveness

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Nov 26, 2011
     | 4,519 views

    AMAZING FORGIVENESS Philip Yancey in Rumours of Another World shares a story of the remarkable. The story of an atrocity that happened during the days of apartheid in South Africa and the reconciliation that followed in a court room many years later. A policeman named Van de Broek recounted an ...read more

  • The Stress Of Uncertainty

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,575 views

    THE STRESS OF UNCERTAINTY Daniel Gilbert (a psychologist at Harvard), citing a recent Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, said "that Americans are smiling less and worrying more than they were a year ago, that happiness is down and sadness is up, that we are getting less sleep and smoking more ...read more

  • Life ...

    Contributed by Samuel Fulkerson on Aug 23, 2012
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    Life Choices: AT&T FIRED President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. *He received a $26 million dollar severance package. Police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten ...read more

  • To Be A Peace-Maker

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Aug 28, 2012
     | 4,545 views

    TO BE A PEACE-MAKER In the 1920s there was a serious conflicts between England and Ireland. Ireland wanted to be an independent nation. They did not mind being part of the United Kingdom, they wanted to govern themselves. That organization that was there as a resistance against the British ...read more

  • Husband Doesn't Get It

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Jun 19, 2013
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,297 views

    TWICE A WEEK After just a few years of marriage filled with disagreements and arguments, a young man and his wife decided the only way to save their marriage was to try counseling. Things had slipped from bad to worse as the months passed, turning their marriage into a marathon of misery. They had ...read more

  • Loss

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Aug 9, 2019
     | 1,977 views

    Have you ever had a time in your life when you suffered drastic income loss? In 1995 I had a dream job, I had an office that was 30 foot by 40 foot with my own private bath, no boss on 2nd and 3rd shift and the pay was great, not bad for a blue-collar worker. We based our lifestyle on my wages, and ...read more

  • What Happens When We Learn About A Really Bad ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,422 views

    What happens when we learn about a really bad guy repenting? It happens all the time in prison ministry, yet many of us think those people aren’t worth saving. They had more chances than most of us are willing to give them, yet God hasn’t given up on them. Jeffrey Dahmer was a convicted murderer ...read more

  • D) How Does The Earth Compare In Size And Space ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 22, 2008
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    d) How does the earth compare in size and space to our sun’s closest neighbor star Proxima Centauri? 1. Proxima Centauri is a red dwar star and part of the Alpha Centauri star system. This closest neighbor is 4.22 light years away or 270,000 times farther than the earth is from the sun. If the ...read more

  • Tom White's Story

    Contributed by Deborah Westbrook on Aug 13, 2008
     | 2,149 views

    TOM WHITE'S STORY Sometimes there are great revelations that come out of our storms. Let me tell you about a man named Tom White. In the 1970’s when America was full of protest marches and flower power, stories began coming out of Castro’s Cuba of terrible torture and imprisonment of Christians ...read more

  • Faith Without Works

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Sep 4, 2009
     | 5,711 views

    FAITH WITHOUT WORKS As a Marine Sergeant, there were many times when I helped out the young troops in my charge with various sorts of favors. Sometimes I was the local financial aid officer, assisting a young Marine in between pay days with the money necessary for a car insurance payment. ...read more

  • The Meanest Man In Texas

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 5, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,486 views

    THE MEANEST MAN IN TEXAS Let's finish with the true and amazing story of Clyde Thompson. Clyde's father was a Bible salesman, but when he was old enough to stay home alone, he began refusing to go to church with the rest of the family. Most Sundays, while his family was in church, Clyde was ...read more

  • Baseball - The Curious Case Of Scooter Gennett

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Dec 31, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,429 views

    Baseball And The Curious Case Of Scooter Gennett Baseball is known for its surprises. It's a beautiful game that lets grown men play a kids game. For more than a century of baseball and thousands of games, only 16 men have homered four times in one game. The last was Josh Hamilton, five years ...read more

  • One Of The Most Incredible Stories Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Mar 13, 2001
    based on 220 ratings
     | 6,094 views

    ILL. One of the most incredible stories of forgiveness I’ve ever heard came out of Tulsa, OK, a couple of years ago. Tom McGee was a young man who went out for a night of partying & revelry. He got drunk & ran head-on into a car driven by a young man by the name of Ted Morris. He killed Ted ...read more

  • Love Your Enemies  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 28, 2001
    based on 75 ratings
     | 6,369 views

    Illus.: “Love Your Enemies” We found ourselves on the same track with several carloads of Japanese wounded after we were freed from the Kwai prison camp. These unfortunates were on their own without medical care. No longer fit for action in Burma, they had been packed into railway cars which were ...read more

  • A Young Boy By The Name Of James Had A Desire To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 28 ratings
     | 4,800 views

    A young boy by the name of James had a desire to be the most famous manufacturer and salesman of cheese in the world. He planned on becoming rich and famous by making and selling cheese and began with a little buggy pulled by a pony named Paddy. After making his cheese, he would load his wagon and ...read more

  • Sir Earnest Shackleton's Epic Tale Of Survival ...

    Contributed by Dr. C. David White on Apr 6, 2002
     | 2,982 views

    Sir Earnest Shackleton’s epic tale of survival and courage began with dreams of being the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. En route, the Endurance became beset in the ice deep within the Weddell Sea and drifted with the pack for ten months before finally being crushed and sunk in ...read more

  • A Story From Sports Illustrated. Oklahoma State ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Apr 23, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 2,301 views

    A story from Sports Illustrated. Oklahoma State Football Coach Bob Simmons, a Coach of the year, who brought a team that was mired in defeat back from the brink, to the place of respectability. But at age 49, his kidneys were failing. By the fall of 1997, his health took a turn for the worst, he ...read more

  • Mother's Day Gifts  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2002
    based on 25 ratings
     | 11,337 views

    MOTHER'S DAY GIFTS What NOT to Buy Your Wife: Although the only person a man usually shops for is his wife, the whole experience is a stressful one. Many a man has felt extreme frigid temperatures for a long period based on a poor present decision. As a veteran of these wars, I’m still not sure ...read more

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