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  • If You Watch The Game Today I Want You To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2003
    based on 47 ratings
     | 1,778 views

    If you watch the game today I want you to remember this story about Jerry Rice. He was the longtime star for the San Francisco 49ers, considered one of the greatest receivers in the history of football; he played for the 49ers for 15 years, 1985 to 2000. Tonight he will be playing for the Raiders. ...read more

  • De Dónde Viene El Carácter? — Where Character Comes From

    Contributed by Major Gerardo Balmori on Mar 22, 2010
     | 1,375 views

    (English translation follows) ¿De dónde viene el carácter? ¿Cómo llega a nosotros? Recuerde la ilustración del hombre que comprando pollo rostizado, se dio cuenta que en vez del bote de pollo le dieron el bote de las ganancias del día. Su novia se quedó sorprendida cuando el decidió regresar el ...read more

  • When I Was A Kid, I Remember My Mum Coming To Me ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 17, 2009
     | 1,691 views

    When I was a kid, I remember my Mum coming to me and blaming me for something I had not done. Mostly when she came to me with punishment I deserved it, but not this time. She was so sure that I was the culprit. In the end there was nothing I could say or do to convince her that I had not committed ...read more

  • Dan Rather: Coming Home 9/11, I Read The Bible.

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
     | 3,284 views

    Dan Rather: Coming home 9/11, I Read the Bible. The CBS anchor talks to Texas Monthly magazine about covering the terror attacks: That first day, I got home at five-fifteen in the morning. I know from past experience that you can’t just have a glass of milk and go to ...read more

  • Was That Somebody You?  PRO

    Contributed by Jun Tadena on Aug 25, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,464 views

    "Was That Somebody You?" Tom Carter, the evangelist, told this in one of his messages: While he was holding meetings in a Pennsylvania town, a young man who had formerly lived next door to the parsonage committed a murder. The whole community was stirred. Mr. Carter and the pastor obtained ...read more

  • You Be The Judge?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 4,493 views

    YOU BE THE JUDGE? "A money belt is one thing you just can’t do without," my friend told me. ’Make sure you take travelers’ checks with you and maybe a few twenties, and tuck them in your money belt before you leave. And don’t ... DON’T go pawing through your money when you’re out on ...read more

  • Are You For Real?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 1,434 views

    ARE YOU FOR REAL? The misuse of God’s name for personal profit is easily applied to certain televangelists who use the name of God to make a buck off of overly trusting people, or politicians who mention God’s name in the right places and the right times in order to gain a certain constituency of ...read more

  • Who Are You?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,747 views

    WHO ARE YOU? When Don called home from the road one evening, he spoke briefly to his nine-year-old daughter: "Honey, could you get your mommy on the phone?" He then heard Tasha blurt out, as she set the receiver down on the counter: "Hey Mom, the invisible man is on the phone!" In that ...read more

  • You Forgot  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Dillinger on Jun 5, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
     | 3,162 views

    YOU FORGOT Ken Blanchard writes: When my son Scott was a senior in high school, he used to cause problems by parking his truck in the driveway. Nobody could get in or out because his truck was big enough to go to war. I always told him to park it out in the street. One day I came home to ...read more

  • For You, Mother  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 17, 2003
    based on 23 ratings
     | 2,494 views

    FOR YOU, MOTHER This is for all the mothers who have sat up all night with sick toddlers in their arms, wiping up barf full of Oscar Mayer wieners and cherry Kool-Aid saying, "It’s OK honey, Mommy’s here." This is for all the mothers who show up at work with spit-up in their hair and milk stains ...read more

  • If You Want  PRO

    Contributed by Kerry Tilley on Feb 15, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,544 views

    If you want to be distressed, look within. If you want to be defeated, look back. If you want to be distracted, look around. If you want to be dismayed, look ahead. If you want to be delivered, look to Christ. If you want to be delighted, look ...read more

  • Are You A Christian?  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie De Loney on Feb 4, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,523 views

    ILLUSTRTATION: ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN? Addressing a national seminar of Southern Baptist leaders, George Gallup said, "We find there is very little difference in ethical behavior between churchgoers and those who are not active religiously...The levels of lying, cheating, and stealing are remarkable ...read more

  • Where Are You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 21, 2008
     | 2,114 views

    WHERE ARE YOU LOOKING? A young second lieutenant at Fort Bragg discovered that he had no change when he was about to buy a soft drink from a vending machine. He flagged down a passing private and asked him, "Do you have change for a dollar?" The private said cheerfully, "I think so, let me take a ...read more

  • Between You And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
     | 1,654 views

    BETWEEN YOU AND GOD I conclude with a story that I heard Pastor Larry Booker tell in a sermon he preached on August 4, 2007 at the First Pentecostal Church of North Little Rock, Arkansas. The title of the message was "Three Attitudes of Jewish Babylon." I understand just as you do that holiness ...read more

  • Between You And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
     | 1,004 views

    BETWEEN YOU AND GOD I conclude with a story that I heard Pastor Larry Booker tell in a sermon he preached on August 4, 2007 at the First Pentecostal Church of North Little Rock, Arkansas. The title of the message was "Three Attitudes of Jewish Babylon." I understand just as you do that holiness ...read more

  • What Will You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
     | 3,123 views

    WHAT WILL YOU DO? Henry Ford gave away millions of dollars to many different causes in his lifetime, but he was notorious for the fact that he refused to give any money at all to schools. He felt that well-meaning but non-businesslike people frequently mishandled those gifts. Now, there was a ...read more

  • You Are Not Your ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 2,878 views

    You are Not Your Own Purchased at the Highest Price Corporate Worship The first step to enjoying public worship services is to understand that Christians are not their own. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you ...read more

  • Are You "Sharing"?

    Contributed by Danny Presswood on Jan 26, 2009
     | 4,384 views

    ARE YOU "SHARING"? One of the most stirring indictments on the church ever penned was made by Charles Schultz many years ago. Snoopy is shivering out in a snowstorm beside an empty food dish. He was looking longingly, expectantly, toward the house. Lucy came out and said, "Go in peace, be warmed ...read more

  • The More You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
     | 1,280 views

    THE MORE YOU KNOW Allen Rex Sandage, the greatest observational cosmologist in the world--who has deciphered the secrets of the stars, plumbed the mysteries of quasars, revealed the age of globular clusters, pinpointed the distances of remote galaxies, and quantified the universe’s expansion ...read more

  • If You Lack

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,666 views

    Preacher Vance Havner said, “If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack ...read more

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