Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 26, 2001
based on 42 ratings
| 1,738 views
"This year will have a notoriety among its fellows as the year of calamities. Just as that season when man goes forth to reap the fruit of his labors, when the harvest of the earth is ripe, and the barns are beginning to burst with the new wheat, Death too, the mighty reaper, has come forth to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Dec 5, 2001
based on 5 ratings
| 4,445 views
March 11, 1942. Corregidor, in the Philippines. I’m sure most of the WWII veterans in the congregation today can tell you what happened that day.
The Japanese forces were invading the Philippines, and on a day that marked the beginning of a dark chapter for the American and Filipino forces,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2002
based on 22 ratings
| 6,801 views
A MEMORIAL TO THE RESURRECTION
Six miles outside of Manilla lies the peaceful but vast Manila American Cemetery. It is 152 acres of gently rising ground set aside to memorialize the military dead who served America during World War II in the Southwest Pacific Theatre.
The cemetery is
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
based on 13 ratings
| 3,496 views
HARD TIMES FOR HELL
Hell, it would seem, has fallen on rather lean times. It used to be that the vast majority of Christians, regardless of denominational affiliation, believed that Hell was a real place where the wicked and the impenitent go when they died. The very thought of the pains and
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
based on 7 ratings
| 2,682 views
TOO SMART FOR HELL
According to U.S. News & World Report, 78% believed in Heaven and believed they were going there. Only 60% believed in Hell, but only 4% believed they were going there.
In the same article, the Rev. Mary Kraus observed "My congregation would be stunned to hear a sermon on
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
based on 6 ratings
| 3,794 views
CHOOSE WISELY
There are many who believe that hell is not a literal place prepared for those who reject God. Part of the refusal to believe this comes from the way Hell has been represented to us. It’s become a cartoon of sorts.
There is a Far Side cartoon showing the devil (complete with a
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 14, 2002
based on 23 ratings
| 2,567 views
MAKING PEOPLE PRAY
A bus driver and a minister were standing in line to get into heaven. The bus driver approached the gate and St. Peter said, "Welcome, I understand you were a bus driver. Since I’m in charge of housing, I believe I have found the perfect place for you. See that mansion over the
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 14, 2002
based on 7 ratings
| 2,002 views
OPRAH MAKES IT TO HEAVEN
Forget her TV rankings. Among a group of 15 prominent figures, Oprah Winfrey is a winner in the biggest rating game of all. In a recent survey, 66 percent of Americans said they believe that the popular talk show host is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to go to heaven.
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
based on 21 ratings
| 6,999 views
HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
In December 1903, after many attempts, the Wright brothers were successful in getting their "flying machine" off the ground. Thrilled, they telegraphed this message to their sister Katherine: "We have actually flown 120 feet. Will be home for Christmas." Katherine hurried to
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Dec 9, 2004
based on 4 ratings
| 9,228 views
A Sunday School teacher asked his class, “If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into Heaven?”
“NO!” the children all answered.
“If I cleaned the church every day, mowed the yard, and kept everything neat and tidy, would that get
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
based on 83 ratings
| 4,640 views
Choices have to be made by all of us at some time. A poet (James Russell Lowell) put it like this: "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide; Some great cause, God’s new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight; Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Dan Erickson on Nov 22, 2000
based on 236 ratings
| 3,195 views
A poll done by The Minneapolis Star Tribune a few years ago found that 65% of the people in Minnesota believed in hell. That is a pretty high number. Only 15%, however, said they knew someone who would be a sure bet to go there, and only 3% felt that they themselves deserved to end up
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Mark Hensley on Jan 26, 2001
based on 85 ratings
| 4,006 views
In November I975, 75 convicts started digging a secret tunnel designed to bring them up at the other side of the wall of Saltillo Prison in northern Mexico. On April 18, 1976, guided by pure genius, they tunneled up into the nearby courtroom in which many of them had been sentenced. The surprised
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Charles Salmon on Sep 25, 2007
based on 3 ratings
| 3,619 views
The Hunter and the Lion - from Many Sided Messages on the Book of Jonah by Neighbor. P. 165
There is a legend of a hunter who entered a forest in search of game. All the animals fled in fear except the lion, who shook his shaggy form and roared in defiance. The hunter let fly an arrow that struck
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 4 ratings
| 2,089 views
One day and employer was having an unusually bad day at the office. As a result he yelled at one of his employees, which made the employee mad. When the employee arrived home, he made an ugly comment to his wife. In turn, She yelled at their 10-year old son. The son ran outside and kicked the dog.
...read more
Tags:
Recently we asked a lady how it was that she became a Christian. She’s actively involved in church and loves the Lord, but we knew that her parents weren’t church-goers. She said that one Sunday when she was 10 years old, she walked to a church down the block from her house and just went in. An
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Sermon Central