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  • Let Me Read You An E-Mail From A Missionary In ...

    Contributed by David Butcher on Dec 8, 2006
     | 1,575 views

    Let me read you an e-mail from a missionary in Africa. “What an unintentional ’curse’ has been thrust on some parts of the African Church, certainly in our country, by missionaries not only preaching the Gospel but importing with it their own denomination and a Western way of worship. The result ...read more

  • Jackie Robinson

    Contributed by Scott Maze on Feb 15, 2007
     | 2,100 views

    Jackie Robinson was the first black major-league baseball player. He was the victim of racial hatred nearly everywhere he played baseball. There were fast balls thrown at his hear and curses and slurs hurled at him from the dugouts and stands. One day, playing at home in Brooklyn, Jackie ...read more

  • I Am Sure All Of Us Had Our Fair Share Of Being ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,416 views

    I am sure all of us had our fair share of being disrupted, disparaged or discouraged by rude behavior such as insults, curses, or gossip. Three pastors went to the pastor’s convention and were all sharing one room. The first pastor said, “Let’s confess our secret vices one to another. I’ll start ...read more

  • Voltaire's Final ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
     | 6,709 views

    Voltaire’s Final Words When a person lives in fear of death without hope, death is a tragedy. Voltaire was an aggressive atheist. In speaking of Christ he once said, “Curse the wretch?” In twenty years, Christianity will be no more. My single hand will destroy the religion it took twelve apostles ...read more

  • The City Of Jerusalem Has Always Been A Major ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Jul 23, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,576 views

    The city of Jerusalem has always been a major center for conflict. In 1099, an invading army took the city and massacred the inhabitants. The destruction was so complete that the invaders proudly reported that the narrow streets ran red with blood. 88 years later, an army appeared to retake the ...read more

  • The Love Of Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 23, 2002
    based on 26 ratings
     | 6,515 views

    THE LOVE OF CHRIST I want to tell you of a modern day Damascus road experience that some of you may find hard to believe. It is reported in an article by Fred Markert in the current issue of Pray Magazine. Fred is the International Director of YWAM’s Strategic Frontiers, a group that focuses on ...read more

  • My Dad Wasn’t A Very Good Father To Me Or ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 25, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,449 views

    My Dad wasn’t a very good father to me or my sisters. He drank too much and got angry at our Mum far too often. At 5 years old while my Dad had a roaring argument with my Mum, I decided to swing my fists at him and tell him I hated him and tried to push him away from my Mum. As a kid, I remember ...read more

  • Let Me Tell You About Louis Slotin, One Of The ...

    Contributed by Allan Quak on Dec 6, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,809 views

    Let me tell you about Louis Slotin, one of the early scientists who were working with the effects of radioactive uranium. On May 21, 1946, he was experimenting to find how long it would take for uranium to be triggered into an unstoppable reaction. He was doing that by pushing two hemispheres ...read more

  • A Few Years Ago A Us Air Airplane Crashed Near ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jan 27, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,202 views

    A few years ago a US AIR airplane crashed near Pittsburgh. The cause of that crash was a mystery, because the plane just seemed to fall from the sky. So it was with great interest that the investigators listened to the information recorded in the plane’s black box. CNN played a portion of that ...read more

  • Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) Wrote A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,268 views

    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) wrote a poem about a rich man during the early 1900s, called “Richard Cory”: Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from head to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly ...read more

  • The Tongue

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 17, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,689 views

    “The Tongue” A biblical writer said, “The tongue can no man tame.” A Greek philosopher asked his servant to provide the best dish possible. The servant prepared a dish of tongue, saying: “It is the best of all dishes, because with it we may bless and communicate happiness, dispel sorrow, remove ...read more

  • What Those Oats Can Do  PRO

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 9, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 737 views

    Illustration ------------- What Those Oats Can Do Henry Crowell, founder of the Quaker Oats Company and a significant contributor to the work of Moody Bible Institute knew how to use money wisely. As a young man, he received Christ as his Savior. When he began his business career in a little Ohio ...read more

  • The Law Has A Purpose. In The Case Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Eddie Snipes on Oct 26, 2000
    based on 99 ratings
     | 3,453 views

    The law has a purpose. In the case of Cain’s wife, there was no need for this law at the beginning. There are over 130,000 genes that we inherit from our parents (Explain genes to the ancient world). Genes are formed in pairs. At the moment of conception, we inherit one gene of each pair from each ...read more

  • There Once Was An Oyster  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 19, 2002
    based on 28 ratings
     | 1,901 views

    There once was an oyster whose story I tell, Who found that sand had got under his shell; Just one little grain, but it gave him much pain, For oysters have feelings although they’re so plain. Now, did he berate the working of Fate Which had led him to such a deplorable state? Did he curse ...read more

  • Someone Has Said That If You Could Convince A Man ...

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jul 14, 2008
     | 2,269 views

    Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Dusk was falling on the Saturday before Christmas in 1927 the S-4 submarine (S-class submarines, were the first class of submarines built to US Navy ...read more

  • Mind-Barriers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
     | 4,098 views

    MIND-BARRIERS Roger Bannister was an Olympian. Every four years we have the games. Four minutes was the fastest record to ever run the mile. Ever since statisticians kept records, they knew that no one would could ever beat that record. But Roger Bannister didn't listen to them--he went out and ...read more

  • Marked Men

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
     | 3,957 views

    MARKED MEN There is a professor at Howard University Divinity School, a teacher and scholar, with an unusual name. A name that tells this very story. The distinguished professor of New Testament, the author of the book Troubling Biblical Waters, is named Cain Hope Felder. Dr. Felder tells his ...read more

  • How Christians Are Different

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,090 views

    HOW CHRISTIANS ARE DIFFERENT A Second Century believer, in a letter to his friend, Diognetus, described how Christians are alike and different from others. He wrote, "Though they are residents at home in their own countries, their behavior there is more like transients...Though destiny has placed ...read more

  • In Warren Wiersbe's Meet Yourself In The Psalms, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,115 views

    In Warren Wiersbe’s Meet Yourself in the Psalms, he tells about a frontier town where a horse bolted and ran away with a wagon carrying a little boy. Seeing the child in danger, a young man risked his life to catch the horse and stop the wagon. The child who was saved grew up to become a lawless ...read more

  • In Warren Wiersbe's Meet Yourself In The Psalms, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 3,975 views

    In Warren Wiersbe’s Meet Yourself in the Psalms, he tells about a frontier town where a horse bolted and ran away with a wagon carrying a little boy. Seeing the child in danger, a young man risked his life to catch the horse and stop the wagon. The child who was saved grew up to become a lawless ...read more

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