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  • Pour Cold Water Into Hot Water & Temp Of Water ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    Pour cold water into hot water & temp of water will lower. Similar to if you put hot water in cold water, the temp will rise. What we do as individuals affects the whole body. Either you are a help or a burden. Which are you? After a defeat, don’t blame God, don’t throw in ...read more

  • Last Saturday, I Was Walking In Our ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
     | 934 views

    *Last Saturday, I was walking in our neighborhood, and I passed a house where a little girl about 3-years-old accidentally got Mom or older sister wet with the hose. The adult screamed her name and then screamed, “What’s the matter with you?” -I promise you that the scream did a ...read more

  • John Wesley, The Founder Of The Methodists, ...

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 9, 2009
     | 1,623 views

    John Wesley, the founder of the Methodists, realized that if he went longer than 3 hours without praying to God and reading his word, then he began to think and act like the world rather than think and act like Jesus. So every three hours, he stopped what he was doing to be with God. This helped ...read more

  • You Break It, You Fix It

    Contributed by James Snyder on Oct 19, 2024
     | 515 views

    Every once in a while, I hear or see something that reminds me of my father. He’s been gone for over 15 years, but his memory is still fresh in my mind. His most famous saying, that I remember, was, “It’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.” He lived that to the very end of his ...read more

  • Lifted

    Contributed by Jack Kale on Sep 30, 2017
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    Lifted The lift looked like some kind of futuristic interplanetary transport device. Driven under the power of an operator with a complex remote control, the boat lift hoisted Ed’s Miss Mickey, a 50’ Bertram out of the water. 60,000 pounds was no problem for the lift that is said to be able to ...read more

  • I Was A Young Youth Pastor In Augusta, Ga, Doing ...

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Feb 1, 2007
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    I was a young youth pastor in Augusta, GA, doing my best to train a group of kids to reach out to others. Granted – some of my ideas met resistance (imagine that!), and the culture there turned out to be very different than what was actually communicated to me at the beginning. However, I figured ...read more

  • Has Anyone Ever Asked You?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 31, 2011
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     | 3,577 views

    HAS ANYONE EVER ASKED YOU? Opal Whetset is a Christian writer. One night she was on a Greyhound bus between Flagstaff, Arizona and Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was a cold February night and the bus stopped in a small Indian community. A young American Indian teenager boarded the bus and sat down ...read more

  • Thank You, Sensei Don

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Feb 12, 2012
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    THANK YOU, SENSEI DON Dr. Don Sisk, the former president of the mission board I'm with, BIMI, tells of winning an old "papa-sahn" to Christ, the father of one of the ladies in his church. He had such a grateful spirit for Dr. Sisk, whom they referred to as "Sensei Don" which means "Teacher Don." ...read more

  • Consistent Christians

    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 20, 2008
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    Consistent Christians I was getting ready to do some research for my weekly sermon so I entered my office and flipped the light switch to the "on" position. It seemed that as soon as I had touched the toggle there was an instantaneous burst of bright light from the light bulb for a millionth of a ...read more

  • The Baby's Smile

    Contributed by Bruce Lee on Dec 28, 2022
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    The Baby’s Smile “A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.” John 16:21 We are in the last few days of the year. Most of our thoughts on Christmas is that it is ...read more

  • Anyone Who's Ever Had A Brush With The Thing ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. Darrel Davis on Feb 10, 2001
    based on 112 ratings
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    "Anyone who's ever had a brush with the thing called love knows that this feeling so desired is also tough to pin down," writes Curt Degenhartt. He says,"There are so many kinds. We’ve got lusty love, compassionate love, fraternal love, the kind of love you have for your grandparents, thrilling ...read more

  • W.a. Criswell Tells Of An Ambitious Young Man ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 3, 2001
    based on 97 ratings
     | 2,168 views

    W.A. Criswell tells of an ambitious young man who told his pastor he’d promised God a tithe of his income. They prayed for God to bless his career. At that time he was making $40.00 per week and tithing $4.00. In a few years his income increased and he was tithing $500.00 per week. He called on the ...read more

  • W.a. Criswell Tells Of An Ambitious Young Man ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on May 20, 2002
    based on 40 ratings
     | 2,719 views

    W.A. Criswell tells of an ambitious young man who told his pastor he’d promised God a tithe of his income. They prayed for God to bless his career. At that time he was making $40.00 per week and tithing $4.00. In a few years his income increased and he was tithing $500.00 per week. He called on the ...read more

  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,299 views

    NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED! China is enlisting armies of ducks to prevent a plague of locusts engulfing swathes of valuable cropland, but the birds will probably end up in restaurants, according to a June 11 Reuters dispatch. The Manasi locust station in the northwest is about to unleash 4,000 ...read more

  • A Famous Violinist Once Ordered A Manufacturer To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Douglas Batchelor on Nov 27, 2003
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    A famous violinist once ordered a manufacturer to make for him the very best instrument his skilled fingers could produce. But when the violin was delivered, its tone did not please the sensitive artist. In indignation he smashed it. The disheartened dealer tried to atone for his failure. ...read more

  • Paul Duncan Was An Accountant For A Large ...  PRO

    Contributed by Nick Scarpa on May 28, 2004
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     | 3,850 views

    Paul Duncan was an Accountant for a large manufacturing firm in Lansing Michigan. When it came to numbers he was the best! But when it came to pain he was a wimp. Paul hated pain of any type. A common cold would set him back for a week. He couldn’t work or do anything. In 1997 he was diagnosed ...read more

  • I Am Thankful...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,909 views

    I AM THANKFUL... I am Thankful that we only elect presidents once every four years. I am Thankful that teenagers will grow up and that one day they will have children that will become teenagers of their own. I am Thankful that I am not a turkey this week. I am Thankful that the space available ...read more

  • Cell Phone Codependency A Growing Number Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Cell Phone Codependency A growing number of experts have identified and begun to study a distinct downside in that: cell phone use may be making us less autonomous and less capable of solving problems on our own, even when the answers are right in front of us. The ease of obtaining instant advice ...read more

  • I Am Steadfastly For Monogamy. Adultery Is Almost ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    I am steadfastly for monogamy. Adultery is almost certainly going to make a dent in trust and intimacy, and in many cases I’ve known, it has destroyed them altogether. A woman who is conducting a secret affair has to become deliberately deceitful...like a CIA agent or spy. She can’t just come home ...read more

  • A Poor Criminal Stood Before An Eastern King, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,789 views

    A poor criminal stood before an Eastern king, trembling for his life. A moment later his head was to be severed from his body. He asked for a drink of water. They brought it, but his hand trembled so that he could not drink. The king cried to him, "Do not be so alarmed; your life is safe till you ...read more