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  • Mel Gibson Has Been Named The "Most Powerful ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,765 views

    Mel Gibson has been named the "most powerful Christian" in Hollywood by Beliefnet. Clout is defined as a celebrity who has the sway to choose their career direction, while keeping their faith and even injecting it into their work in subtle or not-so-subtle ways. Denzel ...read more

  • A Chaplain's Prayer For Our Soldiers  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,810 views

    A CHAPLAIN’S PRAYER FOR OUR SOLDIERS "Lord our God, provide wisdom, insight and clear vision of Your will, for all our senior military and political leaders, the President, his Cabinet, the Secretary of Defense, the Service Secretaries and the flag and SES level personnel under their direction. ...read more

  • I Read A Story Of A Father Who Was Preparing To ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Jun 9, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,078 views

    I read a story of a father who was preparing to go on a trip to grandma’s house over the Thanksgiving Holidays. He describes the episode as if it were a theology lab. This father and mother began comparing their mental notes of spiritual perceptions. He said, “A journey is a journey, whether the ...read more

  • Which Way Is Up?

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,669 views

    Which Way Is Up? Some years ago I read about a speedboat driver who had recently survived a racing accident. He said that he had been at near top speeds when his boat veered slightly and hit a wave at a dangerous angle. The combined force of his speed and the size and angle of the wave sent the ...read more

  • Preferences – Being A Disciple Of Christ Also ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Preferences – Being a disciple of Christ also means that you deny, you forgo, you give up many of your preferences for Christ. Before anything that is truly of God can be born, your own preferences have to die. Your desire to serve or lead in this type of church or that, has to be laid on the altar ...read more

  • F ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
     | 1,497 views

    FLEA-FLICKERS One of the great ways to win a battle or a game is called "misdirection." You make your opponent think you are doing one thing, but do another. In football, they are called "gadget plays" or "flea-flickers." One of my favorite memories of this is in Super Bowl XV. Being a huge ...read more

  • A Man Called A Pastor's Office At A Church One ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,212 views

    A man called a pastor’s office at a church one day to inquire into membership in the church. He stated that he would not be able to get involved or anything, but he felt it was important to have some religious affiliation. The pastor advised this man that the church he pastored might not be the ...read more

  • I Have A Friend Who Is A Surfer. He Grew Up At ...

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
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    I have a friend who is a surfer. He grew up at the beach in North Carolina and has surfed all his life. He is a skilled surfer. He knows when the waves are good for surfing he knows what equipment he needs and how to properly use it. He is a skilled surfer. However, there is one thing my ...read more

  • During The Battle Of The Wilderness In The Civil ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Nov 5, 2001
    based on 32 ratings
     | 3,880 views

    During the Battle of the Wilderness in the Civil War, Union general John Sedgwick was inspecting his troops. At one point he came to a parapet, over which he gazed out in the direction of the enemy. His officers suggested that this was unwise and perhaps he ought to duck while passing the parapet. ...read more

  • A Muslim In Africa Became A Christian And Some Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Mar 13, 2002
    based on 138 ratings
     | 1,889 views

    A Muslim in Africa became a Christian and some of his friends asked him why. He answered: Well, it is like this: suppose you were going down a road and suddenly the road forked in two directions. And you didn’t know which way to go. If you met two men ...read more

  • Where Are You Going? A Franklin Covey Survey ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,400 views

    Where Are You Going? A Franklin Covey survey finds less than half of U.S. workers are aware or are committed to their company’s goals. Only 48% say their employers have a clear, strategic direction. 44% say their organization has effectively communicated its goals. 54% understand what they ...read more

  • You Are Driving A Bus. You Go East 12 Miles, And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,263 views

    You are driving a bus. You go east 12 miles, and turn south and go 2 miles and take on 9 passengers, and then you turn west and go 3 miles and let off 4 passengers. How old is the bus driver? ***Give the youth a chance to answer the question and eventually ask one of them to explain the question ...read more

  • Saved From Sharks

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 22, 2009
     | 1,459 views

    Peter Michelmore reported this story in the Oct. 1987 Reader’s Digest: Normally the flight from Nassau to Miami took Walter Wyatt, Jr., only 65 minutes. But on Dec. 5, 1986, he attempted it after thieves had looted the navigational equipment in his Beechcraft. With only a compass and a hand-held ...read more

  • Wrong Way

    Contributed by Ronald Thorington on Jan 1, 2008
     | 3,550 views

    Illustration: On New Years Day, 1929, Georgia Tech was playing California. Late in the second quarter, Roy Regals recovered a fumble for California, and in his excitement became confused and began running in the wrong direction. After racing 65 yards he was finally tackled by his own player at ...read more

  • God's Love Is Everything

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 18, 2009
    based on 1 rating
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    GOD'S LOVE IS EVERYTHING The Pope tells us that "For the Church, instructed by the Gospel, charity is everything because, as Saint John teaches (cf. 1 Jn 4:8, 16) and as I recalled in my first Encyclical Letter, 'God is love'...: everything has its origin in God’s love, everything is shaped by it, ...read more

  • Honey Bee — Mr. Burger

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 27, 2006
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    Honey Bee - Mr Burger Instinctive behaviors can be extremely complex even in relatively simple animals, for example, the remarkable navigational and communication skills possessed by honey bees. A worker bee may fly a quarter of a mile or more from the hive in search of flowers that are a good ...read more

  • An Altitude ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jun 10, 2008
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    An Altitude Problem A few years ago, a couple of adventurers tried to become the first to circle the globe in a hot air balloon. They took off from St. Louis, Missouri, rose to 24,000 feet, and started eastward across the Atlantic Ocean toward Africa. The prevailing winds carried the balloonists ...read more

  • Company Changes Cake Mix Recipe That Was Too Easy ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 29, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,616 views

    Company Changes Cake Mix Recipe That Was too Easy in order to Increase Sales Years ago a cake mix company put together a cake mix that was a big flop. The instructions said all you had to do was add water and bake. The company couldn’t understand why it didn’t sell, until their research discovered ...read more

  • A Railroad Switchyard  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Apr 24, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,038 views

    In St. Louis there is a railroad switchyard. One particular switch begins with just the thinnest piece of steel to direct a train away from one main track to another. If you were to follow those two tracks, however, you would find that one ends in San Francisco, the other in New York. You see ...read more

  • Suppose It Had Been Wise Women Instead Of Wise ...  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jul 5, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,625 views

    SUPPOSE IT HAD BEEN WISE WOMEN INSTEAD OF WISE MEN? I read this humors account of the Wise Men (obviously written by a woman): If it had been ‘Wise Women’ instead of ‘Wise Men’, they would have asked directions, arrived on time, helped deliver the baby, cleaned the stable, made a casserole, ...read more