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  • Frenzied Pace Of Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 31, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,335 views

    FRENZIED PACE OF LIFE A lot of these same gods are still worshipped in America today, aren't they? Our culture also seems to bow down to the idol of busyness. In her book called, "Not So Fast: Slow-Down Solutions for Frenzied Families," Ann Kroeker writes this: "America, the land of the ...read more

  • The Prayer And The Chair

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 22, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,434 views

    THE PRAYER AND THE CHAIR A woman called a pastor to come to the house to see her father. He goes to the house not knowing whether the man is Christian or not but he notices as he talks to him and the man answers back that he must be a Christian and there is a chair sitting close by. An empty ...read more

  • Saved By Hope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,742 views

    SAVED BY HOPE An interesting item appeared in a Nashville newspaper, datelined Memphis (UPI): A woman named Hope pulled a man from chilly harbor waters after watching him drive his car off the bank in an apparent suicide attempt. Hope Phillips, thirty-eight, said Monday she was sitting in her car ...read more

  • The Hobbit: Denying Yourself  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 15, 2013
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,761 views

    The Hobbit: Denying Yourself In the movie “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” there is a scene where the Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit who is accompanying 13 dwarves on a mission, unexpectedly disappears and seems to have abandoned the dwarves during a crucial battle. They were losing. Bilbo does ...read more

  • Their Own Moral Views  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 10, 2001
    based on 48 ratings
     | 2,571 views

    THEIR OWN MORAL VIEWS John Leo in U.S. News quoted a professor Robert Simon of Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. as reporting that "10 to 20% of his students... acknowledged the Holocaust but couldn’t bring themselves to say that killing millions of people was wrong.... one student told Simon, ’Of ...read more

  • Bible Readers Are Happier People: The More ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
     | 2,000 views

    Bible Readers are Happier People: The more people read their Bible, the happier they probably are, according to a recent Tyndale House survey. Nearly 90% of frequent Bible readers say that they feel at peace al or most of the time, compared to only 58% of people who read the Bible less than once ...read more

  • Male Bashing Ads Are Today's Men Incompetent, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,286 views

    Male Bashing Ads Are today’s men incompetent, bumbling idiots? Judging by portrayals in some advertising, the answer seems to be yes. The “man as a dope” imagery has gathered momentum over the last decade, and critics say that it has spiraled out of control. It is nearly impossible, they say, to ...read more

  • A Few Weeks Ago, During Our Friday Night ...

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 4, 2007
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    A few weeks ago, during our Friday night devotional, I asked my teens how many of them had seen "Schindler’s List", Steven Spielberg’s recent movie about the Holocaust. I asked them: was the Holocaust right or was it wrong? They said it was wrong, and so I asked them this question: why was it ...read more

  • The Rabbis Were Concerned That People Directed ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 21, 2008
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    The Rabbis were concerned that people directed their hearts toward God in the sense of praying towards the Temple: "Our Rabbis taught: A blind man or one who cannot tell the cardinal points should direct his heart towards his Father in Heaven, as it says, And they pray unto the Lord. If one is ...read more

  • Sandy Sheppard- One Of The Funniest Parties I ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 25, 2010
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    Sandy Sheppard- One of the funniest parties I ever attended was to “roast” Walt, a good friend and mentor, who was celebrating his 50th birthday. Each guest told a humorous story about Walt and presented him with a gag gift. Then Carol got up to speak. “My mother told me if I can’t say something ...read more

  • One Of The Ways That Children Change A Marriage ...

    Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
     | 1,600 views

    One of the ways that children change a marriage is easy to identify: they require us husbands to grow up and become their daddies. Unfortunately, some husbands are not willing to pursue this change. Many children grow up in homes where daddy often acts like a big baby. I know a guy who accuses ...read more

  • Biblical Contradictions Found In The Catholic Church

    Contributed by Michael Grant on Sep 4, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,911 views

    Catholics are instructed to call the priest “Father” “Do not call anyone on earth your father; for one is your Father, He who is in heaven” – Mathew 23:9 Priest claims to have the power to forgive sin “…who can forgive sins but God alone?” - Mark 2:7 Catholics are encouraged to bow and pray to ...read more

  • During The War In Vietnam, A Young West Point ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Feb 12, 2001
    based on 133 ratings
     | 4,040 views

    During the war in Vietnam, a young West Point graduate was sent over to lead a group of new recruits into battle. He did his job well, trying his best to keep his from ambush and death. But one night when they had been under attack, he was unable to get just one of his men to safety. The soldier ...read more

  • Lines To A Skeleton…  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Daugherty on Aug 7, 2001
    based on 111 ratings
     | 3,636 views

    LINES TO A SKELETON... The mss. of this poem was found in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, near a perfect human skeleton. It was first published around the early 1900’s It Has a Profound Message!!! Behold this ruin! ’Twas a skull, Once of ethereal spirit filled. This narrow ...read more

  • Years Ago Harry Reasoner Wrote A Piece About ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Hamby on Dec 23, 2002
    based on 60 ratings
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    Years ago Harry Reasoner wrote a piece about Christmas for the show “60 Minutes,” in it he said; “the basis for this tremendous burst of buying things and gift giving and parties and near hysteria, is a quiet event that happened a long time ago. You can say that in all societies there has always ...read more

  • When Sherry And I Lived In Pottstown, We Shopped ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Aug 22, 2003
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    When Sherry and I lived in Pottstown, we shopped at the ShopRite Supermarket I town. In fact I would say that at that time it was probably the most popular of the Super Markets. Well there was really only one easy way to get to ShopRite, and that was to cross a small bridge. Well, the time came ...read more

  • The Youth Leader Had Taken Their Combined Group ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 16, 2004
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    The Youth Leader had taken their combined group camping. It had been fun making preparation and deciding on where to go. But now the first day of camping was over and it was time to sat around the almost dead campfire with only the glow of the last dying branches they had burned. The chaperons ...read more

  • The Boy Scout Was Really Excited About Going On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The boy scout was really excited about going on the annual winter camperee. With a couple feet of snow on the ground, the setting was perfect for a great weekend. His was one of the first troops to hike in and set up camp. The boy scout, along with his troop, forged into the wilderness. Upon ...read more

  • It's Sort Of Like The Fable That Evangelist D. L. ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 30, 2009
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    It’s sort of like the fable that evangelist D. L. Moody used to tell. It seems there were two eagles. One of the eagles won every race and the other eagle was jealous. One day, the jealous eagle overheard a hunter say, “I’d bring down that eagle if I had decent fletching on my arrows.” The eagle ...read more

  • Joy And Phyllis Diller  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,581 views

    JOY AND PHYLLIS DILLER A thirty-eight-year-old scrubwoman (cleaning lady) would go to the movies and sigh, "If only I had her looks." She would listen to a singer and moan, "If only I had her voice." Then one day someone gave her a copy of the book, The Magic of Believing. She stopped comparing ...read more