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  • You Understand The Relationship Of Cause & ...

    Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Apr 2, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,934 views

    You understand the relationship of cause & effect. If that happened, then this results. When you enter a dark room and flip a light switch you expect the room to brighten. If you flip that switch and the windows open, you’re pretty surprised because the two aren’t related. When you get in your ...read more

  • Can This Be Christmas?

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 21, 2007
     | 5,673 views

    Can This Be Christmas? What’s all this hectic rush and worry? Where go these crowds who run and hurry? Why all the lights—the Christmas trees? The jolly “fat man,” tell me please! Why, don’t you know? This is the day For parties and for fun and play; Why this is Christmas! So this is Christmas, do ...read more

  • Can This Be Christmas?

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 21, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,840 views

    Can This Be Christmas? What's all this hectic rush and worry? Where go these crowds who run and curry? Why all the lights--the Christmas trees? The jolly "fat man," tell me please! Why, don't you know? This is the day For parties and for fun and play; Why this is Christmas! So this is Christmas, ...read more

  • A Man Spread Vicious Rumors And Harmful Gossip ...

    Contributed by Art Good on Aug 14, 2007
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     | 2,145 views

    A man spread vicious rumors and harmful gossip about another man. In this small village the judge not only presided over cases where the law was broken but also over cases involving unethical or improper conduct. So the man who had spread the malicious gossip was brought before the judge. The ...read more

  • The Lone Ranger And Tonto Were Travelling On A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
    based on 115 ratings
     | 3,599 views

    The lone Ranger and Tonto were travelling on a train. "Tonto, good indian friend, loyal companion, would you get me a glass of water?" Tonto goes off and returns after a few minutes with a glass of water. "Thanks good indian pal, friend." The Lone Ranger drinks the water. After a few ...read more

  • A Methodist Prayer

    Contributed by Andrew Clark on Aug 23, 2002
     | 3,708 views

    A Methodist Prayer I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with who you will. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be employed for you, or laid aside for you. Exalted for you, or brought low for you. Let me be full, let me be empty, Let me have all things, let me ...read more

  • Capitol Punishment

    Contributed by James Tidwell on Aug 7, 2005
     | 2,268 views

    Illustration: News story on Sunday, January 12, 2003; CHICAGO, Jan. 11 -- Illinois’s outgoing Republican Gov. George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 people to life in prison today after concluding that the capital punishment system was "haunted by the demon of error." Friends and foes of ...read more

  • A Real Christian Is An Odd Number Anyway. He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
     | 2,626 views

    A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feel supreme love for One whom he has never seen. Talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see. He expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order that he might be full, admits he is wrong to he can be declared right, ...read more

  • Be Warm And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
     | 3,732 views

    BE WARM AND FILLED! What does it mean that God has placed Christ’s church in our hands? One of the most stirring indictments on the church ever penned was made by Charles Schultz many years ago. Snoopy is shivering out in a snowstorm beside an empty food dish. He was looking longingly, ...read more

  • Because He Lives  PRO

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Sep 25, 2014
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     | 6,504 views

    It’s because He lives we should be able to face tomorrow, it’s because He lives all fear should be gone. Because He lives we are pretty sure who holds the future. Is that the lyrics Bill Gaither wrote? No, but that’s the way many Christians feel. The first verse of Because He Lives says it all. God ...read more

  • Jesus Christ Is The Only One Who Walked Past The ...

    Contributed by J. Allen Lucas on Mar 23, 2008
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     | 2,041 views

    Jesus Christ is the only one who walked past the grave! That grave is empty today! We celebrate a risen Christ. Not a dead Christ, but a risen Christ. He didn’t mess around with death, He conquered death and now through Him, we will conquer death. Oh death where is thy sting, oh grave where ...read more

  • I Read An Article In The Atlantic Journal The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,791 views

    I read an article in the Atlantic Journal the other day; it said, “The world is too big for us. Too much going on, too many crimes, too much violence and excitement. Try as you will you get behind in the race…It’s an incessant strain, to keep pace… and you still lose ground. Science empties its ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer's Definition Of A Christian  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,356 views

    A.W. Tozer’s Definition of a Christian A Real Christian: • He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, • Talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, • Expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, • Empties himself in order to be full, • Admits he is wrong so he can be ...read more

  • Before World War Ii, Nora Waln Wrote A Book ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 9, 2007
     | 1,290 views

    Before World War II, Nora Waln wrote a book exposing Hitler and his Nazi plotters. The book, Reaching for the Stars, was intercepted in the German mails on its way to an American publisher. She fled to London, rewrote the book from memory and sent copies to Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi hangman. He ...read more

  • Don't Eat The Peanuts!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 20, 2019
     | 2,323 views

    A pastor went to call on one of the elderly widows of his church. While visiting with her, he noticed a big bowl of shelled peanuts on the coffee table. During the long conversation with the little old widow, the pastor began nibbling on the peanuts and soon the entire bowl was empty! The ...read more

  • There Was Once An Absent-Minded Professor Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2001
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,310 views

    There was once an absent-minded professor who became so absorbed in his work that he forgot the simplest details. One morning his wife said, "Now Henry, remember, we are moving today. Here, I’m putting this note in your pocket. Don’t forget." The day passed by and the man came home to his house. He ...read more

  • An American, British And Filipino Pastor Got ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joseph Conrad Edpao on Sep 13, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,642 views

    An American, British and Filipino pastor got talking about giving money to God. The American pastor says: "when God tells me so, I just empty my wallet in the collection plate." The British pastor is quite impressed with this impulsive but charitable attitude of his American colleague and is ...read more

  • I Was On A Mission Trip To North Carolina A Few ...

    Contributed by Kory Wilcoxson on Mar 12, 2006
     | 1,591 views

    I was on a mission trip to North Carolina a few years ago, working on a house that had been flooded by a recent hurricane. A few youth and I were assigned to clean out the pool, which had been filled to the top with floodwaters and creepy-crawlies and sticks that looked liked snakes and made ...read more

  • When That Mighty Ship Sank With A Loss Of Over ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 22, 2009
     | 1,749 views

    When that mighty ship sank with a loss of over 1500 passengers, it was referred to as an act of God. Yet the reality is that the Titanic was allowed to sail with only 16 lifeboats – enough for only the ship’s crew - instead of the minimum 48 that had been recommended. If there had been 48 lifeboats ...read more

  • Loss Of Original Purpose

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
     | 4,476 views

    LOSS OF ORIGINAL PURPOSE In the town of Delburne, Alberta, there was an old water tower built in 1926. Standing empty, the building was bought by two men who wanted to turn it into a dining and cocktail lounge. Plans called for a bar to be built on the second floor. Something similar has already ...read more

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