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  • How Did I Spend My 75 Years?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2004
    based on 21 ratings
     | 4,404 views

    HOW DID I SPEND MY 75 YEARS? Statisticians tells us that the average life span is now around 75 years. If you’re under 30 then you think that is a long time. If you’re around my age, you’re beginning to realize that’s not really very long at all. A few years ago, someone went to the trouble to ...read more

  • A Bruise Is Better Than A Bite!" 1 Samuel 1:1-8 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 13, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,541 views

    “A Bruise Is Better than A Bite!” 1 Samuel 1:1-8 Key verse(s): 8:“Elkanah here husband would say to her, ‘Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?’” “Constructive criticism is when I criticize you. Destructive criticism is ...read more

  • Choosing To Love!" 1 John 2:7-11 Key Verse(S): ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Feb 2, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
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    “Choosing To Love!” 1 John 2:7-11 Key verse(s): 9-10:“Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.” We live in a choice culture. In fact, we live in a culture ...read more

  • D.w.i.!  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 4, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,254 views

    D.W.I.! (06.07.05--Family--Eph. 6:1-4) The American family under assault! Did you know that one out of three children in the United States are growing up without a father present in the home or that last year in a number of major U.S. cities more children were born out of wedlock than within? ...read more

  • A Medical Doctor Provides A Physical Description: ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,656 views

    A medical doctor provides a physical description: The cross is placed on the ground and the exhausted man is quickly thrown backwards with his shoulders against the wood. The legionnaire feels for the depression at the front of the wrist. He drives a heavy, square wrought-iron nail through the ...read more

  • Love Her Or Loathe Her, Winfrey Has Become Proof ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
     | 968 views

    Love her or loathe her, Winfrey has become proof that you can’t be too rich, too thin or too committed to rising to your place in the world. With 49 million viewers each week in the USA and more in the 122 other countries to which the show is distributed, Winfrey reaches more people in a TV day ...read more

  • God: Frank, You Know All About Gardens And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 8, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
     | 2,699 views

    GOD: Frank, you know all about gardens and nature, what in the world is going on down there in the U.S.? What in the world happened to the dandelions, violets, thistles and the stuff I started eons ago? I had a perfect no-maintenance garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, withstand ...read more

  • Dr. Maurice Rawlings, Is A Cardiologist And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,536 views

    Dr. Maurice Rawlings, is a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga, and his colleagues are constantly treating emergency patients, many of whom have had near-death experiences. A study of these cases by Dr. Rawlings was reported in ...read more

  • Law, Fulfilled In Christ

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 13, 2007
     | 2,686 views

    Law, fulfilled in Christ The Little Flower A story is told about Fiorello LaGuardia, who, when he was mayor of New York City during the worst days of the Great Depression and all of WWII, was called by adoring New Yorkers ‘the Little Flower’ because he was only five foot four and always wore a ...read more

  • Many Of You Here This Morning Know The Story Of ...

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Apr 1, 2008
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    Many of you here this morning know the story of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the American forces in the Philippines when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 and launched their assault on the Philippine Islands later that day. When all hope of saving the Philippines was ...read more

  • Ivan The Great Was The Tsar Of Russia During The ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 14, 2008
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     | 3,115 views

    Ivan the Great was the tsar of Russia during the Fifteenth Century. He brought together the warring tribes into one vast empire. As a fighting man he was courageous. As a general he was brilliant. He drove out the enemies and established peace across the nation. Ivan was so busy waging his ...read more

  • There's A Story About A Man, A Writer, Who Used ...

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 10, 2008
     | 2,454 views

    There’s a story about a man, a writer, who used to go to the beach to do his writing. He had the habit of walking along the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore; as he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think ...read more

  • In The Nineteenth ...

    Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
     | 2,767 views

    In the nineteenth century, lighthouses on the U.S. coasts were tended by lighthouse keepers and their families. If a man who tended the light became disabled, often the work was picked up by his wife or children. Such was the case of Hosea Lewis. In 1853 he became the keeper of the light on ...read more

  • Don't Let Me Go Back To Hell.

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
     | 2,334 views

    "DON’T LET ME GO BACK TO HELL." Dr. Maurice Rawlings is a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga, and his colleagues are constantly treating emergency patients, many of whom have had near-death experiences. A study of these cases by ...read more

  • Christian Character Saves A Muslim

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,596 views

    CHRISTIAN CHARACTER SAVES A MUSLIM From Betty Lukens--Nabil Kareen was a truck driver in the army of his country. But Nabil was more than a truck driver; he used his truck for smuggling, which was against Army rules. Nabil carried watches and quinine pills wrapped in bundles and hid them under the ...read more

  • Giving Begets Giving  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 30, 2009
    based on 7 ratings
     | 8,249 views

    GIVING BEGETS GIVING Leadership Magazine carried a story about four young men, Bible College students, who were renting a house together. One Saturday morning someone knocked on their door. And when they opened it, there stood this bedraggled-looking old man. His eyes were kind of marble-ized, and ...read more

  • Generosity Of Poor Man Surprises Bible College ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
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    Generosity of Poor Man Surprises Bible College Students Illustration from Leadership/Melvin Newland: Leadership Magazine carried a story about 4 young men, Bible College students, who were renting a house together. One Saturday morning someone knocked on their door. And when they opened it, there ...read more

  • How Satan And The World Are Like A Pack Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2009
     | 3,631 views

    How Satan and the World are Like a Pack of Dogs While visiting Loretta’s parents in Indiana last summer I spent each morning walking several miles. They live in the middle of farm country. The roads are straight and long with corn and bean fields lining them. There are few houses and fewer cars. As ...read more

  • On Shepherds

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 28, 2009
     | 7,657 views

    ON SHEPHERDS "Let me tell you a bit about shepherds. They were the last people you’d expect God to take notice of. First of all, they were religious outcasts. According to Jewish religious law, these men were unclean. Their line of work prevented them from participating in the feasts and holy days ...read more

  • Homeless Man Comes Home To His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2010
     | 6,209 views

    Homeless Man Comes Home to His Mother In 1988 there was a story in the LA Times entitled “A Mother’s Search for Russell Love.” It told of a woman in Houston named Beverly Elliott. She had not seen her son, Russell Love, for four years and had not heard from him in two years; but she knew he was ...read more