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  • Don't Save It For The Funeral  PRO

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 19, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 11,376 views

    Don't Save It For The Funeral An elderly man lay dying in his bed. In death's agony, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favorite chocolate chip cookies wafting up the stairs. He gathered his remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed. Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his way ...read more

  • You Will Be Queen Someday

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
     | 2,119 views

    YOU WILL BE QUEEN SOMEDAY When Queen Victoria was a child, she didn’t know she was in line for the throne of England. Her instructors, trying to prepare her for the future, were frustrated because they couldn’t motivate her. She just didn’t take her studies seriously. Finally, her teachers decided ...read more

  • The Other Woman By David ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010
     | 3,503 views

    THE OTHER WOMAN by David Farrell. Prov. 23:22 - "Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old." After 21 years of marriage, I’ve discovered a new way of keeping the spark of love and intimacy alive in my relationship with my wife: I’ve recently started ...read more

  • People Are Always More Encouraged When We Share ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 27, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,169 views

    “People are always more encouraged when we share how God’s grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our ...read more

  • People Have A Way Of Becoming What You Encourage ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,872 views

    People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to benot ...read more

  • The Other Side Of Islam  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Oct 30, 2001
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,611 views

    THE OTHER SIDE OF ISLAM As Dr. Samuel Schlorff, an expert on Islam with Arab World Ministries puts it, "The truth is that there is another side to Islam, a side that embraces violence ’in the way of Allah.’ . . . It holds that all men are created to live in submission to Allah, as prescribed by ...read more

  • God's Other Names  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2001
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,187 views

    GOD'S OTHER NAMES A mother walked by her young son’s room one night and heard him praying, "Andy, please forgive me for my sins". This worried the mother; so she asked her son why was he praying to "Andy", not God. The son responded, "I was praying to God, Andy is his nickname." This really ...read more

  • What's On The Other Side  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,865 views

    WHAT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE A sick man turned to his doctor, as he was preparing to leave the examination room and said, "Doctor, I am afraid to die. Tell me what lies on the other side." Very quietly the doctor said, "I don’t know." "You don’t know? You, a Christian man, does not know what is on ...read more

  • Other Faiths On Heaven  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 14, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,612 views

    OTHER FAITHS ON HEAVEN Heaven has many cartographers, and through the centuries many different heavens have been charted. To the variety of celestial landscapes in the West, Islam and Buddhism have raised their own particular paradises: the Koran details a heaven filled with beautiful, large eyed ...read more

  • Children Are Entitled To Their Otherness, As ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 1,851 views

    "Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer ...read more

  • The Other 19 Percent

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,981 views

    THE OTHER 19 PERCENT Even if they’re unsure of it, most people want to believe in Heaven, and most people have some concept of it. TIME took a poll 10 years ago, and 81% of the people they surveyed said they believed in the existence of Heaven, where people lived forever with God after they ...read more

  • What Other Gods?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 24, 2010
     | 1,897 views

    WHAT OTHER GODS? What other gods could we have besides the Lord? Plenty. For Israel there were the Canaanite Baals, those jolly nature gods whose worship was a rampage of gluttony, drunkenness, and ritual prostitution. For us there are still the great gods Sex, Shekels, and Stomach (an unholy ...read more

  • Mothers Live For Others  PRO

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Sep 29, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,277 views

    MOTHERS LIVE FOR OTHERS We've got all sorts of people here this morning. One thing we have got a lot of is mothers. Some of you, your children are long grown up. But you have the experience of having been a mother. So? Well, every mother lives her life for another. And that is what the church ...read more

  • The "Regard For Others" Ethic

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Jan 24, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,580 views

    THE "REGARD FOR OTHERS" ETHIC John Sommerville currently teaches history at the University of Florida. He has been carrying out an exercise with his students for years. He challenges his students with the following thought experiment. Imagine that you see a little old lady coming down the ...read more

  • Made For Each Other...

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Nov 3, 2015
     | 3,543 views

    Cross without the Spirit, you dry-up (Psa 106:15), Spirit without the Cross, you puff-up (2 Cor 12:7) With ...read more

  • Christmas Giving To Others

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
     | 3,854 views

    Ann Voskamp writes, “It’s almost a dozen years now, nothing under the Christmas tree here. Strange, the way children teach adults. It started at bedtime one year, I do remember that. Smoothing back hair, kissing foreheads, pulling up the blankets over my kids. Tucking them in. Prayers said all in a ...read more

  • Weeping Over Others

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 15, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,740 views

    Do you weep for your family, friends, church, nation and world? 1) Jesus did- Jesus wept over the sins of others, over their bitter consequences in judgment and death, and over Jerusalem which would not receive him. Jesus was a Man of Sorrows (Isaiah 53). Why? Because he took our sins upon ...read more

  • Do Unto Others

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,080 views

    DO UNTO OTHERS There is a story about a rather legalistic Seminary student who wanted to have a Scriptural basis for everything he did. He felt he was on solid ground if he could quote the Bible, book, chapter and verse to okay his actions. He did all right with that until he began to fall in ...read more

  • Ideas Of Other People

    Contributed by Samuel Wilder on Nov 10, 2008
     | 1,607 views

    IDEAS OF OTHER PEOPLE Thomas A. Edison, the great inventor, was talking one day with the governor of North Carolina, and the governor complimented him on his inventive genius. "I am not a great inventor," said Edison. "But you have over a thousand patents to your credit, haven’t you?" asked the ...read more

  • What Other Gods?

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 2, 2009
     | 2,192 views

    WHAT OTHER GODS? What other gods could we have besides the Lord? Plenty. For Israel there were the Canaanite Baals, those jolly nature gods whose worship was a rampage of gluttony, drunkenness, and ritual prostitution. For us there are still the great gods Sex, Shekels, and Stomach (an unholy ...read more

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