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  • The Pharisees And Teachers Of The Law Competed ...  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Mason on Feb 6, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 4,414 views

    The Pharisees and teachers of the law competed with one another in strictness. They had atomized God’s law into 613 rules and bolstered these with 1,521 emendations (Yancey 132). We can see the length to which this went from the following facts. For many generations the Scribal Law was never ...read more

  • Noel And Jill Seemed To Have Everything. They ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Jeffares on Apr 3, 2002
    based on 25 ratings
     | 1,458 views

    Noel and Jill seemed to have everything. They worked in ministry with youth in Germany. Noel gave up a promising basketball career to pursue full time ministry. After five years of marriage Jill was six months pregnant. She was very excited about being a new mom. They eagerly prepared for the ...read more

  • If God Had Voice Mail  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2002
    based on 29 ratings
     | 8,924 views

    If God had Voice Mail Most of us have now learned to live with "voice mail" as a necessary part of our daily lives. But have you ever wondered what it would be like if God decided to install voice mail? Imagine praying and hearing the following: ...read more

  • The Fields Of Flanders Were No Place To Be On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,066 views

    The fields of Flanders were no place to be on Christmas Eve, 1914. Thousands of British, French, Belgian and German troops were dug-in and planning yet another day’s carnage. None of them would have guessed that the “War to End All Wars” would continue nearly four more years and ultimately cost ...read more

  • The Swiss Fusion Man

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
     | 1,449 views

    THE SWISS FUSION MAN On May 14, 2008, Swiss aviation enthusiast and inventor Yves Rossy became the first man in the world to fly with wings and four jet engines strapped to his body. The inaugural flight in Bex, Switzerland lasted six minutes. The 48-year-old daredevil made his first public ...read more

  • Only Part Of The Message  PRO

    Contributed by Dennis Marquardt on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,674 views

    ONLY PART OF THE MESSAGE It was June 18, 1815, the Battle of Waterloo. The French under the command of Napoleon were fighting the Allies (British, Dutch, and Germans) under the command of Wellington. The people of England depended on a system of semaphore signals to find out how the battle was ...read more

  • Several Years Ago, The Leadership Of A Fairly ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2009
     | 1,540 views

    Several years ago, the leadership of a fairly large English church became tired of the ‘worship wars.’ They were tired of different people getting mad and getting upset when the worship leader didn’t embrace their particular way or mode of worship. Some wanted hymns. Some wanted both. Some wanted ...read more

  • Get Up Stronger

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 3, 2011
     | 1,533 views

    GET UP STRONGER By the beginning of the nineteenth century, about three million African slaves had been transported to the Americas on British ships. People being stolen from their homes, ripped from their families, robbed of their dignity, transported on ships 3 decks deep, squalid conditions, ...read more

  • The Wise Farmer Can Usually Depend On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
     | 2,636 views

    "...the wise farmer can usually depend on expected timetables of seedtime and harvest. Not so in the spiritual life. One of the greatest frustrations in the Christian ministry, and principal cause for 'weariness in well doing' is the inability to calculate the spiritual outcome of faithful labors ...read more

  • Phillip Keller Drew From His Many Years As A ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 14, 2008
     | 2,344 views

    Phillip Keller drew from his many years as a shepherd to write, A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, a book many Christians find beneficial. In one place he describes “cast” sheep: “This is an old English shepherd’s term for a sheep that has turned over on its back and cannot get up again by itself…. Even ...read more

  • Camel Ride Up Mount Sinai

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Apr 29, 2008
     | 2,639 views

    CAMEL RIDE UP MOUNT SINAI It is 3:00 in the morning and we are waiting with other pilgrims on the back side of Saint Catherine’s Monastery at the base of mount Sinai. It is a moonless night, pitch black beyond the small light we huddle around. I wonder if I dressed warm enough, I am surprised it ...read more

  • Flawed Individuals On A Rescue Mission  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,475 views

    FLAWED INDIVIDUALS ON A RESCUE MISSION The author of the book entitled, "The Word and Power Church: What Happens When A Church Seeks All God Has to Offer," Doug Banister, writes, "The Spring of 1940 found Hitler’s panzer divisions mopping up French troops and preparing for a seige of Great ...read more

  • Counting On Them  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,092 views

    COUNTING ON THEM The wise farmer can usually depend on expected timetables of seedtime and harvest. Not so in the spiritual life. One of the greatest frustrations in the Christian ministry, and principal cause for "weariness in well doing" is the inability to calculate the spiritual outcome of ...read more

  • Does He Have Other Plans?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,457 views

    DOES HE HAVE OTHER PLANS? The wise farmer can usually depend on expected timetables of seedtime and harvest. Not so in the spiritual life. One of the greatest frustrations in the Christian ministry, and principal cause for "weariness in well-doing" is the inability to calculate the spiritual ...read more

  • Messiah Fed The Hungry  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,326 views

    "MESSIAH" FED THE HUNGRY When Handel wrote "Messiah" he had gone from riches to rags. For 30 years he had entertained Lords and Ladies with his operas. But those days seemed long past. Creditors were at his door. He was depressed. He could not sleep and he was plagued by rheumatism. He feared he ...read more

  • The Music Pastor At Ben Franklin Middle School  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Dec 13, 2001
    based on 9 ratings
     | 1,690 views

    THE MUSIC PASTOR AT BEN FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL Jack Martens is a fifty-six year old teacher who has spent 33 years teaching music at Ben Franklin Middle School in San Francisco. “Over 50 percent of Martens’ students are from broken homes. The same number are on welfare. Nearly that many come ...read more

  • The Manifestations Of An Antichrist  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,502 views

    THE MANIFESTATIONS OF AN ANTICHRIST A father told a Senate committee that his son committed suicide after listening to songs about violence, sex, drugs, and death. "He was a good boy," Raymond Kuntz of Burlington, N.D., said of his only child, 15-year-old Richard. "The music wasn’t symptomatic ...read more

  • Learn To Speak The Language

    Contributed by Neil Olcott on Sep 10, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,061 views

    LEARN TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE A new missionary recruit went to Venezuela for the first time. He was struggling with the language and didn’t understand a whole lot of what was going on. Intending to visit one of the local churches, he got lost, but he eventually got back on track and found the place. ...read more

  • De Dónde Viene El Carácter? — Where Character Comes From

    Contributed by Major Gerardo Balmori on Mar 22, 2010
     | 1,375 views

    (English translation follows) ¿De dónde viene el carácter? ¿Cómo llega a nosotros? Recuerde la ilustración del hombre que comprando pollo rostizado, se dio cuenta que en vez del bote de pollo le dieron el bote de las ganancias del día. Su novia se quedó sorprendida cuando el decidió regresar el ...read more

  • Without One Plea  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,693 views

    WITHOUT ONE PLEA Charlotte Elliott was a sickly English woman who had developed a long history of refusing to do things she was asked to do because of her illness. Her brother, who was a pastor, had been particularly persistent in trying to get her out of herself, trying to get her involved in ...read more

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