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  • If You Think About It, Adam Had More Trouble Than ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,806 views

    If you think about it, Adam had more trouble than any of the rest of us buying his Father a gift for Father’s Day. I mean, what do you get ...read more

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  • As A Young Pastor, I Worked At A Feed Processing ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jerry Steen on May 16, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 2,467 views

    As a young pastor, I worked at a feed processing plant in Celina, Ohio. Each night when I went home, my boys would look at me and say, "Boy, dad, you sure are dusty!" I grumbled within myself, but smiled at them and said, "Yes, I sure am dusty" On a Saturday morning, I started washing my car. As ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Fatherless America  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2002
    based on 23 ratings
     | 4,454 views

    FATHERLESS AMERICA Tonight, 40% of all American children will go to sleep in a house in which their fathers do not live. Before the age of eighteen, more than 50% of our children will spend a significant portion of their childhood living apart from their fathers. A generation ago, an ...read more

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  • Peace Corp Volunteer Studies  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
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    PEACE CORP VOLUNTEER STUDIES Some years ago a study was conducted among Peace Corps volunteers. Researchers took a random sample of volunteers and split them into two roughly equal groups: those who completed their tour commitments and those who returned home early because of "problems of ...read more

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  • Your Son, Your Apprentice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
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    YOUR SON, YOUR APPRENTICE "Consider your son to be your apprentice in life. That’s the way it used to be. The son was always with the father, either in the shop or in the field. So he learned from a very early age what being a man and a father was all about. Now we place more emphasis on our ...read more

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  • One Young Life At A Time  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
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    ONE YOUNG LIFE AT A TIME Ken Canfield, Founder and President of the National Center for Fathering, once asked a stadium full of men: "Are fathers necessary or optional? Do dads have a unique and important contribution to make in the lives of their children?" The crowd grew quiet. He sensed ...read more

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  • A Game To Rest  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 16, 2002
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    A GAME TO REST A father had three very active boys. One summer evening, he was playing cops and robbers in the back yard after dinner. One of the boys "shot" his father and yelled, "Bang! You’re dead!" He slumped to the ground and when he didn’t get up right away, a neighbor ran over to see if ...read more

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  • House ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2012
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    HOUSE FIRE A story is told of a family awakened by their smoke detector in the middle of the night to discover that their house was on fire. The father ran into the upstairs bedroom of his children and carried his 18 month old baby in his arms while dragging his 4 year old son by the hand. They ...read more

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  • First-Time Fathers Are A Hoot!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jul 8, 2024
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    One day shortly after the birth of their new baby, the mother had to go out to do some errands. So, the proud new papa stayed home to watch his wonderful new son. Soon after the mother left, the baby started to cry. The father did everything he could think of to do but the baby wouldn’t stop ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • An Obstetrician Approached An Anxious Father In ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 10, 2008
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    An obstetrician approached an anxious father in the waiting room of a New York City hospital and said, “I am sorry to inform you, but your baby lived but two hours after his birth. We did everything we could to save his life.” As the sympathetic doctor was about to leave, the quick thinking ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Dying To Save Her Father

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
    based on 1 rating
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    DYING TO SAVE HER FATHER The great Charles Spurgeon told a story that demonstrated a person’s concern for an unsaved family member. A rather young girl in Spurgeon’s congregation who had a terminal illness approached her pastor one day with thoughts about her upcoming funeral. She spoke of her ...read more

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  • Honor Your Mother And Father

    Contributed by Jim Blevins on May 15, 2009
     | 3,723 views

    HONOR YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER One Mother's Day I was preaching in another state and during the Sunday School class I told about one of the two times that I sassed my mother. Now my mom is about 4 foot 11 inches tall and I was approaching 6 feet so I towered over her. She had told me to do something ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Where Do Human Beings Come From???

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on May 5, 2022
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    A little girl asked her Mom, “Where do human beings come from?” Mom answered, “God made Adam and Eve and they had children, and so was all mankind made.” Two days later the girl asked her Dad the same question. Dad answered, “Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • A Disciple Knows His Father  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 19, 2008
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    A DISCIPLE KNOWS HIS FATHER A shepherd was looking after his sheep one day on the side of a deserted road, when suddenly a brand new Porsche screeches to a halt. The driver, a man dressed in an Armani suit, Timberland shoes, Versace designer sunglasses, A Rolex watch, and a Pierre Cardin tie, ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • King For A Day  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 20, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,295 views

    KING FOR A DAY Once upon a time, before television, there was radio. You know what radio is--television without pictures. Well, before television, one of the most popular daytime radio programs was called "Queen for a Day." If I remember it correctly (and it was a long time ago!), each day four ...read more

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  • A Day To Diet?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,755 views

    A DAY TO DIET? Do you diet on Turkey day, or do you hide your food journal for fear you will fill all its pages on this one day? Here’s what Jeanne McManus of the Washington Post says about the tradition of eating on Thanksgiving day: "I believe in tradition. I believe in Thanksgiving. I ...read more

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  • Sieze The Day  PRO

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Dec 20, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,074 views

    Shakespeare once wrote: "there is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." The Latins had a phrase that expressed the same idea: "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero," which ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • On Judgment Day

    Contributed by David Rogers on Jun 3, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,533 views

    On Judgment Day Dedicated to my Brother in Christ Larry Livingston There is a day That is not too far away When the clouds shall part And in every man’s heart fear shall start. Because on that day all shall see Jesus the Lord coming on the billowy sea Our hearts will tremble and be filled with ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • Two Days

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,452 views

    TWO DAYS There are two days we should not worry about. One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we ...read more

    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Labor Day?

    Contributed by Larry Kettle on Sep 6, 2011
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     | 4,986 views

    LABOR DAY? The title of the Labor Day Holiday always intrigued me as a child. "I asked my mother once why they called it 'Labor Day' if everybody just took off from work?" She ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal