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  • Years Ago A Farmer Owned Land Along The Atlantic ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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     | 1,362 views

    Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands. Most people were reluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic. They dreaded the awful storms that raged across the Atlantic, wreaking havoc on the buildings and crops. As the farmer interviewed ...read more

  • When Charles Goodyear Was Just Twenty-Six Years ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,696 views

    When Charles Goodyear was just twenty-six years old, he had made his first fortune. He had set up the first hardware store in America that sold only domestically manufactured farm implements. Everything was going in his direction. Then suddenly, things changed. Several of his suppliers closed their ...read more

  • Joseph Parker Stepped Into The Pulpit Of The City ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
     | 2,577 views

    Joseph Parker stepped into the pulpit of the City Temple in London for his Thursday sermon and announced that he was under some trepidation that day because of a letter he had received. It seemed that a gentleman wrote to tell Parker that he would be in the congregation that day for the express ...read more

  • Someone You Know

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Apr 12, 2008
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     | 2,876 views

    SOMEONE YOU KNOW A gray haired lady, long a member of her community and Church, shook hands with the minister after the service one morning. "That was a wonderful sermon, she told him, just wonderful. Everything you said applied to someone I know." What is often missed is that God’s word ...read more

  • Russian Author Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Wrote, "If ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 1,419 views

    Russian author Alexandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being..." (SOURCE: ...read more

  • Some Folk Must Really Get Into Their Sunday ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 22, 2009
     | 1,784 views

    Some folk must really get into their Sunday School lesson because they are so worn out by the time the sermon rolls around that they just can’t help but fall asleep! Or maybe they have worked up such a sweat during the music that they are plumb tuckered out! Perhaps those taking forty winks ...read more

  • Preach Christ...?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,983 views

    PREACH CHRIST...? A middle-aged farmer wanted to be a preacher for years, but wasn't sure if it was God's will. One day, while he was working in the field, he decided to rest under a tree. As he looked up into the sky he saw that the clouds seemed to form into the letters P and C. As he thought ...read more

  • A Light Thing In The Sight Of God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    A LIGHT THING IN THE SIGHT OF GOD When they were building the Brooklyn Bridge, they encountered a problem. The place where one of the buttresses needed to be placed was occupied by a sunken ship. They couldn’t move it. They tried several things, but couldn’t get it to budge. Finally, an engineer ...read more

  • D.l. Moody: God Loves Sinners  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    D.L. MOODY: GOD LOVES SINNERS D.L. Moody was a renowned American preacher back in the mid 1800’s. He went to England where he was introduced to a young preacher named Henry Moorehouse. During their short conversation, Moorehouse said he wanted to go to America. Moody, trying to be polite, said ...read more

  • Asking For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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    ASKING FOR GUIDANCE I heard a great joke this week about a man who himself had a great joke to share. He was in a dimly lit restaurant and he leaned over to the lady at the table next to him and said, "Hey, would you like to hear a very funny blond joke." The lady replied, "I’m 6’3" blonde and am ...read more

  • Happy Birthday America!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2003
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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA! You have a rich, spiritual history that continues to influence us today. * My County, ‘Tis of Thee was written by a Baptist minister, Samuel Francis Smith. * The Pledge of Allegience was written in 1892 by a Baptist minister, Francis Bellamy. * The words “In God We Trust” ...read more

  • Lord Use My Time  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 23, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,334 views

    LORD USE MY TIME Lord I have time I have plenty of time All the time that you give me The years of my life The days of my years The hours of my days They are all mine Mine to fill, quietly, calmly, But to fill completely, up to the brim, To offer them to you, that of their insipid water You may ...read more

  • A Human Example Of Faith

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    Let me give you a human example of faith. • You go to a doctor who you do not know. This doctor is a human, made of flesh and blood. • This doctor gives you a prescription you cannot read. • You take that prescription to a pharmacist you have never met. • The pharmacist gives you a chemical ...read more

  • More Than The Sum Of Their Parts

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    MORE THAN THE SUM OF THEIR PARTS I once read the story is told of a horse pulling contest in Canada. The winning horse in the contest pulled 9,000 pounds The runner up pulled 8,000. Together you’d expect them to pull 17,000 lbs. but not so! When teamed together, they pulled 30,000 lbs – nearly ...read more

  • G ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    GERANIUMS A man walked into a flower shop and asked for some potted red geraniums. "I’m sorry," said the clerk in flower shop, "we are completely sold out of all of our potted geraniums. But I’d be more than happy to give you a deal on something else. Could you use African violets ...read more

  • Shortly After The Turn Of The Century, Japan ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 22, 2004
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    Shortly after the turn of the century, Japan invaded, conquered, and occupied Korea. One group singled out for concentrated oppression was the Christians. When the Japanese army overpowered Korea one of the first things they did was board up evangelical churches and eject most foreign missionaries. ...read more

  • One Of America's Greatest Poets Is Henry ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Skinner on Dec 4, 2005
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    One of America’s greatest poets is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The year 1860 found Longfellow happy in his life, enjoying a widening recognition, and elated over the election of Abraham Lincoln which he believed signaled the triumph of freedom and redemption for the nation. The following year the ...read more

  • No Greater ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008
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    No Greater Love During the beginning of World War II, a large British military force on the European continent, as well as English citizens and diplomats, retreated to a French coastal port of Dunkirk. With it’s back against the English Channel, the British army faced a German army that threatened ...read more

  • The Gift Of Grace And Forgiveness In Our Time Of Greatest Need

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
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    Julian Silva tells the story of working in a Volunteer Corp’s Chaplain Office in Frankfurt, Germany where he met a German named, Carl Scholtz. During WW II, Carl served as a Nazi soldier but not believing in what he was doing, he tried to desert. He failed in his attempt, was captured and thrown ...read more

  • Recently A Baptist Pastor In Illinois Received A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Recently a Baptist Pastor in Illinois received a visit from the FBI. They came in response to an anonymous caller who took issue with something the Pastor said in his sermon. According to the Baptist Press news service, “Nov. 23, 2004, started out like any other normal morning for Randy Steele, ...read more