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  • Two Apples Up In A Tree Were Looking Down On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2004
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     | 1,466 views

    Two apples up in a tree were looking down on the world. The first apple said, "Look at all those people fighting, robbing, rioting -- no one seems willing to get along with his fellow man. Someday we apples will be the only ones left. Then we’ll rule the world." The second apple though for a ...read more

  • Three Kids Bragging About Fathers  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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     | 2,937 views

    Three kids bragging about fathers: First: My dad’s so smart he can talk for one hour on any subject. Second: My dad’s so smart he can talk for two hours on any subject. Third: My dad’s so smart he ...read more

  • Religion Outranks Politics In Importance To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 2,218 views

    Religion Outranks Politics in importance to individuals, and people think politics, not religion, fuels violence, according to a poll by Zogby International and the University of Rochester. The survey, a first-ever worldwide poll of 4,388 people on religious beliefs, revealed, “the majority of ...read more

  • Two Men Were Marooned On An Island. One Man Paced ...  PRO

    Contributed by Pat Damiani on Jun 20, 2006
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     | 2,707 views

    Two men were marooned on an Island. One man paced back and forth worried and scared while the other man sat back and was sunning himself. The first man said to the second man, "aren’t you afraid we are about to die." "No," said the second man, "I make ...read more

  • Thwe Wright Brothers Story: Big News In Dec 1903 ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 28, 2006
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    Thwe wright brothers story: Big News In Dec 1903 the Wright brothers telegram their sister it read we flew 120 feet today. We will be home for Christmas. Katherine took the telegram to the editor of the local newspaper who said that’s good they will be home for Christmas. He totally missed the big ...read more

  • Misunderstanding Can Lead To Creativity. "Bell ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 29, 2006
     | 2,007 views

    Misunderstanding can lead to creativity. "Bell was inspired to start development of the telephone when he read an account, written in German, describing an invention which he thought had the function of a telephone. After demonstrating his first working telephone Bell learned that, because of the ...read more

  • An Ancient Psalm Was Recently Discovered In An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    An ancient Psalm was recently discovered in an Irish bog. The book has been dated to the years 800-1000. A Trinity College manuscripts expert says it’s the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries. The book was found open to a page describing, in Latin script, Psalm 83, ...read more

  • In His Inaugural Address On March 4, 1933, ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
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    In his Inaugural Address on March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt made the most famous quote about fear when he said, ...The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to retreat into ...read more

  • One Very Important Ingredient Of Success Is A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,557 views

    "One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. An enemy to an ambitious man is like the rhinoceros bird to the rhinoceros. When the enemy comes the rhinoceros bird tells about it. When a successful man is making mistakes the enemy immediately calls ...read more

  • A Mother Knows She's Been Home Too Long For The ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
     | 1,283 views

    A mother knows she’s been home too long for the following reasons: 1. She begins to talk to Barney as a real person. 2. She forgets which one is real – Mister Rogers or King Friday. 3. She cries for a wedding on Sesame Street. 4. She is one of the congregation ...read more

  • Back To The Future

    Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Jan 26, 2010
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    Back to the Future Most of us may remember a movie by this same title. In fact there were several "Back to the Future" sequels. In the movie starring Michael J. Fox and Claudia Wells, after traveling back in time, they found that the only way to return to the future was to recreate the system and ...read more

  • Beloved I Stand Here Today To Tell You...the ...

    Contributed by Hugh Laing on Feb 17, 2010
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    BELOVED I STAND HERE TODAY TO TELL YOU...THE CHURCH HAS TO REDISCOVER 2 THINGS...FIRST WE MUST REDISCOVER THE MAJESTY AND THE HOLINESS OF OUR GOD ... AND SECOND THE SINFULNESS OF OUR SIN. Believe me, those 2 things can only be found in convicted prayer with God and prayer is not the easiest thing ...read more

  • Book Of Ezra. Why Was The Lord’s Temple ...

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 12, 2010
     | 2,149 views

    Book of Ezra. Why was the Lord’s temple begun first, even before the city wall? The temple was used for spiritual purposes; the wall, for military and political purposes. God had always been the nation’s protector, and the Jews knew that the strongest stone wall would not protect them if God was ...read more

  • It Can't Be Done

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on May 15, 2011
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    IT CAN'T BE DONE In November 1837, distinguished British physicist Dionysius Lardner proved mathematically, with equations nobody could question, that a steamship would be incapable of a non-stop voyage to New York. He printed copies of his proof and they arrived in New York 24th April, 1838. The ...read more

  • Tattling

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 4, 2019
     | 1,240 views

    Difference between tattling and communicating necessary information: 2. Difference between rightness [trite correctness] and being righteous. "Johnny is playing with matches" - OK "Johnny is playing with his iPod even though you said he had to brush his teeth first!" - ...read more

  • What Does It Cost To Follow Christ?

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 15, 2020
     | 3,641 views

    WHAT DOES IT COST TO FOLLOW TO JESUS? “When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die. It may be a death like that of the first disciples who had to leave home and work to follow Him, but cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and ...read more

  • Recently, I Heard The Story About A Young ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,490 views

    Recently, I heard the story about a young Baptist minister who started a new ministry. He was stopped by one man in the church before he ever started preaching his first Sunday. The man said, “I run this church. I have money. I sent the last ...read more

  • One Of The Greatest Legends In Teaching Was A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,754 views

    One of the greatest legends in teaching was a 17th century Czech man named Jan Komensky. He is sometimes called Comenius. He promoted the idea of universal education for all, came up with the idea of illustrated textbooks and interlinear books with columns in two languages -- and a host of other ...read more

  • A Teacher Gave Her Class Of Second Graders A ...

    Contributed by Neil Chitty on Jan 23, 2008
     | 1,120 views

    A teacher gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a written test, she included this question: " My full name has six letters. The first one is M. I pick up things. What am I?" When the test papers were turned in, the teacher was ...read more

  • The ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 29, 2008
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     | 2,601 views

    The Day The evidence in Scripture seems to indicate that God gave the Law to Moses on the Day of Pentecost, as the Jews believe. Many first century Jews believed that God made the Rainbow Covenant with Noah on this day as well. If so, we might think of Pentecost as "covenant initiation day." God ...read more

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