Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A country boy went to visit a friend in New York City. It was about noon and they were downtown by Times Square in Manhattan. The streets were filled with people. Cars were honking their horns, sirens were wailing and the sounds of the city were almost deafening. The country boy said, “I hear a
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
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Some things in this world look very much alike. They are very similar. For instance, a King Snake and a Coral Snake look very much alike. An alligator and a crocodile look a lot alike. They are very similar. We have a citrus tree growing in our yard, that produces both sweet and sour oranges,
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Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 31, 2007
Bissel’s Ride
Thanks to the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, everyone has heard of the “Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” But few have heard of Israel Bissel, a humble post rider on the Boston-New York route.
After the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, Bissel was ordered to raise
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Baptist
Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Sep 27, 2007
Self-love under a form of holiness: -- The text may be considered two ways -- relatively or absolutely.
1. Relatively. as it relates to the eighteen sins before mentioned; so this sin is the cloak to hide and cover them all; men will be lovers of themselves, but under a form of godliness. Hence
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Baptist
Contributed by Curt Cizek on Oct 6, 2007
Have you ever had an instructor for a course who was born and raised in an eastern culture?
-Did they teach differently than your western instructors?
-I had two professors in seminary who were easterners. One was from India and the other from Korea.
-Westerners are all about the facts – don’t
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Lutheran
Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 9, 2007
A young college student had a summer job as a welder’s assistant, building a hospital. He had never welded before in his life. He was afraid of heights, and wouldn’t you know it, they put him to work welding on the seventeenth floor! Vast sections of steel beams were jutting out over nowhere. He
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Baptist
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
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A millionaire decides to throw a massive party for his fiftieth birthday. During the party he grabs the mic and he announces to his guests that down in the garden of his mansion he has a swimming pool with two great white sharks in it. “The man who dares to swim across that pool gets 1 MILLION
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 2, 2008
‘During the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the mastermind of the Jewish holocaust in Nazi Germany, a Jewish man , who had just given evidence against him, was found weeping in the corridor . His friend asked him , “Why are you crying?” The man replied, “Because I realize now that he is just a man like I
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Baptist
Contributed by Glenn Durham on Mar 5, 2008
The young boy said, “Daddy, if three frogs are sitting on a limb hanging over a pool, and one frog decides to jump, how many frogs are left on the limb?”
His dad replied, “Two.”
“No,” the son said. “Listen carefully, daddy. There are three frogs and one decides to jump. How many are left?”
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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Ideal Love
a. There was a Dad who took his kids to do a little shopping. As they drove up, they spotted an eighteen-wheeler parked with a big sign on it that said, "Petting Zoo." The kids jumped up in a rush and asked, "Daddy, Daddy. Can we go? Please. Please. Can we go?"
"Sure," He said giving
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on May 23, 2008
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Most of you have never heard of Lawrence Hanratty, who was named the "Unluckiest Man In New York City." (Profiled in the Los Angeles Times)
He was nearly electrocuted to death in a construction site accident in 1984. For weeks he lay in a coma, with his lawyers fighting for his liability claim,
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Baptist
Since at least January of 2008, we have all seen daily television commercials for the annual "Avon Walk for Breast Cancer." One young lady, walking in memory of her Mother, who was a breast cancer victim, laments, "I really didn't have any say so about my Mother's death, walking in her memory
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Methodist
Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jul 14, 2008
Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life.
Dusk was falling on the Saturday before Christmas in 1927 the S-4 submarine (S-class submarines, were the first class of submarines built to US Navy
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Baptist
Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 19, 2008
MATTHEW 16: DECLASSIFIED MEETING
In 1945, the new President, Harry Truman had to be brought up to speed quickly on the atomic bomb. Then he had to go through the agonizing process of deciding whether or not to use the bomb to bring the war to an end. We know of course that two atomic bombs were
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Contributed by Luis Marquez on Dec 3, 2008
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Dos políticos están debatiendo, uno exasperado grita al otro: ¿“Dime cual es ese gran poder que te controla"? El otro airado responde: “A mi esposa la dejas fuera de todo esto.”
En un año de elecciones cosa así pasan. Pero no nos damos cuenta que cada día es un día de elección. Elegimos ante cada
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 18, 2009
Thou Wast a Bond-Man
John Newton, the former slave-ship captain, was so grateful for God’s gracious dealings with him that when the vicarage at Olney was refurbished he had two sentences from Isaiah 43:4 and Deuteronomy 15:15 painted over the fireplace of his study: ’Since thou wast precious in my
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 4, 2009
CHOOSE ONE CHAIR
"When I was a boy, my father, a baker, introduced me to the wonders of song," tenor Luciano Pavarotti relates. "He urged me to work very hard to develop my voice. Arrigo Pola, a professional tenor in my hometown of Modena, Italy, took me as a pupil. I also enrolled in a teachers
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jul 7, 2009
TRAMPLED IN THE CHURCH
An African proverb says, "When elephants fight, grass gets trampled." Elephants do not throw their weight around for nothing. The average African elephant weighs 16,534 lbs. The largest elephant on record weighed about 24,000 pounds and was 13 feet tall! Wild elephants eat
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2009
A young boy was called to the principle’s office. Waiting for him was his teacher. “Son, you are in big trouble. You cheated on this reading test and we have to punish. Cheating will not be tolerated,” said the principle. The boy was being a very good steward.
“Nuh uhh. I didn’t cheat,” replied the
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