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  • Price Saving Beats Time Saving By 3-To-1 For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
     | 1,118 views

    Price Saving Beats Time Saving by 3-to-1 for women shoppers finds ShopSmart Opinion Poll. 76% of American women enjoy shopping, but 33% say the most stressful part is waiting in check out lines, followed by 29% stressed by interacting with salespeople. The average woman spends 385 hours annually ...read more

  • In Ancient Rome, Military Commanders Who Had Been ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Feb 25, 2007
     | 1,545 views

    In ancient Rome, military commanders who had been victorious in battle, killing at least 5,000 enemy troops, were honored publicly in a huge civil and religious ceremony called a Roman Triumph. The “triumphator,” as he was called, was paraded through the city ahead of his troops. In front of him ...read more

  • We Need To Continually Surge Forward Spiritually, ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Mar 4, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,725 views

    We need to continually surge forward spiritually, to prevent sliding backward. I discovered recently that the Australian coat of arms has a picture of an emu and a kangaroo. They chose those particular animals because they both share a common trait that appealed to the Australian forefathers. Emus ...read more

  • A Man Started Out Through A Forest So Thickly ...  PRO

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Dec 12, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,512 views

    A man started out through a forest so thickly covered with trees that one day he could not see the sun or sky. After travelling for a long time he knew it was getting night time, so started for what he thought was home. He was so certain that his direction was right that he did not look at his ...read more

  • This Is Not Going To Be A Debate About Creation ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 24, 2009
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    This is not going to be a debate about creation or evolution, but I do want to share a quote from a well known pastor named Randy Croft: Astrophysicists have found that there are over 60 criteria that are necessary for life on earth. For you and me to live. Life could not exist or form if any one ...read more

  • Christ Is

    Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on Jun 27, 2009
     | 4,030 views

    **Christ is ** Alive He is our God We should worship him He should be our icon He should be the one we weep for not man We should buy his book Listen to his music Come from far and wide to worship him We need to praise God not man The way of life not death With us in spirit and truth Christ love ...read more

  • God Settles His Accounts  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,261 views

    GOD SETTLES HIS ACCOUNTS An atheist farmer often ridiculed people who believed in God. He wrote the following letter to the editor of a local newspaper: "I plowed on Sunday, planted on Sunday, cultivated on Sunday, and hauled in my crops on Sunday; but I never went to church on Sunday. Yet I ...read more

  • What Presidents Have In Common With O.t. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2009
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    What Presidents Have in Common with O.T. Heroes What do the following presidents all have in common. James A. Garfield (1881) 20th Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) 31st Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) 33rd Gerald Ford (1974-1977) 38th Ronald Reagan (1981 -1989) 40th George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) 41st Bill ...read more

  • Have You Seen The Insurance Commercial On Tv ...

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Dec 15, 2009
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    Have you seen the insurance commercial on TV that shows a talking pot hole? “Did I do that? Let me call someone for you! Oh, I don’t have a cellphone.” The talking pothole just causes problems and does nothing to fix them. People have built all sorts of roads: roads of commerce and conquest. ...read more

  • D.m. Stearns Was Preaching In Philadelphia. At ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Dec 21, 2009
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    D.M. Stearns was preaching in Philadelphia. At the close of the service a stranger came up to him and said, "I don’t like the way you spoke about the cross. I think that instead of emphasizing the death of Christ, it would be far better to preach Jesus, the teacher and example." Stearns replied, ...read more

  • Power Of Prayer Story: From Preachers ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 15, 2010
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    Power of Prayer Story: From Preachers Stories A. T. Pierson relates the following story: "Some years ago in the great State of Minnesota, the Granary of the West, there came a scourge of grasshoppers that threatened to destroy the whole wheat crop. The Governor, who was a very devout Christian, ...read more

  • The Perfection Of God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2011
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    THE PERFECTION OF GOD The man of God of the last century, A.W. Tozer, said it this way, "If God is self-existent, he must be also self-sufficient; and if he has power, he, being infinite, must have all power. If he possesses knowledge, his infinitude assures us that he possesses all knowledge. ...read more

  • Mr. Goodness And Mr. Mercy

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 31, 2011
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    MR. GOODNESS AND MR. MERCY A faithful Christian lady told the preacher on her death bed that she felt like two demons were always around her. She said that when she died she felt like those demons were going to escort her to hell. The preacher was disturbed and couldn't understand her terrors. ...read more

  • The Lack Of Evangelism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2011
     | 5,721 views

    THE LACK OF EVANGELISM (Evangelism Statistics from Michael Parrot, Acts Evangelism, Spokane, WA, 1993, pp. 9-11.) • Ninety-five percent of all Christians have never won a soul to Christ. • Eighty percent of all Christians do not consistently witness for Christ. • Less than two percent are ...read more

  • Good Without God

    Contributed by John Sears on Jul 20, 2011
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     | 3,978 views

    GOOD WITHOUT GOD An atheist organization recently got into hot water when it put up a billboard that crossed over onto church property. The message on the billboard read, "I can be good without God." What do you think? The funny thing is I agree, I think they are right! They have hit something ...read more

  • Count Your Many Blessings  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Feb 16, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,015 views

    COUNT YOUR MANY BLESSINGS While on a short-term missions trip, Pastor Jack Hinton was leading worship at a leper colony on the island of Tobago. A woman who had been facing away from the pulpit turned around. "It was the most hideous face I had ever seen," Hinton said. "The woman's nose and ears ...read more

  • The Substance Of Faith

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Mar 1, 2012
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    THE SUBSTANCE OF FAITH Example: Give some play-doh to 2 people and ask them to create something out of that "substance" In the millennia-old Aristotelian tradition, as well as early modern traditions that follow it, substances or ousia are treated as having attributes and modes or things. This ...read more

  • On Your Knees

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on May 1, 2012
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    ON YOUR KNEES A young stranger to the Alps was making his first climb, accompanied by two stalwart guides. It was a steep, hazardous ascent. But he felt secure with one guide ahead and one following. For hours they climbed. And now, breathless, they reached for those rocks protruding through the ...read more

  • Wild Bill Resurrected?

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 15, 2013
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    WILD BILL RESURRECTED? In 1876, Wild Bill Hickock was killed in Deadwood, SD by Jack McCall while playing poker at the Nuttal and Mann's Saloon. You may recall that he was holding what has been referred to as the "Dead Man's Hand" (2 8s and 2 Aces -- all black with an unknown 5th card). He was ...read more

  • Visiting Preacher  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 13, 2014
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,204 views

    A pastor went out visiting his church members on a Saturday afternoon. At one house, it was obvious that someone was home, but nobody came to the door even though the preacher knocked several times. Finally, the minister took out his church business card and wrote out "Revelation 3:20" on the ...read more