Contributed by Charles Salmon on Feb 3, 2003
based on 2 ratings
| 8,355 views
The Republican Methodist Church began on Christmas Day, 1793 in Manikintown Virginia. It was formed by several Methodist congregations who rebelled against the Methodist Episcopal form of government brought from England. Soon. There were several thousand members and whole congregations had joined
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Galen Hackman on Mar 1, 2003
based on 41 ratings
| 2,682 views
Every animal on earth has a set of senses that corresponds with the environment around it, and some of those senses far exceed ours. Humans can perceive only thirty percent of the range of the sun’s light and 1/70th of the spectrum of electromagnetic energy. Many animals exceed our abilities. Bats
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Brethren
Contributed by David Yarbrough on Apr 21, 2003
based on 7 ratings
| 14,822 views
Hope is a funny thing. It comes so easy to some people--maybe too easy. Milton Berle told a story about those kinds of people, about how hope can triumph over good sense.
Four widows were playing cards in the retirement home they lived in. A good-looking older fellow walks in, bags under each
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Shawn Raloff on Jun 7, 2003
During World War II, England needed to increase its production of coal if it was going to have any hope of winning the war.
Winston Churchill called together labor leaders to enlist their support. And at the end of his presentation he asked them to stand with him and picture in their minds a
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Free Methodist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 16, 2003
based on 91 ratings
| 1,971 views
C. Recent research is shining light on the importance of male spiritual leadership in the home. Among their findings is the reality that 68 million of our nation’s 94 million men don’t attend any church. This, in spite of the fact, that 86% of them grew up with some sort of church background.
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Sep 12, 2003
based on 51 ratings
| 7,973 views
Unused Spiritual Resources
During Superbowl XXXVII, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie Castaway, in which Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker whose company plane went down, stranding him on a desert island for years. Looking like the bedraggled Hanks in the movie, the FedEx employee in the
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Dec 10, 2003
based on 3 ratings
| 2,566 views
IMMORTAL HORRORS OR EVERLASTING SPLENDOURS
C. S. Lewis wrote in the Weight of Glory,
There are no ordinary people.
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by John Harvey on Mar 31, 2004
In 1968, the historical veracity for the crucifixion of Jesus took another leap forward. A mass gravesite in Israel was uncovered that contained 35 male bodies, each of which died a brutal death around the rime of the Jewish revolt against Rome in 70 AD. An inscription identified one of the men
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2005
based on 10 ratings
| 5,100 views
ALL THE EVIDENCE
Professor Thomas Arnold, for 14 years a headmaster of Rugby, author of the famous, History of Rome, and appointed to the chair of modern history at Oxford, was well acquainted with the value of evidence in determining historical facts. This great scholar said:
"I have been used
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
based on 7 ratings
| 30,828 views
A wealthy businessman, who was well known for being ruthless and unethical, told Mark Twain that before he died, he wanted to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He said that when he got there he wanted to climb to the top of Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments, and there read
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
based on 4 ratings
| 23,015 views
A few years back I coached my son’s Little League Team. We spent many hours practicing. We practiced and practiced and learned the fundamentals; how to hit, how to bunt, how to throw, how to pitch and catch. We learned all of the secret coaching signs. We honed our skills day after day in the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Congregational
Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jun 6, 2005
Shortly after the Dallas Theological Seminary was founded in 1924, it almost had to close. The creditors were about to foreclose at noon on a certain day. Pres. Lewis S. Chafer met with his faculty at the office, praying fervently that God would provide. Present was Dr. Harry Ironside who prayed in
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 29, 2005
It was a sleepy spring afternoon when a tornado struck Waco, Texas. It left behind a wake of destruction seldom witnessed: 113 people dead, hundreds more left homeless, and millions of dollars in property damage. Workers commented the buildings had their outside walls and roof completely gone while
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Tony Abram on Jul 16, 2005
based on 4 ratings
| 1,480 views
The added benefit of winning souls is strength. The joy of the Lord gives us strength. The greatest joy next to the joy of your own salvation is winning another soul to Christ. Of the 43 years of missionary evangelism we have seen many answers to prayer with the healing of many. However, I do not
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 17, 2005
ILLUSTRATION... Two Gods? (personal story)
"One a recent trip, I called home to talk to the kids and let them know that I would be home soon. I called at a time when our two boys were asleep and only our four-year old daughter was awake. We chatted for awhile. She began to ask me questions
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jeff Simms on Dec 2, 2005
based on 3 ratings
| 3,261 views
pastor named John Gossip once said about God’s love:
The wonderful thing about Christ is that as people looked at Him, followed Him, and watched Him, it became apparent to them that this is what God must be like. They concluded that if there is a God at all, then He must have Christ’s eyes,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
No civilization has ever been entirely able to delete rumors of land beyond. These rumors of a lost Eden come to us in stories, poetry, flashes of joy, aching desire which are, as CSL recognized: “the sent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard” (Weight of
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
based on 3 ratings
| 1,725 views
From the book: Wacky Laws, Weird Decisions and Strange Statues, Main Street publishers.
Divorce Court:
a. Marshfield, Wisconsin: When the couple married, he promised to pay her $1 for each kiss as long as they remained married. She sued him for divorce and asked the court for an award of $3,000 in
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Sermon Central