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  • A Day To Diet?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,646 views

    A DAY TO DIET? Do you diet on Turkey day, or do you hide your food journal for fear you will fill all its pages on this one day? Here’s what Jeanne McManus of the Washington Post says about the tradition of eating on Thanksgiving day: "I believe in tradition. I believe in Thanksgiving. I ...read more

  • A Couple Of Years Ago, Newsweek Magazine Ran An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 6, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,625 views

    A couple of years ago, Newsweek magazine ran an article on “Faith and Healing.” The article began with this unsettling story: “On a quiet Saturday afternoon, Ming He, a fourth-year medical student in Dallas, came across a man dying in the VA Hospital. Suffering from a rare cancer and hooked up ...read more

  • The Sexual Revolution Notwithstanding, Nearly All ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,823 views

    The sexual revolution notwithstanding, nearly all married couples are monogamous, two new sex surveys say. A university of Washington, Seattle, study in October’s American Journal of Public Health found 94 percent of married couples had one partner in the previous year. Likewise, a survey by the ...read more

  • A Man Was Irritated By His Wife's Refusal To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,148 views

    A man was irritated by his wife’s refusal to admit her hearing problem. Speaking with his doctor one day he asked, “How can I get my wife to admit that she needs a hearing aid?” “I’ll tell you what you need to do,” his doctor replied. When you get home peek your head through the door and ask, ...read more

  • Years Ago A Young Black Child Was Growing Up In ...

    Contributed by Rev. Richard Norman on Oct 6, 2009
     | 1,577 views

    Years ago a young black child was growing up in Cleveland, in a home which he later described as “ materially poor but spiritually rich.” One day a famous athlete, Charlie Paddock, came to his school to speak to the students. At the time Paddock was considered “ the fastest human being ...read more

  • One Of Them Men That Served As A Role Model For ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
     | 1,742 views

    One of them men that served as a role model for me in my early adult life was Dr. David McKenna, fourth president of Asbury Seminary. Dr. McKenna is a man of deep faith and wrote many wonderful books about leadership and service. One of the stories that I remember from his chapel remarks had to do ...read more

  • They Refused To Be Rescued  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,960 views

    THEY REFUSED TO BE RESCUED On August 30, 2005 Coast Guard Lieutenant Iain McConnell was ordered to fly his H46 helicopter to New Orleans and to keep that machine flying around the clock for what would turn out to be a heroic rescue effort. None of his crew were prepared for what they were about to ...read more

  • Getting Too Far From The Source  PRO

    Contributed by Choe Sergent on Apr 17, 2013
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,197 views

    GETTING TOO FAR FROM THE SOURCE The county hired a new person to paint fresh yellow lines down the middle of all the county roads. The first day this man painted an astonishing 10 miles of road with new double yellow lines down the middle. This was a record! No one had ever painted ten miles of ...read more

  • Pornography Addiction Has A Deadly Progression ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 25, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,333 views

    Pornography Addiction has a deadly progression says Tom Buford a converted porn addict, “Our thanks to Morality In Media for the use of the following information from Healing Sexual and Pornography Addictions by Dr. Victor Cline.” 1. FIRST STEP - ADDICTION - "The first change that happened was an ...read more

  • Doctors From Coral Gables, Fla., Compared The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 8 ratings
     | 1,032 views

    Doctors from Coral Gables, Fla., compared the efficiency of the heart’s pumping action in 18 men with coronary artery disease to nine healthy controls. Each of the study participants underwent one physical stress test (riding an exercise bicycle) and three mental stress tests (doing math problems ...read more

  • An Argument Over Who Was Going To Heaven And Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,023 views

    An argument over who was going to heaven and who was going to hell ended with one Texas man shooting another to death, according to a July 30 Reuters story. Johnny Joslin, 20 was allegedly shot by Clayton Frank Stoker, 21. The two had spent Saturday night with two other men bar-hopping in Fort ...read more

  • Rich As A King

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2003
     | 3,143 views

    RICH AS A KING History books are filled with wealthy people who were practically destitute compared to me. I have triple-tracked storm windows; Croesus did not. Entire nations trembled before Alexander the Great, but he couldn’t buy cat food in bulk. Czar Nicholas II lacked a compound-miter ...read more

  • Doctors From Coral Gables, Fla., Compared The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,516 views

    Doctors from Coral Gables, Fla., compared the efficiency of the heart’s pumping action in 18 men with coronary artery disease to nine healthy controls. Each of the study participants underwent one physical stress test (riding an exercise bicycle) and three mental stress tests (doing math problems ...read more

  • Why Is It That The Vast Majority Of Christian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,888 views

    "Why is it that the vast majority of Christian believers remain largely unexposed to Christian learning--to historical-critical studies of the Bible, the content and structure of the great doctines, to two thousand years of classic works on the Christian life, to basic disciplines of theology, ...read more

  • In 1932 Herbert Taylor Was Assigned The Job Of ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Dec 7, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,564 views

    In 1932 Herbert Taylor was assigned the job of saving an aluminum products company from bankruptcy. The company’s products were better than their competitor’s. Their sales people were no better than their competitors’. So he decided that their company would be known for the character, ...read more

  • I Was Reading About Ty Cobb. Other Than Babe ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,619 views

    I was reading about Ty Cobb. Other than Babe Ruth, he was probably the greatest baseball player who ever lived. He had 4,191 hits in his career. But the biggest hit he ever made was while he was on his death bed. On July 17th, 1961, with tears in His eyes, he welcomed Jesus Christ as the Lord of ...read more

  • Glynn Wolfe Lived 88 Years; He Was ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,632 views

    ILLUSTRATION: Glynn Wolfe lived 88 years; he was born July 25th 1908 and died June 10th 1997. He died alone in a nursing home in Redlands, California where no one visited him and no one came to claim the body. Wolfe died with $430 to his name which was used to give him a pauper’s funeral. What ...read more

  • M ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
     | 2,468 views

    MINDLESSNESS In 2009, we celebrated the 500th birthday of John Calvin, who was born on July 10, 1509, in Noyon, France. Calvin went into self-exile in Geneva because France was opposed to the Reformation. The reason I mention this is because of the remarkable work that Calvin did in Geneva. ...read more

  • Who Created The Universe?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
     | 4,134 views

    WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE? In 2005, Newsweek and Beliefnet asked Americans this question: "Do you believe that God created the universe?" Eighty percent of those responding said the universe was created by God. That's good news! And it's pretty amazing that after all of the money and effort spent ...read more

  • It Was Enough

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 8, 2011
     | 2,431 views

    IT WAS ENOUGH This past Sunday morning I had an encounter with God. I had a bad headache (from God to keep me home) so I did not go with Julie and the boys to church. I got my bible out and then started praying. I felt the Lord flood my soul and then I felt like laying prostrate on the floor and ...read more

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