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  • Mom-Isms From Biblical ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 14, 2010
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    Mom-isms from Biblical moms: a. There has been some commonality through the years when it comes to motherhood let’s look at just a few Bible mom’s and imagine what they had to deal with and how they handled raising their children. ILL Notebook: Mother (Great Sayings of Biblical Mothers). In fact, ...read more

  • Trojan Horse! It Appears Innocent Enough, But It ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 14, 2010
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    TROJAN HORSE! It appears innocent enough, but it is a harmful piece of software that looks legitimate. It tricks people into loading the wrong things into their systems. It gives a hacker access to cause damage. Unless you have a good ANTIVIRUS PROGRAMME, you will get infected and your whole ...read more

  • Burn The Ships

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Nov 2, 2011
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     | 3,204 views

    BURN THE SHIPS In the 1500’s there was a commander named Cortes who was trying to conquer the Yucatan Peninsula for its gold. To prevent retreat Cortes ordered his ships to be sent to sea and scuttled so they could not retreat. How where they to get home? They weren’t--they would either win or ...read more

  • Shackleton Found Them Ready  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,296 views

    Illustration: Shackleton Found Them Ready While on one of his expeditions to the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Shackleton was once compelled to leave some of his men on Elephant Island, with the intention of returning for them and carrying them back to England. But he was unavoidably delayed, and by the ...read more

  • First Of All, What Is A Shepherd And What Does ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    First of all, what is a shepherd and what does he do? I think that Dr. Andrew Bonar, a close friend and biographer of Robert Murray M’Cheyne, says it best when he had this to say to a friend of his about sheep and shepherds. Dr. Andrew Bonar told me how, in the Highlands of Scotland, a sheep would ...read more

  • One Day A Farmer's Donkey Fell Down Into ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jan 21, 2008
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    -ILLUS: One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway , it just wasn’t worth the effort to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his ...read more

  • I Love You ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 9, 2008
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    ILLUSTRATION: I LOVE YOU ANYWAY Overcoming the odds is like the man who finally decided to ask his boss for a raise in salary. It was Friday. He told his wife that morning what he was about to do, All day the man felt nervous and apprehensive. Late in the afternoon he summoned the courage to ...read more

  • Greed Vs. Envy

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
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    Greed vs. Envy Envy is the evil eye that looks on the success and happiness of another and resents his being so blessed. It is different from covetousness, which desires to have what another has. Envy simply resents the other person's having it. There's an old legend about a greedy man and an ...read more

  • Trapping Wild Pigs

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 27, 2008
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    Trapping Wild Pigs You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When ...read more

  • The Life Of The Early Church Didn't Spring Up ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 30, 2008
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    THE LIFE OF THE EARLY CHURCH DIDN’T SPRING UP FROM THE BOTTOM UP, NOR FROM THE TOP DOWN. PAUL SCANLON WRITES OF MEETING A BAPTIST PASTOR WHO FOR TWENTY YEARS HAD BEEN IN MINISTRY AT THE SAME CHURCH. HE AND HIS WIFE HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND FINISHED UP VERY ILL ON MEDICATION. I WAS SPEAKING TO ...read more

  • Don't Tape The Trees

    Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Mar 13, 2009
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    DON'T TAPE THE TREES I was talking to a man a few years back, and he told me how he used to have a farm and how he had tried to grow different things to make money. Well, one day he said he hired a young guy to mow his lawn ,but he explained to him that he had just planted about fifty Christmas ...read more

  • Obedience

    Contributed by Anitha Jabastion on Jan 2, 2021
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    There was a boy who went trekking on the mountain. He reached a great height when he realized that it was getting dark and he had to reach the bottom soon. He began climbing down. It was getting darker and darker, so dark that he could barely see. He was somehow managing to get down the mountain ...read more

  • The Worst Dad Joke Ever

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jul 17, 2023
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    I usually begin every one of my Sunday sermons with a funny story to get our congregation comfortable before I begin to dive in deeply to the Word of God. If you like dad jokes or puns (old name) and you want to make your congregation groan a little bit.........check this dad joke out! CHESS ...read more

  • Of The Many Things In Life That Are Certain One ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2002
    based on 152 ratings
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    Of the many things in life that are certain one of them is you always get found out in the end or, to use the old adage, ’Be sure your sins will find you out’. This young couple were about to get married. The young man went to his Dad and said, "I’m a bit apprehensive about getting married, Dad". ...read more

  • Mothers Have Taught Us With Faithful Words Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 1, 2006
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    Mothers have taught us with faithful words of instruction (listen to some of these from a Mothers Day website) To Value A Job Well Done "If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning." Time Travel "If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of ...read more

  • In A Hurry  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,092 views

    A news story out of St. Louis last year began… "He was a loving father and loved his grandkids," Linda Heath never imagined Wednesday would mark the first time she referred to her husband of 31 years in the past tense.” On April 26, 2006 Henry Heath was killed while directing traffic in a ...read more

  • Recently I Read About A Pastor Who Had A Thorn. ...

    Contributed by Art Good on Jul 26, 2007
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    Recently I read about a Pastor who had a thorn. He had just started - getting involved in teaching and preaching and sensing that it might be some area of calling for him. It was on a Sunday morning at this church and five minutes into his message he started to get dizzy and woozy and the room ...read more

  • I Remember When I Was Growing Up; Many Times We ...

    Contributed by Robert Coats on Dec 21, 2007
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    I remember when I was growing up; many times we made our own toys and gifts: but we always exchanged gifts. There are many traditions in the way gifts are exchanged. I remember a time we were at a friend’s home at Christmas and the way they exchanged gifts was that one person would open a gift and ...read more

  • The Wise Farmer Can Usually Depend On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    "...the wise farmer can usually depend on expected timetables of seedtime and harvest. Not so in the spiritual life. One of the greatest frustrations in the Christian ministry, and principal cause for 'weariness in well doing' is the inability to calculate the spiritual outcome of faithful labors ...read more

  • Imagine This, Your Child Comes To You And Says ...

    Contributed by Robert Mitchell on May 8, 2008
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    Imagine this, your child comes to you and says mom I don’t like my bike anymore and I want a new one. You as a responsible parent ask the child what is wrong with the bike, and the child responds I just don’t like it. You tell him/her that it would be best if they were to keep using the one they ...read more