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  • Plunging To Murky Earth  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 19, 2003
    based on 58 ratings
     | 8,030 views

    PLUNGING TO MURKY EARTH A family was out vacationing at the lake one summer. Dad had been puttering out by the boat house. Two of his sons, a 12-year old and a 3-year old were down playing along the dock. The 12 year old was supposed to be watching his little brother, but he got distracted. The 3 ...read more

  • A Faithful Christian Man Was Dying. His Wife And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Feb 13, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,714 views

    A faithful Christian man was DYING. His wife and son and daughter, who were all devout Christians, came to his bedside. He HUGGED them and said, “Good night, I’ll MEET you in a BETTER PLACE.” He had another son, however, who never OBEYED the GOSPEL. He was a GOOD BOY, but he just never saw the ...read more

  • Molokai

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,394 views

    Molokai You have probably never heard of the island of Molokai. Well, it’s located in the state of Hawaii. And it has quite a history. You have to go way back to the late 1800’s to understand its significance. You see, back then, there was no cure for the highly contagious and deadly disease called ...read more

  • What Will You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
     | 3,411 views

    WHAT WILL YOU DO? Henry Ford gave away millions of dollars to many different causes in his lifetime, but he was notorious for the fact that he refused to give any money at all to schools. He felt that well-meaning but non-businesslike people frequently mishandled those gifts. Now, there was a ...read more

  • Amateur ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Aug 19, 2008
     | 2,465 views

    AMATEUR COUNTERFEITER------ You may have read in the paper that counterfeit bills have been turning up here and there around town. What you may have not heard about, is the amateur counterfeiter that was operating here in town. It turns out that this amateur counterfeiter accidentally printed a ...read more

  • When I Was In New York, I Taught Confirmation. ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Sep 4, 2008
     | 1,078 views

    When I was in New York, I taught confirmation. I’m delighted to announce that Scott Roby and the confirmation teachers are planning to use the materials (updated, of course) that I used. The strength of the curriculum is that each student has a mentor, an adult from the congregation. The young ...read more

  • We Get A Whole Bunch

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 1,298 views

    We Get a Whole Bunch Pastor John R Ramsey once wrote, "For some time I have had a person provide me with a rose boutonniere to pin on the lapel of my suit every Sunday. Because I always got a flower on Sunday morning, I really did not think much of it. It was a nice gesture that I appreciated, but ...read more

  • Our Faith In Jesus Christ And Our Love For Him ...

    Contributed by Larry East on Feb 13, 2009
     | 2,765 views

    Our faith in Jesus Christ and our love for Him shows how much we love God. Let me illustrate. Let’s say that you tell me that you love me and that you care about me. But one day, my car won’t start, and I’ve got a really important appointment that I can’t miss. Now let’s suppose that I send my ...read more

  • The Easiest And Yet Hardest Thing To Do

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Sep 29, 2009
     | 1,211 views

    THE EASIEST AND YET HARDEST THING TO DO Many were following Jesus, but they do not really want to trust Him as their Saviour. It seems so easy and yet so hard. D. L. Moody shared this experience. One day he went to his little nephew house, who was then about 3 or 4 years old. He threw a ...read more

  • The Risk Of Fishing For Souls  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,233 views

    THE RISK OF FISHING FOR SOULS A little more than 10 years ago (2000), a movie called The Perfect Storm was released, which graphically portrayed the dangers of the fishing industry even in modern times. The movie is about the crew of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat out of Gloucester, ...read more

  • The Friendship Of John Newton

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 3, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,162 views

    THE FRIENDSHIP OF JOHN NEWTON While John Newton is best-known as the author of the famous hymn, "Amazing Grace," his life teemed with spiritual fruit. A new biography on his life by Jonathan Aitken gives us a peek into the legacy of the man who described himself with one simple sentence: "I am a ...read more

  • Attitude Not Aptitude  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
    based on 19 ratings
     | 7,296 views

    ATTITUDE NOT APTITUDE Jesus' message here is that everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. Dave Stone says that "service is the language of grace." One day a couple of church members were out distributing loaves of bread in a low-income housing complex. They came to an apartment ...read more

  • True Beauty

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,781 views

    TRUE BEAUTY Carre Otis was once among the world’s top super models for 17 years, beginning her career at the age of 14. To prepare for each photo shoot, she routinely binged and purged, took laxatives and diet pills, and exercised intensely. Being extremely thin made possible a modeling career ...read more

  • Steven Curtis Chapman: Still Blessing His Name

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 19, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,024 views

    STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN: STILL BLESSING HIS NAME On May 17, 2008, Christian recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman and his family suffered a devastating loss. Their five-year-old adopted daughter, Maria Sue, was struck and killed when Chapman's seventeen-year-old son was backing his SUV out of the ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom On Forgiveness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022
     | 1,211 views

    Corrie Ten Boom had her entire family killed in a Nazi concentration camp for hiding Jews in their home. In her book, “The Hiding Place” she writes: It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the shower room door in the processing center at ...read more

  • George Hunter Contends That The First ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 17, 2000
    based on 106 ratings
     | 3,540 views

    George Hunter contends that the first characteristic of a secular person in the modern world is that he or she is ignorant of basic Christianity. It has been said of the Baby Busters, those born between 1963 and 1977 and the first generation to grow up in a postmodern context, that they lack even ...read more

  • Recently I Heard Dieter Zander, The Pastor Of The ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
    based on 125 ratings
     | 4,747 views

    Recently I heard Dieter Zander, the pastor of the first GenX church in America speak at a conference about reaching people in the age of relativism. He cited a Barna study that asked people to use single words to describe Jesus. They responded, "wise, accepting, compassionate, gracious, humble." ...read more

  • When The Infidel Robert G. Ingersoll Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
    based on 113 ratings
     | 2,486 views

    When the infidel Robert G. Ingersoll was delivering his lectures against Christ and the Bible, his oratorical ability usually assured him of a large crowd. One night after an inflammatory speech in which he severely attacked man’s faith in the Savior, he dramatically took out his watch and said, ...read more

  • I Prefer To Remain Forever Damned  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2001
    based on 112 ratings
     | 2,676 views

    "I prefer to remain forever damned" During a Billy Graham crusade in Australia, a Melbourne daily paper received this letter: "I have heard Dr. Billy Graham on the air, viewed him on television, and seen reports and letters concerning his mission. I am heartily sick of the type of religion that ...read more

  • The World Cannot Satisfy  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Mar 30, 2001
    based on 87 ratings
     | 4,259 views

    C.S. Lewis, in “Mere Christianity”: “Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite ...read more