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  • No Hope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 14,130 views

    Apart from God, there is no _HOPE_ Those of you who know me well, may know that before I was married, my closest and dearest friends were my parents and my brothers. As a result, some of the most painful times I have endured were when I went away to seminary. Living alone in a trailer in Arkansas, ...read more

  • Paul Could Have Been Filled With Bitterness, But ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 12, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,906 views

    Paul could have been filled with bitterness, but he overflowed with the joy of the Lord, and we can too! Our hands are not in chains today. We are blessed far more than most people in the world. But if all of that was taken away, we would still have grace; we would still have Heaven; we would still ...read more

  • Lying

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,292 views

    LYING Penn State researcher Dr. Nancy Darling reports 98% of teens reported lying to their parents in a recent study. They lied about what they spent their allowances on, whether they’d started dating, what clothes they put on away from the house, what movie they went to, and whom they went with. ...read more

  • Crime And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 2,018 views

    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT At the foot of the gallows, the condemned man recited Psalm 51 and added a word of personal repentance. A shroud was placed over his head, and he climbed the ladder, which the executioner then pulled away, leaving him to “dance upon nothing,” as the vernacular put it. ...read more

  • Have Any Of You Read The Book, The Worst-Case ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Nov 19, 2008
     | 973 views

    Have any of you read the book, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht? It’s a great little yellow book that describes all sorts of ways to get out of even life-threatening situations. Here’s how they describe getting free from an alligator: How to Wrestle ...read more

  • The Teddy Bear Lady

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 11, 2009
     | 1,744 views

    THE TEDDY BEAR LADY Most of the people at Chicago’s Children’s Hospital did not know her name. They just knew her as the sweet elderly lady in the red suit who wanted to make sure that every sick child had a teddy bear to hug and caress. She kept bringing the stuffed animals, purchased with her ...read more

  • How To Get To Heaven  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,252 views

    HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN In 1997 there was survey taken by U. S. News and World Report, "Who do you think is mostly likely to get into heaven?" Mother Teresa had a 79%, Oprah Winfrey 66%, Michael Jordon 65%, Colin Powell 61%, Dennis Rodman 28% and O. J. Simpson 19%. The person completing the survey ...read more

  • Businessman Risks Life For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
     | 2,919 views

    Businessman Risks Life for Money Suze Orman in her book, “9 Steps to Financial Freedom” writes: When I was 13, my dad owned his own business—a tiny shack where he sold chicken, ribs, hamburgers, hot dogs, and fries. One day the oil that the chicken was fried in caught fire. In a few minutes the ...read more

  • Ravi Zacharias: A Lecherous Heart

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    RAVI ZACHARIAS: A LECHEROUS HEART One of the most powerful stories I have ever heard on the nature of the human heart is told by Malcolm Muggeridge. Working as a journalist in India, he left his residence one evening to go to a nearby river for a swim. As he entered the water, across the river he ...read more

  • The Face Of God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2011
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    THE FACE OF GOD I heard the story once of a great Cherokee wood carver. He took logs and sat them on a stump outside his back door and sat in front of that log sometimes for hours just staring at it. Finally, he would pick up his carving tools and start carving the most beautiful of things out of ...read more

  • Aiming At The Right Target  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
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    AIMING AT THE RIGHT TARGET Some of our deeds are of great value, especially those done in dependence upon God for His glory and honor. Some of our deeds are worthless. They accomplish nothing of eternal value and will be quickly forgotten after we are gone. Matt Emmons had the gold medal in ...read more

  • Let Me Relate A Bizarre Yet True Story, Before I ...

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Oct 25, 2011
     | 1,614 views

    Let me relate a bizarre yet true story, before I get started with my main theme. Before that… those of us who don’t know about, Charlie Chaplin, let’s put up our hands? Well, not many hands would go up, for most of us know that he was a huge movie star in the silent-picture era sending many (and ...read more

  • What Happened To King Neb Was Unique --- ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Oct 17, 2012
     | 2,786 views

    What happened to King Neb was unique --- I’ve never heard of anything quite like it --- a King eating grass for 7 years like an animal. But on the other hand, the spiritual experience it represents is more common than we’d like to think. I remember a father of one of my youth group kids years ...read more

  • One Solitary Life

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 24, 2025
     | 30 views

    I’d like to read you a little piece written by an unknown author called One Solitary Life He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in still another village, where he worked in a carpenter’s shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant ...read more

  • One Day Linus And Charlie Brown Are Walking Along ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rich Young on Jan 18, 2001
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    One day Linus and Charlie Brown are walking along and chatting with one another. Linus says, "I don’t like to face problems head on. I think the best way to solve problems is to avoid them. In fact, this is a distinct philosophy of ...read more

  • In The Broadway Play, My Fair Lady, One Of The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Thomas Hensley on Nov 5, 2000
    based on 111 ratings
     | 3,373 views

    In the Broadway Play, My Fair Lady, one of the characters sings a memorable song. The Lord above made liquor for temptation, To see if man could turn away from sin, The Lord above made liquor for temptation, BUT, with a little bit ...read more

  • A Man Who Was Raised In A Cult (A Cult Is A Group ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Mar 10, 2002
    based on 48 ratings
     | 2,444 views

    A man who was raised in a cult (A cult is a group that changes either the person of Jesus or the redemptive act of the cross) over a period of years gradually rejected the rules and works of religion. One day he cried out to a friend, "You’ve ...read more

  • Cartoonist Joe Mckeever Has Drawn A Group Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Lovorn on Jun 9, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 14,794 views

    Cartoonist Joe McKeever has drawn a group of tourists looking at the Garden tomb in Jerusalem. It’s an open tomb where the stone door has been rolled away. Their guide says, "The angel moved the stone to reveal an empty tomb ...read more

  • Dr. Harry Ironside Used To Tell About A Group Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Jun 23, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
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    Dr. Harry Ironside used to tell about a group of believers who thought only of "fellowship." They had little concern for reaching the lost or for defending the faith against its enemies. In front of their meeting place they hung a sign: JESUS ONLY. But the wind blew away some of ...read more

  • Where Grace And Sin Collide

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,116 views

    A pastor wrote: The Cross is the place where grace and sin collide with a crash, but the wreckage is suffered on the heart of God. The sinner walks away free - free from sin’s penalty, free to walk with God, free to live in His Heaven for ...read more