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  • Trapping The Ball!" Psalm 25: 16-21 Key ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jul 4, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,061 views

    “Trapping the Ball!” Psalm 25: 16-21 Key verse(s): 21 “May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you.” Integrity! Perhaps it is one of the loneliest words in the English language. For many it creates the image of one standing alone, apart from the others, because just the ...read more

  • Suspension Bridge

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 28, 2009
     | 3,473 views

    Robert Lewis writes, “In 1851, many of the most accomplished engineers in the country thought James Roebling was out of his mind. That year, he began to work on the unthinkable: building a bridge over the Niagara River Gorge. Disaster was nearly universally predicted. There was the sheer ...read more

  • Fear And The Deceits Of The Heart  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,625 views

    FEAR AND THE DECEITS OF THE HEART I think Edward Welch chose brilliantly the title for his book on overcoming the fear of man: When People are Big and God is Small. Maybe you can relate to his personal awakening to this problem when he was a high-school senior: "I had always been shy and ...read more

  • The Colt Mccoy Story

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,360 views

    THE COLT MCCOY STORY College football experienced a masterpiece national championship game featuring the number one ranked Crimson Tide from Alabama against the undefeated ballers from the University of Texas. The Longhorns, led by their Heisman nominated quarterback Colt McCoy hoped to prove to ...read more

  • Here Is A Story From Amy In Miami Beach About ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
     | 1,532 views

    Here is a story from Amy in Miami Beach about anxiety and worry Dancing Potato Chips Not long ago I had “one of those days. I had company arriving in a couple of days and the toilet was clogged. I went to the bank, and the “its my first day” teller processing my deposit had to start over three ...read more

  • New Year's ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 12,460 views

    New Year’s Resolutions The Christmas celebrations are over. Now comes that time of the year when many people make New Year’s resolutions. With fixed determination they try to achieve what they have announced at some party. However, they seldom keep those New Year’s resolutions. Why not? There ...read more

  • Billy Sunday, The Great Evangelist Of Yesteryear ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Young on Nov 23, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,296 views

    Billy Sunday, the great Evangelist of yesteryear wrote, “I am a Christian because God’s Word says so, and I did what He told me to do, and I stand on ...read more

  • Comments About Muhammad Originate In Key Islamic ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 14, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,215 views

    Comments About Muhammad Originate in Key Islamic Source Two former Muslims responded June 12 to complaints from Islamic groups that a speaker’s comments at the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference in St. Louis were "bigoted" and "hateful." National media have widely reported that Jerry Vines, ...read more

  • Burying Karla Faye Tucker  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 3,917 views

    BURYING KARLA FAYE TUCKER In February 1998, the State of Texas prepared to execute Karla Faye Tucker, for her participation in the murder of Jerry Lynn Dean and Deborah Thornton with a pick ax in 1983. What brought this story to the News agencies was Karla’s request for a stay from execution. ...read more

  • Conclusion... The Matrix ...  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 24, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,554 views

    CONCLUSION... The Matrix (http://www.ozsermonillustrations.com/frames/truth_&_error_frameset.htm) One of the great films of 1999 was The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves. It’s a futuristic sci-fi movie, where the world has been taken over by computers. The computers need the energy that comes from ...read more

  • Before The Review Board  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 29, 2004
    based on 15 ratings
     | 4,445 views

    BEFORE THE REVIEW BOARD John the Baptist was a truly strange fellow. I can imagine his performance review from the board of clergy examiners. - - - - - - - - - Dear John ben Zechariah: The board of examiners completed their visit and frankly were concerned about several matters pertaining to ...read more

  • Robert Schuller Tells This Story About Bernice ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 24, 2006
     | 3,014 views

    Robert Schuller tells this story about Bernice Schug. He met Schug when she needed work and they hired her as a housekeeper. She was a lovely woman, showering the Schuller’s with love and poppy-seed rolls. But he says that no one knew of her hidden hurt. One day she came to Schuller and said, "Bob, ...read more

  • A Forever Family

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,683 views

    A FOREVER FAMILY Author Keith Miller tells of an outgoing 40-year-old woman who was part of a sharing group he led. Here is her story: "When I was a tiny little girl, my parents died and I was put in an orphanage. I was not pretty at all and no one seemed to want me. But I longed to be adopted ...read more

  • Can You Hear The Cries Of Loneliness?

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 3, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,338 views

    CAN YOU HEAR THE CRIES OF LONELINESS? A Story from Max Lucado: In the summer of 1980 a story about an attractive girl who was young and successful stirred the US. The story broke the evening news with the headline; Judith Bucknell was dead -- it was number one hundred and six that year in the ...read more

  • From Refuge To Valedictorian

    Contributed by Matt Neace on Jun 19, 2018
     | 2,787 views

    2 Chronicles 15:7 God tells King Asa, "But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded." It is like the following story from the Dallas Morning News: When Albana Gllareva met her high school counselor, the Dallas freshman said bluntly, “I want to be ...read more

  • A While Back An Expert On The Subject Of Time ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,280 views

    A while back an expert on the subject of time management was speaking to a group of business students. After speaking to them for a while, he said, “Okay, it’s time for a quiz.” He set a one-gallon, wide mouthed Mason jar on the table in front of him. Then he produced about a dozen fist-sized ...read more

  • When Charles Goodyear Was Just Twenty-Six Years ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,709 views

    When Charles Goodyear was just twenty-six years old, he had made his first fortune. He had set up the first hardware store in America that sold only domestically manufactured farm implements. Everything was going in his direction. Then suddenly, things changed. Several of his suppliers closed their ...read more

  • The Other Day I Stumbled Across A Website Called ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,678 views

    The other day I stumbled across a website called myheritage.com. The site is a genealogical database designed to help people reconstruct their family history. That in and of itself is nothing new, but this one is different because it uses face recognition software to do so. The idea is for people ...read more

  • The "Root” Of The Problem

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Apr 22, 2020
     | 3,522 views

    We used to live in a very nice house which had some live plants near the driveway. One of those plants in particular was a “volunteer elm” and we absolutely hated it. Sure enough, we saw that thing getting bigger—but we didn’t want that to happen. It was out of place! Somehow, I obtained a can of ...read more

  • Serving Others

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
    based on 2 ratings
     | 20,525 views

    “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever the cost”. - Arthur Ashe In a small, dusty town in western Oklahoma one November there lived a young single mother struggling to make ends meet. ...read more