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  • This Christmas Has Set Me Off. It Has Given Me ...

    Contributed by Neal Gracey on Sep 1, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,108 views

    This Christmas has set me off. It has given me new fire. It is a wakeup call to men, women and children around the world that 200? could be the beginning of new dark ages. There is a possibility that our children's children could be jailed or killed for speaking about Christ. Want to know what's ...read more

  • Eagle Vision And Dependability" Written By ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 10, 2002
    based on 75 ratings
     | 5,192 views

    "Eagle Vision And Dependability" written by Christi Harken from Maple Grove, Minnesota, USA Birds of all kinds can see where they are going. They pick and choose their direction and path. As birds fly by instinct they head where they are directed. But they can only see what is in front of ...read more

  • Did You See The Move Shallow Hal? It Is A Movie ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 19, 2003
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,196 views

    Did you see the move Shallow Hal? It is a movie about an unattractive, really shallow middle-aged man named Hal Larsen who judges women on how “hot” they are. But then one day, Hal gets stuck on a stalled elevator with a motivational guru who helps him overcome his shallowness by hypnotizing him ...read more

  • When Jesus Does Not Meet Our Expectations We End ...

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Dec 28, 2006
     | 1,903 views

    When Jesus does not meet our expectations we end up going back to what is most important to us. For some of us it is sex. We stop being moral people or we leave our marriages to get as many sexual encounters as we can. Others it is like Judas it is money. God has failed so I will get as much ...read more

  • Forty Middle-Aged Men Sat On Metal Chairs On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,795 views

    FORTY MIDDLE-AGED MEN SAT ON METAL CHAIRS ON THE CAPITOL STEPS IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, THAT JANUARY DAY, IN 1984, WHICH INCLUDED JIMMY DOOLITTLE, PAPPY BOYINGTON, AND WILLIAM STOCKDALE. B. ALL FORTY MEN RECEIVED: A AUTOMOBILE LICENSE STAMPED WITH FOUR DISTINCTIVE WORDS, "CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF ...read more

  • Let Me Tell You A Story About A Man. This Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,919 views

    Let me tell you a story about a man. This man grew up in the north end residential area of Tacoma, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and attended the University of Washington Law School. His friends considered him suave, debonair, handsome, and smooth with the ladies. He ...read more

  • Simple Confession, Profound Forgiveness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022
     | 1,239 views

    In 1818 one out of six women who had children died of something called “childbirth fever.” A doctor’s daily routine back then started in the dissecting room, where he performed autopsies, and from there he made his rounds to examine expectant mothers. No one even thought to wash his hands...at ...read more

  • You Never Asked

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 3, 2009
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    YOU NEVER ASKED ("Opie’s Charity" from the Andy Griffith Show by Joey Fann) The episode begins with Andy and Opie playing catch. While they are playing, Annabelle Silby comes by to solicit help with the annual children’s charity drive she heads up every year. Andy and Annabelle go into the ...read more

  • The Late President Calvin Coolidge Returned Home ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Prater on Jan 21, 2001
    based on 117 ratings
     | 2,809 views

    The late president Calvin Coolidge returned home from church one Sunday afternoon and found his wife sitting in the chair. Unable to go that day, she was still interested in what the preacher had to say. She asked her husband what the preacher spoke about and he said, "Sin." Like most women, a ...read more

  • Suicide Is A Real And Relevant Problem In Our ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 12, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,709 views

    Suicide is a real and relevant problem in our culture. According to the 2001 Statistical Abstract of the U.S there were almost 31,000 (30,775) people who took their own lives in our country. Over 4000 (4135) of those were by people between the ages of 15-24, young men and women in the prime of ...read more

  • Phillip Johnson, A Berkeley Law Professor, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2004
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    Phillip Johnson, a Berkeley law professor, lecturer and author of several books refuting evolution notes: “I have found that any discussion with modernists about the weaknesses of the theory of evolution quickly turns into a discussion of politics, particularly sexual politics. [Modernists] ...read more

  • The Problem For Isaiah, However, Is That The ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 31, 2009
     | 2,189 views

    The problem for Isaiah, however, is that the filth and corruption was not outside Jerusalem, it was in it, in the hearts and on the lips of his people. That was the reason for all the invasions of Assyria and Babylonia. The kings of the north would be a purifying fire that would purge the sin ...read more

  • William Booth: I'll Fight

    Contributed by Colin Bain on Nov 9, 2010
     | 3,427 views

    WILLIAM BOOTH: I'LL FIGHT While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight. While there is a drunkard left While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets While there ...read more

  • In An Average Lifetime, The Average American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,046 views

    In an average lifetime, the average American spends 3 years in business meetings, 13 years watching TV, Spends $89,281 on food, consumes 109,354 pounds of food, Makes 1811 trips to McDonalds, Spends $6881 in vending machines, Eats 35,138 cookies and 1483 pounds of candy, Catches 304 colds, Is ...read more

  • Some Words Of Wisdom For Parents (And Children)

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
     | 1,130 views

    Some words of wisdom for parents (and children): • Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. – Erma Bombeck • The most common fallacy among women (and men – in my humble opinion) is that simply having children makes them a mother (a father), which is as absurd as believing that ...read more

  • The Church Household

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 28, 2007
     | 2,658 views

    (1 Timothy 3:1-13) Chrytsostom writes, "The church leader must be ’one that governs well his own house.’... For the church is, as it were, a small household. In a house there are children and wife and domestic duties, and some person has to provide order for them all. So in the church there are ...read more

  • Religious Books Were Top Choice Among America's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,677 views

    Religious books were top choice among America’s most avid readers in '06. An AP-Ipsos poll found that 66% of U.S. adults read a religious book (including the Bible), the most-read category, followed by popular fiction, histories, bio-graphies, and mysteries. One in four did not read any book during ...read more

  • Number Of Catholic Clergy Falls

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    NUMBER OF CATHOLIC CLERGY FALLS The Vatican reports a further dramatic fall in the number of Roman Catholic monks and nuns worldwide. The number of men and women belonging to religious orders fell by 10% to just under a million between 2005 and 2006. During the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, ...read more

  • Endogamic Marriages (I.e., Within The Circle Of ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 5, 2009
     | 1,461 views

    "Endogamic marriages (i.e., within the circle of one’s relatives) were preferred by ancient tribes. The chosen suitor for a girl was her cousin; it was actually forbidden for the eldest daughter to marry outside the family." (The Jewish Encyclopedia) Since the human race was younger, birth ...read more

  • The Greatest Generation

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
     | 2,969 views

    THE GREATEST GENERATION Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." The year was 1940, and it would be called the fulcrum of America in the 20th century. The nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and ...read more