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  • Our American Culture, As Well As Many Other ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,362 views

    Our American culture, as well as many other parts of the world, is becoming increasingly more friendless. A recent study by American Sociological Review indicates that the average American has just two close friends, compared with three in 1985. In the last 20 years our circle of close friends is ...read more

  • To Prevent Rot – My Grandmother, Grinny, Would ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
     | 1,453 views

    1. To prevent rot – My Grandmother, Grinny, would take the rock ice from ice cream churn after churning ice cream and pour it around her mailbox post to keep the grass from growing there. A North American once asked a South American why they couldn’t seem to get their governments in order down ...read more

  • The Wild Duck Over Norway  PRO

    Contributed by Arliss Beavers on Aug 8, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,932 views

    THE WILD DUCK OVER NORWAY A wild duck over Norway left the wild pack of ducks who were flying in formation. He swooped down low to a barn yard to investigate the free kernels of corn thrown upon the ground and stays too long until he grows horribly fat. Each year, he hears his wild pack returning ...read more

  • Works Vs. Fruit  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 15, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,877 views

    WORKS VS. FRUIT A machine in a factory works and turns out a product, but it could never manufacture "fruit." Fruit must grow out of life, and, in the case of the believer, it is the life of the Spirit (Gal. 5:25). When you think of "works," you think of effort, labor, strain, and toil; when you ...read more

  • Look At Yourself As What You'll Be

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 19, 2009
     | 5,370 views

    LOOK AT YOURSELF AS WHAT YOU'LL BE The Puritan Richard Sibbes offers encouragement along those lines in his book The Bruised Reed. He said, "Let us not therefore be discouraged at the small beginnings of grace, but look on ourselves as elected to be 'holy and without blame' ...read more

  • Life Begins At The Cross

    Contributed by James Mercer on Dec 8, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,951 views

    LIFE BEGINS AT THE CROSS We don’t begin to live until we believe on Jesus and receive this everlasting life. A popular book a generation ago was entitled, Life Begins at Forty, where the author sought to prove that a person just enters the prime of life at forty years of age. The new saying is ...read more

  • Parenting "To Make My Child Happy"

    Contributed by Kerry O'neill on Mar 12, 2010
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     | 2,296 views

    PARENTING "TO MAKE MY CHILD HAPPY" Several years ago, I was part of a great church in Omaha, Nebraska that ran a Christian school. When the parents of the students were surveyed and asked "What is your main role as a parent to your child?" the number one response was "To make my child happpy." ...read more

  • God's Word And Daniel Webster

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2010
    based on 1 rating
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    GOD'S WORD AND DANIEL WEBSTER Daniel Webster testified: "If there be anything in my style or thoughts to be commended, the credit is due to my kind parents for instilling into my mind an early love for the Scriptures. From the time that, at my mother's feet or on my father's knee, I learned to ...read more

  • The Importance Of Perspective  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2010
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    THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSPECTIVE When I think of perspective I am often reminded of a conversation between me and my son in the summer he turned four. That spring, Mark had asked for a spot in the family garden to call his own. He turned the soil, broke the clumps, and planted his favorite ...read more

  • I Recently Had A Nursery Operator Inform Me That ...

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Sep 13, 2010
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    I recently had a nursery operator inform me that keeping my young fruit trees tied up so that the wind would not “damage” them was, in actuality, damaging them! They told me that the strong winds strengthened the fibers of the tree’s trunk and limbs so that it could withstand the fury of nature. ...read more

  • The Candle

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 2, 2021
     | 1,707 views

    *THEY WILL ONLY SEE THE LIGHT OF HOPE. (AUTHOR UNKNOWN) HIS LIGHT AM I TO SHINE WHERE HE SHALL SAY; AND LAMPS ARE NOT FOR SUNNY ROOMS NOR FOR THE LIGHT OF DAY. BUT FOR THE DARK PLACES OF THE EARTH, WHERE SHAME AND WRONG AND CRIMES GIVE BIRTH. OR FOR THE MILKY TWILIGHT GRAY, WHERE WANDERING SHEEP ...read more

  • He Gives More Grace

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 4, 2021
     | 2,132 views

    "He gives more grace when the burdens grow greater. He sends more strength when the labors increase, To added affliction He addeth His mercy, To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace. When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed 'ere the day is half ...read more

  • Titles

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jun 2, 2008
     | 2,277 views

    TITLES I have been a pastor at Shiloh Bible Church for eleven years. But my association with the church began long before that. My in-laws, Harold and Dorothy Wills, retired to the Bloomsburg area back in the 1980's and they started coming to Shiloh. And so when our family would come up from ...read more

  • Mammon

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 2, 2014
     | 5,327 views

    The Blessed Life is a book written Robert Morris. He talks about a crucial weed that chokes out the truth of God, the teachings of God, the Word in our life – that weed or thorny vine is called mammon – greed – the love of money which supersedes the love of the Lord Jesus. It’s a real weed and it’s ...read more

  • I Want You To Imagine A Couple Sitting In A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Lucas on Jul 30, 2005
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    I want you to imagine a couple sitting in a coffee shop. And you are one table over. Have you ever done this? You just kind of eavesdrop. You know, those coffee shops are small enough; you can hear almost every conversation in the room. You know, just have your laptop open so they don’t know you ...read more

  • Too Big For God

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Jan 1, 2007
     | 1,974 views

    TO BIG FOR GOD Remember when you first came to God compelled by the Holy Ghost you were found in sin and conceived by grace and mercy. Remember your first breath of the life everything look so much brighter and you had hope and faith in nothing else but in Christ. I remember the feeling of the ...read more

  • Comedian Billy Crystal Plays The Part Of A Bored ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 23, 2001
    based on 61 ratings
     | 1,545 views

    Comedian Billy Crystal plays the part of a bored baby boomer who sells radio advertising time. One the day he visits his son’s school to tell about his work along with other fathers, he suddenly lets loose a deadpan monologue to the bewildered youngsters in the class: Value this time in your ...read more

  • Grateful For Life?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,692 views

    GRATEFUL FOR LIFE? Some of you may remember the movie "City Slickers." Comedian Billy Crystal plays the part of a bored baby boomer who sells radio advertising time. One the day he visits his son’s school to tell about his work along with other fathers. He suddenly lets loose a deadpan ...read more

  • Christian Mass Media Reaches Adults In Surprising ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 31, 2001
    based on 41 ratings
     | 2,302 views

    Christian Mass Media Reaches Adults in Surprising Numbers ** (Baptist Press) -- More adults experience the Christian faith through Christian media, such as radio, television or books, than by attending Christian churches, according to a new study by the Barna Research Group. The survey found that ...read more

  • A Few Years Ago We Were At A Small Church In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,852 views

    A few years ago we were at a small church in Piggott, Arkansas. I was watching TV one afternoon and they had this segment called “in the garden” – it was right before the first freeze of the season. He looks straight at the camera and says, “If you to have tulips in the spring – you must plant them ...read more