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  • Actual Time Served

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 21, 2011
     | 1,572 views

    ACTUAL TIME SERVED One of the great challenges parents face today is the apparent lack of consequences that permeate our society. One aspect of our judicial system provides an example of this sad fact. In spite of the length of sentences for various crimes, the actual time served is often much ...read more

  • Jail-Time Repentance

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2012
     | 4,410 views

    JAIL-TIME REPENTANCE I want to share with you a small auto-biographical story that I believe illustrates the type of repentant heart needed to continue in getting rid of guilt. She had always been a good girl so finding herself in this place was unimaginable to her. How was she going to survive ...read more

  • Wasting Time At Work

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 19, 2012
     | 3,275 views

    WASTING TIME AT WORK For many American workers today, time’s a wastin’ - literally. According to a new survey by America Online and Salary.com, the average worker admits to frittering away 2.09 hours per 8-hour workday, not including lunch and scheduled break-time. As a matter of practice, ...read more

  • What Time Is It?  PRO

    Contributed by Rod Elmore on Feb 18, 2013
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,193 views

    WHAT TIME IS IT? An old man was standing on a crowded bus. A young man standing next to him asked, "What time is it?" The old man said nothing. As the young man walked away, the old man's friend asked, "Why were you so rude to the young man?" The old man answered, "If I had given him the time ...read more

  • Growth Takes Time

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jul 18, 2018
     | 4,297 views

    GROWTH IS RARELY AN ACCIDENT, GROWTH HAS A PLAN… GROWTH REQUIRES EFFORT… THE MORE EFFORT THE MORE THE GROWTH WILL THRIVE… Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall get exactly what he expected. Les Brown tells a wonderful illustration that we need to consider… There is a tree that grows in ...read more

  • Your Time On Earth

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Oct 15, 2019
     | 1,601 views

    You’re going to spend about 150,000 hours of your life working, which is about 40% of your waking hours. The average American spends 46 hours a week at work. If you’re a professional, you spend an average of 52 hours a week working and if you’re a small business owner/operator you work an average ...read more

  • Morning Time With God

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 13, 2020
     | 1,294 views

    I got my first cup of coffee and slowly moseyed to my front porch. Walking to the banister putting my elbows there I sipped my coffee. I looked around my neighborhood, I kinda live on a small knoll, and it seemed so peaceful. The birds were singing, they were flying around and there was what seemed ...read more

  • Cruel Times Are Coming...

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Dec 2, 2020
     | 1,978 views

    In 1988, evangelical philosopher and theologian Carl Henry made a stunning prediction in his book, Twilight of a Great Civilization. He said that as America progressively loses its Christian heritage, paganism would grow bolder. What we saw in the last half of the 20th-century was a kind of benign ...read more

  • At The Time Appointed, The End Will ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
     | 3,694 views

    AT THE TIME APPOINTED, THE END WILL BE Baptist preacher William Miller, founder of the Millerites, announced that Christ would come on March 21, 1843, and when that failed, he proposed a new date of October 22, 1844. In a Philadelphia store window the following sign was displayed: "This shop is ...read more

  • Just In The Nick Of Time

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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     | 5,294 views

    JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME A favorite literary device of authors, playwrights, and screen writers is that of the hero who shows up just in the nick of time. You’ve read books or seen movies like this. Just when everything seems lost and all hope is gone and disaster is imminent, the hero arrives to ...read more

  • The Problem Of Living For Time

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
     | 2,152 views

    THE PROBLEM OF LIVING FOR TIME By the time it’s all over, Tom Brady’s will be the fourth face on the Mount Rushmore of New England sports, right up there with Larry Byrd, Bobby Orr and Ted Williams. He is what they were: single-minded, blessed with the ability to lift a team, a cutthroat ...read more

  • Take Time To By Holy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 4,267 views

    TAKE TIME TO BY HOLY Let me begin with what little I could glean concerning this hymn and its author: For many years, the only information known about this gospel song was what Ira D. Sankey wrote in his autobiography. Sankey (1840-1908) was the well-known gospel singer and hymn writer who ...read more

  • You Are A Full-Time ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 2,045 views

    YOU ARE A FULL-TIME MINISTER In his book, Doing Church as a Team, Pastor Wayne Cordeiro, wrote the following: "Every member is a minister. God calls us to be full-time ministers! Full-time? Yes! Not just on Sundays, not just at Bible studies, but full-time. Do we love God just part-time? Do we ...read more

  • 7-Eleven Time  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 10, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,182 views

    7-ELEVEN TIME Essayist Noelle Oxenhandler writes, "But increasingly we live in the twenty-four-hour time of commerce, of convenience. It is 7-Eleven time, the fluorescent time of unmodulated, shadowless light, where coffee and doughnuts are available at all hours, where the rhythm of breakfast, ...read more

  • More Time Later...?

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Sep 2, 2009
     | 1,148 views

    MORE TIME LATER...? When I returned from my trip to Europe, back in 1982, I remember a conversation I had with an high school classmate. He asked me if I heard about Vick, another classmate of ours. Vick was one of my old partying buddies from before I accepted Christ. His parents were good ...read more

  • Time Magazine On The Benefits Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 3, 2009
     | 2,383 views

    Time Magazine on the Benefits of Religion Some time ago, Time Magazine ran an article that reported on the benefits of religion and the church, and some of the observations included: 1. Heart-surgery patients who draw comfort from their religious faith have a significantly higher survival rate than ...read more

  • Forgetting Times Three

    Contributed by Kelvin Mckisic on Jun 26, 2023
     | 1,004 views

    Three sisters, ages ninety-two, ninety-four, and ninety-six, lived together. One night the ninety-six-year-old drew a bath. She put one foot in and then paused. “Was I getting in the tub or out?” she yelled. The ninety-four-year-old hollered back, “I don’t know; I’ll come and see.” She started up ...read more

  • I Know You've Heard The Passage Time And Time ...

    Contributed by Kyle Blanton on May 14, 2007
     | 1,265 views

    I know you’ve heard the passage time and time again. 6 Teach a youth about the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Psalm 22:6 My mother never missed a beat. There was a time when my dad resigned from the pastorate when we lived in Illinois that he took to the road ...read more

  • When Was The Last Time You Took Some Time Out To ...

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 3, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,575 views

    When was the last time you took some time out to play the age-old children’s game, “Who am I? Well, after the sermon this morning you will be able to tell all of your friends that you last played it at church during the worship service. That is how we are going to start out this morning, with a ...read more

  • From Time To Time We Hear Statistics About How ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 24, 2008
     | 778 views

    From time to time we hear statistics about how people first came into church membership. These figures trace back to the Institute of American Church Growth, which asked 10,000 people about their pilgrimage. What led them in? The answers were: special need, 2%; walk-in, 3%; Pastor, 6%; ...read more

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