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  • Hero

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 24, 2009
     | 4,451 views

    Dear Dad, Heroes are men who first of all are heroes for God and then heroes to their families. To be a hero for God, you need to yield your life 100% to Him. What's in this name "hero"? Josh McDowell shares, "A few years ago, a radio jockey polled almost two hundred teenagers in a shopping ...read more

  • Heroes And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 2,490 views

    HEROES AND ROLE-MODELS British adults were asked who they would want their children to look up to in an Opinion Research poll. Family members topped the list, followed by multi-millionaire entrepreneur and daredevil Richard Branson. Jesus Christ came in 3rd in the ...read more

  • Hero Vs Hero Maker

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Jun 28, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,309 views

    What does it mean to be a hero maker? A hero maker is a leader who shifts from being the hero to making others the hero in God's unfolding story. Real hero makers first die to any vision of personal glory. The dying involves a very real transition, one of grief and loss of ever becoming that ...read more

  • Hero In Black  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,960 views

    HERO IN BLACK Victor Yap tells this story: A few years ago I saw a truck in front of me roaring fiercely about to turn the corner into the freeway ramp. In the driver’s seat of the humongous truck was a man in his late 20s ramming his engine and blasting his stereo. The guy had dark glasses and ...read more

  • The Hero And The Saint

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
     | 4,743 views

    THE HERO AND THE SAINT The late great German-born American Jewish rationalist intellectual, popular lecturer and writer, religious leader, and social reformer, Felix Adler (1851 - 1933), starts things off well when he said, "The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up ...read more

  • Christian Heroes

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 6, 2011
     | 3,648 views

    CHRISTIAN HEROES In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and five companions sailed from Peru on a crude boat made of balsa logs held together by hemp rope. Heyerdahl believed Polynesia was settled in pre-Columbian times by native South Americans. Using pictures drawn by Spanish Conquistadores, the Kon-Tiki ...read more

  • The Houston Hero

    Contributed by Nickolas Kooi on Aug 30, 2017
     | 4,637 views

    Abe Minor, a man nicknamed “The Houston Hero,” has been rescuing people all week. He started by being sent by his wife to rescue her friend’s family, which included four kids, one of which was an infant. As he was going there, others called out for his help as they saw him with his boat. He said ...read more

  • An Unsung Hero

    Contributed by Richard L. Brown on Nov 7, 2021
     | 1,902 views

    When I was a boy there was a cartoon about a character called Hector Heathcote…….It was based on the colonial days of America and the Revolutionary War. The character Heathcote was always the unsung hero in each show. I remember one episode where General George Washington was preparing for his ...read more

  • The Hero Is Known For Achievements; The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,069 views

    "The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knownness. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but ...read more

  • On Nimrod And Super Heroes

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Feb 12, 2010
     | 1,457 views

    ON NIMROD AND SUPER HEROES My grandson loves super heroes. He has videos of "Ben Ten" He stands there and with a big voice declares "I am Tahmongasaur!" (I think he means to say "Humongasaur" but you can't correct a three-year-old). Humongousaur is strong enough to bench press a pickup truck. Half ...read more

  • About A Few Heroes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,487 views

    ABOUT A FEW HEROES Some may think its fashionable to proclaim that the age of heroes has passed. That the glory years of towering giants has faded into a mist of myth and fable. Well, if you’re looking for heroes -- look around. Look at your next door neighbor, the woman whom you see playing catch ...read more

  • We Love Heroes

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008
     | 1,678 views

    We Love Heroes Arthur Pink: "It is human to err, but it is also human to conceal the ...read more

  • Titanic's Last Hero

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Jan 25, 2008
     | 3,874 views

    Titanic’s Last Hero John Harper was born into a Christian family May 29, 1872. He became a Christian 13 years later and had already started preaching by age 17. He received training at the Baptist Pioneer Mission in London, and in 1896 he founded a church, now known as Harper Memorial Church, which ...read more

  • The Heroes Of This World Think Not Of Self. ...

    Contributed by Lisa Delay on Sep 8, 2005
     | 2,260 views

    The heroes of this world think not of self. Think of the everyday heroes or rescue workers we hear of these days. They see what needs to be done, or who needs to be saved and they do it before they analyze their role in the matter. It is in that act of forgetting our self, in a constructive way of ...read more

  • Old Fat Bald Hero

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 3, 2009
     | 7,502 views

    OLD FAT BALD HERO One of the great sports stories of the decade of the 1990’s was of George Foreman regaining the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. At age 45, George Foreman, more than a decade past the prime of most fighters, knocked out his opponent, Michael Moore, and regained the ...read more

  • Sullenburger: What Makes A Hero?

    Contributed by Sean Lester on Jan 27, 2010
     | 2,410 views

    SULLENBURGER: WHAT MAKES A HERO? What makes a person a hero? A year ago, Chesley Sullenberger ditched his airplane into the Hudson River and saved the lives of all 150 of his passengers when both engines were knocked out by a flock of geese. It was the first time that a major airliner was ...read more

  • Hero's Graves

    Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on May 27, 2024
     | 209 views

    Quiet mounds of earth, Erected crosses; So many souls, So many losses. This special day Has been set aside To honor those Who, for us, have died. May we hold dear Every gain and loss, And ne’er forget What’s beneath the cross. Thank you, dear Lord, For the brave who gave— Who now occupy A ...read more

  • Title: The Hero, The Knight And The Good ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,861 views

    Title: The Hero, the Knight and the Good Samaritan: There’s one Big Difference Henry Lawsons’ poem The Good Samaritan: ‘Once on a time there lived a man,’ But he has lived alway, And that gaunt, good Samaritan Is with us here to-day; He passes through the city streets Unnoticed and unknown, He ...read more

  • World Trade Center Hero

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Sep 25, 2016
     | 6,126 views

    Matt Chandler tells the story of Dave Karnes. When the World Trade Center tumbled to the ground on that dreadfully dark day, more than 3000 people lost their lives. But a few who were buried beneath the rubble miraculously survived. Two of these were Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin, a pair of Port ...read more

  • Unsung Heroes: The Shepherds Of Bethlehem

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Dec 14, 2020
     | 2,365 views

    Introduction: the Christmas story, the birth of Jesus Christ into this world, is one of the most beautiful ever told. Many believers and others are more or less familiar with Mary and Joseph traveling from Nazareth to Bethlehem, and how Jesus was born in an inn and laid in a manger because there ...read more

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