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  • Dead Poets Society Is, I Think, One Of The Best ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Jack on Mar 8, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,466 views

    Dead Poets Society is, I think, one of the best films of all time. In his first lesson with his senior class, the rather eccentric but very inspiring English teacher John Keating, played by Robin Williams, takes the boys into the foyer outside the classroom where he asks one lad by the name of ...read more

  • Our Family Dog Happy Is A Big Baby! For Such A ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 25, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,566 views

    Our family dog Happy is a big baby! For such a big dog, she is afraid of some of the silliest and smallest things. Recently my wife and I were at the store and our two year son Sebastian saw a toy that he just had to have. It is a plastic ball that has little raised numbers and farm animals on ...read more

  • When You Put Your Faith In Jesus Christ His ...

    Contributed by Andrew Hill on Feb 10, 2008
     | 2,402 views

    When you put your faith in Jesus Christ His righteousness or perfection becomes yours. Let me give you an example of how this works in every day life. The super bowl was just played last Sunday. The Patriots played the Giants. Many of the fans went to the game wearing shirts and hats that had the ...read more

  • Over The Past Several Weeks I've Had The ...

    Contributed by Emilia Florio on Feb 15, 2008
    based on 1 rating
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    Over the past several weeks I’ve had the opportunity to have conversations with a young man, in his early 20’s, who’s really struggling with the question of “Is God real?” Matt is a self-proclaimed atheist, a sweet young guy, really. But he picks up the newspapers, and he switches on the TV, and ...read more

  • Eternal Life  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,831 views

    ETERNAL LIFE If you are Christian, eternal life does not simply mean going to heaven for eternity. Eternal life means a never-dying spirit that has already sprung to life in you! In other words, eternal life starts NOW! Your life that lasts eternally in the next world is the same life that begins ...read more

  • Solomon Discovered The Emptiness Of Stuff  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
    based on 19 ratings
     | 6,562 views

    Solomon discovered the emptiness of stuff. Illus. A young banker was driving his BMW, in the mountains, during a snowstorm. As he rounded a turn the vehicle slid out of control and toward a cliff. At the last moment he unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped from the car. Though he escaped with his ...read more

  • In His Book, Building A Contagious Church, Mark ...

    Contributed by Dr. George Calhoun on Oct 20, 2008
     | 2,336 views

    In his book, Building a Contagious Church, Mark Mittleberg asks us to join him in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. As you walk up to the large arena, you see a mass of young people in line for a concert. The headline act is shock-rockeer Marilyn Manson (named after Marilyn Monroe and mass murderer ...read more

  • Eternal Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 5,292 views

    Eternal Life If you are Christian, eternal life does not simply mean going to heaven for eternity. Eternal life means a never-dying spirit that has already sprung to life in you! In other words, eternal life starts NOW! Your life that lasts eternally in the next world is the same life that begins ...read more

  • Solomon Discovered The Emptiness Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 3,086 views

    Solomon discovered the emptiness of stuff. Illus. A young banker was driving his BMW, in the mountains, during a snowstorm. As he rounded a turn the vehicle slid out of control and toward a cliff. At the last moment he unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped from the car. Though he escaped with his ...read more

  • A Young Banker Was Driving His Bmw, In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
     | 1,936 views

    A young banker was driving his BMW, in the mountains, during a snowstorm. As he rounded a turn the vehicle slid out of control and toward a cliff. At the last moment he unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped from the car. Though he escaped with his life, his left arm was caught near the hinge of the ...read more

  • On January 8, 1956 Jim Elliot, Along With Four ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 1,584 views

    On January 8, 1956 Jim Elliot, along with four other missionaries was killed while trying to bring this Good News of Christ to the Waodoni people of the Auca Indians in Ecuador. In his journal published in a book titled SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY, Jim wrote these words: “One doesn’t learn to speak ...read more

  • Seeing In The Glory Of God

    Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Aug 23, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
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    SEEING IN THE GLORY OF GOD Tom Long, professor of Homiletics at Candler School of Theology, tells the story of striking up a conversation with a man on a plane. He said they shared the normal kind of nice chit chat, sharing what they each did for a living and sharing pictures of their families. ...read more

  • Persecution In Uganda, Story Of Kefa ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 2, 2009
     | 8,627 views

    Persecution in Uganda, Story of Kefa Sempangi Kefa Sempangi (whose story is told in the book A Distant Grief, Regal Books) was a national pastor in Africa and barely escaped with his family from brutal oppression and terror in his home country of Uganda. They made their way to Philadelphia, where ...read more

  • Object Lesson: A Branch On A Tree Or A Stick In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Alistair Wearring on Feb 27, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
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    OBJECT LESSON: A BRANCH ON A TREE OR A STICK IN THE MUD? ------------------------------------------- Theme: Apart from Jesus, we can do nothing Object: Two branches that has been broken from a tree -- one with leaves withering, the other without any leaves at all. Scripture: "I am the vine; you ...read more

  • Tolerance Vs. Absolute ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 21, 2010
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    Tolerance vs. Absolute Truth Throughout Scripture and until our present day, many people have a problem with TRUTH. In fact, it is not politically correct today to say that there is even such a thing as absolute truth! Stanley Grenz, a well-known spokesman for this new tolerance, says that “truth ...read more

  • The Coat Of Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,411 views

    THE COAT OF CHRIST Many years ago, an evangelist by the name of Jakov arrived at a village in Serbia. He met an elderly man there named Cimmerman, and Jakov began to talk to him of the love of Christ. Cimmerman abruptly interrupted Jakov and told him that he wished to have nothing to do with ...read more

  • You Can Have My Room

    Contributed by Jeffrey Dillinger on Dec 20, 2010
    based on 1 rating
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    YOU CAN HAVE MY ROOM Wally was a 7th grade student who was bigger than any of the other students in his Sunday school class. His mother had been an alcoholic when he was born, and as a result, Wally just did not have all the mental capabilities that the rest of his classmates had. But somehow he ...read more

  • A Harvest Of Service

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Feb 4, 2011
     | 4,592 views

    A HARVEST OF SERVICE Vehicles being thrown around like toys in the rushing waters and heartbreaking stories of lives lost have filled the news reports. The damage to bumper harvests was also devastating, probably in the billions of dollars, as the states of Queensland, NSW and Victoria in ...read more

  • What Really Matters  PRO

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jul 28, 2011
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,462 views

    What Really Matters It was two weeks before Christmas and it began to start. Everyone was scrambling and rushing to get to Wal-Mart. Their credit cards were in the orange and checking account in the red in hopes that their rich uncle would soon be dead. Old Saint Nick sitting high on a mountain ...read more

  • The Influence Of Mothers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,638 views

    THE INFLUENCE OF MOTHERS Don DeWelt was one of my college professors at Ozark Christian College. Don preached a sermon entitled, "The only commandment the virgin Mary ever gave." What was that commandment? DO WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU. God bless all mothers who have said to her children, "Do whatever ...read more