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  • Getting Old Is Not For Sissies

    Contributed by James Snyder on Nov 9, 2019
     | 2,139 views

    I will not admit to being old, but I am older than I was 10 years ago. Those 10 years have been filled with all kinds of things helping me to get older. I saw an article that said that 60 is the new 40. I have no idea what that means, but I think out in our culture there is an obsession about age. ...read more

  • How It Happened  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jul 17, 2002
    based on 25 ratings
     | 2,354 views

    How It Happened: God populated the earth with broccoli & cauliflower & spinach, green & yellow vegetables of all kinds, so Man & Woman would live long & healthy lives. Then Satan created McDonald’s. And McDonald’s brought forth the 99-cent double-cheeseburger. Then Satan said to Man, "You want ...read more

  • How Much?  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 30, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,337 views

    At the close of life, the question will not be, "How much have you gotten?" but "How much have you given?" Not "How much have you won?" but "How much have you done?" Not "How much have you saved?" but "How much have you sacrificed?" It will be "How much ...read more

  • Forgotten How To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 3,421 views

    FORGOTTEN HOW TO FISH? I read an interesting story about a group of pelicans in California. If you’ve ever seen pelicans in action, you know they’re great fishermen, or fisher-birds. These pelicans were hanging out near a fleet of fishing boats. The fishermen on the boats would pull into the ...read more

  • How To Hug

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
     | 3,079 views

    HOW TO HUG A man walked by a book store, and in the window saw a book with the title How to Hug. Being somewhat of a romantic, he went in to buy the book. To his disappointment, he discovered that it was a volume of an encyclopedia covering the subjects "How" to "Hug." Everyone knows that the ...read more

  • How To Be Miserable

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
     | 2,797 views

    HOW TO BE MISERABLE From an unknown source comes an article titled, "How To Be Miserable." It says, * "Think about yourself. Talk about yourself. Use 'I' as often as possible. * Mirror yourself continually in the opinion of others. * Listen greedily to what people say about you. * Expect to ...read more

  • How To Testify

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 18, 2011
     | 4,125 views

    HOW TO TESTIFY In the court of law before a person testifies they place their hand into the air and swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God. And it is assumed that fallen man by saying that oath will tell the truth when they stand before the judge. But day in and day ...read more

  • How To Be A Servant  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,934 views

    HOW TO BE A SERVANT You need to answer a very important question this morning. Are you more interested in being served or being a servant? A first grade teacher asked her students, "What do you do to help at home?" One little girl said, "I dry the dishes." One of the boys said, "I sweep the ...read more

  • How Leprosy ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2012
     | 3,728 views

    HOW LEPROSY WORKS According to the Jewish Encylopedia: Priests were in charge of the diagnosis of all diseases. They were not allowed to live in a community that didn’t have a doctor. Those who were diagnosed with the curable strain of leprosy had to appear before a priest every 7 days. Once ...read more

  • How Not To Build

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,622 views

    HOW NOT TO BUILD I grew up around construction and building material people. My family, for several generations, was in lumber and building materials. In 1998 we opened a new hardware store in Lake Mary. I ran it from the time it opened, until I went to seminary. Part of my responsibility was to ...read more

  • How's Business?

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on May 16, 2008
     | 1,953 views

    HOW'S BUSINESS? Peter Drucker, as you probably know, is a management consultant without equal. He says in one of his many books that there are two questions that people in any organization ought to ask themselves -- whether it be a manufacturing plant, the sales division of a large ...read more

  • How Delicate The Skin, How Sweet The Breath Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 1,104 views

    "How delicate the skin, how sweet the ...read more

  • How Calm, How Beautiful Comes On The Stilly ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,650 views

    "How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone When warring winds have died away And clouds, beneath the dancing ray, Melt off, and ...read more

  • In Every Business, No Matter How Small Or How ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,523 views

    "In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a ...read more

  • How About The Surgeon Who Described How The ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 16, 2009
     | 1,630 views

    How about the surgeon who described how the surgery to remove a blood clot in the women’s leg could result in the possibility that she might lose her leg? He was obligated to inform her of this possibility but offered no reassurance or tell her that this happened in only a small percentage of ...read more

  • Thief Gets The Bird  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,336 views

    THIEF GETS THE BIRD A man in Ontario, Canada returned home one evening to find his more valuable and easily-fenced goodies stacked neatly beside the door. When the homeowner saw the living room was also spattered with blood, he feared the worst for his beloved house pet, a large African parrot. The ...read more

  • Get Some Rest!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 6,144 views

    GET SOME REST! Our most notorious industrial accidents in recent years—Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the fatal navigational error of Korean Air Lines 007—all occurred in the middle of the night. When the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian A300 airbus killing all 290 people aboard, ...read more

  • On Getting Along With People

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 22, 2001
     | 1,205 views

    On Getting Along With People The SIX most important words: "I admit I made a mistake." The FIVE most important words: "You did a good job." The FOUR most important words: "What do you think?" The THREE most important words: "After you please." The TWO most important words: "Thank ...read more

  • Getting An Outside Line  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 24, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,452 views

    Getting an Outside Line A young woman came to the welfare office to apply for social help. The social worker told her that her husband would have to sign the papers as well. The social worker then noticed that the young lady was looking at the telephone as if she wanted to call her husband, so ...read more

  • Getting The Unexpected/Disappointment  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Feb 12, 2006
    based on 24 ratings
     | 6,634 views

    GETTING THE UNEXPECTED/DISAPPOINTMENT: A wife woke up one morning and said, “Honey, I just had a dream that you bought me a new gold necklace. What do you think it means?” “I don’t know, but Valentine’s Day is coming soon. Tuesday, you’ll know,” He replied. A few nights later, she again woke ...read more