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  • Trate Fear: Dr. Walter Cannon, A Pioneer ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Vicente on Mar 22, 2003
    based on 31 ratings
     | 1,905 views

    Illustrate FEAR: Dr. Walter Cannon, a pioneer researcher in psychosomatic medicine at Harvard Univ., describes what happens to the human body when it becomes angry or fearful: "Respiration deepens; the heart beats more rapidly; the arterial pressure rises; the blood is shifted from the stomach and ...read more

  • O Eternal, Infinite God! O Mad Lover! And You ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 29, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,444 views

    O eternal, infinite God! O mad lover! And you have need of your creature? Is seems so to me, for you act as if you could not live without her, in spite of the fact that you are life itself. And everything has life from you and nothing can have life without you. Why then are you so mad? Because ...read more

  • Calling Evil Good

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 27, 2006
     | 3,185 views

    Article : Calling Evil Good by H. Wallace Goddard Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 Satan is the master of inversion. Where God offers Light, Satan provides darkness. ...read more

  • Great God Of Love: We Praise You For Jesus The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,306 views

    "Great God of love: We praise you for Jesus the Christ, and on this the celebration of his birthday, we thank you for his coming. We thank you for the prophet's hope and the angel's song for the birth in Bethlehem. We thank you that in Jesus you joined us, sharing human hurts and pleasures. In this ...read more

  • A Man Wrote: "Dear Abby, I Am In Love And I Am ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jason Cole on May 20, 2005
    based on 12 ratings
     | 6,469 views

    A man wrote: "Dear Abby, I am in love and I am having an affair with two different women other than my wife. I love my wife but I love these other women too. Please tell me what to do, but don’t give me any that morality stuff." Signed: Too much love for only one.” In this case Abby’s answer was ...read more

  • Mc Manus States, "Once Survival Has Become ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 7, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,764 views

    1. Mc Manus states, “Once survival has become our supreme goal, we have lost our way…, the church is not called to survive history but to serve humanity. As with each individual, there is a difference between living and existing for the church…The church exists to serve as the body of Christ, and ...read more

  • At Sunday School They Were Teaching How God ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,358 views

    At Sunday School they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings. Little Johnny, a child in the kindergarten class, seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam’s ribs. Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ...read more

  • King Becomes A Peasant

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2009
     | 6,233 views

    KING BECOMES A PEASANT King James V of Scotland would on occasion lay aside the royal robe of king and dress as a peasant. In disguise, he could move freely about the land, making friends and entering into their difficulties, appreciating their handicaps, sympathizing with them in their sorrow. ...read more

  • From The Texas Heart Institute's Website, We ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
     | 2,900 views

    From the Texas Heart Institute’s website, we learn the following about our human heart. It weighs between 7 and 15 ounces (16 ounces is one pound.)It is the size of our fist (Make a fist.) For a person who lives a long life it will beat up to 3.5 billion times. It pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood ...read more

  • Artist August Rodin Has Created A Famous ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 3, 2010
     | 2,163 views

    Artist August Rodin has created a famous sculpture named, “The Hand of God.” Out of a rough piece of stone there arises a strong right hand, and lying in that hand are some figures of human beings beginning to take shape. It stands for the fact that God is at work in each and every one of our ...read more

  • On The Obedience Of A Dog

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2012
     | 6,929 views

    ON THE OBEDIENCE OF A DOG It's been said that it is not the dog's keen smell or hearing that has endeared him to modern man, it's his uncomplaining readiness to obey and lavish affection on his human friends. A dog is loyal, loving, and lovable, even if his master can boast none of these ...read more

  • Show Us God  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Jan 9, 2013
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,882 views

    SHOW US GOD The Greek philosopher Socrates made this statement: "Oh that someone would arise, man or god, to show us God." In the minds of scholars, here's one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived; and yet he, himself, had beating in his own breast--and he admitted it--oh that god could ...read more

  • When The Garden Tomb Was Discovered In 1885, The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,468 views

    When the Garden Tomb was discovered in 1885, the godly General Gordon was convinced that this was the place where the body of Jesus had lain. There is a traditional tomb inside the wall of modern Jerusalem, but no certainty attaches to the site. The Garden Tomb, hidden for centuries, was covered ...read more

  • Erwin Mcmanus States, "Once Survival Has Become ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 26, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,981 views

    Erwin McManus states, "Once survival has become our supreme goal, we have lost our way... the church is not called to survive history but to serve humanity. As with each individual, there is a difference between living and existing for the church...The church exists to serve as the body of Christ, ...read more

  • Tell Them Out Loud  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,560 views

    TELL THEM OUT LOUD Scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer once said "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." The theological word for all of that is incarnation, meaning "in the flesh." Jesus was the incarnation of God. Jesus was the way that God sent His "idea" to humanity; there was ...read more

  • Ashes To Diamonds

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
     | 3,292 views

    ASHES TO DIAMONDS A company in Switzerland transforms the ashes of the dearly departed into a diamond of up to 1 carat in 6-8 weeks. A pound of ashes is enough to make a diamond; a human body leaves behind an average 5.5 to 6.6 pounds of ashes. The carbon, which makes up about 15% of the ashes, is ...read more

  • D.

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Oct 6, 2009
     | 2,327 views

    “A human being has to work to live but has an insatiable appetite for more. This is common to both wise and foolish. Today the business world contains many clever people who work hard because they are obsessed with piling up money, while on the other side there are those who are ever alert for a ...read more

  • The One True God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,221 views

    THE ONE TRUE GOD "Back in my Bible college days I struck up a friendship with a man from the Far East. Before his conversion to Christianity, the worship of man-made wooden images and human-like deities was a way of life. As a little boy, the question came to his mind one day, 'Why do I worship ...read more

  • The Wrong Horse  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Sep 24, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 5,196 views

    THE WRONG HORSE Two Kentucky farmers who owned racing stables had developed a keen rivalry. One spring, each of them entered a horse in a local steeplechase. Thinking that a professional rider might help him outdo his friend, one of the farmers engaged a crack jockey. The two horses were ...read more

  • I Like What President Jimmy Carter Said In His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Dec 14, 2002
    based on 52 ratings
     | 2,216 views

    I like what President Jimmy Carter said in his Nobel Peace Prize Speech this past week: The unchanging principles of life predate modern times. I worship Jesus Christ, whom we Christians consider to be the prince of peace. As a Jew, he taught us to cross religious boundaries in service and in love. ...read more