Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Jan 7, 2002
based on 31 ratings
| 2,360 views
Philip Yancey relates how a professor Virginia Stem Owens assigned the Sermon on the Mount to her composition class at Texas A&M University. She asked her students to write a short essay on this passage of Scripture. Here is what one student wrote: “The things asked in this sermon are absurd. To
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by W F on Sep 19, 2004
based on 1 rating
| 2,229 views
In 1715, Louis 14th of France died. Louis, who called himself “the Great,” was the monarch who made the infamous statement “I am the State!” His court was the most magnificent in all of Europe, and his funeral was spectacular. His body lay in a gold coffin. To dramatize the deceased King’s
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
*other
Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 7, 2010
In 1715 King Louis XIV of France died after a reign of 72 years. He had called himself "the Great," and was the monarch who made the famous statement, "I am the state!" His court was the most magnificent in Europe, and his funeral was equally spectacular. As his body lay in state in a golden
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Nigel Heath on Aug 12, 2009
Philosophical arguments can be very confusing and also very convincing.
ILLUSTR
RC Sproul quotes some research that reveals: ‘Over 90% of students entering college in USA are convinced of, and committed to the relativity of truth’ = That there is no objective reality.
What is actually being
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 2,667 views
Charles Spurgeon the great English Victorian preacher wrote of the death of Richard Baxter, the great Puritan preacher. Baxter lay dying. Some friends came to see him. They asked him what we all asked at times like that, “How are you doing?” Baxter was weak and obviously near death. But with great
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 1, 2007
John was born in 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended school at Harvard University. He was the author of two books. One was his thesis at Harvard, which was entitled Why England Slept. The other was Profiles in Courage, which won him a Pulitzer Price.
He was the Captain of a PT boat in
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 9, 2008
John was born in 1917 in Brooklin, Massachusetts. He attended school at Harvard University. He was the author of two books. One was his thesis at Harvard, which was entitled Why England Slept. The other was Profiles in Courage, which won him a Pulitzer Price.
He was the Captain of a PT boat in
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Feb 2, 2001
based on 129 ratings
| 4,836 views
LEIGHTON FORD(Billy Graham’s bro in law) was traveling by airplane and found himself next to an empty seat. He was looking forward to the extra room when appeared the stewardess with an elderly woman, 96 yrs of age. ‘Mrs ____ will be sitting here next to your sir’. As the flight proceeded
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
It’s an old stereotype that politicians are likely to “massage the truth” a little bit. That’s probably as generous as that can be said.
With that in mind, I was intrigued recently when PolitiFact celebrated their tenth anniversary. PolitiFact is a non-partisan, independent organization that
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Nathan Eyland on Mar 10, 2005
based on 4 ratings
| 2,504 views
If two people want to be married, they go through a number of rites or ceremonies as part of a larger ceremony of marriage. They might exchange rings, they take a vow, the sign papers, and they publicly kiss. Depending on the faith tradition in which they get married, they do all things to be
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Danny Rogers on Sep 23, 2006
based on 1 rating
| 2,646 views
: Listen to what Oswald Chambers wrote about this passage in his devotional My Utmost for His Highest. “A person will easily say, “Oh yes, I know I am a sinner,” but when he comes into the presence of God he cannot get away with such a broad and indefinite statement. Our conviction is focused on
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 14, 2011
based on 1 rating
| 2,085 views
KNOW WHERE YOU STAND
The Johnson and Johnson company once had in their mission statement that employees would “operate with honesty and integrity” Several weeks before a major incident involving Tylenol, the president of Johnson and Johnson sent a memo to all the presidents of divisions in the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Sermon Central