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  • Old-School Church Discipline

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
     | 4,035 views

    OLD-SCHOOL CHURCH DISCIPLINE The Amish practice shunning – ignoring, turning away from, avoiding. When a person is disciplined by the community, relationships are severed between parents and children, or brother and sister, or even husbands and wives. Because the Amish are so isolated from those ...read more

  • Gluttony Pants

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
     | 1,862 views

    GLUTTONY PANTS Chef Chris Cosentino, Food Network star and executive chef at Incanto restaurant in San Francisco, has created the Gluttony Pants for those of us who occasionally indulge and engorge without the post-meal awkwardness. The pants have three buttons, allowing you to expand the pants' ...read more

  • The Problem In Today's Church Is That We Have ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Dec 29, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,858 views

    The problem in today’s church is that we have developed a low concept of God and are guilty of wanting to make Him into our image. Let me repeat, I am talking about the church, not the unchurched and unsaved. When I hear them talk of God for the most part their ideas are so silly and so ...read more

  • Biblical Truth

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 3, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,599 views

    BIBLICAL TRUTH Both George Gallup and George Barna, eminent pollsters and close church observers, have noted declining biblical literacy in the church. The majority of born-again Christian do not believe in absolute truth. 60% of Americans can’t name five of the Ten Commandments. 50% of high ...read more

  • A Ship's Captain Looked Into The Dark Night And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Mar 4, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,631 views

    A ship’s captain looked into the dark night and saw faint lights in the distance. Immediately he told his signalman to send this message: “Alter your course 10 degrees south.” A prompt message came in return, “Alter your course 10 degrees north.” Captain angered that his command had been ignored ...read more

  • Henry Ford Was An Automotive Genius. He Came Up ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jason Pettibone on Apr 29, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,040 views

    Henry Ford was an automotive genius. He came up with great ideas and handed them to researchers for development. One of his ideas was the concept of an engine in which the pistons were set at an angle to each other rather than in a straight line. He sketched out his idea for the V-8 motor and ...read more

  • Many Of You Watch The Tv Sitcom, "Everybody Loves ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 29, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,623 views

    Many of you watch the TV sitcom, “Everybody Loves Raymond.” In a rerun episode I saw recently Raymond’s brother Robert and his fiancée Amy were having a brunch for Raymond’s family one morning. Unexpectedly Amy’s parents showed up. Her parents are depicted as very conservative, narrow minded ...read more

  • J.c.ryle (The First Anglican Bishop Of Liverpool) ...  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jul 3, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,161 views

    J.C.Ryle (the first Anglican Bishop of Liverpool) in his book “Christian leaders of the 18th Century” had this to say about the opposition Wesley received: “It is needless to tell a Christian reader that Wesley continued to fight with opposition. The prince of this world will never allow his ...read more

  • A New Minister Was Asked To Teach A Boys Class In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jul 8, 2003
    based on 17 ratings
     | 3,020 views

    A new minister was asked to teach a boys class in the absence of their regular Sunday School teacher. He decided to see what they knew,so he asked who knocked down the walls of Jericho. All the boys denied having done it, and the preacher was appalled at their ignorance. At the next deacon’s ...read more

  • A Friend Of Mine Gave A Bible To Someone Who Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 14, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,630 views

    A friend of mine gave a Bible to someone who was going through a difficult time. The person was in real need, and their life had been one disaster after the other, but in all that time there was never any concrete attempt to give their life to God and follow him. As my friend gave a Bible to this ...read more

  • The Captain Of The Ship Looked Into The Dark ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 215 ratings
     | 3,976 views

    *The captain of the ship looked into the dark night and saw faint lights in the distance. Immediately he told his signalman to send a message" "Alter your course 10 degrees south." Promptly a return message was received: "Alter your course 10 degrees north." The captain was angered; his command had ...read more

  • It's So Easy To Fall Into The Trap Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Apr 22, 2001
    based on 115 ratings
     | 4,119 views

    It’s so easy to fall into the trap of complacency, of doing nothing, of ignoring the danger of being in a wrong relationship with God. There’s a legend where three demons are overheard planning how to get most victims for their master. The first said: "Tell the people ’There is no God’" "No, ...read more

  • By The Time Rockefeller Was Fifty-Three His Life ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 2, 2005
     | 1,138 views

    By the time Rockefeller was fifty-three his life was a wreck. Throughout his business career he said, “I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.” He was the richest man in the world and yet he was miserable in every sense of ...read more

  • The New Minister Was Asked To Teach A Boys' Class ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,019 views

    The new minister was asked to teach a boys’ class in the absence of the regular teacher. He decided to see what they knew, so he asked who knocked down the walls of Jericho. All the boys denied having done it, and the preacher was appalled by their ignorance. At the next deacons’ meeting he told ...read more

  • Samuel Chadwick: Guiding His Life By The Bible

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 19, 2011
     | 3,989 views

    SAMUEL CHADWICK: GUIDING HIS LIFE BY THE BIBLE Let me conclude by sharing something written many years ago by Samuel Chadwick. "I have guided my life by the Bible for more than sixty years, and I tell you there is no book like it. It is a miracle of literature, a perennial spring of wisdom, a ...read more

  • Not A Role Model...?

    Contributed by Jehu Hernandez on Aug 12, 2011
     | 3,901 views

    NOT A ROLE MODEL...? Former NBA star Charles Barkley, the Round Mound of Rebound, as he was called, is famous for saying, "I'm not a role model." In spite of the fact that young kids wanted to imitate him, he didn't want that responsibility. He ignored the fact that his high visibility made it ...read more

  • Massive Pileup Ahead

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2012
     | 3,259 views

    MASSIVE PILEUP AHEAD In the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, Juan Manuel Fangio was approaching a dangerous bend for the second time. As he rounded the bend, Fangio noticed that something was wrong. The faces of the spectators were all turned away from him. "If they are not looking at me," Fangio thought, ...read more

  • She Thinks I'm Real!

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 24, 2012
     | 1,837 views

    A story is told of a family that went into a restaurant. The waitress walked up and, looking at the young boy, said: “What will it be?” The boy eagerly shouted back: “I’ll take a hamburger, French fries, and a chocolate shake.” The mother immediately interrupted: “Oh, that’s not what he ...read more

  • Red Herring  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 21, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,484 views

    RED HERRING You’ve probably heard the expression "red herring." This term was coined from a method of training hunting dogs to follow the scent of their prey. Once the dogs were following the proper scent, their trainers would drag red herrings (a stinky fish) across their paths. Initially, the ...read more

  • Short-Term Solutions

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 2, 2009
     | 2,488 views

    SHORT-TERM SOLUTIONS In Chicago’s elevated train stations, they hung phony owls from the ceilings of some of the stations to discourage the pigeons. I can remember seeing pigeons right up next to the owls, blithely ignoring them. Now, there are wire spikes everywhere the pigeons might roost up ...read more

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