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  • There Was A Single Mother Who Had Heard A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Morris Mott on Sep 27, 2001
    based on 88 ratings
     | 4,518 views

    There was a single mother who had heard a Biblical financial teacher say, “Quit looking at your job as the source of your income. Look at your job as only one avenue, one channel the Source, El Shaddai, uses to bring finances into your life. Begin to teach your children to look to their heavenly ...read more

  • Bitter Or Better  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,821 views

    BITTER OR BETTER Dr. Jim Moore, pastor of St. Luke’s UMC in Houston wrote a book entitled "You Can Grow Bitter or You Can Grow Better". He writes that he got the idea for the title from a young woman who once came to him in a most tragic moment in her life. She had tears in her eyes and her ...read more

  • A Real Bad Dude  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 14, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,636 views

    A Real Bad Dude An old fellow had been in the north woods for weeks by himself, camping out. Each night at dusk he built a campfire, boiled water for coffee, and took out his skillet to fry up some bacon for dinner. As he was sitting by the fire one night, the water boiling and the bacon ...read more

  • It Began 68 Years Ago Today, December 1st, 1934. ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Dec 6, 2002
     | 1,835 views

    It began 68 years ago today, December 1st, 1934. Sergey Kirov, a leader of the Russian Revolution and a high-ranking member of the Politburo, was shot to death at his Leningrad office by Leonid Nikolayev. Many believe that the gunman Nikolayev, a member of the Communist Party, carried out the ...read more

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

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Dec 14, 2002
    based on 52 ratings
     | 2,155 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

  • Don't Change Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2002
    based on 23 ratings
     | 2,614 views

    DON'T CHANGE ME Elie Wiesel, the eloquent Jewish author, once told this story: “A just man comes to Sodom hoping to save the city. He pickets. What else can he do? He goes from street to street, from marketplace to marketplace, shouting, ‘Men and women, repent. What you are doing is wrong. It will ...read more

  • Sign For The Bathroom Door  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 17, 2003
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,860 views

    SIGN FOR THE BATHROOM DOOR Attention Everyone: The Bathroom Door is Closed! Please do not stand there and talk, whine or ask questions. Wait until I get out. Yes, it is locked. I want it that way. No, it is not broken; I am not trapped. I know I have left it unlocked, and even open at times, since ...read more

  • About Six Months Ago My Son Caleb Began To Walk. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Eric Bland on Jun 20, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,780 views

    About six months ago my son Caleb began to walk. He quickly went from a staggering walk to a run. Now he is twenty months old and anyone who has kids knows at that age they become pretty brave, so now he is jumping off of anything that elevates him, whether it is jumping off of books or stools or ...read more

  • Andrew Was A Grown Man, But Had Some Real Trouble ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,502 views

    Andrew was a grown man, but had some real trouble adjusting to the adult world. He had a pleasant simplicity that many mistakened for a slowness of mind. One day he came to me upset because his bike had been stolen for the second time. I told him about the time someone had stolen my favorite ...read more

  • Relatively Blessed, Deeply Responsible  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
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    RELATIVELY BLESSED, DEEPLY RESPONSIBLE An assistant professor of theological ethics at Duke Divinity School, Amy Laura Hall, makes the following observation about Thanksgiving: "Saying grace before the Thanksgiving meal is a tradition for many Americans, but too few remember to be ...read more

  • I Don't Know What I May Do Tomorrow

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Aug 30, 2004
     | 2,454 views

    "I Don’t Know What I May Do Tomorrow" Many times Christians say, "Of course I know I’m saved now, Paster, but I don’t know what I may do tomorrow. One lady I knew pretty well said this to me. I responded with, "That’s strange, I know what you will do tomorrow." She looked incredulous and I went ...read more

  • Officials From India Were Concerned About The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 9, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,163 views

    Officials from India were concerned about the aboriginal tribes which inhabited the islands off the coast of Myanmar after the Tsunami disaster. They feared that as many as 6,000 of these primitive people may have been killed — perhaps even wiping out some of the smaller tribes. So they sent ...read more

  • This Week I Decided To Give Blood. It Seems At ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lisa Delay on Sep 22, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,440 views

    This week I decided to give blood. It seems at lot has changed since the last time I “gave the gift of life”, as the Red Cross puts it. The reasons for rejecting donors seem even more endless than before. The checklist is over 40 questions long! First they gather my identity statistics. Then they ...read more

  • This Past Sunday Afternoon, After Katrina Had ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Sep 24, 2005
     | 2,234 views

    This past Sunday afternoon, after Katrina had already made a mess of South Florida, Gladys and I watched the news as the killer storm made it’s way across the Gulf, with its eye focused on the gulf coast. We, along with many of you and countless millions of others across the country, watched with ...read more

  • Joy Does Not Become Elusive To People. People ...  PRO

    Contributed by Denise Raterta on Nov 30, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,887 views

    Joy does not become elusive to people. People choose to elude joy and God, for that matter. I remember how Jennifer Aniston’s character in the movie “The Good Girl” resented her lady friend’s consistent cheerfulness by saying: “I wonder what the h--- that woman is so d--- happy about.” It’s ...read more

  • Some Of You Are Familiar With The Musical Man Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,342 views

    Some of you are familiar with the musical Man of Lamancha. 1. It is the story of Don Quixote, the weird character who jousts with windmills and envisions himself as a knight slaying dragons. 2. The most poignant part of the musical is his relationship with Aldonza. 3. She was a woman of ...read more

  • Your Spirit Does Matter

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
     | 2,291 views

    YOUR SPIRIT DOES MATTER A preacher wrote: "Today we have people who claim to be Christians shouting ’God hates fags’ at the funerals of soldiers who have died in Iraq, because these ’Christians’ believe God is punishing America for its tolerance of homosexuals. A recent editorial in the paper ...read more

  • Radical Revival

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
     | 6,011 views

    RADICAL REVIVAL Dr. J. Edwin Orr states, "I am convinced that more work for God could be done in six months of revival than in sixty years of any other kind of effort." If we as a church begin doing the work we are appointed with a touch of the radical, we will see more done in six months of ...read more

  • All Part Of God's Plan  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 10,563 views

    ALL PART OF GOD’S PLAN In the opening pages of his autobiography, "An American Life," Ronald Reagan writes, I was raised to believe that God had a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan. My mother - a small woman with auburn hair and a sense of ...read more

  • There Was This Teacher...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 1, 2009
     | 4,508 views

    THERE WAS THIS TEACHER... Eric Butterworth once told about a college professor who had his sociology class go into the Baltimore slums to get case histories of 200 young boys. The students were asked to write an evaluation of each boy’s future. In every case the students wrote, "He hasn’t got a ...read more