One last story: years, ago, an executive from a soap company and a famous pastor were walking down the street together. They were to attend a meeting where they were going to be honored by their city for their contributions. With a snide sort of smirk, the soap manufacturer off handedly said,
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 27, 2026
[327]. POEM - VICTORY THROUGH SORROW’S DEEP SEA – EASTER POEM – PART 2
SPECIAL NOTE – This poem is too long for SermonCentral’s limited space for Sermon Illustrations, so I have had to cut it in half but don’t really want to do that. THIS IS PART 2. The events are in consecutive order so
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2007
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MARRIAGE SEMINAR
While attending a Marriage Seminar dealing with communication,
Tom and his wife Grace listened to the instructor,
"It is essential that husbands and wives know each other’s likes and dislikes."
He addressed the man,
"Can you name your wife’s favorite
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Contributed by Tad Mills on Jan 26, 2004
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A bar is the closest thing to a church the world has.
The TV Show “Cheers” was set in the friendliest bar you’ve ever seen.
Sam was like the pastor
The bartenders like were the deacons
Waitresses were like the greeters and ushers
It’s almost like a counterfeit church.
“Where Everybody Knows
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 16, 2004
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ILLUSTRATION... High Opinion, Our Daily Bread, July 3, 1989
A man who had a high opinion of himself stepped on a coin-operated scale that dispensed a card, giving
his weight and comments about his personality. After reading the card, he handed it to his wife and said, “Here, look at this!” She
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Feb 15, 2025
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[029] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD
This is a very special poem because in a time of great difficulty, the Lord woke me from irregular sleep to give me this poem at 3 o’clock in the morning. Of course the poem flowed along because it came from God. It was a message I
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Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2006
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NEVER GIVE UP
Haddon Robinson tells the following story. I hope you appreciate it as I did.
It was New Year’s Day, 1929, and Georgia Tech. and UCLA were battling it out in the Rose Bowl. Georgia Tech. fumbled the football late in the first half. Roy Riggles recovered for California. Picking up the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
This week in my reading I read a question which sobered or stunned me. It comes from the book “The church of Irresistible Influence” and it asks this question; “If your church were to close its doors today,
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Contributed by Harold Miller on Dec 15, 2000
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The native groups in the Peruvian Amazon have only known Christ for one generation. Just one generation ago they were fearful, aggressive, and animistic; all their contacts with outsiders were marked by violence. But now there are transformed. One missionary writes that since embracing faith in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2001
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"Have you ever been around someone who was unbelievably good looking, extremely attractive, and a lot smarter than you are? When you’re in a social situation people want to listen to him, not you. Suppose you don’t care for that person, but you’re kept in a room with him twenty-four hours a day
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 9, 2001
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An interesting article appeared in the Wall Street Journal. It was an interview of 6 top executives, all of them making 6-figure salaries. That means that they made somewhere between $100,000 & $999,999 a year.
Now you are probably thinking what I thought, "If I made even $100,000 a year, I’d
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2003
"Have you ever been around someone who was unbelievably good looking, extremely attractive, and a lot smarter than you are? When you’re in a social situation people want to listen to him, not you. Suppose you don’t care for that person, but you’re kept in a room with him twenty-four hours a day
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