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  • Like Limbaugh And Clinton  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,871 views

    LIKE LIMBAUGH AND CLINTON In the story of the “The Good Samaritan,” these men weren’t physical neighbor. The Jews & the Samaritans hated each other. Generations earlier, when the Jews were in Babylonian captivity, the Samaritans had taken over the land … and mixed their religion with the Jewish ...read more

  • Power In Agreement  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,173 views

    How much power can people in agreement have? The answer: the power of life and death. During the brutal reign of Joseph Stalin, who murdered 30 million Russians and bought godless communism to Russia, Stalin, let it be known that he planned to murder the Jews of Russia. When the believers in ...read more

  • A Motorist Was Driving In The Country When He Saw ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 5, 2008
     | 2,019 views

    A motorist was driving in the country when he saw some men who had come from an ecumenical meeting: a Baptist Pastor, a Catholic Priest, an Anglican Vicar, and a Jewish Rabbi. They were standing on the shoulder of the road, fishing. Next to them was a sign that read "Turn Around. The End Is Near." ...read more

  • Pharisees Don't Care

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Dec 8, 2020
     | 1,920 views

    The corrupt heart of the zealous devotion of the Pharisees is illustrated by a group of modern day Orthodox Jews (early, 1992), who let three apartments in an Orthodox neighborhood in Israel burn to the ground while they asked a rabbi whether a telephone call to the fire department on the Sabbath ...read more

  • Most Evangelicals Now Live In China, South ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 17, 2008
     | 902 views

    "Most evangelicals now live in China, South Korea, India, Africa and Latin America, where they are transforming their religion. In various ways, they are making evangelical Christianity at once more conservative and more liberal. They are infusing it with local traditions and practices. And they ...read more

  • Let Me Give You Another Example Of How God Is On ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jan 19, 2009
     | 1,663 views

    Let me give you another example of how God is on the move. Haiti is a state that made a pact with the devil three hundred years. It is renown as a centre of witchcraft, voodoo and satanic worship. In 1991 Christians went to the most traditional satanic voodoo field in Haiti and were "violent in ...read more

  • Revenge: A Lazy Form Of Grief

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Mar 19, 2010
     | 3,691 views

    REVENGE: A LAZY FORM OF GRIEF In the 2005 film, The Interpreter, Nicole Kidman plays the role of Sylvia Broome, a United Nations translator who overhears an assassination plot. In one scene in the movie, Sylvia talks about revenge and mercy. She speaks of a primitive tribe and a tradition they ...read more

  • L.l. Bean: Integrity

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2011
     | 3,844 views

    L.L. BEAN: INTEGRITY In 1912, Leon Leonwood Bean started a mail order business in Greenwood, Maine by selling a hunting boot with a money-back guarantee. However, defects in the design led to 90 percent of them being returned. Making good on the guarantee could ruin his fledgling business, but ...read more

  • Uh, That's "Maranatha"

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 1, 2012
     | 3,409 views

    UH, THAT'S "MARANATHA" An elderly Christian lady attended a Christian conference gathering, similar to Keswick/Spring Harvest etc. For her it was really the first time she had mixed with Christians from other denominations. This really blessed her and opened her eyes to the richness of Christian ...read more

  • Then He Appeared  PRO

    Contributed by John Shaw on Dec 2, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,679 views

    Then he appeared THE TRAMP SAID HE had walked 70 miles from a dry brook in Israel SAID His name was ...... something Jewish and unprouncable Slicker or HE..LIKE..HER .......Whatever SAID his name meant .. My god is Jehovah SAID he had shut up the skies Stopped the rain Him ...read more

  • Eighteen" — (Shemoneh Esreh) The Central Prayer ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 26, 2008
     | 1,131 views

    "Eighteen" — (shemoneh esreh) the central prayer in Jewish life and liturgy. It is also known as Amidah (Standing), because it is said standing; or simply Tefilah (Prayer), the prayer par excellence. The prayer originally consisted of eighteen benedictions, and thus the name "Eighteen." Its final ...read more

  • Blood Is Thicker Than Water  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 25, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,250 views

    BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER At some point or another you may have used this familiar phrase - Blood is thicker than water. The context in which we use it is to describe the meaning that blood-related families are more important than anyone else. R. Richard Pustelniak, congregational leader for the ...read more

  • About The Tongue

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,349 views

    ABOUT THE TONGUE There's an old story that the Jewish rabbis tell. As the story goes, one day a rabbi asked his servant to go and buy some good food for him in the market. When the servant returned home, he presented the rabbi with a tongue. The next day, the rabbi told the servant to go the ...read more

  • Why Study The Book Of Esther?

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Aug 21, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 926 views

    WHY STUDY THIS BOOK? • To learn important lessons about the Providence of God – especially His ability to preserve His people, despite the severity of threats from formidable adversaries. • To encourage us to continue to trust in God and His Providence when circumstances around us seem darkest ...read more

  • Kneeling With Runkie

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,782 views

    KNEELING WITH RUNKIE Have you heard the story of the incident that took place in a Church youth group in Akron, Ohio, at Christmas time? What took place started a tradition in that church, a pattern for us to follow. The high school boy's name was Howard, but he was best known as "Runkie". He had ...read more

  • Christmas Celebrations Around The World  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 28, 2009
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     | 3,116 views

    CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD As Americans, we pride ourselves in "doing Christmas up right." Tons of gifts, big holiday feasts, huge trees, Lights on the houses. USA! Here are some of the other ways people prepare for the celebration of Christmas. * In Italy they have no Christmas ...read more

  • A Religious Assumption  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,956 views

    A RELIGIOUS ASSUMPTION In America, unlike any other country of the time, the Founders envisioned a land where people of all faiths could worship God without fear of persecution. The freedom to worship would, in turn, cultivate the piety and virtue necessary for the success of ...read more

  • Gen-Y Graduates: The Echo Boom Began Graduating ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 2,861 views

    Gen-Y Graduates: The Echo Boom began graduating from College last May and they will change our culture. Experience is everything to them. Traditional media won’t work. The most effective businesses offer them an experience, not just a product. Bookstores are popular gathering places for them, but ...read more

  • Those Who Call Themselves "Pagans" Describe Their ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 18, 2006
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    Those who call themselves “Pagans” describe their faith as a “modern faith recently reconstructed from beliefs, deities, symbols, practices, and other elements of ancient religion. Some of the main examples of this pagan revival include the following: • Druids: base their religion on the faith ...read more

  • I Remember Speaking With A Very Devoted Follower ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 27, 2007
     | 1,631 views

    I remember speaking with a very devoted follower of Jesus that is a Catholic. And a homeless man came and asked to be blessed. This follower of Jesus was taught that she could not offer a blessing for this person because she did not hold the proper status. While I respect the tradition that seeks ...read more