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  • Goodness That Lasts  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 20, 2001
    based on 19 ratings
     | 2,391 views

    GOODNESS THAT LASTS A little girl said she liked Santa Claus better than Jesus because "you have to be good for Santa only at Christmas but for Jesus you have to be good all the time." Much of the Christmas observance at church is not far removed from that attitude. ...read more

  • The First And Last  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
    based on 78 ratings
     | 3,279 views

    THE FIRST AND LAST He is the First and Last, the Beginning and the End! He is the keeper of Creation and the Creator of all! He is the Architect of the universe and The Manager of all times. He always was, He always is, and He always will be... Unmoved, Unchanged, Undefeated, and never Undone! He ...read more

  • The Last Minute  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 12, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,217 views

    This brings me to my "TERM PAPER THEORY." The student knows the whole semester: there will be a term paper required at the end of the term. So, the night before the paper is due, the student pushes the dead line, runs to the library and does the last minute research, and can’t hold his head ...read more

  • A Lasting Treaty?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,582 views

    A LASTING TREATY? Since 1919, the nations of Europe have signed more than 200 treaties of peace. Each treaty, simply another scrap of paper, was broken more easily than consummated. From the year 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1860 more than 8,000 treaties of peace, meant to remain in force forever, were ...read more

  • Last Chance  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Labate on Feb 19, 2003
    based on 181 ratings
     | 3,903 views

    LAST CHANCE When Bishop Philip Brooks, author of “O, Little Town of Bethlehem,” was seriously ill, he requested no friends come to see him. But when an acquaintance of his named Robert Ingersoll, a famous anti-Christian propagandist, came to see him he allowed him to come in right away. ...read more

  • With My Last ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
     | 3,485 views

    WITH MY LAST SONG Louis Albert Banks tells of an elderly Christian man, a fine singer, who learned that he had cancer of the tongue and that surgery was required. In the hospital, after everything was ready for the operation, the man said to the doctor, "Are you sure I will never sing again?" The ...read more

  • A Light That Lasts

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,105 views

    A LIGHT THAT LASTS Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb in 1879. Twenty-two years later, in 1901, one of the newfangled gadgets was hung and turned on in the Livermore, Calif., Fire Department. It’s still there, and still on. The old bulb has almost never been turned off in 109 years. ...read more

  • Last Laugh

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 14, 2011
     | 3,131 views

    LAST LAUGH Religion in its highest form is a belief in a being greater than themselves. There are some people who would deny this: they are called "atheists" and say that God in any shape or form is neither necessary nor possible, and so couldn’t possibly exist. When the Russians sent a ...read more

  • Last Words

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Feb 6, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,000 views

    LAST WORDS My father worked for the railroad when I was younger. One night a train was backing up to hook up to some other cars and one man was not watching. He was in the way and the train made the connection right through his body. He did not die immediately, but he knew he had only a short ...read more

  • The Last Are First

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Nov 18, 2007
     | 1,397 views

    The Last Are First There is a couple who lived here in Anchorage, who lived in one of the most broken down trailers I have ever seen. There home was, clean, and well kept but the trailer sure had seen better days – a long time ago. Some friends who had a little boy were looking at buying a house, ...read more

  • Lasting Impression

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 31, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,174 views

    LASTING IMPRESSION A man was trying to convince an acquaintance that one individual can make a lasting impression on others. After a rather heated discussion his friend continued to doubt. To prove his point, the first man declared that he would introduce a new word into the English language. ...read more

  • Last Lecture

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 2, 2008
     | 2,533 views

    LAST LECTURE You may have heard about the death of 47 year old Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor Randy Pausch last week from pancreatic cancer. Pausch was most famous for his "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" speech made last fall just after he learned he had months to ...read more

  • The Last Samurai

    Contributed by Jordan Lumbard on Jun 5, 2007
     | 1,827 views

    PLAY VIDEO CLIP – THE LAST SAMURAI The Battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 B.C, - With only 300 Spartan Warriors defending their post against a 1 Million man Persian army. - The Spartans put up the most brave and determinied resistance, taking their stand on a little hill, and fighting in a ...read more

  • Last Chance  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
    based on 23 ratings
     | 5,632 views

    LAST CHANCE When Bishop Philip Brooks, author of "O, Little Town of Bethlehem," was seriously ill, he requested no friends come to see him. But when an acquaintance of his named Robert Ingersoll, a famous anti-Christian propagandist, came to see him he allowed him to come in right away. Ingersoll ...read more

  • The Last Invitation

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Feb 14, 2009
     | 3,774 views

    THE LAST INVITATION While pastoring at the FBC of Cherryville, North Carolina, a disturbance was observed, and shortly afterward a man was taken from the balcony of the church [and placed] in an ambulance. He was dead before they got him to the hospital. He died before the invitation could be ...read more

  • Coming In Last

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 27, 2008
     | 1,544 views

    Coming in Last Discouragement cramps our momentum; the heat-stroke of opposition can drain our stamina and motivation. Running into obstacles that drive our faces in the asphalt of reality make it hard to get back up. Our stories are not unlike Felicians Hopfner-Hibb's or Simon Whitfield's. Last ...read more

  • Picked Last

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 21, 2008
     | 1,846 views

    Picked Last It happened several times a week, almost without fail. Whether they lined up against the wall of the gymnasium, the local ice rink or the snow bank for the back-roads hockey, it was always the same. The leaders picked him last. Last for basketball because he was too clumsy; in hockey ...read more

  • Love At Last!!!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 20, 2022
     | 970 views

    George, age 92 and Edith, age 89 are all excited about their decision to get married. They go for a stroll to discuss the wedding and on the way, they pass a drugstore. George suggests they go in and he addresses the man behind the counter. "Are you the owner? "The pharmacist answers, ...read more

  • Look, Right Up To The Last Moment Of That Last ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 4, 2009
     | 1,592 views

    Look, right up to the last moment of that last Passover you have Judas plotting for money to push Jesus up to the edge, and you have Peter brandishing his sword and promising to smite the evildoer and die for Jesus. Perhaps it was the alcohol of the feast talking, but four hours later he was ...read more

  • Last Year There Was An Article In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Apr 16, 2001
    based on 101 ratings
     | 2,339 views

    Last year there was an article in “World” magazine about the Promise Keepers rally in Washington, D.C. Here is a sentence from that article. "If Promise Keepers hasn’t done anything else right in its brief 7-year history, it will still get enormous credit for this: The more Promise Keepers has ...read more

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