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  • I Read About Ten Years Ago An Interesting ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 14, 2008
     | 513 views

    I read about ten years ago an interesting statistic. Our medical knowledge doubles every 2.5 years. Is it any wonder why medicine has so many specialties? It literally is hard to keep up. Yet, we have ...read more

  • Healing Power Of The Church

    Contributed by Mark Mitchell on Jan 22, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,609 views

    A YOUNG couple got married and was on their way home from the honeymoon. A tractor-trailer pulled out in front of them suddenly and the young groom swerved to avoid it. The car went into a tailspin and crashed. The groom was okay, but his new bride was bleeding profusely. He knew if he didn’t get ...read more

  • Ted Turner On Hell  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 5,735 views

    TED TURNER ON HELL Ted Turner, founder of Turner Broadcasting (TBS,TNT,CNN) blasted the Christian faith at a speech to the National Press Club. "Remember, heaven is going to be perfect. And I don’t really want to be there... Those of us that go to hell, which will be most of us in this room, most ...read more

  • Why Was He Crying?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 18, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,898 views

    WHY WAS HE CRYING? Do you suppose it could have been a little like rush hour traffic on the big city expressway? One car stops, then all the other cars stop, like a chain reaction. I can just hear the people way back in the crowd that day saying, "What’s the holdup? What is going on? Why don’t ...read more

  • Speaking Of Pit Stops, Our Church Secretary, Adra ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jun 3, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,066 views

    Speaking of Pit Stops, our church secretary, Adra told me about a “pit stop” her roommate from college was forced to make the other day. She was driving to the airport when a bottle of coke that she had in the back seat exploded! Coke went everywhere! Of course that startled her, and she was ...read more

  • There's A Story About A Local Fitness Center, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,635 views

    There’s a story about a local fitness center, which was offering $1,000 to anyone who could demonstrate that they were stronger than the owner of the place. Here’s how it worked. This muscle man would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran into a glass, and then hand the lemon to the next ...read more

  • But I Might Overdraft…  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 3, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,365 views

    BUT I MIGHT OVERDRAFT.... A Massachusetts doctor and Harvard graduate has been suspended for leaving a patient on the operating table midway through spinal surgery so he could deposit a check at his local bank, according to an Aug. 8 Reuters story. The state board of medicine said David Arndt, an ...read more

  • The Red Neck Wedding

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Feb 22, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,658 views

    The Red Neck Wedding In the Summer of 2000 a couple came to me and explained that they wanted me to perform their Wedding ceremony. The man was a farmer and the woman had grown up on a farm. They explained to me that this was both of their 2nd marriage and neither one of them had a Church ...read more

  • The End?

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 28, 2008
     | 2,551 views

    The End? Death, through our eyes, is 'the end.' It is that image of watching an old movie which concludes when the words "THE END" comes up on the screen. We conclude that the movie is over, and we move on either in laughter or tears. Jesus presents a different picture. He doesn't call it ...read more

  • The Greatest Disease In The West Today Is Not ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 24, 2007
     | 2,132 views

    “The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair and hoplessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a little love. The poverty in ...read more

  • A Woman Went To Her Doctor With A Whole Catalog ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 3, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,409 views

    A woman went to her doctor with a whole catalog of complaints about her health. He examined her thoroughly and came to the conclusion that there was absolutely nothing wrong with her physically. He was convinced that her problem was due to her negative attitude toward life. She had become filled ...read more

  • Relationships  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jul 6, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 7,154 views

    In the 60’s Simon and Garfunkel wrote this I am a rock, I am an island. I’ve built walls, A fortress deep and mighty, That none may penetrate. I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain. It’s laughter and it’s loving I disdain. I am a rock, I am an ...read more

  • Healthy Benefits Of Friendship

    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 19, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,602 views

    HEALTHY BENEFITS OF FRIENDSHIP A in depth study revealed that people with friends enjoy better health, live longer, are happier and find greater fulfilment in life. Time spent with friends will ENRICH our lives & make us healthier – it acts as medicine to help boost the immune system against both ...read more

  • Abraham Lincoln On Humor

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 13, 2023
     | 813 views

    President [Lincoln] prefaced a discussion of the draft Emancipation Proclamation by reading aloud from a favorite humorist. In response to the disapproval of some members of his cabinet, Mr. Lincoln said: Gentlemen, why don’t you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I ...read more

  • There's A Story Told Of A Husband And Wife Both ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 3, 2001
    based on 111 ratings
     | 8,154 views

    There’s a story told of a husband and wife both of who were doctors - one a doctor of theology and the other a doctor of medicine. When their doorbell was rung and the maid answered, the inquirer would often ask for "the doctor". The maid’s interesting reply was: "Do you want the one who preaches ...read more

  • Whereas "Belief" Suggests Bare Opinion, "Faith," ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 9, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,239 views

    Whereas “belief” suggests bare opinion, “faith,” whether in a car, a …medicine, a protégé, a doctor, a marriage partner, or what have you, is a matter of treating the person or thing as trustworthy and committing yourself accordingly. The same is true of faith in God, and in a far-reaching way. ...read more

  • Wellness Needs The Whole Picture

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 6, 2008
     | 1,940 views

    WELLNESS NEEDS THE WHOLE PICTURE Christian Counseling Today Magazine Vol. 12 states this about the current crisis in health care: "Modern medicine is stretching beyond its limited vision as a disease treatment--even disease prevention-- profession in the 21st Century. Increasingly it is concerned ...read more

  • Watches Over Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
     | 4,863 views

    WATCHES OVER US An engineer, after doing his internship with NASA in Houston, made a startling decision to change course and study medicine. Two decades removed from college, he shared his testimony in our church thanksgiving service: "Passing the Oral Board is the culmination of 10 years of ...read more

  • Love Is:the Lubricant That Makes Everything Run ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,008 views

    LOVE is:the lubricant that makes everything run smoothly;the seasoning that makes everything taste better;the glue that holds everything together;the medicine that heals every wound;the light that brightens the darkest corner;the food that satisfies every hunger;the drink that quenches every ...read more

  • A Minister Was Speaking To A Sunday School Class ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Carson on Apr 8, 2001
    based on 101 ratings
     | 2,332 views

    A minister was speaking to a Sunday school class about the things money can’t buy. “It can’t buy laughter and it can’t buy love” he told them. Driving his point home he said, “What would you do if I offered you $1000 not to love your mother and father?” Stunned silence ...read more

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