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  • Surely What A Man Does When He Is Taken Off His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
     | 1,566 views

    Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way, the ...read more

  • Our God Is The God From Whom Cometh Salvation: ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
     | 2,208 views

    “Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by whom we escape death.” - Martin Luther “Live in Christ, live in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.” - John Knox “Thou, Lord, bruisest me; but I am abundantly satisfied, since it is from Thy hand.” - John Calvin “The best ...read more

  • Direct Mail Is Still King: Although Direct Mail ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 2,099 views

    Direct Mail Is Still King: Although direct mail is still the most effective fund raising media for non profit organizations, it continues to get more expensive. Growing competition has forced lower response rates. Now, NPO’s are conducting analysis and segmentation up front to better identify the ...read more

  • Surely What A Man Does When He Is Taken Off His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,291 views

    Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way, the ...read more

  • Many Times When My Wife And I Are Asked How Can ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 1, 2007
     | 1,087 views

    Many times when my wife and I are asked how can we keep going, country after country for almost 45 years. I tell them it is the joy of the Lord that gives strength. Winning souls is the second best joy you can have here on earth next to your own personal salvation. Remember it is not only a ...read more

  • Quote: - Charles Spurgeon Once Said, "I Would ...

    Contributed by Tom Osterkamp on Mar 19, 2007
     | 1,494 views

    QUOTE: - Charles Spurgeon once said, "I would recommend you either believe God up to the hilt, or else not believe at all. Believe this book of God, every letter of it, or else reject it. There is no logical standing place between the two. Be satisfied with nothing less than a faith that swims in ...read more

  • Believe Or Reject  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 27, 2002
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     | 3,980 views

    Believe or Reject I would recommend you either believe God up to the hilt, or else not to believe at all. Believe this book of God, every letter of it, or else reject it. There is no logical standing place between the two. Be satisfied with nothing less than a faith that swims in the deeps of ...read more

  • Many Years Ago, Chinese Farmers Theorized That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Nov 16, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
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    Many years ago, Chinese farmers theorized that they could eat their big potatoes and use the small ones for seed. Consequently, they ate the big potatoes and planted the small potatoes. As a result of this practice over the years, nature eventually reduced the size of all the potatoes they ...read more

  • Christian Charities Won 22 Spots Among The Top ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
     | 1,126 views

    Christian Charities won 22 spots among the top 100 best U.S. nonprofit groups for financial integrity, according to The NonProfit Times. Catholic Charities USA, The Salvation Army, and Habitat for Humanity were among the top 10. World Vision and Food for the Poor ranked 14th and 18th, while Campus ...read more

  • Love Of The Adopted

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 16, 2008
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    Love of the Adopted We capture a picture of our relationship with God in Chrissy's story about her adoptive parents. "My adopted father still, to this day, recalls the overwhelming emotion he had the moment he held me in his arms and saw my tiny, pink face. They gave me the best life any child ...read more

  • To Children On School

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 28, 2010
     | 2,941 views

    TO CHILDREN ON SCHOOL School is your job right now. It is where you spend a great deal of time, just like parents spent a great deal of time a work. School is where you learn important habits that are important to work. Like showing up on time. Being respectful. Doing your work to the best of your ...read more

  • The Golden Rule

    Contributed by John Bright on Feb 19, 2025
     | 656 views

    We teach children the Golden Rule – “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” When those children get out into the world, they learn a new rule – “Do unto others before they can do unto you.” We are taught to go on the offensive and keep a list of wrongs so we can fulfill ...read more

  • Leadership

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Jul 14, 2020
     | 1,872 views

    “I firmly determined that my mannerisms and speech in public would always reflect the cheerful certainty of victory – that any pessimism and discouragement I might ever feel would be reserved for my pillow... I adopted a policy of circulating through the whole force to the full limit imposed by ...read more

  • James Dobson, New Man, October, ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 9, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,693 views

    [illustration, James Dobson, New Man, October, 1994, p. 36.] This is an exert from an article that James Dobson wrote in 1994 about Stephen Hawking, whom I believe has since died… Stephen Hawking is an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and perhaps the most intelligent man on earth. He has ...read more

  • Chasing A Wagging Tail  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 17, 2004
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     | 2,450 views

    CHASING A WAGGING TAIL Stephen Hawking is an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and perhaps the most intelligent man on earth. He has advanced the general theory of relativity farther than any person since Albert Einstein. Unfortunately, Hawking is afflicted with ALS Syndrome (Lou Gehrig’s ...read more

  • Christian Humorist And Minister Dennis Swanberg ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,379 views

    Christian humorist and Minister Dennis Swanberg says one of his favorite stories happened to him on Easter Sunday in Saginaw, Texas, several years ago. The church was packed for Easter services. The high school basketball coach was in the middle of giving his testimony when water started dripping ...read more

  • Deadly Civil War Gun Powder Explosion Due To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2009
     | 2,722 views

    Deadly Civil War Gun Powder Explosion Due To Carelessness by Troops When the Federal troops occupied Cheraw, South Carolina, the Confederates left so much gun powder behind that the Union troops decided to dump most of it in a little creek. Some of the Union troops were looking for some ...read more

  • Made In His Image  PRO

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 31, 2012
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     | 3,262 views

    MADE IN HIS IMAGE In 1940 the Battle of Britain took place in the skies over England. Day after day hundreds of German bombers delivered to the targets below a cargo of death and destruction. The only thing stopping the certain defeat of the allies in western Europe was the Royal Air Force, whose ...read more

  • Mr Jackson Learns To Love

    Contributed by John Gullick on Oct 22, 2015
     | 4,121 views

    Let me tell you a story. Mr Jackson, everyday, looked angrily towards his neighbours. Fushia and Watt. What kind of names were they? It made him angry. Tattoos, and, she had a nose piercing, and, their dog chased his cat. Mr Jackson sighed. Parties sometimes, well barbeques, cars parked on his ...read more

  • Passing It On

    Contributed by David Dunn on Mar 30, 2026
     | 103 views

    I visited a friend for Thanksgiving. Nothing formal. Just one of those homes where you walk in and immediately feel like you belong. The kitchen was already alive—warm, a little crowded, full of movement. You could hear things happening before you even saw them. Pots shifting. Laughter from the ...read more