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  • Make Sure Your Ax Is Sharpen

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Feb 16, 2023
     | 1,125 views

    When we were young we did not have central heating and air. As a matter of fact I do not remember us having a window unit. What we had was a fireplace in the winter time and a screen door in the summer. I remember that old fire place. If it was real cold we would put a blanket over the door ...read more

  • What Will Your Heritage Be?  PRO

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
    based on 173 ratings
     | 3,340 views

    WHAT WILL YOUR HERITAGE BE? An investigation into the famed 18th century revival preacher Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) showed that, of the 1,394 known descendants of Jonathan Edwards, 100 became preachers and missionaries, 100 lawyers, 80 public officials, 75 army and navy officers, 65 ...read more

  • Come With Me In Your Imagination To The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Howard Flynn on May 17, 2001
    based on 39 ratings
     | 3,864 views

    Come with me in your imagination to the battlefield of Saratoga in New York where in 1777 two battles of the Revolutionary War took place. You will notice on that battlefield an obelisk or pillar standing as a monument to what happened there. At the base are four deep niches for the bronze figures ...read more

  • Keep Your Mouth Shut  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Travis on Jul 19, 2001
    based on 58 ratings
     | 3,720 views

    I read a story once about a little frog that wanted to go south for the winter. It was too far to hop and he did not have wings to fly. Two Little birds felt sorry for the little frog and together they came up with a plan. The little birds would hold each end of a stick in their beaks, and all the ...read more

  • Whether Your Faith Is That There Is A God Or That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,178 views

    Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don’t have any doubts you are either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants ...read more

  • What Not To Buy Your Wife  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 18, 2002
    based on 15 ratings
     | 2,705 views

    What NOT to Buy Your Wife 1. Don’t buy clothing that involves sizes. The chances are one in seven thousand that you will get her size right, and your wife will be offended the other 6999 times. 2. Avoid all things useful. The new silver polish advertised to save hundreds of hours is not going to ...read more

  • Getting Past Your Past  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 23, 2002
    based on 42 ratings
     | 8,183 views

    GETTING PAST YOUR PAST Consider Charles Colson, the aide to Richard Nixon who was sent to jail for Watergate. As as a result of his experience as a convicted felon, Colson founded Prison Fellowship, now the world’s largest Christian outreach to prisoners and their families. Prison Fellowship has ...read more

  • Your Problem...my Situation  PRO

    Contributed by Karl Ingersoll on Mar 8, 2003
    based on 63 ratings
     | 2,376 views

    Your Problem...My Situation When you get angry it’s because you’re ill-tempered... It just happens that my nerves are bothering me. When you don’t like someone it’s because you’re prejudiced... I just happen to be a good judge of human nature. When you compliment people it’s because you use ...read more

  • How Real Is Your Food?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,859 views

    HOW REAL IS YOUR FOOD? James Boice puts it this way: “Is he as real to you spiritually as something you can taste or handle? Is he as much a part of you as that which you can eat? Do not think me blasphemous when I say that he must be real and as useful to you as a hamburger and French fries. I ...read more

  • Your Lover Shall Live  PRO

    Contributed by Aldy Duque on Oct 28, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,933 views

    Your Lover Shall Live During the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, sentenced a soldier to be shot for his crimes. The execution was to take place at the ringing of the evening curfew bell. However, the bell did not sound. The soldier’s fiancée had climbed into the belfry and ...read more

  • He Knows Your Need

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2003
     | 2,620 views

    HE KNOWS YOUR NEED There was a popular religious movement around the time of the founding of our country called Deism. Deism was opposed to Christianity’s personal idea of God. They believed that God created the world, but that he wound it up like a clock and then left it to attend to other ...read more

  • Your God Is Too Small  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Dec 19, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,479 views

    J. B. Phillips, in his book, “Your God Is Too Small”, responds to an old children’s poem that says, “Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He.” He writes: “This word ‘mild’ is apparently deliberately used to describe a man who did not hesitate to challenge and expose the ...read more

  • Prove Your Own Selves  PRO

    Contributed by Tommy Hames on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,448 views

    PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES When I was a senior in high school I owned a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle. I loved that car. It was metallic gray with red, orange and yellow pin stripes down the side. I went everywhere in that car. I even used it to carry a carload of kids to school every day, despite its size. ...read more

  • So Goes Your Leadership

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Feb 11, 2006
     | 1,688 views

    "As your life goes so goes your leadership." "Lose your integrity, lose your ...read more

  • I Am Your Shield  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 3, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,838 views

    "I am your shield" Genesis 15:8-16 This was exactly what Abram needed to hear. He KNEW what a Shield was. Remember that Abram had just returned from battle. He probably owed his own life to the strength of his Shield. The shield is what absorbs the shock of the spear and sword. It repels ...read more

  • That Song Your Grace Is Enough, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,297 views

    Illustration: that song Your Grace is Enough, the three Hebrew children, Philip Crosby, in his book March Till They Die, tells of a forced march of American and European soldiers in Korea. In November of 1950, Philip Crosby and his friends, as they passed close to those GI’s who were having a hard ...read more

  • In Coping With Your Own Death  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,591 views

    In Coping With Your Own Death. 1. WINSTON CHURCHILL had planned his funeral, which took place in Saint Paul’s Cathedral. He included many of the great hymns of the church and used the eloquent Anglican liturgy. At his direction a bugler, positioned high in the dome of Saint Paul’s, intoned, after ...read more

  • If There Is The Tiniest Grudge In Your Mind ...

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 18, 2007
     | 1,663 views

    If there is the tiniest grudge in your mind against anyone ... your spiritual penetration into the knowledge of God stops. (Oswald Chambers. Edythe Draper, Draper’s Book of Quotations for the ...read more

  • Offer Your Life To Him

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Dec 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,894 views

    OFFER YOUR LIFE TO HIM In a large cathedral in Europe there was a very large, magnificent pipe organ. It was a Saturday afternoon, and the custodian was making one final check the organ loft high in the balcony at the back of the church. He was startled to hear footsteps echoing up the ...read more

  • Your Will Gives Out First

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
     | 1,981 views

    YOUR WILL GIVES OUT FIRST I can remember trying out for the cross country team at my high school, I could not understand how some of these guys did it, they could run and be fine at the finish line, I on the other hand was literally dying and giving up a mile short. The coach told me that the ...read more