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  • With Tongue In Cheek, Mark Twain Spoke Of The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,143 views

    With tongue in cheek, Mark Twain spoke of the two-faced life we all live: I am constructed like everybody else and enjoy a compliment as well as any other fool, but I do like to have the other side presented. And there is another side. I have a wicked side. Estimable friends who know all about it ...read more

  • It Was 1916, And Hattie Green Was Dead. Hattie's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,385 views

    It was 1916, and Hattie Green was dead. Hattie’s life is a sad demonstration of what it is like to be among the living dead. When Hattie died, her estate was valued at over $100 million; yet Hattie lived in poverty. She ate cold oatmeal because it cost money to heat it. When her son’s leg became ...read more

  • Poem: Love For Others By Anonymous

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,491 views

    Poem: Love For Others by Anonymous Lord, let me live from day to day In such a self-forgetful way, That, even when I kneel to pray, My prayer shall be for others. Help me, in all the work I do, Ever to be sincere and true, And know that all I’d do for Thee, Must needs be done for Others. Let “self” ...read more

  • Not All Quotations About Life Have Been ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,386 views

    Not all quotations about life have been negative, for example: Norman Thomas (1884-1968), “The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.” Oswald Spengler, a German historian and philosopher (1880-1936), “This is our purpose: to make as ...read more

  • It Was 1916, And Hattie Green Was Dead. Hattie's ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 30, 2007
     | 1,330 views

    It was 1916, and Hattie Green was dead. Hattie’s life is a sad demonstration of what it is like to be among the living dead. When Hattie died, her estate was valued at over $100 million; yet Hattie lived in poverty. She ate cold oatmeal because it cost money to heat it. When her son’s leg became ...read more

  • I Present A Cordless Drill And Explain That It ...

    Contributed by Ronald Thorington on Jan 1, 2008
     | 1,684 views

    I present a cordless drill and explain that it represents salvation. I then start drilling a board by turning the drill by hand round and round without turning on the drill. After doing this for a couple of minutes I ask the audience if I’m doing something wrong. They all shout “turn on the drill!” ...read more

  • Shallow ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
     | 1,511 views

    SHALLOW LIVES A few statistics clarify a problem. The figures I have are from five years ago, but I believe the comparisons are still the same. Americans gave $2.9 billion dollars to overseas missions. That sounds pretty good until you find out that we spend $8.4 billion to see movies, $13 billion ...read more

  • Automatic Focus  PRO

    Contributed by Nigel Heath on Mar 22, 2009
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    AUTOMATIC FOCUS Liz has a digital camera that focuses automatically on the object she want to photograph. But one day it went faulty, and the automatic focus mechanism began to drift every time, leaving everything in a blur. Our Christian lives can be like this. GOD DIRECTS US TO FOCUS ON THE ...read more

  • Steven Jobs Was The Founder Of Apple Computers. ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 24, 2009
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    Steven Jobs was the founder of Apple Computers. There came a point in time when the company was struggling and he approached John Sculley – who was head of one of the divisions of Pepsi Cola – to come on board and help lead them out of difficulty. Sculley kept resisting and Jobs kept persisting. ...read more

  • What Was The Point?

    Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Apr 1, 2010
     | 3,223 views

    WHAT WAS THE POINT? Alan Scholes, a former agnostic, testifies from his experience: "I had often heard my religious friends say, 'Jesus died for our sins' or 'Jesus died to save the world.' I could see how the good example of Jesus’ actions might possibly influence some men and women to live ...read more

  • How Martin Luther Overcame The Devil

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2011
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    HOW MARTIN LUTHER OVERCAME THE DEVIL Martin Luther was often very graphic in his description of the activities of the Devil. Asked one time how he overcame the Devil, he replied, "Well, when he comes knocking upon the door of my heart, and asks 'Who lives here?' the dear Lord Jesus goes to the ...read more

  • Praying For Your Prosperity

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
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    PRAYING FOR YOUR PROSPERITY One day a man was walking with this pastor. He knew this pastor was living in horrible poverty in Ethiopia, and he made the mistake of showing a little bit of what he thought would be gracious sympathy. He told the Ethiopian pastor, brother, we pray for you in your ...read more

  • Destiny Around The Corner

    Contributed by Kevin Taylor on Sep 10, 2011
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    DESTINY AROUND THE CORNER Sometimes emergency intersects with the anointing! God can use the most humble servant to speak some great directions into our lives. God sometimes puts very big messages in very little packages. Samuel spoke into Saul’s life because he heeded the word of his servant ...read more

  • If Billy Goes To Hell, Do You Care?

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 10, 2019
     | 2,736 views

    Billy was born in 1972 into a family of drug abusers. His mother died of an overdose when little Billy was three years old, His father was wanted in Tennessee for selling drugs. Little Billy was slipped into Tennessee to live with relatives. In all reality little Billy spent his life looking for ...read more

  • A. Tim Lahaye In His Book Mind Siege Notes This, ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 14, 2004
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    a. Tim LaHaye in his book Mind Siege notes this, “Ever since God first explained to Adam and Eve how to think so they could live successful, fulfilled, obedient, and happy lives, there has been a constant battle over who will control human thought ...read more

  • It Is The Fear Of The Lord That Keeps Us From ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Mar 9, 2006
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    It is the fear of the Lord that keeps us from sin while sin keeps us from intimacy with God The primary manifestation of the fear of the Lord is unwavering obedience to the desires and will of God.. There are some who are saved, but lack intimacy with God, still living in the “outer court”; ...read more

  • Education Occurs Both In And Outside The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,526 views

    "Education occurs both in and outside the classroom. There are certain bumps and bruises that befall us all during life. The manner in which we deal with them will have a lot to say about how we deal with future difficulties and what kind of people we become. Education most certainly ...read more

  • One Of The Things All The Gurus Of Preaching Say ...

    Contributed by Christopher Lanham on Apr 29, 2004
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    One of the things all the gurus of preaching say is a necessary trait for successful preaching is to be vulnerable, transparent – to show the people you’re preaching to that you share their struggles. Allow me to be transparent for a moment. There is a good reason why this passage has become ...read more

  • The Sign In The Window Read: "Boy Wanted". Young ...

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 29, 2005
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    The sign in the window read: “Boy Wanted”. Young John Simmons, though he was lazy, saw his opportunity and applied. He was quickly hired by elderly Mr. Peters. The pace was leisurely so he enjoyed the job. Toward the middle of the afternoon however, he was sent up to the attic — a dingy place full ...read more

  • I Hope That They Are Praying As Well Just As Two ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brent Baker on Sep 13, 2005
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     | 2,231 views

    I hope that they are praying as well just as two men did on September 11, 2001. I read this story in this week’s lookout. Two men were on the 81st floor of tower #2 of the World Trade Center, desperately trying to avoid the fate that was claiming so many that day. Stanley Praimnath, an ...read more