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  • Recently, I Caught A Segment On Tv Of A Movie ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Dec 15, 2009
     | 1,230 views

    Recently, I caught a segment on TV of a movie called Jack. It’s the story of a boy that ages four times faster than usual. Robin Williams plays the role of Jack. He enters public school for the first time in the fifth grade. Though he has the emotional and mental development of a fifth grade ...read more

  • How To Build A Ladder To Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
     | 3,125 views

    How To Build A Ladder To Your Dreams Years ago a young African-American child was growing up in Cleveland, in a home which he later described as "materially poor but spiritually rich." One day a famous athlete, Charlie Paddock, came to his school to speak to the students. At the time Paddock was ...read more

  • Whose Hands Are You Thankful For?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 26, 2011
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,055 views

    WHOSE HANDS ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR? "A Thanksgiving Day editorial in the newspaper told of a school teacher who asked her first graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these children from pour neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for. But she ...read more

  • The Bible Is The Blueprints

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Aug 5, 2011
     | 3,728 views

    THE BIBLE IS THE BLUEPRINTS Can you build a real house without blueprints? Sure you can throw up a square storage shed maybe without them, but do you not need to have some kind of visual plan of the dimensions, how many rooms, where the rooms go, and so on in order to start building an actual ...read more

  • Labor Day And Our Divine Union

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,573 views

    LABOR DAY AND OUR DIVINE UNION I’ve heard that Labor Day was first celebrated in Boston on Sept 5, 1882. It wasn’t until 1894 that it became a federal holiday. That was an effort encouraged by President Grover Cleveland to reconcile with the labor movement and prevent further violence. You see, ...read more

  • Know Who You Are Fighting

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 15, 2019
     | 3,861 views

    The Nature of Our Enemy One of the foremost rules of warfare is: know your enemy. The more you know about your enemy-how he thinks, what motivates him-the better you are able to devise a means of counteracting his moves and defeating him. To overcome the enemy of our eternal spirit, the devil, the ...read more

  • George W. Truett  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,435 views

    George W. Truett George W. Truett, a well-know pastor in Texas, was invited to dinner at the home of a very wealthy Texas man. After the meal, the host led him to a place where they could get a good view of the surrounding area. • Pointing to the oil wells covering the landscape, the Texan ...read more

  • In An Interview With Time Magazine, Bill Gates Is ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jul 31, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,578 views

    In an interview with TIME magazine, Bill Gates is quoted as saying: “Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” Bill Gates has a net worth of 56 billion dollars. To put that in perspective, there are ...read more

  • Dr. Maxie Dunnam Is One Of The Outstanding ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Feb 9, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,028 views

    Dr. Maxie Dunnam is one of the outstanding evangelical leaders in the United Methodist Church that I deeply admire. Maxie is the current Chancellor of Asbury Theological Seminary and her former President. He served the Upper Room Fellowship as their world editor and was the founding International ...read more

  • In The 1500s, Martin Luther Wrote "The Bondage Of ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Sep 30, 2008
     | 3,181 views

    In the 1500s, Martin Luther wrote "The Bondage of the Will" to defend the Biblical teaching of the depravity of our nature and our slavery to sin. Luther's work was in answer to the writings of Erasmus on free will. Of Erasmus' defense of free will, Luther wrote: "Your book struck me as so ...read more

  • Simple Confession, Profound Forgiveness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022
     | 1,255 views

    In 1818 one out of six women who had children died of something called “childbirth fever.” A doctor’s daily routine back then started in the dissecting room, where he performed autopsies, and from there he made his rounds to examine expectant mothers. No one even thought to wash his hands...at ...read more

  • Got My Life, Got My Jesus! (09.07.05--The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 5, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,339 views

    Got My Life, Got My Jesus! (09.07.05--The Temporal Things!--Matthew 5:3) In order to have all things, you must forsake all things. Tell that to those struggling with forsakeness in flood-ravaged New Orleans or storm-crushed Gulfport this morning! My guess is that few if any would understand the ...read more

  • Brownies Teach Stewardship

    Contributed by Michael Otterstatter on Nov 26, 2024
     | 758 views

    A 6th grade Sunday school teacher was struggling with a lesson. She was preparing to teach a lesson on how Christians manage their material blessings. She knew that when her students were in confirmation class the pastor would share what the Bible says about stewardship of time, talents, ...read more

  • John Mentions Three Areas Of Sin Here. I Want To ...

    Contributed by Jasper Rains on Oct 18, 2009
     | 2,483 views

    John mentions three areas of sin here. I want to take a moment and dig a bit further to see what each of these sins really mean. I wan to try and help you see what John is telling us is of the world and will lead to death. • Lust of the flesh: Putting our desires first. – Sex, pleasures • Lust of ...read more

  • Strange For Us To Think Of Idolatry As Being ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Sep 28, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 3,178 views

    Strange for us to think of idolatry as being something in the modern world but consider this: • There are actually people who worship crawling creatures: In a museum in Egypt there is a monument to the scarob beetle. • The philistines actually worshiped flies. Hindus today won’t swat a fly ...read more

  • Bob Russell, A Preacher In Kentucky, Says That ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 28, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,320 views

    Bob Russell, a preacher in Kentucky, says that when he was 11-12 he wanted to build his brother, John, a toy wheel barrow for Christmas. He got some old broom handles and a wheel off a wagon and some old wood. Bob said he put together the most awful looking contraption you can imagine. One week ...read more

  • Christmas Pants

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Nov 10, 2009
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    CHRISTMAS PANTS I told you about a pair of guys who had exchanged the same pair of moleskin pants for over a decade. Each year they tried to outdo one another with the only rules being they couldn’t damage the pants and they had to use scrap material. I’d left the story with Kunkel having received ...read more

  • The Incomparable Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2009
     | 4,339 views

    THE INCOMPARABLE JESUS The late great Swiss-born, German-educated American Protestant theologian and historian of the Christian Church, Rev. Philip Schaff (1819 - 1893), once said, "Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, and Napoleon. ...read more

  • Relationships And Bats

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 9, 2010
     | 4,296 views

    RELATIONSHIPS AND BATS In the Spring, Marylu and I spent a day at one of our State Parks, McCormick's Creek (my personal favorite). But we could not go into the cave there because of a deadly disease that is annihilating bats. 2. This week, an AP story broke: "A mysterious illness is ...read more

  • Bats

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 10, 2010
     | 1,014 views

    In the Spring, Marylu and I spent a day at one of our State Parks, McCormick's Creek (my personal favorite). But we could not go into the cave there because of a deadly disease that is annihilating bats. This week, an AP story broke: "A mysterious illness is threatening the bat population in ...read more