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  • Let Me Illustrate What I Mean. I've Got Two ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Dec 9, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,632 views

    Let me illustrate what I mean. I’ve got two hammers with me. One is a 16 ounce Stanley, the other is a plastic Fisher Price. Which one do you think will leave the bigger mark on the things it hits? No brainer—the real hammer will do more to leave it’s mark than the toy. Now how many of you ...read more

  • Media Danger For Kids: Just-Released Medical ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
     | 2,053 views

    Media Danger For Kids: Just-released medical studies find constant exposure to media may be harmful to children. The studies link TV and video games to a host of modern youth ills, including obesity, sexual activity, consumerism, and antisocial behavior. The more TV 3rd-and-4th-graders watch, the ...read more

  • First Thing They Tell You In The Military. As You ...

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Oct 30, 2006
     | 1,454 views

    First thing they tell you in the military. As you stand at attention and they scream into your face the way they are going go change your life, the first thing they say is, “ It is time to separate the Men from the boys” Why? Because before you were just running around with your little cap gun in ...read more

  • The Porn Facts Utah Family Counselor Jill Manning ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
     | 1,396 views

    The Porn Facts Utah family counselor Jill Manning says, “I can unequivocally tell you pornography, especially Internet pornography with its violent, demeaning, or highly explicit messages, is damaging, not only for youths, but for many adults as well. Its affects on a person’s social and sexual ...read more

  • Media Danger For Kids Just-Released Medical ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
     | 1,516 views

    Media Danger For Kids Just-released medical studies find constant exposure to media may be harmful to children. The studies link TV and video games to a host of modern youth ills, including obesity, sexual activity, consumerism, and antisocial behavior. The more TV 3rd-and-4th-graders watch, the ...read more

  • Media Danger For Kids Just-Released Medical ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
     | 1,544 views

    Media Danger For Kids Just-released medical studies find constant exposure to media may be harmful to children. The studies link TV and video games to a host of modern youth ills, including obesity, sexual activity, consumerism, and antisocial behavior. The more TV 3rd-and-4th-graders watch, the ...read more

  • The Porn Facts Utah Family Counselor Jill Manning ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,884 views

    The Porn Facts Utah family counselor Jill Manning says, “I can unequivocally tell you pornography, especially Internet pornography with its violent, demeaning, or highly explicit messages, is damaging, not only for youths, but for many adults as well. Its affects on a person’s social and sexual ...read more

  • General Lee And The Bitterness Tree

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 4,696 views

    GENERAL LEE AND THE BITTERNESS TREE In his book, Lee: The Last Years, Charles Bracelen Flood reports that after the Civil War, Robert E. Lee visited a Kentucky lady, who took him to the remains of a grand old tree in front of her house. There she bitterly cried that its limbs and trunk had been ...read more

  • A Pleasing Aroma

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 30, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,987 views

    A PLEASING AROMA There was a factory in northern France where lavender for use in perfumes was produced. Each evening as the workers would head for home and walk the streets the little town, the whole village would be filled with the sweet aroma of lavender that had clung to the workers. That's ...read more

  • I Remember Seeing Some Shorts To A Movie Once ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Apr 3, 2010
     | 1,692 views

    I remember seeing some shorts to a movie once where a millionaire agrees to pay a couple a million dollars if the wife will sleep with him for one night. What would you do? The answer to that question tests your character. Impatience is often willing to sleep with the enemy to achieve it's ...read more

  • Can't Call Him A Liar

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2010
     | 4,876 views

    CAN'T CALL HIM A LIAR During quail season in Georgia, an Atlanta journalist met an old farmer hunting with an ancient pointer at his side. Twice the dog ran rheumatically ahead and pointed. Twice his master fired into the open air. When the journalist saw no birds rise, he asked the farmer for an ...read more

  • God, Can You Hear Me?

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Nov 6, 2010
     | 3,007 views

    GOD, CAN YOU HEAR ME? "My future seemed so uncertain and I was asking, 'God, can you hear me?'" I’ve got three children and ever since they were babies my wife Moira has heard every single murmur. Even now that they are 16, 12 and 7 she hears them when they call out from their beds and when she ...read more

  • Sure You Want To Win The Lottery?

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 1, 2012
     | 943 views

    SURE YOU WANT TO WIN THE LOTTERY? When William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in a 1988 lottery, one of the first things he did was try to please his family. Unfortunately, his kin was of the unfriendly sort. Post's brother hired a hit man to kill him, hoping to inherit some money. Other family ...read more

  • Church Attendance In The Usa At An All-Time Low

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 5, 2022
     | 1,108 views

    During the First Great Awakening, 20 percent of the colonial population came to Christ and joined churches. Today, less than 20 percent regularly attend church. Discussed at length in his book The American Church in Crisis, David Olson conducted research showing that only 17.5 percent of the ...read more

  • The Results Of Spiritual Blindness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,402 views

    The Results of Spiritual Blindness. On November 30, 1991 fierce winds from a freakish dust storm triggered a massive freeway pileup along Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California. At least 14 people died and dozens more were injured as topsoil whipped by 50 mile-per-hour winds reduced visibility to ...read more

  • I Used To Be Petrified Of Making ‘phone Calls; So ...  PRO

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jul 28, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,088 views

    I used to be petrified of making ‘phone calls; so it seems funny that I should later spend 5 years doing ‘phone based mortgage arrears collecting (91 to 96)! I can remember being 16 or 17, picking up the phone, knowing that I needed to dial, not knowing what I would say when the phone got answered ...read more

  • Lucian Of Samosata [115-200 Ad]: Then Proteus Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
     | 1,731 views

    Lucian of Samosata [115-200 AD]: Then Proteus was apprehended as a Christian and thrown into prison.... The Christians, regarding the affair as a great misfortune, set in motion every effort to rescue him. Then, when this was impossible, every other attention was paid him, not cursorily but ...read more

  • Advertisers And Marketers, Struggling To Keep Up ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 2,109 views

    Advertisers and Marketers, struggling to keep up with changing consumer habits, are about to make massive investments in new digital and out-of-home media platforms, forecasts research company PQ Media. Companies will spend more than $160.8 billion in ’12 (up 82% from ’08) on 18 emerging markets, ...read more

  • A Little Pre-School Girl Was At The Doctor's ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 22, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,224 views

    A little pre-school girl was at the doctor's office. When the doctor was listening to the little girl's heart through a stethoscope, he asked her, "Who do I hear in there? Is Donald Duck in there? Is Barney in there?" The little girl corrected him very seriously: "No! Jesus is in my heart; ...read more

  • Even The Toe Is Important

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
     | 2,439 views

    EVEN THE TOE IS IMPORTANT How important do you think that your toes are? They are just little calloused, smelly appendages right? Wrong. Dizzy Dean was one of the greatest pitchers of the 1930s and is honored in the Hall of Fame. But in the 1937 All-Star Game, Earl Averill lined a pitch off Dizzy ...read more