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  • Metamorphosis

    Contributed by Richard L. Brown on Mar 1, 2025
     | 368 views

    I thought of a book I read years ago in German class. We were assigned the task of reading the Famous Novel by Franz Kafka entitled “The Metamorphosis”. It was about a young man who woke up one day and realized he had been transformed into, of all things, a large Roach. The story line of the ...read more

  • Are Homemade Cookies Addictive?

    Contributed by James Snyder on Aug 8, 2020
     | 1,977 views

    Some people say we are living in the "new normal." I'm not sure exactly what they mean, and I don't have the time to ask, nor the desire. If the "new normal" is what I have been experiencing in the parsonage for the last several months, I'm all for it. Let it ...read more

  • Buddy Is What History Has Called A "Yellow Dog ...

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Nov 24, 2008
     | 1,667 views

    Buddy is what history has called a “Yellow Dog Democrat.” He would never disagree with that statement. He never has had anything good to say about any Republican that has ever held office. In fact the word “Republican” is almost always uttered with an expletive of one form or another. If a ...read more

  • Obituaries  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 14, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,285 views

    OBITUARIES Jeruselem 33 AD Calvary Jesus Christ, 33, of Nazareth died Friday on Mount Calvary, also known as Golgotha, the place of the skull. Betrayed by Judas, Jesus was crucified by the Romans, by order of the Ruler Pontius Pilate. The causes of death were extreme exhaustion, severe torture, ...read more

  • My Brother Served His First Parish In Massillion, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 12, 2000
    based on 185 ratings
     | 12,507 views

    My brother served his first parish in Massillion, Ohio, as an associate pastor, with the late Pastor Maurice "Mo" White. Pastor White was a very large, strong and vibrant man. During one Lenten season, one of the older, but faithful members of the church came with her husband to an evening Lenten ...read more

  • My Brother Served His First Parish In Massillion, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Feb 25, 2001
    based on 154 ratings
     | 2,153 views

    My brother served his first parish in Massillion, Ohio, as an associate pastor, with the late Pastor Maurice "Mo" White. Pastor White was a very large, strong and vibrant man. During one Lenten season, one of the older, but faithful members of the church came with her husband to an evening Lenten ...read more

  • These Days, However, Even Scientists Are ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 4, 2001
    based on 81 ratings
     | 2,308 views

    These days, however, even scientists are questioning the validity of the theory of evolution. In his book, Beside Still Waters: Searching for Meaning in an Age of Doubt, Award-winning journalist Gregg Easterbrook, writes: If the Big Bang had been slightly less violent, the expansion of the universe ...read more

  • Not Why, But What  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2001
    based on 91 ratings
     | 2,446 views

    NOT WHY, BUT WHAT Technically speaking, David Ring was born dead. Quick acting medical personnel were able to get him breathing, but oxygen deprivation left him with cerebral palsy. He suffered from a speech impediment, hands that don’t cooperate, and a limp. As if that wasn’t enough adversity for ...read more

  • What Is A Mother?  PRO

    Contributed by Jan Spencer on Mar 19, 2002
    based on 71 ratings
     | 4,863 views

    WHAT IS A MOTHER? Somewhere between the youthful energy of a teenager and the golden years of a woman’s life, there lives a marvelous and loving person known as "Mother." A mother is a curious mixture of patience, kindness, understanding, discipline, industriousness, purity and love. A mother ...read more

  • Missing The Point  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Mar 30, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 5,014 views

    Missing The Point Isn’t it amazing how sometimes we get all tangled up with the words we speak and end up not being clear about what we’re trying to say? Back when I was in high school I had a poster that read, "I know you think you understand what I said, but what you don’t understand is that ...read more

  • 300,000 Visits For Myself  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 2,672 views

    300,000 VISITS FOR MYSELF Jimmy Carter, in his autobiography WHY NOT THE BEST? shared an incident that made him aware of his lack of evangelical fervor. Each year the congregation of Plains Baptist Church holds a one-week revival service. In preparation for the week, the leaders of the ...read more

  • Let The Walls Come Down!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,396 views

    LET THE WALLS COME DOWN! One of the greatest all-time blunders in history took place in East Germany. Erich Honecker, the iron-fisted East German leader, stepped down due to an illness and was replaced by a reformer, Egon Krenz. Just before a news conference, with mass demonstrations in Berlin ...read more

  • Live Churches Verse Dead Churches! (Adapted, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jul 10, 2003
    based on 12 ratings
     | 2,384 views

    LIVE CHURCHES VERSE DEAD CHURCHES! (adapted, WRITER UNKNOWN) Live churches constantly change, --- dead churches resist and refuse change... Live churches love to try, dead churches feel they don’t have to... Live churches have youth that are noisy and can’t be still, dead churches are very ...read more

  • There Is The Story Of Four Pastors Who Gathered ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 29, 2005
    based on 25 ratings
     | 3,697 views

    [There is the story of four pastors who gathered for coffee every Monday morning for a time of reflecting together how each one’s ministry was doing. One pastor shared with the group that he was having quite a problem with bats gathering in the church bell tower and wanted help in finding ways to ...read more

  • On Sunday Evening, January 27, 2002, Olympic ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Apr 22, 2007
     | 967 views

    On Sunday evening, January 27, 2002, Olympic gymnasts Mary Lou Retton-Kelley, Kerri Strug, and Bart Conner appeared on the Celebrity version of the TV Reality-Game Show “The Weakest Link,” along with five other famous Olympic athletes. ...read more

  • How Many Of You Know The Name Paul Aurandt? He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,896 views

    How many of you know the name Paul Aurandt? He also has an alias. You know him as Paul Harvey. He has published books about The Rest of the Story (Bantam) and More of Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story (Morrow). Stories built around the surprise ending format have been compiled into books that ...read more

  • In More Jesus, Less Religion, Steve Arterburn ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 23, 2007
     | 1,575 views

    In More Jesus, Less Religion, Steve Arterburn writes: “Some time ago, I read about the work of a Wycliffe Bible translator in a remote village in Papua New Guinea. When the opening chapters of Genesis were first translated into the native language, the attitude toward women in the tribe changed ...read more

  • Ministry As A Jockey

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Nov 10, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,248 views

    And when we, when people discover the power of the resurrection of Jesus, this affects how we approach life, how we live. Many of us have heard of Darren Beadman. His is one of the celebrity jockeys, in one year the horses he rode earnt $9.6 million dollars. In 1990 and 1996 he rode Melbourne Cup ...read more

  • Just As Knowing Christ Holds The Most Important ...

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Dec 13, 2007
     | 1,632 views

    Just as knowing Christ holds the most important place in becoming a Christian, we must also have heard ourselves about the love and joy of Christ. Since we have heard and accepted Christ, so others must hear and accept Christ so that they too can become a part of the fellowship of God. A major part ...read more

  • Is Islam The Fastest-Growing Religion? Guess ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 21, 2008
     | 1,203 views

    Is Islam the Fastest-Growing Religion? Guess Again by Dinesh D’Souza Many people think Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world. Not true. Islam is growing fast, but Christianity is growing faster. Indeed there are twice as many Christians as Muslims in the world today and the gap is ...read more