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  • What Is Your Colt?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2003
    based on 49 ratings
     | 6,612 views

    WHAT IS YOUR COLT? Bill Wilson pastors an inner city church in New York City. His mission field is a very violent place. He himself has been stabbed twice as he ministered to the people of the community surrounding the church. Once a Puerto Rican woman became involved in the church and was led to ...read more

  • What Is Your Colt?  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Apr 14, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,771 views

    What is Your Colt? Bill Wilson pastors an inner city church in New York City. His mission field is a very violent place. He himself has been stabbed twice as he ministered to the people of the community surrounding the church. Once a Puerto Rican woman became involved in the church and was led to ...read more

  • Danny Was Born With No Ears. He Could Hear All ...  PRO

    Contributed by Nate Barbour on Oct 17, 2003
    based on 48 ratings
     | 2,508 views

    Danny was born with no ears. He could hear all right, but he didn’t have ears like normal people. All his life, Danny endured ridicule and rejection because of his deformity. But he learned to live with it. Thankfully, he had loving parents and a strong family to sustain him. When Danny was in high ...read more

  • Receiving Signal  PRO

    Contributed by Tylor Cates on Jan 24, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
     | 3,641 views

    Receiving Signal Prop: A cell phone In our church we have a 5-minute kid story in the big church before we take the kids over to the Junior Church so I’ll tell you how I did it and you can adapt it to your needs. Good morning boys and girls today I’m going to teach you an important lesson. (I ...read more

  • The If/Then Of Easter  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 7, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
     | 7,769 views

    THE IF/THEN OF EASTER It’s Easter time. Time to eat all the candy and marshmallow eggs. Time to pig out. There’s gotta be a nicer word for pig out. A euphemism, as it were. Hey, try to think up a nicer word for euphemism. And while you’re at it, think up a shorter word for abbreviation. And a ...read more

  • If You Are Going To Be Jesus' Apprentice Only ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,026 views

    If you are going to be Jesus’ apprentice only one essential condition must be met: you must spend time with the person you are mentoring. You can’t do discipleship at arms length or through distance learning. Most Christians don’t think in terms of this lifestyle of apprenticeship. They spend ...read more

  • Jack Was A Man Whose Whole Life Fell Apart In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,240 views

    Jack was a man whose whole life fell apart in the span of about a year. His wife left him because he was a workaholic. His 15 year old daughter left home, his college age son dropped out of school, and the business he had built up collapsed around him. His business partner turned against him. And ...read more

  • Gladys Aylward (1902-1970)

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 3, 2007
     | 3,001 views

    Gladys Aylward (1902-1970) As a teenager, Gladys read a magazine article about China that changed her life. She kept thinking about the millions of people in that distant land who had not yet heard of God’s love. She knew she had to tell them. To do this, she was told, she would have to go to ...read more

  • Stephen Boissoin, Is The Director Of The Alberta ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 22, 2007
     | 1,396 views

    Stephen Boissoin, is the director of the Alberta Youth Outreach Foundations “Cave” youth centre initiatives. In 2002, he was investigating funding opportunities for his ministry on the Alberta Human Rights Commission’s website. “To my disbelief” he states, “I came across a page that highlighted an ...read more

  • Christian Code Of Conduct  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 3, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,526 views

    CHRISTIAN CODE OF CONDUCT We should all commit ourselves to a code of conduct that glorifies the Lord no matter where we are at in life. Why? Because it will benefit those around us and make God look good. Here are few dimensions to the Christian Code of Conduct: (This code was adapted from a ...read more

  • Victory Hill

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 30, 2009
     | 4,319 views

    VICTORY HILL Remember, our plotting is unfinished, but God’s training and strength-conditioning is already there for us. I want to talk about this chastising, sometimes translated as punishing, and which I have translated as "training." I have something in mind. The Hebrew verb means to provide ...read more

  • Financial Wow Miracle

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 10, 2009
     | 3,258 views

    FINANCIAL WOW MIRACLE Lake City Church - Madison -- God does a financial wow miracle. They were four days away from having to make their quarterly payment of $140,000 for their mortgage. Pastor John Ruck meets with all the finance wizards - bankers, Cpa's, business men. They asked him "How are you ...read more

  • The Golden Rule And The Holocaust  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,584 views

    THE GOLDEN RULE AND THE HOLOCAUST Living the Golden Rule is pretty simple isn’t it? It’s just being considerate, mindful, and thoughtful but sometimes to live the Golden Rule requires great moral courage. It requires a willingness to sacrifice. In March of 1943, Bulgaria which had aligned with ...read more

  • When Life Is Hard… Never Give ...

    Contributed by David Rumley on Oct 28, 2009
     | 3,839 views

    When life is hard… never give up… • Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded. • Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him hopeless as a composer. • Colonel Sanders had ...read more

  • How Basketball Weighed In On Racial ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2010
     | 3,571 views

    How Basketball Weighed in on Racial Integration On Friday we watched the film, Glory Road, the 1966 story of how the integrated Texas Western basketball team defeated Adolph Rupp’s all-white Kentucky Wildcats. At a time when schools in the Southeastern Conference refused scholarships to black ...read more

  • Anna's Stories

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,230 views

    ANNA'S STORIES A thirty-four-year-old German woman named Anna Rosmus recently told the tragic story of what happened in her hometown in Germany during World War II. Speaking at Carson-Newman College in Tennessee, she told of growing up in Passau, Germany, years after the war. As a teenager, she ...read more

  • True Unity  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 11,731 views

    TRUE UNITY Unity is not simply an intellectual exercise. We can believe the same things, recite the same creeds, belong to the same denomination, but that does not mean we have unity. In his book Soul Talk, Larry Crabb writes: "Which is worse? A church program to build community that doesn’t ...read more

  • You Promised Me  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on May 6, 2013
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,772 views

    "YOU PROMISED ME" Love always perseveres. Love never Fails. In 1989, an 8.2 earthquake almost flattened Armenia, killing over 30,000 people in less than four minutes. Surprisingly, such tragedies often bring out the best in people. Let me show you the loving heart of a father. In the midst of ...read more

  • Randy Frazee Has Written A Book Called "The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 20, 2002
    based on 25 ratings
     | 2,896 views

    Randy Frazee has written a book called "The Connecting Church." He has a son who was born without a left hand. One day in Sunday School the teacher was talking with the children about the church. To illustrate her point she folded her hands together and said, “Here’s the church, here’s the ...read more

  • The Comedian Jeff Foxworthy Became Famous With ...  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Apr 21, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 3,010 views

    The comedian Jeff Foxworthy became famous with his routine, "You might be a redneck if . . . " Here are some of my favorites:  You might be a redneck if the directions to your house include the phrase "turn off the paved road".  You might be a redneck if your front porch ...read more