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  • Cast Your Net On The Right Side

    Contributed by Herb Pulse on Jun 28, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,663 views

    I come from a fishing family. When I became old enough to walk, I became old enough to experience the wonderful world of fishing. One of things I particularly love is throwing a shad net. Often times it becomes very draining work, and at the tender age of 12 I became the primary go-to-guy for ...read more

  • Louis Braille And The Will Of God

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Oct 15, 2019
     | 2,755 views

    I do not know if Louis Braille was a believer, but his life is an example of a sovereign God causing all things to work together for good - In the French Academy of Science there is a rather plain, old shoemaker's awl on display. The story behind the awl is quite extraordinary. To look at it, ...read more

  • There Were Three People In Heaven Who Decided One ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wayne Major on Aug 10, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 6,806 views

    There were three people in heaven who decided one day to play a round of golf at the heavenly country club. The first man stepped up to the tee, hit his drive, and watched as it headed straight for the water hazard. Just as the ball was about to land in the water, he raised his club, pointed it ...read more

  • Have You Noticed That People Are More And More ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2002
    based on 19 ratings
     | 1,984 views

    Have you noticed that people are more and more angry then ever before? Consider the following… § One anger management firm stated that “one out of every five Americans has an anger management problem.” § According to FBI statistics, there were 23,305 homicides in 1994 and the most common reason was ...read more

  • Sooner Or Later Everyone Reads Or Hears About ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 5, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,214 views

    Sooner or later everyone reads or hears about Cervantes’ story of Don Quixote. Cervantes is thrown in prison in Seville. Finding himself in the middle of a band of cutthroats he tries to divert them by telling them his story of Don Quixote, the Man of La Mancha. In the story, Quixote pictures ...read more

  • A Glimpse Of Me—communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 2, 2004
    based on 32 ratings
     | 5,577 views

    A GLIMPSE OF ME—COMMUNION MEDITATION In Mel Gibson’s Movie, “The Passion of Christ” there is an obscure detail in the crucifixion scene that probably goes unnoticed by most people, but it is a detail that says so much. When Jesus is being placed on the cross, the camera comes close to watch as ...read more

  • The Cohen Brothers And Mr. Ford  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 4, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,050 views

    The Cohen Brothers & Mr. Ford It was a sweltering August day when all three Cohen brothers entered the posh Dearborn, Michigan, offices of Henry Ford, the car maker, "Mr. Ford," announced Norman Cohen, the eldest of the three. "We have a remarkable invention that will revolutionize the automobile ...read more

  • Dr. William Sloan Coffin Of New York’s ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 11, 2000
    based on 88 ratings
     | 13,280 views

    Dr. William Sloan Coffin of New York’s Riverside Church said this in the April 20,1984 Lutheran Standard after the death of his son, Alex."The night after Alex died, I was sitting in the living room of my sister’s house outside of Boston, when a middle-aged lady came in, shook her head when she saw ...read more

  • Favorite Child

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on May 14, 2007
     | 6,421 views

    Erma Bombeck. She writes: "Every mother has a favorite child. She cannot help it. She is only human. I have mine--the child for whom I feel a special closeness, with whom I share a love that no one else could possibly understand. My favorite child is the one who was too sick to eat ice cream at ...read more

  • The Cincinnati Reds Rookie Center Fielder Josh ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 6, 2007
     | 1,001 views

    The Cincinnati Reds rookie center fielder Josh Hamilton shared his story in ESPN the magazine. How that drug addiction nearly destroyed his life. He was in rehab 8 times. When he quit using his dreams returned, but they were often dark and haunting and stayed with him long after he awoke. ...read more

  • One Time I Was Leading A Retreat For Single, ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 24, 2008
     | 1,169 views

    One time I was leading a retreat for single, middle-age people, that is people in their 40s and 50s. When I looked on the roster, there was a man I knew was 75 if he were a day, but he had signed up so I didn’t question his age. He was a regular at the church and had gone on other retreats. I ...read more

  • Unsteady Ground: Just Keep Going

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
     | 3,477 views

    UNSTEADY GROUND: JUST KEEP GOING Have you ever stepped on ground that seemed unsteady, but you really had to go on, just to get where you were going? Just recently we took a trip up to the (northern part of South Korea) Hwacho’n area and then down to the Chuncho’n areas. We stopped at a nice ...read more

  • Sandbar Faith

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
     | 3,825 views

    SANDBAR FAITH Have you ever stepped on ground that seemed unsteady, but you really had to go on, just to get where you were going? Just recently we took a trip up to the (northern part of South Korea) Hwacho'n area and then down to the Chuncho'n areas. We stopped at a nice restaurant where they ...read more

  • Heroes Who Can't Swim

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,724 views

    HEROES WHO CAN'T SWIM Paul Harvey tells the story of Ray Blankenship preparing his breakfast and gazing out the window, when he saw a small girl being swept along in the rain-flooded drainage ditch beside his Andover, Ohio, home. Blankenship knew that farther downstream, the ditch disappeared with ...read more

  • The Lost Camper: Making Yourself Available

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
     | 9,801 views

    THE LOST CAMPER: MAKING YOURSELF AVAILABLE One of my favorite sayings: "God doesn't want your capability. He only wants your availability. If you'll give Him your availability, He'll provide the capability." Availability is when you make yourself accessible for utilization. Availability is what we ...read more

  • And It Came To Pass...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
    based on 22 ratings
     | 17,204 views

    AND IT CAME TO PASS... "The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me." -- Martin Luther During a Sunday class the question was asked, "In your time of discouragement, what is your favourite Scripture?" A young man said, "The Lord is my ...read more

  • He Cried For Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 14, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,399 views

    HE CRIED FOR ME Jan, who was a young mother in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 20 years ago, tells a remarkable story from that time in her life. In a note to her pastor, she wrote: It was the end. I knew it. I could no longer fight. I sat here emotionless. I was totally alone. Others had tried to ...read more

  • Instructions Are Life Or Death

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2012
     | 4,492 views

    INSTRUCTIONS ARE LIFE OR DEATH Imagine with me if you can. You're rafting down the Ocoee, splashing through a huge rapid when all of a sudden, you find yourself flying over the front of the boat. You're tossing and turning in the waves, and your mind and body are telling you to get stabilized. Our ...read more

  • The Deadly Disease Of Sin  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Feb 11, 2013
    based on 5 ratings
     | 8,440 views

    THE DEADLY DISEASE OF SIN The Bible is very blunt about sin – it doesn’t matter how YOU grade your sin, if you don’t accept that you’ve sinned… you can’t fix the problem. It’s like a man having a deadly disease. He experiencing distressing physical problems but doesn’t KNOW he’s going to die ... ...read more

  • Love Of Money And How We Treat Others

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 22, 2025
     | 459 views

    The debate between whether having money or loving money negatively affects our character is very much alive… Paul Piff of the University of California…organized a “driver-pedestrian” experiment… “... Who is more likely to stop for pedestrians, the rich or the poor? Drivers are legally obliged to ...read more