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  • The Nature Of Unbelief

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 21, 2009
     | 5,878 views

    The Nature of Unbelief In Ernest Hemmingway’s Green Hills of Africa, he hunts for sable. He shoots a large chestnut-colored cow, and then sees an immense black bull, which he shoots but badly. He finds the cow, but he and his team of trackers and porters search all day for the bull. The language ...read more

  • A Young Boy By The Name Of James Had A Desire To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 28 ratings
     | 4,917 views

    A young boy by the name of James had a desire to be the most famous manufacturer and salesman of cheese in the world. He planned on becoming rich and famous by making and selling cheese and began with a little buggy pulled by a pony named Paddy. After making his cheese, he would load his wagon and ...read more

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

    Contributed by Wayne Major on Aug 10, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 6,583 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
     | 1,916 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
     | 4,978 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
     | 5,471 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
     | 2,925 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

  • The Cost His Father Paid

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Mar 24, 2007
     | 2,102 views

    A young boy had to feed his father every day when he came home from school. His father had been so injured and couldn’t do many things for himself and to help with things the mother gave him one job to do and that was to feed his father every day, once a day. But on this particular day, the boy, ...read more

  • Mother Teresa Was A 18-Year-Old Yugoslavian Girl ...  PRO

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Apr 1, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,325 views

    Mother Teresa was a 18-year-old Yugoslavian girl named Agnes Bojaxhiu (boy-AX-ee-oo) when she left home to become a nun. Over the next 20 years, she taught middle-class high school students, and was often described by her colleagues as “average.” She felt God calling her in 1946 to serve India’s ...read more

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

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 11, 2000
    based on 88 ratings
     | 13,222 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
     | 6,202 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

  • Final Week

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,273 views

    Final week The mother of a nine-year-old boy named Mark received a phone call in the middle of the afternoon. It was the teacher from her son’s school. "Mrs. Smith, something unusual happened today in your son’s third grade class. Your son did something that surprised me so much that I thought you ...read more

  • The Cincinnati Reds Rookie Center Fielder Josh ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 6, 2007
     | 946 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
     | 1,111 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

  • This Past Week I Heard A Man Named Paul Peck ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Feb 14, 2008
     | 1,362 views

    This past week I heard a man named Paul Peck speak. He talked about watching the riots in Los Angeles in April of 1992 following the acquittal of the four white officers who beat Rodney King. Paul watched in horror as African Americans burned down their own communities and businesses, but instead ...read more

  • Unsteady Ground: Just Keep Going

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
     | 3,385 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

  • The Lost Camper: Making Yourself Available

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
     | 9,435 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 21 ratings
     | 16,410 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
     | 3,297 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
     | 4,347 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