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  • Last Lecture

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 2, 2008
     | 2,530 views

    LAST LECTURE You may have heard about the death of 47 year old Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor Randy Pausch last week from pancreatic cancer. Pausch was most famous for his "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" speech made last fall just after he learned he had months to ...read more

  • Just As You Are  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,542 views

    JUST AS YOU ARE Jesus affirms that many would come to Him in faith and partake of Him as the Bread of Life, because of the Father. Man’s blindness does not keep God’s grace from working. When they come, they find that God does not turn them away nor cast them away later. CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT learned ...read more

  • Amazed By Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
     | 3,403 views

    AMAZED BY JESUS Many years ago – in the confines of a barracks room, a young sailor decided not to go out partying with his friends. He invested that evening reading the Bible - very specifically – reading the Gospel of John. The room was mostly dark except for the light of the little study desk ...read more

  • Charles Oakley On Tenacity

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 14, 2009
     | 1,569 views

    CHARLES OAKLEY ON TENACITY Charles Oakley, forward for the New York Knicks and an NBA All-Star, has a reputation for being one of basketball’s best rebounders. It’s his toughness, however, that has probably contributed the most to his outstanding sports career. While other professional players ...read more

  • Grace Never Loses Its ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2009
     | 4,731 views

    Grace Never Loses Its Value A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.” He proceeded to crumple the ...read more

  • Don't Just Know Scripture—let It Change You

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 16, 2010
     | 1,811 views

    DON'T JUST KNOW SCRIPTURE--LET IT CHANGE YOU A father shared an experience he and his wife had with their young children. They began as a family to memorize Scripture, one verse a week. They kept the verses on cards in the middle of the table, and discussed their meanings when they recited the. ...read more

  • Love Me First, Then Witness To Me

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 28, 2010
     | 3,529 views

    LOVE ME FIRST, THEN WITNESS TO ME In our lesson we have seen that faith without works is useless. It cannot be demonstrated, it cannot change a person, it is not perfected, and it is dead! Our faith does not help us, or others, until it causes us to act. Once a chaplain walked up to a wounded ...read more

  • Tougher Pastures

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 2, 2010
     | 1,785 views

    TOUGHER PASTURES For our own good God will not let us stay too comfortable! As unlikely as it sounds, the birth of a giraffe teaches us a similar lesson. When a baby giraffe is born it drops 10 feet to the ground and lands on its back. Within seconds, it rolls to an upright position with its ...read more

  • Mom-Isms From Biblical ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 14, 2010
     | 2,131 views

    Mom-isms from Biblical moms: a. There has been some commonality through the years when it comes to motherhood let’s look at just a few Bible mom’s and imagine what they had to deal with and how they handled raising their children. ILL Notebook: Mother (Great Sayings of Biblical Mothers). In fact, ...read more

  • The Durability Test

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Jan 8, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,876 views

    THE DURABILITY TEST Endurance is a quality that God expects us to manifest. If you go to an IKEA store, you will find somewhere in the chair department a glass box with what is called the durability test. They have a mechanism that simulates someone sitting on the chair, and they say the chair was ...read more

  • Do Whatever The Champion Does

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 24, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,362 views

    DO WHATEVER THE CHAMPION DOES In 1976, Finland’s Lasse Viren made Olympic history when he became the first man to win both the 5,000 and 10,000 meter races in successive Olympiads. After his victory, his coach decided to take on the record of the legendary Emil Zatopek. Earlier in the century at ...read more

  • God, Send Us Bigger Rattlesnakes  PRO

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 26, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,811 views

    GOD, SEND US BIGGER RATTLESNAKES There was a farmer who had three sons: Jim, John, and Sam. No one in the family ever attended church or had time for God. The pastor and church members tried for years to interest the family in the things of God, but to no avail. Then one day, a rattlesnake bit ...read more

  • Totally Submerged In The Plan

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Mar 22, 2019
     | 4,049 views

    WE NEED TO BELIEVE GOD TO BE CALLED OUT, SET ASIDE, TO HEAR THE CALL OF GOD TO BE FAITHFUL, A PECULIAR PEOPLE… 1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his ...read more

  • Why Its Called An Idiot Light

    Contributed by Larry Hinkle on Jun 12, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,584 views

    Six months after I bought my first car, the "service engine" light came on. I called my dad from college, "What does that service engine light mean? Can I still drive it, or do I need to fix something?" He chuckled and said, it was an idiot light, "It is set to trigger ...read more

  • Like A Glove

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 23, 2022
     | 1,511 views

    Here’s a story of how I explain the Holy Spirit in us to children. I take an empty glove and tell the kids that it's a magic glove. I tell them it is amazing because it can pick things up. Then, I drop it on a hymn book or Bible and tell it to pick up the book. When it doesn't move, I ...read more

  • An Illustration About Ephesians 2:9

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Jun 30, 2022
     | 1,008 views

    The author of this illustration is G. M. Landis. I have no idea who this person is or was. I had bought a Bible at a thrift store and the piece of paper with this illustration was inside the front cover (this was a hardcover Bible). The illustration itself appears to have been written for a daily ...read more

  • You Are Your Own Worst Enemy.

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jun 26, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,271 views

    "Cain slew Abel, but Cain’s worst enemy was himself". - R E Neighbour “There is an old Icelandic legend that contains its own lesson. There was a man who was constantly pursued by a terrible spirit which took the form of a dwarf. His grain ricks were fired, his barns unroofed, his ...read more

  • In God's Time

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 20, 2023
     | 1,404 views

    The little boy walked home from Sunday School and the family were sitting around the old pot-bellied stove talking. The boy told his dad and Pa about the lesson. The boy was so excited. He told them he had gone to the altar and accepted Jesus as his personal Savior. The boy said he was going to ...read more

  • There Were Two Churches Of Christ In The Small ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,479 views

    There were two Churches of Christ in the small north Texas town. The church where I ministered had split from the older church years before over some petty differences. I was beginning a sermon series on the "One-another" passages of the Bible, when Gabe, a former elder, got up and walked up to ...read more

  • No Room Giving?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Nov 26, 2022
     | 837 views

    NO ROOM… THE SAD STORY CONTINUES… In the early 70’s Linda and I were at my Mom and Dad’s for Christmas. We had no children. My Dad pastored 65 years, 42 in Frankfort, Ky. There were 5 of us children. We had a traditional spot where we all sat around the tree. Mom, my wife and my sister distributed ...read more

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