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  • The Rapid Decline In Housing Prices Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,808 views

    The rapid decline in housing prices is distorting the normal workings of the U.S. labor market. Mobility opens up job opportunities, allowing workers to go where they are most needed. When housing is not an obstacle, more than 5 million working adults, nearly 4% of the nation’s workforce relocate ...read more

  • Our Solar System Bears Witness To Orderly, ...

    Contributed by Bruce Montgomery on Apr 28, 2008
     | 2,056 views

    Our solar system bears witness to orderly, careful design. Consider the slant of our earth, tilted at a 23° angle. If it wasn't so tilted, we would lose not only our seasons, but life itself, as the vapors from the ocean would move north and south, piling up continents of ice. Or the distance to ...read more

  • All Equal Here—communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 5, 2002
    based on 37 ratings
     | 2,217 views

    ALL EQUAL HERE- COMMUNION MEDITATION Once when the Duke of Wellington remained to take communion at his parish church, a very poor old man went up to the opposite aisle, and reaching the Communion table, knelt down close by the side of the Duke. (Immediately, tension and commotion interrupted the ...read more

  • Have You Ever Heard Of The 2nd Law Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Feb 23, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,716 views

    Have you ever heard of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics? It’s a basic Scientific Law – right up there with the Law of Gravity. One definition of it says: The entropy (disorder) of a closed system will not decrease for any sustained period of time. (That was the shortest one I found.) To put it ...read more

  • You Never Get To The Point Where Everybody ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,415 views

    "You never get to the point where everybody knows your story, where there is no more criticism. Remember, you are talking not to a crowd, but to a parade that is changing all the time. You must communicate with all the marchersyoung people are growing up, new people are assuming the burdens of ...read more

  • Waiting For Kingdom Benefits

    Contributed by Jeff Van Wyk on Mar 2, 2013
     | 3,503 views

    WAITING FOR KINGDOM BENEFITS My wife and I live in a suburban neighborhood and moved in eleven years ago. I did not spend much time in my garden because there were no trees against the fence and my neighbors could look right into the property. I went to the nursery and bought some trees. They ...read more

  • Object Lesson: Holy Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on May 25, 2009
    based on 10 ratings
     | 14,788 views

    OBJECT LESSON: HOLY SPIRIT I have a children's sermon to try to explain the Holy Spirit. It isn't original to me or to the first person I heard use it, but I think it's powerful. 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 ...read more

  • Police Officer Saves Choking ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2009
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    Police Officer Saves Choking Child Listen to the story of Les Brown, a San Diego police officer, who was driving down a new section of the interstate - Highway 5 - one day! He heard an emergency alert over his police car radio - a code blue - indicating that someone was dying! The address was ...read more

  • Hoarders And The New Birth

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 1, 2013
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    The New Birth (John 3 & 2 Cor. 5:17) "Hoarders" Have you ever watched the show, "Hoarders?" It's about people who have a hard time throwing things away. They simply collect and, eventually, the clutter overwhelms them. The thing about a hoarder is that, unless there is a change within, the ...read more

  • God, You're In My Way.  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2012
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    "GOD, YOU'RE IN MY WAY." A California pastor, Kyle Idleman, talks about his last move in his book, Not a Fan. In that move, he saved the heaviest piece of furniture for last -- the desk from his office. And as he was pushing and pulling the desk with all his might, his four-year-old son came over ...read more

  • Anxiety Is A Dud

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2010
     | 3,693 views

    ANXIETY IS A DUD What's worse than being trapped behind prison bars? Trying to live while avoiding capture. Sergei was a Latvian prison convict with ten months left to serve on his seven-year burglary sentence, when he decided to escape. But even after years of freedom, the escapee couldn't ...read more

  • Flower ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    FLOWER MIX-UP A bank in Binghamton, New York, sent some flowers to a competitor who had recently moved into a new building. There was a mix up at the flower shop, and the card sent with the arrangement read, "With our deepest sympathy." The florist, very embarrassed, apologized. But it was worse, ...read more

  • Warren Wiersbe Tells A Story Of When He Was A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,371 views

    Warren Wiersbe tells a story of when he was a young man preaching on the last days with all the events of prophecy clearly laid out and perfectly planned. At the end of the service an older gentleman came up to him and whispered in his ear, “I used to have the Lord’s return planned out ...read more

  • The End?

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 28, 2008
     | 2,862 views

    The End? Death, through our eyes, is 'the end.' It is that image of watching an old movie which concludes when the words "THE END" comes up on the screen. We conclude that the movie is over, and we move on either in laughter or tears. Jesus presents a different picture. He doesn't call it ...read more

  • The Dead Rat

    Contributed by Paul Steen on Dec 11, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,603 views

    A boy ran into his house to tell his mom something. He had a dead rat in his hand. But he didn't notice that the pastor of their church was talking to his mom. The boy said, “Mom, you'll never guess what! I was out behind the garage and there was this rat. I picked up a rock and threw it and hit ...read more

  • Boat In The Storm

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Oct 27, 2019
     | 5,249 views

    ILLUS: BOAT THRU THE STORM Imagine you’re in a small boat and a sudden storm comes up. The sky is dark the wind is howling; the waves are raging. All of a sudden there are 20-foot swells and your boat is being tossed like a twig in a stream, one minute you are at the bottom of the swell the next ...read more

  • As Abraham Lincoln Prepared To Sign The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 21, 2009
     | 2,771 views

    As Abraham Lincoln prepared to sign the Emancipation Proclamation, he took his pen, moved it to the signature line, paused for a moment, and then dropped the pen. When asked why, the president replied, "If my name goes into history, it will be for this act, and if my hand trembles when I sign it, ...read more

  • Jesus' Words

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,133 views

    JESUS’ WORDS There is a hopefulness in life as we hear and become empowered by Jesus’ words. A Sunday School teacher illustrated this concept of hopefulness in life by drawing on the blackboard two pathways. In the middle of one she placed a large rock, covering the entire path. At the end of ...read more

  • In The Days Before Connecticut Became A State, ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Apr 1, 2007
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    In the days before Connecticut became a state, the colonial legislature was in session when a thick black cloud blocked out the sunlight. Someone shouted, "It is the day of judgment! Let us go home and get ready!" But one member of the legislature, who happened to be an old church deacon, stood ...read more

  • In The Days Before Connecticut ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on May 6, 2007
     | 1,587 views

    Illustration: In the days before Connecticut became a state, the colonial Legislature was in session when a thick black cloud blocked out the sunlight. Someone shouted, “It is the Day of Judgment! Let’s go home and get ready!” But another member of the Legislature, who happened to be a deacon ...read more