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  • Mickey Mantle's Salvation Story

    Contributed by Tom Feola on Feb 4, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,469 views

    MICKEY MANTLE'S SALVATION STORY The #7 is for the Mick, or Mickey Mantle, who played for the New York Yankees.    Why do I bring this out about Mickey Mantle.  Well 1st of all without a team playing with Him Mick would have won zero World Series.  But because of a team effort Mickey played in 12 ...read more

  • Go With The Flow  PRO

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Feb 12, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,344 views

    6. YOU TRUST HIM WITH WHATEVER IS TROUBLING YOU. Anybody having anything trouble you these days? It’s probably part of God’s sense of humor that I went on a whale-watching trip this week, the week we start learning about Jonah. PICTURE OF WHALE TALE I’ve been on whale-watching tours only twice ...read more

  • Go With The Flow

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Feb 12, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,140 views

    6. YOU TRUST HIM WITH WHATEVER IS TROUBLING YOU. Anybody having anything trouble you these days? It’s probably part of God’s sense of humor that I went on a whale-watching trip this week, the week we start learning about Jonah. PICTURE OF WHALE TALE I’ve been on whale-watching tours only twice ...read more

  • Dead Poets Society Is, I Think, One Of The Best ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Jack on Mar 8, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,366 views

    Dead Poets Society is, I think, one of the best films of all time. In his first lesson with his senior class, the rather eccentric but very inspiring English teacher John Keating, played by Robin Williams, takes the boys into the foyer outside the classroom where he asks one lad by the name of ...read more

  • The Lesson Of "Gee" And "Haw"

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 17, 2003
     | 2,472 views

    THE LESSON OF "GEE" AND "HAW" Amos 3: 3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed? In 1974 it was my first year teaching school in Lee County, Virginia. To better know my students, I made home visits. I had 44 students all day long. Wow, no wonder I thought about quitting? I had a student named ...read more

  • Stay On Your Job And Work For The Lord

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Oct 6, 2007
     | 902 views

    STAY ON YOUR JOB AND WORK FOR THE LORD You have to stay on your job and work for the Lord. You can’t work for the Devil at night and for the Lord in the day. He don’t give no part time pay, you have to work night and day. You have to stay on your job to work for the Lord. You have to stay on your ...read more

  • Americans Are Sleeping Less Than They Did 20 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 3,357 views

    Americans Are Sleeping Less than they did 20 years ago, and about 50 to 70 million people nationwide suffer from chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders, reports the CDC. 10% of adults report not getting enough rest or sleep in any of the previous 30 days. Only 29.6% say they got enough rest or ...read more

  • Just Enough Strength To Make It Go

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
     | 1,935 views

    JUST ENOUGH STRENGTH TO MAKE IT GO "One hot day, Herman Trueblood, all clean and cooled off by a nice swim in the ocean, saw a sweating man and his two sons trying on a hot day to push a disabled car up an incline. Two voices started yelling at each other inside him. One said, "There is an ...read more

  • Enough To Make The Thing Go

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
     | 1,317 views

    ENOUGH TO MAKE THE THING GO One hot day, Herman Trueblood, all clean and cooled off by a nice swim in the ocean, saw a sweating man and his two sons trying on a hot day to push a disabled car up an incline. Two voices started yelling at each other inside him. One said, "There is an opportunity for ...read more

  • Why Don't They Let Him In?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
     | 4,475 views

    WHY DON'T THEY LET HIM IN? A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son. Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen, and when the small boy came in from ...read more

  • History Remembers John Joseph Mcgraw Primarily As ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,883 views

    History remembers John Joseph McGraw primarily as the famed and ferocious longtime manager of the New York Giants. But as unrelenting as McGraw was as a manager during the first three decades of the 20th century, he had been even more unrelenting as a player in the 1890s. It was an era of dirty ...read more

  • Misapplied Scriptures: Genesis 6:3

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Sep 14, 2023
     | 1,050 views

    Introduction: There is any number of Scriptures that have been used out of context or simply misapplied over the years. A Christian magazine listed about a dozen of these back in the early 1980’s and, I must say, some of the author’s insights were something I had never thought of before. Maybe I ...read more

  • Where Does Santa Get His Naughty Or Nice List?

    Contributed by James Snyder on Dec 14, 2019
     | 2,459 views

    This week the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage approached me with a serious question. As far as I am concerned, life is full of questions, but coming from her, I need to be very careful. I have found out that a question with her is not merely a question. It can be a whole lot more than that ...read more

  • I Wish I Had Torn It To Pieces  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,728 views

    “I WISH I HAD TORN IT TO PIECES” On December 26, 2002, Jack Whittaker’s life changed forever Jack had grown up in West Virginia and he knew that it was like to be poor. At the age of 55 all of that had changed. It had changed with a lot of hard work and perseverance. He had managed to scrape ...read more

  • On Shepherds

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 28, 2009
     | 7,443 views

    ON SHEPHERDS "Let me tell you a bit about shepherds. They were the last people you’d expect God to take notice of. First of all, they were religious outcasts. According to Jewish religious law, these men were unclean. Their line of work prevented them from participating in the feasts and holy days ...read more

  • What Do Thanksgiving, Easter, Pentecost, Memorial ...

    Contributed by David Vanheuvelen on Nov 24, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,293 views

    What do Thanksgiving, Easter, Pentecost, Memorial Day, Labor Day, etc. have in common? They are all holidays which fall not on a specific date, like, December 25 or July 4, but they fall on the “first Monday”, “fourth Thursday”, “fifty days after….” You see what I mean? Thanksgiving Day has a ...read more

  • Ants, Ants, Ants, Where's The Uncles

    Contributed by James Snyder on Mar 27, 2021
     | 1,724 views

    I have learned in my life that the small things are the ones that get you down. You would think the big things are the ones to steal most of your time. But those big things call attention to themselves from the very beginning. You know they're there, you know you have to do something about it, ...read more

  • Making An Impact Through Genuine Giving

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
     | 2,570 views

    MAKING AN IMPACT THROUGH GENUINE GIVING I received this e-mail from my best friend who pastors in Oklahoma. He received it from a member of his congregation. Andrew, I just wanted to let you know how excited I am about the changes in Christmas plans. I would love to be at the pampering night for ...read more

  • The Resurrection Of The Dead  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 26, 2003
    based on 46 ratings
     | 7,535 views

    The Resurrection of the Dead Avijah Powers felt moderately sure nobody would recognize him when he registered under an assumed name at the little inn. It was more than twenty years since he had left the town--a hard, reckless boy, running away from a good father and a devoted mother because he ...read more

  • Count Your Blessings—no, Really!

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2008
     | 5,061 views

    Count Your Blessings--No, Really! It was a typical Indiana spring day. Outside the house, it was raining. Inside the house...it was raining. Water slowly dripped from the ceiling, reminding me that when you replace your own roof, there's nobody to get mad at when it leaks. I should be a pretty ...read more