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  • Folks I'd Like To Introduce The Legendary Johnny ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Feb 28, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 1,838 views

    Folks I’d like to introduce the legendary Johnny Cash and his famous song—A Boy Named Sue. (Singer with guitar sings song) My daddy left home when I was three And he didn’t leave much to ma and me Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. Now, I don’t blame him cause he run and hid But ...read more

  • Go Back And Tell Them Again  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,952 views

    GO BACK AND TELL THEM AGAIN Jesus said "Follow me and I will make you Fishers of Men." In a book entitled "Jungle Harvest," written by a missionary named Ruby Scott, she describes some of her experiences in reaching a people group known as the Tila Indians who lived in a remote village in the ...read more

  • The Meanest Man In Texas

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 5, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,070 views

    THE MEANEST MAN IN TEXAS Let's finish with the true and amazing story of Clyde Thompson. Clyde's father was a Bible salesman, but when he was old enough to stay home alone, he began refusing to go to church with the rest of the family. Most Sundays, while his family was in church, Clyde was ...read more

  • Cool Water

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 4, 2003
     | 2,560 views

    A. "Cool Water" - Sons of the Pioneers "All day I face the barren waste Without the taste of water, cool water. Old Dan and I with throats burned dry ...read more

  • The Writers Only Responsibility Is To His Art. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 1,535 views

    "The writers only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ...read more

  • I Met In The Street A Very Poor Young Man Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,327 views

    "I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed ...read more

  • The Root Of Sin Is Selfishness—‘i Will' And Not ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Feb 19, 2009
     | 2,429 views

    “The root of sin is selfishness—‘I will’ and not ‘Thy will’” (Warren W. Wiersbe, Warren Wiersbe’s “Be” Series: Old & New Testaments, as found in ...read more

  • Patience Makes It Happen  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Nov 10, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 5,135 views

    PATIENCE MAKES IT HAPPEN "The history books are full of stories of gifted persons whose talents were overlooked by a procession of people until someone believed in them. To name a few ... "Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read". Einstein became one of ...read more

  • 22 Percent Of Married Men And 14 Percent Of ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Mar 30, 2006
     | 1,320 views

    22 percent of married men and 14 percent of married women have strayed at least once during their married lives. -Source: Associated Press According to a 2005 study by Keynote, an Internet industry research firm 30 percent of online daters are married or live with a significant other. In 2002, ...read more

  • What Would You Say?

    Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Dec 16, 2010
     | 3,203 views

    WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? A number of years ago a couple traveled to the offices of an Adoption Society in England to receive a baby. They had been on the waiting list a long time. They had been interviewed and carefully scrutinized. Now at last their dreams were to be fulfilled. But their day of ...read more

  • A Cub Scout's Father

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 9, 2011
     | 3,032 views

    A CUB SCOUT'S FATHER Gilbert was an eight year old in Cub Scouts. Each member of the club had to build a wooden car. It could only be 20cm long. Everyone was given a block of wood, some wheels and some instructions. Gilbert didn't have a dad to help him. So mum read the instructions and Gilbert ...read more

  • Make It Your Aim Not To Sin

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 24, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,351 views

    MAKE IT YOUR AIM NOT TO SIN The whole purpose of John's letter, he says, is that we not sin. One day as I was studying this chapter I realized that my personal life's objective regarding holiness was less than that of John's. He was saying, in effect, "Make it your aim not to sin." As I thought ...read more

  • Last Night At Youth We Watched Pay It ...

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on May 20, 2008
     | 1,903 views

    Last night at youth we watched Pay it Forward. Anyone watched Pay it Forward? I won’t tell you the entire story but the concept of the story is centred around a young boy who begins High School and his teacher gives him a project. The project is that he is to do something to change the world. The ...read more

  • The Last Supper By Leonardo Da Vinci

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 21, 2025
     | 226 views

    Story: Leonardo da Vinci took seven years to paint his famous picture the "Last Supper". He used living people to depict the figures representing the Twelve Apostles and Christ. He started the fresco with Jesus Christ himself. It is reputed that he viewed hundreds and hundreds of ...read more

  • I Once Read Of A Little Boy Who Used To Escape ...  PRO

    Contributed by N A on Apr 25, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,080 views

    I once read of a little boy who used to escape his bedroom after being punished. He would crawl out of his bedroom window down an old fruit tree to the ground. One day, his father told him that he was going to chop down the fruit tree, because it hadn’t borne any fruit for a number of years. That ...read more

  • I Can Still Drive!!  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Cassara on Sep 8, 2001
    based on 173 ratings
     | 2,670 views

    I CAN STILL DRIVE!! At a nursing home in Florida, a resident group was discussing ailments: "My arms are so weak I can hardly lift this cup of coffee," said one. "Yes, I know, my cataracts are so bad I can’t even see my coffee," replied another. "I can’t turn my head because of the arthritis in my ...read more

  • One In Five People Have An Std (American ...  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Tonkinson on Jul 11, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,092 views

    1. One in five people have an STD (American Social Health Association) 2. 2/3 of all STD’s occur in people who are 25 years old or younger. (ASHA) 3. Atleast 15% of all infertile women in America are infertile because of tubal damage caused by PID or Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, which is the result ...read more

  • I Think That It Safe To Say That Sometimes We ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 3, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 1,527 views

    I think that it safe to say that sometimes we have the same kind of feelings about the church like Goldilocks had about the bears’ home. On the one hand, we love the church and can’t live without her. On the other hand, we find sermons boring, the music either too old or too new, the people too ...read more

  • Insensitivity To Sin

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Feb 19, 2007
     | 3,983 views

    Insensitivity to Sin A little girl in London held up her broken wrist and said, "Look, Mommy, my hand is bent the wrong way!" There were no tears in her eyes. She felt no pain whatever. That was when she was four years old. When she was six, her parents noticed that she was walking with a limp. A ...read more

  • Insensitivity To Sin

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
     | 3,156 views

    Insensitivity to Sin A little girl in London held up her broken wrist and said, "Look, Mommy, my hand is bent the wrong way!" There were no tears in her eyes. She felt no pain whatever. That was when she was four years old. When she was six, her parents noticed that she was walking with a limp. A ...read more