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  • Introduction: In 1976 Vince Papale Was A 30 Year ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,835 views

    Introduction: In 1976 Vince Papale was a 30 year old Substitute teacher and bartender in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He and his buddies spent most Sunday afternoons in the Fall either playing football at the park or watching the Philadelphia Eagles play on tv. Week after week they had high hopes, ...read more

  • So This Morning, We Are Going To Try To Stimulate ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2009
     | 1,463 views

    So this morning, we are going to try to stimulate different portions of the brain. We are going to have communion. Tactile worship and meditation definitely engage our senses in a way that make God more real. We are going to sing about worshipping in the best times and worst times with a song ...read more

  • Let's Go Fishing

    Contributed by Richard L. Brown on Nov 3, 2016
     | 7,985 views

    Let’s Go Fishing Luke 5: 1-11 As you all know I am a fisherman. It is in my blood. My father taught me and my two brothers to fish when we were very young. I remember one time we were fishing from a dock in the Little Sandy River. Dad had just bought a new rod and reel and my brother Mike being ...read more

  • Tribes And Nations

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Nov 29, 2022
     | 716 views

    Genesis 11:10 – Gen. 12:5 Shem (oldest son of Noah, in the lineage of David, Joseph, and Jesus Christ) We note Shem’s genealogy both in Genesis 10 and here in Genesis 11; why? – Abraham and eventually Israel came from the lineage of Shem; Genesis 11 gives details and sets up Abraham Shem ...read more

  • The Difference Between Knowing About And ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 9, 2009
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    The difference between knowing about and knowing: I’ve read several books about Winston Churchill … but of course, I never met the man. I admire him and appreciate him, but can’t say that I know him in the way that I know my own father. The difference lies in the fact that I have been around my ...read more

  • Bernard Shaw, The Winner Of The 1925 Nobel Prize ...

    Contributed by David Taylor on Apr 23, 2003
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    Bernard Shaw, the winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature, played the “What If” game before he died. A reporter asked him if he could live his life over, and be any person he has know, or any other person in history, who would he be? Mr. Shaw ...read more

  • The Army Has A System For Defense Called ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 8, 2008
     | 1,319 views

    The Army has a system for defense called challenge and password. When a soldier is on guard and someone approaches, he will say "Halt, who goes there?" The person will identify themselves, then the guard will state a challenge code word. If the other person does not know the password, he cannot ...read more

  • Part Of The Kingdom

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 4,123 views

    John Hess Yoder writes in Leadership magazine: While serving as a missionary in Laos, I discovered an illustration of the kingdom of God. Before the colonialists imposed national boundaries, the kings of Laos and Vietnam reached an agreement on taxation in the border areas. Those who ate ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About Fdr That When He Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,337 views

    I heard a story about FDR that when he was president he got tired of saying the usual things all the time at those White House receptions. So one evening he decided to find out if anybody was paying any attention to what he was saying. As each person came up to him and shook his hand he would smile ...read more

  • Poll On Salvation

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 1, 2010
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    POLL ON SALVATION 56% say a good person can earn their way into Heaven. 44% say if a person does not consciously accept Christ as savior, they will be condemned to Hell. 44% say all people experience the same outcome after they die, regardless of their religious beliefs. 34% say there are some ...read more

  • Dwelling Place Of God

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jul 6, 2024
     | 207 views

    The enemy wants to destroy every place where God meets with us. He does not want the dove of God to rest and settle on our lives. He is fine with visitation of God but not fine with habitation of God. He is constantly looking to destroy every place in our hearts that could become a resting place ...read more

  • Honey All The Way Down  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2011
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     | 5,397 views

    HONEY ALL THE WAY DOWN In one of his famous escapades, Winnie the Pooh, this lovable toy bear, tries to trap an elephant--or, as he pronounces it, a heffalump. So Pooh digs a hole to catch the heffalump, and decides to bait the trap with some of his own favorite food: honey. But of course, it is ...read more

  • Persecution Of Baptists In The Colonies

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011
     | 3,101 views

    PERSECUTION OF BAPTISTS IN THE COLONIES Throughout their long history as a people of faith, Baptists have consistently opposed any diminution of the rights of the individual to seek and to pursue their own faith, or for each person to decide to be without faith if that is the choice. Though ...read more

  • An Average Day Is Actually 23hrs. 56 Mins 4.09 ...

    Contributed by Millie Pisano on Apr 26, 2004
     | 1,580 views

    1. An average day is actually 23hrs. 56 mins 4.09 seconds. Leap year makes up for this shortfall 2. One year contains: 31,557,600 seconds 3. An average person spends 55 mins a day getting showered; dressed; groomed. That is a total 335hrs. 25 mins. ...read more

  • Consumers Spent More On Online Content In '05 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
     | 1,029 views

    Consumers Spent more on online content in ’05 than ever before. The average annual spending per customer topped $100 for the first time, according to an Online Publishers Assoc. study. Categories with revenue growth: business/ investment, credit help, entertainment/lifestyle, greeting cards, ...read more

  • There Are Five Billion People On Earth, And I ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,996 views

    "There are five billion people on Earth, and I should guess that at any given moment one or two billion of us are speaking. And I should further guess that virtually nothing anyone says is memorable....There are times, however, when someone turns a phrase that seems so clever or so apt or so ...read more

  • Tolerate

    Contributed by Thomas Donelan on Jun 1, 2010
     | 2,972 views

    TOLERATE To tolerate means I can disagree with you while still respecting you. One person is a Republican, another Democrat. We put aside our differences and get along. One person is a (Florida) Gator, another a (FSU) Seminole. We put aside our differences and get along. Some ...read more

  • The African Bishop, Desmond Tutu, Was Once Asked ...  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Oct 5, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 1,476 views

    The African Bishop, Desmond Tutu, was once asked why he became an Anglican rather than joining some other denomination. He replied that in the days of apartheid, when a black person and a white person met while walking on a footpath, the black person was expected to step into the gutter to allow ...read more

  • In 1829 A Man Named George Wilson Was Arrested ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 29, 2006
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    In 1829 a man named George Wilson was arrested for robbery and murder in a US mail heist. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. Some friends intervened on his behalf and were able to obtain his pardon from President Andrew Jackson. But when told of this, Wilson refused it ...read more

  • The Test Of Sanity  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2005
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     | 6,391 views

    THE TEST OF SANITY Doctors of old times tested the sanity of a mental patients with the following test: The patient was placed in a room with a sink. The faucet was turned on and a stopper was put in the drain until the sink overflowed. The patient was then handed a mop and the door was closed. ...read more

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