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  • When We Give Our Lives To Christ And Become His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,794 views

    When we give our lives to Christ and become His follower we will want to hold on loosely to the things of this world. Back in 1987 on a commuter flight from Portland, Maine, to Boston the pilot, Henry Dempsey, heard an unusual noise near the rear of the plane. Dempsey turned the controls over to ...read more

  • The Pharisees And Teachers Of The Law Competed ...  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Mason on Feb 6, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 4,893 views

    The Pharisees and teachers of the law competed with one another in strictness. They had atomized God’s law into 613 rules and bolstered these with 1,521 emendations (Yancey 132). We can see the length to which this went from the following facts. For many generations the Scribal Law was never ...read more

  • Have You Tasted Jesus?  PRO

    Contributed by Jan Spencer on Mar 19, 2002
    based on 53 ratings
     | 5,949 views

    Have you tasted Jesus? One divinity school hosted an annual picnic, to which they invited one of the greatest minds to lecture in the theological education center. One year, the guest lecturer was a professor, who spoke for two and one-half hours "proving" that the resurrection of Jesus was ...read more

  • World's Biggest Liar Contest  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,775 views

    World’s Biggest Liar Contest LONDON (Nov. 14) - The World’s Biggest Liar will defend his title against a small but devious group of challengers in a pub in northern England Thursday. George Kemp beat five-time winner John Graham last year with a string of tall tales including one about his ...read more

  • Thomas Andrew Dorsey Was A Black Jazz Musician ...  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Sep 27, 2004
    based on 26 ratings
     | 5,126 views

    Thomas Andrew Dorsey was a black jazz musician from Atlanta. In the twenties he gained a certain amount of notoriety as the composer of jazz tunes with suggestive lyrics, but he gave all that up in 1926 to concentrate exclusively on spiritual music. "Peace in the Valley" is one of his best known ...read more

  • King George And Queen Elizabeth And Then Princess ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Nov 24, 2007
     | 2,486 views

    King George and Queen Elizabeth and then Princess Elizabeth set the example of being great leaders of and role models for their people by being servants. The Rev. Dr. John C. Maxwell is an honored pastor in the Wesleyan Church Dr. Maxwell and founder of two companies world renowned EQUIP and ...read more

  • Mary's Friends

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 9, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,534 views

    MARY'S FRIENDS Unsaved people in our society who accept Jesus as Savior have an average of 12 unsaved relatives and friends, all of whom are potential disciples. Let me tell you a story I heard in 1980, when I was in Fuller Seminary studying church growth. It happened in the First Baptist Church ...read more

  • Encouragement

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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    Encouragement He traveled to every hamlet in Essex County. His passion was to start churches, encourage the saints and teach people the word of God. Cyrus Comstock was born in December 1765 and lived his life in the Champlain valley. Cyrus was also an inventor. Are you familiar with the ...read more

  • Take Time To By Holy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    TAKE TIME TO BY HOLY Let me begin with what little I could glean concerning this hymn and its author: For many years, the only information known about this gospel song was what Ira D. Sankey wrote in his autobiography. Sankey (1840-1908) was the well-known gospel singer and hymn writer who ...read more

  • Right And Wrong And Ruby ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
     | 3,847 views

    RIGHT AND WRONG AND RUBY BRIDGES A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public schools to African-American children. White parents in the community decided to keep their children at home if this verdict was enforced. They made it known that any African-American children who came to ...read more

  • How Clara Mcbride Hale Founded Hale House In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 4, 2010
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    How Clara McBride Hale Founded Hale House in Harlem Do you know the story of Clara McBride Hale, also known as “Mother Hale”? She founded the Hale House in Harlem; it was a home for unwanted children and children who were born addicted to drugs. She originally opened her house as a day-care to ...read more

  • Relationships Matter Most In Happiness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2011
     | 3,566 views

    RELATIONSHIPS MATTER MOST IN HAPPINESS In 1937, a researcher at Harvard University began a study (originally named The Harvard Study of Adult Development) on what factors contribute to human well-being and happiness. The research team selected 268 male Harvard students who seemed healthy and well ...read more

  • The Second Pilgrim Winter

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Nov 19, 2011
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    THE SECOND PILGRIM WINTER After the first Thanksgiving with Massosiat and the Indians, the Pilgrims were excited that another ship arrived with 35 new colonists. Quoting again from William Bradford, “they were all landed; but there was not so much as bisket-cake or any other victialls [AO] for ...read more

  • Today Is Super Bowl Sunday, The Most Ballyhooed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,901 views

    Today is Super Bowl Sunday, the most ballyhooed and widely watched pro football game of all. Someone defined a football game as 75,000 people sitting in a stadium, although they desperately need exercise, watching twenty-two people on the field who desperately need rest. Pastor Bob Schmidgall said ...read more

  • Generations And The Bible  PRO

    Contributed by Billy Nale on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
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    GENERATIONS AND THE BIBLE A new research report from the Barna Group examines recent nationwide studies on how different generations of American adults view and use the Bible. For the purposes of this research, the Mosaic generation refers to adults who are currently ages 18 to 25; Busters are ...read more

  • Most Of Us Love Happy Endings! My Girls When They ...  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Bines on Sep 22, 2005
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    Most of us love happy endings! My girls when they were little loved Disney’s, ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ In the closing scenes the beast lies dying from a wound inflicted during combat with Gaston his enemy. Belle the beauty finally confesses her love for the beast and just in time gives him the kiss ...read more

  • A History Of Halloween  PRO

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Oct 25, 2001
    based on 53 ratings
     | 5,058 views

    A HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN The Celtic festival of Samhain is probably the source of the present-day Halloween celebration. The Celts new year began on November first. A festival that began the previous evening honored Samhain, the Celtic lord of death. The celebration marked the beginning of the ...read more

  • There Were Three People In Heaven Who Decided One ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wayne Major on Aug 10, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 6,918 views

    There were three people in heaven who decided one day to play a round of golf at the heavenly country club. The first man stepped up to the tee, hit his drive, and watched as it headed straight for the water hazard. Just as the ball was about to land in the water, he raised his club, pointed it ...read more

  • Basics Of Sikh Faith  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,833 views

    BASICS OF SIKH FAITH There are currently about 18 million who practice the Sikh Faith. The Founder, Guru Nanak (1469-1539 C.E.) was the first of Sikhism’s 10 Gurus, a lineage of holy teachers that continued until the end of the 17th century. The Gurus are understood to be the mediators of divine ...read more

  • I Am Among The Minority Who Had Little Interest ...  PRO

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Aug 29, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,559 views

    I am among the minority who had little interest in the original Star Wars movie but has a liking for the prequel story of Anakin Skywalker in Episode I and II. Anakin, who later evolved into the sinister Darth Vader, was a cute, helpful, and sacrificial 9-year-old boy in Episode I. In Episode II, ...read more