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  • Several Years Ago I Was Swimming With My 4 Year ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,220 views

    Several years ago I was swimming with my 4 year old, Joshua. I was holding him and we were playing and splashing in the water. I wanted to go out a little deeper and while holding him I began to walk. When Joshua realized we were headed out to deeper water he began to cry and fight back saying, ...read more

  • A Christian Puppy

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 26, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,817 views

    On the lighter side of life: A Christian Puppy A Baptist couple decide that they want to get a dog. As they are walking down the street in town, they notice that a sign in the pet shop is advertising "Christian Puppies." Their interest piqued, they go inside. "How do you know they’re Christian ...read more

  • The Largest Thermonuclear Bomb Ever Built And ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Mar 8, 2006
     | 1,420 views

    The largest thermonuclear bomb ever built and detonated on Earth was exploded on October 30, 1961 above Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Circle. The bomb was dropped by Russian Soviets in an attempt to intimidate Americans. Its name: “Tsar Bomba” or “King of the Bombs.” It had the explosive ...read more

  • New York State Sociologists Studied Two ...

    Contributed by Dan Brown on Nov 27, 2006
     | 2,870 views

    New York state sociologists studied two families-the Max Jukes family and the family of Jonathan Edwards. The head of the Max Jukes family (not his real name), was an unbeliever, a man with no obvious sense of morals, and he married a girl with similar values. Among the known descendants of the ...read more

  • Just Remember That More Christians Go On The ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 21, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,996 views

    Just remember that more Christians go on the rocks, defeated, over the nasty little thing we call “hurt feelings” than over the so-called great crises which test the very fiber of the ...read more

  • Airport Pick Up

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 27, 2006
     | 738 views

    Story – Airport Pick up. Dallas. Saw car circling, over and over. Where’s my ride I thought? Saw me talking with another pastor. Pulled up – You’re Peter? You looked so ...read more

  • Crab Grass Within Your ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
     | 1,916 views

    ILLUSTRATION: Crab grass within your soul. Crab grass if gotten early in the spring can be eliminated from your yard but if you allow it an inkling of room to grow, it will take over your yard. That is what arrogant pride will do in your soul. Just as you need to apply grab grass preventative to ...read more

  • Some Say Fish Have A Six Second Memory. So, ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 24, 2008
     | 1,492 views

    Some say fish have a six second memory. So, when one fish gets caught on a hook, only six seconds later, all his fish friends are ready to get hooked again. People are like that. They see ...read more

  • Church Conflict

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,789 views

    CHURCH CONFLICT In Winchester, Ohio there’s a church called the Bethlehem Church of Christ. It’s been in existence for over 150 years, and over the years different events have been recorded in their “history” book. One of their recent ministers was reading back over the different entries in this ...read more

  • A Proud Young Man Walked Into A Room Looking For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Oct 27, 2002
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    A Proud young man walked into a room looking for his friend. He passed two blond young women near the door who looked him over then looked at each other and said and the same time ‘NINE’. The prideful young man puffed out his chest and drew a big smile on his face then walked over to his waiting ...read more

  • Was That A No?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 22, 2005
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     | 3,741 views

    WAS THAT A NO? A Proud young man walked into a room looking for his friend. He passed two blond young women near the door who looked him over then looked at each other and said and the same time ‘NINE’. The prideful young man puffed out his chest and drew a big smile on his face then walked over ...read more

  • One Time The Popular Actress Sophia Loren Sobbed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One time the popular actress Sophia Loren sobbed to her Italian movie director, Vittorio De Sica, over the theft of some of her jewelry. And he said to her, “Listen to me, Sophia. I am much older than you and, if there is one great truth I have learned about life, it is this: NEVER CRY OVER ...read more

  • The Jews Of Paul's Time, By And Large, Rejected ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 11, 2008
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    The Jews of Paul’s time, by and large, rejected the Son of God, and the covenant of faith. That’s why they revolted over and over against the Romans, who ultimately destroyed Jerusalem and scattered them all over the world. Here, Paul gets really cutting. He lumps the Jews who reject Christ ...read more

  • In 1995 Nathan Frederick Klimosko, 21, Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 28, 2001
    based on 115 ratings
     | 1,952 views

    In 1995 Nathan Frederick Klimosko, 21, was sentenced to two years’ probation in Kelowna, British Columbia, for hitting and choking his girlfriend into unconsciousness. The fight started in a car when the two disagreed over his interpretation of a certain passage from the ...read more

  • The First Big Church Fight

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 28, 2011
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    THE FIRST BIG CHURCH FIGHT The first big dispute in the church was not over the deity of Christ, the atoning work of the cross, or the reality of the resurrection. It was over what was and was not necessary for salvation. All the players believed in Jesus as God and Savior; they all ...read more

  • Since The Death Of Jesus Christ, 2000 Years ...  PRO

    Contributed by Micah Fries on Nov 29, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
     | 2,600 views

    • Since the death of Jesus Christ, 2000 years ago, 43 million Christians have become martyrs • Over 50% of these were in the last century alone • More than 200 million Christians face persecution each day, 60% of whom are children • Every day over 300 ...read more

  • Peanut Parable

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 24, 2023
     | 1,153 views

    The kingdom of God is like a man who looked in a new way at a food grown and eaten only by poor folks, the peanut, and developed over three hundred by products from it: cereals, oils, dyes, soaps, and food substitutes. It turned out that the crop restored the ...read more

  • How The Chicago Fire Started  PRO

    Contributed by Ted Sutherland on Feb 11, 2001
    based on 80 ratings
     | 2,401 views

    How Chicago Fire Started On October 8, 1871, at about eight-thirty in the evening, a lantern in Mrs. O’Leary’s barn, presumably kicked over by her cow, ignited the great Chicago fire. The woman was milking her cow; and there was a little lamp of oil, a little flickering flame. The cow kicked over ...read more

  • Stones: Throw, Stumble Or Climb ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
     | 3,421 views

    STONES: THROW, STUMBLE OR CLIMB OVER This week, I read a common-sense statement by William Andrew Ward about the way we live together in our world: "We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them." The first three choices (throwing, stumbling and ...read more

  • Do You Remember The Story "The Little Engine That ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Dec 9, 2004
    based on 19 ratings
     | 2,557 views

    Do you remember the story “The Little Engine That Could?” A trainload of toys was being taken over the mountain to all the children in Sunshine Valley, but unfortunately the engine broke down. One by one different engines came by, but none were willing to take the trainload of toys over the ...read more