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  • A Farmer Went Into His Banker And Announced That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,675 views

    A farmer went into his banker and announced that he had bad news and good news. "First, the bad news...""Well," said the farmer, "I can’t make my mortgage payments. And that crop loan I’ve taken out for the past 10 years -- I can’t pay that off, either. Not only that, I won’t be able to pay you the ...read more

  • Overloaded

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2013
     | 5,452 views

    OVERLOADED In the book, Overload, by Dr. Richard Swenson, he discusses one of the main reasons our lives have too much anxiety and stress. He says that most of us are just plain overloaded. Think about it. (1) We are overloaded with commitments. We don’t know how to say no. And as a result we meet ...read more

  • There¡¦s Fear, And Then There Is Fear. The 82nd ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Apr 5, 2001
    based on 90 ratings
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    There¡¦s fear, and then there is fear. The 82nd Airborne Rangers train at Fort Bragg, NC. The division commanding general was inspecting, and as he reviewed the ranks of paratroop trainees, he carefully scrutinized one West Virginia recruit standing proudly at attention, jump wings and boots ...read more

  • Antoine Augustine Parmentier A Chemist And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Eldon Reich on May 3, 2005
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    Antoine Augustine Parmentier a chemist and pharmacist, overcame the potatoes bad rap for the French when he acquired a miserable and unproductive spot of ground outside of Paris. There, he planted 50 acres of potatoes. During the day, he set a guard over it. This drew considerable attention in ...read more

  • It Was A Cold Winter's Night. The Wind Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    It was a cold winter’s night. The wind was howling and a bone chilling rain was falling when the telephone rang at the home of a doctor. The man that was calling said that his wife needed urgent medical attention. The doctor was very understanding and said, "Sir, I’ll be glad to come and see what I ...read more

  • Unpitied

    Contributed by C Vincent on Sep 21, 2009
     | 2,006 views

    UNPITIED Spurgeon quote "…if ……we have been warned, if our ministers have been faithful, if they have aroused our conscience, and have constantly and earnestly called our attention to the fact of the wrath to come, if we have not attended to their message, if we have despised the voice of God, if ...read more

  • The Colonel Who Served As Inspector General In A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 21, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,534 views

    The colonel who served as inspector general in a particular base paid close attention to how personnel wore their uniforms. On one occasion he spotted a junior airman with a violation. "Airman," he bellowed, "what do you do when a shirt pocket is unbuttoned?" The startled airman replied, "Button ...read more

  • Let Every Nation Know, Whether It Wishes Us Well ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2002
    based on 46 ratings
     | 1,683 views

    Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ...read more

  • Plastic Prevails For The First Time, Americans' ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Plastic Prevails For the first time, Americans’ use of credit cards, debit cards and other electronic bill paying has eclipsed paper checks. Last year there were 44.5 billion electronic transactions vs. 36.7 billion ...read more

  • Failures Are Few Among People Who Have Found A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    Failures are few among people who have found a work they like enough to do it well. You invest money in your work; invest love in it too. Like your work. Like the materials and the tools with which you work. Like ...read more

  • Relationships And Cell Phones

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jul 13, 2010
     | 3,306 views

    RELATIONSHIPS AND CELL PHONES Desperate people will do almost anything. People are desperate for relationships and will pay a lot of money to have it. The cost of a T-Mobile HTC HD2 cell phone is $2,600 while the ...read more

  • Look Up

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 2, 2009
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    LOOK UP I love those scenes in action films, comics, or cartoons where you have one set of bad guys pursuing the hero from one end of a tunnel or corridor and another set of bad guys is converging from the other side. You know the hero is in between them, but when the groups of pursuers meet in ...read more

  • The Pastor From ...

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Mar 23, 2013
     | 1,743 views

    THE PASTOR FROM KENYA Ramez Attalah, general director at The Bible Society of Egypt, attended an international conference or Christian leaders in 1974. He was thrilled to be with top-notch leaders from around the globe—sharing and reading interesting papers on important subjects--but the most ...read more

  • In Other Translations The Word Bag Of Gold Is ...

    Contributed by Greg Wiens on Jul 14, 2007
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    In other translations the word bag of gold is replaced with the word talent of gold. A talent is the largest measure of weight in the Jewish scale system. It was the amount that a strong male servant or worker should be able to carry comfortably. To illustrate, it would be the amount that Randy ...read more

  • College Costs Have Risen 13% This Year And 47% ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 1,161 views

    College Costs have risen 13% this year and 47% over the past decade. That’s an annual average increase of 3.9%. If room and board costs are included, the average student pays $26,854 a year to attend a private university and $10,636 for a ...read more

  • Shut Up: He Who Guards His Lips Guards His Soul

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 25, 2007
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    Shut Up, He who guards his lips guards his soul. A Church in Kansas City has as its slogan: Wake up, sing up, preach up, pray up and pay up, but never give up or let up or back up or shut up ...read more

  • Checkless- A Checkfree Corporation Study Finds ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,330 views

    Checkless- A CheckFree Corporation study finds that 69% of U.S. online households are paying at least one bill online. Online payments are steadily replacing checks. Among those surveyed, 37.5% use paper checks for all bill ...read more

  • We Emulate What We Think About. Children ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,163 views

    “We emulate what we think about. Children pretend they are the heroes they dream about. Teenagers dress like the sports stars or popular musicians they devote so much attention to. But these tendencies don’t disappear when we become adults. Those who concentrate on “making it to the top” read ...read more

  • I Did An Experiment By Asking Everyone In The ...

    Contributed by James Chandler on Nov 28, 2007
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     | 3,039 views

    I did an experiment by asking everyone in the auditorium to say their name outloud three times. Beforehand I asked one man to say the name of Jesus three times outloud. After everyone had said their name outloud three times I asked if anyone had heard the name of Jesus being said. Only one person ...read more

  • Joy-Suckers

    Contributed by Jesse Bennett on Apr 5, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,093 views

    JOY-SUCKERS A "joy sucker" is someone who is determined to create either discouragement or hardship on your ministry. "Joy suckers" take on all shapes and sizes, but most often they are negative in their outlook, disappointed with their family, in need of attention or enamored with their own ...read more