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  • Same, Same

    Contributed by Scott Wakefield on May 17, 2010
     | 3,653 views

    Found at http://www.christianstandard.com/articledisplay.asp?id=783 In an article for Christian Standard magazine, preacher and college president Matt Proctor reflects on the Incarnation: My 5-year-old, Carl, and my 3-year-old, Conrad, love it when I dress like them. After they put on jeans and a ...read more

  • How Basketball Weighed In On Racial ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2010
     | 3,649 views

    How Basketball Weighed in on Racial Integration On Friday we watched the film, Glory Road, the 1966 story of how the integrated Texas Western basketball team defeated Adolph Rupp’s all-white Kentucky Wildcats. At a time when schools in the Southeastern Conference refused scholarships to black ...read more

  • The In-Laws: "Are You A Praying Man?"

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Nov 19, 2010
     | 1,237 views

    THE IN-LAWS: "ARE YOU A PRAYING MAN?" Sheldon Kornpett was a quiet, reserved man with a successful dental practice in Manhattan, that is, until he met his future in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. Vince Ricardo. Sheldon’s daughter was soon to be married to their son, so Sheldon’s wife hosted a dinner party at ...read more

  • True Unity  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 11,962 views

    TRUE UNITY Unity is not simply an intellectual exercise. We can believe the same things, recite the same creeds, belong to the same denomination, but that does not mean we have unity. In his book Soul Talk, Larry Crabb writes: "Which is worse? A church program to build community that doesn’t ...read more

  • Victory Hill

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 30, 2009
     | 4,430 views

    VICTORY HILL Remember, our plotting is unfinished, but God’s training and strength-conditioning is already there for us. I want to talk about this chastising, sometimes translated as punishing, and which I have translated as "training." I have something in mind. The Hebrew verb means to provide ...read more

  • How Did We Ever Survive As ...

    Contributed by Paul Collins on Sep 7, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,158 views

    How Did We Ever Survive as Kids? April 11, 2009 — Quick Daily Hits - rbs Born before 1980? TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s… • After we were born, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints. • We had no ...read more

  • I Was Once Preaching In The Chapel Of A ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Sep 10, 2009
     | 2,362 views

    I was once preaching in the chapel of a retirement village in Yuma, Arizona. After delivering the sermon I began chatting with an elderly woman who I later learned was very hard of hearing. We were standing just outside the chapel, near a very beautiful pool table which looked as though it was ...read more

  • When Life Is Hard… Never Give ...

    Contributed by David Rumley on Oct 28, 2009
     | 3,925 views

    When life is hard… never give up… • Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded. • Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him hopeless as a composer. • Colonel Sanders had ...read more

  • Created By God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,836 views

    CREATED BY GOD A little girl was visiting over at grandpa's house. She crawls up into his lap and says "Grandpa, did God make you?" He says "Oh, yes, my dear, God created me a long time ago." She says "Did God make me, too?" He says "Oh, yes, my dear, God created you a little while ago." She ...read more

  • Mark 8:35 For Whoever Wants To Save His Life A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
     | 5,411 views

    Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his life a will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. (NIV) Now, Jesus is not talking about the cost of our salvation here, because that is free! Romans 6:23 says, “The FREE gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our ...read more

  • Margaret Waage Wrote Of An Especially Important ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 26, 2009
     | 1,858 views

    "Margaret Waage wrote of an especially important Christmas eve in her life. She got off her job at noon and stood dejectedly in the crowd waiting for the subway train. She had worked by herself all morning since her fellow workers had been given the day off. Now many people around her were talking ...read more

  • A Modern Day (Sports) Parable

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Aug 21, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,986 views

    The Parable Of The Free Agent Hockey Players “For the kingdom of heaven is like a rich sports owner who went out at 6 AM on July 1st , free agency day, to find players for his hockey team. At the local Starbucks he found a Superstar player. He said, “I’ll make you a good offer. - $5 million per ...read more

  • What Do I Do When I Am Rejected?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 17, 2022
     | 1,302 views

    REJECTED, TRY AGAIN SORRY CHARLIE? REMEMBER THE STARKIST TUNA MASCOT? CHARLIE IS THE MOST FAMOUS … TOUGH LUCK, BRO… JUST GET OVER IT… REJECTED? WE CAN HELP CHEER ON OTHERS THAT HAVE BEEN REJECTED. CARMELO ANTONY, third player picked in the NBA DRAFT,. He played 17 years and became one ...read more

  • A Rabbi And Soap Maker Who Went For A Walk ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 11, 2000
    based on 159 ratings
     | 5,820 views

    "a rabbi and soap maker who went for a walk together. The soap maker had some negative things to say about religion: "What good is religion? Just look around you. what do you see? Trouble, misery, wars - even after all these years and years of preaching and teaching about goodness, truth, peace. ...read more

  • Cradles Of Eminence  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 19, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,444 views

    CRADLES OF EMINENCE In a famous study by Victor and Mildred Goertzel, entitled Cradles of Eminence, the home backgrounds of 300 highly successful people were investigated. These 300 subjects had made it to the top. They were men and women whose names everyone would recognize as brilliant in ...read more

  • Some Of You Have Seen The Musical, "My Fair ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Aug 18, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,725 views

    Some of you have seen the musical, "My Fair Lady." The story tells of Henry Higgins, who bets a friend that he can change a lowly flower girl, Eliza Dolittle, into a princess, a lady of brilliance and poise. Mr. Higgins’ attempts include lectures and corrections to teach Eliza to speak ...read more

  • A Legal Pad Of Thanks  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,047 views

    A LEGAL PAD OF THANKS Poet and writer Maya Angelou told in an interview about an experience she’d had in the early 1950s. She had returned to the United States from Europe, leaving behind a child. She said: "One day I was very frightened for my sanity.... So I went to my voice teacher and told him ...read more

  • Hope Is A Funny Thing. It Comes So Easy To Some ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Apr 21, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 14,703 views

    Hope is a funny thing. It comes so easy to some people--maybe too easy. Milton Berle told a story about those kinds of people, about how hope can triumph over good sense. Four widows were playing cards in the retirement home they lived in. A good-looking older fellow walks in, bags under each ...read more

  • Alexandra Flynn Of Fremont, Nebraska, Was Looking ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Ward on Aug 2, 2003
    based on 11 ratings
     | 8,255 views

    Alexandra Flynn of Fremont, Nebraska, was looking forward to the 2002 homecoming dance. She left home in high spirits, but she did not have her high school ID with her. When the man at the door refused her admission without her ID, she went home to get it. Unable to find it, her mother went with ...read more

  • Carl Switzer

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2003
     | 1,847 views

    Carl Switzer Who didn’t love Alfalfa from the late 1930’s/early 1940’s "The Little Rascals"/"Our Gang" series? Playing the curiously-coifed, nerdy romantic, we delighted and sympathized when he sang "I’m in the Mood For Love" with a frog in his throat, pined for Darla and bravely belted out "I’m ...read more