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  • Consecrated To Do God's Will

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Jul 25, 2017
     | 8,025 views

    Years ago a young girl entered a little Presbyterian Church out of curiosity. There she heard the gospel for the first time and was converted. She later heard God’s call on her life to go to China as a missionary. She was the only daughter of a multi-millionaire. She was socially prominent and ...read more

  • From Baseball To Addiction To Redemption

    Contributed by Matt Neace on Jun 13, 2018
     | 4,733 views

    Former baseball great Darryl Strawberry play 17 major league seasons with the Mets, Dodgers, Giants and Yankees. He won a World Series with the Mets in 1986. But off the field, Strawberry struggled with addiction for most of his adult life. He was recently asked by Sports Spectrum radio, "How ...read more

  • Eduardo Escobar's Blessed Bats

    Contributed by Matt Neace on Jun 13, 2018
     | 2,192 views

    In 2017, Minnesota Twins All-Star third baseman Miguel Sano when down with a stress reaction to his shin. So Eduardo Escobar filled in at third. He proceeded to belt 10 of his career-high 21 home runs as a fill-in starter. Speaking of the home runs, Escobar told the Star Tribune, "The 20 home ...read more

  • Saved From The Guttermost To The Uttermost

    Contributed by Dr. David Hallum on Sep 11, 2019
     | 4,056 views

    Introduction: Larry Johnson was an oil field hand. Big, loud, cursing, drinking, woman chasing and completely anti-God. He worked on one of the dirtiest jobs in the old field – he ran a workover crew. Those guys NEVER came home clean. They were covered in grime, sludge and oil from head to toe ...read more

  • St John's Point Is Not That A Baby Was Born In ...

    Contributed by Ruth Hind on Dec 19, 2007
     | 2,012 views

    St John’s point is not that a baby was born in Bethlehem and laid in a manger but that God became a person and that person was Jesus Sometimes we can get really hung up on this. If God was person, who did every-one pray to during Jesus life time, who did all the God-stuff while Jesus was on earth? ...read more

  • Dallas Willard Writes: "I Do Not Know Of A ...

    Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
     | 2,058 views

    Dallas Willard writes: “I do not know of a denomination or local church in existence that has as its goal to teach its people to do everything Jesus said. I’m not talking about a whim or a wish, but a plan.” Willard’s book, The Great Omission (Willard, 2006), is his personal take on the popular ...read more

  • Proper Attitude

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
     | 2,510 views

    PROPER ATTITUDE - Ephesians 5:18-20 >1 Corinthians 10:31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for God’s glory. Chuck Swindoll said: “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more ...read more

  • Introduction: Are You Ready For Some Football! We ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,640 views

    Introduction: Are you ready for some football! We are only 48 days 3hrs and approximately 30 minutes to the kick off of Alabama football. Foot ball in Alabama is more than a sport. It is a way of life. We live foot ball 365 days a year. It is almost like a religion. In fact we begin to indoctrinate ...read more

  • A Man For All Seasons

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 2,946 views

    A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS In 1966, Robert Bolt's play was made into a movie of the same name. A Man For All Seasons was a movie about Sir Thomas More. More, a member of the elite Privy Council of the Roman Catholic Church, refused to give his okay to King Henry VIII's divorce to his wife and ...read more

  • Determination

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 13, 2008
     | 5,838 views

    DETERMINATION Johnny Fulton was run over by a car at the age of three. He suffered crushed hips, broken ribs, a fractured skull, and compound fractures in his legs. It did not look as if he would live. But he would not give up. In fact, he later ran the half-mile in less than two minutes. Walt ...read more

  • Possibilities

    Contributed by Bobby Bodenhamer on Oct 17, 2008
     | 3,499 views

    Possibilities He was born into wealth and was raised in a mansion. Today he wears prison gray after being convicted of planting a car bomb that took the lives of two members of his family. His almost unbelievable reversal of circumstances came after he tried to get control of a $10-million family ...read more

  • Redeemed, Redeemed, Redeemed...

    Contributed by Bob Gillchrest on Dec 1, 2008
     | 5,413 views

    REDEEMED, REDEEMED, REDEEMED... A.J. Gordon was the great Baptist pastor of the Clarendon Church in Boston, Massachusetts. One day he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary carrying a rusty cage in which several birds fluttered nervously. Gordon inquired, "Son, where did you get those birds?" ...read more

  • What Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 2,510 views

    WHAT IS SIN? Sin, as defined by a new Ellison Research study, is something almost always considered wrong, particularly from a religious or moral perspective. Out the 30 behaviors studied, adultery was most often described as a sinful behavior by American respondents (81%). Next was racism (74%); ...read more

  • Multi-Tasking ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 2,079 views

    MULTI-TASKING YOUTH About 64% of U.S. teens go online while watching TV, and 49% do so from three times a week to several times a day, reports researcher Grunewald Associates LLC. 73% of TV-online multitasking kids are engaged in “active multitasking,” defined as content in one medium influencing ...read more

  • Not What Was Expected

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Mar 16, 2022
     | 2,274 views

    Integrity is when something is the same all the way through. Pure gold is gold and only gold, all the way through. 14kt gold is less than pure, but other metals give it a hardness that allows more uses such as making beautiful jewelry from it. The bible calls the condition of being one thing ...read more

  • Wrong Way Roy Riegels

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 13, 2022
     | 1,272 views

    In the 1929 Rose Bowl, Georgia Tech was playing the University of California when the ball popped out of the hands of a Georgia Tech back. Roy Riegels, the University of California center, scooped it up and cut across the field. Then, finding himself hemmed in, he reversed his field. It was at this ...read more

  • Misjudging The Composer

    Contributed by Jung Lee on Jan 16, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 976 views

    In a prestigious concert hall, a renowned pianist was scheduled to perform a masterpiece by a legendary composer. The audience, filled with anticipation, settled into their seats as the performance began. However, it quickly became apparent that something was amiss. The pianist, who had been ...read more

  • The Leopard’s Grunt

    Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 10, 2025
     | 144 views

    When I was about seven, our family escaped the summer heat of Rangoon and went up to the cool hills of Mussoorie, India. We stayed for a few weeks in a music building that had eight pianos and plenty of hiding places for kids playing hide-and-seek. One evening as dusk settled, we heard a low, ...read more

  • Fear And Division

    Contributed by John Bright on Feb 3, 2026
     | 22 views

    A Simple Game Teaches Kids About Fear and Division One of my friends told me about a powerful lesson in her daughter's high school class recently. They're learning about the Salem Witch Trials, and their teacher told them they were going to play a game. "I'm going to come ...read more

  • We Had An Experience Just This Week Of God ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Haun on Dec 21, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,954 views

    We had an experience just this week of God stepping in when a call is given. The miracle started about two weeks ago when I "accidentally" came across an account of a new movie showing in selected theaters. The movie was reviewed as one of the best in recent years and was titled "The Gospel of ...read more