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  • Pastoring Is Like Being On The Weather Channel. ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 5, 2005
     | 2,144 views

    Pastoring is like being on the weather channel. When I definitely want to hear the weather I turn there. When dangerous weather occurs the weather bulletins are on multiple channels. It is too important of news to limit to one station. God didn’t limit the gospel to one station, people should ...read more

  • After Ashley Smith, In Atlanta, Talked A Man Who ...

    Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Oct 7, 2005
     | 1,771 views

    After Ashley Smith, in Atlanta, talked a man who had just killed several people into surrendering; she said she felt it was God’s will that he selected her and that he saw a copy of "The Purpose Driven Life" (Rick Warren) on her coffee table. Her grandfather said,"We always knew Ashley would do ...read more

  • Mega Churches: How Big? More Than 1.7 Million ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 1,182 views

    Mega Churches: How Big? More than 1.7 million Protestants in the U.S. now attend mega-churches (churches that have a weekly attendance of 2,000 plus). That’s out of a pool of 105 to 111 million people who attend Christian churches weekly. Since 1970, the ...read more

  • Return To Roots: Mainline Denominations Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
     | 2,575 views

    Return To Roots: Mainline denominations are casting off generic texts and hymns and reasserting sectarian beliefs to stem declining memberships. Methodists, Presbyterians Lutherans and Episcopalians all too often don’t know their denomination’s historic distinctives. Frequently less than 25% of ...read more

  • Video Clip: Shrek 2 - Start: Ch.4-0:12:34 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jan 14, 2006
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     | 1,889 views

    Video Clip: Shrek 2 - Start: Ch.4-0:12:34 End:0:14:58 = 2:24 Shrek and Fiona have been summoned to meet Fiona’s parents - the King and Queen of Far, Far Away. The people of this land think they are going to see a beautiful couple but instead are confronted by ogre’s. Their ...read more

  • Church Planting In Nyc: While New York's 5 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,007 views

    Church Planting In NYC: While New York’s 5 boroughs claim 8.1 million residents, an estimated 22 million people live within 50 miles of Times Square. The city is home to millions of immigrants representing hundreds of languages and countries. A 16 denomination alliance has committed to planting 700 ...read more

  • Henry Wingblade Used To Say That Christian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,361 views

    Henry Wingblade used to say that Christian personality is hidden deep inside us. It is unseen, like the soup carried in a tureen high over a waiter’s head. No one knows what’s inside--unless the waiter is bumped and he trips! Just so, people don’t know what’s inside us until we’ve been ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About A Missionary Who Was ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Mar 14, 2007
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    I heard a story about a missionary who was trying to stir up interest to get people to go to a foreign country to preach the gospel. At the end of the service a woman, dragging a little boy behind her, told the missionary, "I just feel like God is calling me to be a missionary." "He is, ...read more

  • Anonymous Quote: Hope Looks For The Good In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Anonymous Quote: Hope looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst in them. Hope opens doors where despair closes them. Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot be done. Hope draws its power from a deep trust in God. Hope “lights a candle” instead of ...read more

  • Henry Wingblade Used To Say That Christian ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 9, 2007
     | 801 views

    Henry Wingblade used to say that Christian personality is hidden deep inside us. It is unseen, like the soup carried in a tureen high over a waiter’s head. No one knows what’s inside—unless the waiter is bumped and he trips! Just so, people don’t know what’s inside us until we’ve been ...read more

  • Hypocrisy Can Be Illusrated By The Way We Clean ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 25, 2007
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     | 3,873 views

    Hypocrisy can be illusrated by the way we clean house when company is coming - We shove our junk in the closet, stuff it under the bed, etc. where it can’t be seen. Out of sight it doesn’t exist at least to our guests. That is not a horrible way to clean house, but it is terrible way to deal ...read more

  • When I Was In Business School, I Had A Very Wise ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 3, 2008
     | 1,226 views

    When I was in business school, I had a very wise and at the same time a very unsettling professor. One day he said, “You will hear the truth you are willing to hear.” What he meant was that as a manager, if you intimidated the people working with and for you, they would avoid telling you what you ...read more

  • Singer Sheryl Crow Said Recently, In A New York ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 3, 2008
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     | 3,951 views

    Singer Sheryl Crow said recently, in a New York Post interview: “I believe in God. I believe in Jesus and Buddha and Mohammed and all those that were enlightened. I wouldn’t say necessarily that I’m a strict Christian. I’m not sure I believe in heaven.” Sheryl Crow is where many people are today; ...read more

  • Pee Wee Won The Game For The Dodgers In The ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Apr 3, 2008
     | 687 views

    Pee Wee won the game for the Dodgers in the bottom of the ninth. Vin Scully said his grandfather called him Pee Wee. But his real name is Delwyn Young. Delwyn is not a big player and he came from a little town called Littlerock, CA. But he made it to the Dodgers. The Church is made up of many ...read more

  • It Is Reported That Abraham Lincoln Once Said, ...

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Jun 13, 2008
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    It is reported that Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can see what God thinks of money when you see the people He gives it to.” While we can recognize the humor in Lincoln’s statement, there is a sense in which most of us would be considered wealthy by the standards of the rest of the world. To whom ...read more

  • Above Reproach

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,685 views

    ABOVE REPROACH A friend told Plato of a terrible charge that had been leveled against the famous philosopher. Knowing it was not true, his friend said, "What are we going to do?" Plato replied, "We must simply live in such a way that all people will know it is false." Paul said that an elder is to ...read more

  • But Such An Attitude Is Both Humble And Rare, ...

    Contributed by Ruth Hind on Oct 11, 2008
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    But such an attitude is both humble and rare, contrast it with the attitude displayed in a quote by the American writer Gore Vidal, “Every time a friends succeeds a little piece of me dies”. He felt so diminished, so jealous, if some-one other than himself did well that he couldn’t find it in ...read more

  • Matthew Sprained His Ankle Playing Football. The ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Oct 21, 2008
     | 1,836 views

    Matthew sprained his ankle playing football. The doctor told him to get off his crutches as soon as possible, because the injury would develop scar tissue if he did not walk on it. If an injury develops scar tissue, later on it can be worse and more painful and you lose mobility. Some people ...read more

  • The 60's Were Very Difficult Times In America. ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Nov 20, 2008
     | 2,079 views

    The 60’s were very difficult times in America. Morals were declining rapidly, Vietnam was an unpopular war. Many were advocating free love, drugs, and a sexual revolution. Out of those days of spiritual decay, God raised up a group called the "Jesus People." One man who was saved was Greg Laurie ...read more

  • O God, ...

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 9, 2010
     | 5,016 views

    "O God, Help!"—Spurgeon God's strongest saints realize their weaknesses, and appeal to Him for strength. One Sunday morning, as Charles H. Spurgeon passed through the door back of the pulpit in the Tabernacle, and saw the great crowd of people, he was overheard saying, "O God, help!" Strong as ...read more