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  • There Is The Story Of A Lady Who Had Just ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,216 views

    There is the story of a lady who had just completed university She had been offered a job with an accounting firm She is a mother of three who were at the time were 12, 15 and 18 but just before she takes up the position she has a regular check up and her doctor discovers she has cancer not long ...read more

  • Prayer Is The Rope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 6,656 views

    Billy Graham once noted: “Prayer is not about using God it is more often about getting us in a position where God can use us. I watched the deck hands on the great liner United States as they docked that ship in NY Harbor. First they threw out a rope to the men on the dock. Then, inside the boat ...read more

  • Basketball Practice Was A Challenge By The Coach ...

    Contributed by Steven Wunderink on Aug 20, 2007
     | 2,717 views

    Basketball practice was a challenge by the coach to turn half-hearted players into whole hearted players. My coach would not be happy unless we had floor burns on our knees. My coach placed a bucket on each end of the court for players to throw up in. We would run until we threw up, drink water and ...read more

  • Tv Viewing In Usa And Uk. Tv Viewing Average In ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 7, 2007
     | 977 views

    TV viewing in USA and UK. TV Viewing average in America is 4 hours a day, 2 full months a year, 60% while eating dinner, more TV each year than spent at school. They watch 200, 000 acts of violence, they watch 16,000 murders by the time their 18. ( source national statistics) And if you think ...read more

  • John Ortberg Said He Recently Saw An Actual, ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 25, 2009
     | 2,176 views

    John Ortberg said He recently saw an actual, academic, peer-reviewed journal called Journal of Happiness Studies. "Positive psychology" is the big new trend looking for how people can be happy. One theme that keeps cropping up is the happiness paradox which says: "the more directly one aims to ...read more

  • When You Pray, Do You Seek His Face Or His ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 28, 2009
     | 1,880 views

    When you pray, do you seek His Face or His Arm? In some of our prayers, if we are honest to God, we will find that rather than seeking His Face we are simply seeking His Arm. We pray because we find ourselves in a position where we need His Strength. We believe that “…nothing is impossible with ...read more

  • Finishing The Race Together

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 8, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,734 views

    FINISHING THE RACE TOGETHER Several years ago, five handicapped finalists gathered at the starting line for the Special Olympics. They had all trained hard for this day. Hearts were pounding. And each one wanted to win. The starter’s gun discharged and the athletes exploded from their crouched ...read more

  • Your Pain In My Heart

    Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Dec 7, 2009
     | 2,157 views

    YOUR PAIN IN MY HEART Until we walk where others walk, we usually don’t care much about what they are going through. This is why so many people who experience tragedy, start support groups to help others like themselves. Until we hurt we are not much help. We are like the Queen, who, when told ...read more

  • Because You Are Mine

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 4, 2010
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     | 1,926 views

    BECAUSE YOU ARE MINE Perhaps you remember the farm family who, many years ago, lived in dire poverty. One Christmas someone sent them their first mirror. The teen-aged boy saw himself for the first time. He said to his mother: "Mom, look how ugly I am. How can you love me when you see how dirty ...read more

  • Generosity

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Oct 21, 2010
     | 3,452 views

    You all probably remember the photos that Eve [our former children’s worker] brought back from Zambia of bags of grain lying in church as people had brought a true tithe, ten per cent of their crop to give to God. People in Africa have very little and yet are very generous. In this country ...read more

  • The Ruling Caste

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 21, 2011
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    THE RULING CASTE On one of my trips to India, as I was walking around a market place, I came face to face with some proud Brahmans who consider themselves better than anyone, and they will not allow anyone touch them because they belong to the ruling caste. I asked if I could take their picture. ...read more

  • Joseph Is A Type Of Christ

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 27, 2014
     | 3,310 views

    Unforgiveness is a cancer to our souls that carries many curses. However, somehow Joseph was able to overcome that cancer and forgive his brothers when he had the chance to take their lives (Genesis 49-50). His act of forgiveness is a foreshadowing of how Christ forgave his enemies from the Cross ...read more

  • Music Abuse

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 2,499 views

    MUSIC ABUSE The Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine analyzed the lyrics of the top 279 songs of 2005. Nearly 80% of rap songs contained references to illicit drugs, alcohol or tobacco, followed by country (37%), R&B (20%), rock (14%) and pop (9%). When combined, 42% of all songs had some ...read more

  • The Late Great Presbyterian Clergyman And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
     | 3,329 views

    The late great Presbyterian clergyman and Christian author, Rev. James Russell Miller (1840 - 1912), once wrote: "Too many people are not faithful in little things. They are not to be absolutely depended upon. They do not always keep their promises. They break engagements. They fail to pay their ...read more

  • The Conductor's Job

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 11, 2009
     | 2,626 views

    THE CONDUCTOR’S JOB In a symphony orchestra, a violinist will not go around checking what a trombonist is playing, nor will an oboist worry about whether a trumpeter will come in on time. That is the business of the conductor. These people play their parts and the conductor puts it all together. ...read more

  • Imbalanced ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 1,945 views

    IMBALANCED COVERAGE Only 8% of Americans are atheist, reports The National Cultural Values Survey conducted for the Culture and Media Institute (CMI). Yet the U.S. news media does not subject atheism or atheists to the same skepticism to which it subjects Christians and Christianity. From the 105 ...read more

  • Fathers Make A Difference

    Contributed by John Bright on Jun 15, 2023
     | 854 views

    According to the 2022 U.S. Census Bureau, 18.4 million children, 1 in 4, live without a biological, step, or adoptive father in the home. That’s enough children to fill New York City twice or Los Angeles four times over. Research shows that a father's absence affects children in numerous ...read more

  • John Bisagno Former Pastor Of Houston’s ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on May 31, 2001
    based on 189 ratings
     | 4,809 views

    John Bisagno former Pastor of Houston’s First Baptist Church tells the story of his coming there to candidate for the position of pastor many years ago. He said that as he entered the auditorium it was dimly lit, with just a few people huddled together. They were singing some old slow funeral type ...read more

  • The Word ‘christian' Means Different Things To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 26, 2002
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     | 1,029 views

    “The word ‘Christian’ means different things to different people. To one person, it means a stiff, uptight, inflexible way of life—colorless and unbending. To another, it means a risky, surprised-filled venture, lived on tiptoe at the edge of expectation. Either of these pictures can be ...read more

  • Do You Remember? A Few Years Ago The Topic ...

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 23, 2002
     | 2,184 views

    ILL. Do you remember? A few years ago the topic of the day on an Oprah Winfrey show was "Having Affairs With Married Men." She had brought together several people who were having affairs to get their comments on how they felt about it. One lady responded very positively, saying that her affair ...read more

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