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  • Let's Look At What Dr. C. Truman Davis* Wrote ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 17, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,376 views

    Let’s look at what Dr. C. Truman Davis* wrote about the price Jesus paid for this indescribable gift (2 Cor. 9:15): After the arrest in the middle of the night, Jesus was brought before the Sanhedrin and Caiphus, the High Priest; it is here that the first physical trauma was inflicted. A soldier ...read more

  • Agony Claws My Mind. I Am A Statistic. When I ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2001
    based on 120 ratings
     | 3,939 views

    Agony claws my mind. I am a statistic. When I first got here, I felt very much alone. I was overwhelmed by grief, and I expected to find sympathy. I found no sympathy. I saw only thousands of others whose bodies were as badly mangled as mine. I was given a number and places in a category. This was ...read more

  • Passing The Torch: Lessons From Castro  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 1, 2001
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,017 views

    PASSING THE TORCH: LESSONS FROM CASTRO In August, President Fidel Castro celebrated his 75th birthday. The Cuban dictator came to power in 1959, after overthrowing former dictator, Fulgencio Batista. On the eve of his birthday, Castro made a powerful gesture. He publicly handed a Cuban flag to ...read more

  • A Winning Streak Of One!" 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 1, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,701 views

    “A Winning Streak of One!” 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 Key verse(s) 16“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” It’s important to make sure that every day of our lives we practice gladness and condition ourselves to finding ...read more

  • Have You Seen The Movie Antwone Fisher? It's The ...

    Contributed by Bruce Emmert on Oct 9, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,287 views

    Have you seen the movie Antwone Fisher? It’s the true story of a young man abandoned at birth by his mother and then raised in abusive orphanages, foster homes, and reform schools. Denzel Washington adapted the story into a movie that was released a few years ago. After his 18th birthday, Antwone ...read more

  • Today's Pitcairn Island Population Is Descended ...

    Contributed by W F on Mar 31, 2007
     | 1,394 views

    Today’s Pitcairn Island population is descended from British sailors and Tahitians. The mutineers of the HMS Bounty settled the island [first discovered by world explorers on 2 July 1767 by midshipman Pitcairn aboard the HMS Swallow] in 1790, along with their Tahitian women and a few Tahitian men. ...read more

  • You Can't Just Sit Around  PRO

    Contributed by Dennis Selfridge on Jul 3, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,022 views

    "YOU CAN'T JUST SIT AROUND." Larry Walters is among the relatively few who have actually turned their dreams into reality. Larry was a truck driver, but his lifelong dream was to fly. When he graduated from high school, he joined the Air Force in hopes of becoming a pilot. Unfortunately, poor ...read more

  • Substitute Teacher Finally Admits She Doesn't ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2009
     | 3,880 views

    Substitute Teacher Finally Admits She Doesn’t Know Subject Matter Have you ever tried to stand and teach, and there you are in front of the class, and you realize all of a sudden that you are out of your depth and that you haven’t got a clue as to what is going on and what to say? That makes for ...read more

  • Example Of Hospitality

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 29, 2010
     | 4,785 views

    EXAMPLE OF HOSPITALITY Jan and Darryl have always been openly generous people. They make you feel as if they are honoured to have you in their home and nothing is too much trouble for them. Which is just as well because they are our connect group leaders. Every fortnight people in our Connect ...read more

  • Simon Tells The Story Of Judson Cornwall, An ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Aug 7, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,854 views

    Simon tells the story of Judson Cornwall, an American Pentecostal preacher who, after the war, was invited to speak at a renewal conference in Germany. But Cornwall had a deep seated grudge against the Germans and simply threw the invitation into the bin. Remarkably, when his wife emptied the ...read more

  • Why Did Jesus Need To Be Baptized?  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 3, 2013
    based on 14 ratings
     | 10,399 views

    Why would Jesus need to be baptized by John? Well... Jesus' baptism by John was the beginning of Jesus' ministry. Mark 1:1 starts out: "The BEGINNING of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God" and then Mark starts telling us about Jesus' baptism by John. In Luke 3:23 ...read more

  • Glorify God In Your Body

    Contributed by Sam Mccormick on Dec 15, 2016
     | 6,284 views

    When I was in high school at Littlefield, Texas, a boy was occasionally seen in the corridors who I did not ever see in my classes. His head was a grayish purple color, irregularly shaped, and at least twice the size of a normal person’s head. I understood that he was a student at the school who ...read more

  • Today's Pitcairn Island Population Is Descended ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,627 views

    Today’s Pitcairn Island population is descended from British sailors and Tahitians. The mutineers of the HMS Bounty settled the island [first discovered by world explorers on 2 July 1767 by midshipman Pitcairn aboard the HMS Swallow] in 1790, along with their Tahitian women and a few Tahitian men. ...read more

  • There Is A Guy Named Shane Claiborne Who Sees ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 15, 2007
     | 1,277 views

    There is a guy named Shane Claiborne who sees this Shema of Jesus to do to others as a radical call to a radical way of living. When he was in college at Eastern University near Philly, the newspaper had a headline about some homeless families that were being evicted from an old, abandoned ...read more

  • Part One (Kid's ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 17, 2008
     | 1,290 views

    Part One (kid’s sermon) Let me tell you about the most memorable day of my life. There I was living this average conditions with no one recognizing my worth. No one really could see the great potential that I had when suddenly everything change. All of a sudden, out of no where, I taken from my ...read more

  • My Stripes

    Contributed by Scott Jensen on Oct 8, 2008
     | 1,428 views

    My Stripes Many years ago I was enlisted in the Air Force and competed for promotion to Technical Sergeant. I was a Staff Sergeant that had been recognized as one of the best. I had fire wall 5 performance reports and had been Group NCO of the Year for two consecutive years. I had all the right ...read more

  • A Young Girl Grows Up On A Cherry Orchard Just ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 15 ratings
     | 4,953 views

    A young girl grows up on a cherry orchard just above Traverse City, Michigan. Her parents, a bit old-fashioned, tend to overreact to her nose ring, the music she listens to, and the length of her skirts. They ground her a few times, and she seethes inside. "I hate you" she screams at her father ...read more

  • Missy  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 29, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,453 views

    Missy Dear Heavenly Father, I don’t’ know if you have any special place set aside for the small creatures in your future plans, but, I would like to ask a favor of you; that is, if you feel I’m worthy of entrance into your Kingdom. I know that your eye is on the sparrow and that not one thing ...read more

  • A Preacher Once Wrote About An Incident In His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 19, 2002
    based on 103 ratings
     | 2,514 views

    A preacher once wrote about an incident in his life: “I’d received a notice from my 13 year old son’s school announcing a meeting to preview the new course in sexuality. Parents could examine the curriculum and take part in an actual lesson presented exactly as it would be given to the students. ...read more

  • Teach The Children  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
    based on 54 ratings
     | 4,798 views

    TEACH THE CHILDREN Just a week before Christmas I had a visitor. This is how it happened... I just finished the household chores for the night and was preparing to go to bed, when I heard a noise in the front of the house. I opened the door to the front room and to my surprise, Santa himself ...read more

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