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  • A Father Related How One Of His Son's Favorite ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 18, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,206 views

    A father related how one of his son’s favorite games was "hide and seek" - his son always hid. The game always went the same: Dad always counted to 100 by 5’s and then would shout out, "Here comes Daddy to find you Tommy." And Tommy would always hide in the same room and the same spot - but of ...read more

  • The First Christmas Card  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 15, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 2,267 views

    THE FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD The first Christmas card ever produced had its own disturbing qualitites. It was designed by an English artist named John Calcott Horsley in 1843, after he was commissioned for the task by Sir Henry Cole, a businessman from Bath, England. There were 1,000 of the ...read more

  • Paul Considered Himself Christ's Ambassador. What ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,014 views

    Paul considered himself Christ’s ambassador. What is an ambassador? He is an authorized representative of a sovereign. He speaks not in his own name but on behalf of the ruler whose deputy he is, and his whole duty and responsibility is to interpret that ruler’s mind faithfully to those to whom he ...read more

  • Selecting A Christmas Gift

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,528 views

    Selecting a Christmas Gift It is that time of the year when people really start to get serious about selecting Christmas gifts. When purchasing Christmas gifts one must first remember what is being celebrated. "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes ...read more

  • Godless Americans March On Washington

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,764 views

    GODLESS AMERICANS MARCH ON WASHINGTON An article from Sunday’s Washington Times reported on the event by saying, "Thousands of nonbelievers converged on the Mall yesterday to demand equal rights under the Constitution and separation between politics and the pulpit during the first-ever Godless ...read more

  • Power May Make A Task Easier. But It Still ...

    Contributed by Allen Calkins on Nov 24, 2009
     | 1,762 views

    ILL: Power may make a task easier. But it still takes an effort to accomplish. A power riding lawn mower or a power push mower makes mowing much easier than using a push mower with no motor. But it still requires an effort on our part. An automatic dishwasher makes the core of washing dishes ...read more

  • Inconsistency

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 7, 2010
     | 1,838 views

    On August 6, 1945 the man once described as “an outstanding Baptist layman”, President Harry Truman, stood on the deck of the battleship “Augusta”, right after the first atomic bomb was dropped, and proclaimed “this is the greatest thing in history.” Few Americans Christians challenged his claim. ...read more

  • John The Baptist And The Mandaeans

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 6, 2013
     | 3,936 views

    JOHN THE BAPTIST AND THE MANDAEANS One religion exists to this day that reveres John as their main prophet: The Mandaeans were originally native speakers of Mandaic, a Semitic language that evolved from Eastern Middle Aramaic, before switching to colloquial Iraqi Arabic and Modern Persian. ...read more

  • The Christian Believer Has To Say – Even In Our ...

    Contributed by Peter Bines on Jan 22, 2008
     | 1,515 views

    The Christian believer has to say – even in our multi-faith environment - that no other so-called Saviour will do! We need a sin-bearer. Can Mohammed be our sin-bearer; or Confucious, or Moses, or any other religious leader? No, only One who was both God and Man can bridge the great divide that our ...read more

  • When I Was Preparing This Sermon I Had Just Seen ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on May 6, 2001
    based on 93 ratings
     | 2,273 views

    When I was preparing this sermon I had just seen again the film ’Gandhi’ and was moved by the account of that great Indian leader - how he overcame injustice and oppression, not by force, but by non-violent resistance. He said to his followers, ’so long as we’re peaceful, the initiative is ours, ...read more

  • Prussian King Frederick The Great Was Once ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 28, 2001
    based on 57 ratings
     | 1,398 views

    Prussian king Frederick the Great was once touring a Berlin prison. The prisoners fell on their knees before him to proclaim their innocence-except for one man, who remained silent. Frederick called to him, "Why are you here?" "Armed robbery, Your Majesty," was the reply. "And are you guilty?" ...read more

  • A Small Storeowner Was Being Pressured To Sell ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Decker on Nov 19, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 29,312 views

    A small storeowner was being pressured to sell his store to the owners of a large department store who had bought every building on the block, except his. Frustrated by the man’s refusal to sell, they eventually opened their huge store on either side of the small one, with a big banner running ...read more

  • Prussian King Frederick The Great Was Once ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,511 views

    Prussian king Frederick the Great was once touring a Berlin prison. The prisoners fell on their knees before him to proclaim their innocence—except for one man, who remained silent. Frederick called to him, “Why are you here?” “Armed robbery, Your Majesty,” was the reply. “And are you ...read more

  • Jesus Honored Marriage And Weddings

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 7, 2022
     | 861 views

    Note the high honor our Lord places upon marriage and the wedding ceremony in his very first miracle. It honors God when we come to a wedding pure and proclaim our trust in God for the marriage to succeed! By his presence at the marriage feast, the Son of God said, ‘This is an honorable thing’ ...read more

  • I Had A Very Animated Professor At Bible College ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Carpenter on Oct 24, 2000
    based on 214 ratings
     | 2,943 views

    I had a very animated professor at Bible college by the name of Dr. Emert. He taught us about the danger of blaspheming God’s Son by claiming that He is anything less than God. He told how for some the earth opened, for some fire fell from Heaven, and for some floods came. He told us that he had ...read more

  • Whitening Fast

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Feb 13, 2012
     | 3,111 views

    WHITENING FAST When Dr. Rees was waiting to preach, a friend commended to him, "You sure are whitening fast!" He got up and said this from the pulpit: "There is a little white flower that comes up through the earth at this season of the year - sometimes it comes up through the snow and frost; but ...read more

  • A Soapmaker, Who Was Not Saved, Walked Along The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Yount on Nov 30, 2001
    based on 13 ratings
     | 2,569 views

    A Soapmaker, who was not saved, walked along the road with a preacher one day. He said to the preacher, “The gospel you preach has not done much good. There is still a lot of wickedness in the world, and wicked people, too.” Quietly they walked on. The preacher did not reply to his ...read more

  • Christian Author Max Lucado Says, "We Aren't ...  PRO

    Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Oct 7, 2002
    based on 29 ratings
     | 4,429 views

    Christian author Max Lucado says, “We aren’t good enough to judge. Can the hungry accuse the beggar? Can the sick mock the ill? Can the blind judge the deaf?” In the same way, can the sinner condemn the sinner? Absolutely not! He goes on to say, “Be careful! The Peter who denies Jesus at ...read more

  • Wilhelm Busch Once Said, "To Become A Mother Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 6, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,145 views

    Wilhelm Busch once said, “To become a mother is not so difficult; on the other hand, being a mother is very much so!” (Taken from Proclaim, “A Mother’s Day Sermon,” May 14, 1989). Concerning that statement, a preacher asked, “So, with all those qualifications, why bother with Mother’s Day at all? ...read more

  • Newton's Last Breath

    Contributed by John Fallahee on Jun 23, 2010
     | 3,625 views

    NEWTON'S LAST BREATH Many of you know the story of John Newton and the song he penned "Amazing Grace." You know of his conversion to Christ and how he left the slave trade. He went on to pastor for 40 years. What you may not know that even at 82 years of age, he never ceased to marvel at the grace ...read more

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