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  • Ah, Life Is So Full Of Choices. Sometimes We ...  PRO

    Contributed by Darren Mccormick on Feb 26, 2008
    based on 17 ratings
     | 3,304 views

    Ah, life is so full of choices. Sometimes we choose wisely. Sometimes not so wisely---like the little boy whose older brother talked into letting him crack some eggs on his head. The two of them were getting ready to boil some eggs so they could decorate them for Easter when the older brother ...read more

  • Romans 8:31 Says: "If God Is For Us, Who Can Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
     | 1,484 views

    Romans 8:31 says: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” It’s knowing that God is “with us” that gives us our courage… and helps us overcome our fears. I read the true story once about a woman who was babysitting for the 2 year old son of her preacher. The boy was sleeping in her home one ...read more

  • A Bone Or A Steak?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2011
     | 1,994 views

    A BONE OR A STEAK? Which is better, a bone or a steak? Think of it this way. It’s easy to give a dog a bone, but it’s almost impossible to take a bone away from a dog. Even our little Schnauzer, Betsy, the world’s friendliest dog, will growl at me if I try to take a bone away from her. But ...read more

  • A Sacrifice Of Praise Hurts!

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Mar 1, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,898 views

    A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE HURTS! Several years ago, there was a song on Christian radio that said, "We bring a sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord." It had a happy, upbeat tune. Listening to it, I had the feeling that the singers were intrigued by the words but had not personally ...read more

  • Faith Connection  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,665 views

    FAITH CONNECTION Spurgeon use to tell a story about two men in a boat. They were caught in a very, very severe rapids and they were going to a place where there was a waterfall and even worse rapids and there was really no way, if they ever hit those rapids, that they would ever live. And they ...read more

  • The Umpire's Revenge  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 6, 2013
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,989 views

    THE UMPIRE'S REVENGE Forgiveness begins when we give up the quest to get even. This is difficult, because getting even is the natural obsession of the wounded soul. Stories about getting even always capture our attention. It wouldn’t surprise me if revenge is the theme of as many as half the ...read more

  • Love  PRO

    Contributed by Roger Whipp on Dec 31, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 12,613 views

    Love is one of the most powerful emotions we have. The actress Joan Crawford once said “Love is a fire but whether it warms your heart or burns your house down, you can never tell!” Love can motivate, give pleasure, hurt even destroy. It can make us do bold, even stupid things. During the 17th ...read more

  • Deep Wells Of Hope.

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jun 9, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,105 views

    MIA: MISSING IN ACTION… WHAT DO YOU SEE? MAN IS SHORT OF DAYS AND FULL OF TROUBLE… Years ago I read where a farmer in California was having a terrible time. They had had 4 years of drought in their area and many farmers spoke of leaving farming and moving back into the city. So the exodus began. ...read more

  • How To Get To Heaven

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
     | 1,704 views

    HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN Bishop Fulton Sheen, in his autobiography "Treasure in Clay," wrote about an experience he had when he was traveling around preaching: I stopped to ask a few boys for directions to the Town Hall where I was giving a lecture. They told me where the Town Hall was and then ...read more

  • Strangers Have Devoured His Strength - From Hosea ...

    Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
     | 2,263 views

    Strangers have devoured his strength - from Hosea 7:9 What gives spiritual weakness like allowed sin? It was so with Israel, it will ever be so with us. Yielding to unhallowed association (with) strangers devour our strength. If you ever saw a cake not turned, baked only on one side, ...read more

  • Kingdom In My Heart

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,221 views

    KINGDOM IN MY HEART Alistair MacLean quotes a story from Tauler, the German mystic: One day Tauler met a beggar. "God give you a good day, my friend." he said. The beggar answered, "I thank God I never had a bad one." Then Tauler said, "God give you a happy life, my friend." "I thank God," said ...read more

  • Scrubs Christmas Voiceover  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Nov 10, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,191 views

    SCRUBS CHRISTMAS VOICEOVER The cast of the TV Show Scrubs have done a number of satirical looks at various things. The did a voice over of "Charlie Brown’s Christmas" and Dr. Cox does the Linus soliloquy which originally was the story of Christmas from the gospel. This post-modern version [IMHO] ...read more

  • The Life Of The Early Church Didn't Spring Up ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 30, 2008
     | 1,754 views

    THE LIFE OF THE EARLY CHURCH DIDN’T SPRING UP FROM THE BOTTOM UP, NOR FROM THE TOP DOWN. PAUL SCANLON WRITES OF MEETING A BAPTIST PASTOR WHO FOR TWENTY YEARS HAD BEEN IN MINISTRY AT THE SAME CHURCH. HE AND HIS WIFE HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND FINISHED UP VERY ILL ON MEDICATION. I WAS SPEAKING TO ...read more

  • You Already Have Happiness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 3,150 views

    YOU ALREADY HAVE HAPPINESS The angel asked, "You aren’t happy. How can I help you?" The poet replied, "I have everything. But I lack only one thing. Can you give it to me?" To which the angel happily said, "Sure. I can give you anything you desire." The poet stared right into the angel’s eyes, "I ...read more

  • God's 'glory' Is How We Describe The Sum Effect ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 2, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,181 views

    "God's 'glory' is how we describe the sum effect of all of his attributes: grace, truth, goodness, mercy, justice, knowledge, power, eternality--all that He is. Therefore, the glory of God is intrinsic; it is as essential to God as light is to the sun and as wet is to water. You don't make the sun ...read more

  • The Most Important Freedom  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
    based on 45 ratings
     | 5,937 views

    THE MOST IMPORTANT FREEDOM Patrick Henry was a famous statesman and orator of colonial Virginia. In 1764 he was elected to the House of Burgesses where he became a champion of the frontier people, supporting their rights against the arrogant exercise of power by the aristocracy. In 1774 he was a ...read more

  • Keeping Promises  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 31, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 8,828 views

    KEEPING PROMISES It’s the story of a friendship forged during one of the worst battles of World War II, and a promise made almost 60 years ago, a promise that was finally kept Thursday, Aug. 2, 2001. HAROLD HUGGINS, a veteran of 10 major campaigns in World War II and the last survivor of his ...read more

  • Overcomers  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 6, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 6,222 views

    Overcomers 1. 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. 2. Walt ...read more

  • The Alamo Was A Spanish Mission. After Mexico ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,263 views

    The Alamo was a Spanish mission. After Mexico won her independence from Spain, Texans wanted to be liberated from Mexico and join the United States. When they declared their independence, the Alamo went from mission to fortress, and Texans took their stand within her walls. The Mexican dictator, ...read more

  • I Close A Letter Emailed To Me. It Is From A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,431 views

    . I CLOSE A LETTER EMAILED TO ME. IT IS FROM A SOLDIER IN IRAQ, WHO WROTE HIS MOTHER ABOUT HIS SEARCH FOR SALVATION: “DEAR MOM, I AM FINE, BUT I LOST MY BEST FRIEND TODAY IN AN AMBUSH AND THE ONLY WAY I CAN EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME, IS TO TELL YOU THIS STORY: IMAGINE YOU ARE CRAWLING, ...read more

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