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  • D. It's Like An Incident That Benjamin Franklin ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 4, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,730 views

    D. It’s like an incident that Benjamin Franklin told about. An English minister was once ordered to read a proclamation issued by King Charles I. After a period in which the country had observed strict blue laws on Sundays, the king issued a decree urging people to return to participating in ...read more

  • How Does A Person Keep From Getting Distracted? ...

    Contributed by James Westmoreland on Oct 23, 2006
     | 4,126 views

    How does a person keep from getting distracted? How do we stay focused on being the person that God has called us to be? When Julius Caesar landed on the shores of Britain with his Roman legions, he took a bold and decisive step to ensure the success of his military venture. Ordering his men to ...read more

  • Don't Move The Piano  PRO

    Contributed by James Chandler on Jan 10, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,357 views

    A new preacher at the local church walked into the auditorium of His new church. He thought it would be best to move the piano from the right side of the stage to the left side of the stage, so he moved it. Soon after he was fired for the disruption caused by the new ...read more

  • Robert Louis Stevenson In One Of His Stories ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
     | 1,653 views

    Robert Louis Stevenson in one of his stories tells of a passenger ship crossing the Atlantic. It encountered a harsh storm that threatened to overwhelm the ship. The captain ordered the passengers below while the crew battled the storm above. At one point, the passengers grew impatient. They hadn’t ...read more

  • We Have A Custom Of Viewing The Body, Not Just ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
     | 801 views

    We have a custom of viewing the body, not just out of curiosity or to judge the mortician’s skill but to face reality. In doing that we grieve, which ventilates our sorrow and helps to bring emotional healing and relief. A young boy in my former pastorate suffered the death of his thirty-year-old ...read more

  • Phoebe Brown Was A Lady Who Knew How Important ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,877 views

    Phoebe Brown was a lady who knew how important worship is, and how beneficial it can be. Phoebe was a farmer’s wife and she and her husband had several children. So, naturally her days were full of hard work. By the end of the day her body was tired, her nerves were on edge, and her spirit was low. ...read more

  • The Man Groaned But Didn't Budge. The Usher ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,311 views

    The man groaned but didn’t budge. The usher became impatient. "Sir, if you don’t get up from there, I’m going to have to call the manager." Again, the man just groaned, which infuriated the usher who turned and marched briskly back up the aisle in search of his manager. In a few moments, both the ...read more

  • A Boy Entered A Grocery Store And Asked The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Oct 12, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 961 views

    A boy entered a grocery store and asked the grocer for a box of Duz detergent. The grocer was puzzled and asked why he wanted a box of Duz. The boy said that he was going to wash his cat. The grocer said, “Youlg man, you shouldn’t wash your cat with this kind of soap.” However, the boy insisted ...read more

  • The Greatest English Poet Of The Eighteenth ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Dec 2, 2007
     | 1,575 views

    . The greatest English poet of the eighteenth century Alexander Pope penned these immortal words in his An Essay on Man: Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never IS, but always TO be blest: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. [SOURCE: ...read more

  • On Day 6 Of Ill-Fated Apollo 13 Mission The ...

    Contributed by Ronald Thorington on Jan 1, 2008
     | 1,832 views

    On day 6 of ill-fated Apollo 13 mission the astronauts needed to make a critical course correction. If they failed they might never return to earth. To conserve power, the onboard computer that steered the craft had been shut down. yet the astronauts needed to conduct a 39 second burst of the main ...read more

  • When I Was About Six Years Old, I Heard The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 17, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,340 views

    When I was about six years old, I heard the pastor preach a message about the "Second Coming" of Christ. He emphasized the initial part of Christ’s return, what we like to call the "Rapture of the Church". He explained in great details the events that would transpire: people disappearing, worldwide ...read more

  • The Way Of Sanctification Is The Way Of Spiritual ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
     | 3,732 views

    The way of sanctification is the way of spiritual refreshment from the presence of the Lord. Picture your house when you go away for an extended vacation. You shut up the house and close all the blinds. While you’re gone the air becomes stale and musty. When you return the first thing you do is ...read more

  • The Physics Professor Had Just Finished His ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 9, 2008
     | 928 views

    The physics professor had just finished his lecture about the pendulum, wherein he had shown the mathematical proof that an untouched pendulum will always swing in ever-decreasing arcs. He then asked for a volunteer to demonstrate this fact by standing against a wall with a pendulum bob against ...read more

  • A Shipwrecked Man Managed To Reach An Uninhabited ...

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
     | 2,468 views

    A shipwrecked man managed to reach an uninhabited island. There, to protect himself against the elements and to safeguard the few possessions he had salvaged, he painstakingly built a little hut from which he constantly and prayerfully scanned the horizon for the approach of a ship. Returning one ...read more

  • Billy Graham's Rebuttal To Johnny Carson About ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,565 views

    Billy Graham’s Rebuttal to Johnny Carson about Second Coming Several years ago Johnny Carson had Billy Graham as a guest on his show. At one point there was a lull in the conversation and Johnny said, "You know what Billy, I bet if Jesus ever came back to earth, I bet we’d do him in again!" Billy ...read more

  • Start Of The Human Race  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Fa’atoia-Collins on May 13, 2010
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,938 views

    START OF THE HUMAN RACE A little girl asked her mother, "How did the human race start?" The mother answered, "God made Adam and Eve and they had children, and so all mankind was made." Two days later, the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, "Many years ago, there were ...read more

  • Danny Wuerffel

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 20, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,180 views

    DANNY WUERFFEL Danny Wuerffel attended high school in Ft. Walton Beach, FL and played at the University of Florida, winning the Heisman Trophy in 1996. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints and then played for several NFL teams. He was offered to rejoin to the Washington Redskins and his former ...read more

  • L.l. Bean: Integrity

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2011
     | 3,473 views

    L.L. BEAN: INTEGRITY In 1912, Leon Leonwood Bean started a mail order business in Greenwood, Maine by selling a hunting boot with a money-back guarantee. However, defects in the design led to 90 percent of them being returned. Making good on the guarantee could ruin his fledgling business, but ...read more

  • You Didn't Watch

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 14, 2011
     | 2,894 views

    YOU DIDN'T WATCH One time when Michigan State was playing UCLA in football, the score was tied at 14 with only seconds to play. Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State's coach, sent in place kicker Dave Kaiser who booted a field goal that won the game. When the kicker returned to the bench, Daugherty ...read more

  • A Father's Protection

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 8, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,390 views

    A FATHER'S PROTECTION Certain Native American tribes had a rite of passage for their teenage boys. At age 13 a boy would be blindfolded and led to a certain spot in the woods. He would be forced to sit down while the men of the tribe returned to their camp. The boy would be required to sit all ...read more

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