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  • Sulfur Caves

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Dec 11, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,258 views

    Sulfur Caves In Southern Mexico lies the Cueva de Villa Luz, or Cave of the Lighted House. As you make your way to the cave you walk through a veritable paradise of tropical birds and lush rain forest. Underwater the cave is fed by 20 underground springs, beautiful watercourses which teem with tiny ...read more

  • Dr. Robert Lewis (Pastor Of The Fellowship Bible ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on May 27, 2008
     | 1,642 views

    Dr. Robert Lewis (pastor of the Fellowship Bible Church of Little Rock, AR) says: “The first ‘big idea’ driving many churches is to create a church that meets the needs of its members. And since so many people have deep spiritual needs, there is much good in this approach. But often it also leads ...read more

  • Music Abuse

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 2,424 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

  • Sulfur ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
     | 1,113 views

    Sulfur Caves In Southern Mexico lies the Cueva de Villa Luz, or Cave of the Lighted House. As you make your way to the cave you walk through a veritable paradise of tropical birds and lush rain forest. Underwater the cave is fed by 20 underground springs, beautiful watercourses which teem with tiny ...read more

  • Seven Stanzas At Easter

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Mar 19, 2023
     | 727 views

    John Updike put it in his wonderful poem : Make no mistake: if he rose at all it was as his body; If the cells dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the church will fall. Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping transcendence; Making ...read more

  • When I Was In The Marines, The Training For ...  PRO

    Contributed by William Neel on Jan 23, 2003
    based on 33 ratings
     | 2,005 views

    When I was in the marines, the training for commandos included cliff assaults. The theory was that a commando raid should be a surprise, done as quickly and as silently as possible on the area with the lightest defenses. The lightest defense is at the point where attack is least expected. More ...read more

  • Billy Graham Awarded Golden Congressional Medal

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,835 views

    BILLY GRAHAM AWARDED GOLDEN CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL On Thursday May 2, 1996, Dr. Billy Graham was awarded the Golden Congressional Medal, the highest honor this country can bestow upon an individual - only 263 individuals had ever received this in the history of the United States of America. In his ...read more

  • Compromise And Anti-Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,843 views

    COMPROMISE AND ANTI-CHRIST Religious tolerance is not always a sign of good will. It can be a sign of careless, perhaps hypocritical religious indifference of the most high-handed philosophic relativism. It can also be a mask behind which to hide downright malice. During the Nazi era, for example, ...read more

  • A Persian King Was Lifted Out Of A Life Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Dec 28, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,791 views

    A Persian king was lifted out of a life of poverty and deposited into the luxury of the royal throne. After he became the king, he sent some servants to the old shack that he once lived in. The place of his birth and rearing. The servants were instructed to gather every relic of that part of his ...read more

  • Video: Mr. Holland's Opus

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 27, 2004
     | 2,049 views

    Opening Video Illustration: Mr. Holland’s Opus Our scene opens with the principal and vice principal questioning Mr. Holland’s use of rock music in his music appreciation class. Mr. Holland defends his teaching methods and says he will use whatever music he can to teach his students to love ...read more

  • G. Hastings- People For Two Millennia Have Been ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 16, 2002
    based on 53 ratings
     | 1,492 views

    G. Hastings- People for two millennia have been refuting and overthrowing this book, and yet it stands today as solid as a rock. Its circulation increases, and it is more loved and cherished and read today than ever before. People make about as much impression on this book as a man with a tack ...read more

  • In An Article In Time Magazine On Global Poverty, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 28, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,201 views

    In an article in Time Magazine on global poverty, specifically on the efforts of rock star Bono of the group U2, March 4, 2002: The model for a new approach is Jubilee 2000, which campaigned with great success to reduce developing world debt. Jubilee 2000 was based in Europe, not the U.S., and ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About A Train Traveling Through ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jun 25, 2006
    based on 44 ratings
     | 1,551 views

    I heard a story about a train traveling through the night in a very violent rainstorm. The lightning flashes were almost blinding, the rain hitting the windows was deafening and the strong gust winds rocked the train from side to side. When the lightening flashed and lighted up the darkness, the ...read more

  • The Dead Rat

    Contributed by Paul Steen on Dec 11, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,118 views

    A boy ran into his house to tell his mom something. He had a dead rat in his hand. But he didn't notice that the pastor of their church was talking to his mom. The boy said, “Mom, you'll never guess what! I was out behind the garage and there was this rat. I picked up a rock and threw it and hit ...read more

  • A Lesson On Purity From Ermine

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 9, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,957 views

    In the forests of Northern Europe lives the ermine, a small animal best known for his snow-white fur, which is his protection and security. Instinctively, he protects his glossy coat with great care lest it become soiled. Hunters often capitalize on this trait. Instead of setting a mechanical trap ...read more

  • Sleeping Church

    Contributed by Rev. Duraimony Dickson on Sep 26, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,138 views

    Martin Luther once dreamed that the devil was listening to reports from his agents on the progress they were making against the Kingdom of God. One reported, "A company of Christians were crossing the desert, and I loosen the lions on them, and all were lost." The devil replied, ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About A Train Traveling Through ...

    Contributed by Randy Brooks on Jun 6, 2007
     | 1,511 views

    I heard a story about a train traveling through the night in a very violent rainstorm. The lightning flashes were almost blinding, the rain hitting the windows was deafening and the strong gust winds rocked the train from side to side. When the lightening flashed and lighted up the darkness, the ...read more

  • If She Can, I Can Too

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Apr 20, 2008
     | 1,406 views

    IF SHE CAN, I CAN TOO My Meme Granberry was a great soul winner for the Lord. If you would be around her, within a few minutes she would be telling you about the Lord and asking you if you know Jesus as your Lord and Savior. There was a reason why. • Meme & Papaw lived a rough life. • Papaw owned ...read more

  • Gary Martin, Author Of Meanings And Origins ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 27, 2008
     | 1,003 views

    Gary Martin, author of Meanings and Origins provides us with the US origin of the phrase. He traced the earliest known printed reference to 1921. At the time it spoke of 'recent panics' in Arizona. The 'recent panics' referred to in that citation was the Bisbee deportations of 1917. Martin ...read more

  • In Wwii When The Marines Captured The Island Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,137 views

    In WWII when the Marines captured the island of Saipan, the Japanese ordered the inhabitants to kill themselves by jumping off a cliff. I was in Saipan in 1984, and I was at this very hill where the Japanese ordered their own people to jump off and kill themselves. Hundreds of feet below are the ...read more

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