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  • Life Is Like A Jar Of Rocks  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 31, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,708 views

    Life Is Like A Jar Of Rocks A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, rocks about 2 inches in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was ...read more

  • Always Looking For Inspiring Stories To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 31, 2002
    based on 73 ratings
     | 2,866 views

    Always looking for inspiring stories to demonstrate the power of prayer, The Presidential Prayer Team shares this amazing story in the news today. Please pass it on to inspire others. 50 Christian truckers got together to pray to pray that somehow the sniper terrorizing the Washington, DC area ...read more

  • A World Of Peace  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 3, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 5,522 views

    A WORLD OF PEACE Bruce Larson tells how he helped people struggling to surrender their lives to Christ: "For many years I worked in New York City and counseled at my office any number of people who were wrestling with this yes-or-no decision. Often I would suggest they walk with me from my ...read more

  • Hello Walter!

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 3, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,648 views

    HELLO WALTER! Walter Cronkite, the famous newscaster tells the following story. He was sailing down the Mystic River in Connecticut, going through shallow water, when a boat filled with young people sped past him, shouting and waving their arms. Cronkite waved back a cheery greeting. His wife ...read more

  • He Was Healed  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2002
    based on 43 ratings
     | 9,758 views

    HE WAS HEALED Tony Campolo tells a story about being in a church in Oregon where he was asked to pray for a man who had cancer. Campolo prayed boldly for the man’s healing. That next week he got a telephone call from the man’s wife. She said, "You prayed for my husband. He had cancer." Campolo ...read more

  • Let Every Nation Know, Whether It Wishes Us Well ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2002
    based on 46 ratings
     | 1,689 views

    Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ...read more

  • The Origins Of Veterans Day  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 6,785 views

    THE ORIGINS OF VETERANS DAY In 1921, an unknown World War I American soldier was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This site, on a hillside overlooking the Potomac River and the city of Washington, became the focal point of reverence for America’s veterans. Similar ceremonies occurred ...read more

  • The Smiling Soldiers  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,653 views

    THE SMILING SOLDIERS "Weika Coenraad, of Dahlonega, Georgia, was a little girl in Holland during the War, and has vivid memories of the American soldiers who liberated her town in 1945. She’s now an American citizen. [She writes:] ’I was just a little girl during the Second World War, born in ...read more

  • Unsung Heroines  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 1,844 views

    UNSUNG HEROINES In Tom Brokaw’s book "The Greatest Generation Speaks," Veronica Mackey Hulick tells of her service during World War II. Veronica was 20 when she joined the Navy WAVES [Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service]. She and about 1500 other bright young women worked for hours ...read more

  • Name Of God...?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,837 views

    NAME OF GOD...? If you’re in Lake City, Fla., one of these days and happen to run into a 50-something fellow with a sandy moustache, a receeding hairline, and aviator glasses, you may be in the presence of I Am Who I Am. Really. But that’s because Columbia County Court turned down his first ...read more

  • Where Have The Skunks Gone?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,533 views

    Where have the skunks gone? If you’ve seen a skunk--or smelled one--in the last five years, Florida wants to know. "I haven’t seen a dead skunk on the road for a while," said Henry Cabbage, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Neither have the agency’s biologists. ...read more

  • Hope And A Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 9,537 views

    HOPE AND A PRAYER 50 Christian truckers got together to pray to pray that somehow the sniper terrorizing the Washington, DC area would be caught. Ron Lantz would be retiring as a driver in a few days and didn’t even live in the area, but he felt sure that God would answer their prayers. In fact, ...read more

  • Bridal Nerves  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,891 views

    I read about a bride who sought advise on how to deal with her nerves as she processed to the altar at the start of her wedding. The pastor suggested that she remember to keep her eyes first on the isle. Then, upon turning the corner, to focus on the altar. And. finially, as she drew ...read more

  • John Oxenham Wrote In His Selected Poems Of John ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 8, 2002
     | 2,436 views

    John Oxenham wrote in his selected poems of John Oxenham,"Love ever gives-Forgives-outlives- And ever stands with open hands. And,while it lives-it gives. For ...read more

  • Godless Americans March On Washington

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,947 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

  • Stephen Hawking] "…has Calculated That If The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
     | 1,322 views

    [Stephen Hawking] “…has calculated that if the rate of the universe’s expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have collapsed into a fireball.” • British physicist P.C.W. Davies has concluded the odds ...read more

  • Define Miracle  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,767 views

    DEFINE MIRACLE A miracle is a divine intervention into, or interruption of, the regular course of the world that produces a purposeful but unusual event that would not have occurred otherwise(Geisler). Scholar, William Lane Craig gives us an even more simple definition: A miracle is an event ...read more

  • God Is Not Discoverable Or Demonstrable By Purely ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,341 views

    God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong ...read more

  • There Is An Appropriate Historical Example Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,592 views

    There is an appropriate historical example of this folly of ruling out something ahead of time because it does not fit with one’s view of the world. When explorers first came to Australia, they encountered an animal the defied all known laws of taxonomy. They discovered a semiaquatic, egg-laying ...read more

  • I Lost It - The Number Of Church-Going Americans ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,096 views

    I Lost It - The number of church-going Americans who dropped out of church DOUBLED in the past decade, from 7% of the population to 14%. Calvin College professor Ruth A. Tucker says many of those who leave have put in years - some even decades - of faithful service to the church. She says winning ...read more