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  • The Church Is Dark When You're Not There

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,390 views

    THE CHURCH IS DARK WHEN YOU’RE NOT THERE In a certain mountain village in Europe several centuries ago, a nobleman wondered what legacy he should leave to his townspeople. At last he decided to build them a church. No one saw the complete plans for the church until it was finished. When the people ...read more

  • Hell Should Break Your Heart

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
     | 1,757 views

    HELL SHOULD BREAK YOUR HEART It is difficult for any of us to receive a hard truth, however necessary it may be for us to hear it. But it is always much easier to hear it if it is told in love. Pastor and author Ray Stedman tells of a congregation that had dismissed its pastor. Someone asked a ...read more

  • I Don't Remember

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,692 views

    I DON’T REMEMBER An elderly man moved into a retirement community. It wasn’t long until he had made a number of friends among the other residents. There was one lady he was especially attracted to and she was attracted to him, also. They spent a lot of time together. Finally one evening he ...read more

  • Pa Won't Like It  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,737 views

    "PA WON’T LIKE IT" A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagonload of corn in the road. The farmer who lived nearby came to investigate. "Hey, Willis," he called out, "forget your troubles for a spell and come on in and have dinner with us. Then I’ll help you get the wagon up." "That’s mighty ...read more

  • What Would You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    WHAT WOULD YOU DO? "Here’s the scenario," the instructor announced to his class of novice truck drivers. "You’re in an 18-wheeler with a heavy load, barreling down a mountainous two-lane highway. Ed, your co-driver, is asleep. There are six trucks behind you, and as you come over the top of a ...read more

  • Cohabitation ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
     | 1,406 views

    COHABITATION STUDIES The Australian Institute of Family Studies had a Family Formation Project cited in this government report. The study found that after five years of marriage, 13 percent of those who had cohabited were divorced, compared to 6 percent of those who had not cohabited - that ...read more

  • Little ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    LITTLE THINGS This leads us to a simple but important principle: Our faithfulness in the little things will determine how faithful we will be with bigger things. There is a story about a huge bank where one of the employees was up for a significant promotion. He lost that promotion one day in ...read more

  • Men As Role-Models For Children

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
     | 2,664 views

    MEN AS ROLE-MODELS FOR CHILDREN I am still struck by a report I heard months ago by an educator studying the needs of the District’s school system. He had found, in studying the children, that up to about the third grade they were bright, ambitious, eager to learn; but that somewhere after that, ...read more

  • Stepping Out-Of-Bounds

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
     | 1,969 views

    STEPPING OUT-OF-BOUNDS I had missed a game winning free-throw. I swore that would never happen again. So I practiced until I became excellent at free-throws. In the next big tournament, I swished two free-throws. On the last one, I heard an ear-splitting whistle in my ear. I had stepped over the ...read more

  • Evangelism: Aquariums And Fires

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    EVANGELISM: AQUARIUMS AND FIRES The late Sam Shoemaker, an Episcopalian bishop, summed up the situation this way: "In the Great Commission, the Lord has called us to be--like Peter--fishers of men. We’ve turned the commission around so that we have become merely keepers of the aquarium. ...read more

  • Houses Of Refuge

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    HOUSES OF REFUGE There was no alternative to manslaughter. If you wanted to live, the only option was to flee to one of these cities of refuge. [HOUSE OF REFUGE, HUTCHINSON IS., FL] House of Refuge- The House of Refuge is the last remaining shipwreck life-saving station on Florida’s Atlantic ...read more

  • Obedience And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 12, 2009
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    OBEDIENCE AND LEADERSHIP In the 11th Century, King Henry III of Bavaria was fed up the set up of being King. He applied to be a contemplative at the local monastery, via Prior Richard. The King told the Prior of his struggle, personal battles. The Prior said, "My King, do you understand that the ...read more

  • Individually, We Are Weak

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2022
     | 1,883 views

    This story was written by Donald Grey Barnhouse. Several years ago, two students graduated from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. The highest ranking student in the class was a blind man named Overton and, when he received his honor, he insisted that half the credit should go to his friend, ...read more

  • You Can Change

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Mar 27, 2023
     | 1,279 views

    Colin Smith tells the story of a friend who had a severe heart attack. The man said it felt like an elephant on his chest. He survived, but the doctor told him he would have to change his diet. Colin asked the man what he ate before the heart attack. The man said he loved cheeseburgers, fries, ...read more

  • Sins Of Omission

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 22, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 449 views

    It isn't the thing you do; It's the thing you leave undone, Which gives you a bit of heartache At the setting of the sun. The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower you might have sent, Are your haunting ghosts tonight. The stone you might have ...read more

  • Staying In Our Assigned Scope

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Jul 9, 2024
     | 2,957 views

    I was sitting on my deck at home one day this week having a brief devotional with the Lord. I looked up into a tree and saw a very small bird, a tiny yellow finch. I looked at him, and he looked at me. He was perched there without a care in the world, feeling safe and sound on his God-given turf. ...read more

  • Have To Die To Go To Heaven

    Contributed by John Bright on Apr 17, 2025
     | 280 views

    Remember, all the bodies are going to die. Jesus had a body. What happened on the cross? He died. So will we. Amen – the end. That would be a terrible place to end a sermon but it reminds me of a Sunday School story. The teacher asked the children, “If I sold my house and car and gave all my ...read more

  • Prayer

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 9, 2025
     | 831 views

    I read where a family bought a PRAYER BOOK for their son. Each night the boy would read a prayer before going to sleep. He was faithful to read a prayer. One night the boy was tired. He turned the light off and crawled into bed. He remember the prayer book. That night he called out to God: ...read more

  • History Of Father's Day - Sonora Smart Dodd

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Nov 25, 2025
    based on 2 ratings
     | 56 views

    Indeed ... It is Father's Day, ... and the very first national celebration ... of this day .... was on June 19, 1924, ... via a proclamation ... of President Calvin Coolidge. But it all came about ... due to the efforts of a woman named ... "Sonora" Smart Dodd. Sonora was sitting ...read more

  • A Crushing Grief—communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2003
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,364 views

    A CRUSHING GRIEF-- COMMUNION MEDITATION Her name was Laurie. Robert Barnett only met her one time and that was for less than an hour. It was in the ICU at a university hospital. It was the last day of Laurie’s life on earth, only neither Laurie nor Robert knew that at the time. During the brief ...read more