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  • Have You Ever Seen A Billy Mays Commercial? He ...

    Contributed by Sterling Franklin on Jul 2, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,109 views

    Have you ever seen a Billy Mays commercial? He has unfortunately passed away, but he was known for endorsing a lot of products, always keeping a loud voice volume, and enthusiastically selling some of the most ridiculous items on the market. One of the items he endorses is called the Awesome ...read more

  • One-And-A-Half Degrees Off

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,858 views

    ONE-AND-A-HALF DEGREES OFF On October 31, 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 departed from Anchorage, Alaska, for a direct flight to Seoul, Korea. Unknown to the crew, however, the computer engaging the flight navigation system contained a 1 1/2 degree routing error. At the point of departure, the ...read more

  • Rejected On Earth

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 23, 2016
     | 6,284 views

    REJECTED ON EARTH... Campbell Morgan was one of 150 young men who sought entrance to the Wesleyan ministry in 1888. He passed the doctrinal examinations, but then faced the trial sermon. In a cavernous auditorium that could seat more than 1,000 sat three ministers and 75 others who came to listen. ...read more

  • Lost Sheep

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Aug 9, 2019
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,975 views

    When the sheep strayed, the shepherd left the 99 and searched for the lost one. I was that lost sheep, I got saved at an early age, and loved the lord with all my heart. Everything was great in my life, I married the girl of my dreams, then my world fell apart. In 1968, I got a letter from ...read more

  • The One Thing That Really Matters

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 30, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,573 views

    In just a short time, just like He did with the plagues of ancient Egypt, God has taken away everything that we worship as an idol in place of Him. It is as if God were screaming for a world to hear, You want to worship ATHLETES? I will shut down the stadiums. You want to worship MUSICIANS? ...read more

  • Two Minutes

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Jul 12, 2022
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,713 views

    Two Minutes to Eternity Marshall Shelley tells the story of his son's short life - just two minutes.The baby boy was born with a "chromosomal abnormality" called Trisomy 13. After the delivery, the doctor passed the baby to his mom. He was a healthy pink; Then he began to turn ...read more

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? Is A Comedy Set ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 1, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,276 views

    O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a comedy set during America’s Depression era. The story revolves around three petty criminals who escape from a chain gang. One of them, the leader named Everett Ulysses McGill, tells his companions that he has buried money from a bank robbery near his property in ...read more

  • Order Of The Wooden Cross! ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 10, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,424 views

    Order of the Wooden Cross! (10.11.05--Sacrifice!--1 Chronicles 21:22-24) Recently I was asked this question: “What have you sacrificed lately in light of all the sorrow, desolation and bloodshed that have gripped the world?” It was a challenge from a friend of mine who regularly gives to ...read more

  • Perhaps You've Seen The Movie O Brother, Where ...

    Contributed by W F on Jun 25, 2006
     | 1,929 views

    Perhaps you’ve seen the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? It’s a comedy set during America’s Depression era. The story revolves around three petty criminals who escape from a chain gang. George Clooney stars as the leader named Everett Ulysses McGill. He tells his companions that he has buried ...read more

  • How Much Land?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2011
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     | 2,968 views

    HOW MUCH LAND? In his 1886 short story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" Leo Tolstoy shows how a continual desire for more can ultimately cause us to lose everything. The main character of the story is a peasant named Pahóm, who at the beginning can be heard complaining that he does not own ...read more

  • A Single Battle  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 11, 2001
    based on 196 ratings
     | 4,760 views

    Great introduction to sermon: A single battle can determine the outcome of an entire war. Like Gettysburg and the Invasion at Normandy, a telling battle of the future of England had came. General Wellington of the British Army represented the last formidable opposition to the French army under ...read more

  • 88% Of Americans Gamble In Some Form. 95% Lose ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2001
    based on 60 ratings
     | 1,421 views

    88% of Americans gamble in some form. 95% lose more than they bet. Winners get back less than half of what they bet. No one in his or her right mind would invest in anything with such a loss record. Statisticians have shown that a person is more likely to survive 88 rounds of Russian roulette than ...read more

  • John Curzon And The Watch  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Yount on Oct 28, 2001
    based on 69 ratings
     | 2,467 views

    John Curzon, a Polish mechanic, who was presented with a gold medal for his inventions, performed a most extraordinary thing when he succeeded in manufacturing a complete watch in the space of 8 hours from materials on which most watchmakers would have looked with contempt. It appears that the ...read more

  • In The Midst Of Chaos

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,374 views

    IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS The Late Show with David Letterman, as you may well know, is produced in the heart of New York City. It was Monday the 17th before the show was back on the air and Letterman said that the only reason he was back was due to the strength of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. In his ...read more

  • J. B. Phillips Writes In The Preface To The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Duane Smith on Jul 18, 2005
    based on 11 ratings
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    J. B. Phillips writes in the preface to The Young Church in Action, that one cannot spend several months in close study of this book, “without being profoundly stirred and, to be honest, disturbed. The reader is stirred,” he says, “because he is seeing Christianity, the real thing, in action for ...read more

  • Griping Is Not An Unusual Trait Shared By A Good ...  PRO

    Contributed by Denise Raterta on Oct 31, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,932 views

    Griping is not an unusual trait shared by a good number of believers whether they are at work, at home or in church—demanding bosses, nagging wives, stubborn kids, boring preachers, incompetent government, rising prices, the list of our objects of complaint goes on and on. If we fined ourselves ...read more

  • Bruce Goodrich Was Being Initiated Into The Cadet ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,969 views

    Bruce Goodrich was being initiated into the cadet corps at Texas A & M University. One night, Bruce was forced to run until he dropped -- but he never got up. Bruce Goodrich died before he even entered college. A short time after the tragedy, Bruce’s father wrote this letter to the ...read more

  • Bruce Goodrich Was Being Initiated Into The Cadet ...

    Contributed by Steven Kelso on Dec 4, 2006
     | 1,759 views

    Bruce Goodrich was being initiated into the cadet corps at Texas A & M University. One night, Bruce was forced to run until he dropped -- but he never got up. Bruce Goodrich died before he even entered college. A short time after the tragedy, Bruce’s father wrote this letter to the administration, ...read more

  • Taking The Plunge—readers' Digest Online, As Kids ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jon Dart on Mar 6, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,892 views

    Taking the Plunge—Readers’ Digest Online, As Kids See It, Stephen McCormack, St. Joachim, ON, 1997 To my five-year-old son, Alex, jumping off the diving board that first time seemed an insurmountable challenge. He was too timid to manage it that day. On the drive home I tried to bolster his courage ...read more

  • Unsatisfied  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,440 views

    UNSATISFIED French author, Guy de Maupassant was one of the greatest writers of short stories the world has ever known. Within ten years he rose from relative obscurity to fame. Just what he thought he’d always wanted. His material possessions showed a life of affluence…a yacht in the ...read more