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  • Motherhood Issues A Recent Poll By Wahara.com ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2006
     | 1,885 views

    Motherhood Issues A recent poll by Wahara.com finds 79% of mothers list personal, emotional and physical challenges as their hardest. Women know children are time consuming and demanding, but what these women are finding is that children are ALL consuming and ALL demanding. 38% reported sleep ...read more

  • What You Do In A Lifetime  PRO

    Contributed by Stephen Rice on Jun 28, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 1,743 views

    In a magazine article: Based upon an average 71 year old life span. You will spend... 23 years sleeping (8 hours a day) 6 years in a car 3 years eating 11 years in leisure activities 2 years getting dressed 17 years working and... let’s say you come to church sunday morning and evening and ...read more

  • One Summer Night During A Severe Thunderstorm A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2007
     | 1,008 views

    One summer night during a severe thunderstorm a mother was tucking her small son into bed. She was about to turn the light off when he asked in a trembling voice, "Mommy, will you stay with me all night?" Smiling, the mother gave him a warm, reassuring hug and said tenderly, "I can’t dear. I have ...read more

  • One Summer Night During A Severe Thunderstorm A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2007
     | 800 views

    One summer night during a severe thunderstorm a mother was tucking her small son into bed. She was about to turn the light off when he asked in a trembling voice, "Mommy, will you stay with me all night?" Smiling, the mother gave him a warm, reassuring hug and said tenderly, "I can’t dear. I have ...read more

  • Then We Can Have A Revival

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Apr 22, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,787 views

    If all the sleeping folk will wake up, If all the lukewarm folk will get fired up, If all the dishonest folk will confess up, If all the disgruntled folk will cheer up, If all the depressed folk will cheer up, If all the estranged folk will make up, If all the gossipers will shut up, If all true ...read more

  • One Summer Night During A Severe Thunderstorm A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,786 views

    One summer night during a severe thunderstorm a mother was tucking her small son into bed. She was about to turn the light off when he asked in a trembling voice, "Mommy, will you stay with me all night?" Smiling, the mother gave him a warm, reassuring hug and said tenderly, "I can’t dear. I have ...read more

  • Revival — If?  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Aug 4, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,852 views

    Revival -- If? If all the sleeping folk will wake up, If all the lukewarm folk will fire up, If all the dishonest folk will confess up, If all the disgruntled folk will cheer up, If all the depressed folk will cheer up, If all the estranged folk will make up, If all the ...read more

  • Preaching To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 2,597 views

    PREACHING TO THE HEATHEN Gordon Hall’s selfless motto: "Duty is ours, consequences God’s." When offered an attractive pastorate his reply came, "No... Others will be left whose health or pre-engagement requires them to stay at home, but I can sleep on the ground, can endure hunger and hardship. ...read more

  • I Knew Of A Good-Looking Young Boy Who Attended ...

    Contributed by C Reola on Nov 26, 2006
     | 1,499 views

    I knew of a good-looking young boy who attended a Youth Camp. He was 14 years old, starting the High School life. During the camp, there was what they call Talent’s Night wherein the campers are to perform and show his/her talent. His leader asked him what his talent was? The boy doesn’t know how ...read more

  • If I Should Wake Before I Die

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,721 views

    IF I SHOULD WAKE BEFORE I DIE A father knelt down beside his little boy’s bed. It was time for prayers, hugs and kisses, and tucking in. The little boy began the childhood prayer he had repeated so many times before: now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die ...read more

  • The Rich Man Had No Excuse As Lazarus Sat Right ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 13, 2009
     | 1,476 views

    The rich man had no excuse as Lazarus sat right outside his gate. He can’t claim that he didn’t know or didn’t see the poor. Sound familiar? “I don’t know any poor.” We live in the suburbs so we don’t have to see the poor. We applaud laws that keep the homeless from sleeping where we can see them ...read more

  • De-Sanctified Churches

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2011
     | 3,264 views

    DE-SANCTIFIED CHURCHES Not too long ago, a real estate listing in Dallas had the simple headline: "Converted Church." In other words, what had once been a church facility is now somebody's house. The listing under the heading had this description: "The altar has been adapted for use as a granite ...read more

  • The Inner Need For Excellence

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Apr 3, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,763 views

    THE INNER NEED FOR EXCELLENCE Years ago during a speaking engagement, I stayed in a hotel in Dallas. It was late at night, and after flipping channels for a while, I landed on ESPN, which is how I learned that tennis legend Martina Navratilova had just won a grueling match in Florida earlier that ...read more

  • Romans 8:31 Says: "If God Is For Us, Who Can Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
     | 1,481 views

    Romans 8:31 says: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” It’s knowing that God is “with us” that gives us our courage… and helps us overcome our fears. I read the true story once about a woman who was babysitting for the 2 year old son of her preacher. The boy was sleeping in her home one ...read more

  • There Was This Parrot Who Lived In A Bar. Well ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Nov 26, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,346 views

    There was this parrot who lived in a bar. Well the barkeeper decided to sell the bar and a group of church people who needed a new church bought it to convert it to a place to meet for worship. So the bar was open it’s last night for business. After midnight when the bar closed down and the ...read more

  • There Is A Small Cathedral Outside Bethlehem ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,318 views

    THERE IS A SMALL CATHEDRAL OUTSIDE BETHLEHEM THAT MARKS THE SUPPOSED BIRTHPLACE OF JESUS. BEHIND A HIGH ALTAR IS A CAVE LIT BY SILVER LAMPS. THE ONLY WAY TO ENTER THE CAVE IS TO STOOP. THE DOOR IS SO LOW, YOU CAN’T GO IN STANDING UP. 1. YOU CAN SEE THE WORLD WHEN YOU ARE STANDING TALL, BUT TO ...read more

  • In An Average Lifetime, The Average American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,813 views

    In an average lifetime, the average American spends 3 years in business meetings, 13 years watching TV, Spends $89,281 on food, consumes 109,354 pounds of food, Makes 1811 trips to McDonalds, Spends $6881 in vending machines, Eats 35,138 cookies and 1483 pounds of candy, Catches 304 colds, Is ...read more

  • Condoleeza Rice, Sec. Of State Recently Said ...

    Contributed by John Herrmann on Nov 7, 2008
     | 1,368 views

    Condoleeza Rice, Sec. of State recently said after another failure of Peace talks in Israel and Palestine that Peace will not come in a sudden and dramatic event, but rather gradually.” Not so this second coming of Christ. It is an act of God confronting us as something from the other side, ...read more

  • In The City Of Philadelphia There Was A Little ...

    Contributed by Scott Jensen on Jun 26, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,470 views

    In the city of Philadelphia there was a little third-class hotel. Into it one night there came two tired elderly people. They went up to the night clerk and the husband pleadingly said, “Mister, please don’t tell us you don’t have a room. My wife and I have been all over the city looking for a ...read more

  • 42 Percent Of Workers Reported That Yelling And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Mar 27, 2001
    based on 181 ratings
     | 1,922 views

    * 42 percent of workers reported that yelling and verbal abuse took place where they worked. * One in ten said that physical violence had occurred where they worked. * 34 percent had lost sleep because of workplace stress, and 23 percent had been driven to tears. * Almost two-thirds, 65 percent, ...read more

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