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  • Saving The Ship, Remembering The Past  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 20, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,987 views

    SAVING THE SHIP, REMEMBERING THE PAST "Their hair is gray, their shoulders are slumped and they walk with the shuffle of the aged. Their ship, a rusty antique, wallowed through the Atlantic, battered by a winter storm. For the elderly crew of LST-325, a creaking World War II troop ship that had ...read more

  • What Kids Need  PRO

    Contributed by Lyn King on Jun 15, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 3,705 views

    WHAT KIDS NEED Today’s kids desperately need Dads who: . . . play catch, enjoy tea parties or wrestle because the heart of a child is there and they set out to capture it. . . . laugh till their belly hurts and tears fall from their eyes while secretly creating deep friendships and memories that ...read more

  • George Washington: A Letter To Martha  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,669 views

    GEORGE WASHINGTON: A LETTER TO MARTHA My Dearest: I am now set down to write to you on a subject which fills me with inexpressible concern, and this concern is greatly aggravated and increased when I reflect upon the uneasiness I know it will give you. It has been determined in Congress that ...read more

  • A Great Place To Live  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,237 views

    A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE America is a great place to live. Thousands of people reach its borders everyday hoping to live the American Dream. The Chrisian Science Monitor recently reported a poll that asked the question "If it couldn’t be US, whose citizenship would you want?" Americans, ...read more

  • Power In The Cross-Communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 7, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 8,925 views

    POWER IN THE CROSS-COMMUNION MEDITATION There is power in the cross. It's undeniable. Even unbelievers seem to squirm when considering its potential. David Brooks, of the Weekly Standard, reports "of the conniption being thrown by the American Atheist, the group founded by the late ...read more

  • Paid In Full  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 29, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 7,217 views

    PAID IN FULL Have you ever wished that someone would pay off all your credit card debt? Zero balances—no payments! The Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church in Norfolk, VA is making that wish come true. One Sunday of every month, Bishop C. Vernie Russell Jr., chooses a family from the church ...read more

  • Sin Compared To Poison  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 2, 2002
    based on 53 ratings
     | 2,396 views

    Sin Compared to Poison Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman told of a distinguished minister, Dr. Howard, from Australia who preached very strongly on the subject of sin. After the service, one of the church officers came to counsel with him in the study. “Dr. Howard,” he said, “we don’t want you to talk as ...read more

  • The Cold Within  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 24, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,733 views

    THE COLD WITHIN Six humans trapped by happenstance in bleak and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, or so the story goes. Their dying fire in need of logs, the first man held his back, for on the faces around the fire he noticed one was black. The next man looking across the way saw ...read more

  • Is That Superman Or ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,573 views

    IS THAT SUPERMAN OR ... Remember some years ago when you used to hear on TV, "Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s Superman"? On our televisions, we would watch a super human perform amazing feats as the people stood in awe. The third book of the best selling series, "Left ...read more

  • Franklin Roosevelt's Closest Adviser During Much ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Dow on Sep 18, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 3,137 views

    Franklin Roosevelt’s closest adviser during much of his presidency was a man named Harry Hopkins. During World War II, when his influence with Roosevelt was at its peak, Hopkins held no official Cabinet position. Moreover, Hopkin’s closeness to Roosevelt caused many to regard him as a shadowy, ...read more

  • It Beats Hell!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,792 views

    IT BEATS HELL! It is said that Abe Mulky, who became the Texas Evangelist, went to an old-fashioned revival and was under deep conviction. He went home and said to his wife, "Mandy, what shall I do? I am lost. I am miserable. But you know we have gained our possessions crookedly and if I get ...read more

  • Making People Pray  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 14, 2002
    based on 23 ratings
     | 2,759 views

    MAKING PEOPLE PRAY A bus driver and a minister were standing in line to get into heaven. The bus driver approached the gate and St. Peter said, "Welcome, I understand you were a bus driver. Since I’m in charge of housing, I believe I have found the perfect place for you. See that mansion over the ...read more

  • Sometimes, We Are Tempted To Think We Are The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rex S. Wignall on Oct 25, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,164 views

    Sometimes, we are tempted to think we are the only ones who struggle with this burden. Ellsworth Kalas tells the discovery that Thomas Wolfe the fine American writer made about loneliness: Wolfe was a lonely man. He once thought that loneliness was something suffered especially, perhaps even ...read more

  • Historically Profound Moral Understanding  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,576 views

    HISTORICALLY PROFOUND MORAL UNDERSTANDING COMMUNION MEDITATION Dallas Willard writes: "What Jesus had to say about human good and evil was of sufficient depth, power, and justification to dominate European culture and its offshoots for two millennia. Nobody even has an idea of what 'Europe' and ...read more

  • Gratitude—a Necessary Attitude  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2002
    based on 39 ratings
     | 8,527 views

    GRATITUDE- A NECESSARY ATTITUDE A few years ago Dr. Nick Stinnett of the University of Nebraska conducted a group of studies called the "Family Strengths Research Project" Stinnett and his researchers identified six qualities that make for strong families. The first quality and one of the ...read more

  • The Light Of The Christmas Star  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,516 views

    THE LIGHT OF THE CHRISTMAS STAR In New York’s Hayden Planetarium a special Christmas holiday show was enhanced by an added feature. A giant lollipop tree was projected onto the planetarium dome, surrounded by a horizon filled with brilliantly colored toys which came to life and cavorted to the ...read more

  • To Jesus On His Birthday  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,823 views

    "TO JESUS ON HIS BIRTHDAY" The American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote a biting, ironic poem called "To Jesus on His Birthday." Surely none of us can deny guilt in some of the areas it includes in its brief scope: For this, your mother sweated in the cold, For this you bled upon the ...read more

  • A Wanted Man  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 18, 2005
    based on 17 ratings
     | 5,719 views

    A WANTED MAN "If Jesus had of entered into one of our modern cities, leading the parade, He would have been arrested immediately. He would be a wanted man. The FDA would want Him for turning water into wine without a license; the EPA for killing fig trees; the AMA for practicing medicine ...read more

  • Sleeping In The Cemetery  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2005
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,229 views

    SLEEPING IN THE CEMETERY According to a March, 2005 news report, a tramp in Holland has been found using the cemetery as his sleeping quarters. The man was charged by police after they caught him a second time sleeping in the graveyard at Nijmegen. The 43-year old had dug out the earth from ...read more

  • So God's Really In The Details?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 28, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,467 views

    SO GOD’S REALLY IN THE DETAILS? Economists use probability theory to predict how people will spend money. Actuaries use it to figure how high someone’s insurance premium will be. In 2002, Richard Swinburne, who is a professor of philosophy at Oxford University, used a formula known as Baye’s ...read more