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  • Demon-Possessed Man

    Contributed by Daryl Grimes on Sep 25, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,438 views

    DEMON-POSSESSED MAN People had written him off a long time ago. He was just a crazy lunatic that no one wanted anything to do with. They kept their children away, they kept their wives away and they kept themselves away. He lived like a pig, his body odor was almost unbearable and to make matters ...read more

  • Martin Luther's Depression And The Hymn

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
     | 6,023 views

    Martin Luther’s Depression and the Hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" The year 1527 was the most trying year of Martin Luther’s life. On April 22 he was preaching in Wittenberg when he became dizzy and fainted. Over the next several months he dealt with debilitating depression and sickness. It had ...read more

  • Daddy, Are You There?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,815 views

    DADDY, ARE YOU THERE? Oh how blessed it is to know that when the times of pain come and when our hearts become broken, we have Someone to whom we can turn that will give us Strength and that will keep us Safe. Only Jesus does that! A little girl and her father were returning from the funeral of ...read more

  • A True Story About Frank Abagnale Jr. Who, Before ...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 28, 2009
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    A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. Eventually he was caught in France in 1969 when an Air France attendant recognized his face from a wanted poster. When the ...read more

  • How To Get Attention  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,931 views

    HOW TO GET ATTENTION This is the story of George Phillips of Mississippi, who was going to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the shed. George opened the door to go turn off the light but saw there were people in the shed in the process of stealing things. He immediately ...read more

  • Egyptian Astronomer Ptolemy In The 2nd Century ...

    Contributed by Bret Toman on May 20, 2010
     | 3,146 views

    Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century postulated that the earth was the center of the universe, that the earth was still, that other planets orbited and other planets rotated, but the earth not. The universe revolved around the earth. It made sense, and people believed it. For 1400 years. ...read more

  • Let's Begin Understanding This Name, /Adonai/ ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jun 15, 2010
     | 2,660 views

    Let’s begin understanding this name, /Adonai/ (אֲדֹנָי), meaning /Lord/, by going back to the Middle Ages. Picture a medieval manor. Peasants worked the surrounding fields. Craftsmen lived in the village. The manor house, maybe with a moat and watchtower, ...read more

  • A Clergyman From New York, During A Call On ...

    Contributed by George Bannister on Jul 1, 2010
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    A clergyman from New York, during a call on President Lincoln at the White House said: "I have not come to ask any favors of you, Mr. President; I have only come to say that the loyal people of the North are sustaining you and will continue to do so. We are giving you all that we have, the lives of ...read more

  • Hidden Prayer Results In Revival

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2011
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    HIDDEN PRAYER RESULTS IN REVIVAL I heard Brother John Harrell of Bridge City, Texas tell of a church up in the piney woods of east Texas that began to have a tremendous breakthrough revival. An evangelist came in and they started their series of meetings and from the beginning of the meeting, all ...read more

  • Self-Centered Christianity  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,293 views

    SELF-CENTERED CHRISTIANITY John Koessler pastored for years before becoming a professor in the pastoral studies department at Moody Bible Institute. In 2007 he wrote, A Stranger In The House of God, chronicling his experience in various churches. "Most of the Christians I know are disappointed ...read more

  • Why Don't They Let Him In?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
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    WHY DON'T THEY LET HIM IN? A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son. Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen, and when the small boy came in from ...read more

  • The Seven Stages Of A Cold—for Married Couples

    Contributed by Christopher Gregas on May 16, 2011
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    THE SEVEN STAGES OF A COLD--FOR MARRIED COUPLES Though marriages are meant to last a lifetime, they can deteriorate rather quickly. I like what someone calls the seven stages of a cold for a married couple. The First year of marriage, the husband says, "Honey, I’m worried about my little girl. ...read more

  • The Mayor's Martyr Maid

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 3, 2011
     | 2,107 views

    THE MAYOR'S MARTYR MAID "I found one!" The inquisitor held up a Bible and hollered out, "Bring in the mayor and his family. Someone is studying the Bible in this house!" In the 16th century, Philip II sent the Duke of Alba to Flanders to stamp out the Protestants who insisted on reading the ...read more

  • Reducing The Glare

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
     | 3,228 views

    REDUCING THE GLARE Just a few years ago (2004), Frank Gehry finished his landmark creation of the 274 million dollar Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Now, with all that money you'd expect the building to shine, and it does. The shimmering stainless steel concert hall is truly marvelous to ...read more

  • Working For Food

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,598 views

    WORKING FOR FOOD I like the story of the rich executive who announced to his church one morning that he was going to give up all he owned so that he had to depend on his faith in God for everything he needed. He sold everything, gave it to the poor, and moved into a rented home down on the bad ...read more

  • Unusual Laws In Kansas

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2011
     | 5,328 views

    Unusual Laws in Kansas Laws are important in any society in order to keep peace and order. But there are laws and then there are laws. Here are some laws that are still on the books in our state of Kansas. • In Derby, it is illegal to hit a vending machine that stole your money. • In Dodge City, it ...read more

  • Shannon's Sacrifice

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Feb 25, 2012
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    SHANNON'S SACRIFICE It was March 24, 1998 in Westside Middle School near Jonesboro, Arkansas. A total of five people, four female students and a teacher, were killed at a school shooting. Ten people, nine students and one teacher, were injured. The perpetrators of the shooting were two students, ...read more

  • You Follow What You're Tied To  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Oct 31, 2012
    based on 18 ratings
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    YOU FOLLOW WHAT YOU'RE TIED TO Two hunters were out hunting and come upon what appeared at first as an abandoned farm. The barn was sagging, the house was in disrepair, and there were junk cars and car parts lying around. The only thing that made it a working farm were a few chickens pecking away ...read more

  • How Not To Build

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2013
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    HOW NOT TO BUILD I grew up around construction and building material people. My family, for several generations, was in lumber and building materials. In 1998 we opened a new hardware store in Lake Mary. I ran it from the time it opened, until I went to seminary. Part of my responsibility was to ...read more

  • Forced To Kill  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 1, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
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    FORCED TO KILL Around the time of the Korean War, Kim Joon-gon had seen 2,000 out of 20,000 people on Chunnam Island murdered by the Communists. They dragged he and his family outside their village where Kim’s father and wife were beaten to death and Kim was left for dead. When he revived and ...read more