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  • What Team Are You On?

    Contributed by James R. Debusk on Mar 25, 2011
     | 2,480 views

    WHAT TEAM ARE YOU ON? At this time of the year, young men are signing letters of intent to play football to the various colleges that have recruited them. These young athletes are making a choice of where they will play football. In life we have a spiritual decision on which team we will be a ...read more

  • These Shepherds Were Symbolic Of Jesus Christ The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Frank Gallagher on Nov 26, 2000
    based on 160 ratings
     | 7,049 views

    These shepherds were symbolic of Jesus Christ the Good Shepherd, who would also humbly follow God’s will. Their sheep represent us as believers, in several ways: - Sheep cannot clean themselves. Some animals such as a cat can do that, but not sheep. Likewise, we as unbelievers were not able to ...read more

  • These Shepherds Were Symbolic Of Jesus Christ The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Frank Gallagher on Sep 13, 2001
    based on 67 ratings
     | 3,140 views

    These shepherds were symbolic of Jesus Christ the Good Shepherd, who would also humbly follow God’s will. Their sheep represent us as believers, in several ways: - Sheep cannot clean themselves. Some animals such as a cat can do that, but not sheep. Likewise, we as unbelievers were not able to ...read more

  • I Came Across An Interesting Story About A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,473 views

    I came across an interesting story about a legendary lawyer by the name of Sir Lionel Luckhoo. He was the flamboyant Guyanese barrister who died at the age of 83 and was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most successful advocate with 245 consecutive successful defenses in murder ...read more

  • Jim Always Thought He Was A Pretty Good Guy. Oh ...

    Contributed by Fred Schaeffer on Dec 5, 2008
     | 4,797 views

    Jim always thought he was a pretty good guy. Oh ... he made some mistakes once in a while ... but overall he thought he was OK. He knew that he wasn’t a BAD person. Oh, he fudged on his income tax a little bit .. not really cheated he said .. just fudged a little bit. He would stay out on ...read more

  • Parallels Between Jesus And The Manna In The Wilderness

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jul 18, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,395 views

    The manna that fell in the Wilderness can be compared to Christ in 5 specific ways: CAME FROM HEAVEN: Manna, as described in the Old Testament, serves as a symbolic representation of Christ. Let me explain further. Heavenly Origin: Manna was a miraculous food provided by God to sustain the ...read more

  • "the Reflection Of Light"

    Contributed by Jessie Manuel on Feb 24, 2025
     | 466 views

    Imagine a light bulb illuminating a dark room. When you first turn on that light, it overwhelms the darkness and reveals details that were previously hidden. In many ways, this is akin to how the glory of God transformed Moses. Now, consider a moment when you’ve been outdoors on a sunny day, ...read more

  • Don't Ever Say "No"  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 6, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,082 views

    DON'T EVER SAY "NO" When Allied troops captured a young American fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan, last year a major American newspaper wrote the following: “The parents of John Walker Lindh, the child of privilege turned Taliban terrorist didn’t put their foot down when he announced that ...read more

  • Blaise Pascal Was A French Mathematician And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 15, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,895 views

    Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician and philosopher. In his writings, which were entitled Pensees, he traces the logical progression of his thought on many subjects. But something happened to Pascal which was beyond logic and rational thought. After his death, his servant found a piece of ...read more

  • Some Of You Are Familiar With The Television ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 24, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,346 views

    Some of you are familiar with the television show Deal, or No Deal. It consists of 26 cases, each containing a different amount of money. The contestants don’t know the sum of money in each case, and they try to pick the one with the greatest amount of money. They open the cases, one by one, ...read more

  • Sometime Ago A Man Who Was Pastor In A Large ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 18, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,961 views

    Sometime ago a man who was Pastor in a large church, very successful in everything he did except one thing – the most important thing. He was failing in his marriage. The reason was, because his wife could see through him. She knew what he was really like. Not what he was like up in the pulpit, ...read more

  • One Solitary Life  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Mar 31, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,232 views

    One Solitary Life Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a ...read more

  • There Was A Mental Hospital That Devised A Very ...

    Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
     | 2,261 views

    There was a mental hospital that devised a very unusual test to determine whether their patients were ready to go back into the real world. They took the mental patients who looked like they were making progress into a room where they had a water faucet that was turned on, and water was draining ...read more

  • One Solitary Life

    Contributed by Craig Cramblet on Mar 1, 2008
     | 1,629 views

    “One Solitary Life" Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an ...read more

  • The Fire  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,951 views

    THE FIRE H. A. Ironside told the story of pioneers who were making their way across one of the central states to a distant place that had been opened up for homesteading. They traveled in covered wagons drawn by oxen, and progress was necessarily slow. One day they were horrified to note a long ...read more

  • The Fire

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,073 views

    Illustration: The Fire H. A. Ironside told the story of pioneers who were making their way across one of the central states to a distant place that had been opened up for homesteading. They traveled in covered wagons drawn by oxen, and progress was necessarily slow. One day they were horrified to ...read more

  • Where The Fire Has Been

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
     | 4,023 views

    WHERE THE FIRE HAS BEEN H. A. Ironside told the story of pioneers who were making their way across one of the central states to a distant place that had been opened up for homesteading. They traveled in covered wagons drawn by oxen, and progress was necessarily slow. One day they were horrified to ...read more

  • Christ Maintains The Work

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 16, 2009
     | 1,526 views

    CHRIST MAINTAINS THE WORK This truth is pictured in the book Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan. There’s a scene in which Christian is taken into a room by the Interpreter, who is explaining various truths to him. Here is the scene. (I’ve smoothed out some of the King James English in a couple ...read more

  • Joy And Prayer In Suffering  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
    based on 18 ratings
     | 7,146 views

    JOY AND PRAYER IN SUFFERING The fact that God chooses to love the unworthy should move us to loud praise frequently. Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid-1950’s her father, British minister W.E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a dragging in his leg. When he ...read more

  • The Stages Of Loss

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 20, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,675 views

    THE STAGES OF LOSS Several years ago a profound and dramatic research project began in Chicago's Billings Hospital. It was a seminar on death, in which psychiatists, chaplains, nurses, and medical doctors studied the ultimate human crisis of facing death. Basic findings is that the very ill ...read more