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  • Guarded By The Shepherd  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,393 views

    GUARDED BY THE SHEPHERD Charles Spurgeon says this about the Great Shepherd: What is there in you, dear friend, more than there is in any other professor, why you should not prove an apostate after all? What is there about me that I should stand where so many others have fallen? There is ...read more

  • Maturity Is Recognizing That The Choices We Make ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 4, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,258 views

    Maturity is recognizing that the choices we make carry consequences. I had a good laugh at a story in the newspapers sometime back about a teacher who found a great way to make students pay for their crimes. Troublemakers at Riverside Brookfield High in Chicago are being forced to serve after ...read more

  • Raymond P. Murray—wanted  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 20, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,781 views

    Raymond P. Murray- Wanted The great want of this age is men: Men who are not for sale; Men who will condemn wrong in friend or foe- in themselves as well as others; Men whose consciences are as steady as the needle to the pole; Men who will stand for the right though the heavens totter and the ...read more

  • Fdny Captain Jay Jonas And Five Other ...

    Contributed by Matthew Mobley on Mar 28, 2008
     | 1,654 views

    FDNY Captain Jay Jonas and five other firefighters from Ladder 6 responded immediately to the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. When they entered the lobby of the north tower, the south tower was hit. Carrying 100 pounds of gear, they began to ascend the stairwell of the south tower. When ...read more

  • They Sent Me Here To Finish

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 5, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,848 views

    THEY SENT ME HERE TO FINISH During the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, the last runner to finish the marathon was an athlete from Tanzania. He'd had a difficult race, to say the least: he's stumbled at one point and ended up bruised, bloodied--and with a broken leg! But he didn't quit. Even ...read more

  • D) How Does The Earth Compare In Size And Space ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 22, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,265 views

    d) How does the earth compare in size and space to our sun’s closest neighbor star Proxima Centauri? 1. Proxima Centauri is a red dwar star and part of the Alpha Centauri star system. This closest neighbor is 4.22 light years away or 270,000 times farther than the earth is from the sun. If the ...read more

  • Good Soldiers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
     | 5,864 views

    GOOD SOLDIERS I am told as a young man Winston Churchhill was in a heated battle. The war planes were dropping bombs all around the soldiers assignments. Several died, but many were running away and hiding and not following commands. One soldier ran past Winston Churchhill. The soldier asked if ...read more

  • Sign For The Bathroom Door  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 17, 2003
    based on 16 ratings
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    SIGN FOR THE BATHROOM DOOR Attention Everyone: The Bathroom Door is Closed! Please do not stand there and talk, whine or ask questions. Wait until I get out. Yes, it is locked. I want it that way. No, it is not broken; I am not trapped. I know I have left it unlocked, and even open at times, since ...read more

  • Here Is A Sign That Was Posted On A Bathroom ...

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Aug 30, 2007
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     | 2,982 views

    Here is a SIGN that was posted on a BATHROOM DOOR Attention Everyone: The Bathroom Door is Closed! Please do not stand there and talk, whine or ask questions. Wait until I get out. Yes, it is locked. I want it that way. No, it is not broken; I am not trapped. I know I have left it unlocked, and ...read more

  • The Senior Chaplain At The Marine Corps Base ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Oct 28, 2007
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    The senior chaplain at the Marine Corps Base where I work during the week lost his house and everything in it during the fires this week. When I spoke with him on Wednesday, he had just received the call telling him his house was on the list of addresses destroyed by the blaze. He didn’t mention ...read more

  • When Things Get Smelly!

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Aug 22, 2021
     | 1,432 views

    When I was around eight, we were visiting some cousins out on the farm and as all kids back then we played tag. I went zipping around the barn and stepped in a slick patty. I fell, slid and rolled through a copious amount of bovine excrement. When I was able to stand up I went to the porch and ...read more

  • Looking For The Father  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 30, 2001
    based on 59 ratings
     | 4,112 views

    LOOKING FOR THE FATHER Author Michael Green writes: Only Jesus fully understands God the Father. Great people have discovered and taught many true and noble things about God. Nobody has known him with the intimacy of Jesus, who could call him Abba, "dear daddy." When that holy man, Mahatma ...read more

  • I Saw A Movie Recently Titled "Oh Brother Where ...  PRO

    Contributed by James May on Sep 3, 2001
    based on 54 ratings
     | 3,914 views

    I saw a movie recently titled “Oh Brother Where Art Thou” where three escaped criminals were on the run. One scene in this movie stands out to me more than any other. While on the run they are involved in a baptismal scene at the river. Two of the criminals are baptized by the preacher and they ...read more

  • During World War Ii, A Church Building In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,898 views

    During World War II, a church building in Strasbourg was destroyed. After the bombing, the members surveyed the area to see what damage was done. They were pleased that a statue of Christ with outstretched hands was still standing. It had been sculpted centuries before by a great artist. Taking a ...read more

  • Max Lucado, Pastor And Author Describes The ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 11, 2007
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    Max Lucado, pastor and author describes the topic title best when he speaks of having “doubt storms”. He said, “Sometimes the storm comes after the evening news. Some nights I wonder why I watch it. Some nights it’s just too much. From the steps of the Supreme Court to the steppes of South Africa, ...read more

  • When You Can't Get Up

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
     | 1,767 views

    When You Can’t Get Up Max Lucado, pastor and author describes the topic title best when he speaks of having “doubt storms”. He said, “Sometimes the storm comes after the evening news. Some nights I wonder why I watch it. Some nights it’s just too much. From the steps of the Supreme Court to the ...read more

  • Play For The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 2,932 views

    PLAY FOR THE MASTER The young man had waited for this moment for many months even years. He had practiced and practiced. It was his premiere appearance as a concert violinist. The audience heard much about his amazing talent, and they packed out the prestigious concert hall to hear him. They ...read more

  • The Gentleman Cat

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jun 22, 2011
     | 2,122 views

    THE GENTLEMAN CAT Two men sought to prove to their king whether a man had to be "born a gentleman" or could become one by "discipline and training." The one told the other that he would prove his point regarding "training" by showing the king his cat, which he had trained to stand on its back ...read more

  • Poem: Ozymandias By Shelley

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,451 views

    Poem: Ozymandias by Shelley I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions ...read more

  • If Jesus Was Born Today

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 24, 2025
     | 164 views

    If Jesus was born today, it would be in a bed and breakfast A traffic warden, working late, would be the first on the scene. Later a TV network would arrive with their good wishes. The whole Occasion would be filmed as part of *Is this the Son of God” one hour special If Jesus was 30 today, ...read more