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  • Sin And Bullet Wounds

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
     | 2,009 views

    SIN AND BULLET WOUNDS James Garfield was a lay preacher and principal of his denominational college. They say he was ambidextrous and could simultaneously write Greek, with one hand and Latin with the other. In l880, he was elected president of the United States, but after only six months in ...read more

  • The Kudzu Vine

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 4, 2010
     | 3,879 views

    THE KUDZU VINE Kudzu was introduced to the United States in 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Countries were invited to build exhibits to celebrate the 100th birthday of the U.S. The Japanese government constructed a beautiful garden filled with plants from their ...read more

  • Isn't There Something Else?

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 14, 2011
     | 1,981 views

    ISN'T THERE SOMETHING ELSE? One time a woman asked the preacher, "What should I do, Preacher? I want to follow and serve Jesus. I want to do his work totally and completely." The preacher said, "Great, you could be a part our weekly ladies Bible study group and later you could perhaps lead ...read more

  • The Bible Is The Blueprints

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Aug 5, 2011
     | 3,270 views

    THE BIBLE IS THE BLUEPRINTS Can you build a real house without blueprints? Sure you can throw up a square storage shed maybe without them, but do you not need to have some kind of visual plan of the dimensions, how many rooms, where the rooms go, and so on in order to start building an actual ...read more

  • Expectations And Reality

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Nov 29, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,242 views

    EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY I had arrived only a couple weeks before in the Czech Republic and was living with a retired Czech couple in a small village. Being the only American in the area I was somewhat a celebrity. One day a couple elders from a local church visited me to ask if I would preach in ...read more

  • I Want To Go Home

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 11, 2011
     | 3,910 views

    I WANT TO GO HOME Fred Smith, an influential Christian businessman was seriously ill in the summer of 2004. He was hospitalized, semiconscious, and not expected to live. Periodically he would mutter, "I want to go home, I want to go home." After an emotional family conference, the family ...read more

  • Mother Teresa's Feet

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 10, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,419 views

    MOTHER TERESA'S FEET Shane Claiborne, who spent a summer in the slums of Calcutta with Mother Teresa, wrote the following about one of his experiences: People often ask me what Mother Teresa was like. Did she glow in the dark or have a halo? She was short, wrinkled, and precious, maybe even a ...read more

  • Michael Jordan: Persevere

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 17, 2012
     | 5,583 views

    MICHAEL JORDAN: PERSEVERE In the fall of 1978, fifteen-year-old Michael Jordan tried out for the varsity basketball team at Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina. The sophomore was 5 feet 11 inches and with his skills, the coach told him that he was not good enough, and Michael ...read more

  • When I Was A Kid  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Steen on Jul 12, 2014
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,662 views

    When I was a kid, we rode our bikes down the sidewalks and in the streets. We played baseball and football in the street. Summers were especially great because we could play ball until you couldn’t see. We rode in cars with no seat belts or car seats. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day ...read more

  • Dr. Norman Shawchuck Has Pastored United ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 1, 2007
     | 1,614 views

    Dr. Norman Shawchuck has pastored United Methodist congregations in North Dakota and Indiana and is a prolific author and retreat leader in the area of spiritual formation. His contemporary prayer of repentance is so personally powerful: “O God, I surrender to you the habits and sins that, like ...read more

  • I Pulled Into The Zeller's Parking Lot On ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 28, 2008
     | 1,825 views

    I pulled into the Zeller’s parking lot on Thursday. A young man was changing a tire. I went along to ask if things were okay (after all, I can’t prepare for today and not demonstrate the heart of being a Good Samaritan). He told me he was simply removing the ‘dummy’ tire and replacing it with the ...read more

  • Light Serves A Purpose As Well. And This Was A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    Light serves a purpose as well. And this was a picture that these fisherman would understand. A Light Attracts Peter and Andrew and the boys fished at night because during the day the fish in the Sea of Galilee stay close to the bottom where it’s cooler but during the cool of the night they come ...read more

  • My Daughter Served As A Camp Counselor This ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Aug 26, 2003
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,199 views

    My daughter served as a camp counselor this summer. It is a camp in which there are several camps contained in one location. She was a gap counselor and therefore served in several different ones. One camp is called Camp Sparrowood. It is a camp for the mentally challenged ages 8-99. She was ...read more

  • Passing The Torch  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 16, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,019 views

    PASSING THE TORCH On August the 13th, the Summer Olympics begin 16 jam pack days of competition at the site of the original Olympic Games, Athens, Greece. This month we have watched American athletes compete for a spot on the team in track and field and swimming and if their times carry over to ...read more

  • As Disciples Of Jesus, We Are To Become By The ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Nov 27, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,398 views

    As disciples of Jesus, we are to become by the Holy Spirit like our Master as He Himself tells us in Matthew 10:25, “It is enough for the student to be like His Teacher, and the servant like His master.” By the power of the Holy Spirit working in us, may we this Advent become more like Jesus who ...read more

  • Late Bloomers! (09.22.05--Grace Walks!--Psalm ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 20, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,229 views

    Late Bloomers! (09.22.05--Grace Walks!--Psalm 93:5) Fairness is a doctrine that we have gone hog-wild with. We seem as a people possessed by a sense of “all things being equal.” Unfortunately, we are so captivated by a sense of justice at all costs, we often lose sight of the fact that a doctrine ...read more

  • What To Do When There's No Fireworks

    Contributed by John Herrmann on Jun 21, 2011
     | 2,938 views

    WHAT TO DO WHEN THERE'S NO FIREWORKS Around sunset one very hot summer’s eve when we (in the Army Chaplaincy) were in Iraq, about forty miles north of Baghdad, we saw the military police pull up in the building just next door. Out came two Iraqi Prisoners of War, their hands were shackled behind ...read more

  • One Of The Things I Love To Do Most Is To Tell ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,628 views

    One of the things I love to do most is to tell people about how I met the risen Lord. I was a senior in high school. I was just about to graduate. And my English teacher gave us one final assignment. He put a bowl on the table filled with slips of paper. He said, "Each slip of paper has a value on ...read more

  • My Mother And My ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2009
     | 3,130 views

    MY MOTHER AND MY FRIENDS (Excerpted from Simple Treasures - Garnet Hunt White. Stories for a Woman’s Heart, p. 187.) The Prov. 31 woman has grateful children – “Her children stand and bless her” (Prov. 31:28 NLT). Mother accepted my friends as they were, and they loved her for it. They liked the ...read more

  • An Answered Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 56 ratings
     | 8,931 views

    AN ANSWERED PRAYER John Maxwell writes in his book, Partners in Prayer; "In the summer of 1876, grasshoppers nearly destroyed the crops in Minnesota. SO in the spring of 1877, farmers were worried. They believed that the dreadful plague would once again visit them and again destroy the rich ...read more

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