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  • Running With A Stopwatch

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2012
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    RUNNING WITH A STOPWATCH Long-distance runner Paavo Nurmi of Finland was an Olympic champion, winning twelve medals (nine of them gold) in the 1920, 1924, and 1928 Games. Nurmi was famous not only for his achievements, but also for running with a stopwatch in his hand to check his performance. ...read more

  • Erased

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jul 25, 2012
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    ERASED When we lived in Poland, I walked through one of the cemeteries in one of the cities. And as I was looking at the stones I was surprised to see many of the smooth stones scarred with a roughness right in the middle. Later I found out that the names had been gouged out because they were ...read more

  • In Answer To William Ernest Henley's "Invictus", ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
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    In answer to William Ernest Henley’s "Invictus", charging that he is the captain of his soul, leaving no room for Christ’s work on the cross, Dorothea Day answers him in her poem, "My Captain". What a great comparison between the heresy of salvation by works and salvation by grace: Out of the ...read more

  • A Substitute Kindergarten Teacher At Forest Hills ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 14, 2003
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    A substitute kindergarten teacher at Forest Hills Elementary School in Coral Springs, Fla., is under fire after telling her class that there is no Santa Claus. By the time parent Melissa Shea complained to assistant principal Lisa George, Fabiola Mehu-Pelissier had already been spoken to, with ...read more

  • The Seasons Are Changing, The Dogwoods Are ...

    Contributed by Erik Hinchey on Apr 28, 2005
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    The seasons are changing, the dogwoods are beginning to bloom, and the grass is growing and is most likely in desperate need of a trim. There is Life springing up all around us. The earth is slowly waking up from it’s three month slumber, with a stretching yawn the warmth of the sun is felt again, ...read more

  • A Priest Was Driving Down The Freeway With Two ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 14, 2006
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    A priest was driving down the freeway with two penguins sitting in the back seat of his car. A police officer pulled the priest over for speeding & upon seeing the penguins said to the priest "what do you think you’re doing with those penguins, take them to the zoo right away." The officer then let ...read more

  • An Old Gospel Hymn By Annie Johnson Flint Sums Up ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Nov 5, 2006
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    An old Gospel hymn by Annie Johnson Flint sums up today’s message so well for me: God has not promised skies always blue, Flower strewn pathways all our lives through; God has not promised sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, peace without pain. Refrain But God has promised strength for the ...read more

  • Some Time Ago A Man Was Staying In A Chalet In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    Some time ago a man was staying in a chalet in the Swiss Alps. Early one morning he heard what sounded like an earthquake. Hurriedly he got out of bed and ran to the front desk and asked if there was something wrong, if the mountains were breaking up? He was scared. The man at the front desk ...read more

  • Center Field

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Center Field In Discipleship Journal, Don McCullough wrote: “John Killinger tells about the manager of a minor league baseball team who was so disgusted with his center fielder’s performance that he ordered him to the dugout and assumed the position himself. The first ball that came into center ...read more

  • Each Of Our Days Are Measured In The 24 Hours It ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Feb 10, 2008
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    Each of our days are measured in the 24 hours it takes for the Earth to rotate on its axis. A year is the time the Earth takes to revolve around the Sun, about 365 and a quarter days. That’s why every four years an extra day at the end of February is added – well that’s not quite true because if ...read more

  • A Flat Tire Saves A Life  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 23, 2011
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    A FLAT TIRE SAVES A LIFE On May 11, 1996, Demingo Pacheco had a major problem. He was on a tight schedule to catch his plane out of Miami when the left rear tire of his Cadillac blew out on the Palmetto Expressway. For more than hour he sweated under that broiling Florida sun changing that tire. ...read more

  • Death

    Contributed by Jeffrey Rowe on Dec 29, 2012
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    In Psalm 23, death is described as casting a shadow. Let’s look at that for a moment. Have you ever been enjoying a nice sunny day when all of a sudden a dark cloud hides the sun? All of a sudden you’re in this shadow! What does the shadow do? It hides the light. It makes it more difficult to ...read more

  • Antivirus: Holy Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Mar 18, 2010
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    ANTIVIRUS: HOLY SPIRIT Jesus said in verse 7 of John 16, "For if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you." Jesus was God in the flesh, of course. He could have spoken this world out of existence at any given time, but, I would like to use an ...read more

  • On Martin Luther  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 7, 2009
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    ON MARTIN LUTHER Church history illustrates that if a church quits being renewed and refreshed every day then they slide into apathy -- this leads toward man made religion and deadness. In essence the people of God lose their anointing and their transformational power to see lives changed. The ...read more

  • The Mysterious Formula For Coca-Cola  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Mar 11, 2002
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    The mysterious formula for Coca-Cola In 1925, the only written copy of its formula Coca-Cola admits to having was retrieved from a New York bank (where it had been held as collateral on a sugar loan) and reverently laid in safe deposit box in Woodruff’s Atlanta bank, the Trust Company of Georgia ...read more

  • I'm Only A Mirror Fragment  PRO

    Contributed by Matt Black on Oct 26, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 4,874 views

    I’M ONLY A MIRROR FRAGMENT I want to share with you a story about a very interesting well-educated Greek philosopher whose name is Dr. Alexander Popaderos. And Dr. Popaderos every summer on the island of Crete taught a class on ethics for two weeks. And this particular summer just as he was ...read more

  • Thankfulness Or Forgetfulness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 6,141 views

    THANKFULNESS OR FORGETFULNESS "History knows no disasters," said the Literary Digest (Sept. 1923), "which parallels the earthquake and fire that visited Japan this month and laid waste the capital city and the chief seaport." The New York Tribune called this earthquake “undoubtedly the greatest ...read more

  • This Man Was A Farmer, His Neighbors Were ...  PRO

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Aug 13, 2006
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    This man was a farmer, his neighbors were farmers, and everyone in the area considered him to be the biggest pessimist in the world. His closest neighbor did all he could to encourage him every time they spoke, leaning over a fence that divided their properties on one side. “Look’s like the sun’s ...read more

  • Some Of You May Remember The Drop-While-You-Shop ...

    Contributed by Jonathan Twitchell on Dec 7, 2006
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    Some of you may remember the Drop-While-You-Shop activity that the children did back in the spring. They took plastic cups, lined them with newspaper and put soil inside the newspaper. Then they took different seeds and put them between the newspaper and the side of the cup, so you could see the ...read more

  • Doubt In The Scientific World

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    Doubt in the Scientific World Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. In Albert Einstein’s early days, physicists had scratched their heads for some 50 years over the unexplainable orbit ...read more

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