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  • Try Doing This Sometime. Take An Empty 2-Liter ...  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Schmidt on Nov 13, 2003
    based on 36 ratings
     | 1,940 views

    Try doing this sometime. Take an empty 2-Liter bottle, and fill it up half way with just plain water, and the other half fill up with vegetable oil. Then try shaking that bottle up and mixing those two things together. What’s going to happen? Well, you can shake that bottle all day, but as soon as ...read more

  • Don't Pass Up 200 Pennies To Pick Up A Dollar Bill

    Contributed by Rev. Dr. David T. Williamson on Jun 15, 2024
     | 312 views

    Don't pass up 200 pennies to pick up a dollar bill. In other words, it's the little things in life that happen along the way that can add up. It's the little things in life that make a big difference! Generosity means being willing to give of yourself, even when not asked, and small ...read more

  • What Is Your Legacy?

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Sep 16, 2008
     | 3,401 views

    What is Your Legacy? This week I had the extreme privilege of praying at a ceremony honoring the memory of Sandra Waugh Bradshaw, one of the heroic flight crew of 9/11's Flight 93. Sandy went to Grays Chapel and had ties to this community. I want to suggest to you that in the moment that brave ...read more

  • Selling Your Cow  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 31, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,486 views

    Daniel Overdorf: One of my older sisters and her husband served for 12 years as missionaries to Haiti. Among various other ministries, such as church plants, a school and feeding programs, they discipled a few young men who today lead various churches and ministries. One participant in this was ...read more

  • What Is Your Struggle

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Aug 25, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,244 views

    As a group of frogs was traveling through the woods, two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs crowded around the pit and saw how deep it was, they told the two frogs that there was no hope left for them. However, the two frogs decided to ignore what the others were saying and they ...read more

  • Total Sacrifice For Wife

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,072 views

    Total Sacrifice for wife It is said that Cyrus, the founder of the Persian Empire, once had captured a prince and his family. When they came before him, the monarch asked the prisoner, “What will you give me if I release you?” “The half of my wealth,” was his reply. “And if I release your ...read more

  • Garbage In Your Salad

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jul 12, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,456 views

    GARBAGE IN YOUR SALAD There was a mother peeling vegetables for a salad when her daughter, home from college, casually mentioned she was going to a questionable movie that evening. The mother suddenly picked up a handful of garbage and threw it in the salad. "Mother!" said the shocked girl. "Why ...read more

  • In 1997, Reilly Rankin, Was An All-American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,647 views

    In 1997, Reilly Rankin, was an all-American golfer as a freshman at the University of Georgia. In her sophomore year, she was set back by an appendectomy, hernia repair and treatment for endometriosis. Having recovered from these procedures, her and a group of friends ventured out onto Lake Martin, ...read more

  • During World War Ii, Winston Churchill Was Forced ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 2,077 views

    During World War II, Winston Churchill was forced to make a painful choice. The British secret service had broken the Nazi code and informed Churchill that the Germans were going to bomb Coventry. He had two alternatives: (1) evacuate the citizens and save hundreds of lives at the expense of ...read more

  • Follow Your Conscience?

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Mar 3, 2010
     | 2,109 views

    FOLLOW YOUR CONSCIENCE? The truth is, people who strive for a clear conscience in life do not understand the seriousness of their sin. Most you here in this room, in fact, probably all of you in this room are better drivers than I am. Now I’m not saying that I am not a skilled driver, no, I have ...read more

  • Unlock Your Antlers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
     | 2,059 views

    UNLOCK YOUR ANTLERS In an old monastery in Germany, I'm told you can see two racks of ancient deer antlers permanently interlocked. Apparently the animals had been fighting fiercely, and their horns became so tangled that they could not be disengaged. As a result, both of them died of hunger. ...read more

  • Investing In Your Passion  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Randy Croft on Feb 28, 2002
    based on 56 ratings
     | 4,004 views

    Investing in Your Passion No one knows this better than Richard Westerfield. At age 22, having studied piano, violin, and voice, he got his first chance to conduct and orchestra. "The moment I picked up the baton, I knew this was what I wanted to do." His parents however, urged him to be more ...read more

  • Wiretap Into Your Home

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 22, 2020
     | 1,732 views

    The church is the bride of Christ. If we love the groom (Jesus), we will look for positive things to say about the bride (the church). Bob Russell tells a story about how years ago, when there were multiple party telephone lines, a preacher picked up the telephone to make a call but couldn’t get ...read more

  • I Have Often Said When People Ask Me Questions ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,836 views

    I have often said when people ask me questions about the second coming of Christ, “I’m in sales, not management.” Of course, any time someone asks me a biblical question that I’m not sure about I always answer the same way. Even if I thought I knew the answer, I’m still in sales and not ...read more

  • Love Your Neighbor

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Apr 16, 2012
     | 8,312 views

    LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR I stepped outside my hotel room yesterday and saw a thin elderly woman taking small steps in a circle. She seemed to be mumbling. Our eyes connected. She said, "They left me here and I don't know where they have gone. I don't know what room I am in." I held out my hand. She ...read more

  • Knots In Your Life

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 21, 2011
     | 2,026 views

    KNOTS IN YOUR LIFE The Baxter boys, Paul and John, liked to play in the woods near their home. They like the woods because they always found something they had never seen before. That's the way it was when they discoverd the tree with the knot tied in it. The knot was about halfway up the tree. ...read more

  • What's Your Dream?

    Contributed by Grant Van Boeschoten on Apr 22, 2008
     | 2,298 views

    WHAT'S YOUR DREAM? Mathew Barnett, at the young age of 20, was asked by his father Tommy Barnett to pastor an Inner City Church in Los Angeles. The first day that Mathew was at the Church it had a congregation of forty people. But instead of growing under his young and enthusiastic leadership, ...read more

  • Is There Grass On Your Path?  PRO

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,815 views

    IS THERE GRASS ON YOUR PATH? In one region of Africa, the first converts to Christianity were very diligent about praying. In fact, the believers each had their own special place outside the village where they went to pray in solitude. The villagers reached these "prayer rooms" by using their own ...read more

  • Singing Your Resolution

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Aug 27, 2012
     | 2,575 views

    A while back I got discouraged, I got frustrated. Things were not going the way that I had planned. I was tired. I was tired of solving problems and dealing with people. You ever get like that? I didn’t know what to do. I still remember walking up down the road to my house, tears streaming down ...read more

  • In The Days Before Connecticut ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on May 6, 2007
     | 1,433 views

    Illustration: In the days before Connecticut became a state, the colonial Legislature was in session when a thick black cloud blocked out the sunlight. Someone shouted, “It is the Day of Judgment! Let’s go home and get ready!” But another member of the Legislature, who happened to be a deacon ...read more

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