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  • Unselfish And Happy  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Feb 4, 2002
    based on 31 ratings
     | 3,638 views

    UNSELFISH AND HAPPY A fascinating study on the principle of the Golden Rule was conducted by Bernard Rimland, director of the Institute for Child Behavior Research. Rimland found that "The happiest people are those who help others." Each person involved in the study was asked to list ten ...read more

  • Unsatisfied  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,467 views

    UNSATISFIED French author, Guy de Maupassant was one of the greatest writers of short stories the world has ever known. Within ten years he rose from relative obscurity to fame. Just what he thought he’d always wanted. His material possessions showed a life of affluence…a yacht in the ...read more

  • On The Wall Beside My Desk I Have A 1996 Poster ...

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 24, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,495 views

    On the wall beside my desk I have a 1996 poster size Tim Horton’s Coffee calendar, which I took and had dry mounted, so it would last forever. The picture above the months shows a father wearing a goalie stick and gloves guarding a hockey net that stands in front of the garage door of the family ...read more

  • Our Body Is Murphy's Law In Action: If Anything ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,623 views

    Our body is Murphy’s Law in action: if anything can go wrong, it will. Five diseases - heart disease (29%), cancers (22.9%), stroke (6.8%), chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (5.1%), and diabetes (3%) - claimed 1.6 million lives or more than two-thirds of all deaths in the United States. Not ...read more

  • A Flippant Youth Asked A Preacher, "You Say That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,342 views

    A flippant youth asked a preacher, “You say that unsaved people carry a weight of sin. I feel nothing. How heavy is sin? Is it ten pounds? Eighty pounds?” The preacher replied by asking the youth, “If you laid a 400-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?” The youth replied, “It would ...read more

  • Rebellion In China

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,558 views

    Illustration from Tai Ping Rebellion in China We don’t learn much world history anymore in school. Back in the 1860s, a man arose in China who claimed to be a Messiah. [11] His name was Hong Xiuquan. Hong was this disturbed young salesman who read a bunch of heretical Christian literature, ...read more

  • An Ellison Research Study Finds 90% Of Americans ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
     | 1,679 views

    An Ellison Research study finds 90% of Americans feel the law should support religious groups renting public property, such as a public school gym or a library room, for meetings if non-religious groups are allowed to do so. 89% say it should be legal for a public school teacher to permit a “moment ...read more

  • The Bbc ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 5, 2009
     | 1,767 views

    The BBC (news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3157570.stm) did a study five years ago and published some interesting conclusions. According to the October 2, 2003 article, the happiest localities in the world are (in order): Nigeria, Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador and Puerto Rico. What might surprise ...read more

  • David Barton In His Book "What Happened In ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 6, 2009
     | 1,078 views

    David Barton in his book “What Happened In Education” writes “As a result of Supreme Court decisions in Engel v. Vitale, Murray v. Curlett, and Abington v. Schempp, religious principles were separated from public education. School prayer, Bible reading, and any instruction which purported to have ...read more

  • Drink Deeply  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,782 views

    DRINK DEEPLY Picture this: You have just finished a ten-mile hike on a 95 degree day, and on the entire journey you haven’t had a thing to drink. Stumbling with thirst, you come to your father’s house and plea for water. With love and concern, he brings you a cold pitcher of water and a glass and ...read more

  • The Wandering Sheep

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
     | 6,787 views

    THE WANDERING SHEEP Dr. Andrew Bonar tells of how in the Highlands of Scotland, a sheep would often wander off into the rocks and get into places that they can't get out of. The grass on these mountains is very sweet and the sheep like it, and they will jump down ten or twelve feet, and then ...read more

  • A Man Once Came To Peter Marshall, Former ...  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 13, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,549 views

    A man once came to Peter Marshall, former chaplain of the Unites States Senate, with a concern about tithing. “I have a problem,” he said. “I have been tithing for some time. It wasn’t too bad when I was making $20,000 a year; I could afford to give up $2,000. But now that I am making $500,000, ...read more

  • Getting Too Far From The Source  PRO

    Contributed by Choe Sergent on Apr 17, 2013
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,477 views

    GETTING TOO FAR FROM THE SOURCE The county hired a new person to paint fresh yellow lines down the middle of all the county roads. The first day this man painted an astonishing 10 miles of road with new double yellow lines down the middle. This was a record! No one had ever painted ten miles of ...read more

  • What Are We Preaching?

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 25, 2021
     | 1,897 views

    WHAT ARE WE PREACHING? False teachings abound whenever people do not know the truth. Many of our churches today do not teach the truth because many pastors do not know the Bible. In our seminaries, almost 50 percent of professors now teach that there was no virgin birth of Jesus, and that story ...read more

  • A Christian Father Lives By The Instruction Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Jun 21, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,793 views

    A Christian father lives by the instruction of Colossians 3:12, “…as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. James 4:10 says, “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.” “Humility” ...read more

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

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Aug 13, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,796 views

    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

  • Mr. Coffee Gets His Mug ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jun 3, 2008
     | 1,323 views

    Mr. Coffee Gets His Mug Money THIS COFFEE "MUG" WORTH $15.6 MILLION TO ITS OWNER SAN FRANCISCO -- When it comes to coffee, Russell Christoff is more of a fresh-brewed than a freeze-dried kind of guy. So he never scrutinized the Taster’s Choice label. When he finally did, he was staring back at ...read more

  • Christian Fathers: Give Generously  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,640 views

    "Christian Fathers: Give Generously" The Bible gives four Christian character traits that can build a lasting legacy for the Lord. The third is to give with generosity. 2 Corinthians 9:6-11 says, "Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will ...read more

  • Christian Fathers: Succeed With Humility  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,702 views

    "Christian Fathers: Succeed With Humility" The Bible gives four Christian character traits that can build a lasting legacy for the Lord. The fourth is to succeed with humility. Colossians 3:21 says, "...as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, ...read more

  • Unselfish Osu ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 27, 2008
     | 1,341 views

    Unselfish OSU Linebackers COLUMBUS (AP) - Marcus Freeman doesn’t mind staying in the background while All-American James Laurinaitis gets all the attention. Freeman and the third starting linebacker, Ross Homan, along with Spitler, might be stars at another Top 25 program. But at Ohio State, ...read more