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  • Keep Your Eyes On Me

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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     | 5,608 views

    KEEP YOUR EYES ON ME One day, a man hired an experienced guide to lead him on a hike into the Swiss Alps. After many hours, they came to a high and remote mountain pass. To the man’s dismay, he saw the path had almost been washed out. What could he do? To the left was a sheer rock cliff, to his ...read more

  • Did God Create Evil?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    DID GOD CREATE EVIL? Does evil exist? The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists? A student bravely replied "Yes, he did!" "God created everything?" The professor asked.” Yes sir", the student replied. The professor answered, "If ...read more

  • Top Five Reasons Why Men Are Better Than Women  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 853 views

    TOP FIVE REASONS WHY MEN ARE BETTER THAN WOMEN 5. Men can go to the bathroom without a support staff. 4. Men can open their own jar. 3. For men, wrinkles add character. 2. People never glance down at a man’s ...read more

  • Dr. Harold Freeman, Former Professor Of ...

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jul 6, 2004
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    Dr. Harold Freeman, former professor of preaching at SWBTS, tells of a black man who came to Sunday School on a bus and expressed an interest in becoming a Christian. He lived a mile from the church, yet had never heard the name of Jesus. This was in ...read more

  • Science Can Give Us Only The Tools In A Box, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Science can give us only the tools in a box, mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine ...read more

  • If You Succeed In Life, You Must Do So In Spite ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "If you succeed in life, you must do so in spite of the efforts of others to pull you down. There is nothing in the idea that people are willing to help those who help themselves. People are willing to help a man who can't help himself, but as soon as a man is able ...read more

  • William Jennings Bryan, Secretary Of State In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2007
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    William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State in Woodrow Wilson’s Cabinet, was interviewing a man who was seeking a diplomatic post in China. Bryan warned the applicant that it was necessary to qualify as a linguist. "Can you speak the Chinese language?" he asked. The man was equal to the ...read more

  • I Wish To Preach, Not The Doctrine Of Ignoble ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 22, 2008
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    "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife: to preach that the highest form of success comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from ...read more

  • A Pastor Went To Visit Some Prospective Members. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rita Sims on Aug 4, 2001
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    A pastor went to visit some prospective members. It was a husband and wife and their son. At the beginning of the visit, it was a typical visit. They were getting to know each other, what they had done in their lives. Finally, the woman said, "I can’t stand it anymore. I’ve got to say ...read more

  • He Thinks He Knows Your Sister  PRO

    Contributed by Patrick Doherty on Nov 19, 2001
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    HE THINKS HE KNOWS YOUR SISTER There was an elderly man and his hard of hearing wife travelling from Memphis to Nashville. The trip was progressing along fine until they began having car trouble. Pulling into the nearest gas station the mechanic struck up a converstation with the old man. ...read more

  • The Land Of Persia Was Once Ruled By A Wise And ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Dec 9, 2001
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    The land of Persia was once ruled by a wise and beloved Shah who cared greatly for his people and desired only what was best for them. One day he disguised himself as a poor man and went to visit the public baths. The water for the baths was heated by a furnace in the cellar, so the Shah made his ...read more

  • In The Early 1800s In Manchester, England, And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Searles on Feb 23, 2004
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     | 2,181 views

    In the early 1800s in Manchester, England, and unhappy and depressed middle-aged man, while traveling, visited a physician who had been recommended to him? "What's the nature of your ailment?" the physician asked. The sad-faced man told the physician that he was suffering from a hopeless illness. ...read more

  • In May Of 1846 An Evangelist, Now Mostly ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy O'fallon on Jun 27, 2004
    based on 18 ratings
     | 4,899 views

    In May of 1846 an evangelist, now mostly forgotten, named “James Caughey” (pronounced “coffee”) visited a chapel in Nottingham England and preached a sermon on the words recorded in St. Mark, “Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye ...read more

  • One Night While Conducting An Evangelistic ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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    One night while conducting an evangelistic meeting in the Salvation Army Citadel in Chicago, Booth Tucker preached on the sympathy of Jesus. After his message a man approached him and said, “If your wife had just died, like mine has, and your babies were crying for their mother, who would never ...read more

  • An Elderly Couple Passed Away And Found ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kilson on May 6, 2006
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    An elderly couple passed away and found themselves at the pearly gates. Peter was there to welcome them. First he showed them their mansion. The man overwhelmed by the sheer luxury of it all asked, "How much does this place cost per night?" Peter replied, "Sir, this is Heaven, it doesn’t cost ...read more

  • Dwight L. Moody Was A Poorly Educated, ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jul 10, 2006
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    “Dwight L. Moody was a poorly educated, unordained, shoe salesman who felt God’s call to preach the gospel. Early one morning he and some friends gathered in a hay field for [prayer]. His friend Henry Varley said these words: ‘The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and ...read more

  • The Bridal Cup  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 16, 2007
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     | 2,048 views

    Listen to this insight from Dr. Ray Vander Laan: In the first century, when a young Jewish man reached marrying age and his family selected an appropriate wife for him, the young man and his father would meet the young woman and her father to negotiate the “bride price,” the figurative cost of ...read more

  • Conclusion: A Missionary Was Passing Out Gospel ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    Conclusion: A missionary was passing out Gospel of John’s in the Central provinces of India. One man took the Gospel of John and when he realized it was Christian literature, he tore it in pieces and threw them on the ground. In the providence of God, another man shortly came by that same place and ...read more

  • How Do You Maintain Humility? Success Can ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
     | 1,464 views

    How do you maintain humility? Success can sometimes dazzle you in the achieving, but there’s usually someone around to help you keep perspective. TV anchorman Tom Brokaw has a story about that: Brokaw was wandering through Bloomingdale’s in New York one day, shortly after he was promoted to ...read more

  • It’s All ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 7, 2010
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    It’s All Mine George W. Truett, a well-known pastor, was invited to dinner in the home of a very wealthy man in Texas. After the meal, the host led him to a place where they could get a good view of the surrounding area. Pointing to the oil wells punctuating the landscape, he boasted, “Twenty-five ...read more