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  • A Man Was Preaching To A Church In Australia. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A man was preaching to a church in Australia. The congregation had big black Bibles and severe expressions... And they knew their Bibles, and were proud of that. It was a smallish group, so he decided to engage them in dialogue: ’Who knows who the Pharisees were?’ They did. ’The Pharisees got a ...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

  • May 16 1894. Baltimore Orioles Came To Boston To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    May 16 1894. Baltimore Orioles came to Boston to play a routine baseball game. But what happened that day was anything but routine. John McGraw then with the Baltimore Orioles got in a fight with the Boston third baseman. Soon both teams were battling and the warfare erupted on the field and then ...read more

  • On March 6, 1987, Eamon Coughlan, The Irish ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    On March 6, 1987, Eamon Coughlan, the Irish world record holder at 1500 meters, was running in a qualifying heat at the World Indoor Track Championships in Indianapolis. With two and a half laps left, he was tripped. He fell, but he got up and with great effort managed to catch the leaders. With ...read more

  • A Recent Headline In The Sacramento Bee Read: ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A recent headline in the Sacramento Bee read: “Ignorance of the Good Book Reaches Biblical Proportions.” You can say that pun again The other day I read about a chain of supermarkets in the U.K. which decided to lecture shoppers about Easter. In a press release sent to the London Times they said, ...read more

  • Some Theologians Have Tried To Reintroduce ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Oct 28, 2007
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    Some theologians have tried to reintroduce heretical teachings from the second and third centuries as newly-found Gospels. They claim writings like the “Gospel of Thomas” are authentic teachings of Jesus and his disciples. I’m reminded of the time President Abraham Lincoln met with General ...read more

  • The Story Is Told That Jonathan Edwards, The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
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    The story is told that Jonathan Edwards, the third president of Princeton University and a great preacher of another generation, had a daughter who had a nasty temper, which was not well known to many people outside the family. Well it happened that a young man met and fell in love with this young ...read more

  • Religious Literacy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    RELIGIOUS LITERACY Just as schools teach reading, writing and arithmetic, Boston University's Stephen Prothero thinks religion ought to become the "4th R" of American education. He notes although 90% of people in the U.S. claim they are Christian, only a few know anything about religion. Only 10% ...read more

  • Men Today Are Far More Involved With Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    "Men today are far more involved with their families than they have been at virtually any other time in the last century," says Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History. In the late '70s, sociologists found the average dad spent about a third as much time with his kids as ...read more

  • I Heard About A Young Single Preacher Who Took ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Nov 24, 2008
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    I heard about a young single preacher who took his first part-time church while he was still in seminary. He preached a message one Sunday called, “10 Facts on How to Have the Perfect Marriage and raise Perfect Children.” A few years later he got married. He pulled out the old sermon to preach ...read more

  • Men As Role-Models For Children

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
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    MEN AS ROLE-MODELS FOR CHILDREN I am still struck by a report I heard months ago by an educator studying the needs of the District’s school system. He had found, in studying the children, that up to about the third grade they were bright, ambitious, eager to learn; but that somewhere after that, ...read more

  • What Is Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    WHAT IS YOUR NAME? The story is told of a soldier in the army of Alexander the Great, who was brought before the great world-conqueror for court martial. When the emperor had listened to the charges and the evidence, he turned to the soldier facing condemnation and said, "What is your name?" ...read more

  • Mother's Day Joke

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 19, 2022
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    Several years ago, when fathers were not with the mom for her delivery, a group of expectant fathers were in a waiting room, while their wives were in the process of delivering babies. A nurse came in and announced to one man that his wife had just given birth to twins. "That's quite a ...read more

  • An Old Man's Revenge

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Oct 23, 2022
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    An old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels bikers walked in. The first biker approached the old man, threw his cigarette into the old man's pie, and then took a seat at the counter. Then, a second biker walked over to the old man, spit into his glass of milk, and then ...read more

  • People Still Want To Be Invited To Church

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 25, 2024
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    Most Americans say they would visit a church if invited by a family member, neighbor or a friend. A recent study by the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and LifeWay Research found that 67 percent of Americans say a personal invitation from a family member would be effective in getting them to ...read more

  • Second Coming Of Jesus

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
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    In the 19th century, there was a wave of enthusiasm for prophecies predicting the actual date for the Second Coming of Christ. One such prophecy was an Adventist leader name William Miller. After studying Daniel 8, Miller predicted that Christ would return on March 21, 1842, but then revised the ...read more

  • Max Lucado Tells The Story Like This: The Faces ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Max Lucado tells the story like this: The faces of the three men were solemn as the mayor informed them of the catastrophe. “The rains have washed away the bridge. During the night many cars drove over the edge and into the river.” “What can we do?” asked one. “You must stand on the side of the ...read more

  • The Sandwich-Sign Parable

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Mar 24, 2009
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    THE SANDWICH-SIGN PARABLE The faces of the three men were solemn as the mayor informed them of the catastrophe. "The rains have washed away the bridge. During the night many cars drove over the edge and into the river." "What can we do?" asked one. "You must stand on the side of the road and ...read more

  • Emmanuel. God With Us.

    Contributed by Jessie Manuel on Dec 12, 2025
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    Before the angels broke their silence, Before the star began to shine, Before the virgin's womb held heaven, Before God crossed that boundary line— We waited in the darkness, heavy, With prophets' voices growing dim, Four hundred years of heaven's quiet, No burning bush, no ...read more

  • There Is No Substitute Or Shortcut To Gain The ...

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on Dec 15, 2006
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    There is no substitute or shortcut to gain the measure of God you desire in your life. Time before God in His presence releases the store house of heaven that is full of blessings and opens the flood gate of revelation you desire! Intimacy with the living God is the hall mark of every great man or ...read more