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  • Watching A Trapeze Show Is Breathtaking. We ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 1, 2008
     | 1,482 views

    WATCHING A TRAPEZE SHOW IS BREATHTAKING. WE WONDER AT THE DEXTERITY AND TIMING. WE GASP AT NEAR-MISSES. IN MOST CASES, THERE IS A NET UNDERNEATH. WHEN THEY FALL, THEY JUMP UP AND BOUNCE BACK TO THE TRAPEZE. IN CHRIST, WE LIVE ON THE TRAPEZE. THE WHOLE WORLD SHOULD BE ABLE TO WATCH AND SAY, "LOOK ...read more

  • Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 21, 2008
     | 1,917 views

    NOT IMPRESSED A story is told about Rabbi Joseph Schneerson, a Hasidic leader during the early days of Russian Communism. The rabbi spent much time in jail, persecuted for his faith. One morning in 1927, as he prayed in a Leningrad synagogue, secret police rushed in and arrested him. They took ...read more

  • Something Better Down The Road  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,178 views

    SOMETHING BETTER DOWN THE ROAD A football game was being played in Badger Stadium in 1982 in Madison, Wisconsin with more than 60,000 fans in attendance. The home team was losing. But out of the blue during time outs, when play was a at stop, the fans would jump up and roar with excitement. Why? ...read more

  • Color Of The View

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 17, 2009
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    COLOR OF THE VIEW "There is a house in New England where the owner designed a unique feature. The owner of the house often took visitors to the tower and would ask them to look through one of the windows. Each of the four windows was different. The red-tinted window could make it look like a hot ...read more

  • The Unique Christ

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 10, 2009
     | 2,677 views

    THE UNIQUE CHRIST His birth was contrary to the laws of life. His death was contrary to the laws of death. He had no cornfields or fisheries but He could spread a table for five thousand and have bread and fish to spare. He walked on no beautiful carpets or velvet rugs, but He walked on the ...read more

  • We All Have Scar Tissue On Our Lives From Sexual ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 16, 2010
     | 2,610 views

    We all have scar tissue on our lives from sexual sin. This sin is ripping our culture apart today and it’s destroying the fabric of this nation. It’s responsible for ripping the family unit apart today more than ever. Lust today is called love but lust is not love! We watch the news and we see one ...read more

  • Hope Is A Source Of Life

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 5, 2011
     | 3,875 views

    HOPE IS A SOURCE OF LIFE Hope prays for God’s "will to be done on earth as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10) and then seeks to be God’s agent of change! One writer says: "Biblical and Christian hope does not mean living in the clouds, dreaming of a better life. It is not merely a projection of ...read more

  • Unaware Of The King's Presence  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,611 views

    UNAWARE OF THE KING’S PRESENCE Steve Brown tells the frustrating story of some British social scientists. Following the end of British rule in India in the 1940s, a group of researchers wanted to study the impact of the end of British rule on the life of the nation. After six months, the British ...read more

  • There Is No Racial Distinction In The Kingdom Of God

    Contributed by Howard Gunter on Mar 29, 2017
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    All human beings are equally created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). God loved the world so much that He sent Jesus to lay down His life for us (John 3:16). The “world” obviously includes all ethnic groups. I like to use the following illustration which works as well with ...read more

  • Jesus Road A Donkey

    Contributed by Barry O Johnson on Jun 25, 2018
     | 3,785 views

    Whenever a city was conquered in the ancient world, the type of animal the victorious king would ride as he entered a defeated town would make all the difference in the world to the people. If he was seated on a horse, the city was doomed; it was a sign that he had come in war, riding his ...read more

  • Order From Chaos

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Mar 17, 2023
     | 1,052 views

    The late Harvard mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, maintained that the whole scientific enterprise of the western world rested upon the belief that at the bottom of things science would find order rather than chaos. Where animists were afraid to probe a world enchanted with ...read more

  • Love: Needing Or Giving

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 26, 2023
     | 1,084 views

    “The typical example of Gift-love would be that love which moves a man to work and plan and save for the future well-being of his family which he may die without sharing or seeing; the second, Need-love, is that which sends a lonely and frightened child to its mother’s arms. And of course Divine ...read more

  • A Small Boy Was In His Sand Box Playing And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dennis Jones on Feb 23, 2003
    based on 53 ratings
     | 3,004 views

    A small boy was in his sand box playing and digging in the sand. He finally struck a rock as he dug in deeper. He kept on digging and found it to be a huge rock that he could barely move. He struggled and fought to get the rock out of the box. With one final effort he used all his strength to ...read more

  • The Sleep Son  PRO

    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Aug 28, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,571 views

    THE SLEEP SON A mother watched her son begin to drain of energy as the week went on. By the end of the week he’d lost his desire to get out of bed. She heard the alarm go off through his bedroom door. Apparently he just kept punching the little snooze button on the top. Finally, after 3 or 4 extra ...read more

  • One Of The Espn Channels I Really Like Is Espn ...

    Contributed by Bryan Dill on Nov 5, 2006
     | 1,389 views

    One of the ESPN channels I really like is ESPN Classic. The entire network is dedicated to showing broadcasts of games that have already been played. And, I really like watching some of those older games that are classic rivalries, or famous players from years ago. But, the best part about it ...read more

  • I'm Not Talking About Perfection, But I Am ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    I’m not talking about perfection, but I am talking about a desire for perfection. “Let me explain with an example from marriage. Let’s suppose my wife asks me to go to the store and buy some things, but I deliberately buy a number of other things instead. It is not a mistake on my part; rather, I ...read more

  • Hindrances  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 25, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,387 views

    HINDRANCES Hindrances: These are those things that the Bible doesn’t necessarily call sin, but that can get in the way. Let me give you an example: It’s not illegal to run the 100-yard dash wearing snow-mobile suit and snow boots. But you’re not going to win. In fact, you’ll probably pass out ...read more

  • Men As Role-Models For Children

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
     | 2,683 views

    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

  • Just As Afraid Of You...?

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 22, 2009
     | 3,761 views

    JUST AS AFRAID OF YOU...? The late great trumpet player Louis Armstrong tells a story about while growing up in Louisiana, having to go down to the pond and getting water for Allie May. He gets down there and is about to scoop the water out of the pond, and all of the sudden coming out of the ...read more

  • Sealed By The Spirit

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Jul 7, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,325 views

    SEALED BY THE SPIRIT How many of you have ever canned food? When I was a child, we lived on a farm in the Appalachia Mountains of Virginia, and my parents canned all kinds of food. If they just put it in the jar without sealing it, the outside air would get in it and ruin the food. By sealing it, ...read more