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  • When You Reread A Classic You Do Not See More In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 710 views

    When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see ...read more

  • How Righteous Are You?  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Wilson on Nov 26, 2001
    based on 15 ratings
     | 4,689 views

    HOW RIGHTEOUS ARE YOU? Some folks think they are good really good people. Let’s suppose that a person on sins 3 times a day. A sin in the morning, a sin during the day and a sin at night. Sounds like a pretty good person! Let’s think for a moment. If that person is saved at 10 years old and ...read more

  • When You Hear The Christmas Story, You Get A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lin Smalec on Dec 21, 2005
    based on 21 ratings
     | 3,373 views

    When you hear the Christmas story, you get a picture in your head of what things must have looked like at the birth of Jesus. Sometimes it’s interesting to find out how others envision that scene. I read recently about a children’s Sunday School class that heard the Christmas story and sang the ...read more

  • Imagine You're A Financial Counselor. Today You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2004
     | 1,607 views

    Imagine you’re a financial counselor. Today you have two appointments, first with an elderly woman and then a middle-aged man. The woman’s husband died six years ago. She says, “I have no more money. The cupboards are bare. These two dollars are all I have to live on, yet I feel as if God ...read more

  • When A Couple Is In Conflict, You Find What You ...

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Dec 29, 2012
     | 1,623 views

    When a couple is in conflict, you find what you are looking for. If you are looking to find fault with your wife, you will find it! If you are looking to find fault with another church member, you will find it. If you are convinced that someone or a some group of people are snobish, or rude, or ...read more

  • You Are A Full-Time ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 2,207 views

    YOU ARE A FULL-TIME MINISTER In his book, Doing Church as a Team, Pastor Wayne Cordeiro, wrote the following: "Every member is a minister. God calls us to be full-time ministers! Full-time? Yes! Not just on Sundays, not just at Bible studies, but full-time. Do we love God just part-time? Do we ...read more

  • If You Watch The Game Today I Want You To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2003
    based on 47 ratings
     | 1,911 views

    If you watch the game today I want you to remember this story about Jerry Rice. He was the longtime star for the San Francisco 49ers, considered one of the greatest receivers in the history of football; he played for the 49ers for 15 years, 1985 to 2000. Tonight he will be playing for the Raiders. ...read more

  • You Know You're Getting Old When…

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
    based on 1 rating
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    You Know You’re Getting Old When… 1. You and your teeth don’t sleep together. 2. Your try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and discover you aren’t wearing any. 3. At the breakfast table you hear snap, crackle, pop and you’re not eating cereal. 4. Your back goes out, but you stay ...read more

  • Are You For Real?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 1,597 views

    ARE YOU FOR REAL? The misuse of God’s name for personal profit is easily applied to certain televangelists who use the name of God to make a buck off of overly trusting people, or politicians who mention God’s name in the right places and the right times in order to gain a certain constituency of ...read more

  • You Forgot  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Dillinger on Jun 5, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
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    YOU FORGOT Ken Blanchard writes: When my son Scott was a senior in high school, he used to cause problems by parking his truck in the driveway. Nobody could get in or out because his truck was big enough to go to war. I always told him to park it out in the street. One day I came home to ...read more

  • If You Want  PRO

    Contributed by Kerry Tilley on Feb 15, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,671 views

    If you want to be distressed, look within. If you want to be defeated, look back. If you want to be distracted, look around. If you want to be dismayed, look ahead. If you want to be delivered, look to Christ. If you want to be delighted, look ...read more

  • Are You A Christian?  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie De Loney on Feb 4, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,708 views

    ILLUSTRTATION: ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN? Addressing a national seminar of Southern Baptist leaders, George Gallup said, "We find there is very little difference in ethical behavior between churchgoers and those who are not active religiously...The levels of lying, cheating, and stealing are remarkable ...read more

  • If You Lack

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,933 views

    Preacher Vance Havner said, “If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack ...read more

  • What Will You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
     | 3,320 views

    WHAT WILL YOU DO? Henry Ford gave away millions of dollars to many different causes in his lifetime, but he was notorious for the fact that he refused to give any money at all to schools. He felt that well-meaning but non-businesslike people frequently mishandled those gifts. Now, there was a ...read more

  • Are You A Weed?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
     | 2,998 views

    ARE YOU A WEED? I would like to tell you a story about how a little girl helped the neighbor bully change his ways. The bully's name was Todd; his parents were divorced, and he was left to fend for himself. He's rude, and for an eight-year-old he can swear pretty good. When he comes over to ...read more

  • You Are Not Your ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 3,060 views

    You are Not Your Own Purchased at the Highest Price Corporate Worship The first step to enjoying public worship services is to understand that Christians are not their own. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you ...read more

  • Just As You Are  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,844 views

    JUST AS YOU ARE Jesus affirms that many would come to Him in faith and partake of Him as the Bread of Life, because of the Father. Man’s blindness does not keep God’s grace from working. When they come, they find that God does not turn them away nor cast them away later. CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT learned ...read more

  • Are You "Sharing"?

    Contributed by Danny Presswood on Jan 26, 2009
     | 4,798 views

    ARE YOU "SHARING"? One of the most stirring indictments on the church ever penned was made by Charles Schultz many years ago. Snoopy is shivering out in a snowstorm beside an empty food dish. He was looking longingly, expectantly, toward the house. Lucy came out and said, "Go in peace, be warmed ...read more

  • The More You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
     | 1,410 views

    THE MORE YOU KNOW Allen Rex Sandage, the greatest observational cosmologist in the world--who has deciphered the secrets of the stars, plumbed the mysteries of quasars, revealed the age of globular clusters, pinpointed the distances of remote galaxies, and quantified the universe’s expansion ...read more

  • You Are Not Alone

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 14, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 10,262 views

    YOU ARE NOT ALONE Reed Lessing tells the story of a Native American ritual for training young braves: "On the night of a boy’s thirteenth birthday, he was placed in a dense forest to spend the entire night alone. Until then he had never been away from the security of his family and tribe. But on ...read more