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  • Imagine A Ship Filled With People Crossing The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,829 views

    Imagine a ship filled with people crossing the Atlantic. In the middle of the ocean the captain announces that the ship is sinking and that everyone must leave the big, towering ship and get into the little lifeboats being lowered over the sides of the boat into the swelling ocean. a. One person ...read more

  • Today Is Nigeria's 32nd Independence Anniversary. ...

    Contributed by Abiodun Adeniyi on May 1, 2008
     | 3,678 views

    Today is Nigeria’s 32nd Independence anniversary. At a time like this, every one of us needs to ask the question whether the independence we are celebrating today has any relevance to the one we got in the year 1960. In the same vein, many of us Christians need to ask ourselves whether the freedom ...read more

  • The Right Thing To Do

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
     | 1,365 views

    THE RIGHT THING TO DO HOW ABOUT INTEGRITY IN AMERICA? One man wrote: "A package arrived in our mailbox recently. My wife opened the package because it had our address on the package and she believed it could be one of the many sample products that she had signed up for. Inside the package was a ...read more

  • Iceberg Anger

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 23, 2008
     | 2,930 views

    Iceberg Anger Do you know what you are feeling? Can you identify why you are feeling the way you are? This is so huge and complicated that it often takes years of intentional effort to figure these things out. And the more messed up we are, the longer and harder and more painful it can be. An ...read more

  • Joseph Was Despised Because Of His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Joseph was despised because of his Behavior. (Vv. 8-11) Joseph was despised not for doing evil but for doing good. Joseph typifies the Lord in many ways. Sidlow Baxter observes that he was the beloved son, that he was the rejected servant, and also the exalted Savior. The way that he was despised ...read more

  • When My Wife And I Lived In Florida I Had A ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Aug 26, 2009
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    When my wife and I lived in Florida I had a little bitty lime tree which never produced good fruit. It was amazing. No matter what I did the tree never produced any fruit which I could use. The limes were always covered in black kind of mold or fungus or something. I would wash them off but it ...read more

  • How To Get To Heaven  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
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    HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN In 1997 there was survey taken by U. S. News and World Report, "Who do you think is mostly likely to get into heaven?" Mother Teresa had a 79%, Oprah Winfrey 66%, Michael Jordon 65%, Colin Powell 61%, Dennis Rodman 28% and O. J. Simpson 19%. The person completing the survey ...read more

  • Goldfish Dies From Soap Used To Clean Its ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
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    Goldfish Dies From Soap Used To Clean Its Tank [KILLER SOAP] Sometimes we consider it our responsibility to correct a brother or sister in Christ. We may notice an action or attitude that is contrary to the teachings of the Bible. So we decide it’s up to us to correct the wrong. We need to be sure, ...read more

  • Sundowning  PRO

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Oct 6, 2010
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    SUNDOWNING As I walked into the room I had visited only that morning I noticed that some people, had an increased CONFUSION, RESTLESSNESS AND INSECURITY. I met the Asian woman with such beautiful eyes who HALLUCINATES and HEARS VOICES each afternoon. I had a quiet conversation with a woman who, ...read more

  • Learned Helplessness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2011
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    LEARNED HELPLESSNESS Learned Helplessness is a term I came across in my reading this week. It is a technical term originally used in reference to animal psychology but is also appropriately applied to human behavior as well. Learned helplessness describes an animal or a person who has learned to ...read more

  • Love As A Token

    Contributed by Adrian Rogers on Jul 19, 2011
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    LOVE AS A TOKEN Woodrow Wilson was on a train. He was in Billings, Montana. He was making whistle stops. He was the President of the United States. He was on that last coach. He was on that platform there out behind. You have seen pictures of them. His wife was next to him. There were important ...read more

  • Coping With Complaining

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 21, 2012
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    COPING WITH COMPLAINING How do you cope with complaining, nagging, whine-baby people? Internet discussion board posted this: Why do people complain so much? I know it's a natural thing but it has to be unhealthy. At my job people never stop complaining. Every day it's either too hot or too cold. ...read more

  • Humorous Definitions  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2012
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    HUMOROUS DEFINITIONS Definitions matter. Do you know what these words mean? ABDICATE: To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. ANTIQUE: An item your grandparents bought, your parents got rid of, and ...read more

  • The Focus Of The Prayer Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2012
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    THE FOCUS OF THE PRAYER OF JABEZ In the year 2000, Bruce Wilkinson of Walk Through the Bible Ministries turned the obscure character in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 into an international phenomenon with his little book, The Prayer of Jabez. Not only did it become a runaway hit and a longtime New York Times ...read more

  • Life With God On Your Side Should Get Better, Shouldn't It?

    Contributed by Gordon Mcculloch on Aug 31, 2017
     | 4,563 views

    5 Storms in my life changed me intensely. Sometimes a storm will follow a great spiritual event just like these disciples had witnessed. … Many years ago, I was having great difficulties, and that is when I turned to Christ, and then I knew that everything in the bible was true, that Jesus was ...read more

  • The Lady In Charge Of The Chicken! Haha!!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 14, 2021
     | 1,303 views

    Jesus wants us to live up to the responsibility that goes with our authority. We each have different levels of authority and responsibility, and he expects us to meet those levels. When Christian Herter was governor of Massachusetts, he was running hard for a second term in office. One day, after ...read more

  • The Road From Jerusalem To Jericho

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 20, 2022
     | 2,745 views

    Jesus told the Parable of the Good Samaritan and said that "a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho", Matoon explains that "It was on this road where the victim was mugged. This road was about 17 miles long and it was a very dangerous path to travel. It was steep. Jerusalem ...read more

  • Complaining On The Day Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
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    Complaining on the Day of Judgment The story is told of billions of people scattered on a great plain before Almighty God’s Throne. Some of the groups near the front talked heatedly - not with cringing shame; but, with belligerence. "How can God Judge us?" said one. "What does He know about ...read more

  • Glorify God In Your Body

    Contributed by Sam Mccormick on Dec 15, 2016
     | 6,198 views

    When I was in high school at Littlefield, Texas, a boy was occasionally seen in the corridors who I did not ever see in my classes. His head was a grayish purple color, irregularly shaped, and at least twice the size of a normal person’s head. I understood that he was a student at the school who ...read more

  • I Want To Begin With The Most Famous Logical ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 9, 2008
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    I want to begin with the most famous logical argument ever posited for the existence of God taken from St. Thomas Aquinas Suma Theologiae. So, we begin with “The Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas”. First, we have the argument from motion. This argument speaks to the issue of creation. Most ...read more

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