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  • Virtues Are Not Emotions. Emotions Are Movements ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
     | 2,656 views

    Virtues are not emotions. Emotions are movements of appetite, virtues dispositions of appetite towards movement. Moreover emotions can be good or bad, reasonable or unreasonable; whereas virtues dispose us only to good. Emotions arise in the appetite and are brought into conformity with reason; ...read more

  • If God Is Able To Place The Stars In Their ...

    Contributed by David Haun on Dec 22, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,222 views

    "If God is able to place the stars in their sockets and suspend the sky like a curtain, do you think it remotely possible that God is able to guide your life? If your God is mighty enough to ignite the sun, could it be that he is mighty enough to light your path? If he cares enough about the ...read more

  • Luther On Fear  PRO

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Apr 28, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 6,805 views

    Luther on Fear Martin Luther made this interesting observation in his Table Talk. God and the devil take opposite tactics in regard to fear. The Lord first allows us to become afraid, that he might relieve our fears and comfort us. The devil, on the other hand, first makes us feel secure in our ...read more

  • Elisabeth Elliot, At Urbana 76, Told Of Her ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
    based on 15 ratings
     | 2,157 views

    Elisabeth Elliot, at Urbana 76, told of her brother Thomas Howard. Their mother let him play with paper bags she’d saved if he put them away afterwards. One day she walked into the kitchen to find them strewn all over the floor. Tom was out at the piano with his father singing hymns. When ...read more

  • Arrogance/Pride: (Mcmanus)in South America, The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Jan 4, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,355 views

    ARROGANCE/PRIDE: (McManus)In South America, the llama is a cultural metaphor for arrogance. To keep a herd of llamas corralled, you don’t even need a fence. All you need is one rope circling around the herd to keep them enclosed. Just by placing it at a height beneath the head and base of the ...read more

  • Freedom Is A Concept That Is Built Into The Dna ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 26, 2008
     | 2,818 views

    Freedom is a concept that is built into the DNA of our being. This fact is true to the extent that our souls cry out when we find ourselves bound under the weight of tyranny. This truth is expressed clearly in our own past as a people. When found under the tyrannical control of the British crown we ...read more

  • V ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 1,221 views

    VALUED David Neeleman, JetBlue Airways CEO, meets 95% of new employees on their first work day. From day one he demonstrates he values them. He also sets aside one day each week to travel on JetBlue flights, where he serves beverages and cleans planes. In 2002, JetBlue wanted to hire 2,000 team ...read more

  • God And Grandma

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,333 views

    GOD AND GRANDMA Two boys were spending the night at Grandma's house. At bedtime, the two boys were saying their prayers when the youngest one began praying at the top of his lungs: "I PRAY FOR A THOMAS THE TRAIN SET! I PRAY FOR AN ELECTRIC SCOOTER! I PRAY FOR A NEW SPIDERMAN ACTION FIGURE!!!" His ...read more

  • Now We Can Start Over

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 12, 2009
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    "NOW WE CAN START OVER" Thomas Edison’s manufacturing facilities in West Orange, N.J., were heavily damaged by fire one night in December 1914. Edison lost almost $1 million worth of equipment and the record of much of his work. The next morning, walking about the charred embers of his hopes and ...read more

  • Elisabeth Elliot, At Urbana 76, Told Of Her ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 17, 2009
     | 1,521 views

    Elisabeth Elliot, at Urbana 76, told of her brother Thomas Howard. Their mother let him play with paper bags she’d saved if he put them away afterwards. One day she walked into the kitchen to find them strewn all over the floor. Tom was out at the piano with his father singing hymns. When ...read more

  • Honesty

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Feb 7, 2022
     | 1,472 views

    Blaise Pascal observed that human life is nothing but perpetual delusion; human relationships are based on mutual deception. Martin Buber wrote of the uncanny game of hide and seek we play - in which the soul seeks to hide from itself. Thomas Merton - our minds are deformed with a contempt for ...read more

  • A Man For All Seasons

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 2,752 views

    A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS In 1966, Robert Bolt's play was made into a movie of the same name. A Man For All Seasons was a movie about Sir Thomas More. More, a member of the elite Privy Council of the Roman Catholic Church, refused to give his okay to King Henry VIII's divorce to his wife and ...read more

  • Famous Hoaxes On April Fools Day & Skepticism

    Contributed by David Simpson on Apr 16, 2018
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     | 2,782 views

    It’s ironic that this year Easter falls on April Fools day. Have you ever fallen for an April Fools joke or prank? I know as a kid there was always some classmate pulling a prank on someone, with the rest of us in on it and watching that poor soul make a fool of themselves by believing the prank. ...read more

  • No Teeth  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,732 views

    NO TEETH Walking towards the United Nations Building in New York City, a street evangelist was observed who was trying to get the attention of passers-by. He urged those near him to flee from the wrath to come. "I warn you," he roared, "that there will be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of ...read more

  • Power Comes From God

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 10, 2009
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    POWER COMES FROM GOD There is an interesting account about Thomas Aquinas visiting Pope Innocent II in the 12th century. The great theologian and philosopher came upon the pope auditing some of the Vatican's treasure. The pope stated, "No more must the church say with Peter that of silver and gold ...read more

  • William Temple's Definition Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
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    William Temple’s Definition of Worship In summing up how all this comes together in giving worship, William Temple said: The world can be saved by one thing and that is worship. For to worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the ...read more

  • Titanic Arrogance

    Contributed by Casey Sabella on Apr 6, 2012
     | 3,873 views

    TITANIC ARROGANCE "Control your Irish passions, Thomas. Your uncle here tells me you proposed 64 lifeboats and he had to pull your arm to get you down to 32. Now, I will remind you just as I reminded him--these are my ships. And, according to our contract, I have final say on the design. I'll not ...read more

  • Disciples In Clay

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 9, 2013
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    DISCIPLES IN CLAY Peter Marshall, in a sermon entitled, "Disciples in Clay," pictured the apostles before an examining board which was appointed to choose Jesus' close associates. Peter stood there smelling of fish -- uncouth, uncultured, impetuous, uncultured, and impulsive. Andrew, James, and ...read more

  • For Posterity

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 24, 2019
     | 2,276 views

    . In 1914, British World War I soldier Pvt. Thomas Hughes wrote a letter to his wife, sealed it in a ginger ale bottle, and tossed it into the English Channel. He died two days later fighting in France. Fast forward to 1999 when a fisherman found the bottle in the River Thames. It was too late to ...read more

  • I Heard About A Man Who Went On A Trip To Israel. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Rust on Jul 11, 2001
    based on 110 ratings
     | 2,016 views

    I heard about a man who went on a trip to Israel. He was about to enter the famous and impressive Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv to take in a concert by the famed Israel Philharmonic. The man was admiring the unique architecture, the sweeping lines of the entrance, and the modern decor throughout the ...read more