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  • To Realize The Value Of One Year, Ask A Student ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jul 26, 2010
     | 2,431 views

    To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade. To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby. To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the businessman whose flight was delayed an hour. To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask the man who had ...read more

  • You Can't Turn Off Time

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 17, 2011
     | 3,446 views

    YOU CAN'T TURN OFF TIME James W. Moore says, "One of the greatest comedy acts in the history of show business was the beloved husband and wife team of George Burns and Gracie Allen. In real life, Gracie Allen was a bright, wise businesswoman, but she always played the part of a naive, off-the-wall ...read more

  • Time To A Pig

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 7, 2011
     | 3,334 views

    TIME TO A PIG Reminds me of a man who was walking past a farm, and noticed a farmer feeding pigs in a most extraordinary manner. The farmer would lift a pig up to a nearby apple tree, and the pig would eat the apples off the tree directly. The farmer would move the pig from one apple to another ...read more

  • The 2,000-Year-Old Seed

    Contributed by Roshelle Deas Roberson on Feb 6, 2012
     | 3,085 views

    THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD SEED This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick. A tree grows in Kibbutz Ketura in the Israeli desert, and what a tree it is, a tiny sapling actually 2,000 years old, or the seed that it comes from is 2,000 years old, making it the oldest seed ever germinated. Botanists never gave ...read more

  • Feeling God

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Mar 4, 2012
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    FEELING GOD When we try to measure time or weight or temperature or speed or any of a hundred other things, we normally rely on instrumentation. But we can try to tell the time by using our feelings, such as how hungry or tired we feel, and our senses, such as how light it seems, is crudely ...read more

  • Don't Be Impatient

    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 15, 2013
     | 4,269 views

    DON'T BE IMPATIENT When I was a teen-ager, my mom finally gave in to my dad. After mom and dad bought our Christmas, dad talked mom into allowing us to open the gifts days, sometimes weeks early. He couldn’t wait until we opened our gifts. The problem is that it took a lot of the joy out of ...read more

  • I'm A Firm Believer In Leftovers. I Hate Waste, ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,945 views

    I’m a firm believer in leftovers. I hate waste, so I try to make sure that stuff in the container in the refrigerator gets used before it becomes an alternate life form. But sometimes it’s just not appropriate to serve up leftovers. They aren’t as classy as fixing a meal. They don’t communicate ...read more

  • Good Times, Bad Times, There Will Always Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 2,448 views

    "Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times, people, people want to ...read more

  • From The Time Of Abraham To The Time Of Jesus, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Huffhine on May 27, 2004
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    From the time of Abraham to the time of Jesus, the Jewish people were the chosen people of God. They were the only people on the face of the earth who knew the one, true God. From Abraham, God raised up this nation to be his voice to the entire world. It was to them that God introduced Himself, ...read more

  • It Takes Time To Be A Success, But Time Is All ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "It takes time to be a success, but time ...read more

  • Lord Byron, Who Early In His Life Wasted Himself ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Apr 9, 2007
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    Lord Byron, who early in his life wasted himself on the pursuit of pleasure, wrote a year before his death: MY days are in the yellow leaves; The flowers and the fruits of love ...read more

  • Lord Byron, Who Early In His Life Wasted Himself ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,492 views

    Lord Byron, who early in his life wasted himself on the pursuit of pleasure, wrote a year before his death: MY days are in the yellow leaves; The flowers and the fruits of love ...read more

  • To Be Upset Over What You Don't Have Is To Waste ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    To be upset over what you don't have is to waste ...read more

  • Time Check  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 21, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,120 views

    Sometimes finding the right path depends greatly on friends that you have in high places. An airline pilot flying over the southeastern U.S. called the local tower and said, “We are passing over at 35,000--give us a time check.” The tower said, “What airline are you?” “What difference does it ...read more

  • Marking The Time  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,787 views

    MARKING THE TIME Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we ...read more

  • God's Time  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 10, 2002
    based on 23 ratings
     | 6,515 views

    GOD'S TIME There is a new pastor in Atlanta named Mason Betha. He recently celebrated his one year anniversary pasturing a church of about 100. But Reverend Mason hasn’t always been a pastor. He was formerly known as the rapper Ma$e, “the flashiest and most pleasure driven performer on… ...read more

  • A Time For Testimony  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Kersten on Jan 22, 2004
    based on 26 ratings
     | 5,988 views

    A TIME FOR TESTIMONY What if we had each person that witnessed the resurrected Lord come up here this morning and talk for 15 minutes giving a testimony to what they saw. If we listened to the testimony of all the people that Jesus appeared to, we would be here all day, and all night, and Monday ...read more

  • Time Itself

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2004
     | 987 views

    Nobel-laureate George Wald wrote: “One has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles. Given so much time the impossible becomes possible, the possible probable, and that probable virtually certain.” R.C. Sproul, Not a Chance: The Myth ...read more

  • Time For Jesus

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Sep 19, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,089 views

    Time for Jesus Suppose you walked into your kitchen one morning and found Jesus sitting at the table. What would you do? Would you say: "Jesus! I'm thrilled to see You! I just wish I had time to talk, but right now I'm running late for work. When I get home tonight, we'll have a nice visit"? ...read more

  • Time Marches On  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,383 views

    TIME MARCHES ON There was once a middle aged man who was considering going back to school to get that degree he had always wanted. But he was balking at the idea because he was now over 50 and what good would it do him now. He went to his dad for advice and his dad asked him how long it would ...read more