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  • Restroom Use Policy  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 1,876 views

    FROM: YS OPERATIONS SUBJECT: Restroom Use Policy In the past, employees were permitted to make trips to the restroom under informal guidelines. Effective immediately, a Restroom Trip Policy will be established to provide a more consistent method of accounting for each employee’s restroom time and ...read more

  • Somewhere Among Us  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,013 views

    SOMEWHERE AMONG US The anti-Christ is probably alive today, Jerry Falwell said. The nationally known Baptist minister told 1,500 people at a Kingsport, Tenn., conference that he believes Jesus will return within 10 years. That means the anti-Christ must be on the earth. "Is he alive and here ...read more

  • Hovering Over Us  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2002
    based on 59 ratings
     | 1,602 views

    HOVERING OVER US Some time ago there was a fascinating story on the Nature Channel. An explorer had made a tremendous accomplishment. He managed, for the first time in history, to record on videotape the birth of a panda cub in the wild. This was amazing, in part, because of how violent the ...read more

  • Us Bureau Of Labor And ...

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 17, 2004
     | 1,207 views

    ILLUSTRATION... US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/cesan.txt What do we spend our money on? 1. Housing 2. Transportation 3. Food 4. ...read more

  • The Many Uses Of The Word In ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 22, 2008
     | 1,727 views

    ILLUSTRATION: The many uses of the word in English convince me that grace is indeed amazing—truly our last best word. It contains the essence of the gospel as a drop of water can contain the image of the sun. The world thirst for grace in ways it does not even recognize. . . “The world can do ...read more

  • There Is A Capacity Of Virtue In Us, And There ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,523 views

    "There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice ...read more

  • Watches Over Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
     | 4,860 views

    WATCHES OVER US An engineer, after doing his internship with NASA in Houston, made a startling decision to change course and study medicine. Two decades removed from college, he shared his testimony in our church thanksgiving service: "Passing the Oral Board is the culmination of 10 years of ...read more

  • Fear Moves Us

    Contributed by Robert Clark on Jun 19, 2009
     | 2,386 views

    FEAR MOVES US Fear is used by those with a platform to move us in the direction they desire. Fear sells (magazines, newspapers, TV ratings/ads...). Fear wins political contests. Fear is used by parents. And all too often fear is used by the church. Illustration: Print articles add up to $543M. ...read more

  • The Use Of God's Gifts

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 9, 2009
     | 2,279 views

    THE USE OF GOD'S GIFTS How much did Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys spend on the New Texas Stadium? 1.15 billion dollars. They joke that there is a hole in the top of the stadium so that God can watch his favorite team play. I’m not so sure Mr. Jones doesn’t believe that. We look at ...read more

  • The Sabbath Serves Us

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 27, 2010
     | 5,017 views

    THE SABBATH SERVES US A story is told of a wagon train of Christians traveling from St. Louis to Oregon. They observed the Sabbath day by stopping to rest and not traveling. But as winter approached some in the group began to panic that they would not reach Oregon before the snow fell. So they ...read more

  • He Suffered For Us  PRO

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,802 views

    Quote: A.W. Pink: "He suffered hell for us so that we can enjoy heaven with Him. He entered the awful Darkness, that I might walk in the Light; He drank the cup of woe that I might ...read more

  • Sin Mars Us

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 19, 2010
     | 1,976 views

    SIN MARS US During an all-night festival in Paris, five young people, apparently drunk, broke into the Orsay Museum and left a 4-inch gash in a priceless painting by Claude Monet. Culture Minister Christine Albanel said the painting could be restored, but she was deeply disturbed at the damage ...read more

  • Using Our Ability

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,063 views

    USING OUR ABILITY S. D. Gordon said, "We have nothing to do with how much ability we’ve got, or how little, but with what we do with what we have. The man with great talent is apt to be puffed up, and the man with little (talent) to belittle the little. Poor fools! God gives it, much or little. ...read more

  • God's Heartbeat In Us  PRO

    Contributed by John D Jones on Oct 26, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,657 views

    GOD'S HEARTBEAT IN US For 72 years Gordon and Norma Yeager shared their lives together as husband and wife. On October 12, 2011, while on a morning drive Gordon came to a stop sign and failed to yield to oncoming traffic. The elderly couple was taken to the Marshalltown Hospital near Des Moines, ...read more

  • The Right Use Of The Eyes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2012
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,267 views

    THE RIGHT USE OF THE EYES A bishop of the early church, who was a remarkable example of the virtue of contentment, was asked his secret. The venerable old man replied: "It consists in nothing more than making a right use of my eyes. In whatever state I am, I first of all look up to heaven and ...read more

  • Statistics On Alcohol Use

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 24, 2012
     | 1,552 views

    STATISTICS ON ALCOHOL USE The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reports that per capita consumption of alcohol by Americans age 14 and older has dropped from 2.75 gallons in 1980 to 2.31 in 2007. Good news but consider the number who are addicted to drugs. Drug abuse continues ...read more

  • Joseph Reminds Us

    Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 4, 2012
     | 3,512 views

    Joseph reminds us that the call of God isn’t always easy or conventional, but it is always right – and God will give us the courage to follow if we’re willing to obey. ...read more

  • Jesus: Soft To Us

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Dec 20, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,517 views

    Why did Jesus come to us as a baby? To fulfill prophecy? To be one with us, one of us, one we could know and understand, one we could see and believe in, one who takes away our sins through his own body and blood? All this and much more! Let me share an insight from Brisa, my three year old ...read more

  • Show Us God  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Jan 9, 2013
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,499 views

    SHOW US GOD The Greek philosopher Socrates made this statement: "Oh that someone would arise, man or god, to show us God." In the minds of scholars, here's one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived; and yet he, himself, had beating in his own breast--and he admitted it--oh that god could ...read more

  • First Gave Us

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 2, 2014
     | 12,223 views

    We can give to God only what he first gave us. We’re like the kid who wanted to give his dad a birthday gift, so he went to his father’s closet, took a tie off the rack, wrapped it up and presented it to him with a “Happy Birthday, Dad!” When we give to God, we take something wonderful that He ...read more

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