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  • Gay Activists Often Claim 10% Of The Population ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,697 views

    Gay Activists often claim 10% of the population is homosexual, but the facts tell a different story. A new National Center for Health Statistics report finds just 2.3% of men and 1.3% of women view themselves as ...read more

  • If You Were To Sit Down In Your Living Room, Hit ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 11, 2001
    based on 79 ratings
     | 1,758 views

    If you were to sit down in your living room, hit the remote control and nothing happened, what’s the first thing you’d do? Call the cable company? Call KDKA and ask what happened to their signal? Call ABC & CBS & NBC & Fox? Probably most of you would check the batteries in the remote. Or you’d see ...read more

  • Have You Checked The Labels On Your Grocery Items ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 8, 2001
    based on 40 ratings
     | 1,256 views

    Have you checked the labels on your grocery items lately? You may be getting less than you thought. According to U.S. News & World Report, some manufacturers are selling us the same size packages we are accustomed to, but they are putting less of the product in the box. For example, a box of ...read more

  • Eric D. Davis, 31, Should Have Planned His Bank ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,100 views

    Eric D. Davis, 31, should have planned his bank robbery in Toledo, Ohio, more carefully. Police say that after the heist Davis, running with the loot toward his getaway car, fell down. When his driver panicked and sped off, Davis jumped into the next available vehicle, which had two men in the ...read more

  • The Cure Of Comedy  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,948 views

    THE CURE OF COMEDY In The Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient, Norman Cousins tells of being hospitalized with a rare, crippling disease. When he was diagnosed as incurable, Cousins checked out of the hospital. Aware of the harmful effects that negative emotions can have on the ...read more

  • Ucla Alumni And Fans Made Ucla Football Coach ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Harlow on Sep 5, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 4,979 views

    UCLA alumni and fans made UCLA football coach Pepper Rodgers’s life miserable during a season when his Bruins got off to a horrible start. Nobody in Southern California would hang out with him. "My dog was my only true friend," Rodgers said of that year. "I told my wife that every man needs at ...read more

  • Yankee Honesty Iii: Dennis Cleary, A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,424 views

    YANKEE HONESTY III: Dennis Cleary, a representative in the Connecticut General Assembly, is running for his seventh term, but he’s running without the support of his own family. Relatives have taken out a newspaper ad noting "We are tired of Dennis ... Are you?" Family spokesman Jude Cleary says ...read more

  • A Sunday School Teacher Was Attempting To Teach ...  PRO

    Contributed by Abraham Shanklin on May 19, 2003
    based on 25 ratings
     | 4,141 views

    A Sunday School teacher was attempting to teach her young students the true meaning of Easter. "Why do we celebrate Easter?" she asked. When the children replied ’because of the Easter bunny,’ Easter eggs, candy, spring, etc., she said, "No, those are Easter traditions and symbols, but what is the ...read more

  • The Hallmark  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jul 20, 2003
    based on 10 ratings
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    "The Hallmark" Many of us can t tell fourteen caret gold from eighteen carat. Sone of us can t even tell gold plate from solid gold. In old London town the jewelers of Goldsmith’s Hall took pride in doing good work, and they wanted each customer to know what he was buying. So they devised a mark ...read more

  • The Next Time You Become Upset And Blame Someone ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,516 views

    The next time you become upset and blame someone for your response, think about your tube of toothpaste. This morning you squeezed your toothpaste tube, and out of it came toothpaste. The reason the toothpaste came out is because that is what is in the tube. Someone may have squeezed you once, ...read more

  • What's God Got To Do With It?  PRO

    Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 12, 2004
    based on 17 ratings
     | 5,172 views

    WHAT'S GOD GOT TO DO WITH IT? If you “Google” the word love, and you have to be very careful doing this, you will find all sorts of websites,120,000,000 to be exact. Here are some examples that you will find: I love Dogs.com I love Cats.com (Although this one is a plea to spay or ...read more

  • Christ Meets You Outside The Throne Room, Takes ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2005
     | 1,791 views

    Christ meets you outside the throne room, takes you by the hand, and walks you into the presence of God. Upon entrance we find grace, not condemnation; mercy, not punishment. Where we would never be granted an audience with the king, w are now welcomed into his presence. If you are a parent ...read more

  • The Gifts Of Service Are Sometimes Considered ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Fox on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,567 views

    The gifts of service are sometimes considered "second-rate." compared with gifts like "evangelism." Without faithful Christians exercising their gift of service, the gifts of evangelism are powerless. It is quite true that people don’t “care how much you know until they know how much you ...read more

  • What Makes A Good Church?  PRO

    Contributed by Al Edmonds on Dec 27, 2005
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,750 views

    "WHAT MAKES A GOOD CHURCH?" If all the lazy folks will get up, And all the sleeping folks will wake up, And all the discouraged folks will cheer up, And all gossiping folks will shut up, And all the dishonest folks will confess up, And all the estranged folks will make up, And all the ...read more

  • Born-Again Doesn't Mean What It Used To: ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,234 views

    Born-Again Doesn’t Mean What It Used To: According to University of California-Santa Barbara researcher and author Wade Clark Roof, 1/3 of American’s 77 million baby boomers identify themselves as born-again, but only 55% of those have any link to a conservative Protestant church. 50% say that ...read more

  • Titles Of Jesus Christ To The Architect, He Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,056 views

    "Titles of Jesus Christ To the architect, He is the chief cornerstone (1 Peter 2:6) To the bride, He is the bridegroom (Matthew 25:1) To the carpenter, He is the door. (John 10:9) To the engineer, He is the new and living way. (Hebrews 10:20) To the farmer, He is the Lord of the harvest (Matthew ...read more

  • Some Years Ago Gladys And I Bought A Computer ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Oct 16, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,570 views

    Some years ago Gladys and I bought a computer that was a display model. We used it for a number of years. As a matter of fact, Steve just finished rebuilding it so the church can use it while the church’s computer is being repaired. Now, that computer served us well and I was able to do a number ...read more

  • When A Child Doesn't Get His Or Her Own Way The ...  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Sep 20, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,149 views

    When a child doesn’t get his or her own way the common response to the parent is, “You don’t love me.” Of course this isn’t true. The parent’s love hasn’t changed. It’s just that at that moment their love is expressing itself differently than how the child wants it. God’s love is like that. ...read more

  • In The Fields Of France There Are Many Rolling ...  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Sep 20, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,626 views

    In the fields of France there are many rolling green hills and open fields, some of you may have seen them. Yet beneath many of these picturesque landscapes lies the horror of hundreds of mass graves - remnants of the many battles fought there. Imagine just one of these graves being opened soon ...read more

  • Gentle Dogmatism  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 18, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,639 views

    GENTLE DOGMATISM We have gotten accustomed to the blurred puffs of gray fog that pass for doctrine in churches and expect nothing better. From some previously unimpeachable sources are now coming vague statements consisting of a milky admixture of Scripture, science, and human sentiment that is ...read more