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  • Keep The Lower Lights Burning

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,925 views

    KEEP THE LOWER LIGHTS BURNING We must live as children of the light, not as children of the darkness. If we are dark and sorrowful, how is the world to know that we are children of peace, and joy, and gladness? Our determination must be to keep our lights burning. A few years ago, at the mouth of ...read more

  • A Religion Worth Having  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 30, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,194 views

    A RELIGION WORTH HAVING Dr. F. E. Marsh used to tell that on one occasion he was preaching on the importance of confession of sin and, wherever possible, of restitution for wrong done to others. Afterward a young man came up to him and said: "Pastor, you have put me in a sad fix. I have wronged ...read more

  • Humility — Who Would Dare Write About It?

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Feb 16, 2012
     | 3,316 views

    HUMILITY - WHO WOULD DARE WRITE ABOUT IT? Charlene Ann Baumbich wrote a book about raising her sons. One chapter was about humbling experiences she had. She then felt the Holy Spirit nudging her to study humility. She thought she might write a book about what she would learn. After hours studying ...read more

  • Instructions Are Life Or Death

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2012
     | 4,419 views

    INSTRUCTIONS ARE LIFE OR DEATH Imagine with me if you can. You're rafting down the Ocoee, splashing through a huge rapid when all of a sudden, you find yourself flying over the front of the boat. You're tossing and turning in the waves, and your mind and body are telling you to get stabilized. Our ...read more

  • Standing At The Edge Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
     | 4,111 views

    STANDING AT THE EDGE OF THE PRESIDENCY In early 1975, Jimmy Carter, the ex-governor of Georgia, began campaigning in Iowa, the site of the first statewide contest in the race for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination. Carter knew almost no one in the state, and his first piece of business ...read more

  • Born Identity

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 6,375 views

    BORN IDENTITY Jimmy Gupton tells of when he was 93 and ready to go on home to God. For the 1000th time, he had prayed for God to take him home. His wife had been gone for seven years, and it was getting harder and harder to go through the motions of the holiday. He had a big silver Christmas tree ...read more

  • In The Movie "Return Of The Jedi" Luke Skywalker ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Mills on Oct 24, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,123 views

    In the movie "Return of the Jedi" Luke Skywalker is learning to be a Jedi from the Jedi Master, Yoda. Luke is performing an exercise of mind over matter when he fails the exercise. Yoda tells him to raise his X-Wing fighter from the murky water where it sank upon his arrival on Degoba. He says ...read more

  • Our Daughter, Little Kelsey, Turned One Year Old ...

    Contributed by Thomas Baird on Mar 1, 2004
     | 2,349 views

    Our daughter, little Kelsey, turned one year old a little over a week ago… and she is not walking yet… All of our other kids were walking by her age… and Kelsey is not even trying. I told Derek yesterday that I know why she is not trying… Because we will take her wherever she wants to ...read more

  • Let Me Suggest A Method For Doing This. Jesus ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 25, 2005
     | 1,513 views

    Let me suggest a method for doing this. Jesus tells us in Mt. 18:15 that if someone does you wrong it is our responsibility to go and try to make it right. Now, in that passage Jesus is talking specifically about someone who sins against you but I think this can also be applied effectively to ...read more

  • Game Show Veteran Wink Martindale Is Back, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,156 views

    Game show veteran Wink Martindale is back, hosting “Debt” on the Lifetime cable network beginning next week. Contestants arrive with between $6,000 and $10,000 in debt—from credit cards, student loans and car loans—and try to head into the black by answering pop-culture questions. Instead of taking ...read more

  • Writer Amos Wells Reflected Our Need For Thorough ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 2,134 views

    Writer Amos Wells reflected our need for thorough Bible study in this verse: I supposed I knew my Bible, Reading peacemeal, hit or miss, Now a bit of John or Matthew, Now a snatch of Genesis, Certain chapters of Isaiah, Certain Psalms (the twenty-third), Twelfth of Romans, first of Proverbs ...read more

  • There Is An Old Legend Of A Benevolent King Who ...

    Contributed by Kraig Pullam on Oct 25, 2006
     | 3,075 views

    There is an old legend of a benevolent king who had his men place a great heavy stone on a certain roadway over which all his subjects would be forced to travel. He then hid himself to see who would try to remove the stone only to discover that no one stopped to try to remove the stone, but all ...read more

  • It's Like The Guy You May Have Seen, That Acts ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rev. Saeed Richardson on Oct 7, 2007
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,015 views

    It’s like the guy you may have seen, that acts like a gentleman, sweet and loving, taking a lady out to a nice dinner, and a romantic evening, only so he can get “something” out of the deal. Instead of doing all these things out of the sincerity of his heart, he’s really just putting out some money ...read more

  • Temptation...means Enticement, Forbidden Fruit, ...

    Contributed by Hugh Laing on Mar 1, 2010
     | 3,689 views

    TEMPTATION...means Enticement, Forbidden Fruit, Allure, Bait, Desire... and I love this story on temptation. “There is a story told about a little boy in a grocery store that I think illustrates the nature of TEMPTATION. The boy was standing near an open box of peanut butter cookies. “Now then, ...read more

  • Journaling Experiment

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Jul 26, 2011
     | 1,632 views

    JOURNALING EXPERIMENT Please try this experiment. Take out a piece of paper and on the left side of the paper write down all the things that you are burdened with. On the right side of the paper write down all the things that God has either protected you from or trials that He has gotten you ...read more

  • Herman And Henrietta Were Touring ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Hamilton on Feb 27, 2003
    based on 104 ratings
     | 1,901 views

    Illustration: Herman and Henrietta were touring their brand-new house, a house that Henrietta had paid for with her money, a fact of which she often reminded Herman. In each room of the house, she said to her husband, “Herman, if it were not for my money, we wouldn’t be here.” Herman didn’t say a ...read more

  • It Was Pentecost Sunday. As The Congregation ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 23, 2004
    based on 33 ratings
     | 15,169 views

    IT WAS PENTECOST SUNDAY. As the congregation filed into church, the ushers handed each person a bright red carnation to symbolize the festive spirit of the day. The people listened attentively to the reading of the Pentecost story from the Book of Acts about how the disciples had heard “what ...read more

  • The Year Was 1968. As A Young Mp I Was Sent To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,644 views

    The year was 1968. As a young MP I was sent to Korea that November. Most people have forgotten what happened earlier that year in Korea. The North Koreans captured one of our ships. It was called the “Pueblo Incident. After the U.S.S. Pueblo was captured by the North Koreans, the eighty-two ...read more

  • Not Happy With The View

    Contributed by Bill Love on Jul 29, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,038 views

    NOT HAPPY WITH THE VIEW A young salesman lands a job selling new windows door to door. On his first day of the job he comes across this sweet older lady who agrees to purchase a beautiful new window in her living room. A few days after the job was completed the salesmen gets a call from the lady ...read more

  • An Outline Of Joseph's Life

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 13, 2022
     | 2,344 views

    The story of Joseph’s life can be outlined by several key events in Genesis:   1. REJECTION (37:1-36) – Jacob selected Joseph as the favored son and he was despised by his brothers. They threw him into a pit and left him for dead.   2. REFINEMENT (38:1 – 40:23) – Traders came by and ...read more