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  • Identify With The Lost

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 3,083 views

    IDENTIFY WITH THE LOST In her famous book and film, "The Hiding Place" Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family, her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people. Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the ...read more

  • Grace Is For Everyone: 3:10 To Yuma

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 28, 2009
     | 2,253 views

    GRACE IS FOR EVERYONE: 3:10 TO YUMA One of the main themes that we find in a lot (although not all) of Jesus’ parables is God’s grace. Specifically, they often point towards God’s limitless grace. That was a central part of last week’s parable: Grace demands our response. I want to start with a ...read more

  • Overwhelming Forgiveness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022
     | 660 views

    A wonderful example of how to practice the lifestyle of grace comes from an incident in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 2006, when a man entered an Amish schoolhouse and murdered 5 girls while wounding 5 others before killing himself. As horrific as this was, the greater story was the ...read more

  • Steward Of The Light  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Elmore on Jan 17, 2002
    based on 27 ratings
     | 6,396 views

    STEWARD OF THE LIGHT In the nineteenth century, lighthouses on the U.S. coasts were tended by lighthouse keepers and their families. If a man who tended the light took ill or became disabled, often the work was picked up by his wife or children. Such was the case of Hosea Lewis. Having become, ...read more

  • The Philosophy For Dog Obedience Training Has ...  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Schmidt on Nov 20, 2003
    based on 25 ratings
     | 3,925 views

    The philosophy for dog obedience training has changed quite a bit in the last few decades. It used to be that many dog obedience schools operated by teaching the dog, “you better obey me, because I’m your master. And if you don’t obey me, bad things will happen.” And plenty of dogs were trained ...read more

  • Don't Look Back  PRO

    Contributed by Tylor Cates on Jan 24, 2004
    based on 169 ratings
     | 6,026 views

    DON'T LOOK BACK And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. - Luke 9:62 Text: Genesis 19:26; Luke 17:32,33 Summary: Once we start to follow Jesus we must never look back. We must give up our old way of life to find new life ...read more

  • Sexuality Teens And Sex / Research Review

    Contributed by David Kim on Jan 23, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,214 views

    SEXUALITY TEENS AND SEX / RESEARCH REVIEW Pauley, J. (1995). Sex, teens, and public schools. NBC. One million U.S. teenagers become pregnant each year. U.S. has highest rates for teenage pregnancies, abortions, and child bearing in the industrialized world. In 1970, 70% of U.S. teenage ...read more

  • Johnny Fulton Was Run Over By A Car At The Age Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
     | 2,318 views

    Johnny Fulton was run over by a car at the age of three. He suffered crushed hips, broken ribs, a fractured skull, and compound fractures in his legs. It did not look as if he would live. But he would not give up. In fact, he later ran the half-mile in less than two minutes. Walt Davis was totally ...read more

  • In The Nineteenth ...

    Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
     | 2,553 views

    In the nineteenth century, lighthouses on the U.S. coasts were tended by lighthouse keepers and their families. If a man who tended the light became disabled, often the work was picked up by his wife or children. Such was the case of Hosea Lewis. In 1853 he became the keeper of the light on ...read more

  • A New Heart, A New Life  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Caley on Jan 19, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
     | 5,290 views

    A NEW HEART, A NEW LIFE It was March 18. Leanne tried not to think about the fact that Melvin would have been 39 today. The face of the man driving the van flashed in her mind. She tried not to feel the anger. Once more the scream of brakes, the crash and then the silence replayed itself in her ...read more

  • I Want You To Walk

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,701 views

    “I WANT YOU TO WALK” -Arthur Gordon (A Touch of Wonder) relates a story that graphically describes the impact that one life can have on another. The man Gordon spoke of had been stricken with polio at the age of three and his parents had abandoned him in the Depression era. Taken in by a foster ...read more

  • Unsung Heroes: He Helped David With The Sheep

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Nov 14, 2020
     | 1,571 views

    Text, 1 Samuel 17:20-21, KJV: 20And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. 21For Israel and the Philistines had put the ...read more

  • In This Case They Are Not Only Withholding Their ...

    Contributed by Captain David Kauffman on Nov 4, 2006
     | 1,647 views

    In this case they are not only withholding their tithe – they are withholding their INVESTMENT in themselves and God’s people. They are choosing to remain a “fruitless, wild vine” or a “lone-wolf Christian”. Undisciplined and re-writing the Bible to fit their situation – they go from place to ...read more

  • Women Sleep Deprived A National Sleep Foundation ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 2,189 views

    Women Sleep Deprived A National Sleep Foundation study finds the majority of American women are continually sleep deprived, either because of young children, biological changes (pregnancy and menopause), stress or pets. The impact on families, personal and professional lives, and society is ...read more

  • Significant Connections  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,643 views

    SIGNIFICANT CONNECTIONS 70% of American adults identify family or family members as their most significant connection. 33% gave their entire nuclear family this status while 22% conferred it up on their spouse and 17% their children. 29% of American adults say their church is their most ...read more

  • God's Forgiveness Is Instant, Complete, ...

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 30, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,843 views

    GOD'S FORGIVENESS IS INSTANT, COMPLETE, PERMANENT One of our church members had an issue with a family member. That family member had been so unkind and hurtful for so long, that it seemed things would never change. Our member prayed to God for help. Another family member spoke to the hurtful ...read more

  • Ilus.: At One Point In My Early Ministry, I Was ...

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Sep 12, 2006
     | 1,666 views

    ILUS.: At one point in my early ministry, I was in the hospital emergency room with a Church family when a young man was brought in after a train wreck. His family refused to allow transfusions because or religious belief. He died while a court order was being pursued. ...read more

  • Home Ownership Nearly 70% Of Americans Own Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
     | 1,060 views

    Home Ownership Nearly 70% of Americans own their homes, a record high, but the rate of homeownership for working families with children is lower than in ’78. The surprising trend is being driven by: soaring housing costs that have overshot wage increases, higher health care bills, and a ...read more

  • Home Ownership Nearly 70% Of Americans Own Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,694 views

    Home Ownership Nearly 70% of Americans own their homes, a record high, but the rate of homeownership for working families with children is lower than in ’78. The surprising trend is being driven by: soaring housing costs that have overshot wage increases, higher health care bills, and a ...read more

  • Unca Frank's Christmas!" Isaiah 9: 6-7 Key ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Dec 20, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,315 views

    “Unca Frank’s Christmas!” Isaiah 9: 6-7 Key verse(s): 6a: “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given.” Franklin Chaney was by all accounts what you would call a crank. For years he had lived alone in his upper flat, Vera having gone to be with the Lord many years past. He was pretty set in ...read more

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