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  • College Students Fail To Be Good ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
     | 5,810 views

    College Students Fail to be Good Samaritans Real compassion looks beyond the faults of people to see the pain beneath it all and to see the hunger in people’s hearts. In research done by Darley and Batson at Princeton in 1973, a group of theology students was told that they were to go across ...read more

  • The Good Outcast: Longhaired Biker

    Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Dec 16, 2009
     | 4,829 views

    THE GOOD OUTCAST-LONGHAIR-BIKER Now it came to pass that a certain man was traveling Lonesome Street, a lonely and dark road from Tom's Tavern to Bill's Bar. After many visits to this bar, the consumption of liquor got a hold of him, stripped him of all his goods and left him destitute and dying ...read more

  • A Good Example Of A Bad Example  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,043 views

    A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A BAD EXAMPLE In 1989 the unthinkable happened. After seventy years of communism and forty years of the Cold War, the Iron Curtain fell and the brutal, sadistic power of the U.S.S.R. began to disintegrate. Russia for seven decades had been repressed, murdered, and brutalized by ...read more

  • Three Philosophies: The Good Samaritan

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 10, 2010
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    THREE PHILOSOPHIES: THE GOOD SAMARITAN The parable of the Good Samaritan gives three philosophies of life— The robber's philosophy was "What you have is mine, and I will take it." The priest and Levite had the philosophy that "What is mine is mine, and I will keep it." The Samaritan's ...read more

  • Mr. Goodness And Mr. Mercy

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 31, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,847 views

    MR. GOODNESS AND MR. MERCY A faithful Christian lady told the preacher on her death bed that she felt like two demons were always around her. She said that when she died she felt like those demons were going to escort her to hell. The preacher was disturbed and couldn't understand her terrors. ...read more

  • Bad News, Then Good News  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
    based on 12 ratings
     | 9,217 views

    BAD NEWS, THEN GOOD NEWS Nearly 20 years ago at the height of Operation Desert Storm, Ruth Dillow received a very sad message from the Pentagon. The message stated that her son, Clayton had stepped on a landmine in Kuwait and was killed. Ruth later wrote these words, "I can't begin to describe my ...read more

  • Good News And Bad News  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,952 views

    GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS A man went to see his doctor in a state of high anxiety. "Doctor," he said, "you have to help me. I'm dying. Everywhere I touch it hurts. I touch my head and it hurts. I touch my leg and it hurts. I touch my stomach and it hurts. I touch my chest and it hurts. You have to ...read more

  • Good News, Bad News

    Contributed by Ken Miller on Feb 22, 2013
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    GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS A gallery owner tells one of his artists that heÍs got some good new and bad news. The artist asks for the good news first. "Well," he replies, "the good news is that a man came in here today asking if the price of your paintings would go up after you died. When I told him they ...read more

  • Good News Bad News

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 9, 2020
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    A woman walks into a doctor’s office. She schedules an appointment and sits down it the waiting room. Whem it’s her turn to talk to the doctor, she describes all of her symptoms, and they’re unlike anything he’s heard before. The doctor runs a few tests and steps out of the room. He comes back ...read more

  • Pretty Good Preaching For A Dollar!

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 20, 2022
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,185 views

    A man and his ten year-old son were on a fishing trip miles from home. At the boy’s insistence, they decided to attend the Sunday worship service at a small rural church. The father forgot to bring any cash, so he reached in his pocket and gave his son a dollar to drop into the offering plate as ...read more

  • God Cares For Us—every Part Of Us. He Wants Us To ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 29, 2008
     | 3,709 views

    God cares for us—every part of us. He wants us to be whole—complete. This includes a physical well-being. Instead of a story I want to show you a video about a special act—a physical act—that was done for another person. It shows us what it is like to follow ...read more

  • Us Magazines

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,629 views

    Magazines Hit Wall: A National Endowment for the Arts study finds that book reading has increased 10% since ’92 and fewer than 47% read any form of literature in the previous 12 months. The Audit Bureau of Circulations data shows that U.S. magazines grew nicely from 245 million copies in ’70 to ...read more

  • Listening To Us  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,945 views

    LISTENING TO US While serving as Presbyterian missionaries in Lebanon Ben and Carol Weir learned a great deal about prayer when Ben was suddenly kidnapped by Shiite Muslim extremists in 1984. He was held in solitary confinement, in cramped quarters for sixteen months. Carol wondered whether she ...read more

  • What's The Use  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 20, 2002
    based on 146 ratings
     | 8,060 views

    WHAT'S THE USE There was an old man that lived in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. The old man had a big family. One day one of the old man’s grandsons approached him with a problem. The Grandson said, "Pap, I read the Bible and I don’t understand it, and what I understand I forget as soon as I ...read more

  • Using Food  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Feb 4, 2003
    based on 42 ratings
     | 3,507 views

    Mark Buchanan writes; “Fasting churns the stuff up from the depths. Is there anger in me? I can usually control that with a burger and fries Am I resentful, irritated, overly ambition, fearful? I can smoother that with pizza. Am I depressed or embittered, suffering from a sense of life’s ...read more

  • One Of Us?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,122 views

    ONE OF US? One of 1995’s biggest singles was Joan Osborne’s “One of Us.” The song earned 7 Grammy Award nominations, and made a virtually unknown singer an overnight sensation. It’s a song of spiritual questioning and about conceiving of God in a modern age. These are some of the words of that ...read more

  • The Gift Of Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,420 views

    The Gift of Us Marjorie Tallcott was married and had one child during the Great Depression. The family managed to scrape their way through, but as Christmas approached one year Marjorie and her husband were disappointed that they would not be able to buy any presents. A week before Christmas they ...read more

  • Evil In Us ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 21, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,501 views

    EVIL IN US ALL In 1960, Israeli undercover agents kidnapped one of the worst killers in Hitler’s army from his hideout in South America. His name was Adolf Eichmann. They took him to Israel to stand trial for crimes against humanity. Prosecutors called a long list of witnesses who had either seen ...read more

  • Created To Be Used  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 23, 2010
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    CREATED TO BE USED In his book The Pursuit of Excellence, Ted Engstrom wrote these words: "I was cleaning out a desk drawer when I found a flashlight I hadn't used in over a year. I flipped the switch, but wasn't surprised when it gave no light. I unscrewed it and shoot it to get the batteries ...read more

  • Get Used To It

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
     | 1,192 views

    GET USED TO IT A missionary was assigned to some remote islands in the Pacific. After three months, he sent a fax to mission headquarters: "I'm being plagued by rats. What shall I do?" Soon a crate arrived, filled with rat traps. However, hardly a month later the missionary sent a second fax ...read more