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  • A Little Boy Was Sick On Palm Sunday And Stayed ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 15 ratings
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    A little boy was sick on Palm Sunday and stayed home from church with his mother. His father returned from church holding a palm branch. The little boy was curious and asked, “Why do you have that palm branch, dad?” “You see, when Jesus came into town, everyone waved Palm Branches to honor him, so ...read more

  • Worry

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Worry A great percentage of our illnesses is in some way related to worry and anxiety and stress. In fact, the #1 killer in America is heart disease. • 38% of all deaths are heart related and many of those are related to hypertension, high blood pressure and anxiety. • Worry has been linked to ...read more

  • Do We Give Lip Service Or Real Service To A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,731 views

    Do we give lip service or real service to a cause? Henry David Thoreau, that rugged New England individualist of the nineteenth century, once went to jail rather than pay his poll tax to a state that supported slavery. Thoreau’s good friend Ralph Waldo Emerson hurried to visit him in jail. Peering ...read more

  • Dr. Seamands Tells Of A Muslim Who Became A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Dr. Seamands tells of a Muslim who became a Christian in Africa. "Some of his friends asked him, ’Why have you become a Christian?’ He answered, ’Well, it’s like this. Suppose you were going down the road and suddenly the road forked in two directions, and you didn’t know which way to go, and there ...read more

  • Author Bobb Biehl Said He Decided About Twenty ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Author Bobb Biehl said he decided about twenty years ago to make a hobby of asking questions. Questions help us to focus. He began collecting them, and included an entire chapter of questions in his book, Increasing Your Leadership Confidence. Six that would help us are those Rudyard Kipling ...read more

  • Years Ago, When Speaker Of The House Sam Rayburn ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Years ago, when speaker of the house Sam Rayburn heard he had terminal cancer, he shocked everyone when he announced he was going back to his small town in Bonham, Texas. People said to him: "They have the finest facilities in Washington, D. C. Why go back to that little town?" Rayburn’s response ...read more

  • There's A Story About A Hiker Who Encounters A ...

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jul 5, 2007
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    There’s a story about a hiker who encounters a man in the forest who’s furiously swinging his axe at a tree. Whack! Whack! Whack! The hiker observes for a minute and says: “Man, why don’t you stop for a moment to rest and sharpen your axe? You’ll be happy you did when you’re able to chop more ...read more

  • Aren't We Like That Sometimes? We Have So Much ...

    Contributed by Mike Rexroat on Aug 5, 2007
     | 1,529 views

    Aren’t we like that sometimes? We have so much that when we lose something it isn’t that big of a deal? I read this week about an actual Ebay listing for a 1962 Ford Thunderbird Convertible...it had 5,487 original miles...in perfect showroom condition. A man called about it and he asked the ...read more

  • Mothers Are The First To Teach The Children. ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 22, 2007
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    Mothers are the first to teach the children. Those kids will mimic you; that’s how they learn. A wife invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to their six-year-old daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?" "I wouldn’t know what to say," the girl replied. "Just ...read more

  • David Who Wrote This Psalm Was The Greatest Of ...

    Contributed by Robert Fa’atoia-Collins on Sep 16, 2007
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    David who wrote this Psalm was the greatest of all the offenders in human values. David broke five of Ten Commandments. 1) Thou shall not steal, 2) Thou shall not Kill, 3) Thou shall not commit adultery, 4) Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbour and 5) Thou shall not covet. And ...read more

  • A Story Is Told In Which An Accountant Answered ...

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Sep 27, 2007
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    A story is told in which an accountant answered an advertisement for a top job with a large firm. At the end of the interview, the chairman asked, "One last question—what is three times seven?" The accountant thought for a ...read more

  • He Dressed Up As A Homeless Man And Went To The ...

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Oct 31, 2007
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    He dressed up as a homeless man and went to the businesses and bank where he was a regular customer What happened made him upset…. in every instance the service was bad in some cases appalling. He said, “I was treated as if I was worthless” So he withdrew his money from the bank and stopped being ...read more

  • One Morning After A Terrible Snowstorm, Susan Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 21, 2008
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    One morning after a terrible snowstorm, Susan was outside shoveling her driveway. She stopped to wave hello to her neighbor, and he asked her why her husband wasn’t out there helping her with the chore. She explained that one of them had to stay inside to take care of the children, so they drew ...read more

  • Woman's Husband Gave Her A Hard Time… One Day ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Woman’s husband gave her a hard time… one day disconnected battery cables… car wouldn’t crank so without a word to her husband she started walking… he later felt bad, showed up at services & then obeyed the gospel They live in a Barbie world wanting everything their Barbie had! Think: “If Barbie ...read more

  • Sir Henry Taylor Is Quoted As Saying, "He Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    SIR HENRY TAYLOR IS QUOTED AS SAYING, "HE WHO GIVES WHAT HE WOULD AS READILY THROW AWAY, GIVES WITHOUT GENEROSITY; FOR THE ESSENCE OF GENEROSITY IS IN SELF-SACRIFICE." I RECENTLY READ SOMEWHERE THAT THE AVERAGE BABY BOOMER GIVES TO THE CHURCH ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD SPEND ON A MOVIE TICKET. $7 IS NOT ...read more

  • Leftovers Are Such Humble Things, We Would Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    LEFTOVERS ARE SUCH HUMBLE THINGS, WE WOULD NOT SERVE TO A GUEST,AND YET WE SERVE THEM TO OUR LORD, WHO DESERVES THE VERY BEST. WE GIVE TO HIM LEFTOVER TIME, STRAY MINUTES HERE AND THERE. LEFTOVER CASH WE GIVE TO HIM, SUCH FEW COINS AS WE CAN SPARE. WE GIVE OUR YOUTH UNTO THE WORLD, TO HATRED, LUST ...read more

  • Equal Leading

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jun 11, 2008
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    EQUAL LEADING In Bible College, a fellow student asked our instructor why some Christians seem to have such a strong relationship with the Lord and others seem to always struggle. He made the statement that it didn't seem fair to him that some seem to have greater leading because they become so ...read more

  • Chuck Swindoll Once Said, "I Once Accepted A ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Jun 23, 2008
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    Chuck Swindoll once said, “I once accepted a speaking engagement among Christians involved in Twelve Step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous. As I talked with the attendees and pondered what to say, I finally decided on the ironic title, "Why I Wish I Was an Alcoholic." “It occurred to me that ...read more

  • A Site Foreman Had Ten Very Lazy Men Working For ...

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008
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    A site foreman had ten very lazy men working for him, so one day he decided to trick them into doing some work for a change. "I’ve got a really easy job today for the laziest one among you," he announced. "Will the laziest man please put his hand up?" Nine hands went ...read more

  • When I First Came To Geneva, I Was Struck By How ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 15, 2009
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    When I first came to Geneva, I was struck by how many attractive older women there are here. I thought they must have been strikingly beautiful as young women. When we had our 40th anniversary, I got to see pictures of our lovely women. They were all attractive, still I realized that they had grown ...read more