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  • Don Richardson, In His Book Eternity In Their ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 11, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,694 views

    Don Richardson, in his book Eternity in Their Hearts, tells an amazing story of spiritual harvest. In an area once called Burma, which is now modern Myanmar, lying between China and Thailand, and touching the border of Laos, there lived about a quarter-million tribal people called the Lahu. For ...read more

  • Stay The Course  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jun 28, 2001
    based on 68 ratings
     | 3,806 views

    STAY THE COURSE The 2000 movie, The Patriot starred Mel Gibson as Benjamin Martin, a reluctant Revolutionary War hero. Martin has an 18-year-old son named Gabriel who is eager to join the conflict. Gabriel’s sentiments for his country are revealed by one pastime: throughout the first half of the ...read more

  • A Power Higher Than I  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 25, 2001
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,741 views

    A Power Higher Than I After trying everything else, Shelly was present for her first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Skeptical and listening half- heartedly at first, the words of Martha caught her attention. Martha told the group, "I just knew that I could handle alcohol and my other problems on my ...read more

  • The Alamo Was A Spanish Mission. After Mexico ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,459 views

    The Alamo was a Spanish mission. After Mexico won her independence from Spain, Texans wanted to be liberated from Mexico and join the United States. When they declared their independence, the Alamo went from mission to fortress, and Texans took their stand within her walls. The Mexican dictator, ...read more

  • Dead Poets Society Is, I Think, One Of The Best ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Jack on Mar 8, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,398 views

    Dead Poets Society is, I think, one of the best films of all time. In his first lesson with his senior class, the rather eccentric but very inspiring English teacher John Keating, played by Robin Williams, takes the boys into the foyer outside the classroom where he asks one lad by the name of ...read more

  • Give-Away Christmas  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,004 views

    GIVE-AWAY CHRISTMAS Richard Myers tells the story of being a reservist and being called back to active duty in Fort Monmouth, NJ, canceling his Christmas plans with his family in IN. Feeling low, he turned on the radio and heard an appeal from the Post Office for volunteers to answer letters sent ...read more

  • America's Spiritual Bankruptcy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2011
     | 3,593 views

    AMERICA'S SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY America is incrementally and systematically rejecting God. America’s moral bankruptcy is symptomatic of its spiritual bankruptcy. For example: • In 1962 the Supreme Court ruled against prayer in our schools. In 1963, they outlawed Bible Readings. • In Alaska public ...read more

  • They Get An "A," You Get An "A," What's Wrong ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Oct 20, 2011
     | 1,753 views

    THEY GET AN "A," YOU GET AN "A," WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT? On the first day of class the professor says, "I have this very complicated Math problem, the solution of which shall constitute your grade for the entire semester. I'm giving you the problem now so you can start working immediately if you ...read more

  • Sex And Corn Flakes

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 22, 2012
     | 2,155 views

    SEX AND CORN FLAKES Les Parrot states in his book Crazy Good Sex: "No human longing is more powerful, more difficult to rein in, than sex. It has enough combustive force to incinerate wedding vows, family commitments, career goals, religious devotion, and anything else in its path" (page 17). So ...read more

  • Our Founding Fathers Believed Very Strongly In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,367 views

    Our founding fathers believed very strongly in God’s presence. When our earliest universities began, most of them were founded to train Christian preachers. * When Harvard was established in 1636, their statement of purpose said, “Every student’s main aim is to know Jesus Christ, & to recognize ...read more

  • National ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 2,396 views

    National Foundation Expressing Fear of the Lord A nation with a firm foundation has Christians who have the heart of the Psalmist who wrote, “Teach me your ways, O Lord, and I will walk in Your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.” (Psalm 86:11) A nation that has a ...read more

  • Grasping Your Place Greet One ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 1,873 views

    Grasping Your Place Greet One Another A Necessity in Corporate Worship Christians who get the most out of congregational worship services have learned the joy of greeting their brothers and sisters in Christ. At least four times in the New Testament Christians are told to “Greet one ...read more

  • My Dad’s Obituary

    Contributed by Rev. Randy Barker on Apr 3, 2025
     | 341 views

    **Obituary for Marvin Barker Sr.** It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Marvin Barker Sr., who was called to his eternal home on [date]. Born to Virgil Barker Sr. and Anna Barker, both of whom have preceded him in death, Marvin lived a life full of love, devotion, and faith. He ...read more

  • Society's Slide Into Sexual Immorality  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 25, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,433 views

    Society's Slide Into Sexual Immorality We are now some 30 years into the sexual revolution that began in the 1960s. What has been the impact on society? What are the implications for the future? Sex is everywhere. It permeates the movies and the television programs we watch, the music we hear, ...read more

  • Welsh Revival Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 2, 2009
     | 8,104 views

    Welsh Revival of 1904-1905 Modern world history also records times of revival due to the hearing of God’s Word undergirded with prayer. The little nation Wales once become known as “The Land of Revival.” It has its own unique spiritual heroes such as Saint David of the Celtic Church – William ...read more

  • Retold From "The Book Of Virtues" ...  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 2, 2003
    based on 64 ratings
     | 2,573 views

    ILLUSTRATION… Retold from "The Book of Virtues" Editor: William J. Bennett There is a story that centers on a king and the members of his court who were continually full of flattery. "You are the greatest man that ever lived...You are the most powerful king of all...Your highness, there is nothing ...read more

  • He Leadeth ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
     | 4,901 views

    HE LEADETH ME When Joseph Gilmore was just out of seminary, he filled in a couple of weeks at FBC in Philadelphia, PA. And he gave this testimony: "At the mid-week service, on the 26th of March, 1862, I set out to give the people an exposition of the 23rd Psalm, which I had given before on three ...read more

  • Impact Of Scripture Memorization: Psalm 119

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,731 views

    IMPACT OF SCRIPTURE MEMORIZATION: PSALM 119 Scripture memorization is a great challenge to a modern day saints. But in the old days, many of the saints of God would memorize large portions of Scripture because they were devoted to God. One such man was John Ruskin. He lived in the nineteenth ...read more

  • What Is Great Learning?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2012
     | 4,297 views

    WHAT IS GREAT LEARNING? Thomas Fuller was born in Africa about 1710. He was sold as a slave in Virginia in 1724. There is some disagreement about whether someone taught him to count to 100 or if he taught himself. He never had a day of formal education. He taught himself to figure in his head how ...read more

  • Henry Ford: Resisting ...

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 30, 2013
     | 3,557 views

    HENRY FORD: RESISTING CHANGE Back in 1912, Ford Motor Co. had a production manager named William Knudsen - considered one of the best in his field. Knudsen became convinced that the Model T (which had been in production for 4 years now) had to be updated. But, the only problem was - Henry Ford ...read more