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  • We'll Cook For Mother's Day!

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 2, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,104 views

    WE'LL COOK FOR MOTHER'S DAY! Two kids told mother not to cook for Mother's Day ... they would do it. Nine pots, 2 skillets, 4 large bowls, 11 spoons, 5 measuring cups and 1 whole roll of ...read more

  • He Has My Best Interests At Heart

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
     | 1,519 views

    HE HAS MY BEST INTERESTS AT HEART A few years ago I had a scary encounter with a masked man wielding a knife. I remember him with gratitude, though, since he was an orthopedic surgeon to whom I paid thousands of dollars to correct some problems with my left foot... For 3 months the surgeon ...read more

  • One Body To The Death

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
     | 2,797 views

    ONE BODY TO THE DEATH On February 19, 1945, near the end of WWII, 800 American ships amassed to assault the island of Iwo Jima with its two strategic air strips 600 miles south of Tokyo. The Marines had fought a total of 43 months in the Pacific in World War II and in this one-month assault on Iwo ...read more

  • The Body: The Image Of God

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
     | 2,967 views

    THE BODY: THE IMAGE OF GOD Paul Brand writing about what it means to be in the image of God in his book In His Image: "We will not explore the psychological and mental attributes in each one of us that might reflect the image of God. Instead, we will center on a community, that group of God’s ...read more

  • John Piper: Your Heart Has To Get Bigger  PRO

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,274 views

    JOHN PIPER: YOUR HEART HAS TO GET BIGGER "Little hearts give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power because they look little! When you SEE the magnitude of your treasure, your soul swells to get around it and you MOCK pornography as a POWERLESS thrill! That’s the way it ...read more

  • God Opposes The Proud At Mt. St. Helens

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
     | 2,751 views

    GOD OPPOSES THE PROUD AT MT. ST. HELENS In the spring of 1980, the mountain showed signs of awakening. There were earthquakes. There was volcanic activity. Residents were told to leave the area. But Harry Truman would have nothing to do with that. He believed the danger was exaggerated "I don't ...read more

  • Francis Chan's Servant Witness

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
     | 4,596 views

    FRANCIS CHAN'S SERVANT WITNESS Francis Chan was flying to Africa and seated next to him was a man who happened to be a Muslim. So they were talking about what they believed and the man said "Ya, I know some Christians and I hear their message and it turns me off. I’m not interested." So the ...read more

  • Making The Wrong Right

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
     | 1,413 views

    MAKING THE WRONG RIGHT Many years ago, Christian professor Stuart Blackie of the University of Edinburgh was listening to his students as they presented oral readings. When one young man rose to begin his recitation, he held his book in the wrong hand. The professor thundered, "Take your book in ...read more

  • Jesus Freak: Hezekiah

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
     | 1,932 views

    JESUS FREAK: HEZEKIAH Laos 2001. Hezekiah’s life had been so transformed that he had to tell someone. When he returned to the village he grew up in, he told the 35 relatives and villagers who met him and demanded to know why he had converted to Christianity, "Jesus is the only way I can be saved ...read more

  • You Follow What You're Tied To  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Oct 31, 2012
    based on 18 ratings
     | 11,676 views

    YOU FOLLOW WHAT YOU'RE TIED TO Two hunters were out hunting and come upon what appeared at first as an abandoned farm. The barn was sagging, the house was in disrepair, and there were junk cars and car parts lying around. The only thing that made it a working farm were a few chickens pecking away ...read more

  • Jesus Is Unchanging

    Contributed by David Tack on Oct 26, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,093 views

    JESUS IS UNCHANGING "But nothing about our Lord Jesus Christ has changed down to this very hour. His love has not changed. It hasn’t cooled off, and it needs no increase because He has already loved us with infinite love and there is no way that infinitude can be increased." Ref: Tozer, A.W. I ...read more

  • If We Look At The Beatitudes, Not As Just ...

    Contributed by David Tack on Oct 26, 2012
     | 368 views

    "If we look at the Beatitudes, not as just external forms of showmanship but as internal heart produced temperaments, 99.9 % of Christian believers can’t help but see their blatant shortcomings and urgent need for ...read more

  • The Beatitudes Could Be Regarded As: A Kingly ...

    Contributed by David Tack on Oct 26, 2012
     | 232 views

    “The Beatitudes could be regarded as a: Kingly manifesto; new creation lifestyle; absolute ethical kingdom; inner revolution; Kingdom Law; deepened humbling attitude of growing exaltation; state of ...read more

  • God Is Not An Editor

    Contributed by David Tack on Oct 17, 2012
     | 2,502 views

    GOD IS NOT AN EDITOR "God is looking for common ordinary people like you and me who are willing to let Him use as He sees fit. He wants to write our story, He doesn’t want to be our editor. But, we want to write the story and then we call God in as our editor. When the story gets messy then we ...read more

  • The Lord's Priorities  PRO

    Contributed by David Tack on Oct 17, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,655 views

    THE LORD'S PRIORITIES "The Lord’s priorities are not the same as ours. Jesus isn’t as concerned about our lace tablecloths and clean kitchens as we are. He’s concerned with the state of our heart. He’s more interested in the time we spend at his feet, reflecting on his words and resting in his ...read more

  • Look Up In Your Heart  PRO

    Contributed by David Tack on Oct 17, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,124 views

    LOOK UP IN YOUR HEART A.W. Tozer reminds us, "You may be still with arthritis so that you can’t even get on your knees to pray, but you can look up in your heart, for prayer isn’t a matter of getting on your knees. Prayer is the elevation of the heart to God and that is all a man needs to praise, ...read more

  • Two Teenagers Asked Their Father If They Could Go ...

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Oct 16, 2012
     | 6,153 views

    Two teenagers asked their father if they could go the theater to watch a movie that all their friends had seen. After reading some reviews about the movie on the internet, he denied their request. "Aw dad, why not?" they complained. "It's rated PG-13, and we're both older than thirteen!" Dad ...read more

  • Doctor And Patient Saved From Hell

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Oct 13, 2012
     | 3,913 views

    In Beyond Death’s Door, Rawlings shares how his view of the afterlife forever changed on the day one of his heart patients “died” in his office. During a routine stress test on a treadmill, the man’s heart stopped and he collapsed. Immediately, Rawlings and his staff began emergency resuscitation ...read more

  • Vernon And Joey

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Oct 13, 2012
     | 3,965 views

    It is fitting that we begin with a true story involving three main characters: an elderly man nearing death, a kindhearted woman in robust health, and a deceased boy very much alive. Five months earlier, physicians had diagnosed sixty-five-year-old Vernon Samuels with terminal lung cancer. They ...read more

  • "You Done Quit Preachin' And Gone To Meddlin'!"

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Oct 11, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,772 views

    Two excited women who were sitting together in the front pew of church with a fiery preacher. They were in the spirit and loving the message. They were shouting out and waving their hankies. They would use their paper fan to wave for Jesus and then to cool themselves off fearing they might just ...read more