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  • Are You Prepared?

    Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Sep 25, 2011
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     | 6,905 views

    ARE YOU PREPARED? One day, a king died. His servants spread the unbelievable news all over the palace. He had died in his bed of natural causes. "Where has he gone?" asked one of the king's wisest counselors "Why, to Heaven of course!" answered all the others. "No", said the other gravely, "I ...read more

  • How Much Of The Spirit?

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Sep 22, 2011
     | 2,009 views

    HOW MUCH OF THE SPIRIT? Just as the fuel gauge in our cars are not exact but gives you an idea, we can see in others just how much of the Holy Spirit they allow in their lives by their outside character. Lots of times folks will act very different in church than they do elsewhere. Who are they ...read more

  • Moody's Dying Words  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 21, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,044 views

    MOODY'S DYING WORDS "Earth recedes. Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go." "No, no, Father," said Moody's son, "You are dreaming." "I am not dreaming," replied Moody. "I have been within the gates. I have seen the ...read more

  • Joseph Smith: If Someone Had Shared Grace...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Sep 19, 2011
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     | 4,337 views

    JOSEPH SMITH: IF SOMEONE HAD SHARED GRACE... Jesus was gracious to the woman taken in adultery. Sometimes, that is what reaches people. Sometimes, Christians are like the scribes and Pharisees, choosing to be judgmental instead of gracious. In the 1820's, a young woman named Emma gave birth to ...read more

  • Value From Brokenness

    Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Sep 18, 2011
     | 4,057 views

    VALUE FROM BROKENNESS "Going once, going twice, sold for $7,000.00!" The auctioneer said right before his gavel hit the table. Rita Coors was elated. She'd just purchased a porcelain mask, hand painted by John Denver. She couldn't wait to hold it in her hands. As the auctioneer at the 1997 ...read more

  • In Appreciation

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Sep 17, 2011
     | 4,938 views

    IN APPRECIATION In Enterprise, Alabama, you will see one of the most unusual monuments ever built. It is a monument to honor the boll weevil, the little insect that nearly destroyed the cotton on which the town's economy depended. Why a monument to so destructive an insect? Because before the ...read more

  • Millions Far From God

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Sep 17, 2011
     | 1,613 views

    MILLIONS FAR FROM GOD In the latest global statistics, they say that the population of Earth is now 7 billion people. About 2 billion of these people claim to be Christian. Not everyone that claims to be a Christian is truly a Christian. Maybe there is about 1 billion that are true followers (I ...read more

  • Reactions Can Be Worse Than Actions  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Sep 12, 2011
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     | 4,337 views

    REACTIONS CAN BE WORSE THAN ACTIONS While in seminary, I worked at a local Christian radio station. Part of my duties was to take hourly meter readings from the transmitter and place them on a log sheet that was subject to FCC review. The building featured indoor/outdoor green carpet, and the day ...read more

  • Tonsillitis: Growing With God

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Sep 8, 2011
     | 3,725 views

    TONSILLITIS: GROWING WITH GOD I remember when I was growing up as a small boy I had problems with my tonsils. During the winter months I would get tonsillitis and that would turn into strep throat. Mom and Dad would take me to Dr. Newsom in Pilot Mountain. He would always give me a shot of ...read more

  • Chaos Theory

    Contributed by Tim White on Sep 7, 2011
     | 2,428 views

    CHAOS THEORY In the 1960s, Dr. Edward Lorenz, in trying to develop a systematic method for developing long range weather predictions, began focusing on chaos theory. Chaos theory basically is a study of how things that seem chaotic and random are actually more predictable from seemingly unrelated ...read more

  • Chicken For Dinner

    Contributed by Tim White on Sep 7, 2011
     | 3,338 views

    CHICKEN FOR DINNER When my dad was a small boy, he wanted to go fishing, but no one would take him. He sat on his porch with his fishing pole and pretended to be fishing until that became too boring. So he put a hook on and put a piece of bread on the hook. My grandmother let her chickens run ...read more

  • You Are Not In Charge  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 7, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,237 views

    YOU ARE NOT IN CHARGE Tom Boyd tells about a woman who was a member of a church he pastored in Tennessee. She was flamboyant and eccentric but Boyd was impressed with her "intense commitment to the faith. She did not have a pietistic bone in her body, but her devotion was nonetheless clear and ...read more

  • One Hour

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Sep 6, 2011
     | 1,736 views

    ONE HOUR A child loved his dad but seldom saw him. The man was so busy with so many things to do. The child collected bottles and cans, did odd jobs and seemed to be always trying to make money. One day he asked his father, "How much do you make in an hour?" The dad said, "$20.00, why?" ...read more

  • You May Not Be An Authority On Theology, But You ...

    Contributed by Tim Spear on Sep 6, 2011
     | 1,477 views

    You may not be an authority on theology, but you are the world’s greatest authority on what has happened to you! ...read more

  • Missions Is Not The Ultimate Goal Of The Church. ...

    Contributed by Tim Spear on Sep 6, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,698 views

    Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. Worship...is the fuel and goal of missions. ...read more

  • Modern-Day Pharisees

    Contributed by Tim Spear on Sep 6, 2011
     | 3,408 views

    MODERN-DAY PHARISEES These Pharisees were not true shepherds, but actually thieves and robbers. Killing the sheep, leading them to their destruction. How many so-called shepherds today are leading their flocks to destruction by giving them religion instead of relationship? By leading them in ...read more

  • Unconverted Ministers

    Contributed by Tim Spear on Sep 6, 2011
     | 2,156 views

    UNCONVERTED MINISTERS Thousands of ordained men in the present day know nothing whatever about Christ, except His name. They have not entered "the door" themselves, and they are unable to show it to others. Unconverted ministers are the dry-rot of the Church...We must never fail to ask, Where is ...read more

  • Let Us Only Take Heed That This Office Of Christ ...

    Contributed by Tim Spear on Sep 6, 2011
     | 2,119 views

    Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us ...read more

  • These Are Those Hard Moments When God Does Things ...

    Contributed by Tim Spear on Sep 6, 2011
     | 1,599 views

    These are those hard moments when God does things we do not understand. We cannot figure them out...Yet what they reveal is how little we understand. It is God who is the realist. He never deceives himself. He always acts in perfect accord with what the situation ...read more

  • The Signet Ring

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Sep 4, 2011
     | 4,518 views

    THE SIGNET RING "...I will make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you,' declares the LORD Almighty" (Haggai 2:23). We don't often hear about signet rings anymore; but in Bible times, they were very significant. f In other words, you knew something was from the king because it was marked ...read more