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  • For The Rest Of My Life!!  PRO

    Contributed by Ian Biss on Jul 2, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 4,097 views

    FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!! A little girl had been trying for months to learn the art of tying her shoes. She finally grasped the knack and was able to do it by herself. Her parents expected the child to be delighted, but were surprised by her disappointment. Her father asked why she was crying. ...read more

  • Sin Complicates Life  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,574 views

    SIN COMPLICATES LIFE Let us lay aside the weight and sin that so easily entangles… Hebrews 11:2 I was supposed to get money from the ATM sometime during my work day. That’s all my wife asked of me that day. But for one reason, then another, I failed to do it. I know I went out to lunch that ...read more

  • Dragged Through Life  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 4,358 views

    DRAGGED THROUGH LIFE We live in a very tense, uptight, and fast-paced world filled with hurry. A Tahoma, Washington newspaper carried the story of Tattoo the basset hound a while back. Tattoo didn’t intend to go for an evening run, but when his owner shut the dog’s leash in the car door and took ...read more

  • Is This The Life I Want?  PRO

    Contributed by Dean Kennedy on Sep 1, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 1,326 views

    IS THIS THE LIFE I WANT? "I look in on my children as they sleep at night, [and] I think of the kind of father I want to be. I want to create moments of magic, I want them to remember laughing until the tears flow ... I want to have slow, sweet talks with them as they’re getting ready to close ...read more

  • A Hope Beyond This Life  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jun 8, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,517 views

    A HOPE BEYOND THIS LIFE Russell Davis was a 10-year-old boy who knew a hope that went beyond this life. He had fought cancer for 4 years when he wrote this note to his best friend. Dear Brian, How are you doing? I’m alright in the hospital but a little sleepy. I know that you worry about me some ...read more

  • There Goes My Life  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Dec 17, 2003
    based on 11 ratings
     | 1,211 views

    THERE GOES MY LIFE Kenny Chesney has a new song/music video out entitled, “There Goes My Life…” It’s a ballad focusing on the life of two young kids in high school that find themselves in a crisis moment of a pregnancy out of wedlock. (I want to say here that I’m not advocating the immoral ...read more

  • The Love Of My Life  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 2, 2004
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,389 views

    THE LOVE OF MY LIFE Rick Warren’s wife Kay has cancer. [He wrote "The Purpose Driven Life] Rick sends out a letter every week through his web site, and this is what a recent one said: “So many of you have asked about Kay’s progress in her treatment for cancer, so we wanted to give you an update. ...read more

  • When Life Crashes In  PRO

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 20, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,080 views

    When Life Crashes In The classic MG moved briskly through the afternoon traffic. The drive enjoyed the quick response of the small high-powered convertible. After driving her station wagon, this little red car was rather like taking off her boots and putting on sneakers. Driving along with the ...read more

  • Life Giving Love  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 26, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,137 views

    LIFE GIVING LOVE Here is Ruth, a young widow, who chooses a life of singleness, not because she has no choice, but out of love for Naomi. She could have returned to her own people like Orpah, and would no doubt have been able to remarry and live a normal life, but she gave that up, for the time ...read more

  • Throwing A Life Away?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,858 views

    THROWING A LIFE AWAY? Lost behind the story of Seabiscuit, the most celebrated racehorse of the 20th century, and the jockey played by Spiderman’s Tobey Macguire was the story of its peculiar trainer, Tom Smith. When the rich man played by Jeff Bridges decided to turn to horse racing, he needed ...read more

  • Choking The Word Of Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,063 views

    CHOKING THE WORD OF LIFE Unless we know the difference between flowers and weeds, we are not fit to take care of a garden. It is not enough to have truth planted in our minds. We must learn and labor to keep the ground clear of thorns and briars, follies and perversities, which have a wicked ...read more

  • The Life And Teaching Of Jesus By ...

    Contributed by Troy Borst on May 26, 2005
     | 2,379 views

    ILLUSTRATION... The Life and Teaching of Jesus by James S Stewart, Abingdon Press pg 49 “Finally, Jesus would never violate the freedom of men’s wills. And that, too, the leap from the pinnacle would have involved. It would have been overriding their calmer judgment. It would have been forcing ...read more

  • A Day In The Life Of A Shepherd  PRO

    Contributed by Ervin Kimrey on Jun 29, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 8,464 views

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SHEPHERD With a spring in his step and an eye to the sky, at sunrise, he makes straight for the sheep fold. As soon as he rattles the gate, he gives his morning call, greets the sheep, often by name, every sheep is on its feet. They spring toward the gate, with expectancy ...read more

  • The Sanctity Of Human Life  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Jan 24, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,217 views

    World Magazine reported last October: Just in time for scary Halloween masks, Princeton professor Peter Singer—notorious for his approval of euthanasia and some kinds of infanticide, bestiality, and necrophilia—is at it again. He predicts in the Sept.-Oct. issue of Foreign Policy that by 2040 ...read more

  • This Life Was Not Intended To Be The Place Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,351 views

    "This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the ...read more

  • "Victory In The Christian Life Is Not The ...

    Contributed by Roger Griffith on Oct 28, 2006
     | 4,282 views

    – “Victory in the Christian life is not the absence of conflict but the presence and protection of God in the ...read more

  • Real Life In The Bible

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jan 16, 2007
     | 2,238 views

    Listen to these facts about a few Bible heroes: · Adam blamed his wife for his problems. · Cain killed his brother, Able · After surviving the flood, Noah despaired and got drunk. (Now, think about it. After spending a year closed up in a floating barn, then finally getting out to see nothing ...read more

  • One Solitary Life  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Mar 31, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,069 views

    One Solitary Life Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a ...read more

  • The Healthy Christian Life

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 12, 2007
     | 1,931 views

    ILLUSTRATION A father is reading his newspaper when his small son jumps up into his lap and tugs at the bottom of the paper, wanting his father’s attention. The father feels a surge of anger within. Why? He at first perceives that his right to read the paper without being disturbed is being ...read more

  • The Value Of Life In The Womb

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,666 views

    The Value Of Life In The Womb Susan Shelley writes in Marriage Partnership, “I was thrilled when the doctor told me our baby-to-be was a boy. I decided to keep the news a secret because I wanted to see Marshall’s face when our son was delivered. “In the fifth month, our doctor recommended a Level ...read more