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  • Time For Jesus

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Sep 19, 2008
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     | 2,891 views

    Time for Jesus Suppose you walked into your kitchen one morning and found Jesus sitting at the table. What would you do? Would you say: "Jesus! I'm thrilled to see You! I just wish I had time to talk, but right now I'm running late for work. When I get home tonight, we'll have a nice visit"? ...read more

  • What Changed At Easter?  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 16, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,157 views

    What Changed at Easter? Quest Study Bible notes this about the question, "What changed at Easter, this pivotal point in history?" "The resurrection vindicated Jesus' claims about himself, that he was the Son of God in the flesh, the fulfillment of God’s dealings with humankind. No longer would ...read more

  • When Thomas Edison Was 38 Years Old, His Wife ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 9, 2009
     | 1,663 views

    When Thomas Edison was 38 years old, his wife died leaving him a very lonely man. Six months after her death, Edison began looking for a new mate. He would leave no stone unturned in a systematic search reflecting his scientific nature. Although he liked to be portrayed in the media as a genius ...read more

  • Paul And Kelly ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 11, 2009
     | 1,753 views

    PAUL AND KELLY BENITEZ In 1967, Paul Benitez and his fiancée Debra were married. In 1968, they had a baby boy and named him Kelly. Paul was drafted into the Army in 1969. While he was overseas, Debra moved away and changed her name. Paul was never able to find his wife nor his baby boy. He would ...read more

  • Liberals Give Less Than ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 1,462 views

    LIBERALS GIVE LESS THAN CONSERVATIVES A couple years ago, a Syracuse University professor named Arthur C. Brooks wrote a book called "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism". He was not particularly excited about the outcome of the study he’d done (he’d been raised ...read more

  • You Already Have Happiness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 3,149 views

    YOU ALREADY HAVE HAPPINESS The angel asked, "You aren’t happy. How can I help you?" The poet replied, "I have everything. But I lack only one thing. Can you give it to me?" To which the angel happily said, "Sure. I can give you anything you desire." The poet stared right into the angel’s eyes, "I ...read more

  • Come Hell Or High Water

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 2, 2009
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    COME HELL OR HIGH WATER Glen and Jo Ann live in Orange County, California in a low lying area. It flooded one year and the local newspaper sent a reporter, in a boat, out to Glen and Jo Ann’s neighborhood. The reporter found Jo Ann, sitting on their roof watching large objects floating by, so he ...read more

  • You Think He Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 12, 2009
     | 1,248 views

    "YOU THINK HE WAS MAD?..." An important business executive boarded the New-Orleans-to-Washington train. He was a heavy sleeper, and he needed to be awakened in order to get off the train in Atlanta about five o’clock in the morning. He found a porter and told him, "I want you to awaken me in order ...read more

  • Don't Tape The Trees

    Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Mar 13, 2009
     | 1,851 views

    DON'T TAPE THE TREES I was talking to a man a few years back, and he told me how he used to have a farm and how he had tried to grow different things to make money. Well, one day he said he hired a young guy to mow his lawn ,but he explained to him that he had just planted about fifty Christmas ...read more

  • Peter Marshall's Calling

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,925 views

    PETER MARSHALL’S CALLING In her book, A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall tells how her late preacher-husband felt a sense of destiny a sense of call in his life. One dark night, Peter, then a young man, decided to take a shortcut across the Scottish moors. He knew there was a deep deserted ...read more

  • From Wm. Barclay's Commentary: One Of The Great ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 8, 2009
     | 2,917 views

    From Wm. Barclay’s commentary: One of the great stories of the Christian Church is that of Telemachus. He was a hermit of the desert, but the call of God told him he must go to Rome. Rome was nominally Christian, but still the gladiatorial games went on. Men fought with other and crowds roared with ...read more

  • As A Young Teen, I Loved To Read Books From The ...

    Contributed by Beth Garrod-Logsdon on Apr 14, 2009
     | 2,399 views

    As a young teen, I loved to read books from the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series. In the first couple of pages a story would be set up – for example you are going on a hike with your cousins and it begins to storm. But by the end of page three the reader comes to a critical point in the story ...read more

  • Honesty (Or Not) In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
     | 2,837 views

    HONESTY (OR NOT) IN AMERICA In the book, The Day America Told the Truth, of the people surveyed, the authors found these results – 91 percent of American lie about trivial matters; 36 percent of Americans lie about important matters; 86 percent regularly lie to parents, 75 percent regularly lie ...read more

  • Confusing Messages

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 19, 2009
     | 3,603 views

    CONFUSING MESSAGES PARIS (AFP) – Heart attack survivors who eat chocolate two or more times per week cut their risk of dying from heart disease about threefold compared to those who never touch the stuff, scientists have reported. ...the new study, led by Imre Janszky of the Karolinska Institute ...read more

  • A Man Who Practiced The Presence Of ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Sep 2, 2009
     | 2,424 views

    A man who practiced the presence of Christ: Frank Laubach, was born in the United States. At the age of 45, while working as a missionary in the Philippines, Frank Laubach dedicated himself to the practice of abiding constantly in the presence of Christ. During the remaining 40 years of his ...read more

  • Torn Away: Baby Richard

    Contributed by Scott Kircher on Oct 11, 2009
     | 2,230 views

    TORN AWAY: BABY RICHARD When Paul says that they were "torn away" from them, that word translated as "torn away" means bereaved or made an orphan. He feels like he has been torn away from his children. When I hear this word, I get a certain picture in my head. Baby Richard – 1995 (picture of ...read more

  • Christian Love Impacts A Heartless World  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,893 views

    CHRISTIAN LOVE IMPACTS A HEARTLESS WORLD We live in a heartless world. The last United States census missed at least 5.7 million people who were anonymous even to the census takers. Every year thousands of unidentified and even unidentifiable bodies are found across North America. And only one out ...read more

  • Jim Elliot And The Ecuadorian Indians

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 19, 2009
     | 4,213 views

    JIM ELLIOT AND THE ECUADORIAN INDIANS Jim Elliot was an American. He became a Christian at a young age and after university he became a missionary in Ecuador, South America. He, with a few other young missionaries wanted to reach a tribe of Indians who lived in a remote region beyond ...read more

  • Though There Are No Scripture References ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Dec 10, 2009
     | 1,568 views

    Though there are no scripture references specifically telling us, please understand that Satan, the arch enemy of the Lord God and of all humanity, must have been screaming in rage over the events transpiring in Bethlehem that night. Did you know that the first prediction of God sending a Savior ...read more

  • When Church Is Miraculously Moved (Illustration: ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2009
     | 3,603 views

    When Church Is Miraculously Moved (Illustration: 7606) The faith that moves mountains is borne out by the church that was moved by the Hand of God. Such a church stands to this day in the village of Swan Quarter, North Carolina. Before it was built in 1874 the congregation eyed with longing a ...read more

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