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  • What Gets Your Attention?

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 19, 2011
     | 2,859 views

    WHAT GETS YOUR ATTENTION? Two friends were sitting together in a café when a noisy car alarm interrupted their conversation. One friend said: "What good are car alarms when no one pays any attention to them?" The other friend said "Some are quite effective. Last summer, my teenager spent a lot ...read more

  • Invitation Needed

    Contributed by William L. Vincent on Aug 6, 2011
     | 4,204 views

    INVITATION NEEDED I have recently been contacted by a Pastor in Nigeria who is wanting us to come and preach a crusade there. But you cannot just fly into Nigeria; you have to be invited. The local Pastor has to send an official letter of invitation, that letter must state what I would be visiting ...read more

  • Select The Greatest Gift

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Dec 11, 2011
     | 4,896 views

    SELECT THE GREATEST GIFT Even people of this world know the value of a thoughtful gift. When Pastor John Bisagno was working as chaplain to the Houston Oilers, the players gave him an autographed football which every player had signed inscribed with a Scripture from the Bible. Whenever he looks ...read more

  • Veto Power

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Feb 28, 2012
     | 1,781 views

    VETO POWER Before democracy arrived in Poland, the country was run by Lords and rich landowners – the nobility from all over the country. The senate filled with these noblemen would make decisions for the country but they always had a hard time getting much done – why? Because every member of the ...read more

  • You Gotta Look At It!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 22, 2012
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,387 views

    YOU GOTTA LOOK AT IT! A man was seated on a park bench when a little chap of about five sat down beside him and started winding what appeared to be a most prized possession--a watch. "My, what a pretty watch," remarked the man. "Does it tell you the time?" "No sir," replied the boy; "you gotta ...read more

  • God's Tnt

    Contributed by Silas Eke on Mar 1, 2015
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     | 7,954 views

    Once the great Evangelist Billy Graham sent his New Testament to a book-binder and instructed him to write on the edge of the book “The New Testament”; the book-binder after binding the New Testament felt that the edge was too little to contain the full words “The New Testament” so he wrote “TNT”. ...read more

  • Vacation For Seniors!

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Jul 22, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,038 views

    A number of years ago I attended a pastors gathering in Toronto. A retired Pastor, now crippled by a stroke, sat along the wall on a chair, all alone. In his prime he was a highly esteemed professor, author and preacher. Now, he sat alone and unnoticed. I walked across the room and lamented this ...read more

  • Giving

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Oct 2, 2019
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     | 3,893 views

    “I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving ...read more

  • Three Types Of People Spiritually

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Oct 15, 2019
     | 1,740 views

    (Joshua 1, I Corinth. 2:13-3:3) EGYPT (NATURAL) - unbelievers who are in bondage to sin. Christ is on the outside of their life. Those in Egypt were freed from their slavery by the blood of a sacrificial Lamb, a picture of Christ on the Cross, who sets us free from sin. WILDERNESS (CARNAL) – ...read more

  • Cruel Times Are Coming...

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Dec 2, 2020
     | 1,951 views

    In 1988, evangelical philosopher and theologian Carl Henry made a stunning prediction in his book, Twilight of a Great Civilization. He said that as America progressively loses its Christian heritage, paganism would grow bolder. What we saw in the last half of the 20th-century was a kind of benign ...read more

  • Funeral Illustration

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 4, 2021
     | 9,226 views

    I love that scene in The Pilgrim's Progress where Christian and Hopeful come to the final river of death. They are fearful that the water will be over their heads. But Hopeful goes first and calls back to Christian, “Be of good cheer, my brother; I feel the bottom, and it is good.” For every ...read more

  • Near The End Of World War Ii, Members Of The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 22, 2007
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     | 1,243 views

    Near the end of World War II, members of the Allied forces were often found searching farms and houses for snipers. At one abandoned house, which had been reduced to rubble, searchers found their way into the basement. There, on a crumbling wall, a victim of the Holocaust had scratched a Star of ...read more

  • Colonel Henry Gariepy, Retired Salvation Army ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 6, 2007
     | 1,117 views

    Colonel Henry Gariepy, retired Salvation Army officer and author in the United States offered an awakening word. “Even in what sometimes appears to be our religious duties to Christ we find ulterior motives. Have we not too often observed those who come to church for the bread that perishes? In ...read more

  • Tertullian (160–230 A.d.), The Theologian Of ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
     | 1,161 views

    Tertullian (160–230 A.D.), the theologian of Carthage, wrote about heathen husbands being angry with their Christian wives because they wanted to kiss martyrs’ bonds, embrace Christians, and visit the cottages of the poor. Often when an unbelieving spouse wants to leave the marriage the believer ...read more

  • Dr. Pierce Harris, A Pastor From Atlanta, ...

    Contributed by Sharon Stonestreet on Dec 15, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,838 views

    Dr. Pierce Harris, a pastor from Atlanta, Georgia, preached to some prisoners. One of the prisoners got up and introduced him th the others with these words: “Several years ago, two boys lived in a town in north Georgia. They went to the same school, played together and attended the same Sunday ...read more

  • Listen To This Article Found In Today In The ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 29, 2008
     | 1,212 views

    • Listen to this article found in Today in the Word, June 3, 1989. He made free use of Christian vocabulary. He talked about the blessing of the Almighty and the Christian confessions which would become the pillars of the new government. He assumed the earnestness of a man weighed down by historic ...read more

  • A U.s. Lutheran Bishop Tells Of Visiting A Parish ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Apr 9, 2008
     | 2,398 views

    A U.S. Lutheran bishop tells of visiting a parish church in California and finding a stirring red and orange banner on the wall. “Come Holy Spirit. Hallelujah!” it declared in words printed under a picture of a fire burning. The bishop was also interested in the sign directly underneath the banner ...read more

  • Thomas Jefferson And John Adams Were Great ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,107 views

    THOMAS JEFFERSON AND JOHN ADAMS WERE GREAT FRIENDS, BUT WHEN JEFFERSON DEFEATED ADAMS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, ADAMS TOOK IT PERSONALLY. V. "YOU HAVE TURNED ME OUT! YOU HAVE TURNED ME OUT!" NO WORDS FOR 11 YEARS. FRIENDS VISITED OLD, BITTER ADAMS, WHO SAID, "I ALWAYS LOVED JEFFERSON AND I ...read more

  • A Young Woman In England Many Years Ago Always ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 18, 2008
     | 1,156 views

    A young woman in England many years ago always wore a golden locket that she would not allow anyone to open or look into. And everyone thought there must be some romance connected with that locket and that in that locket must be the picture of the one she loved. The young woman died at an early ...read more

  • If I Profess With The Loudest Voice And ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 23, 2008
     | 1,318 views

    “If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the word of God except precisely that little point which the world and the Devil are at that point attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the ...read more

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