The Bet -- Anton Chekhov
We live in a world that knows little about what’s truly valuable. People all around us are pursuing things that have no lasting value. That pursuit is ably treated by Anton Chekhov in his classic short story The Bet. This story gives us great insight into the value system
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Contributed by William Noel on Dec 31, 2006
The Lord gave me this message this past Tuesday, while at a home school choir concert.
· I have to admit, the style of music that they sing is not what I normally listen to.
· Also, since Sis. Noel takes the kids to their weekly rehearsals, I didn’t know anyone there.
· And to top it off,
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Contributed by Fred Sigle on Jun 7, 2007
THE ROOM (I DO NOT KNOW THE AUTHOR)
In that place between wakefulness and dreams, I found myself in the room. There were no distinguishing features except for the one wall covered with small index card files. They were like the ones in libraries that list titles by author or subject in
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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THE ROPE HELD by ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
Sometimes on sunny days, when I could see my way and feel the pathway firm under my feet, I wondered--Would the rope hold if the worst happened?
A bent old man brought me that telegram which in war years hung like a suspended sword over the heart of every
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Contributed by Mike Rexroat on Dec 16, 2007
Just this past Thursday we learned the results of what is being called the "Mitchell" report. For those of us who are baseball fans it was a pretty dark day. Former Senator George Mitchell concluded his almost two year investigation into the game and released his conclusions and one of those
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Not Missing, holidaying. Sorry everyone. By Dan Oakes
From the Sydney Morning Herald 11th March 2008
The homicide squad had called the media to the home of Roy and Heather Ostell. The news, it seemed, was grim.
The couple had vanished, and their daughters had not heard from Dr Ostell, 63, and
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Apr 29, 2008
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GENGHIS KHAN'S HAWK
One morning Genghis Khan, the great king and warrior, rode out into the woods to have a day’s sport. Many of his friends were with him. They rode out gaily, carrying their bows and arrows. Behind them came the servants with the hounds. It was a merry hunting party. The woods
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Contributed by Scott Jensen on Sep 11, 2008
There was an old monastery that had fallen upon hard times. It was once a great order, but as a result of waves of persecution in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the rise of secularism in the nineteenth century, all its branch houses were lost and it had become decimated to the extent
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Lutheran
Contributed by Danny Presswood on Jan 26, 2009
"I arrived in the city of EVERYWHERE early one morning. It was cold, and there were flurries of snow on the ground. As I stepped from the train to the platform, I noticed that the Baggage man and the redcap were warmly attired in heavy coats and gloves, but oddly enough, they wore no shoes.
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Baptist
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jul 6, 2010
WHO ARE THOSE MASKED MEN?
Some of you would have no idea of who I am talking about when I speak of the LONE RANGER. He is way before your time and he doesn't fit into our culture anymore. Pity. He had a strict moral code and even the actor, Clayton Moore, was a great ROLE MODEL for
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Feb 26, 2025
[037] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – CALVARY – GOLGOTHA’S SKULL
What does Calvary mean to you? To most people it means nothing except a casual thought at Easter perhaps.
May we ask what does Calvary mean to a Christian? Here the answers are many and most of them would be simplistic which is fine.
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 5, 2025
[121]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FROM WHERE DID GOD ORIGINATE?
The real title of this poem is HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND IN HIM ALL THINGS HOLD TOGETHER but the title is too long for SermonCentral to accept, so I changed the title.
This is a dialogue poem. There are 4 speakers. Speaker 1 is a
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 5, 2025
[183]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST DESCRIBED - ISAIAH 11
I know there are some who don’t believe in the literalness of scripture and therefore reject the biblical concept of a Millennium. This poem is not an exegesis on any of that, but the content of a biblical passage I
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