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  • When My Mother Married My Dad, She Did Know Not ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 25, 2007
     | 819 views

    When my mother married my dad, she did know not how to cook. My grandmother on my mom’s side left her home in Poland to work in the salt mines of Germany at age 13 because she could not get along with her step mother. She never learned to cook. But my mom became an excellent cook. When we were ...read more

  • Moving To Sydney From The Whitsunday's In ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Apr 2, 2010
     | 1,859 views

    Moving to Sydney from the Whitsunday's in Australia is like moving to a new country - it has a culture of it's own which is vastly different. Moving into a new ministry also has it's challenges and so I can identify with Abram as God brought him out of his comfort zone in Ur of the Chaldeans to the ...read more

  • Adams, Coolidge And Roosevelt On The Bible  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,157 views

    ADAMS, COOLIDGE AND ROOSEVELT ON THE BIBLE The late great 6th President of the United States of America, John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848), once said, "The [Holy] Bible is the Book of all others to be read at all ages and in all conditions of human life...I speak as a man of the world to men [and, ...read more

  • The Pursuit Of Joy

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
     | 5,814 views

    THE PURSUIT OF JOY Men have pursued joy in every avenue imaginable. Some have successfully found it while others have not. Perhaps it would be easier to describe where joy cannot be found: Not in Unbelief — Voltaire was an infidel of the most pronounced type. He wrote: “I wish I had never been ...read more

  • Be Found Doing Your Duty

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,482 views

    BE FOUND DOING YOUR DUTY The time was the 19th of May, 1780. The place was Hartford, Connecticut. The day has gone down in New England history as a terrible foretaste of Judgment Day. For at noon the skies turned from blue to gray and by mid-afternoon had blackened over so densely that, in that ...read more

  • Do You Like To Be Blind?  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Mar 30, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,359 views

    DO YOU LIKE TO BE BLIND? Our grand-kids came to visit our church one Sunday, and I asked our grandson, Caleb, how he liked Sunday School. He said he didn't like it at all! I asked him why and he explained that the teacher made them close their eyes for a long time and wouldn't let them open ...read more

  • The Key To The Spiritual Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2011
     | 4,182 views

    THE KEY TO THE SPIRITUAL LIFE At age 16, Madame Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717) was forced into an arranged marriage with an invalid 22 years older. She found her marriage to be one of utter humiliation. Her husband was often angry and melancholy. Her mother-in-law was a merciless critic. Even the maid ...read more

  • Why Did God Make Mothers?

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on May 10, 2011
     | 2,259 views

    WHY DID GOD MAKE MOTHERS? Consider these answers given by elementary-age children to the following questions. "Why did God make mothers?" "Mostly to clean the house." "To help us out of there, when we were getting born." "How did God make mothers?" "God made my Mom just the same like he made ...read more

  • Pretender Dr. Nick

    Contributed by Michael Walther on May 24, 2011
     | 2,033 views

    PRETENDER DR. NICK What does it take to be turned around if you are a pretender? Dr. Nick Yphantides can help us. Although he was a true Christian he was living part of his life in a purely hypocritical manner. Dr. Nick’s specialty was preventative medicine. Every day he was trying to help ...read more

  • The Impact Of Optimism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
     | 4,881 views

    THE IMPACT OF OPTIMISM Just a few years ago (2004), Fox News reported on a study that came from the Archives of General Psychiatry. Researchers studied 1,000 people aged 65-85 trying to determine the importance of a positive attitude in dealing with life. After almost 10 years of follow-up, these ...read more

  • Cast Your Net On The Right Side

    Contributed by Herb Pulse on Jun 28, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,154 views

    I come from a fishing family. When I became old enough to walk, I became old enough to experience the wonderful world of fishing. One of things I particularly love is throwing a shad net. Often times it becomes very draining work, and at the tender age of 12 I became the primary go-to-guy for ...read more

  • The Power Of Choice

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Feb 26, 2018
     | 7,436 views

    Rev. Billy Graham, who died at his home in North Carolina on 21st February 2018 Wednesday at the age of 99, was among the most influential religious leader of the 20th Century. He said “Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive ...read more

  • Frank’s Combat Trauma

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 10, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,808 views

    Frank Bernadone bore the emotional wounds of his time in the military. His unit had already been through four years of battles when they came to Perugia. The town was heavily fortified, leading his unit’s assault against it to be disastrous. A bloody day of fighting culminated in what was almost ...read more

  • Children Need To Be Loved

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jul 17, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 565 views

    No more convincing evidence of the absence of parental affection exists than that compiled by Rene Spitz. In a South American orphanage, Spitz observed and recorded what happened to 97 children who were deprived of emotional and physical contact with others. Because of a lack of funds, there was ...read more

  • Precious Grandmother  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2003
    based on 41 ratings
     | 3,304 views

    PRECIOUS GRANDMOTHER “In Charles Colson’s book, Loving God, he tells the story of an incredible ninety-one-year-old woman, known affectionately as Grandma Howell… As she moved into the twilight of her life, she had more than one reason to let depression take over--to just give up and die. Her ...read more

  • Karl Loved To Follow His Dad Around. From An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 15, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,011 views

    Karl loved to follow his dad around. From an early age, Hirschel always found young Karl at his heels. The shelves of books in Hirschel’s Law study fascinated young Karl and the lad quizzed His dad to annoyance. The book Hirschel seemed to love the most was the Torah, the Hebrew Book of Law. ...read more

  • Breaking In Baby By Dave Berry

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Jan 5, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,244 views

    ILLUSTRATION: BREAKING IN BABY BY DAVE BERRY: • There is a parallel between physical growth and the spiritual growth of a Christian. We have a son who began as a baby and has successfully reached the age of three without becoming an axe murderer, as far as we know. Thus we are eminently qualified ...read more

  • I Want You To Walk

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,706 views

    “I WANT YOU TO WALK” -Arthur Gordon (A Touch of Wonder) relates a story that graphically describes the impact that one life can have on another. The man Gordon spoke of had been stricken with polio at the age of three and his parents had abandoned him in the Depression era. Taken in by a foster ...read more

  • Truly Thankful: J. B. Fuqua

    Contributed by Richard Jumper on Nov 16, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,771 views

    TRULY THANKFUL: J. B. FUQUA When J. B. Fuqua was just a boy, someone lent him a helping hand. And he paid them back millions of times over for their kindness. J. B. grew up in rural Virginia in the years after World War I. Those were lean times for many people. J. B. made up his mind at a young ...read more

  • Brett Favre's Perseverance

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2012
     | 4,172 views

    BRETT FAVRE'S PERSEVERANCE The man, the myth, the legend was born in a tiny rural Mississippi town called Kiln, population 2,040. As a grandson of a Choctaw Indian, he played strong safety, kicker, punter, and quarterback for his high school team that passed less than five times a game. Favre ...read more

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