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  • No Green Bananas

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 29, 2013
     | 1,806 views

    NO GREEN BANANAS Approaching 85 years of age, Mrs. Wells finally decided it was time to give up her home in North Carolina and move to Miami. She was given the name of a Florida realtor, who enthusiastically drove her all over Miami, extolling the virtues of every apartment they looked at. ...read more

  • Purity

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 1, 2015
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,195 views

    A mother was concerned when she heard that her son had a live in girlfriend. She went to his house. Her son was the only one home. The son said, “It’s not what you think, Mom. She needed a place to stay. She has her bedroom and I have mine.” The son then showed his mother the guest bedroom ...read more

  • I Thought Of This As We Were ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Jan 26, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,307 views

    ILLUSTRATION: I thought of this as we were discussing living the eternity driven life… A man left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he sent his wife a quick ...read more

  • The Celtic Was Of Spirituality Was Amazingly ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 18, 2008
     | 947 views

    The Celtic was of spirituality was amazingly holistic. It did not reflect the dualism of the modern age. The Irish such as Patrick understood that the earth was the Lord’s. They saw God’s hand at work in nature (in their environment). They saw their work on earth to be part of their spiritual ...read more

  • Title: The Hero, The Knight And The Good ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,849 views

    Title: The Hero, the Knight and the Good Samaritan: There’s one Big Difference Henry Lawsons’ poem The Good Samaritan: ‘Once on a time there lived a man,’ But he has lived alway, And that gaunt, good Samaritan Is with us here to-day; He passes through the city streets Unnoticed and unknown, He ...read more

  • Volunteers And Servants  PRO

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Apr 29, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,940 views

    VOLUNTEERS AND SERVANTS “Volunteers raise their hand to be called on. Servants are called by the Hand of God. Volunteers do work for God. Servants do work with God. Volunteers get tired of the work, Servants are tired in the work. Volunteers pray their work will succeed. Servants succeed as ...read more

  • Joy List

    Contributed by Dale Hummel on May 14, 2008
     | 8,539 views

    JOY LIST Writer C. W. Metcalf was working as a hospice volunteer when he met 13-year-old Chuck, who was terminally ill. One day Chuck gave Metcalf half-a-dozen sheets of paper with writing on both sides and said, "I want you to give this to my mom and dad after I die. It's a list of all the fun we ...read more

  • The Father Of A Little Girl Sucked 150ft (46m) ...

    Contributed by Nigel Heath on Sep 16, 2008
     | 1,067 views

    The father of a little girl sucked 150ft (46m) along an underground drain has told how she had stopped breathing when he pulled her from the River Wear. Leona Baxter, three, was playing in a puddle when she disappeared. She had been washed into the uncovered drain, travelled 150 ft, and was ...read more

  • Healthy Shame

    Contributed by Bruce Emmert on Sep 22, 2008
     | 2,804 views

    Healthy Shame Healthy shame is that inner compass—-the gentle voice of God-—that tells me something is amiss in my life, and it motivates me to change or make amends so that I can be true to myself. My first year of college was a bit of an exercise of 'livin la vida loca.' I didn't do well in ...read more

  • When Our Ship Was In Dry Dock, I Was Assigned A ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Oct 26, 2008
     | 2,163 views

    When our ship was in dry dock, I was assigned a watch in the barracks one night. I don’t remember what the problem was, I usually did not have this problem, but that night I was very sleepy. Since it was my own barracks I was roaming, I slipped into my room and lay down ... just for a moment. About ...read more

  • Words Do Things

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 2,262 views

    Words Do Things One poet tells how a certain man who had performed a heroic act found it impossible to tell his friends about it for a lack of words to describe it. But there was a witness to the event whom the poet refers to as having been "afflicted with the necessary magic of words." He told ...read more

  • Recently Heard A Story Of A Governor From ...

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Jan 19, 2009
     | 1,126 views

    Recently heard a story of a governor from Massachusetts who was running for president. This was many years ago, can’t even remember the man’s name. But after an especially long day on the campaign trail, a day in which he was so busy he had time for neither breakfast nor lunch, he was attending a ...read more

  • François Fénelon Once ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
     | 2,926 views

    François Fénelon once wrote: "Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of Thee; Thou only knowest what I need; Thou lovest me better than I know how to love myself. O Father! give to Thy child that which he himself knows not how to ask. I dare not ask for crosses or consolations; I simply present ...read more

  • Courage V. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
     | 4,740 views

    COURAGE V. JUDGMENT I heard a story this week about a bull that loved to chew his cud while sitting beneath a shade tree. That particular tree was located just a stone’s throw from a set of railroad tracks. And every time that train came blowing by, it would disturb his afternoon nap and frustrate ...read more

  • Holy Ground Of Civil War  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,722 views

    HOLY GROUND OF CIVIL WAR The 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, "Duryée’s Zouaves," was one of the most renowned fighting regiments of the American Civil War. Their colorful Zouave uniform, precise maneuvers, effectiveness in combat and steady bearing under fire, won them universal respect and ...read more

  • What's In A Name?  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 19 ratings
     | 5,709 views

    WHAT’S IN A NAME? When the 1960s ended, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district reverted to high rent, and many hippies moved down the coast to Santa Cruz. They had children and got married, too, though in no particular sequence. But they didn’t name their children Melissa or Brett. People in the ...read more

  • The Story Is Told - Out Of Ww 2 & The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Klinedinst on Aug 9, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 1,152 views

    ILL. The story is told - out of WW 2 & the holocaust that took the lives of millions of people - of Solomon Rosenberg & his family. It is a true story. Solomon Rosenberg & his wife & their 2 sons & his mother & father were arrested & placed in a Nazi concentration camp. It was a labor camp, & the ...read more

  • There's An Old Indian Fable I Heard Recently. A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chris Appleby on May 31, 2003
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,009 views

    There’s an old Indian Fable I heard recently. A water bearer had two large water pots which he carried on either end of a pole slung across his shoulders. One of the pots had a crack in it, so every day as he carried water to his master’s house he arrived with one full pot and one only half full. ...read more

  • I May Not Here Omit How, Notwithstand[ing] All ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kerry Kinchen on Nov 10, 2003
    based on 35 ratings
     | 1,728 views

    "I may not here omit how, notwithstand[ing] all their great pains and industry, and the great hopes of a large crop, the Lord seemed to blast, and take away the same, and to threaten further and more sore famine unto them. By a great drought which continued from the third week in May, till about ...read more

  • Attended By Angels! (08.10.05--Character ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Aug 8, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,155 views

    Attended By Angels! (08.10.05--Character Counts!--Mark 1: 12-13) Why am I tempted so much? Sometimes it just gets to be a real burden just coping with the day-to-day temptations that never seem to go away. “If God really loves me, why am I tempted so much?” A number of years ago the Douglas ...read more

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