Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2007
One day as my two year old daughter and I had finished our shopping at the mall, I was walking ahead of her continually asking her to "hurry up." I wanted to get home, but she was enjoying all the sights and sounds. As she walked right behind me, I looked back to see my daughter had stopped to
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Contributed by Amanda Wilson on May 2, 2007
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In my younger days I went on several Scripture Union beach missions to Rosebud on the Victorian coast. And one of the people I met there was a young man, Terry, who had grown up in a very rough environment. His father was a wharfie in the days when the wharfs were run by the unions, and outside of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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In Coping With Your Own Death.
1. WINSTON CHURCHILL had planned his funeral, which took place in Saint Paul’s Cathedral. He included many of the great hymns of the church and used the eloquent Anglican liturgy. At his direction a bugler, positioned high in the dome of Saint Paul’s, intoned, after
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Contributed by Gary Kins on Jun 21, 2007
1. Ray O’Conner - Ultimate Night Fisherman - He loved to fish and he loved to teach others how to fish.
Owned the home we lived in in Aurora Wisconsin when I was a boy.
Ultimate Bullhead Fisherman -
Knew where - Favorite sloughs (off the Menomenie River seprating Wisconsin from Michigan?) ...
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 17, 2007
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In 1893, engineer George Ferris built a machine that bears his name--the Ferris wheel. When it was finished, he invited a newspaper reporter to accompany him and his wife for the inaugural ride. It was a windy July day, so a stiff breeze struck the wheel with great force as it slowly began its
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Contributed by Wayne Solomon on Jun 7, 2008
The Story of Walt Disney
A young man with an artistic talent was born in 1901. He tried to get a business going in 1919 and it crashed in less than a month. Later in 1923 he was at it again but it lasted less than a year and went under. Walt went from investor to investor with a sketch of a mouse
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Church Of God
Contributed by Danny Presswood on Jan 26, 2009
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GOOD FRIDAY: SUNDAY'S COMIN'
Tony Campolo tells a story of preaching on Good Friday at his church in Philadelphia. He got up to preach to his predominantly black congregation-–and he was "ON"! The folks were encouraging and hepping him along, and he got excited. He could hear some saying, "Help
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 8, 2022
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Johnny the painter, was big on cutting corners so he could make more of a profit. So when a church hired him to paint their wooden building, Johnny submitted the lowest bid, and was hired. As always, he thinned his latex paint with water to stretch it.
One day while he was up on the scaffolding
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
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THE PERCEPTION OF CHRISTMAS
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
SOURCE: E. B. White, The Second Tree
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Ten percent of all 15 to 19 year-old females become pregnant each year. ("Kids Having Kids," A Robin Hood Foundation Special Report on the
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of
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