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  • Leaving Behind A Godly Legacy Is A Long, And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Milt Johnson on May 9, 2002
    based on 71 ratings
     | 4,149 views

    Leaving behind a godly legacy is a Long, and sometimes Difficult Process. Let me try to explain this process through a simple illustration. If you have been around CBC for a while you have already seen this but I think that is worth repeating. (Hold up a Helium filled Balloon) When a child is ...read more

  • Students Don't See Western Culture As Superior  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,531 views

    Students Don’t See Western Culture as Superior Eighty-four percent of college students today do not believe that Western culture is superior to Arab culture according to a newly released poll funded by Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (a project by Empower.org) and former Secretary of ...read more

  • This Past Week I Sat By A Hospital Bed Of A Man ...

    Contributed by Bradford Robinson on Dec 18, 2002
     | 2,435 views

    This past week I sat by a hospital bed of a man who more than likely will never come home. I walked into the room, and it’s hard to explain the emotions going on in there. I started to initiate some small talk; we talked about his family, his home, and then his condition. I then told him that ...read more

  • Helping The Homeless  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 21, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,961 views

    HELPING THE HOMELESS Bob Kraemer of Campus Crusade Canada tells this story: Over 1000 homeless people have now seen the movie, The Passion of the Christ, received evangelistic literature and a $5.00 voucher to McDonald’s through the ComePassion project in British Columbia’s lower mainland. The ...read more

  • The Empty Tomb  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 17, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,714 views

    The Empty Tomb Little Philip, born with Down’s syndrome, attended a third-grade Sunday School class with several eight-year-old boys and girls. Typical of that age, the children did not readily accept Philip with his differences, according to an article in leadership magazine. But because of a ...read more

  • Jesus Met The Man In The Tombs, Healed Him, Cast ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Nov 18, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,443 views

    Jesus met the man in the tombs, healed him, cast the demons out. Now he is a sane man. Now he can take his place in society. I can imagine him coming home that evening after he met Jesus. His children look out the window and the cry out, "Mother, father is coming." She runs and locks the door. She ...read more

  • Anyone With Children Can Relate To Peter's Words. ...

    Contributed by Kory Wilcoxson on Feb 19, 2005
     | 2,607 views

    Anyone with children can relate to Peter’s words. Leigh and I certainly can as we work on teaching Sydney the language of faith. She’s learning pretty well. She can recite her way through the Lord’s prayer, and knows “Jesus Loves Me.” I remember when she first tried to sing, “Amazing Grace,” she ...read more

  • The Mother Of A Nine-Year-Old Boy Named Mark ...  PRO

    Contributed by Eric Darr on Apr 11, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,481 views

    The mother of a nine-year-old boy named Mark received a phone call in the middle of the afternoon. It was the teacher from her son’s school. "Mrs. Smith, something unusual happened today in your son’s third grade class. Your son did something that surprised me so much that I thought you should know ...read more

  • The Mother Of A Nine-Year-Old Kentucky Boy Named ...

    Contributed by David Ward on Jan 23, 2006
     | 1,857 views

    The mother of a nine-year-old Kentucky boy named Mark received a phone call in the middle of the afternoon. It was the teacher from her son’s school. "Mrs. Smith, something unusual happened today in your son’s third grade class. Your son did something that surprised me so much that I thought you ...read more

  • Let's Take A Look At Society's Honest View Of The ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jun 26, 2006
     | 2,002 views

    Let’s take a look at society’s honest view of the early church by reviewing this letter from antiquity: For Christians are not distinguished from the rest of mankind by country, or by speech, or by dress. For they do not dwell in cities of their own, or use a different language, or practice a ...read more

  • In The Early Days Of Our History Frontier ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 26, 2006
     | 814 views

    In the early days of our history frontier travelers were dependent upon ferry boats to get them across our nation’s rivers. The story is told of a wise old ferry boat captain who made it a practice to talk to his passengers as he ferried them back and forth across the river. On one side he ...read more

  • In The Early Days Of Our History Frontier ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 26, 2006
     | 656 views

    In the early days of our history frontier travelers were dependent upon ferry boats to get them across our nation’s rivers. The story is told of a wise old ferry boat captain who made it a practice to talk to his passengers as he ferried them back and forth across the river. On one side he ...read more

  • Beggar And His Rice

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 22, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,940 views

    ILLU. beggar and his rice A Parable of Life Life is like another parable from another land. A blind Indian beggar sat beside a road, fingering the rice in his little bowl. Wearing only a loin cloth, he sat in poverty beside a road that stretched into nowhere both ways. The scarce travelers ...read more

  • Delivering Papers In The Rain

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 23, 2009
     | 1,982 views

    DELIVERING PAPERS IN THE RAIN When I was ten, my mother and I somehow had gotten involved in a bible memory course. It was all through the mail, and we didn’t go to a church anywhere, even occasionally, but we would memorize ten verses a week. During the time, the materials gave some Scriptures ...read more

  • Diversity In The Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,246 views

    DIVERSITY IN THE CHURCH Philip Yancey put it this way in an article in Christianity Today just this last November. He writes, "As I read accounts of the New Testament church, no characteristic stands out more sharply than [diversity]. Beginning with Pentecost, the Christian church dismantled the ...read more

  • View Everyone As God's Creation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,786 views

    VIEW EVERYONE AS GOD’S CREATION Presbyterian biblical scholar/ minister/author Carl Howie tells about an incident that took place in a New York subway. It was winter, and an especially cold and bitter night. Very few people were on the subway at that hour. At each station, the train would screech ...read more

  • He Died For Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,653 views

    HE DIED FOR ME During the U.S. Civil War, conscription was not absolute. The drafted man could always hire a substitute if he could afford it. Starting in 1862, the U.S. government allowed this escape from military service on the theory that, so long as each name drawn from the wheel produced a ...read more

  • Right And Wrong And Ruby ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
     | 3,776 views

    RIGHT AND WRONG AND RUBY BRIDGES A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public schools to African-American children. White parents in the community decided to keep their children at home if this verdict was enforced. They made it known that any African-American children who came to ...read more

  • But Proffering Our Physical Lives As Living ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 11, 2009
     | 2,607 views

    But proffering our physical lives as living sacrifices, we get the benefit of living life to its fullest because we are in agreement with God as to priorities and purpose. We aren’t really giving up our lives. We are learning to stand beside ourselves and see ourselves as God sees us. We see our ...read more

  • What Do You Listen For?

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 17, 2009
     | 1,425 views

    WHAT DO YOU LISTEN FOR? A Native American was walking in downtown New York City alongside a friend who was a resident of the city. Right in the centre of Manhattan, the Native American seized his friend's arm and whispered, "Wait! I can hear a cricket." His friend replied "Come on! A cricket? ...read more