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  • Let Me Tell You A Story About A Man. This Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,956 views

    Let me tell you a story about a man. This man grew up in the north end residential area of Tacoma, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and attended the University of Washington Law School. His friends considered him suave, debonair, handsome, and smooth with the ladies. He ...read more

  • Song - Jesus Loves Me, Senior Version *author ...  PRO

    Contributed by William Akehurst on Jun 28, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
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    SONG - JESUS LOVES ME, Senior Version *Author Unknown* Jesus loves me, this I know, Though my hair is white as snow. Though my sight is growing dim, Still He bids me trust in Him. (CHORUS) YES, JESUS LOVES ME... YES, JESUS LOVES ME... YES, JESUS LOVES ME FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO. ...read more

  • Much Of The Credit For The Adoption Of A Later ...

    Contributed by Mike Rexroat on Nov 19, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,088 views

    Much of the credit for the adoption of a later ANNUAL national Thanksgiving Day may be attributed to Mrs. Sarah Joseph Hale, the editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book. For thirty years, she promoted the idea of a national Thanksgiving Day, contacting President after President until President Abraham ...read more

  • Of George Matheson, As Recorded In ...

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Feb 27, 2008
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    Illustration of George Matheson, as recorded in Max Lucado’s book 3:16, Numbers of Hope. Main Idea: People lose love, God loves always “Matheson was only a teenager when doctors told him he was going blind. Not to be denied, he pursued his studies, graduating from the University of Glasgow in ...read more

  • Breakfast, Lunch, And Dinner Are A Normal Part Of ...

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Jun 26, 2008
     | 3,823 views

    Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are a normal part of the day. We all revolve our days around eating food. You probably wouldn't think of going without physical food for a week or even a day, would you? Food is necessary for physical life. Without food, we become weakened and eventually become ill. ...read more

  • John Cassius Tells A Story Of A Young Man Who Was ...

    Contributed by Michael Snow on Aug 20, 2008
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    John Cassius tells a story of a young man who was seeking to find the meaning of life so and he went to visit a prophet. He went to the prophet and asked him if he would share with him the way true deliverance. The prophet looked at him and asked, "Do you want to find the meaning of life?" And the ...read more

  • Six-Word Memoirs  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jan 19, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,704 views

    Six-Word Memoirs One of the surprising best-selling books of 2008 is "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure." Notice that the main title is only six words: "Not Quite What I Was Planning." People were asked to succinctly sum up their life in six ...read more

  • The Message Never Got ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    THE MESSAGE NEVER GOT DELIVERED George Sweeting, in his book, The No-Guilt Guide for Witnessing, tells of a man by the name of John Currier who in 1949 was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Later he was transferred and paroled to work on a farm near Nashville, Tennessee. In ...read more

  • Peter Marshall's Calling

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    PETER MARSHALL’S CALLING In her book, A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall tells how her late preacher-husband felt a sense of destiny a sense of call in his life. One dark night, Peter, then a young man, decided to take a shortcut across the Scottish moors. He knew there was a deep deserted ...read more

  • Billy Graham's Continuing Hope

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 27, 2009
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    BILLY GRAHAM'S CONTINUING HOPE Billy Graham has been through the grinder in recent years. He lost his beloved wife, and he is suffering from the effects of Parkinson’s disease, making him unable to continue his crusade work. In his latest letter to the public, he has this to say about the hope ...read more

  • In God's Time

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 20, 2023
     | 2,405 views

    The little boy walked home from Sunday School and the family were sitting around the old pot-bellied stove talking. The boy told his dad and Pa about the lesson. The boy was so excited. He told them he had gone to the altar and accepted Jesus as his personal Savior. The boy said he was going to ...read more

  • How Do You Make This Thing Work? War Story

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 3, 2026
    based on 2 ratings
     | 170 views

    The story is told ... about an Army sergeant ... who was caught near a beach ... by German artillery ... and managed to protect himself ... by moving to the water's edge. While improving his position with a trench shovel, ... he came upon an ornate crucifix ... the kind that prosperous ...read more

  • The Suffering Of "El Santo"  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,629 views

    THE SUFFERING OF "EL SANTO" Sister Yolanda Tarango discovered "El Santo" one day when as a small girl she was sent to the family shed to finish throwing her pity party. She noticed a strange parcel in the corner, covered with a heavy cloth. Peering under the cover, she was shocked to find bloody ...read more

  • Someone Tells The Story Of A Boy Who Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jun 23, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
     | 3,407 views

    Someone tells the story of a boy who was rebelling against his dad constantly. This boy was destroying his own life by his rebellion, but he refuse to heed his father’s words. One day, the dad said to the boy, "I want to show you what you’re doing to your life. I’m going to put a wooden post ...read more

  • Helping The Homeless  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 21, 2004
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    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

  • I Will Never Forget How The Holy Spirit Worked In ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Nov 30, 2006
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    I will never forget how the Holy Spirit worked in my life to teach me to depend upon Him for the revelation and illumination of truth to my life. It was in March of 2003 - I had spent a week in special study at Luther Rice Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia. I had been studying about how to live the ...read more

  • Each Night When I Turn Off The Study Light And ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
     | 1,878 views

    Each night when I turn off the study light and stumble blindly towards the bedroom, trying not to wake Julie, who often goes to bed before me, I realize how helpless I am in the darkness. My night vision is hopeless. Kitchen benches, edge of the Pantry and doors seem to deliberately thwart my ...read more

  • The True Story Is Told Of Anny Pennica, A 62 ...

    Contributed by Guy De Swardt on Apr 2, 2010
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    The true story is told of Anny Pennica, a 62 year old woman who had been blind from birth. At age 47 she married a man she met in her Braille class and for the first 15 years of their marriage he did the seeing for both of them until he also became completely blind. Anny had never seen a tree or a ...read more

  • My Wife Loves Hgtv. (It Drives Me Nuts, But She ...

    Contributed by Grant Sisson on Apr 17, 2010
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    My wife loves HGTV. (It drives me nuts, but she doesn’t watch football with me either.) But once in a while I will sit down with her and watch it. The other night there was a show about the HGTV “good guy” construction expert going into a home that was left supposedly 95% complete when a ...read more

  • Under The Influence

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Apr 13, 2012
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    UNDER THE INFLUENCE David Kupelian's book The Marketing of Evil, published in 2005, is an eye-opening study of what we face today. I wish every parent would read it. Does anyone here remember what happened to Robert Bauman in 1980? He was elected in 1973 as representative of the First ...read more