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  • A Middle Aged Woman Had A Heart Attack And Was ...

    Contributed by David Rumley on Apr 16, 2009
     | 3,633 views

    A middle aged woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table she had a near death experience. Seeing God, she asked "Is my time up?" God said, "No, you have another 43 years, 2 months and 8 days to live." Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital ...read more

  • As A Young Boy, Theologian Alister Mcgrath ...

    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Apr 17, 2010
     | 2,342 views

    As a young boy, theologian Alister McGrath enjoyed experimenting with chemicals in his school's laboratory. He liked to drop a tarnished coin into a beaker of diluted nitric acid. He often used an old British penny bearing the image of Queen Victoria. Because of the accumulated grime, Her Majesty's ...read more

  • Don't Change Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2002
    based on 23 ratings
     | 2,492 views

    DON'T CHANGE ME Elie Wiesel, the eloquent Jewish author, once told this story: “A just man comes to Sodom hoping to save the city. He pickets. What else can he do? He goes from street to street, from marketplace to marketplace, shouting, ‘Men and women, repent. What you are doing is wrong. It will ...read more

  • The Aim Of Life Is To Live, And To Live Means ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,808 views

    "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware: joyously, ...read more

  • But Proffering Our Physical Lives As Living ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 11, 2009
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    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

  • The Bridal Suite

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 27, 2011
     | 4,419 views

    THE BRIDAL SUITE Cynthia Thomas tells a story about her "brother and his new wife who were escorted to their bridal suite in an elegant hotel in the wee hours of the morning. They were tired from the many hours at their wedding reception and from mingling with their guests. They took a look around ...read more

  • The Change You Owe To Jesus  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 21, 2001
    based on 21 ratings
     | 5,059 views

    THE CHANGE YOU OWE TO JESUS John Wesley was a popular evangelist in early America and often rode from one church to another to preach. On one such journey, stopped by a highwayman who shouted, "Halt, your money or your life." Wesley got down from his horse, emptied his pockets to reveal only ...read more

  • Out Of The Box

    Contributed by Terry Cavanaugh on May 9, 2008
     | 1,571 views

    OUT OF THE BOX One "boxed in" child was Adam Clarke, who was born in the eighteenth century in Ireland. When Adam was a schoolboy, his father told the teacher that Adam wouldn't do well. The teacher said, "He looks bright." That statement changed his life--let him out of the box his father had ...read more

  • The Moon Keeps ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 14, 2010
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    The Moon Keeps Shining The story is told of a judge who had been frequently ridiculed by a conceited lawyer. When asked by a friend why he didn’t rebuke his assailant, he replied, “In our town lives a widow who has a dog. And whenever the moon shines, it goes outside and barks all night.” Having ...read more

  • A Kiss That Changed A Prodigal Into A Preacher!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 15, 2022
     | 1,627 views

    The late Joe Bayly was a gentle, godly Christian leader. I once heard him tell how one of his sons rebelled back in the days of the hippie movement. He grew his hair long and moved into a communal flophouse. Late one night, Bayly received a call informing him that his son was being held at one of ...read more

  • For Thirty Years, Hiroo Onoda Was Stuck In That ...

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Mar 18, 2008
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    For thirty years, Hiroo Onoda was stuck in that time warp known as 1944. The rest of the world continued to change around him, but Onoda stayed the same. When he reemerged into our modern world, he was not prepared for what he would see. Onoda, of course, never did travel into space. Instead he ...read more

  • On October 1, 1947 Chuck Yeager Became The First ...

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
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    On October 1, 1947 Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier when he flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane to a speed of MACH 1 at an altitude of 45,000 feet. In aerodynamics, the sound barrier is the apparent physical boundary stopping large objects from becoming supersonic. But ...read more

  • Image Is Not Everything But It Sure Helps To Send ...

    Contributed by John Perry on Apr 17, 2010
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    Image is not everything but it sure helps to send a positive message to people. Tom was a man in our church. He was from the old school & believed that he needed to live his everyday life dressed in a suit & tie. Naturally he would come to church in his suit & tie. A suit that looked as though he ...read more

  • Bible Readers Change The World  PRO

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
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     | 3,698 views

    BIBLE READERS CHANGE THE WORLD If you’ve read anything by Charles Dickens, you know how terrible conditions were in 18th century England. There were no child labor laws, so children as young as age four were put to work up to 12 hours a day in dangerous factories and sent into the corners of coal ...read more

  • I Have A Friend Who Is A Surfer. He Grew Up At ...

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
     | 2,936 views

    I have a friend who is a surfer. He grew up at the beach in North Carolina and has surfed all his life. He is a skilled surfer. He knows when the waves are good for surfing he knows what equipment he needs and how to properly use it. He is a skilled surfer. However, there is one thing my ...read more

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne's Great Stone ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Great Stone Face Perhaps some of you remember Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story about the great stone face. A little lad lived in a village where there was a mountain with a rock formation which they called the great stone face. The people had a legend that someday someone would ...read more

  • The Passenger ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    THE PASSENGER PIGEON The Passenger Pigeon was a species of pigeon that was once the most common bird in North America. They lived in enormous flocks and during migration it was possible to see flocks of them a mile (1.6 km) wide and 300 miles (500 km) long, taking several days to pass and ...read more

  • How Did We Ever Survive As ...

    Contributed by Paul Collins on Sep 7, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,894 views

    How Did We Ever Survive as Kids? April 11, 2009 — Quick Daily Hits - rbs Born before 1980? TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s… • After we were born, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints. • We had no ...read more

  • The Agony Of Defeat

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2012
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     | 4,592 views

    "THE AGONY OF DEFEAT" Some of you might remember the TV program "The Wide World of Sports". For many years, the opening of the program opened like this: "Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport; the thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat." The opening illustrated "the ...read more

  • Change Axioms Are Essential To Business And The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,941 views

    Change axioms are essential to business and the church. Charles Mueller of Just Watching, observes in Explore #19: · “The past is a foreign country; they do things different there.” · “There are no future decisions, only present decisions with future ...read more