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  • In A Book Called

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 7, 2009
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    In a book called “Rethinking the Church,” James Emery White tells this story. He was speaking at a conference where he mentioned using contemporary music to help those who haven’t grown up in the church to receive the truth of the gospel. Afterward, an elderly woman came up to speak to him. With ...read more

  • The Wondrous Cross  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 18, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,410 views

    THE WONDROUS CROSS Gal. 6:14 inspired Isaac Watts to compose one of modern Christendom’s favorite hymns. While preparing for a communion service in 1707, Isaac Watts wrote this deeply moving and very personal expression of gratitude for the amazing love that the death of Christ on the cross ...read more

  • The Most Important Gift

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 16, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,061 views

    THE MOST IMPORTANT GIFT Rob Parsons, the founder of "Care for the Family," asks the question, "What is the most important gift a father can give to his child?" He always gives the same answer: it is his unconditional love and acceptance. The key to a child’s heart is to let him or her know that ...read more

  • Forgotten How To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 4,109 views

    FORGOTTEN HOW TO FISH? I read an interesting story about a group of pelicans in California. If you’ve ever seen pelicans in action, you know they’re great fishermen, or fisher-birds. These pelicans were hanging out near a fleet of fishing boats. The fishermen on the boats would pull into the ...read more

  • Security

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 28, 2009
     | 4,669 views

    SECURITY Consider this story in relying upon God: The 3-year-old felt secure in his father’s arms as Dad stood in the middle of the pool. But Dad, for fun, began walking slowly toward the deep end, gently chanting, “Deeper and deeper and deeper,” as the water rose higher and higher on the child. ...read more

  • Touching The Untouchable

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    TOUCHING THE UNTOUCHABLE I have served as a volunteer Chaplain for the Havelock Police Dept for many years. Still, I will never forget my first night out with them. I was completely green and had no idea how to act. I was trying to follow the lead of the other officers. We were called to the ...read more

  • Converted By Dreams And Visions

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
     | 3,456 views

    CONVERTED BY DREAMS AND VISIONS Do you know that many Muslims are recently becoming Christians because of dreams and visions? According to Wendell Evans of the Billy Graham Center’s Institute for Muslim Studies, "More and more stories are coming out of closed countries, of God supernaturally ...read more

  • The Teddy Bear Lady

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 11, 2009
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    THE TEDDY BEAR LADY Most of the people at Chicago’s Children’s Hospital did not know her name. They just knew her as the sweet elderly lady in the red suit who wanted to make sure that every sick child had a teddy bear to hug and caress. She kept bringing the stuffed animals, purchased with her ...read more

  • The Poisonous Snakebite Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2009
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    The poisonous snakebite of sin Recently, the news has carried stories about how that snakes formerly kept as pets have been released and found new habitat. The Everglades is overrun with such snakes. In an effort to prevent the problem from escalating, the authorities are removing snakes from ...read more

  • Kind Deed Of Pows Saves ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2009
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    Kind Deed of POWs Saves Lives There is a World War II story that shows how the smallest deed can make all the difference. During the last months of the War, the British conducted daily bombing raids over Berlin. One night the bombers were attacked by a large group of German fighter planes. During ...read more

  • How To Get To Heaven  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,389 views

    HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN In 1997 there was survey taken by U. S. News and World Report, "Who do you think is mostly likely to get into heaven?" Mother Teresa had a 79%, Oprah Winfrey 66%, Michael Jordon 65%, Colin Powell 61%, Dennis Rodman 28% and O. J. Simpson 19%. The person completing the survey ...read more

  • Faith Fights  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 19, 2009
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    FAITH FIGHTS Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. I heard a story about a midwestern farmer 50 years ago. The farmer went to the bank to borrow money to buy seed to plant his whole farm in corn. He fired up the old tractor ...read more

  • Charles Colson Who Was Put Into Jail For His Part ...

    Contributed by Guy De Swardt on Apr 1, 2010
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    Charles Colson who was put into jail for his part in the Watergate scandal in America so many years ago now, subsequently found Jesus in prison and today he heads up an international ministry to people in prisons all around the world. He writes in his book Who Speaks for God? …about a man by the ...read more

  • A Man Fell Into A Pit And Couldn't Get Himself ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on May 19, 2010
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     | 11,578 views

    A man fell into a pit and couldn’t get himself out. A SUBJECTIVE person came along and said: "I FEEL for you, down there." An OBJECTIVE person came along and said: "It’s logical that someone would fall, down there." A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST came along: "You only THINK ...read more

  • Pows In Vietnam Recall Memorized Scripture To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2010
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    POWs in Vietnam Recall Memorized Scripture to Help Themselves Survive In the prison camps which were opened up following the terrible years of the Vietnam war, a story came out about how men endured six, seven, eight years of prison under the most terrible of conditions: rotten food, isolation, ...read more

  • Rome, Who Only 1 Year Old, Picked Up A Plastic ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 13, 2010
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    Rome, who only 1 year old, picked up a plastic spade and began playing it, pretending it was a guitar. It has the right shape. Anything can become a guitar in his hands. He has seen guitars at Church and as he danced he made sounds like he was playing one of the upbeat worship songs. We danced and ...read more

  • Memorizing Vs. Applying Scripture

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
     | 6,331 views

    MEMORIZING VS. APPLYING SCRIPTURE Dave Veerman, Campus Life, Wheaton, IL, related this story: A while ago our family began to memorize Scripture, one verse a week. Because my daughters were ages ten and six, I thought this was about the right speed. We keep the verses on cards in the middle of ...read more

  • Ravi Zacharias: A Lecherous Heart

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    RAVI ZACHARIAS: A LECHEROUS HEART One of the most powerful stories I have ever heard on the nature of the human heart is told by Malcolm Muggeridge. Working as a journalist in India, he left his residence one evening to go to a nearby river for a swim. As he entered the water, across the river he ...read more

  • Furtick On Audacious Faith

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 18, 2011
     | 3,210 views

    FURTICK ON AUDACIOUS FAITH "We set a goal of reaching over one thousand people in our first year of ministry. Since the average church size in America is fewer than one hundred and twenty, and the first rule of goal setting is attainability, I guess we were overshooting it a bit. But we wanted to ...read more

  • A Second Chance  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 8, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 11,024 views

    A SECOND CHANCE Some years ago, two teenagers with a long history of crime and misbehavior robbed a YMCA on the lowest East Side of New York City. On the way out they saw a young man at the telephone switchboard. They were frightened and assumed that the man must be calling the police. They held ...read more