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  • A Minister Was Visiting An Elderly Man, Who'd ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jul 5, 2002
    based on 44 ratings
     | 1,831 views

    A minister was visiting an elderly man, who’d been a Christian for most of his long life. The minister remarked, “Well sir, after keeping the faith for so long, you must feel pretty confident of holding out to the end.” The gentleman replied, “It’s not a matter of me ...read more

  • Karen Hunt Was A New Ager Who Spent Many Years ...

    Contributed by Andrew Hamilton on Oct 25, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,579 views

    Karen Hunt was a new ager who spent many years searching – exploring all sorts of religious practice. She says “I’m now a Christian. I have been rescued from new age spirituality. It is a bondage. It is not the freedom it pretends to be. The fact that people are seeking should encourage us. They ...read more

  • In Every Situation

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Nov 15, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,664 views

    IN EVERY SITUATION There are, in every situation, two factors: there is what happens, and there is how we take what happens. How we take what happens goes back to what kind of person we are, and what kind of belief we have about life as a whole. SOURCE: Purpose in Chaos, ...read more

  • Thom S. Rainer In His Book "The Bridger ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Hamby on Mar 24, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,666 views

    Thom S. Rainer in his book “The Bridger Generation” notes the “81% of those surveyed became Christians before the age of nineteen. Before the age of 6 6% Ages 6-9 24% Ages 10-12 26% Ages 13-15 15% Ages 16-19 10% Over the age ...read more

  • In A 1983 Gallup Poll Americans Were Asked, "Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 27, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,995 views

    In a 1983 Gallup poll Americans were asked, “Who do you think Jesus is.” 70% of those interviewed said Jesus was not just another man. 42% stated Jesus was God among men. 27% felt Jesus was only human but divinely called. 9% states Jesus was divine because he embodied the ...read more

  • At Christmas We See More Kindness. Last Friday, ...

    Contributed by Erik Stadler on Dec 21, 2007
     | 1,775 views

    At Christmas we see more kindness. Last Friday, my wife went to get some coffee at Starbucks and went through the drive through. When she pulled to get her coffee and pay for it, the clerk said someone else had paid for it. It was a random act of kindness, and we ...read more

  • They Feared Men So Little

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 13, 2008
     | 1,566 views

    Martyrs p222 -223 MacAuthurs Matthew Over 300 years of Roman persecution Christians dug nearly 600 miles of catacombs beneath the city of Rome. Archaelolgists estimate 4 million bodies buried there. Perhaps 50 million killed in Dark Ages, and millions in our own century by ...read more

  • A Chinese Farmer Who Had Cataracts Removed From ...

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Feb 22, 2008
     | 1,645 views

    A Chinese farmer who had cataracts removed from his eyes at a Christian mission clinic. A few days later, the missionary doctor looked out his window and noticed this farmer holding the end of a long rope. In single file holding to the rope were several dozen blind Chinese who had ...read more

  • Big Idea Productions' Parent Classic Media ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,530 views

    Big Idea Productions' parent Classic Media Holdings, Inc. has been acquired by U.K.-based Entertainment Rights, owner of rights to many characters, including Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, Postman Pat, and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. VeggieTales officials say the organization has a ...read more

  • 1 In 5 Pregnancies Worldwide And More Than Half ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,622 views

    1 in 5 pregnancies worldwide and more than half of those in eastern Europe end in abortion, according to a new Guttmacher Institute study that examined abortion trends from ’95 to ’03. 35 million were in the developing world, and nearly 97% of the estimated 70,000 women ...read more

  • One Old Minister Heard Some Ask In A Service ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jul 7, 2008
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    One old minister heard some ask in a service "Pastor did not Peter say the devil walk about as a roaring lion?" The pastor answered saying "The reason the devil is roaring is that Jesus pulled all his teeth and all the devil can do is make noise because he is ...read more

  • Religion Of Itself Will Only Make Us Like The ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on May 6, 2009
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    Religion of itself will only make us like the Pharisees, a contradiction of Christianity. No man can save himself. Nothing that we can offer can change a sinner to a saint! I remember seeing a carton showing a scholarly man sitting on top of a great pile of books, looking at himself in a mirror, ...read more

  • The Statue And The Cross

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Jun 22, 2009
     | 3,883 views

    THE STATUE AND THE CROSS The Statue of Liberty stands across from the Island of Manhattan in New York. Soldiers, on their return from overseas, often speak in awe of the feelings they had as they sailed into the harbor and viewed the "Torch of Freedom" in Lady Liberty’s hand. To the Christian, ...read more

  • For All Of Its Foibles—-Lousy Preaching, ...

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Jan 27, 2010
     | 2,033 views

    "For all of its foibles—-lousy preaching, political infighting, self-centered focus, stagnation, a gaggle of special interest groups—-the pokey local church...is still the most fertile environment for spiritual development. In fact, there can be no genuine spiritual progress without a long-term ...read more

  • God Works In Tranquility

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2010
     | 2,839 views

    GOD WORKS IN TRANQUILITY Fuss and feverishness, anxiety, intensity, intolerance, instability, pessimism and wobble, and every kind of hurry and worry--these, even on the highest levels, are signs of the self-made and self-acting soul; the spiritual parvenu. The saints are never like that. They ...read more

  • Never On Guard

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2011
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    NEVER ON GUARD When Fred Mitchell, chairman of the China Inland Mission, died, one of the speakers at his funeral said this about him: "You never caught Fred Mitchell off his guard because he never needed to be on it." (George Duncan, Living the Christian ...read more

  • The Army Has A System For Defense Called ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 8, 2008
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    The Army has a system for defense called challenge and password. When a soldier is on guard and someone approaches, he will say "Halt, who goes there?" The person will identify themselves, then the guard will state a challenge code word. If the other person does not know the password, he cannot ...read more

  • Heroes And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    HEROES AND ROLE-MODELS British adults were asked who they would want their children to look up to in an Opinion Research poll. Family members topped the list, followed by multi-millionaire entrepreneur and daredevil Richard Branson. Jesus Christ came in 3rd in the ...read more

  • Ravi Zacharias Tells The Amazing Story Of A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 2, 2003
    based on 22 ratings
     | 38,936 views

    Ravi Zacharias tells the amazing story of a young Christian in Vietnam. He writes, “I was ministering in Vietnam in 1971, and one of my interpreters was Hien Pham, an energetic young Christian. He had worked as a translator with the American forces, and was of immense help both to them and to ...read more

  • I Want You To Be Challenged By This Story About ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 9, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,389 views

    I want you to be challenged by this story about Jackie, a fairly new Christian who walked into a major discount store in Portland. In the prescription area she noticed a woman leaning on the counter obviously very sick. Jackie felt an impulse to pray with the woman but, as 90% of us would do, she ...read more