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  • I Heard A Story Once About A Rebellious Little ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I heard a story once about a rebellious little boy in school. He was always causing trouble. He’d throw rocks on the playground. He’d disrupt class and just generally drive his teacher nuts. His biggest problem is that he would never sit down. Well, one day, the teacher couldn’t stand it any ...read more

  • On Average The Servicemen Who Guard The Tomb Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    On average the servicemen who guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier spend about 8 hours to prepare for duty. Their uniform must be meticulously prepared. What preparation do we put into our life of service to God? A logical question that someone might ask of the soldiers who guard the Tomb of the ...read more

  • Couldn't You Endure Him?

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Oct 15, 2008
     | 2,532 views

    Couldn't You Endure Him? According to a traditional Hebrew story, Abraham was sitting outside his tent one evening when he saw an old man, weary from age and journey, coming toward him. Abraham rushed out, greeted him, and then invited him into his tent. There he washed the old man’s feet and gave ...read more

  • The Bridge ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    THE BRIDGE BUILDER An old man, going down a lonely highway, Came at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and wide, Through which was flowing a swollen tide, The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The swollen stream had no fear for him. But he turned when safe on the other side, And built a ...read more

  • Suffice It To Say That No Revival Is Of Sudden ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 30, 2009
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    Suffice it to say that no revival is of sudden origin. When the revival manifests itself in a mighty way it comes suddenly as in the days of Hezekiah, but even so, its origins begin with the Holy Spirit of God moving effectively in individual lives in private. Let no one pray for revival—let no one ...read more

  • Make Me!

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 14, 2011
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    "MAKE ME!" They had behaved badly in class but they were equally disruptive in the detention room, swearing, acting tough and defying anything I said with a smart comment. Unacceptable behaviour. I have never really had a problem with anger, but the closest I came was in that classroom. Teaching ...read more

  • The Bridge Builder

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 20, 2022
     | 1,274 views

    THE BRIDGE BUILDER By Will Allen Dromgoole An old man going a lone highway. Came, at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide. Through which was flowing a sullen tide The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The sullen stream had no fear for him; But he turned when safe ...read more

  • Pastor Ray Stedman Told The Story Of Some ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Aug 15, 2005
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    Pastor Ray Stedman told the story of some Americans who were stationed in Korea during the Korean War. While there, they rented a home and hired a local boy to cook and clean for them. These Americans were a bunch of jokesters, and they soon began to take advantage of the young boy’s naiveté. ...read more

  • Chapters 40 Through 66 Of Isaiah Were Revealed To ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Dec 17, 2006
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    Chapters 40 through 66 of Isaiah were revealed to him during the final years of his life. They provide us many details about the ministry of our Messiah and His Coming Kingdom. Isaiah 40:12 presents the Messiah as our Divine Creator: Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand And ...read more

  • When Elderly Adele Gaboury Turned Up Missing Four ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Apr 23, 2004
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    When elderly Adele Gaboury turned up missing four years ago, concerned neighbours in Worcester, Massachusetts, informed the police. A brother told police she had gone into a nursing home. Satisfied with that information, Gaboury’s neighbours began watching her property. Michael Crowley noticed ...read more

  • When I Was Very Young, I Remember Swimming At A ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 12, 2004
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    When I was very young, I remember swimming at a lake during a Gregory family reunion. I know, the thought of such a reunion is more than some of you can stomach. At the lake, there was a dock. I would walk a little ways out on the dock, jump in the water, and then walk back to shore. Each time ...read more

  • Has Anyone Ever Told A Fish Story Before? Well, I ...  PRO

    Contributed by Daniel Wheat on Jan 9, 2005
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    Has anyone ever told a fish story before? Well, I was stationed in Alaska where I had the opportunity of a lifetime to fish for Alaska King Salmon. And let me tell you they get B-I-G! In fact I caught one King Salmon that was this (stretching arms out fully) big….ok my wife says I should be honest ...read more

  • A Real Bad Dude  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 14, 2002
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    A Real Bad Dude An old fellow had been in the north woods for weeks by himself, camping out. Each night at dusk he built a campfire, boiled water for coffee, and took out his skillet to fry up some bacon for dinner. As he was sitting by the fire one night, the water boiling and the bacon ...read more

  • Retaliate  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Retaliate Pastor Ray Stedman told the story of some Americans who were stationed in Korea during the Korean War. While there, they rented a home and hired a local boy to cook and clean for them. These Americans were a bunch of jokesters, and they soon began to take advantage of the young boy’s ...read more

  • Eric "The Swimmer" Moussambani Of Equatorial ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Mitchell on Jan 31, 2008
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    Eric "The Swimmer" Moussambani of Equatorial Guinea was an unlikely hero of the Sydney Olympic Games. The 22-year-old African had only learned to swim last January, had only practiced in a 20 meter pool without lane markers, and had never raced more than 50 meters. By special invitation of the ...read more

  • Natural Says...jesus Says...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Dec 8, 2008
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    NATURAL SAYS...JESUS SAYS... The natural says that you must be conceived of a man and a woman, yet he was conceived of the Holy Spirit. The natural says that your birth will bring your family joy, yet when He came He brought joy to the world and heaven. (At his birth, and angelic choir erupted in ...read more

  • At The Consumer Electronics Show Recently Held In ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Jan 13, 2010
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    At the Consumer Electronics Show recently held in Las Vegas, one company unveiled the unbreakable mobile phone. When asked what the phone was capable of withstanding, the director said you could drop it from a ten storey height, immerse it in over 20 ft of water for up to 30 minutes, and even ...read more

  • Mother Sheep Sacrifices Her Life To Save Her Lamb ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    Mother Sheep Sacrifices Her Life to Save Her Lamb from a Tiger William Faulkner tells the story of a mother sheep who had warned her little ones, “Do not go near the river, for a bad tiger lives there, and he will kill and eat you.” One lamb kept toying with the thought that the grass near the ...read more

  • In 2009 Picher Oklahoma Closed It’s ...

    Contributed by David Rumley on Aug 19, 2010
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    In 2009 Picher Oklahoma closed it’s doors… the entire city closed, evacuated, and shut down. Once it was a town of 20,000 people… in the first quarter of 1900’s it was a boomtown and had abundant lead and zinc. The Picher area became the most productive lead-zinc mining field in the Tri-State ...read more

  • A Greater Hero Than You Think

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2011
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    A GREATER HERO THAN YOU THINK One summer morning as Ray Blankenship was preparing his breakfast, he gazed out the window, and saw a small girl being swept along in the rain-flooded drainage ditch beside his Andover, Ohio, home. Blankenship knew that farther downstream, the ditch disappeared with ...read more