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  • Kyle Idelman Tells A Story About His 4 Year Old ...

    Contributed by Jim Dillinger on Jun 3, 2005
     | 1,948 views

    Kyle Idelman tells a story about his 4 year old daughter coming into his office, just as he decides to rearrange the place. He had this large heavy desk and was pushing it from one side of the office to the other. His daughter wanted to help so she got between his arms and just started pushing ...read more

  • Nathan Barlow--Missionary ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2012
     | 3,858 views

    NATHAN BARLOW--MISSIONARY DOCTOR Nathan Barlow was a missionary Doctor to Ethiopia. He served there for over 60 years primarily helping people with an affliction called Mossy Foot. This caused swelling and ulcers in the feet and lower legs and caused people to become social outcasts. When Nathan’s ...read more

  • Never Done With You

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Apr 14, 2013
     | 2,193 views

    NEVER DONE WITH YOU There is a show on the SyFy channel that Vickie and I watch called "Eureka." It is about a sheriff in a town of geniuses. The Sheriff is always working through comedic catastrophes that the geniuses have induced with their experiments. But the biggest dilemma the sheriff often ...read more

  • Perhaps You Remember The Old Tv ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 22, 2008
     | 2,348 views

    ILLUSTRATION: Perhaps you remember the old TV sit-com or have seen it on “TV-Land” staring Carroll O’Connor All in the Family. Archie Bunker often found himself at odds with his meathead son-in-law Mike. In one episode Archie and his wife Edith were having a discussion about God when Mike ...read more

  • The Definition Of Me

    Contributed by Scott Berry on Jul 21, 2011
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    THE DEFINITION OF ME Quote from the movie 'Spanglish' - "I've been overwhelmed by your encouragement to apply to your university and your list of scholarships available to me. Though, as I hope this essay shows, your acceptance, while it would thrill me, will not define ...read more

  • It Is Well  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Mar 14, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,386 views

    IT IS WELL “H. G. Spafford was a businessman in Chicago. He was a dedicated Christian. [There were times in his life when the wisdom he followed was earthly, unspiritual, and subject to the enemy’s schemes]. He had some serious financial reversals, and during the time of readjustment, he lost ...read more

  • God Knows What He Is Doing  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 30, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,740 views

    GOD KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING Ever wonder if the Lord really knows what you want and need? David Smallbone felt God leading him to promote Christian concerts in his homeland, Australia, where only 5 percent of the people believed in Christ. When too few fans filled his seats during one major tour, ...read more

  • The Prayer And The Chair

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 22, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,944 views

    THE PRAYER AND THE CHAIR A woman called a pastor to come to the house to see her father. He goes to the house not knowing whether the man is Christian or not but he notices as he talks to him and the man answers back that he must be a Christian and there is a chair sitting close by. An empty ...read more

  • There Was A Professor Who Told His Class That ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 2, 2007
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    There was a professor who told his class that man is only a meaningless piece of protoplasm. He dismissed class early because of grief over his young daughter, whose life would be scarred because she had run off with an older man. A Christian student asked, “How can ...read more

  • A Man Purchased A Statue Of Christ And Placed It ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 6, 2010
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    A man purchased a statue of Christ and placed it on his desk in his den. A few days later his wife moved the statue to a table in the living room. Their five-year-old daughter, noticing the change of location, asked “Where are you going to put God?” Now ...read more

  • Ronald Reagan's Attitude After The 1982 Attempt ...

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Nov 18, 2011
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    Ronald Reagan’s attitude after the 1982 attempt on his life made an impression on his daughter, Patti Davis: "The following day, my father said he knew his physical healing was directly dependent on his ability to forgive John Hinckley. By showing me that forgiveness is the key to ...read more

  • One Day Susan Called Her Mother And Got Her ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    One day Susan called her mother and got her answering machine: "If you are a salesperson press one. If you’re a friend, press two. If you’re my daughter, Susan, who never calls, press 9-1-1 because the shock will probably ...read more

  • Max Lucado, In His Book, "Applause From ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 9, 2001
    based on 49 ratings
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    ILL. Max Lucado, in his book, "Applause from Heaven," tells about flying home after having been gone for more than a week of speaking engagements. He says, "I know that my wife & our two daughters will be waiting at the airport for me. And as I walk down the long corridor & round the bend & into ...read more

  • Kenneth Chaflin, A Seminary Professor Who Often ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Berry on Jun 21, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,500 views

    Kenneth Chaflin, a seminary professor who often speaks and writes about building stronger families was home getting ready to eat supper before heading off to a speaking engagement. His 5yr old daughter came and said, “Daddy will you stay home with me tonight?” Her plea pierced his soul. He thought ...read more

  • Divorce Barbie

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,624 views

    DIVORCE BARBIE Too many times, we are more concerned with what we get out of giving than what we are trying to give in the first place. A father was sitting in his chair one night reading the paper. All of a sudden, he realized it was his young daughter’s birthday, and he had forgotten to get her ...read more

  • Everybody Loves Raymond: Why Are We Here First?

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 8, 2010
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    EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND: WHY ARE WE HERE FIRST? In the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond, little Alley begins asking some questions about babies. Raymond, the father, gets nervous and refuses to answer her questions. Later on, Raymond realizes that he needs to answer his daughter’s questions. ...read more

  • When The Now-Famous Poet Elizabeth Barrett Became ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,623 views

    When the now-famous poet Elizabeth Barrett became the wife of Robert Browning, her parents disowned her because they disapproved of the marriage. Their daughter Elizabeth, however, wrote almost every week, telling them that she loved them and longed for a reconciliation. After 10 years, she ...read more

  • A Man Once Hired His New Son-In-Law To Build Him ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Apr 16, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,618 views

    A man once hired his new son-in-law to build him a house. The man told his son-in-law that the house was going to be a surprise for his wife for their 30th anniversary, and he did not want him to spare any expense in building it. The son-in-law was already a cheap man who made his living ripping ...read more

  • Being Bap-A-Tized

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 22, 2008
     | 2,375 views

    BEING BAP-A-TIZED Years back when our youngest daughter, Kimberly, was about 4, she saw her first baptism. We were explaining the meaning, and her response was, "I want to be bap-a-tized!" We talked her into waiting until she was old enough to pronounce it --- but the attitude was right. More ...read more

  • The Empty Chair  PRO

    Contributed by Danny Thomas on May 21, 2001
    based on 293 ratings
     | 4,767 views

    The Empty Chair A man’s daughter had asked the local pastor to come and pray with her father. When the pastor arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows and an empty chair beside his bed. The priest assumed that the old fellow had been informed of his visit. ...read more