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  • I've Heard The Story Of A Young Boy Who Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Slone on Sep 7, 2004
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    I’ve heard the story of a young boy who was experiencing his first funeral. He looked around and normally happy and jovial aunts and uncles were now crying. Uncles usually quick with a joke and word, stare wide eyed at a casket. He felt fear and amazing confusion. And why not, what other ...read more

  • Do Not Offend Visitors To Your Website. A New ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,787 views

    Do Not Offend visitors to your website. A new Hostway, Inc survey reports 93% of web users do not like pop-up ads, 59% view moving text as bothersome, and 55% are annoyed by certain colors, type fonts and page formats. Other irksome issues are: 89%-the need to install extra software to use site ...read more

  • The English Anglican Evangelist George Whitefield ...

    Contributed by Peter Bines on Sep 14, 2006
     | 1,442 views

    The English Anglican evangelist George Whitefield was preaching at Moorfields fair in 1742. As he did so stones, dirt, rotten eggs and pieces of dead cat were thrown at him from the crowd. He vividly describes a group who were intent on putting an end to his preaching: ‘…having got a large pole for ...read more

  • A Man And His Wife Who Had Been Married For 45 ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Nov 6, 2006
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    A man and his wife who had been married for 45 years went on VACATION to Jerusalem. While they were there, the HUSBAND suddenly passed away with a HEART ATTACK. The FUNERAL DIRECTOR told the wife, “You can have your husband shipped HOME for $5,000, or you can BURY him here, in the Holy Land, for ...read more

  • Missionary Hudson Taylor Sailed To His Mission In ...

    Contributed by Robbie Parsons on Nov 6, 2006
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    Missionary Hudson Taylor sailed to his mission in China. Very close to the shore of cannibal islands the ship lost wind, and it was slowly drifting shoreward unable to go about. The savages were eagerly anticipating a feast. The captain came to Mr. Taylor and asked him to pray for the help of ...read more

  • A Pilot Was Flying His Small Plane One Day, When ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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    A pilot was flying his small plane one day, when he heard a noise which he recognized as the gnawing of a rat. Wondering what its sharp teeth were cutting through, he suddenly realized with horror that it might be an electric wire. Then he remembered that rodents can’t survive at high ...read more

  • Language Is A Great Gift From God That Sets Us ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,705 views

    Language is a great gift from God that sets us apart from every other creature. But sometimes our words are misunderstood or mistranslated; for example, I found some commercial slogans that had been translation into other languages of course they didn’t translate the same: Kentucky Fried Chicken, ...read more

  • A Pilot Was Flying His Small Plane One Day, When ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,546 views

    A pilot was flying his small plane one day, when he heard a noise which he recognized as the gnawing of a rat. Wondering what its sharp teeth were cutting through, he suddenly realized with horror that it might be an electric wire. Then he remembered that rodents can’t survive at high altitudes. ...read more

  • Suffering

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Suffering One of the most powerful prayers in the midst of suffering was uncovered from the horrors of Ravensbruck concentration camp. Ravensbruck was a concentration camp built in 1939 for women. Over 90,000 women and children perished in Ravensbruck, murdered by the Nazis. Corrie Ten Boom, who ...read more

  • Snoopy's Week

    Contributed by Mark Bauer on Aug 1, 2007
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    For years there has been a Snoopy poster that shows how he spends his week: On Sunday, he dances, with the caption, "Party-Time!" On Monday, he scowls, with the caption, "Don’t speak to me." On Tuesday, he lies flat on his back as though dead, with the caption, "God, get me through ...read more

  • It Is That Kind Of Faith Which Would Lead A Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 17, 2007
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    "It is that kind of faith which would lead a man to take a bottle of medicine from his medicine cabinet. Looking at the instructions on it, he says, ’I’m sure they’re correct. I have all confidence in the source of the medicine. I know who wrote these directions. I believe everything about it. I ...read more

  • Sadhu Sundar Singh And A Companion Were ...

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Oct 13, 2007
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    Sadhu Sundar Singh and a companion were travelling through a pass high in the Himalayan Mountains. At one point they came across a body lying in the snow. Sundar Singh wished to stop and help the unfortunate man, but his companion refused, saying, “We shall lose our lives if we burden ourselves ...read more

  • How Is A Hard Heart Turned Soft? Only By God ...

    Contributed by Colin Bain on Nov 18, 2007
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     | 3,470 views

    How is a hard heart turned soft? Only by God performing cardiac surgery. A heart transplant. Most hearts that are medically transplanted in our hospitals today, are because the owners forgot that they were to keep healthy. They took their eyes off the good food and were distracted by the fatty and ...read more

  • 1 Corinthians 15:51, 52 "Behold, I Shew You A ...

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on Dec 27, 2008
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    1 Corinthians 15:51, 52 “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” A farmer takes his family to ...read more

  • With God, There Is No P.s.

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jun 9, 2009
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    WITH GOD, THERE IS NO P.S. Nothing can stop the love of God. In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave on which was placed a huge slab of granite and then a slab of marble was cemented on top. The rocks were fastened with heavy steel clamps. It belonged to a woman who did not believe in the ...read more

  • I Have Heard That Possums Are Smart Animals. You ...

    Contributed by Brandon Park on Jan 31, 2010
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    I have heard that possums are smart animals. You wouldn’t think so because you hardly ever see one except when it’s dead on the road. There’s a joke that goes, “why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done!” But possums, it turns out, are smart. They won’t enter ...read more

  • Viticulture In The Near East

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 10, 2010
     | 1,972 views

    VITICULTURE IN THE NEAR EAST The vine has been cultivated in Pal. from the earliest times. The climate of Pal. is peculiarly adapted to viticulture with the country's bright sunshine and the heavy dew of the late summer nights (Tenney Pg. 882) Its Cultivation The cultivation of the vine ...read more

  • Trapped On A Tram

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jun 1, 2011
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    TRAPPED ON A TRAM It was a beautiful sunny day in Ostrava, Czech Republic, a city of 300,000. It was 1995, and I had just moved there to take an intense Czech language course. After half a day of Czech grammar, I was tired. I got on the tram and spaced out for my 20-minute ride to the suburbs ...read more

  • Harry Potter: Temptation

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jul 30, 2011
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    HARRY POTTER: TEMPTATION Every great story has great characters. And in truly great stories, the characters go through significant change. This change is called a character arc. For example, if you’re familiar with the Harry Potter series, you know that Harry starts off in the story as an ...read more

  • Picking The Wrong Door

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 31, 2011
     | 5,664 views

    PICKING THE WRONG DOOR Stuart Briscoe, in his book Everyday Discipleship for Ordinary People, tells the story about a fellow pastor who was officiating at the funeral of a war veteran. The dead man’s military friends wanted to have a part in the service at the funeral home, so they requested that ...read more