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  • A Myriad Of Men Are Born; They Labor And Sweat ...  PRO

    Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Dec 31, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,884 views

    "A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle;...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It (the ...read more

  • A Life Time Atheist Was Found Reading The Bible ...

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,094 views

    A life time atheist was found reading the bible while on his death bed. A friend asked him what he was doing. He answered, “I am looking for loop holes!” By living in a daily relationship with Jesus Christ we won’t have to ...read more

  • There Is Rarely A Week That Goes By When I Don't ...

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 3, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,743 views

    There is rarely a week that goes by when I don’t make a hospital visit. Because I visit the hospital so frequently, I will admit that after a few weeks have passed most hospital visits sort of fade from my memory. However, I want to finish up this morning by telling you about a hospital visit I ...read more

  • Governor John Connally Quote  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Nov 26, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,404 views

    ILLUSTRATION… Governor John Connally Quote I was reading recently of events that happened back in 1963 when John F Kennedy was tragically gunned down. It was the Texas Governor of the time John Connally who was wounded in the gun attack. He and his wife Nellie were in the motorcade that day. In ...read more

  • Man Gives His Life Rescuing Airplane ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
     | 3,340 views

    Man Gives His Life Rescuing Airplane Passengers But what do we see if we look at the cross from another angle—from God’s perspective? What if we have in our minds, as Jesus says, “the things of God”? Then we can see the cross as part of God’s rescue plan. We can see that Jesus chooses to be ...read more

  • What Do You Want On Your Tombstone?,

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 14, 2007
     | 1,580 views

    "What do you want on your Tombstone?," Do you remember the 1995 ads where an executioner asks a condemned man. "Cheese and pepperoni," the man replies in a memorable television commercial for the fastest-growing frozen pizza manufacturer in the United States. Seriously what do you want on your ...read more

  • I Remember The First Time I Was With Someone ...

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 3, 2005
     | 1,508 views

    I remember the first time I was with someone when they died. Just before Lloyd passed from this life to the next he talked about how he saw someone holding his hands out to him. I believe he was talking about Jesus. The rest of in the room didn’t see Him, but we didn’t have ...read more

  • Dr. Maurice Rawlings, Is A Cardiologist And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Nov 20, 2002
    based on 135 ratings
     | 1,864 views

    Dr. Maurice Rawlings, is a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga, and his colleagues are constantly treating emergency patients, many of whom have had near-death experiences. A study of these cases by Dr. Rawlings was reported in ...read more

  • Someone Once Said That, As A Child When He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Morris Mott on Sep 27, 2001
    based on 68 ratings
     | 2,315 views

    Someone once said that, as a child when he thought of Heaven, he thought of a very cold ominous place with an innumerable amount of faceless angels. As years went by, one of his siblings died. When he then thought of Heaven, he pictured this family member, very lonely, standing in this ominous ...read more

  • In A Song Written By Tim Mcgraw For His Dying ...

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 3, 2005
     | 1,544 views

    "In a song written by Tim McGraw for his dying father, the country music superstar describes how his death caused him to reevaluate his life. After learning the bad news, he "went sky divin’, went Rocky Mountain climbing, went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu. I loved deeper, and I spoke ...read more

  • Creation Teaches That Life Can Pass Through ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 1,075 views

    Creation teaches that life can pass through different forms and that life may even come out of death. -The caterpillar lives the first part of its life crawling on the ground. -After fulfilling its course, the caterpillar curls up and seemingly dies. Then out of that body a beautiful butterfly ...read more

  • If You Have The Truth And It's A Matter Of Life ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,066 views

    If you have the truth and it’s a matter of life or death, you had better be assertive. For example, I do a tremendous amount of flying. It has been my observation that pilots are some of the most arrogant people you would ever want to meet. First of all, in all my years of air travel they have ...read more

  • Nicolaus Copernicus Was A Famed Astronomer Born ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Christopher on Nov 10, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,900 views

    Nicolaus Copernicus was a famed astronomer born in Poland on February 19, 1473. He was a mathematician whose accomplishments changed men’s ideas of the universe. Also he was a well-known writer. Although highly educated in astronomical science, he was much more-he was a child of God who had learned ...read more

  • Life Is Beautiful" Is A Film About A Little Boy ...

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
     | 1,309 views

    “Life is Beautiful” is a film about a little boy with a father who made life in a Nazi concentration camp livable. His father is an exceedingly joyful individual who is madly in love with his wife and his little boy. He shields his son from as much of the horror of the concentration camp as he ...read more

  • The Man Who Made A Pet Out Of A Rattlesnake

    Contributed by David Goering on Nov 2, 2019
     | 2,777 views

    ILLUSTRATION: the story of the man who made a pet out of a rattlesnake. The "Memphis Commercial-Appeal" tells of a man across the river in Arkansas who had a pet rattlesnake. He had found it as a baby snake, taking it, fed it, and made a pet of it. The reptile would come when he ...read more

  • An Ancient Story Is Told About A Slave Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 23, 2001
    based on 198 ratings
     | 3,476 views

    An ancient story is told about a slave who traveled with his master to Baghdad. As he walked the busy streets he found himself in the market place where he saw Death in human form. Death looked at him with such a piercing look that it frightened the slave, & he interpreted that look to mean that ...read more

  • The Hunger Games: Laying Down Your Life

    Contributed by Jeff Morrison on Mar 30, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,549 views

    THE HUNGER GAMES: LAYING DOWN YOUR LIFE In the movie, "The Hunger Games," 16 year old Katness is faced with a dramatic choice when her 12 year old sister is chosen by lottery to fight for their district. She knows her sister is small and frail, and that she would not last in the life or death ...read more

  • Last Lecture

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 2, 2008
     | 2,504 views

    LAST LECTURE You may have heard about the death of 47 year old Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor Randy Pausch last week from pancreatic cancer. Pausch was most famous for his "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" speech made last fall just after he learned he had months to ...read more

  • Praying For Enemies

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022
     | 782 views

    I once invited a guest lecturer to speak to a counseling class I was teaching and asked him to specifically discuss the topic of forgiveness. He told a powerful story from his own life that day to illustrate his point that we should forgive. His brother had many struggles, and one day there was a ...read more

  • A Number Of Years Ago A Woman Living In A Nursing ...

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 3, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,998 views

    A number of years ago a woman living in a nursing home in Scotland wrote the following little piece that wasn’t found until after her death. However, it demonstrated the reality that life flies by even if you live to a ripe old age. I think you will be touched as I was. It’s entitled, "Crabby Old ...read more

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