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  • Charlie Wrote About His Experience As A Kid ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Oct 15, 2008
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    Charlie wrote about his experience as a kid growing up in the American south and planting peanuts. Because peanuts are tubers that grow on the roots beneath the ground, you cannot see how well they’re developing. So being an impatient kid, he decided to dig them up to see how they were doing. Well, ...read more

  • I Once Heard The Story Of A Man And His Wife Who ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jan 29, 2009
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    I once heard the story of a man and his wife who decided to go to a drive-in movie. They thought the price was too high and plotted to put one over on the management of the theater. When they were within a short distance of the drive-in, the husband climbed into the trunk of the car. The ...read more

  • Tenth Hours

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 1,466 views

    TENTH HOURS Napoleon said that in every battle there [is] a period of ten or fifteen minutes which decides the issue of the conflict. Certainly in the battle of life there are moments and hours which, so far as we can tell, determine our history: hours when the spirit in which we lived, the step ...read more

  • I Know Of A Priest Back In New York City Who Went ...  PRO

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jun 3, 2007
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    I know of a priest back in New York City who went to Ireland to visit his relatives. While he was staying at his cousin’s farm, they decided to have some fun with him. After doing some chores in the fields, they told him to come in for dinner just as soon as he was through rounding up the sheep ...read more

  • A Man Was Having Some Difficulty Communicating ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A man was having some difficulty communicating with his wife, and he concluded that she was becoming hard of hearing. So he decided to conduct a test without her knowing about it. One evening he sat in a chair on the far side of the room. Her back was to him and she could not see him. Very quietly ...read more

  • There Is A Story Of Two Brothers Who On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There is a story of two brothers who on completing their apprenticeship decide to set up their own butcher shop. One day one of their customers invite the older brother to church. Some time later he asks for forgiveness for all his sins, and commits his life to following God. He continues working ...read more

  • An Organization In Montana Offered A Bounty Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,955 views

    An organization in Montana offered a bounty of five thousand dollars for every wolf captured alive. Two hunters named Sam and Jed decided to head for the hills and make some money capturing wolves. Day and night they scoured the mountains and forests searching for their valuable prey. Exhausted ...read more

  • Tenth Hours

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
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    TENTH HOURS Napoleon said that in every battle there [is] a period of ten or fifteen minutes which decides the issue of the conflict. Certainly in the battle of life there are moments and hours which, so far as we can tell, determine our history: hours when the spirit in which we lived, the step ...read more

  • On Our Vacation One Year, We Borrowed My Dad's ...

    Contributed by Tim White on Jun 19, 2009
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    On our vacation one year, we borrowed my dad’s boat and went up to a beautiful mountain lake in Western Arkansas. It was narrow with fingers reaching into the mountains and piny woods. It was beautiful. The problem arose when we decided to head back to the boat landing. We missed a turn and headed ...read more

  • Franklin Roosevelt's Grandmother

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Sep 14, 2009
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    FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT’S GRANDMOTHER The story is told of American President Franklin Roosevelt, who often endured long receiving lines at the White House. He complained that no one really paid any attention to what was said. One day, during a reception, he decided to try an experiment. To each person ...read more

  • Working Late In The Cemetery  PRO

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Oct 29, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
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    WORKING LATE IN THE CEMETERY Late one dark night, two men were walking home after a party. They were tired and desperate to get home, so they decided to take a shortcut through a cemetery. They got to about the middle of the graveyard, and they were startled and stopped moving. There was a ...read more

  • The Impact Of Imitating ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    The Impact of Imitating Christ The Christian walk of Will Houghton, a preacher who became the president of Moody Bible Institute during the 1940s, played a large role in the conversion of an agnostic who was contemplating suicide. The skeptic was desperate, but he decided that if he could find a ...read more

  • Determined To Save Money

    Contributed by John Perry on Apr 17, 2010
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    DETERMINED TO SAVE MONEY I had never been much of a saver, but there came a time after some years of failing to save anything that I decided to break the habit. I could ill afford to save at the time, I had financial constraints / a number of factors that suggested I wouldn’t be successful. But my ...read more

  • Ok Here, Banned Overseas

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jun 2, 2010
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    OK HERE, BANNED OVERSEAS When I was a child, this advertisement would not have had a dog's show of making it onto the tele. It's a picture of this young lady on an Australian beach, saying "We've saved a spot on the beach," and I think there's a bit that says, "We've had the camels shampooed." We ...read more

  • Insuring Your Voice

    Contributed by John Perry on Dec 13, 2010
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    INSURING YOUR VOICE Friends of George Burns have always kidded him about his singing. Burns, a master of self-deprecating humour, decided to take advantage of this and insure his voice for a million dollars. He thought it would be a wonderful publicity stunt. "I was so excited," said Burns, "I ...read more

  • Ever Heard A Sheep Call?

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 6, 2011
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    EVER HEARD A SHEEP CALL? Sheep don’t respond to calls they respond to Shepherds. A man in Australia was arrested for stealing a sheep but he claimed that it was one of his own that had been missing for many days. When the case went to court, the judge was puzzled, not knowing how to decide the ...read more

  • World Records

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jul 18, 2011
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    WORLD RECORDS Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Quasimodo were all talking one day. Sleeping Beauty said, "I believe myself to be the most beautiful girl in the world." Tom Thumb said, "I must be the smallest person in the world." Quasimodo said, "I absolutely have to be the ugliest person in the ...read more

  • Saving A Stranger

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
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    SAVING A STRANGER In his book Open the Door Wide to Happy Living, T. Huffman Harris told of a young man named Eddie who became tired of life and decided to leap from a bridge into a turbulent river. Jim, a total stranger, saw Eddie being swept downstream and plunged into the water in an effort to ...read more

  • He Will Quiet You With His Love!

    Contributed by Bala Samson on May 24, 2013
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    He will quiet you with His love! Zephaniah 3:17”………..He will quiet you with His love…” When I was admitted for an operation, the next room woman delivered a baby with a hole in her heart, the family did something which was horrendous and incredible, they decided to abandon her. The little infant ...read more

  • If Billy Goes To Hell, Do You Care?

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 10, 2019
     | 2,573 views

    Billy was born in 1972 into a family of drug abusers. His mother died of an overdose when little Billy was three years old, His father was wanted in Tennessee for selling drugs. Little Billy was slipped into Tennessee to live with relatives. In all reality little Billy spent his life looking for ...read more