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  • Adding To The Word

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jan 22, 2012
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     | 1,849 views

    ADDING TO THE WORD Years ago, my Dad's physician told him to take one aspirin a day for his heart. My Dad was a very smart man, but he figured if one aspirin is good, two would be better. So my dad "added" to the word of his physician, and day after day my dad took two aspirin. Everything went ...read more

  • Know The True From The False

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Feb 23, 2012
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     | 3,928 views

    KNOW THE TRUE FROM THE FALSE I have heard and read several variations of this story. Some relate it to training bank tellers, some to treasury agents, and some to FBI agents. I don’t know which, if any, is true. The story makes a good point even if none of the stories are true. It is important ...read more

  • Distortions

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 29, 2012
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    DISTORTIONS I know you have heard the story of the man that was on the ocean on a huge yacht. They had cruised for days and somehow had gotten lost. The captain noticed the owner’s little son had placed his toy magnet next to the casing around the compass. The magnetic force had distorted the ...read more

  • The Village Of The Book

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 17, 2012
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    THE VILLAGE OF THE BOOK It was early in 1945. As United States forces pushed deep into Okinawa they came across a village unlike any they had ever seen. Here at Shimabuku they were met and welcomed by two old men who invited the troops in as "fellow Christians." Correspondent Clarence W. Hall ...read more

  • We Need To Urge A Broadening Of The Scope Of ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 21, 2012
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    "We need to urge a broadening of the scope of reason. In applying methods of historical analysis, no criteria should be adopted which would rule out in advance God’s ...read more

  • Hold Fast

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2012
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    HOLD FAST A ships crew can be suddenly obligated to ABANDON SHIP and take to the life boats. Such was the case of an American whaling ship in the South Seas. A huge leviathan of the deep, wounded by his pursuits, ran out the mile long line then returned again and struck the ship with incredible ...read more

  • God's Word Described  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 14, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,594 views

    GOD’S WORD DESCRIBED An unknown writer said, "This Book is the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners, and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding; its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it to be wise, ...read more

  • Picking And Choosing  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
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    PICKING AND CHOOSING An extremely nervous patient came to his dentist for root canal surgery. He was brought into the examining room and made comfortable in the reclining dental chair. The dentist then injected a numbing agent around the patient's tooth, and left the room for a few minutes while ...read more

  • The Divine Words Grow Together With The One Who ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 1, 2012
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    "The divine words grow together with the one who reads them." ...read more

  • A Row Of Dominoes

    Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Dec 18, 2012
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    Have you ever taken the time to set up a row of dominoes and then you push the first one and the first one knocks down the second one which knocks down the third one which knocks down the fourth one, etc until they have all fallen? The same case exists with the Holy Scriptures; when you knock one ...read more

  • She Thinks I'm Real!

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 24, 2012
     | 1,837 views

    A story is told of a family that went into a restaurant. The waitress walked up and, looking at the young boy, said: “What will it be?” The boy eagerly shouted back: “I’ll take a hamburger, French fries, and a chocolate shake.” The mother immediately interrupted: “Oh, that’s not what he ...read more

  • Monogamy Syndrome  PRO

    Contributed by Tim White on Feb 15, 2013
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    MONOGAMY SYNDROME Where at one time, having sexual relations outside marriage was considered liberating, current studies show that it damages one's ability to trust, affecting future relationship, one's respect for self, affecting every decision and diminishing the value of right decisions, and ...read more

  • A Confident Faith  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Apr 2, 2013
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    A CONFIDENT FAITH Jesus indicted the Pharisees saying: "All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not ...read more

  • Ten Years Of Fact Checking

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
     | 1,298 views

    It’s an old stereotype that politicians are likely to “massage the truth” a little bit. That’s probably as generous as that can be said. With that in mind, I was intrigued recently when PolitiFact celebrated their tenth anniversary. PolitiFact is a non-partisan, independent organization that ...read more

  • According To The Rabbis, The Books Of Numbers ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 21, 2008
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    "According to the Rabbis, the Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy are complementary to each other (comp. Tithe, Biblical Data); consequently there can be no contradiction between them. Thus there were three kinds of tithes: (1) that given to the Levites as stated in Num. xviii. 21 et seq., and termed ...read more

  • Several Years Ago I Read A Fictional Novel ...

    Contributed by Timothy Dolan on May 10, 2008
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    Several years ago I read a fictional novel called, A Skeleton in God’s Closet. It was about an archeologists’ that claimed that he had found the skeleton of Jesus. The chaos that followed was amazing as churches closed and the earth began to tear itself apart. What if I could convince you that ...read more

  • The Elephant And The ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 12, 2008
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     | 2,166 views

    The Elephant and the Ambulance A woman’s red station wagon was crushed by an elephant at a circus. The owners of the animal apologized, explaining that the animal, for some reason, simply liked to sit on red cars. In spite of the damage, the woman’s car was still drivable. But on the way to the ...read more

  • The Word Of God Is A Treasure ...

    Contributed by Mark Roper on Jun 1, 2008
     | 3,637 views

    The Word of God is a treasure Map Their was a wonderful movie from 1963 “It’s a Mad Mad world” It was about a madcap cross-country rush to find buried treasure marked by the letter “W”. It was four palm trees leaning that resemble the W. At the W the treasure was found. We have a ...read more

  • I Don't Know Much About Samuel Clements -- Mark ...

    Contributed by Dean O'bryan on Jun 23, 2008
     | 2,117 views

    I don’t know much about Samuel Clements -- Mark Twain -- when it comes to his faith. But he said something once which was dead on. He said, “Some people worry about the passages in the Bible they don’t ...read more

  • Ask Jonah!  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 12, 2008
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     | 8,207 views

    ASK JONAH! A new believer was on a plane with an intellectual (a man educated beyond his intelligence). He sneered at her reading the Bible and asked if she believed it? "Yes." "Jonah and the whale story?" (A great fish) "Yes." "How did it happen?" "Don't know, but I'll find out when I get to ...read more

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