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  • When I Was In Kalkaska Mi, Working As A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bob Soulliere on Mar 10, 2006
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     | 2,502 views

    When I was in Kalkaska Mi, working as a volunteer fireman, we once went to help someone who had fallen through the ice. When we got there he had already been rescued by some bystanders. What happened was he wandered to far out on unsafe ice, not knowing that there was an underground spring feeding ...read more

  • John 14:6 – "Jesus Told Him, ‘i Am The Way, The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Weber on Mar 14, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,875 views

    John 14:6 – “Jesus told him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.’” This is so hard for prideful people to accept. Elaine Pagels (author of The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ) says she had an epiphany while ...read more

  • Crocodile Hunter Illus. ( One Thing To Fight With ...

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 4, 2006
     | 1,261 views

    Crocodile Hunter ILLUS. ( one thing to fight with something another to kill it) In the news the other day it was reported that the world famous Australian Crocodile Hunter had been killed by a sting ray, really by accident. I loved to watch the Croc Hunter on the animal planet and other ...read more

  • Pastor Florescu, Jesus ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
     | 2,186 views

    PASTOR FLORESCU, JESUS FREAK The Communist torturers came towards Pastor Florescu again, this time with red-hot iron pokers. "Who else believes as you do? Give us their names." Florescu would not speak. They had already cut him again and again with knives and beaten him very badly. When he ...read more

  • Prophetic Preaching

    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 26, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,959 views

    PROPHETIC PREACHING A.W. Tozer, one described as a modern-day prophet, spoke these words in the 1950’s and describes the need for prophetic preachers: "If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century ...read more

  • John Stott On Temptation

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Oct 29, 2010
     | 4,600 views

    JOHN STOTT ON TEMPTATION "The command to get rid of troublesome eyes, hands and feet is an example of our Lord’s use of dramatic figures of speech. What he was advocating was not a literal physical self-maiming, but a ruthless moral self-denial...to reject sinful practices so resolutely that we ...read more

  • His Dangerous Condition

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 20, 2010
     | 1,745 views

    HIS DANGEROUS CONDITION A drunkard husband, spending the evening with his jovial companions at a tavern, boasted that if he should take a group of his friends home with him at midnight and ask his Christian wife to get up and cook supper for them, she would do it without complaint. The crowd ...read more

  • Olonga's Persecution

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Mar 10, 2011
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    OLONGA'S PERSECUTION Henry Olonga tells of when he was first selected for the Zimbabwean cricket B-Team. They were touring South Africa and staying in a luxurious Johannesburg Hotel. At that time they had to share a hotel room with a teammate and he was sharing with a more famous, white, senior ...read more

  • The Story Of Faith Hope

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
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    THE STORY OF FAITH HOPE Myah Hope was given the news that she was pregnant. Like most mothers to be, she dreamed of what giving birth to a child and raising them would be like. But when she was 19 weeks pregnant, she was told that something was wrong with her baby's head. The doctor said that ...read more

  • The Spirit Of The Law

    Contributed by Sean Harder on May 11, 2011
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    THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW I knew a woman who stopped for a few drinks every night after work to let traffic die down, then drove home, about a 45 minute drive in lower mainland traffic. She would say, "I'm fine, I've never had an accident and there are never any roadblocks on my route home. It's not ...read more

  • Rescue Effort

    Contributed by Michael Walther on May 25, 2011
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    RESCUE EFFORT On August 30, 2005 Coast Guard Lieutenant Iain McConnell was ordered to fly his H46 helicopter to New Orleans and to keep that machine flying around the clock for what would turn out to be a heroic rescue effort. None of his crew were prepared for what they were about to see. They ...read more

  • The Spirit Of The Law

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
     | 3,265 views

    THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW I knew a woman who stopped for a few drinks every night after work to let traffic die down, then drove home, about a 45 minute drive in lower mainland traffic. She would say, "I'm fine, I've never had an accident and there are never any roadblocks on my route home. It's not ...read more

  • Working For Food

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,598 views

    WORKING FOR FOOD I like the story of the rich executive who announced to his church one morning that he was going to give up all he owned so that he had to depend on his faith in God for everything he needed. He sold everything, gave it to the poor, and moved into a rented home down on the bad ...read more

  • A Darkened Mind

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Feb 15, 2012
     | 4,413 views

    A DARKENED MIND The god of this age, Satan, wants people to be blinded to the Truth. He loves a darkened mind. Sean Sellers was a willing mind. His parents were long haul truckers from Colorado. Sean filled the empty hours with the occult. He began with Dungeons and Dragons. The he began ...read more

  • There Was A Little Canadian Bird Who Decided Not ...

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Jan 26, 2013
     | 3,593 views

    There was a little Canadian bird who decided not to fly south for the winter. "If other animals can stay," he reasoned, "why can't I?" Against the better advice of his elders, the little bird stubbornly decided to stay. Very soon, however, he realized his mistake. The ...read more

  • It's Aweful When You Do Not Know Something Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Doucette on Apr 18, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 1,843 views

    It’s aweful when you do not know something is happening! At the end of their first date, a young man takes the young lady back to her house and they are standing on the front porch! Feeling the night went well, with an air of confidence, he leans with his hand against the wall and smiling, he says ...read more

  • Peter Marshall In One Of His Sermons Told About A ...

    Contributed by William Beard on May 22, 2007
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    PETER MARSHALL in one of his sermons told about a boy who had a TERMINAL ILLNESS. “One night the boy was especially quiet and so his mother asked him what was BOTHERING HIM. Mother, he said: WHAT IS IT LIKE TO DIE, does it hurt? She was silent for a moment and then she said: “Son do you remember ...read more

  • Most Of You Might Not Recognize The Name Robert ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,912 views

    Most of you might not recognize the name Robert the Bruce. His character was in the Mel Gibson’s movie Braveheart. Robert the Bruce was the Scottish noble whose character is most remembered for betraying Wallace, but he later rose up to lead Scotland to freedom after Walllace’s execution. He died ...read more

  • Back In The 1500's - Ivan The Iv Became The First ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 8, 2007
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    Back in the 1500’s - Ivan the IV became the first Czar of Russia. He ruled a large diverse nation but he wasn’t a good ruler. He wasn’t even a very nice man. In fact he was a very cruel man. He was so cruel they referred to him as "Ivan The Terrible." And he was widely known to be a very immoral ...read more

  • On The Night Of April 14, 1912, During Its ...

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 2, 2007
     | 999 views

    * On the night of April 14, 1912, during its first trip from England to New York, the Titanic struck an iceberg. The collision tore a 300-foot gash in its hull, and in 2½ hours the unsinkable ship sank. Some 1500 people died. * On May 6, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey, the mighty German Zeppelin, ...read more