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  • Scooping Up Manna

    Contributed by Paul Davidson on Jan 27, 2021
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    I wrote the following poem titled “Scooping Up Manna” on March 3rd, 2011 as an entry in my private journal during a time of great internal struggle and turmoil over whether or not I would choose to be obedient to follow after God. This poem is based on the Biblical account found in Numbers ...read more

  • The Audacity To Believe… (This Portion Based On ...

    Contributed by David Rumley on Nov 8, 2006
     | 1,886 views

    THE AUDACITY TO BELIEVE… (This portion based on Rob Bell’s Nooma video called Dust) Why would Peter have the audacity to believe He could do what Jesus was doing? How would he believe in God and believe in himself enough to know he too could walk on water? To understand this we must understand ...read more

  • This Morning, As You Sit Where You Are, Imagine ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 4, 2007
     | 1,212 views

    This morning, as you sit where you are, imagine with me that this platform is the front of the courtroom. Imagine with me that you sit in the seat of the defendant. To your right in this courtroom, sits Satan, the Devil. His job is to get a guilty verdict and keep you from experiencing ...read more

  • This Morning, As You Sit Where You Are, Imagine ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 4, 2007
     | 927 views

    This morning, as you sit where you are, imagine with me that this platform is the front of the courtroom. Imagine with me that you sit in the seat of the defendant. To your right in this courtroom, sits Satan, the Devil. His job is to get a guilty verdict and keep you from experiencing ...read more

  • Busy Schedule

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2002
    based on 1 rating
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    BUSY SCHEDULE Kim Larence, age 42, is a wife and a mother of three boys. She heads the math department at the private John Cooper School in The Woodlands, Texas. Here is her typical daily schedule. I wonder if it sounds anything like yours. 5:00 a.m. Wake Up 5:15 - 6:50 a.m. Wakes her three ...read more

  • Joy Hard Won, Citation: Joni Eareckson Tada, ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Oct 30, 2003
    based on 33 ratings
     | 3,786 views

    [Joy Hard Won, Citation: Joni Eareckson Tada, "Joy Hard Won," Decision (March 2000), p.12, used by permission] In Decision, Joni Eareckson Tada writes: Honesty is always the best policy, but especially when you’re surrounded by a crowd of women in a restroom during a break at a Christian women’s ...read more

  • The Meanest Mother  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Sep 27, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,708 views

    The Meanest Mother We had the meanest mother in the whole world! While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs, and toast. When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches. And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different from other ...read more

  • A Luge Ride Is Like Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 1,851 views

    A Luge Ride is Like Life While we were away last weekend, we went on the luge at the top of the gondola ride in Queenstown. You go up on the gondola to the hill above Queenstown. The restaurant and café has a luge track running around it. For those who have not seen it or been on one, the luge is a ...read more

  • On New Year's Day, 1929, Georgia Tech Played ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    On New Year’s Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played UCLA in the Rose Bowl. In that game a young man named Roy Riegels recovered a fumble for UCLA. Picking up the loose ball, he lost his direction and ran sixty-five yards toward the wrong goal line. One of his teammates, Beeny Lom, ran him down and tackled ...read more

  • Commander Hansen Had No Idea How Or Why His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Commander Hansen had no idea how or why his outpost was being attacked. The outpost where he was stationed was suddenly up against a very powerful enemy... one he had never encountered before. Oh, he had heard of them, sure, but he never expected that he would meet them head on. They had been at ...read more

  • I Have To Close This By Telling You Earl's Story: ...

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Jun 2, 2008
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    I have to close this by telling you Earl’s story: He was sixty-eight years old and had moved to Junction, TX from Michigan to be near his wife’s family. Many people thought of him as being obnoxious, or a curmudgeon, or a host of other words I cannot repeat this morning. I had breakfast with him ...read more

  • Pastor John R Ramsey Once Wrote, "For Some Time I ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 1, 2008
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    Pastor John R Ramsey once wrote, “For some time I have had a person provide me with a rose boutonniere to pin on the lapel of my suit every Sunday. Because I always got a flower on Sunday morning, I really did not think much of it. It was a nice gesture that I appreciated, but it became routine. ...read more

  • There's A Story About A Man, A Writer, Who Used ...

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 10, 2008
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    There’s a story about a man, a writer, who used to go to the beach to do his writing. He had the habit of walking along the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore; as he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think ...read more

  • Above The Circumstances

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    ABOVE THE CIRCUMSTANCES David and Becky Guinn have been on my mind this past week. In 1997, the Lord blessed me to go with David on a mission trip to Ukraine. It was a life-changing experience for me. David and Becky deeply love the Lord. They have faithfully served the Lord for years in college ...read more

  • Got An Attitude??  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    Got an Attitude?? Scripture says this about your attitude: "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human ...read more

  • Thankful People Are Happy People  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2011
    based on 25 ratings
     | 6,547 views

    THANKFUL PEOPLE ARE HAPPY PEOPLE I read a news story once of a woman who was getting ready to jump off a 44 story building in New York City. Witnesses said that she did not look like the type of person who would do such a thing. She was very distinguished and well dressed. All the attempts ...read more

  • A Peacemaking Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011
    based on 9 ratings
     | 5,838 views

    A PEACEMAKING CHURCH I can tell this story because one neighbor has died and the other neighbor no longer lives across the street from our church. Our neighbors endured the disruption of their lives as we built on to our church. I'm sure that contributed to their lack of patience with us. We put ...read more

  • John Macarthur On Knowing God's Will

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 27, 2012
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    JOHN MACARTHUR ON KNOWING GOD'S WILL God’s will is that you be saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering. God’s Word makes all this clear. Do not read on until you have grasped these five principles. You say, "MacArthur, you were going to tell me what school I should go to. You ...read more

  • The Padded Cross  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Mar 25, 2013
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     | 7,050 views

    THE PADDED CROSS Well, here I am, Lord. You said, "Take up your cross," and I'm here to do it. It's not easy, You know, this self-denial thing. I mean to go through with it, through...yes, Sir. I'll bet you wish more people were willing to be disciples like me. I've counted the cost and ...read more

  • Good Gossip

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
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    “I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.” – Benjamin Franklin I knew a woman once who took a temporary job working for a large ...read more