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  • God Does The Remembering

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Aug 7, 2008
     | 2,625 views

    GOD DOES THE REMEMBERING A 91-year-old lady reads the Scriptures regularly, but now her memory is failing her. Friends commented, "So what’s the use of all this reading when you cannot remember what you’ve read." Her answer is always the same. "God has blessed me richly. I eat well and sleep ...read more

  • Stanley Jones In His Book Liberating Ministry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 1,267 views

    Stanley Jones in his book Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome writes: "Prayer is surrender--surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the ...read more

  • Still Preparing When The Party Is Over

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Mar 21, 2010
     | 1,314 views

    STILL PREPARING WHEN THE PARTY IS OVER My youngest grandson had his first birthday recently. My daughter wanted to make it special for him and she invited all her friends with young children to come. SHE SPENT WEEKS PLANNING THIS PARTY. We spent a good week just setting it up. We wanted it to be a ...read more

  • The Risk Of Fishing For Souls  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,714 views

    THE RISK OF FISHING FOR SOULS A little more than 10 years ago (2000), a movie called The Perfect Storm was released, which graphically portrayed the dangers of the fishing industry even in modern times. The movie is about the crew of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat out of Gloucester, ...read more

  • Storm Without Warning

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 14, 2011
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     | 3,442 views

    STORM WITHOUT WARNING Now I love a good storm on the ground but not while flying. Any good Airline Pilot will try to avoid thunderstorms like the plague. The rule is for every 1,000 feet in height the storm cell is that is how far you should avoid the storm. If the tops of the thunderstorm are ...read more

  • A. First You Jump Out Of An Airplane With A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,683 views

    A. FIRST YOU JUMP OUT OF AN AIRPLANE WITH A HUNDRED POUNDS OF GEAR, INTO THE MIDDLE OF A BURNING FOREST, AND YOU CHASE THE FIRE AND FIGHT IT BY HAND -- USUALLY WITHOUT WATER OR, FIRE RETARDANT AND YOU DO IT BECAUSE YOU’RE A SMOKE JUMPER B. MIMI SCISSONS, A 37-YEAR-OLD SMOKE JUMPER STATIONED IN ...read more

  • In 1818, Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis Was Born Into A ...

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Dec 18, 2006
     | 2,083 views

    In 1818, Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis was born into a world of dying women. The finest hospitals lost one out of six young mothers to the scourge of "childbed fever." A doctor’s daily routine began in the dissecting room where he performed autopsies. From there he made his way to the hospital to ...read more

  • False ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2010
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    False Healers Shortly before I came to the United States in 1983 I attended a “healing” meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. It was winter and the meeting was held outside in a very large tent. We all wore winter coats. The preacher, who had a large following in South Africa, preached a message that ...read more

  • Giving Because You Have To

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Oct 16, 2010
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     | 1,495 views

    GIVING BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO One Saturday I was working in the yard, and I came walking around the corner of my house. And there was a boy there, on a bicycle. He was wearing Scout uniform, and I’m guessing he must have been about ten or eleven years old. It didn’t take me long to figure out what he ...read more

  • Redefining Sin

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 4, 2011
     | 3,761 views

    REDEFINING SIN "In recent years, and especially since the 1960s, the democratic societies of the West have been enlarging the boundaries of acceptable behaviour, in effect redefining sin. The sexual revolution of my youth dismantled barriers against premarital sex and encouraged open marriages. ...read more

  • Mary Jane Hansen Relates The Following: "Several ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 13, 2007
     | 906 views

    Mary Jane Hansen relates the following: “Several months ago, I was involved in a traffic accident while driving along a major roadway in a shopping mall parking lot. My car was hit by a driver coming out of an aisle, resulting in $2,100 damage to the rear right-hand door. When I reported the ...read more

  • The Bully And The Boy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,524 views

    The Bully and the Boy Bavaria. 1934. It was the wrong time and the wrong place to be a Jew. And Heinz was a Jew. The little Bavarian village of Fürth was already overrun with Hitler’s young thugs. To be a Jew…of any age…was to be a target. And Heinz was only eleven. It was the first minute of a ...read more

  • She] Was Born In 1752 To A Quaker Family In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 24, 2001
    based on 75 ratings
     | 1,012 views

    [She] was born in 1752 to a Quaker family in Rhode Island. She used to tell people she had died when she was twenty years old but God had resurrected her. She ended up more than two hundred fiercely loyal disciples who believed that she was their ticket to God. …she was on the banks of a river ...read more

  • The Jesus (Ginnosar) Boat  PRO

    Contributed by Jackson Snyder on Jun 22, 2002
    based on 47 ratings
     | 2,361 views

    The Jesus (Ginnosar) Boat The second fabulous discovery was made in 1986. There had been a drought in Israel and the Sea of Galilee was at low ebb. Not far from Capernaum, buried in the mud of the lake, was found a wooden boat, which was cleared of mud, enclosed in foam and floated out. To ...read more

  • The Republican Methodist Church Began On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Feb 3, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,599 views

    The Republican Methodist Church began on Christmas Day, 1793 in Manikintown Virginia. It was formed by several Methodist congregations who rebelled against the Methodist Episcopal form of government brought from England. Soon. There were several thousand members and whole congregations had joined ...read more

  • This Story Comes From P131-133 Of The The Lion, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Sep 14, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,969 views

    This story comes from p131-133 of the The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in The Chronicles of Narnia series. Peter, the great king, has just slain the evil wolf general Maugrim. Aslan tells him he has blood on his sword. Peter looks down and sees that t is true. He bends down and wipes the blood ...read more

  • After World War Ii, A Group Of ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Feb 26, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,162 views

    ILLUSTRATION: After World War II, a group of German students volunteered to help rebuild an English cathedral that had been severely damaged by German bombs. As work progressed, they became concerned about a large statue of Jesus, whose arms were outstretched and beneath which was the inscription: ...read more

  • The Circumstances Of Life Often Speak To Us Like ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Oct 20, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,905 views

    The circumstances of life often speak to us like Lucy one day spoke to Charlie Brown. Lucy said to Charlie Brown "Sometimes, I feel we are not communicating: You, Charlie Brown, are afoul ball in the line drive of life. You’re often in the shadow of your own goal post you’re a miscue. You ‘re 3 ...read more

  • The Next Time You Feel Like God Can't Use You, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sam George on Nov 8, 2004
    based on 39 ratings
     | 4,693 views

    The next time you feel like GOD can’t use you, just remember... Noah was a drunk Abraham was too old Isaac was a daydreamer Jacob was a liar Leah was ugly Joseph was abused Moses had a stuttering problem Gideon was afraid Sampson had long hair ...read more

  • Same Old Story...?  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Nichols on Apr 17, 2009
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     | 2,923 views

    SAME OLD STORY...? The little boy was not exactly happy about going to church on Easter Sunday morning. His new shoes were to tight, his tie pinched his neck and the weather outside was just too beautiful to be cooped up inside...so as he sulked in the pew his parents heard him mutter to no one in ...read more

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