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  • How Spiritual Are You

    Contributed by Hugh Laing on Jan 19, 2010
     | 1,632 views

    HOW SPIRITUAL ARE YOU Tell me how much time you spend alone with God...I will tell you how spiritual you are..and I mean really alone. Not how many meetings you go to...not how many gifts or talents you have...not how many sermons you preach...not how many records you’ve recorded or produced...not ...read more

  • Broken Steel Belts

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 22, 2010
     | 2,878 views

    BROKEN STEEL BELTS It is impossible to be prepared for every error around. When I bought my dad's old car, it had been sitting idle for a year. He had hardly used it; even the tires were original -- nine years old. When I brought it in for a flat tire, the mechanic fixed it and all seemed well. ...read more

  • The Theme Of Development Can Be Identified With ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 13, 2010
     | 1,800 views

    The theme of development can be identified with the inclusion-in-relation of all individuals and peoples within the one community of the human family, built in solidarity on the basis of the fundamental values of justice and peace. This perspective is illuminated in a ...read more

  • An Old, Rich Man With A Cranky, Miserable ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on May 8, 2010
     | 2,798 views

    An old, rich man with a cranky, miserable attitude visited a rabbi who lived a simple life. The rabbi had an idea on how to get through to him about his negative attitude. He took him over to a window and asked him what he saw. “I see men and women and a few children.” Then the rabbi took him to a ...read more

  • The Spirit Told Me To

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jun 9, 2010
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    THE SPIRIT TOLD ME TO A young man went on a week's silent retreat. Midway through the week, in the early afternoon on the Wednesday, he was feeling hungry, and so he decided to sneak down to the shops when he thought no one was looking. Unfortunately, as he started to go out of the gate of the ...read more

  • When Christ Is In Control

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 5, 2010
     | 3,652 views

    WHEN CHRIST IS IN CONTROL Martin Luther was often very graphic in his description of the activities of the Devil. Asked one time how he overcame the Devil, he replied, "Well, when he comes knocking upon the door of my heart, and asks 'Who lives here?' the dear Lord Jesus goes to the door and ...read more

  • Eugene Peterson, From His Intro To Proverbs In ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on May 1, 2011
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    Eugene Peterson, from his intro to Proverbs in The Message Bible: "Wisdom has to do with becoming skillful in honoring our parents and raising our children, handling our money and conducting our sexual lives, going to work and exercising leadership, using words well and treating friends kindly, ...read more

  • Moody Mr. Riddell

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 18, 2011
     | 1,253 views

    MOODY MR. RIDDELL We have all been around people who could change their moods at the flip of a switch. Don't know exactly how to take them. Have a good time with them and then out of nowhere they slap us in the face. Bob Deffinbaugh tells about one of his teachers who was like this. His name ...read more

  • I'd Limp Too  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 9, 2012
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     | 2,684 views

    I'D LIMP TOO We did NOT inherit Adam's sin. But we did inherit something from Adam. His sin altered our DNA (if you will). His sin bent us toward limping in our righteousness. The story's told of a doctor who was teaching a group of medical students. She points to an x-ray and says, "As you can ...read more

  • Sow Indiscriminately

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jul 15, 2017
     | 5,356 views

    In the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13) Jesus spoke of the kingdom of heaven being like an indiscriminate sower. This contradicts theories surrounding church growth of targeting certain statistically measurable demographics. There is no such target audience in this parable. The seed of the kingdom ...read more

  • My Ears Heard You, But My Legs Didn't!!!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 2, 2022
     | 2,107 views

    One day a man's little granddaughter was playing with her toys. Her mother, who was folding laundry across the room, noticed the child's shirt was dirty and needed to be changed. After calling two times with no response her mother called out as loud as he could to her stubborn daughter, ...read more

  • He Never Went Fishing

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    He never went fishing Let me close with this thought. I was reading on the Internet last week. Once, a man got ready to go fishing. He assembled everything you need to be a good fisherman. He bought poles, and nets, and bait, and a boat. He got very well prepared. And he knew how to fish. But he ...read more

  • There Was A Man Waiting In Line At A Check-Out ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 2,868 views

    There was a man waiting in line at a CHECK-OUT STAND. He seemed AGITATED and IMPATIENT and had a very SOLEMN and GLOOMY look on his face. When the CHEERY young woman at the check-out said, “Good morning” the man just GRUNTED. The woman was trying to loosen the man up by JOKING with him, but it was ...read more

  • Time, Speed, Dentists

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,459 views

    Illustration- Time, Speed, Dentists The little boy was afraid of the dentist, so his dad decided to set the example and have his teeth examined, too. The dentist looked inside the father’s mouth & said, "There’s a tooth there that has to be pulled." The father asked, "How much will it cost?" The ...read more

  • One Preacher Noted: "If We Had Witnessed Jesus' ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One preacher noted: “If we had witnessed Jesus’ struggle that night, we might have said, ‘If He is so broken up when ALL He is doing is praying, what will He do when He faces a real crisis? Why can’t He approach this ordeal with the calm confidence of His 3 sleeping friends?’ Yet when the test came ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom Was A Dutch Christian Who Was ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Sep 18, 2007
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    Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who was sent with her family to a Nazi prison camp for hiding Jews during World War II. Her family had been fairly well off before the war, but when the Nazis imprisoned her, she lost everything, including her sister. She later said, “I’ve learned that we ...read more

  • Remember Eeyore The Donkey From The Winnie The ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 21, 2007
     | 2,406 views

    "Remember Eeyore the donkey from the Winnie the Pooh stories? He is a sad, droop-eared character who is forever losing his tail and resigning himself to the idea of going through life without it until someone finds it for him and pins it back on. Even then he is never joyful over finding his ...read more

  • Anger Is The Spontaneous Reaction We Have When ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 5, 2007
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     | 1,870 views

    Anger is the spontaneous reaction we have when someone interferes with our will or messes up our plans. If you doubt that, see what emotion seizes you on the way home when someone cuts you off on Loop 410. (The other day, Susan and I were driving to church when a car wasn’t cooperating with my ...read more

  • The People In Corinth Had Some Interesting Ideas ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
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     | 1,580 views

    The people in Corinth had some interesting ideas about being single as well. Written from Ephesus during the Apostle Paul’s third missionary journey from 53-57 AD, 1 Corinthians 7 commences the second part or division of this Epistle, or, “the discussion of those points which had been submitted to ...read more

  • On December 24th, 1914, During The First Year Of ...

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Dec 24, 2007
     | 1,191 views

    On December 24th, 1914, during the first year of World War I, British and German troops were entrenched against each other in bitter fighting and cold. The gun play died down that night. Soon, a British sentry reported to his superior officer that the Germans were doing something odd – each soldier ...read more