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  • Bill Wilson Pastors An Inner City Church In New ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Mar 22, 2002
    based on 99 ratings
     | 1,803 views

    Bill Wilson pastors an inner city church in New York City. His mission field is a very violent place. He himself has been stabbed twice as he ministered to the people of the community surrounding the church. Once a Puerto Rican woman became involved in the church and was led to Christ. After her ...read more

  • John Wycliffe Had A Vision Of A Bible In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,350 views

    John Wycliffe had a vision of a Bible in the common English tongue. But dogmatists anchored to the past killed him for it. John Huss dreamed a dream of a responsible Christian life guided by the scriptures. Traditionalists burned him at the stake. Martin Luther was awakened to a new reality of ...read more

  • An American Woman Whose Dream Of Riding A Train ...

    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Nov 4, 2003
     | 1,494 views

    An American woman whose dream of riding a train through the English countryside came true. After boarding the train she kept fretting about the windows and the temperature, complaining about her seat assignment, rearranging her luggage, and so on. To her shock, she suddenly reached her journey’s ...read more

  • In 1952 Florence Chadwick Attempted To Swim From ...

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on May 11, 2005
     | 1,398 views

    In 1952 Florence Chadwick attempted to swim from Catalina Island to mainland California, prior to this she had swum the English channel twice. During the swim she became very tired and her mother urged her on, but she just couldn’t do it.When she got into the boat she saw for herself that she was ...read more

  • William Tyndale, First Translated The Bible From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
     | 1,990 views

    William Tyndale, first translated the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into English, making a Bible for the common people. In 1535 he was betrayed by a friend, taken prisoner to the castle of Vilford, and continued to work on his translation. He was unable to finish his work because he was sentenced to ...read more

  • Children And Their Fathers

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 16, 2009
     | 5,496 views

    CHILDREN AND THEIR FATHERS An old English proverb tells how important fathers are. It says: "A father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." Fathers are often more appreciated at different ages of their children. Mark Twain had the candour to admit a change in his perception of his father: "When I ...read more

  • Voice Of Authority

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on May 12, 2011
     | 3,067 views

    VOICE OF AUTHORITY When I was serving with YWAM in the summer of 1982, we played a concert at a school in Amsterdam. As the concert ended, the students began to come up to us and talking with us, and believe it or not, some even asked for our autographs. At that moment a tall, thin, man with a ...read more

  • As A Part Of An Assignment For A Doctoral Thesis, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,358 views

    As a part of an assignment for a doctoral thesis, a college student spent a year with a group of Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest. As he did his research he lived with one family, sleeping in their hut, eating their food, working with them and generally living the life of a 20th ...read more

  • Joanne Shetler Spent Years In The Philippines ...

    Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,083 views

    Joanne Shetler spent years in the Philippines with the Balangao people, translating the Bible into their language and trying to tell them the good news of the Savior. But it was slow going. One day Ama, a man who had “adopted” her as his Balangao daughter, picked up an English New Testament from ...read more

  • As A Part Of An Assignment For A Doctoral ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,881 views

    As a part of an assignment for a doctoral thesis, a college student spent a year with a group of Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest. As he did his research he lived with one family, sleeping in their hut, eating their food, working with them and generally living the life of a 20th ...read more

  • One Day C. H. Spurgeon Was Walking Through The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 10, 2001
    based on 148 ratings
     | 3,529 views

    One day C. H. Spurgeon was walking through the English countryside with a friend. As they strolled along, the evangelist noticed a barn with a weather vane on its roof. At the top of the vane were these words: GOD IS LOVE. Spurgeon remarked to his companion that he thought this was a rather ...read more

  • Two Tombstones

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,851 views

    TWO TOMBSTONES A tombstone in a small English village reads, "Here lies a miser who lived for himself, And cared for nothing but gathering wealth. Now where he is or how he fares, Nobody knows and nobody cares." In contrast, a plain tombstone in the courtyard at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London ...read more

  • For Posterity

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 24, 2019
     | 2,137 views

    . In 1914, British World War I soldier Pvt. Thomas Hughes wrote a letter to his wife, sealed it in a ginger ale bottle, and tossed it into the English Channel. He died two days later fighting in France. Fast forward to 1999 when a fisherman found the bottle in the River Thames. It was too late to ...read more

  • Out Of The Box

    Contributed by Terry Cavanaugh on May 9, 2008
     | 1,494 views

    OUT OF THE BOX One "boxed in" child was Adam Clarke, who was born in the eighteenth century in Ireland. When Adam was a schoolboy, his father told the teacher that Adam wouldn't do well. The teacher said, "He looks bright." That statement changed his life--let him out of the box his father had ...read more

  • One Day, C.h. Spurgeon Was Walking Through The ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 21, 2009
     | 1,272 views

    One day, C.H. Spurgeon was walking through the English countryside with a friend. As they strolled along, the evangelist noticed a barn with a weather vane on its roof. At the top of the vane were these words: GOD IS LOVE. Spurgeon remarked to his companion that he thought this was a rather ...read more

  • The Shame Of War.  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2003
    based on 86 ratings
     | 3,448 views

    The Shame of War. While living in Weil der Stadt, West Germany in 1989, my wife and I had a very profound experience with the local high school students. In order to make learning English a little more fun, the High School English teacher made an arrangement with the local theatre. The students ...read more

  • What Is Your Colt?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2003
    based on 49 ratings
     | 6,087 views

    WHAT IS YOUR COLT? Bill Wilson pastors an inner city church in New York City. His mission field is a very violent place. He himself has been stabbed twice as he ministered to the people of the community surrounding the church. Once a Puerto Rican woman became involved in the church and was led to ...read more

  • What Is Your Colt?  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Apr 14, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,474 views

    What is Your Colt? Bill Wilson pastors an inner city church in New York City. His mission field is a very violent place. He himself has been stabbed twice as he ministered to the people of the community surrounding the church. Once a Puerto Rican woman became involved in the church and was led to ...read more

  • Braveheart: "I Don't Want To Lose Heart"  PRO

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 2, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,297 views

    BRAVEHEART: "I DON'T WANT TO LOSE HEART" Braveheart (2:12:34 - 2:14:30) is the story of Scotland’s pursuit of freedom from the tyranny of the English under the leadership of William Wallace, played by Mel Gibson. Leading up to this scene was a battle where Wallace and his men were fighting the ...read more

  • The Legend Of Jose Rivera

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 30, 2010
     | 1,288 views

    THE LEGEND OF JOSE RIVERA Have you heard the folk story of the bandit Jose' Rivera, who became notorious in several little towns in Texas for robbing their banks and businesses? Finally the townsfolk, weary of the constant plundering, hired a ranger to track down Jose' Rivera in his hideout in ...read more

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