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  • I Heard A Story About The Day That Jesus Returned ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Feb 23, 2006
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     | 2,959 views

    I heard a story about the day that Jesus returned to Heaven. The Angel Gabriel asked Jesus to explain what had happened down there on earth. He asked, “Did they make you King?” Jesus answered, “No.” “Did they make you prince?” “No.” “Did they worship you?” ...read more

  • One Day, In 1888, Alfred Nobel Picked Up The ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Mar 15, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 1,420 views

    One day, in 1888, Alfred Nobel picked up the morning newspaper and read his obituary. It was his brother who had passed away, but an over-zealous reporter, who had failed to check the facts, wrote that the world saw Alfred Nobel as the inventor of dynamite, an armaments manufacturer, a merchant of ...read more

  • In Country, Town Or City

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Mar 11, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,051 views

    In country, town or city Some people can be found Who spend their lives in grumbling At ev’rything around; O yes, they always grumble, No matter what we say, For these are chronic grumblers And they grumble night and day. They grumble when it’s raining, They grumble when it’s dry, And if the ...read more

  • The Love Of Christ Alone

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
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    THE LOVE OF CHRIST ALONE When Hudson Taylor was director of the China Inland Mission, he often interviewed candidates for the mission field. On one occasion, he met with a group of applicants to determine their motivations for service. "And why do you wish to go as a foreign missionary?" he asked ...read more

  • The Need For Hope

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
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    THE NEED FOR HOPE Years ago an S-4 submarine was rammed by a ship off the coast of Massachusetts. It sank immediately. The entire crew was trapped in a prison house of death. Every effort was made to rescue the crew, but it ultimately failed. Near the end of the ordeal, a deep sea diver, who was ...read more

  • Foster: Five Percent Spirituality

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012
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    FOSTER: FIVE PERCENT SPIRITUALITY Richard Foster writes this: Many of us live in a kind of inner apartheid. We segregate out a small corner of pious activities and then make no spiritual sense out of the rest of our lives. We become so accustomed to this way of living that we fail to see the ...read more

  • The Secret Of Seabiscuit

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 25, 2012
     | 4,820 views

    THE SECRET OF SEABISCUIT In 1938, a year of monumental turmoil, the number one newsmaker was not Franklin Roosevelt or Adolf Hitler, in fact it wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crook-legged racehorse owned by a bicycle repairman turned automobile magnate and trained by a virtually mute ...read more

  • When Things Go Wrong  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 19, 2012
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,564 views

    WHEN THINGS GO WRONG Several years ago, Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Bob Patterson described one of his pitches, which the Cincinnati Reds’ Barry Larkin hit for a game-winning home run: "It was a cross between a screwball and a change-up. It was a screw-up." (Wall Street Journal, 7/9/96; ...read more

  • Monkey On Your Back?

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 15, 2019
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    Get that monkey off your Back (Heb.12:1) Intro: Inter the area carrying a stuffed animal monkey on you shoulder act like it gets heavier every step GET THAT MONKEY OFF YOUR BACK The Monkey --little baby monkey--then chimp -the gorilla Christians are always struggling, one minute they are running on ...read more

  • Nero Blames Others

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 14, 2020
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    BLAME AS A GAME? Nero was the last of five emperors in Rome. Nero’s claim to fame is: FIDDLING WHILE ROME BURNED… Nero played the BLAME GAME… He could not understand the DECLINE and FALL of the Roman Empire. Nero blamed the Christians. His blame was so cruel he persecuted and killed ...read more

  • He Gives More Grace

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 4, 2021
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    "He gives more grace when the burdens grow greater. He sends more strength when the labors increase, To added affliction He addeth His mercy, To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace. When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed 'ere the day is half ...read more

  • Gary Bettenhausen

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 13, 2021
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    We must decide what we mean by success. Gary Bettenhausen will help us to decide it. Some years ago, in an Indianapolis 500 race, veteran driver Al Unser lost control of his race car, which then skidded into the track wall and exploded into flames. Seconds later, another driver slammed his ...read more

  • Seeing Only Self

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 9, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,854 views

    “Seeing Only Self” One day a certain old, miserly, rich man visited a rabbi, who took him by the hand and led him to a window. “Look out there,” he said. And the rich man looked out into the street. “What do you see?” asked the rabbi. “I see men, and women, and little children,’ answered the ...read more

  • General And President, George Washington, Went ...

    Contributed by John Quigley on Dec 8, 2007
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    General and President, George Washington, went with his troops into battle. Spent the winter in Valley Forge with the troops not at home with his wife in their well heated home place. As a general he said: "We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country’s Honor, all call upon us ...read more

  • On Day 6 Of Ill-Fated Apollo 13 Mission The ...

    Contributed by Ronald Thorington on Jan 1, 2008
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    On day 6 of ill-fated Apollo 13 mission the astronauts needed to make a critical course correction. If they failed they might never return to earth. To conserve power, the onboard computer that steered the craft had been shut down. yet the astronauts needed to conduct a 39 second burst of the main ...read more

  • One Source Says, That Denying Ourselves "Means In ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 12, 2008
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    One source says, that denying ourselves “means in every moment of life to say no to self and yes to God.” It is, he continues, “a life lived in the constant hourly awareness of the demands of God and the need of others.” Dr. Warren Wiersbe, pastor, author and theologian: “To deny self does not ...read more

  • Picked Last

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 21, 2008
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    Picked Last It happened several times a week, almost without fail. Whether they lined up against the wall of the gymnasium, the local ice rink or the snow bank for the back-roads hockey, it was always the same. The leaders picked him last. Last for basketball because he was too clumsy; in hockey ...read more

  • The Roses That Do Not Bloom  PRO

    Contributed by Doug Dayton on Feb 14, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,356 views

    THE ROSES THAT DO NOT BLOOM In the most beautiful of gardens, even those tended by the most skillful of botanists, there is an occasional rose that buds, but never opens. In all respects the rose is like all the others, but something keeps it from blooming. It fades away - or disappears - ...read more

  • I Have A Treasure  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Nov 20, 2002
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    I have a treasure which I prize, Its like I cannot find; There’s nothing like it on th earth, ‘Tis this–a quiet mind. But ‘tis not that I’m stupified, Or senseless, dull, or blind; ‘Tis God’s own peace within my heart That forms my quiet mind. I found this treasure at the Cross; ...read more

  • In A Discipleship Training Series Called "The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Feb 15, 2004
    based on 13 ratings
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    In a discipleship training series called “The Agape Road”, author and speaker Bob Mumford talks about what he calls “The White Knuckle Club”. In other words, sometimes God will bring some area of our lives to our attention and we will realize that we need to change. So, we’ll go to God and ...read more