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  • Maskepetoon

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 29, 2011
     | 1,880 views

    MASKEPETOON When the first missionaries came to Alberta, Canada, they were savagely opposed by a young chief of the Cree Indians named Maskepetoon. But he responded to the gospel and accepted Christ. Shortly after ward, a member of the Blackfoot tribe killed his father. Maskepetoon rode into the ...read more

  • A. W. Tozer, Christian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on May 1, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,953 views

    ILLUSTRATION… A. W. Tozer, Christian Publications, 1964, p. 90 Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most ancient Mystery, that ...read more

  • Even If Its Dark

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Jul 18, 2017
     | 8,904 views

    A young man’s wife became very ill and died, leaving him alone with his four-year old daughter. The funeral service was simple and heavy with grief. After the burial, his neighbors gathered around him and invited them to bring his little girl and stay at one of their homes this first night. They ...read more

  • Remember False Guilt Attacks The Person And The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Greene on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,766 views

    Remember false guilt attacks the person and the Holy Spirit attacks the problem. A young boy was going to spend the evening at a friend¡¦s house. His father asked that he call home once he arrived so that the father could be assured that his son had arrived safely. As the evening wore on, this ...read more

  • Revival Is The Visitation Of God Which Brings To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 17, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,833 views

    Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God’s near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic ...read more

  • When Corrie Ten Boom Of The Hiding Place Fame Was ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,750 views

    When Corrie Ten Boom of The Hiding Place fame was a little girl in Holland, her first realization of death came after a visit to the home of a neighbor who had died. It impressed her that some day her parents would also die. Corrie’s father comforted her with words of wisdom. "Corrie, when you and ...read more

  • When Corrie Ten Boom Of The Hiding Place Fame Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,443 views

    When Corrie Ten Boom of The Hiding Place fame was a little girl in Holland, her first realization of death came after a visit to the home of a neighbor who had died. It impressed her that some day her parents would also die. Corrie’s father comforted her with words of wisdom. “Corrie, when you and ...read more

  • A Little Pre-School Girl Was At The Doctor's ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 22, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,195 views

    A little pre-school girl was at the doctor's office. When the doctor was listening to the little girl's heart through a stethoscope, he asked her, "Who do I hear in there? Is Donald Duck in there? Is Barney in there?" The little girl corrected him very seriously: "No! Jesus is in my heart; ...read more

  • I Read The True Story Once About A Woman Who Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
     | 829 views

    I read the true story once about a woman who was babysitting for the 2 year old son of her preacher. The boy was sleeping in her home one night while the preacher and his wife were out of town and the boy woke up at 4:30 a.m. crying for his daddy. “I didn’t know what to do until I remembered my ...read more

  • I Read The True Story Once About A Woman Who Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
     | 807 views

    I read the true story once about a woman who was babysitting for the 2 year old son of her preacher. The boy was sleeping in her home one night while the preacher and his wife were out of town and the boy woke up at 4:30 a.m. crying for his daddy. “I didn’t know what to do until I remembered my ...read more

  • Chuck Colson Writes: "After More Than Twenty ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,984 views

    CHUCK COLSON WRITES: “AFTER MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS OF HOLDING DEEP ANGER AGAINST MY [BY THEN DECEASED] FATHER, I MADE A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO GO ON A JOURNEY OF THE HEART TO FORGIVE HIM. AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS OF JOURNEYING, MY FORGIVENESS FINALLY CAME. I BELIEVE IT CAME AS A GIFT OF INNER PEACE ...read more

  • A Young Man Once Fell In Love With A Girl And Saw ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
     | 1,332 views

    A young man once fell in love with a girl and saw the starlight in her eyes when he proposed. He bought a ring to give her but he was poor, and it wasn’t a very big diamond. He said to her apologetically, "It is not a very big stone." But she replied, "It is as big as we make it." If you are ...read more

  • A Man Went To Church With An Angel As Guide. The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Doubt on Jan 28, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,251 views

    A man went to church with an angel as guide. The church was filled, but oddly, there was no sound. The organist played, but no music could be heard; the choir’s lips moved, but no song came forth. The pastor went through the motions of preaching, but the man heard nothing. He asked the angel, ...read more

  • I Recently Read This Story: "Back In The 1920s, ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 23, 2007
     | 786 views

    I recently read this story: “Back in the 1920s, when Lou Little coached football at Georgetown University, he had a player of average ability who rarely got into the game. Yet he was fond of him, and especially liked the way he walked arm-in-arm with his father on campus. Shortly before the big ...read more

  • Don't Waste Your Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,889 views

    DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE In his book Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper recounts a story his father often told of his days as a fiery Baptist evangelist. It is the story of a man who came to saving faith in Jesus Christ near the end of his earthly existence. Piper writes: "The church had prayed for ...read more

  • The Visitation Of ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 4, 2010
     | 1,739 views

    The Visitation of God Revival is the visitation of God, which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God’s near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an ...read more

  • Ninety-Nine Balloons

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on May 13, 2009
     | 2,481 views

    NINETY-NINE BALLOONS Eliot was born with an undeveloped lung, a heart with a hole in it and DNA that placed faulty information into each and every cell of his body. However, that could not stop the living God from proclaiming Himself through this boy who never uttered a word. Even though doctors ...read more

  • What Makes A Hero? Webster’s Defines A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Haselhuhn on Mar 20, 2001
    based on 103 ratings
     | 2,515 views

    What makes a hero? Webster’s defines a hero as a person “of distinguished courage, moral or physical; chief character in a play, novel, poem, etc.” One of my wife and my favorite movies is “The Princess Bride.” One character of the movie, Inigo Montoya, fits the definition of hero found in the ...read more

  • Where Was The Key?  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 5, 2001
    based on 137 ratings
     | 3,626 views

    Illus.: “Where Was the Key?” A father and his little girl were staying in a hotel. During the night the girl became very ill and without warning she died. The father was heart-broken. He had already lost his wife and now his precious little girl was gone. Only two people followed the body to ...read more

  • A Small Child, Not Even Old Enough For School, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,365 views

    A small child, not even old enough for school, went into one of those mirrored mazes at an amusement park. When her father discovered that she had slipped away he saw her trying to find her way out and beginning to cry in fear. She became increasingly con. fused by all the paths, until she heard ...read more