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  • Dr. Helen Roseveare, Missionary To Zaire, Told ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 25, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 1,886 views

    Dr. Helen Roseveare, missionary to Zaire, told the following story. "A mother at our mission station died after giving birth to a premature baby. We tried to improvise an incubator to keep the infant alive, but the only hot water bottle we had was beyond repair. So we asked the children to pray for ...read more

  • Sent From Heaven  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Oct 30, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,382 views

    SENT FROM HEAVEN One of the most moving passages in English literature comes towards the end of Charles Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities, a story of the French revolution. Each day, a grim procession of prisoners made its way on the streets of Paris to the guillotine. One prisoner, Sidney Carton, a ...read more

  • Let The Lower Lights Be Burning  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 30, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,568 views

    [Illustration] Jesus stressed the positive effect we can have on others when He said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16 RSV). But if sin dims our testimony so that our “light” is no longer visible, ...read more

  • On Sunday, August 16,1987, Northwest Airlines ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Mar 29, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,127 views

    On Sunday, August 16,1987, Northwest Airlines flight 225 crashed just after taking off from the Detroit airport. 155 people were killed. One survived: a 4-year-old from Tempe, Arizona, named Cecelia. News accounts say when rescuers found Cecelia they assumed she had been a passenger in one of the ...read more

  • About A Year Ago I Heard That Deion Sanders, The ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 15, 2004
     | 2,056 views

    About a year ago I heard that Deion Sanders, the sensational defensive back for the Dallas Cowboys, had gotten saved. Then I saw him do an interview with ESPN about a month ago, and I saw a big difference in him and I know someone had mentored or discipled him. I bought his autobiography, Power, ...read more

  • In Her Famous Book And Film, "The Hiding Place" ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 15, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,657 views

    In her famous book and film, “The Hiding Place” Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family - her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the salvation of the Jews. And ...read more

  • One Day The Reformer Martin Luther Was Feeling ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,460 views

    One day the reformer Martin Luther was feeling rather down. The Pope was after him. His colleagues were bickering among themselves. He felt the heavy pressure that came with being a professor, pastor, and father. And he was in excruciating pain from kidney stones. As he moped around the house ...read more

  • Taking The Plunge—readers' Digest Online, As ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,019 views

    Taking the Plunge—Readers’ Digest Online, As Kids See It, Stephen McCormack, St. Joachim, ON, 1997 "To my five-year-old son, Alex, jumping off the diving board that first time seemed an insurmountable challenge. He was too timid to manage it that day. On the drive home I tried to bolster his ...read more

  • A Minister Brought Home A 12-Year-Old Boy Named ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,472 views

    A minister brought home a 12-year-old boy named Roger. His parents had died from a drug overdose. There was no one to care for Roger, so this couple decided they’d just raise him as if he were one of their own sons. At first it was quite difficult for Roger to adjust to his new home--an environment ...read more

  • A Pastor Approached One Of The Wealthiest ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,775 views

    A pastor approached one of the wealthiest members of his congregation about making a pledge to the church. The man informed the pastor that he already had too many financial obligations. He asked the pastor if he knew that the man’s father was about to have his farm foreclosed, and that his mother ...read more

  • Hitting A Ball In Golf

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,162 views

    Hitting a Ball in golf I have a terrible hook or slice. I cant remember which. it’s the one that cuts to the right. If I get all my weight behind a ball I can drive it for about 300-350 yards But it doesn’t help when I cut it to the right I’ve tried everything Slowing down, taking my time Trying ...read more

  • There Is A Scene In The Movie, "Five Easy ...

    Contributed by Mel Shepherd on Jul 2, 2007
     | 1,962 views

    There is a scene in the movie, “Five Easy Pieces,” a movie where a trashy oil rigger returns home to comfort his dying father. Jack Nicholson plays the part of the boy that’s returns home to help his family through a tough situation. Well, there’s a scene in the movie where Jack Nicholson is ...read more

  • Bono Of U2 Has Used His Status To Increase The ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 30, 2007
     | 845 views

    Bono of U2 has used his status to increase the Kingdom of God here and now. In 1982, thorugh the Live Aid and Band-Aid he helped Ethiopians. But not only that he traveled there to make sure the funds were used honestly and effectively. What he saw changed his life. He worked at an orphanage for ...read more

  • In The Greek Islands, You Can See The Home Of ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 24, 2007
     | 831 views

    In the Greek Islands, you can see the home of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine. Near his house there is an olive tree, supposedly dating from his time. The trunk of this tree is very large but completely hollow; it is little more than thick bark. There are a few long, straggling ...read more

  • Valuable To God

    Contributed by David Vanheuvelen on Dec 8, 2007
     | 3,404 views

    You are valuable to God. I can state that without fear of exaggeration. His Word makes it clear that He willing bought and paid for you. As I said before, a thing is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. God was willing to give His Son and Jesus was willing to give His blood – that is ...read more

  • My Family Is Different Than Many Of Yours. My ...

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Dec 13, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,399 views

    My family is different than many of yours. My parents hate my work and hate my relationship with Christ. As long as I never say anything, they will tolerate it but I can’t keep quiet about Christ. Since I became a Christian back around 2000, I have had to live with the fact that I was no longer ...read more

  • Real Treasure  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Dec 30, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,533 views

    Real Treasure An old farmer who was about to die called his two sons to his bedside and said, "My boys, my farm and the fields are yours in equal shares. I leave you a little ready money but the bulk of my wealth is hidden somewhere in the ground, not more than eighteen inches from the surface. I ...read more

  • Holidays Get Interesting Don't They? They Bring ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,766 views

    Holidays get interesting don’t they? They bring out the best in people and they also, unfortunately, bring out the worst in people. I’ll have you determine which is true in the following story. The day before Thanksgiving an elderly man in Phoenix called his son in New York and said to him, "I hate ...read more

  • Don Fuller, 67 Years Old,a Good Friend Of Mine, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Daniel Owens on Jan 10, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,718 views

    Don Fuller, 67 years old,a good friend of mine, just had a 4 by-pass heart surgery about 4 months ago. My wife and I visited him at the hospital in Indianapolis. I greeted Don in my usual fashion, “How ya doin’, Brother?”, and he replied as he always did; “Sittin’ on top of the mountain looking ...read more

  • John Newton: Wrote Many Books, Sermons & Hymns. ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 24, 2008
     | 1,744 views

    JOHN NEWTON: Wrote many books, sermons & hymns. His most famous was ‘Amazing Grace’. Newton’s life proved the truth of that song. He lived a very troubled life: Had a very godly mother but a wicked father who was often off to sea and then came home to live a wicked life. Newton’s mother prayed ...read more