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  • Is It Dangerous To Spend So Much Time Talking ...

    Contributed by Marty Boller on Oct 29, 2005
     | 1,255 views

    Is it dangerous to spend so much time talking about Narnia & Aslan? One little girl named Hila wrote to Lewis asking him to tell her Aslan’s OTHER NAME. Lewis responded with clues from the stories. “Well, I want you to guess. Has there ever been anyone in THIS world who… Arrived at the same time ...read more

  • The Following Is A Quote In A Letter By Dr. Paul ...

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 19, 2004
     | 3,422 views

    The following is a quote in a letter by Dr. Paul Luther, the youngest son of the reformer Martin Luther. “ In the year 1544, my father, in the presence of us all, narrated the whole story of his journey to Rome. He acknowledged with great joy that, in that city, through the Spirit of Jesus Christ, ...read more

  • Well, There Is A Christian Connection With All ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Tkachuk on Dec 21, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,220 views

    Well, there is a Christian connection with all of things we think about at Christmas including gift giving and Christ’s birthday. We give gifts because we attempt to humbly imitate God the Father who gave His Son as His gift to us on that first Christmas morning. Gifts were also brought by the ...read more

  • Jerry Jones, A Gospel Preacher, Tells About A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,989 views

    Jerry Jones, a gospel preacher, tells about a Christian man and his wife who lost their young SON in a TRAGIC ACCIDENT on Good Friday in 1996. The boy’s funeral was on Easter Sunday. During the MEMORIAL service the father got up and shared with his family and friends that Easter had taken on a new ...read more

  • Too Close To Where We Got In

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Sep 21, 2010
     | 1,733 views

    TOO CLOSE TO WHERE WE GOT IN A little boy fell out of the bed in his sleep. His father picked him up and put him back in bed. He asked him, "Son, what happened?" The little boy responded, "I fell asleep too close to where I got in." I believe that describes too many Christians today. They have ...read more

  • Don't Stop Ringing The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
     | 3,361 views

    DON’T STOP RINGING THE BELL Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand. Augustine. A man took his son to the tiny rural community where he grew up. He was disappointed to discover that the little church ...read more

  • When Things Get Smelly!

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Aug 22, 2021
     | 1,134 views

    When I was around eight, we were visiting some cousins out on the farm and as all kids back then we played tag. I went zipping around the barn and stepped in a slick patty. I fell, slid and rolled through a copious amount of bovine excrement. When I was able to stand up I went to the porch and ...read more

  • The Golden Rule Of Family  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 6,229 views

    THE GOLDEN RULE OF FAMILY One of Grimm’s fairy tales tells of an old man who lived with his son, the son’s wife, and the young couple’s four-year-old boy. The old man’s eyes blinked, and his hands shook. When he ate, the silverware rattled against the plate, and he often missed his mouth. Then ...read more

  • On The 28th May 1972 The Duke Of Windsor, The ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 6, 2008
     | 1,261 views

    ON THE 28TH MAY 1972 THE DUKE OF WINDSOR, THE UNCROWNED KING EDWARD 8TH DIED IN PARIS. THE SAME EVENING A TELEVISION PROGRAMME REHEARSED THE MAIN EVENTS OF HIS LIFE. EXTRACTS FROM EARLIER FILMS WERE SHOWN, WHICH HE ANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS UPBRINGING, BRIEF REIGN AND ABDICATION. RECALLING HIS ...read more

  • One Of My Good Friends From Ozark Is A Guy Named ...

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on Apr 16, 2009
     | 1,032 views

    One of my good friends from Ozark is a guy named Eric. I remember one day Eric told me this story. Eric was entering theater class and it was the last class of the day. He walked in, the regular teacher was not there so there was a substitute teacher. He was the first person in class and the ...read more

  • The Resurrection Of The Dead  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 26, 2003
    based on 46 ratings
     | 6,883 views

    The Resurrection of the Dead Avijah Powers felt moderately sure nobody would recognize him when he registered under an assumed name at the little inn. It was more than twenty years since he had left the town--a hard, reckless boy, running away from a good father and a devoted mother because he ...read more

  • In November Of 1999 In Lubbock, Texas, Jimmy ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jerry Fenter on May 23, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,609 views

    In November of 1999 in Lubbock, Texas, Jimmy Allen, the former President of the Southern Baptist Convention, spoke about one of the greatest hurts of his life. His daughter-in-law and his two grandsons, had all become infected with HIV from a tainted blood transfusion received during her first ...read more

  • A Methodist Prayer

    Contributed by Andrew Clark on Aug 23, 2002
     | 3,712 views

    A Methodist Prayer I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with who you will. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be employed for you, or laid aside for you. Exalted for you, or brought low for you. Let me be full, let me be empty, Let me have all things, let me ...read more

  • Real Strength Never Impairs Beauty Or Harmony, ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 11, 2007
     | 1,340 views

    “Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic. Take away the tied tendons that all over seem bursting from the marble in the carved Hercules, and its charm would be gone…When Angelo paints ...read more

  • Lambing: A Shepherd Tells Of How They Get An ...

    Contributed by Richard White on Jan 9, 2010
     | 3,684 views

    Lambing: A shepherd tells of how they get an orphaned lamb to be adopted. Two ewes gave birth, one ewe died giving birth while the other gave birth to a stillborn lamb. The ewe that survived would not accept the surving orphaned lamb. The shepherds would take the wool off the dead lamb and ...read more

  • Real Treasure  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Dec 30, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,987 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
     | 3,404 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

  • Carrying Us Back To Our Room

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 7, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,140 views

    CARRYING US BACK TO OUR ROOM In a home of which I know, a little boy, the only son, was ill with an incurable disease. Month after month, the mother had tenderly nursed him, read to him and played with him, hoping to keep him from the dreadful finality of the doctor's diagnosis...the little boy ...read more

  • One Day I Received A Telephone Call From A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 22, 2004
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,360 views

    One day I received a telephone call from a friend. He was working for his doctorate in one of the most prestigious theological seminaries in America. He asked if I would go with him to call on the head of the seminary, who was also his professor. He explained to me that hisprofessor was a good ...read more

  • A Price Too High  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 28, 2008
    based on 12 ratings
     | 1,644 views

    A PRICE TOO HIGH A young man was to be sentenced to the penitentiary. The judge had known him from childhood, for he was well acquainted with his father--a famous legal scholar and the author of an exhaustive study entitled, "The Law of Trusts." "Do you remember your father?" asked the ...read more

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