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  • Images Are Highly Influential. They Become ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Jul 25, 2006
     | 1,588 views

    Images are highly influential. They become emblazoned on the wall of our minds and they evoke a wide range of responses. Millions of people will remember the fireman carrying the baby out of the ruins of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Neil Armstrong taking that first step on the moon ...read more

  • Unconditional Love  PRO

    Contributed by Marc Carr on Aug 7, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,578 views

    Unconditional Love Floyd Landis, embroiled in a doping scandal since winning this year’s Tour de France, raised a Mennonite in Pennsylvania, leans on his mother for support. “She’s the one that no matter what happens, to me or to anyone else in life, she will remain unchanged,” he said. “When ...read more

  • I Read Of A Young Christian Artist Who Painted A ...

    Contributed by Tim Parsons on Sep 17, 2006
     | 1,788 views

    I read of a young Christian artist who painted a depiction of hell. In the flames he painted the faces of several of his lost loved ones. He painted his lost father crying out in agony. There was also his lost brother, and a lost neighbor burning in the flames of hell. When he showed it to his ...read more

  • December Of 1914, A 67-Year-Old Man Watched As ...

    Contributed by Bryan Dill on Oct 25, 2006
     | 1,218 views

    December of 1914, a 67-year-old man watched as his life’s work was being burned to the ground. Adding insult to injury, his property was only insured for $238,000 - far less than the $2 million worth of damage. His twenty-four-year-old son, Charles, said, “My heart ached for him. He was ...read more

  • A Runner And His Daughter

    Contributed by David Rumley on Jan 4, 2007
     | 2,064 views

    A runner and his daughter: • A daughter asked her father, who ran on a consistent basis… After one cold morning like today… the daughter asked… • Dad, do you determine how far you will run each time, or do you go as far as you feel like it? • I find if I am running and think about how I am ...read more

  • For Mother's Day- One Time A Little Boy Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2004
    based on 26 ratings
     | 6,285 views

    For Mother’s Day- One time a little boy was called up front to solve a math problem. The teacher asked him, “You have a pie with 6 pieces. There are 5 in your family: your brother, your sister, your mother and father and you. Each one gets one piece of the pie. Now you only have one piece ...read more

  • Story: By The Age Of 19, G. Campbell Morgan Had ...  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Dec 10, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,663 views

    Story: By the age of 19, G. Campbell Morgan had already enjoyed some success as a preacher. But then he was attacked by doubts about the Bible. The writings of various scientists and agnostics disturbed him (e.g., Charles Darwin, John Tyndall, Thomas Huxley, and Herbert Spencer). As he read ...read more

  • Godly Mother/Behind The Scenes: (Wesley ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Jan 4, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,302 views

    GODLY MOTHER/BEHIND THE SCENES: (Wesley Brothers) Susannah Wesley was one of the most terrific mothers of all time. Susannah’s father was a minister and she was born in England in 1669 as the youngest of twenty-five children! Susannah was married at 19 to Samuel Wesley, also a minister and, not ...read more

  • Story: Nizhizaka Hill Is The Place In Nagasaki ...  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 24, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 1,781 views

    Story: Nizhizaka Hill is the place in Nagasaki Japan where the 26 martyrs were executed on 15 February 1597, 400 years ago. They went to their deaths singing Ps. 113. Paul Miki was preaching. Contrary to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan’s expectation the Christians’ faith was strengthened. ...read more

  • What Did Jesus Mean When He Said, "If Anyone ...

    Contributed by Doane Brubaker on May 3, 2007
     | 889 views

    What did Jesus mean when he said, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters — yes, even his own life — he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:26, NIV). That doesn’t sound like the Jesus we know and love. Is He really telling us to ...read more

  • Money Often Comes Between Men And God. Someone ...

    Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
     | 2,952 views

    "Money often comes between men and God. Someone has said that you can take two small ten cent pieces, just two dimes, and shut out the view of a panoramic landscape. Go to the mountains and just hold two coins closely in front of your eyes--the mountains are still there, but you cannot see them at ...read more

  • Do You Remember The Funeral Of Princess Diane? ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,002 views

    Do you remember the funeral of Princess Diane? Do you remember the casket being processed down the streets of England and making its way past the queen, who stood in mourning for her estranged daughter-in-law? It was no secret that there were tensions in the royal family since the divorce of ...read more

  • Through The Son  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 11,138 views

    Following the Civil War, a dejected confederate soldier was sitting outside the grounds of the White House. A young boy approached him and inquired why he was so sad. The solider related how he had repeatedly tried to see President Lincoln to tell him why he was unjustly deprived of certain lands ...read more

  • If You Have Ever Flown Into Lax Airport (Los ...

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 16, 2007
     | 748 views

    If you have ever flown into LAX airport (Los Angeles Int’l) then you may have heard your pilot make an interesting comment after landing. Your pilot might have said something like “This landing was made without any human help.” What does this mean? LAX has some interesting technology. When a ...read more

  • It Doesn't Work Any Other Way

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Jan 2, 2008
     | 1,146 views

    It Doesn’t Work Any Other Way My granddaughter, who is 3 years old, has entered the “Why” stage of development. It doesn’t matter what I am doing, she will invariably ask, “Papaw, what are you doing?” No matter what I tell her, the next question is always, “Why?” This is followed by an endless ...read more

  • Ruth Tucker In Her Book "God Talk" Tell The ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Mitchell on Jan 31, 2008
     | 1,423 views

    Ruth Tucker in her book "God Talk" tell the story of a former student whose daughter was in an accident and in a coma… while she wrestled with the thought of losing her daughter, she says this, “Immediately I thought of the Father giving up His Son for me. I knew. I was being called to open my ...read more

  • Who Is Jesus?

    Contributed by Michael Brown on Mar 11, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,373 views

    Who is Jesus? In chemistry, He turned water to wine; In biology, He was born without the normal conception; In physics, He disproved the law of gravity when he ascended into heaven; In economics, He disproved the law of diminishing return by feeding 5000 men with two fish & five loaves of ...read more

  • God Lights The Way

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 22, 2008
     | 2,480 views

    GOD LIGHTS THE WAY My brother-in-law has a friend named Pedro. The first time Pedro ever read the Bible, was when he was in prison. But once he "saw the light," he couldn't get enough of it. He read the entire Bible through in a matter of weeks. He would hold the Bible kind-of under the table ...read more

  • Governor William Bradford, Plymouth Colony - "To ...

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on Jul 8, 2008
     | 1,472 views

    Governor William Bradford, Plymouth Colony - "To all ye pilgrims: Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as He ...read more

  • God Does The Remembering

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Aug 7, 2008
     | 2,694 views

    GOD DOES THE REMEMBERING A 91-year-old lady reads the Scriptures regularly, but now her memory is failing her. Friends commented, "So what’s the use of all this reading when you cannot remember what you’ve read." Her answer is always the same. "God has blessed me richly. I eat well and sleep ...read more

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