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  • Pennies From Heaven  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Walther on Jul 11, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,274 views

    PENNIES FROM HEAVEN Many of the farms in the state of Nebraska are right on the edge of the fertile plains that receive enough rainfall to produce abundant crops. Some years the yields can be a little lower simply because they are not blessed with as much rain as other farmers. Being so dependent ...read more

  • The Bible Is The Blueprints

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Aug 5, 2011
     | 3,705 views

    THE BIBLE IS THE BLUEPRINTS Can you build a real house without blueprints? Sure you can throw up a square storage shed maybe without them, but do you not need to have some kind of visual plan of the dimensions, how many rooms, where the rooms go, and so on in order to start building an actual ...read more

  • God Is My Co-Pilot

    Contributed by Gordon Douglas on Mar 4, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,106 views

    GOD IS MY CO-PILOT - A few years ago someone coined the phrase, God is my co-pilot. There were bumper stickers available… other types of signs. Having flown a lot I never did fully understand that phrase. Do you know what the co-pilot does? He takes over when everything is going well… Or he ...read more

  • Joanie Yoder Wrote,

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 8, 2009
     | 1,697 views

    Joanie Yoder wrote, " When my husband and I first went out as missionaries, I recall being concerned about the growth of materialism in our society. It never crossed my mind that I myself could be materialistic. After all, hadn’t we gone overseas with almost nothing? Weren’t we choosing to live in ...read more

  • Sometimes We Must Start Over

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Oct 18, 2011
     | 3,051 views

    SOMETIMES WE MUST START OVER When Jonah was in the belly of the fish he didn't know he was going to Nineveh. He thought his life was over. So he tried to make things right with God. Jonah 2:8 "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs." So what does this mean? ...read more

  • Babe Ruth …the Great Bambino  PRO

    Contributed by Fred Parker on Dec 15, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,219 views

    Babe Ruth …The Great Bambino One of the all-time greats in baseball was Babe Ruth. His bat had the power of a cannon, and his record of 714 home runs remained unbroken until Hank Aaron came along. The Babe was the idol of sports fans, but in time, age took its toll, and his popularity began to ...read more

  • Check Out The People You Listen To On The Radio, ...

    Contributed by Art Good on Jun 7, 2007
     | 1,406 views

    Check out the people you listen to on the radio, CD’s, the shows you watch, the people we cheer for on the football fields, and the basketball courts, how many of them are anti-Christian in their life, in their lyrics? Yet we put up posters of them, and pay for their CD’s and their DVD’s and watch ...read more

  • One Of The All-Time Greats In Baseball Was Babe ...  PRO

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on Nov 28, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,663 views

    One of the all-time greats in baseball was Babe Ruth. His bat had the power of a cannon, and his record of 714 home runs remained unbroken until Hank Aaron came along. The Babe was the idol of sports fans, but in time age took its toll, and his popularity began to wane. Finally the Yankees traded ...read more

  • Easter Is So Much More Than Learning How To Face ...  PRO

    Contributed by Keith Wessel on Apr 14, 2001
    based on 113 ratings
     | 3,376 views

    Easter is so much more than learning how to face death without fear, with courage and dignity. After all, even philosophers, poets, and scientists can do that. I remember the astronomer Carl Sagan mention in an interview that he was looking forward to death as “the last great adventure.” Walt ...read more

  • James Michener, Writing In His Book, The Source, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 28, 2003
    based on 14 ratings
     | 1,373 views

    James Michener, writing in his book, The Source, tells the story of a man named Urbaal, who was a farmer living about 2200 B.C. He worshipped two gods: one, a god of death, and the other, a goddess of fertility. One day, the temple priests tell Urbaal to bring his young son to the temple for ...read more

  • Margaret: The Hard Soil

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 13, 2011
     | 3,265 views

    MARGARET: THE HARD SOIL Each week I give a devotion in each of the 8 dining areas of the Shalom Centre and Margaret (not her real name) is there, with ears which will not hear. Her heart is a fortress, cold, hard, defensive. The gates are huge, old and impenetrable, bolted with fear and pride that ...read more

  • Disaster Struck Me One Day When I Was A Boy. I ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Oct 16, 2008
     | 2,449 views

    Disaster struck me one day when I was a boy. I don’t know where in the world my little sister came back to the house real dirty and smelly. Some type of dark sticky slimy stinky substance was all over her and she was crying up loud. She had tried to get rid of it by using her dirty hand and as you ...read more

  • One Of The All-Time Greats In Baseball Was Babe ...  PRO

    Contributed by James May on Apr 19, 2001
    based on 73 ratings
     | 2,396 views

    One of the all-time greats in baseball was Babe Ruth. His bat had the power of a cannon, and his record of 714 home runs remained unbroken until Hank Aaron came along. The Babe was the idol of sports fans, but in time age took its toll, and his popularity began to wane. Finally the Yankees traded ...read more

  • The Cross And Antichrist In History  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,286 views

    THE CROSS AND ANTICHRIST IN HISTORY Massachusetts Bay Colony was the scene of "The Great Migration" wherein thousands of religious dissenters came over to the New World to make a new life for themselves in the company of "saints" and other Puritans. Right off quick they passed laws regulating ...read more

  • Super Bowl Statistics  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 9, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,121 views

    Super Bowl Statistics: Today is the day of the “Big Game” Super Bowl 39 one of the most watched programs in the world. An estimated 89.6 million people in the U.S. last year watched the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl victory over the Carolina Panthers, it was a slight increase from 2003’s game. ...read more

  • Do You See Him? Ill. Video Michael W. Smith – "I ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 27, 2005
     | 1,791 views

    Do you see Him? ill. Video Michael W. Smith – “I See You!” Let’s learn from this video to see Him and not others – not an idol we have created in our minds. Let’s not look to self or something created in our image. Instead let’s see the Jesus who is described and revealed to us in the Bible. The ...read more

  • Jack Hyles- Back In World War Ii, I Was A Pa...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 19, 2015
     | 5,538 views

    Jack Hyles- Back in World War II, I was a paratrooper. I used to jump out of airplanes. We jumped out of airplanes called C-47’s. After the war was over, I got on a plane, and they said, "Welcome aboard Delta Airlines DC-3 plane." I felt at home on that plane. We got up in the air, and I asked ...read more

  • Mammon

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 2, 2014
     | 5,520 views

    The Blessed Life is a book written Robert Morris. He talks about a crucial weed that chokes out the truth of God, the teachings of God, the Word in our life – that weed or thorny vine is called mammon – greed – the love of money which supersedes the love of the Lord Jesus. It’s a real weed and it’s ...read more

  • Courageous Fishers Of Men, Citation: Eugene A ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Apr 3, 2003
    based on 41 ratings
     | 4,090 views

    [Courageous Fishers of Men, Citation: Eugene A Maddox, Interlachen, Florida; source: The Perfect Storm] The movie, The Perfect Storm, well described the dangers of the fishing industry through the eyes of the crew of the fishing boat, the Andrea Gail. Out of their need to bring home an excellent ...read more

  • Faith Fights  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,055 views

    FAITH FIGHTS Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. I heard a story about a midwestern farmer 50 years ago. The farmer went to the bank to borrow money to buy seed to plant his whole farm in corn. He fired up the old tractor ...read more