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  • Street Clothes

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    STREET CLOTHES On March 5, 1994, Deputy Sheriff Lloyd Prescott was teaching a class for police officers in the Salt Lake City Library. As he stepped into the hallway he noticed a gunman herding 18 hostages into the next room. With a flash of insight, Prescott (dressed in street clothes) joined the ...read more

  • Under Or Above ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 31, 2009
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    Under Or Above Circumstances There is a story of a lady who was severely depressed by a series of disheartening events. When asked how she was weathering the storm of adversity, she answered, “Quite well, under the circumstances.” “Sister,” he replied kindly yet firmly, “you’ll never make it that ...read more

  • An Afflicted Life Can Save

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jul 22, 2009
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    AN AFFLICTED LIFE CAN SAVE Or consider the young lady suffering with terminal cancer. It’s a painful and hopeless disease. But instead of complaints and self-pity, she openly talked about her hope of eternal life in Jesus, about the inheritance in heaven Jesus won for her by dying on the cross, ...read more

  • Jason Stevens Is A Star Of Australian Rugby ...

    Contributed by W F on Jun 12, 2005
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    Jason Stevens is a star of Australian Rugby League. A giant front row forward he has represented his State and country on many occasions. But Stevens journey to the top of his sport was not easy. His mother migrated to Australia from Egypt when she was 17 years old. She married and had her four ...read more

  • My Son Nathan Is Autistic, So He Struggles ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lisa Delay on Oct 8, 2005
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    My son Nathan is autistic, so he struggles everyday with many things most of us take for granted. We, as his family, struggle too along with him. Things like speaking, a change in his environment, certain sounds, interruptions in his plans or routine and a host of other things often cause him great ...read more

  • Pleasure Comes From Pain  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Feb 7, 2002
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    PLEASURE COMES FROM PAIN The world's best cyclist, Lance Armstrong, says this about pain: I become a happier man each time I suffer. Suffering is as essential to a good life, and as inextricable, as bliss. The old saying that you should live each day as if it’s your last is a nice sentiment, ...read more

  • Thy Great ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    Thy Great Salvation “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes…” (Romans 1: 16) Christians, like the apostle Paul, are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. God has chosen to offer a ...read more

  • God Is Pro - ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    God Is Pro - Choice! He really is! Every day of your life, until you draw your final breath, you will stand at the CrossRoads and be asked to make a choice. Which way will you choose? God has set before you two gates, one wide and one narrow. He has set before you two roads, one broad and one ...read more

  • Embracing God's Grace

    Contributed by Rev. Randy Barker on Apr 2, 2025
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    Title: Embracing God's Grace: A Message of Hope from the Churches of Christ in Christian Union Introduction: Dear Friend, We are delighted to share with you the message of God's grace and the transformative power of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In this gospel tract, we will ...read more

  • Almost Fifteen Years Ago, My Family And I Visited ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Dec 30, 2002
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    Almost fifteen years ago, my family and I visited China. We had a relative in Canton, who was responsible for distribution of food. When we visited him, we were treated to the best in everyway. In China, whether you think it is fair or not, relationship, or guanxi, is everything. People are not ...read more

  • Louis Evans Tells A Story That I'm Sure Many Can ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clyde Grimes on Jan 3, 2003
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    Louis Evans tells a story that I’m sure many can relate to. At one of the homes in which he lived, he had a problem with a persistent weed that “grew rapidly and pushed it ugly stalk and leaves right in front of [his] bedroom window.” He tried chopping it down several times hoping to discourage ...read more

  • Nicolaus Copernicus Was A Famed Astronomer Born ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Christopher on Nov 10, 2004
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    Nicolaus Copernicus was a famed astronomer born in Poland on February 19, 1473. He was a mathematician whose accomplishments changed men’s ideas of the universe. Also he was a well-known writer. Although highly educated in astronomical science, he was much more-he was a child of God who had learned ...read more

  • Peter V. Deison, In His Book The Priority Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lewis Petrie on Jan 3, 2001
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    Peter V. Deison, in his book The Priority of Knowing God, tells about Ramad, a man of India who was a member of a gang of robbers. On one occasion, while burglarizing a house, Ramad noticed a small black book containing very thin pages just right for making cigarettes. So he took it. Each ...read more

  • Fear To Joy, Bondage To Freedom  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Apr 15, 2006
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    FEAR TO JOY, BONDAGE TO FREEDOM A poor German girl announced that she was going to give a piano concert. In order to attract people to come, she mentioned in the advertisements that she was the student of the famous Hungarian professor, Franz Liszt. But it was a falsehood. To her dismay, she ...read more

  • Life Examples: Jesus: Example Or Sacrifice (Mt. ...

    Contributed by Nathan Parker on Mar 10, 2007
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    Life Examples: Jesus: Example or Sacrifice (Mt. 26:39) Some believe that Jesus came to show us how to live a good life-and to be sure, He is our example of righteousness. We are to become like Him. But that isn’t the reason Jesus came. Jesus came to die, to become the sacrificial, substitutionary, ...read more

  • Alex Haley, In His Book Roots, Shared The Story ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Sep 28, 2010
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    Alex Haley, in his book, Roots, shared the story of an old slave who one day drove his master to a great ball at an adjoining plantation. As the slave sat quietly in the buggy waiting for his master to return, he became aware not only of the sounds coming from the big house, but of strange music ...read more

  • Jewish Blessings

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 19, 2011
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    JEWISH BLESSINGS David Stern relates in hid Jewish NT Commentary, pp.115-116 that there are many blessings given by the Hebrew people. There are blessings for wine (Matthew 26.27-29); for bread (14.19); The Talmud (circa 5th century CE) had specific formulas for dozens of blessings that the people ...read more

  • Woman Returns Stolen Money

    Contributed by Matt Neace on Aug 7, 2018
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    An Arkansas woman's stolen cash was turned over to police with a letter of apology from the thief who took it from her wallet. Susan McNabb said she left her wallet, and the $160 cash it contained, behind at the Walmart store in Clinton, and when she returned a short time later, the wallet was ...read more

  • That Song Your Grace Is Enough, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration: that song Your Grace is Enough, the three Hebrew children, Philip Crosby, in his book March Till They Die, tells of a forced march of American and European soldiers in Korea. In November of 1950, Philip Crosby and his friends, as they passed close to those GI’s who were having a hard ...read more

  • There Is A Man Who Keeps On His Desk A Fairly ...

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 4, 2007
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    There is a man who keeps on his desk a fairly large stone on which is lettered one word: FIRST. Acting as a constant reminder of Jesus’ words, “He that is without sin… let him cast the first stone,” it helps check within him the automatic desire to be hasty in condemning others. As he daily ...read more