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  • Dr.w.a.criswell Talks About The Kind Of Faith We ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jul 4, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,935 views

    Dr.W.A.Criswell talks about the kind of faith we have by comparing it to an operation. If you’ve ever had surgery, you go in and the anesthetic is administered usually by a mask. They tell you to count to 3 and you’ll be out. They put the mask over your face and you think to yourself that the ...read more

  • Blending In  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jul 22, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 1,668 views

    BLENDING IN A young police officer was taking his final exam for the police academy and he read the following question in the exam paper: "You are on patrol in the outer city when an explosion occurs in a gas main in a nearby street. On investigation you find that a large hole has been blown ...read more

  • Death Row Facts

    Contributed by James Tidwell on Aug 7, 2005
     | 2,203 views

    Death Row Facts • As of December 31, 1999, the death penalty was authorized by 38 states and the Federal Government. • There are five methods of execution in the United States: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, hanging, and firing squad. • 3,581 offenders were under sentence of death in ...read more

  • A Young Police Officer Was Taking His Final Exam ...  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Nov 16, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,561 views

    A young police officer was taking his final exam for the police academy. And he comes across this question: “You are on patrol in the outer city when an explosion occurs in a gas main in a nearby street. On investigation you find that a large hole has been blown in the footpath and there is an ...read more

  • What Would You Do?

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jun 30, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,872 views

    WHAT WOULD YOU DO? A number of years ago, a young police officer was taking his final exam for the police academy when he came upon the following question: "You are on patrol in the outer city when an explosion occurs in a gas main in a nearby street. On investigation you find that a large hole ...read more

  • Risks And Expectations

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,566 views

    RISKS AND EXPECTATIONS Sohio, the Alaskan subsidiary of Standard Oil of Ohio, drilled a well in the Beaufort Sea in 1983, hoping to tap a geological formation holding several billion barrels of oil. Instead, they hit water, and $120 million went a glimmering. The oil companies know the risk. They ...read more

  • Be Thankful

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 11, 2012
    based on 5 ratings
     | 13,658 views

    BE THANKFUL Back in 1988, a Polish railway worker named Jan Grzebski was hit by a train. He lived ... but only barely. For the next 19 years (until the year 2007), Grzebski was in a coma. He awoke in 2007 to a whole new world. Nineteen years earlier, Poland was a communist state. Grzebski noted ...read more

  • Dr. Pierce Harris Was The Long Time Pastor Of ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
     | 4,239 views

    Dr. Pierce Harris was the long time pastor of First United Methodist Church in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Harris spoke one day at the state penitentiary. He was introduced to the prisoners by one of the inmates. In his introduction, the inmate said, “I want to tell you a story about two boys. • They ...read more

  • The Smiling Soldiers  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,267 views

    THE SMILING SOLDIERS "Weika Coenraad, of Dahlonega, Georgia, was a little girl in Holland during the War, and has vivid memories of the American soldiers who liberated her town in 1945. She’s now an American citizen. [She writes:] ’I was just a little girl during the Second World War, born in ...read more

  • Story: A Little Boy Came Back From Sunday School ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 9, 2007
     | 1,524 views

    Story: A little boy came back from Sunday school one morning and his father asked him:. “Well, what did you learn?”. The little boy replied: “How the people of Israel were kept in Egypt and used as slaves by this guy called Pharaoh.” “Oh?” said the father. “Then what happened?” The little boy ...read more

  • A Simple Hose Clamp Causes Failure Of Balloon's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2009
     | 4,146 views

    A Simple Hose Clamp Causes Failure of Balloon’s Attempt to Circle the Earth Piccard and Richard Conniff writes in National Geographic that on January 12, 1997, two Swiss men, Bertrand Piccard and Wim Verstraeten, set out to be the first to CIRCLE THE EARTH in a balloon. Their aircraft was called ...read more

  • Non-Christians Can Be Happy  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 23, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,790 views

    NON-CHRISTIANS CAN BE HAPPY I didn't say that non-Christians can't be happy or that they can't be content. Sure they can be happy...as long as life goes the way they want it to go. As long as our health is good, we enjoy our job, people love us and the sky is blue, anybody can be fairly content ...read more

  • Story: A Little Boy Came Back From Sunday School ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 15, 2007
     | 1,384 views

    Story: A little boy came back from Sunday school one morning and his father asked him:. “Well, what did you learn?”. The little boy replied: “How the people of Israel were kept in Egypt and used as slaves by this guy called Pharaoh.” “Oh?” said the father. “Then what happened?” The little boy ...read more

  • A Little Boy Came Back From Sunday School One ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,849 views

    A little boy came back from Sunday school one morning and his father asked him:. “Well, what did you learn?”. The little boy replied: “How the people of Israel were kept in Egypt and used as slaves by this guy called Pharaoh.” “Oh?” said the father. “Then what happened?” The little boy went on ...read more

  • Prove Your Own Selves  PRO

    Contributed by Tommy Hames on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,299 views

    PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES When I was a senior in high school I owned a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle. I loved that car. It was metallic gray with red, orange and yellow pin stripes down the side. I went everywhere in that car. I even used it to carry a carload of kids to school every day, despite its size. ...read more

  • Stewarship As ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
     | 951 views

    STEWARSHIP AS CHARACTER Enter stage right: Ed McMahon and Evander Holyfield. Ed said, "When you spend more than you make, you know what happens." Yes, and a 85-year-old man should know better! He said it was "poor planning." NO, I THINK IT WAS HIGH LIVING! He was living high in a multi-million ...read more

  • G. Gert Behanna, Converted At Age Of 60, Went ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 15, 2002
    based on 36 ratings
     | 6,341 views

    G. Gert Behanna, converted at age of 60, went around the country speaking, wrote book THE LATE LIZ, in an interview “You know I travel around speaking for God and in the process I’m forced to use gas stations restrooms which are almost always filthy. I used to complain about that to God. I’d say, ...read more

  • No Titles And No Deeds?  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 29, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,596 views

    NO TITLES AND NO DEEDS? There was a terrible earthquake in California many years ago. Thousands of homes were destroyed and the state was in chaos. Many people were claiming the homes they lived in as their own. The courthouse and all the titles and deeds were destroyed completely. The gas lines ...read more

  • Here Are Some Of The More Humerous Tombstone ...

    Contributed by John Braland on Apr 3, 2007
     | 2,562 views

    Here are some of the more humerous tombstone enscriptions found around the globe. Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York: Born 1903-Died 1942 Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. It was. • In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: Here lies an Atheist All dressed up And ...read more

  • God's Doing Something

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 14, 2019
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,175 views

    GOD IS DOING SOMETHING Gas Station Business Card A few years ago, I was impressed of God to design a business card that had a picture of hell on the front with the words “GET OUT OF HELL FREE” on the back I placed Salvation Scriptures. I was driving to work early one morning and nearing my exit, ...read more

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