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  • Some Fun Hearing What Kids Think About Husbands ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
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     | 2,791 views

    Some fun hearing what kids think about husbands and wives. HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY? Alan, age 10—You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming. Kirsten, age 10—No person ...read more

  • Has Anyone Ever Seen The Movie Lorenzo's ...

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Oct 8, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,616 views

    -Has anyone ever seen the movie Lorenzo’s Oil? -It came out in 1992, starring Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon -If you can still find it, watch it – great movie -It is a true story about Augusto and Michaela Odone whose 7 year old son, Lorenzo, is perfectly normal until he begins to suffer blackouts ...read more

  • Facing The Storm

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 23, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,670 views

    Facing The Storm In 1969, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, a group of people were preparing to have a "hurricane party" in the face of a storm named Camille. Were they ignorant of the dangers? Could they have been overconfident? Did they let their egos and pride influence their decision? We’ll never ...read more

  • Let Me Give You An Example That Has Nothing To Do ...

    Contributed by Mike Rexroat on Nov 25, 2007
     | 2,154 views

    Let me give you an example that has nothing to do with Christmas but in which the same principle applies. We have all heard of St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis...a wonderful, wonderful organization that is deserves every bit of support that they get. This year they had an event called Country, ...read more

  • Fruit Of The Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jul 6, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,217 views

    FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT The fruit is singular, not plural. The most common teaching is that there are nine fruits of the Spirit. But that’s not the case. It’s one “fruit,” and that fruit has those characteristics. For instance, take an apple. It’s one apple, but it has many characteristics: red, ...read more

  • I'm No Moses!

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Sep 4, 2008
     | 2,304 views

    "I'm No Moses!" When I received my call to go into ministry, I was praying. Immediately, I rejected the call, telling God that I was a business person, not really minister material. I knew how to speak about marketing. I knew a bit about managing people. I could talk about that. On and on I ...read more

  • Does God Exist? Barbers Don't ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 18, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,742 views

    Does God exist? Barbers Don’t Exist… This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen. It’s an explanation other people will understand. Does God exist? A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, ...read more

  • The Test Of Getting To The ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Feb 24, 2009
     | 2,976 views

    THE TEST OF GETTING TO THE TEST In the late 1980’s I was interviewing at various corporations in the San Francisco Bay Area for a position in one of the fast track executive programs that were being offered to recent college graduates, of which I was one. In many of these corporations I would go ...read more

  • Death Makes People Angry

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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     | 2,313 views

    DEATH MAKES PEOPLE ANGRY Back in September of 2004, Casey Neistat of New York City discovered that the battery in his first-generation 5 GB iPod could no longer hold a charge for more than an hour. So he called Apple. Unfortunately for him, Apple basically advised him to buy a new iPod (their ...read more

  • Missionary Encounters ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    Missionary Encounters Ants Steven Cook tells of reading an account of a missionary from India: "The Lord must have desired to teach me something through the "ants" because He allowed me to come in contact with enough of them! The encyclopedia says there are more ants than any other insect. It seems ...read more

  • My First Major Wall That I Went Through Came When ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 9, 2009
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    My first major wall that I went through came when I got sober. But along the way, I ran into walls that now I know were just small ones. One of these had to do with my expectations of those that supposedly loved. Through the years of drinking and using, I had developed some very unhealthy ...read more

  • Sometimes, The Right Name Will Accomplish ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Nov 23, 2009
     | 2,574 views

    Sometimes, the right name will accomplish something for you that you can’t accomplish yourself. I’m reminded of the time I was Editor-in-Chief of Computer Gaming World and we were attending a big convention. Sony’s Psygnosis division was having a big party at a nightclub and my technical editor ...read more

  • I Think God Gives Us Opportunities Like That To ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 4, 2009
     | 1,655 views

    I think God gives us opportunities like that to help us build our trust in Him. I used to go hiking and camping a lot by myself in the wilderness (not a good idea I know). But I remember getting lost once, and this was before I was even a Christian. I had literally no idea how to get back, and I ...read more

  • Graduates From Christian College Heading For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
     | 3,974 views

    Graduates from Christian College Heading for Mission Field Receive Unexpected Gifts Just last May (2009), John Ortberg, pastor of the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California, found himself and his family in Azusa, California, because one of his kids was graduating from Azusa ...read more

  • Demolition Derby And The Surrender Stick

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2011
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    DEMOLITION DERBY AND THE SURRENDER STICK Lydia and I went to the Demolition Derby at the 4-H Fair this past week and had a blast. I loved watching drivers take aim at each other with the attempt to demolish or disable one another. We saw some great smash ups and did a lot of laughing. I don't know ...read more

  • What Really Matters  PRO

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jul 28, 2011
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,448 views

    What Really Matters It was two weeks before Christmas and it began to start. Everyone was scrambling and rushing to get to Wal-Mart. Their credit cards were in the orange and checking account in the red in hopes that their rich uncle would soon be dead. Old Saint Nick sitting high on a mountain ...read more

  • Inescapable Judgment

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,276 views

    INESCAPABLE JUDGMENT During the winter of 1951, a Montana café owner named Clarence Pellett pulled over to pick up a hitchhiker who appeared cold and frozen while walking during a snowstorm. Once in the car, the hitchhiker Frank Dryman pulled out a gun and ordered Pellett to get out of his ...read more

  • Golfers Have A Change Of Heart

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 21, 2013
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    GOLFERS HAVE A CHANGE OF HEART When you willingly give Jesus all that you are and all that you have, you receive so much more in return. I heard a story once about a group of guys who were returning from playing golf in rural Georgia. As they drove down a two-lane road they came up on a ...read more

  • Gossip: Opie's Newspaper

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 7, 2014
     | 5,882 views

    "Opie's Newspaper" is an episode on the Andy Griffith Show. Opie's friend, Howie, received a small printing press as a gift, and the boys decide to go into the newspaper business. They work hard and produce an initial issue of what they call the Mayberry Sun. The boys soon find that business is ...read more

  • Tribes And Nations

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Nov 29, 2022
     | 1,127 views

    Genesis 11:10 – Gen. 12:5 Shem (oldest son of Noah, in the lineage of David, Joseph, and Jesus Christ) We note Shem’s genealogy both in Genesis 10 and here in Genesis 11; why? – Abraham and eventually Israel came from the lineage of Shem; Genesis 11 gives details and sets up Abraham Shem ...read more