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  • Waste More Time

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    WASTE MORE TIME In his book God Came Near, Max Lucado tells this story: Norman Geisler, as a child, went to a certain church because he was invited by some neighbourhood children. He went back to the same church for Sunday School classes for 400 Sundays. Each week he was faithfully picked up by a ...read more

  • Reputation And Character

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 30, 2010
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    Quote: William Hershey Davis • "Reputation is what you are supposed to be; • Character is what you are. • Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; • Character is what you have when you go away. • Reputation is made in a moment; • Character is built in a lifetime. ...read more

  • God Is Not A Genie

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 4, 2010
     | 1,790 views

    GOD IS NOT A GENIE She was ferocious and yet frail. When I told her that I was a Chaplain she took the opportunity to bombard me with accusations and questions. "What is the use of prayer if God is going to let those 29 miners die anyway? All those good people prayed around the clock for those ...read more

  • Doing What Only He Can Do

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 14, 2011
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    DOING WHAT ONLY HE CAN DO Setting out from Hamburg, Germany, to give a concert in London, the violinist Fritz Kreisler had an hour before his boat sailed. He wandered into a music shop, where the proprietor asked if he might look at the violin Kreisler was carrying. He then vanished and returned ...read more

  • A Flat Tire Saves A Life  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 23, 2011
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    A FLAT TIRE SAVES A LIFE On May 11, 1996, Demingo Pacheco had a major problem. He was on a tight schedule to catch his plane out of Miami when the left rear tire of his Cadillac blew out on the Palmetto Expressway. For more than hour he sweated under that broiling Florida sun changing that tire. ...read more

  • God Exists

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2011
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    "GOD EXISTS" One of my favorite stories is about this theologian named MacLeod. Now this man lived in Ireland back in the 1600s in a monastery. He worked part of his time as wood carver. MacLeod writes that very often he would awaken in the morning and wonder if God really existed. Finally one day ...read more

  • What Is Sixty Years

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on May 15, 2011
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    WHAT IS SIXTY YEARS What is sixty years worth? The last sixty years have paid tribute to the election of ten U.S. Presidents. Yuri Gagarin, sixty years ago in April, rocketed into history as the first human to travel beyond the clouds, and to orbit around the earth for nearly two hours. Sixty ...read more

  • Forgiving Flowers

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 9, 2011
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    FORGIVING FLOWERS Fifteen years ago in Houston, a man named Ron Flowers accidentally shot school teacher Deirdra Washington through a car window during the course of a failed drug deal and was sent to prison for 35 years. Her family was consumed, destroyed by grief and anger. For 14 years Flowers ...read more

  • Pavarotti's Grandmother

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2011
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    PAVAROTTI'S GRANDMOTHER Luciano Pavarotti, the famous opera star, almost missed his calling. As a young man, he taught elementary school and sang only occasionally. But several people made the difference for him. One was his grandmother who, when he was a boy, would hold him in her lap and say, ...read more

  • I Don't Want To Be A Saint...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Dec 1, 2011
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    "I DON'T WANT TO BE A SAINT..." So the Bible clearly teaches that everyone who has been sanctified and set apart by God is a saint. I read a story earlier this week about a Wisconsin mom who was trying to teach her kids how God sees them. She told them that when they receive Jesus as Savior that ...read more

  • Garlands Of Heaven

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 29, 2011
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    GARLANDS OF HEAVEN In India, whenever I preached I would get a garland made of carnations or roses or some other kind of flower. (This was done as a gesture of honor.) They smelled nice at first, but they were bulky and awkward (most of them would hang down almost to your knees), and after your ...read more

  • A Christmas Letter To God  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 14, 2012
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    A CHRISTMAS LETTER TO GOD A small boy was writing a letter to God about the Christmas presents he wanted. "I've been good for six months now," he wrote. After a moment's reflection, he crossed out "six months" and wrote "three." After a pause he changed that to "two weeks." There was another pause ...read more

  • He Knows About Me

    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 2, 2012
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    HE KNOWS ABOUT ME When I was talking with another counselor once, he asked if he could take me through an exercise that he uses to help people struggling with assurance or attaining victory, and/or were stalled in Christian growth. He had me close my eyes and imagine that Jesus Christ walks into ...read more

  • I Work For Christ.

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Sep 6, 2012
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    "I WORK FOR CHRIST." Howard Hendricks, sat in a plane that was delayed for takeoff. After a long wait, the passengers became more and more irritated. Hendricks noticed how gracious one of the flight attendants was as she spoke with them. After the plane finally took off, he told the flight ...read more

  • Critics

    Contributed by David Simpson on Jan 18, 2013
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    If there is one glaring fault in my ministry, it has been to allow others to blur my vision and that of the church. To take away any enthusiasm and joy. No matter what you do in life, you are going to have critics. The only people who don’t hear criticism are the ones not doing anything. Paul ...read more

  • Angel At Fredericksburg

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 25, 2013
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    ANGEL AT FREDERICKSBURG No longer able to withstand the wrenching moans of the suffering wounded and dying Union soldiers, 19 year old Confederate Sergeant Richard Kirkland of the 2nd South Carolina approached Brigadier General Joseph Kershaw, CSA, to seek permission to go to their aid. Initially ...read more

  • Receiving The Blessing

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 26, 2013
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    RECEIVING THE BLESSING On a Sunday school picnic in the heat of summer, I was going around the children with a 4 gallon can of cool drink and ladling out portions to the thirsty. I came to a small boy who had a busy morning. He was red in the face, sweating profusely, obviously quite hot. He ...read more

  • The Five People Who Secretly Control Your Life  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Jun 16, 2013
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    Dave Navarro has written an article entitled, "The 5 People Who Secretly Control Your Life." In it, he says, what you may not realize is just how many people influence your life, feeding you ideas about what is "right," "wrong," "good," "bad," and practically every other subjective decision-making ...read more

  • Chapter 11

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 4, 2014
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    Two old friends met one day after many years. One graduated from a prestigious college and was very successful. The other had not attended college and was very poor. The poor friend said, "How has everything been going with you?" The successful friend said, "Well, one day I opened the Bible at ...read more

  • The Bible And Good Leaders

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 24, 2014
     | 3,683 views

    Gene Getz was leading some Bible studies on the qualifications of church leaders. Two men were there who were new Christians and had little knowledge of the Bible. After a few sessions these two men said, "You know this is the first time we've heard this list of qualifications from the Bible. ...read more