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  • Our Daughter Carrie And Her Husband Shannon Have ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Mar 22, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,400 views

    Our daughter Carrie and her husband Shannon have a dog; rather he is a small horse. He is called Coltrane. Cole does not realize he weighs 150 pounds. He also does not realize he has "drooling issues". (Now that may be caused by the fact that my wife brings hot dogs to the house whenever we ...read more

  • I Love My Boys. I Thank God Everyday For Blessing ...

    Contributed by Charles Newman on Jul 24, 2004
     | 1,777 views

    I love my boys. I thank God everyday for blessing me with such good children. There is one thing that I believe all children go through. It is a sense of bewilderment when given a series of jobs. For instance; my children and I can be cleaning up the yard. I can tell Benjamin to go and pick up ...read more

  • Make A Friend, Find A Friend!" Proverbs 18: 24 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 11, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,987 views

    “Make a Friend, Find a Friend!” Proverbs 18: 24 Key verse(s): 24: “A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” I am reminded of the story of the great patriot John Randolph of Virginia. Known for his intelligence and generosity, ...read more

  • There Is A Story In The Bible About A Man Named, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jess Bousa on Jan 2, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 8,680 views

    There is a story in the Bible about a man named, Mephibosheth. He was the grandson of King Saul and the son of Jonathan. Saul’s son, Jonathan, and David were best friends. They actually entered into a covenant relationship, similar to the ancient covenant of being blood brothers. This means ...read more

  • Story: In March 2004, I Was In The Second ...  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Nov 5, 2005
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    Story: In March 2004, I was in the second bookshop in Dymchurch rummaging through the books when I came across a second hand Jerusalem Bible. As I opened the Bible up, a number of papers fell into my hand. On one of them was written a story. It was obviously very meaningful to the previous ...read more

  • There Is No Exchange! (11.15.05--Heart And ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 14, 2005
     | 2,774 views

    There Is No Exchange! (11.15.05--Heart and Soul!--2 Chronicles15:14-15) Life is full of the tentative. It would seem that the ability to be decisive is fast becoming a relic; replaced instead with a sleek, stream-lined, today’s-age, model that places indecisiveness as the norm and decisiveness as ...read more

  • Love Her Or Loathe Her, Winfrey Has Become Proof ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
     | 934 views

    Love her or loathe her, Winfrey has become proof that you can’t be too rich, too thin or too committed to rising to your place in the world. With 49 million viewers each week in the USA and more in the 122 other countries to which the show is distributed, Winfrey reaches more people in a TV day ...read more

  • I Am Only Vaguely Aware Of How God Fits ...

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Nov 27, 2006
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    I am only vaguely aware of how God fits everything together. But, often looking back we see more clearly. I was searching through some old papers and came across a note from Sarah Hollis. Sarah was Carrie’s age (10) when we went to Jacksonville, Florida. She rode our van to church each week – ...read more

  • Jingle Bells  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 23, 2006
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    JINGLE BELLS The two of them were best friends in seminary, studying together, helping each other financially when one or the other got in a pinch, they stood by each other through thick and thin. When they graduated from seminary both coincidentally received a church call within the same state: ...read more

  • Do All The Good You Can", In Other Words, Help ...

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Jan 11, 2007
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    "Do all the good you can", In other words, help thy neighbor. I just got off the phone with our daughter in law to see how she’s feeling with the radiation treatments. She’s tired now and feels sore but her skin is not burned. She told me about our grandson Patrick who is nine years old and what ...read more

  • Introduction: Robert Kirkpatrick Had Some Good ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    Introduction: Robert Kirkpatrick had some good news and some bad news. The good news: he had been extended a written invitation to a dinner with President Bush in Washington, DC. The invite and letter were signed by Vice President Cheney himself. It is not every day you receive an invitation like ...read more

  • Stupid Idea

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on Apr 15, 2009
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     | 2,983 views

    STUPID IDEA As far as stupid ideas go, this was one of my better moments. I stayed after church one Tuesday night with a number of other kids in the youth group. We were just hanging out and talking for a bit. We were a pretty wild youth group to begin with, but if you know anything about young ...read more

  • Spiderman Pajamas Don't Attract Attention, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2009
     | 3,780 views

    Spiderman Pajamas Don’t Attract Attention, Disappointing a Little Boy Last January, Kristy and I took the boys up to Big Bear on a little vacation to play in the snow. We had lots of nice snow cloths for the boys, but no thermal underwear. So, we figured their pajamas resemble thermal underwear, ...read more

  • Tending Your ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jan 9, 2010
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     | 1,276 views

    TENDING YOUR GARDEN Suppose 2 women were planting a vegetable garden. On the same day, they prepared the earth and planted their seeds. One then neglected her garden and waited for her vegetables to grow. The other woman worked in her garden regularly. She put cages around the young tomato ...read more

  • Tending Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
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    Tending Your Garden Suppose 2 women were planting a vegetable garden. On the same day, they prepared the earth and planted their seeds. One then neglected her garden and waited for her vegetables to grow. The other woman worked in her garden regularly. She put cages around the young tomato plants, ...read more

  • Prayer And Conviction Of Sin In The Life Of A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 29, 2010
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    Prayer and Conviction of Sin in the Life of a Gambler R. A. Torrey in his book The Holy Spirit tells how the elders and deacons of Moody Church met every Friday night for supper and to go over the church rolls to see which people needed attention. At one meeting, an elder expressed a concern: ...read more

  • Child-Speak

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,402 views

    CHILD-SPEAK Someone had noticed that the word "father" appears in the dictionary just before the word "fatigued" and just after the word "fathead." So to all us fatigued, fathead fathers, Happy Father's Day! *** One time a little boy was asked to define Father's Day and he said, "It's just like ...read more

  • Doing The Job Alone

    Contributed by Jim Mccutchen on Oct 10, 2010
    based on 1 rating
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    FROM: Joe Smith, Bricklayer RE: My Accident Claim I am writing in response to your request concerning Block #11 on the insurance form which asks for "the cause of injuries" wherein I put "trying to do the job alone." You said you needed more information, so I trust the following will be ...read more

  • Thankful People Are Happy People  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2011
    based on 25 ratings
     | 6,548 views

    THANKFUL PEOPLE ARE HAPPY PEOPLE I read a news story once of a woman who was getting ready to jump off a 44 story building in New York City. Witnesses said that she did not look like the type of person who would do such a thing. She was very distinguished and well dressed. All the attempts ...read more

  • Something To Be Saved From

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 19, 2011
     | 2,104 views

    SOMETHING TO BE SAVED FROM To be saved, like the thief on the cross, you must see yourself as destitute of any goodness worthy of heaven and, like this thief, by faith receive the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Vance Havner tells of a lady who came forward during the invitation in one of his ...read more