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  • A Recent Gallop Poll Found That 47% Of Americans ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 28, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,146 views

    A recent Gallop poll found that 47% of Americans do, in fact they hold a strict creationist view, that God created man pretty much in his present form within the last 10,000 years. Some 30% believe in some combination of evolution and creationism, where God was involved. Only 9% of Americans ...read more

  • Love Is:the Lubricant That Makes Everything Run ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,008 views

    LOVE is:the lubricant that makes everything run smoothly;the seasoning that makes everything taste better;the glue that holds everything together;the medicine that heals every wound;the light that brightens the darkest corner;the food that satisfies every hunger;the drink that quenches every ...read more

  • On The Sequence Of Songs In Revelation 5  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Apr 19, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
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    ON THE SEQUENCE OF SONGS IN REVELATION 5 Think of this like a commencement on a cosmic scale. The graduate represents three things: ** The past (all the study and hard work she has invested) ** The present (the diploma and honors she receives at his graduation) ** The future (the potential ...read more

  • Mindy Caliguire In Spiritual Friendship Says, ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 1, 2007
     | 584 views

    Mindy Caliguire in Spiritual friendship says, “What do you do when you can’t stand the thought of praying, when the words of the Bible seem plastic and false… when you have been doing everything ‘right’ and the bottom falls out? It’s at these times when it is the spiritual friends who throw ...read more

  • During The Time Of The Persecution Of Christians ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
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    During the time of the persecution of Christians in Rome there was an incident that forever changed the heart of one senator. He had gathered together all of his servants who were known to be Christians and had them arrested and sent to the Coliseum to be killed. Seated in the Senator’s place of ...read more

  • How Many Different Ways Are There To Eat An Oreo? ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chris Genders on Apr 8, 2002
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    How many different ways are there to eat an Oreo? Some of us simply start eating it, nibbling at it as if we had all the time in the world. Some of us will twist it apart and lick the filling out first. Some of us will get a glass of milk and hold the Oreo in there until it almost ready to fall ...read more

  • Aw Tozer In "I Talk Back To The ...

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 17, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,410 views

    ILLUSTRATION... AW Tozer in “I Talk Back to the Devil” "Money often comes between men and God. Someone has said that you can take two small ten-cent pieces, just two dimes, and shut out the view of a panoramic landscape. Go to the mountains and just hold two coins closely in front of your eyes--the ...read more

  • She Was An Energetic Young Woman Whose Life Was ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on May 18, 2004
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    She was an energetic young woman whose life was forever changed by an accident. Because her spinal cord was severed, she first struggled to survive. Forced to live her life as a quadriplegic, she nearly lost the will to live. Slowly, she achieved the impossible. She painted by holding a brush with ...read more

  • James C. Dobson >>>> When I Think Of Parents ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Oct 27, 2004
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    James C. Dobson >>>> When I think of parents today, I’m reminded of a photograph of an elegantly dressed woman who is holding a cup of coffee. Her little finger is cocked ever so daintily to the side, and her face reveals utter self-confidence. Unfortunately, this woman does not yet know that her ...read more

  • A Poor Man In Ireland Was Plodding Home, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Nov 14, 2004
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     | 9,297 views

    A poor man in Ireland was plodding home, carrying a huge bag of potatoes. A horse and wagon finally drew up alongside him and the driver invited the man to climb aboard. He sat down but continued to hold the heavy bag. When the driver suggested that the man set the bag down, he replied, “I don’t ...read more

  • I Remember The First Time I Was With Someone ...

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 3, 2005
     | 1,524 views

    I remember the first time I was with someone when they died. Just before Lloyd passed from this life to the next he talked about how he saw someone holding his hands out to him. I believe he was talking about Jesus. The rest of in the room didn’t see Him, but we didn’t have ...read more

  • When Woody Hays Came To Coach Football At Ohio ...

    Contributed by Ben Randall on Feb 4, 2007
     | 1,113 views

    When Woody Hays came to coach football at Ohio State, he had been coaching at Denison University in Ohio, and his new surroundings took him by surprise. He says that when he stood in the 86,000 seat stadium of OSU it shook him. - He brought his young son with him, who was holding his hand ...read more

  • Abraham Lincoln's Attitude On Restoring The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
     | 7,510 views

    Abraham Lincoln’s Attitude On Restoring the South God does not hold our old sins against us, nor does He act like forgiveness is a favor to us, even though it is. When President Lincoln was asked how he would treat the rebellious southerners when they were defeated, he said, “I will ...read more

  • For Prayer - Sir George Adam Smith ...

    Contributed by Timothy Brown on Jan 23, 2010
     | 1,623 views

    Illustration for Prayer - Sir George Adam Smith tells how he and his guide were climbing the Weisshorn in the Swiss Alps. It was stormy and they were making their climb on the sheltered side of the peak. When they reached the summit, they were filled with the exhilaration. Sir George forgot about ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010
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    A.W. Tozer on Time A.W. Tozer wrote: “Time is a resource that is nonrenewable and nontransferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day–when it’s lost it’s unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember ...read more

  • Our Will Is Ours

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 28, 2010
     | 1,571 views

    OUR WILL IS OURS "We have no direct control over our feelings, but we have over our will. Our wills are ours, to make them God's. God does not hold us responsible for what we feel, but for what we will. In His sight we're not what we feel, but what we will. Let us, therefore, not live in the ...read more

  • Holdfast

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 7, 2011
     | 906 views

    HOLDFAST In the plant world, there are plants who hold fast onto objects like rocks. Their root system is called a holdfast. Many people associate holdfasts with seaweed. If we have ever attempted to pull a piece of seaweed from a rock, we can understand the name of this plant structure; we ...read more

  • Home Bible Study Fined

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Sep 29, 2011
     | 2,301 views

    HOME BIBLE STUDY FINED San Juan Capistrano, CA -- 2011: Chuck and Stephanie Fromm were fined $300 and ordered to stop holding a regular Bible study at their home. The meeting violates a city ordinance as a "church" and not as a private gathering, they were told. They also face additional charges ...read more

  • The Rock Wasn't Shaking!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 2, 2022
     | 1,447 views

    A passenger ship tragically capsized at sea. Many drowned, but one teenager was found clinging to a rock. After he was rescued, someone asked him if he was terrified. He responded by saying, “Yes, I was shaking all the time…but the rock I was holding onto wasn’t shaking!”  Psalm ...read more

  • Abe Lincoln Told The Story Of A Blacksmith Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,846 views

    Abe Lincoln told the story of a blacksmith who heated a piece of iron in the forge, not knowing what he was going to make. At first he thought of shaping it into a horseshoe but changed his mind. After hammering on the iron for a while, he decided to try to make it into something else. By this time ...read more

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