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  • Bringing The Old Life With You  PRO

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on May 2, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,084 views

    BRINGING THE OLD LIFE WITH YOU The motor home has allowed us to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now he can park a fully equipped home on a cement slab in the midst ...read more

  • Grace Is A Force A Power That We All Need To ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 26, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,845 views

    Grace is a force a power that we all need to experience and to tap because it has power: Grace has the power to transform a life filled with sorrow to a life filled with joy. Grace has the power to deliver one from them self. Grace has the power to bring love into a loveless life. Grace has the ...read more

  • Perfect Gifts

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 4,461 views

    PERFECT GIFTS Everyone loves to receive gifts at Christmas time. And I am sure that as Christmas approaches, we are wondering what lies behind those wrapped presents. I remember as a child that these four weeks of advent were so difficult. I would go by that tree about 30 million times a day ...read more

  • Minimum Pleasure, Maximum ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
     | 1,767 views

    MINIMUM PLEASURE, MAXIMUM PENALTY When we sin, we often do so with the futile hope that we shall obtain the maximum amount of pleasure at the minimum penalty. It seldom works that way, however. I once heard the story of a man and his wife who decided to go to a drive-in movie. They thought the ...read more

  • According To A Survey By The Ladies Home ...

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 10, 2009
     | 1,410 views

    According to a survey by the Ladies Home Journal: o About a third of all mothers spend ten or more hours per day with their children; another 47 percent devote four to nine hours daily. Eighty-two percent consider at least half of their parenting hours “quality time.” o Almost every mother polled ...read more

  • Sheep Need Fresh Pasture And Water Daily And In ...

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on May 26, 2009
     | 6,817 views

    Sheep need fresh pasture and water daily and in the desserts of Palestine that can be no easy task. A shepherd will search for water sometimes for hours every day. He carries a pail with him that he will fill over and over again for any sheep who cannot access the water. A shepherd will lead his ...read more

  • Author, John Kehoe Wrote An Article Called ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 21, 2009
     | 1,934 views

    Author, John Kehoe wrote an article called Authentic Relationships. I quote, “I have a good friend who is the most authentic person I know. People love being around her because she is so real, with no pretense. She makes everyone feel special, not in a phony way; she makes them feel special because ...read more

  • Search And Rescue

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
     | 5,409 views

    SEARCH AND RESCUE There is a group of people I hope we never have to meet. They’re job is hard, exciting, frightening and important all at the same time. They do SAR; Search and Rescue. They work near Reno, Nevada and work ski resorts and desert rescue. They pull people off of Mt. Hood, find lost ...read more

  • Just Last Week Two Women Were Arrested At ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Apr 14, 2010
     | 1,483 views

    Just last week two women were arrested at Liverpool airport for trying to board a plane with a dead body, they put the dead man into a wheelchair and put sunglasses on him, and were trying check in for a flight to Berlin on Saturday. But airport staff became suspicious, and the two were arrested on ...read more

  • The Lord's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
     | 4,208 views

    “The Lord’s Answer” A man once said to a servant of the Lord: “I am such a helpless, miserable sinner; there is no hope for me. I have prayed, and resolved and tried, and vowed until I am sick of my unavailing efforts.” “Do you believe that Christ died for our sins, and rose again?” was the ...read more

  • I Have Always Loved Talking About Faith. Faith Is ...

    Contributed by Pastor Gbenga Shadare on Jun 11, 2010
     | 1,687 views

    I have always loved talking about faith. Faith is not just the substance of things hoped for or the evidence of things unseen or the means through which believers obtain good report. Indeed, faith is much more than that. Faith is the basis; the foundation of our christianity. It is the vehicle ...read more

  • Are You Seaworthy?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,407 views

    ARE YOU SEAWORTHY? In his book, Life before Death, Ian Leitch, a Scottish preacher, talks about three luxury ocean liners, the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth, and the QE2. He says, "When they built [these ocean liners], they did not test them in dry dock. They didn’t leave them in dry dock and ...read more

  • The Unexpected Christmas

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,827 views

    THE UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS When I was in seventh grade, like so many youth at that age, music became a huge part of my life. I was awakened to the sounds of music of Elton John’s Greatest Hits, SuperTramp's Breakfast in America and Led Zeppelin 2. So my hope and dream was to build a stereo system ...read more

  • What Do You Have To Sing About?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2012
     | 3,738 views

    WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SING ABOUT? Clarence Darrow, the famous atheist lawyer – once took part in a debate at a church in Chicago. In his attack on the Christian faith, he tried to play on the emotions of the black people who were there, and on their social misery. This was the heart of the ...read more

  • Henry Ford: The Bang On The Table  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 26, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,570 views

    HENRY FORD: THE BANG ON THE TABLE In 1896, Henry Ford attended a company event where Thomas Edison (the great inventor) was the guest of honour. His friend introduced him to Edison as "the man trying to make a car that runs on gasoline." Edison asked young Henry Ford a host of questions and when ...read more

  • Orphans

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 24, 2014
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,075 views

    Rubel Shelly tells of his friends Rich and Patty White, who traveled to a 3rd world country to adopt a little girl named Olona. After 2 years of effort and paperwork, the Whites stood before a judge who read words from an official document: “Inasmuch as Olona Morgan is orphaned and unwanted by ...read more

  • Rescue

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Oct 16, 2018
     | 5,245 views

    I am really struck by the lyrics of Lauren Daigle’s recent song “Rescue.” The singer is speaking from God’s perspective and says: “I hear the whisper underneath your breath I hear you whisper, you have nothing left I will send out an army to find you In the middle of the darkest night It’s true, ...read more

  • Why Are You Weeping?

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 29, 2024
     | 354 views

    Note: – This a small dialogue between God and you. Why are you weeping? Dear ______, Is my grace not sufficient for you? Is my hand is not strong enough to lift you out of your valleys? Is my blanket of love not large enough to envelop you and your family? Are my feathers not enough to keep ...read more

  • Unconditional Love In Marriage-Tertullian

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Sep 15, 2024
     | 106 views

    If the marriage is healthy, unconditional love moves the spouses to forgive each other and help one another overcome ingrained habits and difficult behavioural patterns. Church Father Tertullian wrote of this sort of marriage, “How beautiful, then, the marriage of two Christians, two who are one ...read more

  • While Waiting To Pick Up A Friend At The Airport ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on May 15, 2001
    based on 193 ratings
     | 3,206 views

    While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport I had one of those life-changing experiences that you hear other people talk about. This one occurred a mere 2 feet away from me. Straining to locate my friend among the passengers deplaning through the jet way, I noticed a man coming toward me ...read more

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