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  • Residents Along The Mississippi River Are No ...

    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Oct 17, 2003
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     | 3,364 views

    Residents along the Mississippi River are no strangers to overflows and flooding during the spring thaw and rains. Since the early 18th century, settlers have built levees and floodwalls along the 2,000-mile-long waterway to try and control it. However, in years with record-breaking rainfall, like ...read more

  • When We Have Nowhere Else To Go  PRO

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 28, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,207 views

    WHEN WE HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO Over the years we have had many gut wrenching stores of families killed in an accident only to leave a mother or father behind. To wake up in a hospital bed hurting physically then realize that your entire family is gone would be unfathomable. Now none of us are ...read more

  • Our Hope Is Not In Washington, But Only In ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Dec 6, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,525 views

    Our hope is not in Washington, but only in heaven. The answer is not in the white house, it is not in the school house. The answer ...read more

  • Sikorsky's Helicopter  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 26, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,247 views

    Sikorsky’s Helicopter When Igor Sikorsky was a boy of twelve, his parents told him that competent authorities had already proved human flight impossible. Yet Sikorsky built the first helicopter. And in his American plant he posted this sign: “According to recognized aerotechnical tests, the ...read more

  • A "Do It Yourself" Catalog Firm Received The ...

    Contributed by Steven Kelso on Dec 4, 2006
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     | 3,417 views

    A "Do it yourself" catalog firm received the following letter from one of its customers: "I built a birdhouse according to your stupid plans, and not only is it much too big, it keeps blowing out of the tree. Signed, Angry The firm replied: "Dear Angry, We’re sorry about the mix-up. We accidentally ...read more

  • Money Raised Online For Many Nonprofit ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,372 views

    Money Raised Online for many nonprofit organizations grew from virtually nothing only a few years ago to a median 27% increase an annual amount $362,485 from 7/1/05 to 6/30/06, according to a Convio study. Organizations with the most monthly unique Web site visitors built the largest e-mail ...read more

  • Words Of Comfort

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,763 views

    Words of Comfort Heaven Benjamin Franklin has often been quoted as saying, "In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes." Many have figured out ways to get out of paying taxes, legal or otherwise, but no one has yet been able to avoid the certainty of death. Sooner or later you are ...read more

  • A Pastor Friend Asked Me To Go With Him To ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Nov 15, 2007
     | 802 views

    A pastor friend asked me to go with him to cleanse a house for a church member that keep having apparations in his house. They lived alone but people kept seeing people in his house when no one was there. We prayed through the house annoiting it with oil and dedicating it to Jesus, and commanded ...read more

  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn  PRO

    Contributed by John Gullick on Dec 22, 2000
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     | 8,680 views

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner in Russia. he was on a program of hard labour and slow salvation. One day he felt like giving up. He felt his life could not make a difference. He sat down on a bench knowing that when he was spotted by a guard he would be ordered back to work when he failed ...read more

  • Ask Your Dad  PRO

    Contributed by James Chandler on Mar 31, 2003
    based on 46 ratings
     | 3,245 views

    ASK YOUR DAD A father watched out the kitchen window as his 7 year old son played in the backyard sand box. He watched him moving several large rocks out of the sandbox. There was one very big rock that was giving his little boy a great deal of trouble. He watched his son move the rock to the ...read more

  • He Who Is Al­most Per­suad­ed Is Al­most Saved, ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Nov 22, 2003
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     | 2,532 views

    “He who is al­most per­suad­ed is al­most saved, and to be al­most saved is to be en­tire­ly lost,” were the words with which the Rev. Mr. Brun­dage end­ed one of his ser­mons. P. P. Bliss, who was in the au­di­ence, was much im­pressed with the thought, and im­me­di­ate­ly set about the ...read more

  • St. Augustine On The Trinity

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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    ST. AUGUSTINE ON THE TRINITY One day when St. Augustine was at his wits' end to understand and explain the Trinity, he went out for a walk. He kept turning over in his mind, "One God, but three Persons. Three Persons--not three Gods but one God. What does it mean? How can it be explained? How can ...read more

  • I Was Watching A Recent Program On Tv About ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 3, 2003
     | 3,004 views

    I was watching a recent program on TV about trying to reconstruct the chariot’s of the Assyrian army. One of the many problems they discovered was getting the yoke for the horses just right. The yoke they built would hurt the horses and cause them to flinch and run into each other. The ...read more

  • A "Do It Yourself" Catalog Firm Received The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,834 views

    A "Do it yourself" catalog firm received the following letter from one of its customers: "I built a birdhouse according to your stupid plans, and not only is it much too big, it keeps blowing out of the tree. Signed, Unhappy. The firm replied: "Dear Unhappy, We’re sorry about the mix-up. We ...read more

  • Right After The 9/11 Attacks, The President ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Right after the 9/11 attacks, the president addressed the nation. He said, “A great people have been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot shake the foundation of America” In other words, “even though we just ...read more

  • The Bird

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Jun 26, 2007
     | 1,876 views

    *ILLUSTRATION* I was out in the front yard working in my flower beds this past Thursday with my grandson when this bird came and rested in the tree right next to where we were. Mason will be 2 years old next week and he got so excited as he pointed at the bird and his gaze was intently on the ...read more

  • Confidence

    Contributed by Bruce Lee on Jun 12, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,676 views

    2 Corinthians 5:6 says "Therefore we are always confident." Confidence is something that comes from believing. Success or failure is often a result of either our confidence or lack thereof. The Apostle Paul was a person of confidence. He wasn’t always right, but he was sure about his experience ...read more

  • Unhappy Church Member

    Contributed by Kerry O'neill on Jan 27, 2019
     | 6,071 views

    A christian man was stranded on a deserted island for many years. He was finally discovered and a rescue crew arrived. They were impressed with all the things he built by himself, most prominently 3 buildings. They asked him about the first building and he answered, “That is where I live.” Then ...read more

  • Buying Them Back

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 11, 2009
     | 2,164 views

    BUYING THEM BACK We're told about a gift of grace (singular) and informed that it will help us to build up the church in LOVE. Do you see a pattern, here? Whatever we have to use in God's service comes directly from God. It's a lot like a former colleague experienced at Ziff-Davis Publishing. He ...read more

  • Does God Have The Say?

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Mar 13, 2010
     | 1,716 views

    DOES GOD HAVE THE SAY? WE HAVE JUST MOVED TO SYDNEY NSW from the Whitsundays in Queensland, Australia. I didn't come seeking a better position, certainly not better scenery or more money. We don't even have our own house to live in at present. When we moved, we moved because we knew that God was ...read more