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  • Every Once In A While My Daughter Starts ...

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Apr 30, 2004
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     | 2,783 views

    Every once in a while my daughter starts crying. From then on in, the battle begins. My wife and I have an ignorance contest. Who can lay the stillest for the longest without getting up? The trick to winning this battle is to learn how to tune it out. If I can somehow stay in a sort of ...read more

  • Story: In A Small Country Village In Sicily, ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 27, 2007
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     | 1,373 views

    Story: In a small country village in Sicily, there were two brothers, renown members of the local Mafia. They were mean, bad and very rich. No one had a good word to say about them. Indeed, everyone seemed to have a story about how they had either been cheated or maligned by the ...read more

  • God Positioning System

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Apr 22, 2008
     | 5,308 views

    GOD POSITIONING SYSTEM I was thinking a lot about this idea that Jesus is the way. He doesn't just tell us the way, He shows us. He is kind of like one of those GPS navigation system. GPS stands for the "Global Positioning System" that was originally designed for military use, but now is open ...read more

  • Giovanni Was A Saint

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jun 24, 2011
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    GIOVANNI WAS A SAINT In a small country village in Sicily, there were two brothers, renowned members of the local Mafia. They were mean, bad and very rich. No one had a good word to say about them. Indeed, everyone seemed to have a story about how they had either been cheated or maligned by the ...read more

  • King Tut Vs. William Borden

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 31, 2012
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    KING TUT VS. WILLIAM BORDEN In 1922 Howard Carter discovered the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen. King Tut had died at around age 19 and his tomb had been untouched for over 3000 years. Buried with him were solid gold chariots and thousands of golden artifacts. His gold coffin was found within ...read more

  • A Saint

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 27, 2025
     | 256 views

    Story: In a small country village in Sicily, there were two brothers, renown members of the local Mafia. They were mean, bad and very rich. No one had a good word to say about them. Indeed, everyone seemed to have a story about how they had either been cheated or maligned by the ...read more

  • If I Were The Devil  PRO

    Contributed by Jonathan Lucas on Jun 13, 2001
    based on 71 ratings
     | 5,034 views

    If I Were the Devil If I were the prince of darkness, I’d want to engulf the world in darkness, and I’d have a third of its real estate, and I’d have four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree. THEE. So I’d set about however necessary to ...read more

  • The Paradox Of Our Time In History  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 8, 2005
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    The Paradox of Our Time in History The paradox of our time in history is that.... We have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less. We buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but ...read more

  • One Of The Things I Love To Do Most Is To Tell ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One of the things I love to do most is to tell people about how I met the risen Lord. I was a senior in high school. I was just about to graduate. And my English teacher gave us one final assignment. He put a bowl on the table filled with slips of paper. He said, "Each slip of paper has a value on ...read more

  • A Letter Written By Seminary Professor, Dr. R. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 3, 2007
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    A letter written by seminary professor, Dr. R. Scott Clark who teaches at Westminster Seminary California: “Ironically, I warned the students in the doctrine of God class Wednesday and Thursday of last week that they must preach and teach the doctrine of providence to their people before their ...read more

  • The Paradox Of Our Time In History Is That We ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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     | 1,600 views

    The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less ...read more

  • 40 Men Die For Christ

    Contributed by Benjamin Karner on Sep 18, 2009
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    40 MEN DIE FOR CHRIST One such story took place in 328 B.C. in a city high in the icy mountains of Armenia. It was a bitterly cold winter and in the middle of that winter an order came from the Roman emperor that every man, woman, and child under the rule of his empire must bow down to ...read more

  • God Answers Persistent ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    God Answers Persistent Prayer Sharon Atwell tells the story of her daughter Kate in June of 2000 having a backache and diagnosed with leukemia. She went through chemo but by August she had a seizure and was unconscious. While getting treated at St. Jude an infection attacked her brain. Only six ...read more

  • The Case Of Margaret Ault

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2011
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    THE CASE OF MARGARET AULT In his book, The Jesus Creed, Scot McKnight shares the moving story of Margaret Ault. When Margaret was just about to complete her Ph.D. at Duke, something unexpected -- but quite welcomed -- happened: she fell in love. She went on a date with a man named Hyung Goo Kim, ...read more

  • Baptism: Clothed In Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 1, 2012
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     | 5,278 views

    BAPTISM: CLOTHED IN CHRIST Just this last week we baptized a 9-year-old boy into Christ. His name is J.J. J.J. knew all the answers to the questions I posed to him, but his father was concerned that his young son viewed baptism as a "magic act" that would make all kinds of marvelous changes ...read more

  • Extraordinary Or Ordinary?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2012
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    EXTRAORDINARY OR ORDINARY? God is not looking for extraordinary people. God is looking for ordinary people who will trust God in an extraordinary way. Morton Kondracke is known as a no-nonsense, independent-thinking journalist who, in addition to writing, appears on shows like The McLaughlin ...read more

  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 2, 2021
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    Quit all the comparisons: IT IS ABOUT GOD’S GLORY. HAGGAI and ZECHARIAH LEARNED TO ENCOURAGE THOSE THAT WERE DOING A WORK THAT SEEMED SMALL IN THEIR OWN EYES. Get excited. Haggai 2:2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high ...read more

  • Be An Encourager, Fathers Day - My Relationship With My Son

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Nov 25, 2025
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     | 52 views

    God the Father ... Loves His Children ... and He is also quick to .... encourage His children. (Long Pause) And ... I learned that ... the hard way. As a father ... you want the best for your children ... you want them to succeed. To succeed ... at everything they do. Kristin ... our first ...read more

  • Unwanted Donations!?

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Dec 10, 2025
     | 208 views

    Unwanted Donations!? Introduction: What kinds of materials were needed for Israel to make the Tabernacle? Text, Exodus 36:2-7, KJV: 2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto ...read more

  • Troubling Thoughts?

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Dec 14, 2025
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    Troubling thoughts Introduction: What might make your thoughts cause you trouble? Text, Daniel 5:5-9, KJV: 5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the ...read more