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  • Three Phases To An Enjoyable Life

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 27, 2009
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    THREE PHASES TO AN ENJOYABLE LIFE When I was a boy, I would watch the space launches on TV. The rockets were in three phases. As it got so high, the lowest section of the rocket would drop off. Then the second section would drop off until only the capsule would remain. It took all three sections ...read more

  • The Wrong One

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Aug 5, 2009
     | 2,956 views

    THE WRONG ONE A conscientious wife tried hard to please her critical husband, but failed regularly. Jack was especially disagreeable at breakfast. If Jill prepared scrambled eggs, he wanted poached; if she poached eggs, he wanted scrambled. One morning Jill poached one egg and scrambled the other ...read more

  • Dave Thomas, Wendy's Hamburgers,

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 31, 2009
     | 3,041 views

    Dave Thomas, Wendy’s Hamburgers, “I got my MBA long before my GED. I even have a photograph of me in my MBA graduation outfit; a knee length work apron. I guarantee you that I’m the only founder among America’s big companies whose picture in the corporate annual report shows him wielding a mop ...read more

  • For Bible Knowledge (The ...

    Contributed by Timothy Brown on Jan 23, 2010
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    Illustration for Bible Knowledge (The Apostles’ Doctrine/Teaching) - Think of the Scriptures as an absolutely accurate map. A map tells you how to get to a certain destination. But just looking at a map won't automatically transport you to Arizona or England or Peru. Getting to those places means ...read more

  • John Kevin Hines Is One Of A Handful Of People ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 25, 2010
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    John Kevin Hines is one of a handful of people who have survived an attempted suicide jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. He claims to have told himself that if any one of the people he rubbed shoulders with on the way to the bridge noticed he was distraught, and asked him what was wrong, he wouldn’t ...read more

  • Broken Steel Belts

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 22, 2010
     | 2,987 views

    BROKEN STEEL BELTS It is impossible to be prepared for every error around. When I bought my dad's old car, it had been sitting idle for a year. He had hardly used it; even the tires were original -- nine years old. When I brought it in for a flat tire, the mechanic fixed it and all seemed well. ...read more

  • An Old, Rich Man With A Cranky, Miserable ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on May 8, 2010
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    An old, rich man with a cranky, miserable attitude visited a rabbi who lived a simple life. The rabbi had an idea on how to get through to him about his negative attitude. He took him over to a window and asked him what he saw. “I see men and women and a few children.” Then the rabbi took him to a ...read more

  • When God Forgives, He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
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    “When God Forgives, He Forgets” How different God’s pardon is from ours! So often we forgive as did the mother of the little girl who had been good a whole week, and asked mother for a favor. “I know” was the answer, “that you have been good all this week, but you know your were bad last week.” In ...read more

  • Newton's Last Breath

    Contributed by John Fallahee on Jun 23, 2010
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    NEWTON'S LAST BREATH Many of you know the story of John Newton and the song he penned "Amazing Grace." You know of his conversion to Christ and how he left the slave trade. He went on to pastor for 40 years. What you may not know that even at 82 years of age, he never ceased to marvel at the grace ...read more

  • When Christ Is In Control

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 5, 2010
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    WHEN CHRIST IS IN CONTROL Martin Luther was often very graphic in his description of the activities of the Devil. Asked one time how he overcame the Devil, he replied, "Well, when he comes knocking upon the door of my heart, and asks 'Who lives here?' the dear Lord Jesus goes to the door and ...read more

  • Moody Mr. Riddell

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 18, 2011
     | 1,323 views

    MOODY MR. RIDDELL We have all been around people who could change their moods at the flip of a switch. Don't know exactly how to take them. Have a good time with them and then out of nowhere they slap us in the face. Bob Deffinbaugh tells about one of his teachers who was like this. His name ...read more

  • Wish They Were On Our Team  PRO

    Contributed by John Sears on Jul 22, 2011
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     | 2,071 views

    WISH THEY WERE ON OUR TEAM I played a football when I was in Jr. High School. There was one week of practice that I hated. It was the week we practiced against the High school team. Folks, they were better. They were bigger, stronger, faster, and more experienced. They beat up on us all ...read more

  • The Acorn And The Marrow

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Sep 9, 2011
     | 2,594 views

    THE ACORN AND THE MARROW An atheist was sitting under a tree one day smugly thinking: "God, I know you don't exist - but it you did - you must really be stupid. You created a huge oak tree to carry this little acorn and such a puny plant to carry a marrow. Now, if I had been you, I'd have ...read more

  • Elvis Growing Up

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Jan 13, 2012
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    ELVIS GROWING UP Elvis once said, "We were an affectionate family. My mother was the most wonderful person in the world. I always felt a little bit lonely--maybe a better word would be 'incomplete'--when I was little. But I could tell my mother about it, how I felt and then the feeling would go ...read more

  • Crossing The Line

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on May 15, 2012
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    CROSSING THE LINE A business training exercise shows how people from different cultures look at the same task in different ways. A leader draws an imaginary line on the floor, and puts one person on each side. The purpose is to get one person to convince the other, without force, to cross the ...read more

  • He's Shaving You!

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 9, 2014
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    HE'S SHAVING YOU! An influential man in town was sitting in the barber's chair having a shave and a haircut. He saw a pretty woman who was working in the office there and started flirting with her. "You're cute! How about a date tonight?" he said to her. The pretty woman smiled and said, ...read more

  • The Tug On The Kite

    Contributed by Daniel King, D. Min. on Jul 25, 2018
     | 7,678 views

    Main Idea: We cannot see God, but we know He is there because we can feel Him. Verse: “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10 NKJV). Illustration: A boy in Pakistan was flying his kite very high, so high it could not be seen. A man asked him, “How do you know your kite is up there?” The ...read more

  • Facts About Storms Of Life

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 7, 2022
     | 4,170 views

    Here are 5 facts about storms of life that we need to remember: 1. Storms are INEVITABLE (John 16:33). 2. Storms are UNPREDICTABLE. You don’t know what tomorrow will bring. (James 4:14). 3. Storms are IMPARTIAL. It rains on the unjust and not just the "just"! (Matthew 5:45). 4. Storms ...read more

  • Called To Be Faithful

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 12, 2023
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     | 1,634 views

    Mark Hatfield tells of touring Calcutta with Mother Teresa and visiting the so-called "House of Dying," where sick children are cared for in their last days, and the dispensary, where the poor line up by the hundreds to receive medical attention. Watching Mother Teresa minister to these ...read more

  • Seed Corn Parable

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 24, 2023
     | 1,613 views

    The kingdom of God is like a farmer who shared his award winning seed corn with his neighbors. One year a newspaper reporter asked him. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked. “Why ...read more