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  • Peace In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    PEACE IN THE FRAY Columnist Deborah Mathis wrote about the time when she was at Union Station in Washington D.C. on a particularly busy day. The first thing she remembers about that experience was the noisy hubbub of sounds. The public address announcer calling out arrivals and departures. Scores ...read more

  • If I Am The Only ...

    Contributed by William Akehurst on Aug 18, 2012
     | 1,074 views

    Illustration: What would you do if you were the only Christian in your circle of influence? If you are the only Christian in the shop, the store, or the office where you work, a peculiar: responsibility rests upon you, a responsibility which no other one shares with you. You are Christ's only ...read more

  • The Immortal Chaplains

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Mar 16, 2013
     | 2,404 views

    The Immortal Chaplains The USAT Dorchester was a troop transport ship used during WWII. It left New York on January 23, 1943 with approximately 900 soldiers and four army chaplains; George Fox, Alexander Goode, Clark Poling, and John Washington. During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943, ...read more

  • Amazing Forgiveness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022
     | 1,275 views

    A policeman recounted an incident when he and other officers shot an eighteen-year-old boy and burned the body. Eight years later the policeman returned to the same house and seized the boy's father. The wife was forced to watch as policemen bound her husband on a woodpile, poured gasoline over ...read more

  • An Ingenious Teenager, Tired Of Reading Bedtime ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 28, 2004
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    An ingenious teenager, tired of reading bedtime stories to his little sister, decided to record several of her favorite stories on tape. He told her, "Now you can hear your stories anytime you want. Isn’t that great?" She looked at the machine for a moment and then replied, "No. It hasn’t got a ...read more

  • Esther's Shoes  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
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    ESTHER'S SHOES Your story, my story, our story is in the Bible. We know what it is like to be in Esther's shoes. We have had moments when our faith and our commitment to God has been tested at work, in the classroom, at home, and in the neighborhood. We are faced with the question, "Am I going ...read more

  • Friends: Facebook

    Contributed by Mark Pierce on May 25, 2010
     | 2,850 views

    FRIENDS: FACEBOOK Facebook story: 175 million users of Facebook. (Stat correct in 3/2009, as of 5/2010 more like 500 million...) If it were a nation would be the 6th most populous nation. Used to be for college kids, but no more. Greatest growth (24.1 million) age 35 ¡V 49. Facebook has added ...read more

  • The Rules Seem To Be These: If You Have Written ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    "The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything ...read more

  • When I Was In The Navy, Sailors Told Each Other ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Oct 28, 2007
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    When I was in the Navy, Sailors told each other all sorts of stories about what happened on various deployments or on liberty. They were called sea stories, and were often far from being true. In fact we used say that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story was that a fairy tale begins ...read more

  • Blast Welding

    Contributed by Andy Taylor on Dec 17, 2006
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    Illustration: Blast welding imagine two things put together that seem incompatible, Jesus humanity and divinity, being joined together by the great power of God and His love for us. It’s like in building a ship, joining aluminum of the top 10 stories of an ...read more

  • Just For You  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2002
    based on 43 ratings
     | 3,546 views

    JUST FOR YOU In Peggy Noonan’s book When Character Was King, she tells about a meeting between President George W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin of Russia. It was their first meeting as world leaders and Bush wanted to be sure they connected-- that they looked for depth of soul and ...read more

  • Born Losers

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Apr 28, 2009
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    BORN LOSERS Susan Boyle has taken the world by storm. Here is this middle aged homely spinster who has never been kissed--and she has won the hearts of not only Britain, but nearly everyone in the world. Why is that? Is it because she is such a fantastic singer? I don’t think so. There are ...read more

  • [048]. A Message From A Poem – Christmas Travesty – Pseudo Christmas

    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 6, 2025
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    [048]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – CHRISTMAS TRAVESTY – PSEUDO CHRISTMAS Walking through a shopping centre at Christmas time was a depressing trip. All around were merchants parading their wares with full commercialisation; fake Santa Claus(es) everywhere and the occasional songs being played – ...read more

  • Charles R. Swindoll, In The Tale Of The Tardy ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Jan 31, 2004
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    Charles R. Swindoll, in The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart and 1,501 Other Stories, told such a story of Dwight L. Moody. He tells the story like this. On one occasion, evangelist Dwight L. Moody had been the recipient of numerous benefits from the Lord. In his abundance, he was suddenly seized with the ...read more

  • Died And Rose Again

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 7, 2012
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    DIED AND ROSE AGAIN "The whole story of the Church is one which imitates the story of her divine Master; she dies and she rises again. She was buried in the catacombs; she rose again with Constantine. She died in the Dark Ages; she rose again with Charlemagne. She died ...read more

  • Power Of Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 18, 2004
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    1. Power of Prayer Story: From Preachers Stories a. A. T. Pierson relates the following story: "Some years ago in the great State of Minnesota, the Granary of the West, there came a scourge of grasshoppers that threatened to destroy the whole wheat crop. The Governor, who was a very devout ...read more

  • Sitting In The Doctor's Office, A Mother Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 26, 2004
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,542 views

    Sitting in the doctor’s office, a mother was trying to entertain her four year old daughter. She found a Bible story book with pictures in it. Flipping through the book, the mother would point to a picture and ask the little girl if she knew what story that was. Imagine the mother’s delight as ...read more

  • On The Other Side Of The Equation, John Piper ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 18, 2008
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    On the other side of the equation, John Piper observes: “This was one of Luke’s great passions—that Christians use their possessions for the needs of others and not just for their own comforts. Luke alone tells the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30–37). Luke alone tells the parable of the ...read more

  • The Mortal Work Of Art

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 16, 2012
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    THE MORTAL WORK OF ART Shelley Jackson is a writer. Yet, you cannot read anything she's written in a magazine, book or screen. Instead, you have to look at people. Her story is written on human skin. Her story is called "Skin." Jackson calls it "a mortal work of art." It is a fictional piece ...read more

  • Adam & Eve

    Contributed by John Bright on Jan 17, 2021
     | 3,892 views

    The story of Adam and Eve was being carefully explained in the children's Sunday School class. Following the story, the children were asked to draw some picture that would illustrate the story. Little Bobby was most interested and drew a picture of a car with three people in it. In the front ...read more