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  • Christmas Eve, 1953

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Christmas eve, 1953 New Zealand’s worst railway disaster occurred on Christmas Eve, 1953. The Wellington-Auckland night express plunged into the flooded Whangaehu River just west of Tangiwai, near Waiouru. Of the 285 people on board, 151 were killed. The tragedy left a nation in mourning and ...read more

  • Christ Will Rise

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 14, 2010
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    Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope ...read more

  • Order Of The Wooden Cross! ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 9, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,606 views

    Order of the Wooden Cross! (10.11.05--Sacrifice!--1 Chronicles 21:22-24) Recently I was asked this question: “What have you sacrificed lately in light of all the sorrow, desolation and bloodshed that have gripped the world?” It was a challenge from a friend of mine who regularly gives to ...read more

  • In The Book Of Revelation, Jesus Himself Speaks ...

    Contributed by John Cuddeford on Nov 1, 2007
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    In the book of Revelation, Jesus himself speaks to them. He commends them for many things. But then he adds this sobering rebuke. “Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. ” (Rev. 2:4) WHO is your FIRST LOVE? Over the years, have the pursuits, the distractions, the ...read more

  • An Arabian Fable

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Oct 3, 2005
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    There is an Arabian fable which tells about a man who went to his neighbor and asked to borrow a rope. "I can’t lend it, because I am using it to tie up a pile of sand." his neighbor answered. "But," the man came back, "you can’t tie up a pile of sand with a rope." To which his neighbor slyly ...read more

  • Keeping Compassion  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 23, 2004
    based on 21 ratings
     | 6,753 views

    KEEPING COMPASSION Finding his newly-appointed pastor standing at his study window in the church weeping as he looked over the inner city’s tragic conditions, a layman sought to console him: "Don’t worry. After you’ve been here a while, you’ll get used to it." Responded the minister, "Yes, I ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of A Teacher Who Gave Her Class ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on May 12, 2008
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    The story is told of a teacher who gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a written test, she included this question: "My full name has six letters. The first one is M. I pick up things. What am I?" When the test papers were turned in, the teacher ...read more

  • The Plight Of The Caterpillar

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Feb 22, 2026
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    It is hopeless, cried the caterpillar, I will never be able to soar like that he said, as he admired the beautiful butterfly which gently fluttered it wings and took off. How beautiful it appeared. What a boring branch-crawling worm I am he lamented. My only purpose is bird food. If only the ...read more

  • A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Speaker, Jill Briscoe tells this story: Not too long ago I was babysitting one of our three, 3-year-old grandchildren. In our family, we had twins and a single birth all within 24 hours. We call them Search, Destroy, and Demolition. I was to baby-sit Demolition. As I waved good bye to his parents, ...read more

  • Jesus And Satan Had An Arguement Before God ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Mills on Oct 13, 2002
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    Jesus and Satan had an arguement before God about which one could type on a computer faster and better. God commanded a contest. Satan was typing so fast that the keyboard was smoking, and sparks were flying from his fingertips. Jesus was not behind, but he kept doing something else that Satan ...read more

  • Leading You Home

    Contributed by Dj Castilleja on May 5, 2008
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    LEADING YOU HOME In the movie "Apollo 13," astronaut Jim Lovell (played by Tom Hanks) is interviewed by a reporter prior to launch. He asks if Lovell has ever been in a tight situation. Lovell responds that once, as a Navy pilot in a wartime situation, his plane's instrument panel had been shot ...read more

  • God Delivers A North Korean Pastor's Son Through ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    God Delivers A North Korean Pastor’s Son Through His Honesty Duk-Soo was found by North Korean soldiers in the family cellar on November 20, 1950. He and his father, a Presbyterian pastor for 42 years, were taken to prison and told they would be executed in the morning. His father told him they ...read more

  • Mom's Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
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    MOM'S CHURCH Four scholars were arguing over Bible translations. One said he preferred the King James Version because of its beauty, eloquent old English. Another said he preferred the American Standard Bible for its literalism, the way it moves the reader from passage to passage with confident ...read more

  • A Young Boy Went With His Parents Touring Around ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Jun 9, 2010
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    A young boy went with his parents touring around Europe one summer. Part of their tour included visits to the great old cathedrals of the past. As he visited cathedral after cathedral he was impressed by the massive stained glass portraits of the disciples and of other saints as he stood in their ...read more

  • The Definition Of A Saint  PRO

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Oct 20, 2011
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    THE DEFINITION OF A SAINT A young boy went with his parents touring around Europe one summer. Part of their tour included visits to the great old cathedrals of the past. As he visited cathedral after cathedral, he was impressed by the massive stained glass portraits of the disciples and other ...read more

  • Meeting William Shatner

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 27, 2020
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    “When I was a kid, my dad and I were driving somewhere on a nice, sunny afternoon…. My window was rolled down. The town we live in isn’t known to be a destination for celebs of any kind. We pull up to a light; we’re the second car from the front. A polished limo pulls up next to us, and the window ...read more

  • Movie Usher

    Contributed by Jim Heidebrecht on Jun 21, 2007
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    MOVIE USHER: Use their flashlight to show you the way in a dark place. If something goes wrong, everyone looks to the guy who has been identified as knowing the way – by his jacket, his name tag, his silly hat, and his light There was a young man working as an usher, and his manager asked ...read more

  • The Christian Life Is A ‘hidden Life' As Far As ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
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    “The Christian life is a ‘hidden life’ as far as the world is concerned, because the world does not know Christ (see I John 4: 1-6). Our sphere of life is not this earth, but heaven; and the things that attract us and excite us belong to heaven, not ...read more

  • Our Spiritual Heritage In Missions Traces Back To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Apr 5, 2006
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    Our spiritual heritage in missions traces back to Adoniram Judson who lived from 1788-1850. Years ago I read his biography. Judson lived the suffering life of the apostle Paul. He was one of the first to bring the Christian message to the Burmese. When war broke out with England, the Burmese ...read more

  • The Concept Of

    Contributed by David Hodgin on Jun 30, 2009
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    The concept of “The Six Degrees of Separation” is worth bringing up here. In this concept, people who study such things say that everyone in the world is at most six acquaintances apart from every other person in the world. It is referred to as “The Human Web” and works like this, I know someone, ...read more