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  • Many Of These Rules For Evaluating The Behavior ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 8, 2004
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     | 3,453 views

    Many of these rules for evaluating the behavior and social skills of children in public schools are exemplery for how Christians should behave in the church family: Caring Cooperative Respectful Classroom • Being inclusive • Thoughfful, kind• Recognize feelings• Understand others’ feelings • ...read more

  • Robert Zemeckis, Not Only Directed The Polar ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Dec 25, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,062 views

    Robert Zemeckis, not only directed The Polar Express but helped write the screenplay. He said, “This is a story everyone can relate to. So many of us, as children or adults, have questioned our belief in something or gone through the process of having our faith tested and restored. Kids can take ...read more

  • Money Money Money  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Conant on Apr 3, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,820 views

    MONEY MONEY MONEY Money magazine declared money was the number one obsession of Americans. Newsweek reports there is a new plane of consciousness called "transcendental acquisition." Its cover story of 8/27/01 tells of a woman saddled with debt who charged a diving trip to French East Indies. ...read more

  • The Only One In Thirty-Five Years

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 5, 2009
     | 1,721 views

    THE ONLY ONE IN THIRTY-FIVE YEARS A soldier in the American Third Army was sent to a rest camp after a period of active service. When he returned to his outfit, he wrote a letter to General George Patton and thanked him for the splendid care he had received. General Patton wrote back that for ...read more

  • Unknown Inheritances  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,061 views

    UNKNOWN INHERITANCES A Michigan factory worker, earning less than ten thousand dollars a year, was an unknowing heir to a half-million dollars. When located by an investigator some years after his benefactor’s death, the worker explained that he had neither returned home nor kept in touch with his ...read more

  • Mourn For The Innocent

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 21, 2009
     | 1,710 views

    MOURN FOR THE INNOCENT This Christmas we celebrate the birth of the Saviour. Perhaps we should also mourn for the innocent lives that Herod sacrificed in order to avoid a threat to his throne. And we haven’t changed. Perhaps we should also mourn the millions of babies who are aborted each year. We ...read more

  • Hell, Literally

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 3, 2010
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    HELL, LITERALLY Now the word for "hell" is interesting. According to William Barclay, it literally referred to the Valley of Hinnom, to the South West of Jerusalem. William Barclay says "It was notorious as the place where Ahaz had introduced into Israel the fire worship of the heathen god Molech, ...read more

  • Hey Bob! Building Margin In Your Life

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
     | 2,558 views

    "HEY BOB!" BUILDING MARGIN IN YOUR LIFE In his book, The Short List: In A Life Full of Choices, There Are Only Four That Matter, Butterworth tells of the time when he came home to his family after another weekend speaking engagement when his then youngest son decided to start talking at the Monday ...read more

  • Ignorance Of One's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010
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     | 6,668 views

    Ignorance of One’s Inheritance A Michigan factory worker, earning less than ten thousand dollars a year, was an unknowing heir to a half-million dollars. When located by an investigator some years after his benefactor’s death, the worker explained that he had neither returned home nor kept in touch ...read more

  • Major Osipovich, An Air Force Pilot For The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2011
     | 3,528 views

    Major Osipovich, an Air Force pilot for the former USSR, planned to give a talk at his children's school about peace. That meant he would have to take some time off during the day to give his talk, so he volunteered for night duty. That’s how Major Osipovich found himself patrolling the skies over ...read more

  • Who Made Me?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,510 views

    WHO MADE ME? I love the story of the boy sitting on his father's lap as they were looking into a mirror. The boy said to his dad, "Dad, who made me?" He said, "God made you, son." He said, "Dad, who made you?" He said, "God made me, son." He said, "Dad, who made granddad?" He said, "God ...read more

  • Eve: The World's First Mother  PRO

    Contributed by Stan Szelkowski on May 5, 2011
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,862 views

    EVE: THE WORLD'S FIRST MOTHER 7 Advantages of Being 1st 1. No "in-laws!" 2. No one to be compared to (Eve never heard, "Johnny's mother...") 3. No bad culture or influences to fight against 4. No birthdays (of your own) to celebrate (perpetually 29 and holding!) 5. You hold the ...read more

  • Sometimes The Analogy Of The Caterpillar Turned ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 9, 2011
     | 2,919 views

    Sometimes the analogy of the caterpillar turned butterfly is over-used. But we can’t help it because it’s a powerful image of the metamorphosis we undergo in our relational development toward God. Our caterpillar state is one of restriction. We are bound by realities of time and space that ...read more

  • The Guilt Of Their Deaths

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 17, 2011
     | 3,448 views

    THE GUILT OF THEIR DEATHS The movie "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) is a movie that many of us have seen and is quite a memorable movie because of its portrayal of the D Day invasion of Normandy in World War II. The movie begins and ends with an elderly man visiting the Normandy memorial. The ...read more

  • Historical Impact Of The Word Of God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2012
     | 3,997 views

    HISTORICAL IMPACT OF THE WORD OF GOD In every genuine revival among God’s people the revealed word of the Lord has had a large place. It was so in Josiah’s day, and in the awakening under Hezekiah. It has been so throughout the Church period. It was the recovery of the Word that brought about the ...read more

  • Now She Understands  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 5, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,243 views

    NOW SHE UNDERSTANDS A lady had two children. The older son was 7 years old and the little girl about 2½ years old. She heard this terrible scream upstairs and as she ran upstairs she found out that the little girl was pulling the hair of her brother. He was crying out in pain. The mother ...read more

  • Thomas Manton On God's Word And Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 1, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,347 views

    THOMAS MANTON ON GOD'S WORD AND PRAYER Thomas Manton: Meditation on Scripture supplies us in prayer. Barrenness and leanness of soul is a very great defect, which God's children often complain of. One great reason is because the Word of God doth not dwell plenteously in them, so that in every ...read more

  • The 10 Tests Of Abraham

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Nov 6, 2012
     | 6,031 views

    THE 10 TESTS OF ABRAHAM Ten Tests of Abraham according to Maimonides: 1. God tells him to leave his homeland to be a stranger in the land of Canaan. (12.1) 2. Immediately after his arrival in the Promised Land, he encounters a famine. (12.10) 3. The Egyptians capture his beloved wife, Sarah, and ...read more

  • The Truth About The Wizard Of Oz

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 14, 2021
     | 1,300 views

    Did you know that “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” was written, not about the mythical Land of Oz but it was about Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people. The lyrics were written by Yip Harburg, the youngest of four children born to Russian-Jewish immigrants. His real name was Isidore Hochberg, ...read more

  • The Story's Told Of A Christian Man In The 1800s ...

    Contributed by Trevor Woodget on May 2, 2007
     | 1,578 views

    The story’s told of a Christian man in the 1800s who sent his wife and children ahead to England from the U.S.A. Tragically their ship had a terrible accident and it sank in the Atlantic, taking the life of his 3 daughters, although his wife survived. As soon as he received the news he set sail ...read more

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