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  • Faithful To Return—communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 23, 2002
    based on 29 ratings
     | 5,995 views

    FAITHFUL TO RETURN--Communion Meditation W. Paul Jones tells the story of women who shared this story from her childhood as a polio victim: “When my mother left me in Sunday School, I always asked to wear her locket. She thought I like the locket. That wasn’t it at all. I knew I wasn’t worth ...read more

  • Of Course Most Of You Know That Country Legend ...

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Sep 15, 2003
     | 1,799 views

    Of course most of you know that country legend Johnny Cash died early Friday morning. Famous for such songs as “I Walk the Line”, “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Ring of Fire”, the 71-year-old entertainer died of complications of diabetes, just 4 months after his wife, June Carter Cash, passed away. His ...read more

  • Recently I Watched A Show On The History Channel ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Raulerson on Oct 6, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,469 views

    Recently I watched a show on the history channel which biographied one of the greatest counterfeiters even known, Mark Hofman. As a pre-med student in Salt Lake City he claimed to find a letter which came to be known as the “White Salamander Letter” which discredited the Mormon Church. He ...read more

  • Writer Amos Wells Reflected Our Need For Thorough ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 2,146 views

    Writer Amos Wells reflected our need for thorough Bible study in this verse: I supposed I knew my Bible, Reading peacemeal, hit or miss, Now a bit of John or Matthew, Now a snatch of Genesis, Certain chapters of Isaiah, Certain Psalms (the twenty-third), Twelfth of Romans, first of Proverbs ...read more

  • Airline Travelers With Confirmed Tickets Are Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2009
     | 4,347 views

    Airline Travelers With Confirmed Tickets Are Not Anxious, Unlike Those Flying Standby Bill Hybels, in his book Too Busy Not To Pray wrote Sometime when you’re in an airport, observe the difference between passengers who hold confirmed tickets and those who are on standby. The ones with confirmed ...read more

  • At High School, I Had A Sports Teacher Who Was ...

    Contributed by Amanda Wilson on Oct 20, 2007
     | 1,530 views

    At high school, I had a sports teacher who was very good at teaching people how to do things. One day my sports class was in the gym and a good friend of mine, Pam, was on the big trampoline. I was standing waiting for my turn when this sports teacher came up and offered to teach Pam how to do more ...read more

  • The Last Are First

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Nov 18, 2007
     | 1,608 views

    The Last Are First There is a couple who lived here in Anchorage, who lived in one of the most broken down trailers I have ever seen. There home was, clean, and well kept but the trailer sure had seen better days – a long time ago. Some friends who had a little boy were looking at buying a house, ...read more

  • Baring My Soul  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Apr 28, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,939 views

    BARING MY SOUL When we carried our son and daughter-in-law to the airport in Birmingham, as they left to go overseas, I cried. I had told myself not to cry. Get this picture. My oldest son felt led of God to spend his life serving in southeast Asia. He was about to leave. I knew that for the rest ...read more

  • Philip Yancey, In His Book, The Jesus I Never ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Green on Dec 19, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,660 views

    Philip Yancey, in his book, The Jesus I Never Knew, says, “.....it seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for his entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism. I am impressed that when the ...read more

  • We Are Not Told That Jesus Ever Taught His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,166 views

    We are not told that Jesus ever taught his disciples how to preach, but he taught them how to pray. He wanted them to have power with God; then He knew they would have power with man. ...read more

  • Take Up Your Cross

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 5, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,499 views

    TAKE UP YOUR CROSS People in Jesus’ day knew what it meant to "take up" a cross. They saw scores of criminals bearing the cross to the place where they were to be executed, and they witnessed scores of crucifixions, some even by the side of ...read more

  • The Big Feather Bed  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 27, 2002
    based on 76 ratings
     | 1,676 views

    “The Big Feather Bed” Dr. J.C. Massee was pastor of Tremont Temple in Boston but he was reared in Georgia. He said his mother was the sweetest woman in the world, but there was one thing she was very strict about. She wouldn’t let her children play on her snow-white feather beds. She prided ...read more

  • The Cry From The Cross  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 13, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,876 views

    THE CRY FROM THE CROSS Mark's Gospel reveals the one cry recorded by Jesus at the crucifixion. Mark's Gospel is written from Peter's view point and it only emphasizes one agonizing lonely cry. Why would Peter only include in his account the one cry of Jesus on the cross? Could it be that Peter ...read more

  • Empty Offering Plate  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 12, 2001
    based on 100 ratings
     | 5,764 views

    Illus.: “Empty Offering Plate” An artist who wished to paint a picture of a “dead church” visited a sanctuary with beautiful stained-glass windows and a magnificent pipe organ. Every pew was filled, but the offering plate, lying in the vestibule, was marked “FOR ...read more

  • Wise Men Searching

    Contributed by Charles Jones on Sep 12, 2011
     | 4,986 views

    WISE MEN SEARCHING In Biblical times wise men searched for the savior. They searched by looking for his star. When they found the star, they knew that God's promise had been fulfilled. Today, wise men are still searching. They are searching, not necessarily for a ...read more

  • Henry Winstanley Never For Lacked For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,441 views

    Henry Winstanley never for lacked for confidence. Becoming a man as England was becoming the mercantile juggernaut in the late 1600s, Henry Winstanley was a man who knew how to make a name for himself. He made his money as a showman, and then invested it in ships. A proud man, he knew that ...read more

  • Dark And Stormy Night

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 16, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,216 views

    DARK AND STORMY NIGHT In the Peanuts comic strips, Snoopy often tries to be an author. In one particular strip He's shown on his doghouse typing a novel. He begins his story with, "It was a dark and stormy night." That's the way he always begins his stories. Lucy comes and bluntly shouts, "You ...read more

  • Just Watch!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,915 views

    JUST WATCH! A young boy looked up at his grandfather and wondered aloud, "Grandpa, how do you live for Jesus?" The respected grandfather stooped down and quietly told the boy, "Just watch." As the years went by the grandfather was an example to the boy of how to follow Jesus. He stayed ...read more

  • Momma And The Toast  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Drake on Apr 14, 2008
    based on 17 ratings
     | 7,947 views

    Momma and the toast A Sunday School teacher asked her class if they knew the difference between kindness and loving kindness. One little girl said she knew the difference. She told the teacher that kindness is like when you ask your mother for some toast and she gives it to you, but loving kindness ...read more

  • In The Power Of The Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 30, 2002
    based on 29 ratings
     | 3,944 views

    IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT As a young man, Oswald Chambers, who wrote the materials that became My Utmost For His Highest, battled a persistent sense of barrenness in his Christian life. He finally wrote: I was getting desperate. I knew no one who had what I wanted; in fact I did not know what ...read more