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  • A Guest In A Hotel In L.a. Told The Desk Clerk ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,840 views

    A guest in a hotel in L.A. told the desk clerk he wanted to take a walking tour of the city but was terrified by all he had heard about the traffic. He asked about the safest time to venture out. The clerk was equal to the task. He said the safest time is Sunday morning. All the Jewish folk are ...read more

  • I Was Reading About The Rev. George Whitefield. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,870 views

    I was reading about the Rev. George Whitefield. He was the greatest preacher that the Church of England ever had. But he also worked well with Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and anyone else who believed in the gospel. One day, a colleague asked him, “Why do you do this? Why do you work with ...read more

  • There Is Your Revival

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Jun 22, 2007
     | 4,346 views

    *ILLUSTRATION* When my father walked into church that Easter Sunday morning and sat down, God told the pastor of that church, there is your revival. The pastor and another gentleman from the church went over to our home the next week to visit my Dad and to invite him back. 5 weeks after that ...read more

  • Maybe The Most Famous Of All The Unexpected ...  PRO

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Jul 27, 2007
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    Maybe the most famous of all the unexpected heroes of 911 was a 32 year old Oracle salesmen named Todd Beamer, the determined Christian on flight 93 who called up the GTE operator to find out what was happening, prayed the Lord’s Prayer with her over the phone, added, “Jesus, help me,” then said, ...read more

  • Two Preachers And Two Signs

    Contributed by Johnny Knight on Aug 11, 2007
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    Two Preachers and Two Signs Two preachers were standing beside the mountan road holding two signs.  One sign said "turn around before it is too late" and the other said "the end is near".  All the sudden a car came speeding around the curve and past the two preachers holding their signs and never ...read more

  • Many People Talk About Near Death Experiences: ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 13, 2007
     | 1,069 views

    Many people talk about near death experiences: Some people have even experienced near death experiences and they find themselves in a dark tunnel approaching a marvellous light. Many medical experts will debunk and explain these near death experiences as mere neurological actions of the brain and ...read more

  • Did You Hear About The Middle School In New ...

    Contributed by Jeffery Russell on Dec 17, 2007
     | 1,339 views

    Did you hear about the middle school in New Jersey that canceled a field trip to a performance of “A Christmas Carol” because some might be offended by the play’s Christian themes? As columnist Cal Thomas points out, this is not really even a Christian story, though it does contain elements of ...read more

  • Our Situation Tends To Be Like A Guy Who Comes ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
     | 1,136 views

    Our situation tends to be like a guy who comes into the doctor – “Hey, doctor, I’m having these pains. I think I need a prescription.” And the doctor, who has studied the situation and who knows what needs to happen looks at you and says, “It’s a good thing you came in. You need major ...read more

  • We Have All Heard The Expression, "It's Enough ...

    Contributed by Rick D Brackett on Feb 15, 2008
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    We have all heard the expression, “It’s enough to make a preacher cuss”. There’s the story of a boy trying to sell a broken down lawnmower. The local pastor walked up and he was able to persuade him to buy it. The pastor pulled on the rope several times but the mower wouldn’t start. The boy told ...read more

  • Listen To This Article Found In Today In The ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 29, 2008
     | 1,211 views

    • Listen to this article found in Today in the Word, June 3, 1989. He made free use of Christian vocabulary. He talked about the blessing of the Almighty and the Christian confessions which would become the pillars of the new government. He assumed the earnestness of a man weighed down by historic ...read more

  • Salt Is Used For Healing 2000 Years Ago There ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    Salt Is Used for healing 2000 years ago there wasn’t a drug store on every corner. If a soldier was hurt in battle, if a farmer was gored by a bull, if a child fell down and scraped his knee there was a common treatment. The wound was bathed in salt and water. And it proved to be an excellent ...read more

  • On The Coast Of Scotland, At The Top Of A Steep ...

    Contributed by Betty Johnson on Aug 18, 2008
     | 1,484 views

    On the coast of Scotland, at the top of a steep and dangerous cliff there stood a little company of rescuers planning how they might let someone down over the edge in order to search for the one who was lost and to take a rope to him. They wanted to use a small shepherd boy who was used to the ...read more

  • The Famous Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
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    The famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, designed some unusual buildings. On a university campus in Florida stands a library designed by Wright with an extremely low ceiling, so low that if you are six feet tall and not careful, you keep bumping your head. A man who was having this trouble asked ...read more

  • What Good Are You?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jan 12, 2009
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    "WHAT GOOD ARE YOU?" Hideyoshi, a Japanese warlord who ruled over Japan in the late 1500s, commissioned a colossal statue of Buddha for a shrine in Kyoto. It took 50,000 men five years to build, but the work had scarcely been completed when the earthquake of 1596 brought the roof of the shrine ...read more

  • Responsible Membership  PRO

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jan 26, 2009
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    RESPONSIBLE MEMBERSHIP Author Jerry Bridges comments in an article on commitment, "As I have watched the parade of people through our church, and other churches, I wonder why so few commit themselves to a local body of believers in a significant way. Many sit and soak and do little else, and they ...read more

  • Follow Me (Christ's Steps)

    Contributed by William Akehurst on May 5, 2009
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    FOLLOW ME. (Christ’s Steps) It is reported that St. Wenceslaus, King of Bohmia, one winters night, going to his devotions in the snow barefooted, his servant, who endeavoured to imitate his master’s piety, began to faint, through the inclemency of the weather, till the king commanded him to follow ...read more

  • Follow Me. (Christ's ...

    Contributed by William Akehurst on May 5, 2009
     | 3,991 views

    FOLLOW ME. (Christ’s Steps) It is reported that St. Wenceslaus, King of Bohmia, one winters night, going to his devotions in the snow barefooted, his servant, who endeavoured to imitate his master’s piety, began to faint, through the inclemency of the weather, till the king commanded him to follow ...read more

  • The Harry Wilson Story

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jun 3, 2009
     | 1,784 views

    THE HARRY WILSON STORY When I came to faith in Jesus in 1985 the vicar at the church was another Wilson, Harry Wilson, not Harold Wilson! He told us his story of believing in Jesus, being selected for ordination training and heading off to college. Whilst at Bible College he realised that he was ...read more

  • Remember No Computer Has Seized You Except What ...

    Contributed by David Hodgin on Jun 30, 2009
     | 1,987 views

    Remember no computer has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he has provided a back-button, a delete-key and an off-switch so that you will have a way out. NO book has ever seized you that ...read more

  • A Problem Worthy Of God

    Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Jan 18, 2010
     | 3,256 views

    A PROBLEM WORTHY OF GOD Martin Luther says the fact that a moral and just God can let the guilty go unpunished is "a problem worthy of God." Any judge who sets a guilty person free with no punishment is immoral and unjust. Suppose a Judge has a man before him who is guilty, but has truly had a ...read more

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