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  • A Group Of First Graders Decided That They Were ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 12, 2007
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,498 views

    ‘A group of first graders decided that they were going to produce their very own Christmas program and so they produced their own updated nativity story. All the major characters were there – Joseph, the shepherds, the wise men from afar… but where was Mary? Shortly after the production began, ...read more

  • Paul Powell Once Said "Many Churches Today Remind ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jun 4, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 1,635 views

    Paul Powell once said “Many churches today remind me of a laboring crew trying to gather in a harvest while they sit in the tool shed. They go to the tool shed every Sunday and they study bigger and better methods of agriculture, sharpen their hoes, grease their tractors, and then get up and ...read more

  • Joseph Stalin

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 4, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,833 views

    JOSEPH STALIN Despite the mind-numbing brutality of the Joseph Stalin regime in the Soviet Union, his propaganda machine did its job well. Many Russians hailed him as a hero and a savior, including a young school girl who was chosen to greet Stalin on one occasion. Years later, this woman ...read more

  • The First Sentence  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,311 views

    THE FIRST SENTENCE Paul Harvey once told about a group of scientists who were determined to teach a chimpanzee to write. For fourteen years, the scientists labored diligently and patiently with this chimpanzee, providing things in its cage to enable it to form certain syllables. Finally the day ...read more

  • The Story Is Told - Out Of Ww 2 & The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Klinedinst on Aug 9, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 1,146 views

    ILL. The story is told - out of WW 2 & the holocaust that took the lives of millions of people - of Solomon Rosenberg & his family. It is a true story. Solomon Rosenberg & his wife & their 2 sons & his mother & father were arrested & placed in a Nazi concentration camp. It was a labor camp, & the ...read more

  • Spurgeon In His Commentary On Ps. 126 Said, "The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 31, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,085 views

    Spurgeon in his commentary on Ps. 126 said, “The church must not only keep this seed in the storehouse, for such as come to inquire for it, but must also send her sowers forth to cast it among those who are ignorant of its value, or too indifferent to ask for it. “The church must not sit weeping ...read more

  • Works Vs. Fruit  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 15, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,694 views

    WORKS VS. FRUIT A machine in a factory works and turns out a product, but it could never manufacture "fruit." Fruit must grow out of life, and, in the case of the believer, it is the life of the Spirit (Gal. 5:25). When you think of "works," you think of effort, labor, strain, and toil; when you ...read more

  • Paul Powell Wrote In His Book The Complete ...  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Dec 1, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,056 views

    Paul Powell wrote in his book The Complete Disciple: "Many churches today remind me of a laboring crew trying to gather in a harvest while they sit in the tool shed. They go to the tool shed every Sunday and they study bigger and better methods of agriculture, sharpen their hoes, grease their ...read more

  • I Don't Want To Test ...

    Contributed by Charles Jones on Oct 21, 2008
     | 1,696 views

    I don’t want to Test God I don’t want to reject God All I want is for Him to bring me into that place where I can hear his voice. We need to be real with God. Just like God called Adam from the midst of the Garden. And asked “ Where are you?” The Savior is calling today and saying Come unto ...read more

  • He Gives More Grace

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 4, 2021
     | 1,926 views

    "He gives more grace when the burdens grow greater. He sends more strength when the labors increase, To added affliction He addeth His mercy, To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace. When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed 'ere the day is half ...read more

  • Great Pr: Companies Are Becoming More Creative In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
     | 1,655 views

    Great PR: Companies are becoming more creative in how they support philanthropy. More are offering employees paid time off for volunteer work. Such policies make for excellent public relations. In today’s still-tight labor market, companies are also betting that work-life benefits such as volunteer ...read more

  • A Mother's Place Is At Home: 66% Of American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,108 views

    A Mother’s Place Is At Home: 66% of American women with preschool children—and 56% of those with infants less than a year old—are in the labor force, but attitudes toward working mothers have changed little. Various research reports from the Lucile Packard foundation find that 75%-80% of Americans ...read more

  • Americans Are More Worried About Their Job ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,358 views

    Americans are more worried about their job prospects than at any time since ‘93, raising the risk that consumer spending may slow. In February, 11% of people said jobs were plentiful, while 59% said they were not plentiful and 30% said they were hard to get, the group announced this week, the ...read more

  • In A Report That Was Dated June 28, 2003, Abc ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2006
     | 1,062 views

    In a report that was dated June 28, 2003, ABC news correspondent Catherine Valenti reported that America has less vacation time than other industrialized nations do and that Americans usually do not take all of their vacation time. The report goes on to state that “U.S. workers aren’t guaranteed ...read more

  • Consider The Unsaved Millionaire Who Comes To The ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 11, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,715 views

    Consider the unsaved millionaire who comes to the close of a life that afforded him every luxury. Like all unsaved men, he has but one thought… “Life is almost over. Why do I feel as though I have missed something?" Indeed, a life lived without God misses the whole point of our existence. Man’s ...read more

  • God's People Have Never Been Called To Stick ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Winter on Jan 17, 2003
    based on 48 ratings
     | 2,239 views

    God’s people have never been called to stick their heads in the sand. “Church” and “apathy” do not belong in the same sentence. Our Methodist ancestors understood this. They fought to end slavery. They championed temperance. They worked to improve prison conditions. They built clinics, schools and ...read more

  • If We Believe We Are The Product Of Atoms, Time ...

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jun 5, 2003
     | 1,617 views

    If we believe we are the product of atoms, time and chance, we will conclude as Bertrand Russell: "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of ...read more

  • The Year Was 1630. The Place Was The ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Oct 29, 2003
    based on 11 ratings
     | 5,182 views

    The year was 1630. The place was the Massachusetts Bay along the Atlantic coast near the place known as Plymouth Rock. On board the ship the Arabella John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company challenged the Puritan settlers to establish a new kind of Christian community. ...read more

  • Nona Freeman, The Great Missionary, Once Related ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Sep 16, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,110 views

    Nona Freeman, the great missionary, once related this story about something that happened in Ghana: A student from a college in Carbondale, Illinois gave another student from Ghana a tract. In Ghana when a student goes away to college everyone in their tribe contributes something but when they ...read more

  • Someone Put It This Way: "A Preacher Teaches, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,860 views

    Someone put it this way: “A preacher teaches, though he must solicit his own class. He heals, though without pills or knife. He is sometimes a lawyer, often a social worker, something of an editor. He is a bit of a philosopher and entertainer. He is a salesman, a decorative piece for public ...read more

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