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  • Corrie Ten Boom, That Saintly Lady Who Endured ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2008
     | 1,725 views

    Corrie ten Boom, that saintly lady who endured such brutality from the Nazis in Ravensbruck during World War II, once said that she had learned to hold everything loosely in her hand. She said she discovered, in her years of walking with Him, that when she grasped things tightly, it ...read more

  • Hands On --- Show Your Key ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 21, 2009
     | 1,451 views

    Hands on --- show your key chain: PUSH – I have had this key chain for at least 9 years – It is a constant reminder to me about the importance of perseverance in prayer –especially through difficult circumstances. The acrostic meaning of the key chain is: P = Pray U = Until S = Something H = ...read more

  • Poem: Don't Quit  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jun 4, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,632 views

    POEM: DON’T QUIT When things go wrong as they sometime will, when the road your trudging seems all up hill, When funds are low and debts are high, and you want to smile but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit rest if you must but please ...read more

  • In China, Pastor Liu Ding Has Been To Prison So ...

    Contributed by John Harvey on Nov 9, 2005
     | 1,147 views

    In China, Pastor Liu Ding has been to prison so many times for following Christ that he cannot remember how many. Each time as he has been released he has been labeled “Non-repentant.” “I endured much hardship when I was in prison. Right at the beginning, my ears were beaten with an electric ...read more

  • Antonio Was An Italian Boy Who Loved Music, But ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
     | 1,381 views

    Antonio was an Italian boy who loved music, but whenever he tried to sing the music that was in his heart, it came out so badly that all his friends laughed at him. Next to singing, the boy loved to hear the violin. He had a pocketknife he always carried with him and he would whittle all sorts of ...read more

  • Antonio Was An Italian Boy Who Loved Music, But ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,413 views

    Antonio was an Italian boy who loved music, but whenever he tried to sing the music that was in his heart, it came out so badly that all his friends laughed at him. Next to singing, the boy loved to hear the violin. He had a pocketknife he always carried with him and he would whittle all sorts of ...read more

  • Sunday School Student And Far Side On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
     | 6,787 views

    Sunday School Student and Far Side on Jonah The story is told of a Sunday School teacher who was proud of her lesson for the day. She thought that she had presented the material quite nicely. Summing up, she asked her class, "And what do we learn from the story of Jonah and the great fish?" An ...read more

  • Do You Fear What You Need Not Fear?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2012
     | 4,864 views

    DO YOU FEAR WHAT YOU NEED NOT FEAR? A friend told me a story of some hunting dogs that he had. They were good hunting dogs that he used when he went to hunt pigs in the mountains. He shared however, that the dogs, as tough as they were, were deathly afraid of chickens. I couldn’t believe it, so I ...read more

  • Standing Up For Persecuted Christians

    Contributed by John Crowe on Oct 29, 2015
     | 4,200 views

    Michael Horowitz is a Jewish attorney in Washington, D.C. who has done more for persecuted Christians than almost any Christian I know. He recently wrote to me that from his long experience with efforts to help rescue persecuted Christians, his sad experience is that U. S. Christian leaders are ...read more

  • Poem: Don't Quit

    Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
     | 2,739 views

    POEM: DON’T QUIT When things go wrong as they sometime will, when the road your trudging seems all up hill, When funds are low and debts are high, and you want to smile but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit rest if you must but please don’t quit. Life is queer with it’s twist ...read more

  • James Packer: Sixfold Activity: Praising God ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Feb 11, 2003
    based on 31 ratings
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    James Packer: sixfold activity: praising God for all that he is and all his achievements; thanking him for his gifts and his goodness to us; asking him to meet our own and others’ needs; offering him our gifts, our service, and ourselves; learning of him from his word, read and preached, and ...read more

  • The Jewish Teachings Echo Peter's Words…the ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 24, 2006
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    The Jewish teachings echo Peter’s words…The Talmud says {Sepher Musar apud Drus. de Quaesitis, Ep. 54. & in loc.}, "the wife ought to take care of the family, to educate her children, to serve and minister to her husband in all things, "calling him her own lord"; which is ...read more

  • Mom Was Right!

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 28, 2011
     | 2,465 views

    Mom was Right! Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for everyone. Many studies have found a relationship between eating breakfast and learning ability, attention span, and general well-being. The American Dietetic Association (www.eatright.org) reports that adults who eat breakfast ...read more

  • One Evening, A Little Girl Was Saying Bedtime ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,537 views

    One evening, a little girl was saying bedtime prayers with her mother. “Dear Harold, please bless Mother and Daddy and all my friends,” she prayed. “Wait a minute,” interrupted her Mother. “Who’s Harold?” “That’s God’s name,” was the answer. “Who told you that was God’s name?” asked the ...read more

  • Just Stay In The Race

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Jul 29, 2008
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    JUST STAY IN THE RACE Charlton Heston had to learn how to drive a chariot with four horses for his part in the movie Ben Hur. After many weeks of chariot lessons he told the director, "I think I can drive the chariot all right, but I'm not at all sure I can actually win ...read more

  • I Remember Seeing A Carton Showing A Scholarly ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 25, 2008
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    I remember seeing a carton showing a scholarly man sitting on top of a great pile of books, looking at himself in a mirror, and above his head a question mark. He has mastered every subject of learning, but couldn’t answer the problem of himself! The infection of sin has warped human nature so ...read more

  • To Use An Analogy, Salvation Only Opens The Door ...

    Contributed by Todd Leupold on Feb 3, 2009
     | 2,746 views

    To use an analogy, salvation only opens the door to God's University of True Wisdom. It remains up to each of us to choose to attend His classes, study His teachings, follow His mentors, and pass His exams by fully and correctly applying what we have learned. This is what it means to 'have the mind ...read more

  • The Flaming Wedding Dress  PRO

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Feb 22, 2003
    based on 20 ratings
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    The Flaming Wedding Dress In one of my first weddings I learned to ask an important question. I now ask each bride if her dress has long sleeves. Why? In one particular wedding, the bride and groom approached the unity candle and as they were lighting the candle, the bride's sleeve caught ...read more

  • You Remember The Singing Group Milli Vanilli? ...

    Contributed by Abraham Shanklin on May 18, 2003
    based on 1 rating
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    You remember the singing group Milli Vanilli? They were a big sensation until someone exposed them as a fake because the guys were lip-synching instead of singing themselves. I’d like to suggest that the lesson to be learned for us is instead of trying to lip-synch the Christian life, faking our ...read more

  • A Lady Called American Airlines And Asked The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Glenn Hickey on Jun 10, 2003
    based on 12 ratings
     | 3,703 views

    A lady called American Airlines and asked the reservation clerk, "How long does it take to get from Dallas-Fort Worth to Frankfort, Germany?" The clerk had to wait a moment for the information to come up on her computer screen, so she said, "Just a minute." The caller responded, "Thanks very ...read more