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  • Relaxing Our Grip On Troubles

    Contributed by Jerry Stephens on Mar 18, 2017
     | 3,960 views

    Recently I was praying at bedtime. I felt overwhelmed by the things I didn’t get done that day; things that would be facing me the moment I opened my eyes the following morning. As I recited my litany of woes, I sensed the Holy Spirit asking me which among them I thought he couldn’t handle. ...read more

  • Legalism, Rules And Judging Others

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Nov 12, 2018
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,320 views

    Charles Price (pastor of The Peoples Church in Toronto) tells the story of a friend of his who went to the Netherlands to share the gospel with Dutch people and became friends with many Dutch Christians. He was amazed to find out how distressed Dutch Christians were with the state of American ...read more

  • Fallen

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Sep 23, 2019
     | 1,084 views

    Fallen I wanted to be the best you ever had. Now, I am a lonesome, loathsome cad. I once drank in Your holy truth. Now, I drown myself in gin and vermouth. I told others of the sacrifice you gave. Now, it is my soul You need to save. I sang the power of the Blood Then dragged you Name ...read more

  • Somebody’s Happy Somewhere.

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 13, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,554 views

    A grumpy old man and his wife . . . While on a road trip, an elderly couple stopped at a roadside restaurant for lunch. After finishing their meal, they left the restaurant, and resumed their trip. When leaving, the elderly woman unknowingly left her glasses on the table, and she didn't miss ...read more

  • Two Days

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,544 views

    TWO DAYS There are two days we should not worry about. One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we ...read more

  • Poem  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 4, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,401 views

    POEM Jesus! whose blood so freely stream’d To satisfy the law’s demand; By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem’d, Before the Father’s face I stand. To reconcile offending man, Make Justice drop her angry rod; What creature could have form’d the plan, Or who fulfill it but a God? No drop remains of all ...read more

  • In 1863 President Lincoln Designated April 30th ...  PRO

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Sep 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,004 views

    In 1863 President Lincoln designated April 30th as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer. Let me read a portion of his proclamation on that occasion: "It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, who owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and ...read more

  • There's A Bit Of Verse In The Form Of A Prayer ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
     | 1,184 views

    There’s a bit of verse in the form of a prayer that I think is appropriate: Slow me down, Lord. Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind, Steady my hurried pace with the eternal reach of time, Give me amid the confusion of the day the calmness of the everlasting hills, Break the ...read more

  • A Couple Got Married And The Bride Brought The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Greene on Nov 11, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,018 views

    A couple got married and the bride brought the bulk of the financial support into the marriage. And she knew it too. She always had a way of reminding her husband that she was the source of their financial security. One day as they were driving along she was in an especially proud mood and she ...read more

  • Sure Is Hot Down Here  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 3, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,607 views

    We have many jokes about the subject of hell. Consider the supposed story of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his ...read more

  • The Lord's Army

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 13, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,248 views

    The Hinsons sang: I’m enlisted as a soldier in this mighty army band, marching out to battle with my weapon in my hand, heard the captain give the orders and they don’t include retreat, We’re crossing o’er the border to a land of no defeat. Now tell me who’s gonna fight and who is gonna win, who’s ...read more

  • If There Is One Emotion That I Have Been Familiar ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 3, 2008
     | 1,130 views

    If there is one emotion that I have been familiar with, it is anger. I lived with anger for most of my childhood and teenage years. It became quite comfortable and familiar so much as that most other responses such as disappointment and fear became masked by my anger. Now what I am telling you ...read more

  • I Have This Attic Over My House. There Are All ...

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Feb 26, 2009
     | 1,795 views

    I have this attic over my house. There are all sorts of things up there; most of them non-life forms. Among the assorted things I do not understand is a myriad of electrical and mechanical devices. The most evil of those is a disconnect for the two zone heat and air units. It’s a safety device. ...read more

  • Somebody Came Running Up To John Wesley And Said, ...

    Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,570 views

    Somebody came running up to John Wesley and said, "Your house just burned down!" The great preacher replied, "I don’t have a house. I manage a house for the Lord, His house just burned down. Since I’m His son, and He wants me covered, I guess He’ll find me another place to live." That is how we ...read more

  • The Prodigal Son In The Key Of F

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 14, 2022
     | 2,214 views

    Feeling footloose and frisky, a foolish fellow forced his father to fork over his fourth of the family farthings and flew far to a foreign field where he fast frittered his father's fortune feasting foolishly with faithless friends. Fleeced by his fellows and folly, and facing famine he found ...read more

  • Slowly I Have Realized That I Do Not Have To Be ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,301 views

    Slowly I have realized that I do not have to be qualified to do what I am asked to do. That I just have to go ahead and do it, even though I can’t do it as well as I think it ought to be done. This is ...read more

  • One Question That Is Often Asked To Challenge ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Leiter on Jul 14, 2002
    based on 48 ratings
     | 2,230 views

    One question that is often asked to challenge believers to live out their faith is the question that asks, “Would you obey God even if nobody was watching?” That’s a good question to ask, but that circumstance is technically impossible. There is no place anyone ...read more

  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The Soul  PRO

    Contributed by Clyde Grimes on Jan 7, 2003
    based on 35 ratings
     | 2,540 views

    One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. ’Tis the set of the sail and not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through life: ’Tis the set of ...read more

  • Step Mom- The Scenario Is Found At The End Of The ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 15, 2003
     | 1,601 views

    Step Mom- The scenario is found at the end of the movie where she says things to her children that are meant to last the rest of their lives. She is dieing of cancer and she wants to leave them with words of comfort and principles for life. Moms on the go know that their faithful instruction makes ...read more

  • I Said To The Man Who Stood At The Gate Of The ...

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Apr 17, 2004
     | 1,977 views

    I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light and safer ...read more