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  • The Death Of C.s. Lewis In Nov. 22, 1963 Has For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Nov 4, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,380 views

    The death of C.S. Lewis in Nov. 22, 1963 has for years been overshadowed by the assisination of President John F. Kennedy on the same day. While the anniversary of Lewis’ death seldom gets much press, throngs of people crowd into Arlington Memorial Cemetary to watch the changing of the guard at the ...read more

  • Isn't It True That So Many Of Us Fear Death – ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 20, 2007
     | 1,068 views

    Isn’t it true that so many of us fear death – life is to be enjoyed and lived out, death appears to bring things to an abrupt end . ( That’s because death was never meant to be) yet we are even trying to humanly combat death, in the USA they have come up with something called Cryonics where ...read more

  • Lines To A Skeleton…  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Daugherty on Aug 7, 2001
    based on 111 ratings
     | 3,259 views

    LINES TO A SKELETON... The mss. of this poem was found in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, near a perfect human skeleton. It was first published around the early 1900’s It Has a Profound Message!!! Behold this ruin! ’Twas a skull, Once of ethereal spirit filled. This narrow ...read more

  • Listen To This From A Guy Named Per Nilsen, From ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Dec 15, 2009
     | 1,074 views

    Listen to this from a guy named Per Nilsen, from Burnsville, Minnesota: Last week my son, Bjorn, got sick. I took his temperature, and it was 102.5 degrees. The Children’s Advil came out. He slugged down the appropriate dose for his size. Forty-five minutes later the fever was down to 100. Just ...read more

  • It Is Safe To Die In Jesus

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 12, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,239 views

    IT IS SAFE TO DIE IN JESUS Max Lucado in his book Fearless, says, "There are many rooms in my Father's home, and I am going to prepare a place for you." We Westerners might miss the wedding images, but you can bet your sweet chuppah that Jesus' listener's didn't. This was a groom-to-bride ...read more

  • Jingle Bells  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 23, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,757 views

    JINGLE BELLS The two of them were best friends in seminary, studying together, helping each other financially when one or the other got in a pinch, they stood by each other through thick and thin. When they graduated from seminary both coincidentally received a church call within the same state: ...read more

  • Patsy Clairmont In Her Book "Under His Wings" ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Hamby on Aug 11, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,546 views

    Patsy Clairmont in her book “Under His Wings” tells a moving story of the reality of dealing with grief. “We buried my friend’s 26 year old son last week. An accidental gunshot took Jeff’s life. We have more questions than answers. We are offended at people who have all the answers and no ...read more

  • An Afflicted Life Can Save

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jul 22, 2009
     | 2,947 views

    AN AFFLICTED LIFE CAN SAVE Or consider the young lady suffering with terminal cancer. It’s a painful and hopeless disease. But instead of complaints and self-pity, she openly talked about her hope of eternal life in Jesus, about the inheritance in heaven Jesus won for her by dying on the cross, ...read more

  • A Person's Last Words Are Important. We Hang On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,413 views

    A person’s last words are important. We hang on to the dying words of those closest to us. We pass on the final words of great leaders for the next generation. It’s as if we are waiting for them to sum everything up in a few final statements. Some are famous: Nathan Hale (1755-1776) – "I only ...read more

  • How James Montgomery Boice Faced Faced Death From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 16,168 views

    How James Montgomery Boice Faced Faced Death from Cancer On May 7, 2000, Dr. Boice stood in this pulpit for the last time to speak about his cancer that would take his life in a month. Here is an excerpt: "If I were to reflect on what goes on theologically here, there are two things I would ...read more

  • When Dr. Stephen Olford Was Pastor Of The Calvary ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Sep 24, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,082 views

    When Dr. Stephen Olford was pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in New York City he had the opportunity of leading his brother who had been an agnostic most of his life to the Lord, as he lay in the hospital desperately ill. One day Dr. Olford was called to come to the hospital quickly and visit ...read more

  • How Much Time Do We Have ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
     | 4,316 views

    How Much Time Do We Have Left? A few years ago People Magazine published an article entitled, “Dead Ahead,” telling about a new clock that keeps track of how much time you have left to live. It calculates an average life span of 75 years for men and 80 years for women. So you program your sex and ...read more

  • Vernon And Joey

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Oct 13, 2012
     | 3,734 views

    It is fitting that we begin with a true story involving three main characters: an elderly man nearing death, a kindhearted woman in robust health, and a deceased boy very much alive. Five months earlier, physicians had diagnosed sixty-five-year-old Vernon Samuels with terminal lung cancer. They ...read more

  • The Life And Teaching Of Jesus By ...

    Contributed by Troy Borst on May 26, 2005
     | 2,515 views

    ILLUSTRATION... The Life and Teaching of Jesus by James S Stewart, Abingdon Press pg 49 “Finally, Jesus would never violate the freedom of men’s wills. And that, too, the leap from the pinnacle would have involved. It would have been overriding their calmer judgment. It would have been forcing ...read more

  • A Day In The Life Of A Shepherd  PRO

    Contributed by Ervin Kimrey on Jun 29, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 9,070 views

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SHEPHERD With a spring in his step and an eye to the sky, at sunrise, he makes straight for the sheep fold. As soon as he rattles the gate, he gives his morning call, greets the sheep, often by name, every sheep is on its feet. They spring toward the gate, with expectancy ...read more

  • "Victory In The Christian Life Is Not The ...

    Contributed by Roger Griffith on Oct 28, 2006
     | 4,519 views

    – “Victory in the Christian life is not the absence of conflict but the presence and protection of God in the ...read more

  • Real Life In The Bible

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jan 16, 2007
     | 2,316 views

    Listen to these facts about a few Bible heroes: · Adam blamed his wife for his problems. · Cain killed his brother, Able · After surviving the flood, Noah despaired and got drunk. (Now, think about it. After spending a year closed up in a floating barn, then finally getting out to see nothing ...read more

  • One Solitary Life  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Mar 31, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,126 views

    One Solitary Life Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a ...read more

  • Life Is A Gift, Not A Right  PRO

    Contributed by Linda Hewett on May 14, 2001
    based on 82 ratings
     | 2,513 views

    LIFE IS A GIFT, NOT A RIGHT Lord, help me remember that it is only by your power and will that I am even alive; and I can do nothing without you. You breathed your breath of life in me and allowed this speck of ’dust in the wind’ to exist. You are the moving of ...read more

  • For The Rest Of My Life!!  PRO

    Contributed by Ian Biss on Jul 2, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 4,292 views

    FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!! A little girl had been trying for months to learn the art of tying her shoes. She finally grasped the knack and was able to do it by herself. Her parents expected the child to be delighted, but were surprised by her disappointment. Her father asked why she was crying. ...read more

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