Contributed by David Haun on Dec 27, 2003
based on 3 ratings
| 1,520 views
Few [called by Christ] would have been considered wise in the world’s eyes. Few were powerful or influential decision makers. Few were wealthy. Among the earliest disciples, five were fishermen, one was a tax collector, and the careers of the rest are unknown. None (with the possible exception of
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bruce Ball on Aug 21, 2004
based on 6 ratings
| 2,997 views
A few minutes ago, I told you we were chosen by God. That is wonderful, but being chosen by itself does not help us much. That is only the first step. After God chooses us, there is something that we must do. We must accept it. Let me explain about being chosen and then accepting that choice.
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
*other
based on 4 ratings
| 5,576 views
Video Illustration: Movie Pay It Forward.
Clip is from the beginning of the movie were a reporter becomes the recipient of a random act of kindness after his car is smashed at a police domestic scene. The reporter is given a new jaguar by a stranger to replace his old wrecked mustang. He responds
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 27, 2000
based on 215 ratings
| 4,251 views
I read an amusing story about the first Duke of Wellington. An inventor was trying to interest him in a bulletproof waistcoat he had made. It was absolutely marvellous and could save the great man’s life if somebody tried to assassinate him. The Iron Duke asked the man to put it on, and he
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Robert Jones on Dec 29, 2000
based on 124 ratings
| 4,039 views
John Maxwell—in his book “ Be a people person”-----states—“Until I am committed, there is a hesitancy, a chance to draw back. But the moment I definitely commit myself, then God moves also, and a whole steam of events erupt. All manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings, persons, and material
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 146 ratings
| 4,690 views
There was once a pastor who had a little five year old daughter. Now the little girl notice that every time her dad stood behind the pulpit, and was getting ready to preach he would bow his head for moment before he began to preach. The little girl noticed that he did this every time.
So one
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Bible Church
Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jan 12, 2001
based on 106 ratings
| 2,803 views
Soon after Jack Benny died, George Burns was interviewed on TV. Burns commented, "Jack and I had a wonderful friendship for nearly 55 years. Jack never walked out on me when I sang a song, and I never walked out on him when he played the violin. We laughed together, we played together, we
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Bill Prater on Jan 21, 2001
based on 120 ratings
| 3,495 views
In an article dated 4/9/97, a writer for USA Today wrote:
Scientists now say that a series of slits, not a giant gash, sank the Titanic.
The opulent, 900-foot cruise ship sank in 1912 on its first voyage, from England to New York. Fifteen hundred people died in the worst maritime disaster of
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
based on 81 ratings
| 2,764 views
It would be easy for MVP quarterback Curt Warner to give a "stay with it and pull yourself up by your own boot strap like I did" speech, but he doesn’t. According to Warner, much of the credit for his remarkable turn around goes to his wife Brenda, and his relationship to Jesus Christ.
At a
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
based on 126 ratings
| 3,472 views
One of my favorite comedies is "Groundhog Day", a make-believe story about
a weather man, Phil Conners who has a bad attitude, even worse manners, and a razor tongue. He was was reporting on Groundhog Day from a small town he cared little about. The fuss the folks were paying to a groudhog he
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible