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  • Living Now

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
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     | 4,718 views

    “Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.” - Soren Kierkegaard We all know at least one person that, when given something really beautiful as a gift, will open a closet and store it away for “a special day” or “for when company comes over.” When you gave that ...read more

  • The Living Word

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
     | 4,199 views

    Ravi Zacharias tells of ministering in Vietnam in 1971, and one of his interpreters was Hien Pham, an energetic young Christian. He had worked as a translator with the American forces, and was of immense help both to them and to missionaries such as myself. Hien and I traveled the length of the ...read more

  • A Living Memorial

    Contributed by James Chandler on May 29, 2018
     | 3,997 views

    When our children were young, we took a vacation to Washington D.C. We saw the many different memorials. The highlight of our trip was Arlington National Cemetery. It was quite a moment standing there with my wife and children watching the changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier. ...read more

  • On Living And Dying

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Jun 22, 2021
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     | 3,095 views

    Martin Luther King Jr. on living, dying and his funeral. If any of you are around what I have to meet my day, I don’t want along funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long. Every now and then I wonder what I would want them to say. Tell them not to ...read more

  • Living Or Dead

    Contributed by Max Furman on Dec 24, 2021
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     | 1,443 views

    On Easter Sunday, religious leaders and the disciples had all witnessed the same event. However, both saw something differently. A few years ago, I was getting ready to leave the house for a run and as my wife and I talked, I learned that she was soon going to run an errand. Jokingly, I told her ...read more

  • Victorious Living

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Feb 13, 2023
     | 2,467 views

    2 weeks ago as I sat in the office of my lawyer, he showed me a photocopy of a handwritten letter from Abraham Lincoln that was written to my lawyer’s great-great uncle. The uncle happened to be the president of the University of Pennsylvania at that time. He was involved in writing a pamphlet on ...read more

  • A Pet Sin

    Contributed by Paul Steen on Dec 9, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,153 views

    A family in Texas had a little lion cub. Somehow, they had gotten it and they thought they would raise it as a pet and keep it in their apartment. One night they stepped across the hall to visit their friends while their baby boy slept in his crib. When they came back to their apartment, they ...read more

  • Influence The World  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 3,574 views

    INFLUENCE THE WORLD Whenever I held my newborn babe in my arms, I used to think what I did and what I said to him would have an influence, not only on him, but on everyone he meets, not for a day, or a year, but for all time and for eternity. What a challenge, what a joy! SOURCE: Rose Kennedy, ...read more

  • No Peace In The World  PRO

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 25, 2006
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    No Peace in the world The Society of International law in London states this incredible statistic: since the beginning of recorded history, the entire world has been at peace less than 8% of the time. Over the last 4000 years of history, only 268 years saw peace. Moreover in excess of 8000 peace ...read more

  • A World In Turmoil

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 25, 2007
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     | 1,904 views

    A World In Turmoil The Personnel Journal reported this incredible statistic: since the beginning of recorded history, the entire world has been at peace less than eight percent of the time! In its study, the periodical discovered that of 3530 years of recorded history, only 286 years saw peace. ...read more

  • World Records

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jul 18, 2011
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    WORLD RECORDS Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Quasimodo were all talking one day. Sleeping Beauty said, "I believe myself to be the most beautiful girl in the world." Tom Thumb said, "I must be the smallest person in the world." Quasimodo said, "I absolutely have to be the ugliest person in the ...read more

  • This Crazy World

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 9, 2009
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    THIS CRAZY WORLD George Bernard Shaw once quipped, "If other planets are inhabited, then they must be using the earth for their insane asylum." Funny but if we look at the world, it doesn’t seem so far-fetched does it? I’m ...read more

  • Light Of The World

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 25, 2008
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     | 9,219 views

    A boatman and a scholar were once travelling on a boat. During the journey, the scholar asked the boatman, "Do you know philosophy?" "No," he replied. "Do you know psychology?". "No." "What about geology?" "Nope!" "I suppose you don’t know accountancy, huh?" "No, not at all." "Hm... ...read more

  • Fallen World

    Contributed by Tim White on Feb 15, 2013
     | 3,195 views

    FALLEN WORLD Crime rate, growth in atrocities of crime, world tension, wars (and as the Bible predicted, rumors of wars), growth and mutation of illnesses, viruses and diseases. Our great grandparents had not concept of Aids. Our nation’s founders never heart of Ebola, the flesh eating disease. ...read more

  • Misfit In This World !!!

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Mar 28, 2015
     | 4,975 views

    A young girl who had recently become a Christian asked the famous Baptist Preacher Charles Spurgeon…”What friends do I need to give-up now?" The Prince of Preachers replied "Hey, you do not have to ...read more

  • The World Is Mine.

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 23, 2016
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     | 4,691 views

    THE WORLD IS MINE. God allowed the Children of Israel to wander in the wilderness because of a COMPLAINING SPIRIT that was never satisfied with anything from God. God demands that we cast off the complaining spirit in Philippians 2:14 -- "Do all things without murmuring or complaining. Nothing ...read more

  • Not Loving The World

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Jul 30, 2021
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     | 5,371 views

    It was very late Wed. Night of last week. I had only just finally gotten to relax after working on sermons all day and helping my friends a little with their move. So my plan was, while I was working some more on my sermons, to listen to a documentary about John Foxe, the author of Foxes Book of ...read more

  • Those Who Seek To Live Your Lives For You, To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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     | 1,602 views

    "Those who seek to live your lives for you, to take your liberty in return for relieving you of yours, those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen, must see ultimately a world in which earthly power can be substituted for divine will. And this nation was founded ...read more

  • He That Lives To Live Forever Never Fears ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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     | 1,814 views

    He that lives to live forever never ...read more

  • The World Of Reality Has Its Limits; The World ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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     | 1,921 views

    The world of reality has its limits; the world of ...read more