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  • Silence  PRO

    Contributed by John Sears on Nov 30, 2011
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     | 5,559 views

    SILENCE There is a game my parents used to play when we were on road long road trips in the car. The rules of the game went something like this. "The first one to talk loses." We called it the silence game. Have you ever played the game? I would bet that just about every parent has made up a game ...read more

  • Know Why You Worship As You Do  PRO

    Contributed by Tim White on Dec 5, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,825 views

    KNOW WHY YOU WORSHIP AS YOU DO Why would some people buy a cat and tie it to the bedpost to show their reverence to God? Many years ago, a very poor holy man lived in a remote part of China. Every day before his time of meditation, in order to show his devotion, he put a dish of butter up on the ...read more

  • Are You Missing Jesus?

    Contributed by William Akehurst on Dec 18, 2011
     | 4,062 views

    ARE YOU MISSING JESUS? During the manger scene of the kids' Christmas presentation, one of the important pieces was missing on the set.  As everyone was looking around, I noticed the bag in which this important part was hidden and went up in the stage area and retrieved it for the part.  The ...read more

  • Wearing 30,000 Bibles

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Feb 26, 2012
     | 3,252 views

    WEARING 30,000 BIBLES Years ago a missionary returned to England for a brief furlough after many years of faithful service in India. He was invited to a dinner at a great summer resort where he met many women of prominence and position. After dinner he went to his room and penned a ...read more

  • Marriage Takes Hard Work

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 28, 2012
     | 4,426 views

    MARRIAGE TAKES HARD WORK Good marriages are designed in heaven, but they are made on earth. And it takes hard work. It reminds me of the pastor of a big city church who ran an ad for a caretaker/housekeeper. The next day, a well-dressed young man appeared at the pastor's door. But before he ...read more

  • Vanishing Waves

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2012
     | 4,837 views

    VANISHING WAVES A wise man once told me to pour a glass of water. He dipped his index finger into the cup, I watched as miniature waves hit the glass only to halt seconds later. The wise man told that regardless of how important the world will ever view me or my accomplishments, history will only ...read more

  • I Work For Christ.

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Sep 6, 2012
     | 2,833 views

    "I WORK FOR CHRIST." Howard Hendricks, sat in a plane that was delayed for takeoff. After a long wait, the passengers became more and more irritated. Hendricks noticed how gracious one of the flight attendants was as she spoke with them. After the plane finally took off, he told the flight ...read more

  • Identifying The Ones In Power

    Contributed by Kent Wise on Nov 2, 2012
     | 1,727 views

    IDENTIFYING THE ONES IN POWER It does not take one long in business to identify the power brokers in a meeting or situation. When I was at Tyson Foods, I would attend monthly cost meetings where our seating arrangements were always pre-assigned. The seating never changed for the middle table. ...read more

  • Quotes On Pride

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 3, 2013
     | 4,431 views

    QUOTES ON PRIDE Medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas said of pride: "Inordinate self-love is the cause of every sin ... the root of pride is found to consist in man not being, in some way, subject to God and His rule." "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as ...read more

  • Who Am I?  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Feb 26, 2013
    based on 15 ratings
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    WHO AM I? The German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, used to love to take long walks of a summer evening, meditating and thinking. On one occasion he was seated in a park when a suspicious policeman noticed that he had been there for several hours. The policeman came up to him and said, "What are you ...read more

  • Sacrificial Love

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 13, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 11,237 views

    Watchman Nee, a Chinese evangelist, tells of a Christian he once knew in China. He was a rice farmer, and his fields lay high on a mountain. Every day he pumped water into the paddies of new rice. And every morning he returned to find that an unbelieving neighbor who lived down the hill had ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis On Church And Worship

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 16, 2014
     | 3,657 views

    C.S. Lewis said that when he first became a Christian, he had trouble with church gatherings. “I thought that I could do it on my own by retiring to my rooms and reading theology, and I wouldn’t go to churches anymore.” He found the sermons often dull, and he disliked organ music, which he ...read more

  • Touched By A Five Year Old

    Contributed by John Gullick on Aug 15, 2017
     | 5,208 views

    On July 27th In Indiana a policeman, Lieut Aaron Allen was shot by a man he was trying to help. He was killed and he had a five year old son. Not long after police including the police chief drove cars 1- 2 hours down highway 31 in Indiana and arrived in a town with their sirens going. They ...read more

  • Memorial Day - Never Forget The Cost Of Freedom

    Contributed by David Simpson on May 24, 2018
     | 5,792 views

    Needless to say, protecting our freedom has come at a great cost. President Franklin Roosevelt said: “Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” Our Lord Jesus Christ knew that we all have trouble remembering things, even important ...read more

  • Redwood Trees Teach A Lesson On Unity

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Aug 12, 2019
    based on 3 ratings
     | 10,462 views

    The huge redwood trees in California are considered the largest living things on earth and the tallest trees in the world. Some of them are over 300 feet high and over 2,500 years old. One would think that trees so large would have a tremendous root system, reaching down hundreds of feet into the ...read more

  • Years Ago When I Was In The College, ...

    Contributed by Abiodun Adeniyi on Feb 1, 2008
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    Years ago when I was in the College, accommodation on campus was very scarce. It was very difficult to get accommodated throughout one’s study period. But no sooner I stepped into the University that I learnt from “satellites’ that it was possible to get accommodated throughout if I participated ...read more

  • Out Of The Depths

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
     | 3,305 views

    OUT OF THE DEPTHS Author Bernard Anderson in Out of the Depths speaks of this remembering the multitudes and the house of God and makes a worthy observation. He says, "This is not a longing for a one-to-one relationship with God in mystic solitude. The poet yearns to be surrounded by the believing ...read more

  • Just Do It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
     | 2,334 views

    JUST DO IT Dr. J.B. Gambrel tells an amusing story from General Stonewall Jackson’s famous valley campaign. Jackson’s army found itself on one side of a river when it needed to be on the other side. After telling his engineers to plan and build a bridge so the army could cross, he called his wagon ...read more

  • There Are People Who Are Humble, And Those Who ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
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    There are people who are humble, and those who are not so humble. From Mongolian folklore comes this helpful little fable of the boastful frog. Two geese were about to start southward on their annual autumn migration, when they were entreated by a frog to take him with them. On the geese ...read more

  • The Cussing ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 9, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,444 views

    ILLUSTRATION: THE CUSSING DEACON A Preacher was made aware that he had a Deacon in his church who was from time to time known to cuss. In his attempt to help the Deacon overcome this terrible habit, the Preacher decided he should spend some personal time with the Deacon so they could have a long ...read more