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  • I Know That Sometimes It Seems That Everybody And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Aug 6, 2001
    based on 134 ratings
     | 3,438 views

    I know that sometimes it seems that everybody and his brother wants something from you. IT HAD BEEN A HARD WINTER IN THE ROCKIES. THE SNOW PILED DEEPER AND DEEPER. THE TEMPERATURE DROPPED BELOW ZERO AND STAYED THERE. THE RIVERS FROZE OVER. PEOPLE WERE SUFFERING. THE RED CROSS USED ...read more

  • A Few Years Ago, Time Magazine Featured A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Oct 11, 2001
    based on 67 ratings
     | 1,540 views

    ILL. A few years ago, Time Magazine featured a story about Peter Sellers. It told about him appearing on the Muppet Show & being interviewed by Kermit The Frog. His interview began with Kermit telling Peter Sellers, "Now, just relax & be yourself." Peter Sellers responded, "I can’t be myself ...read more

  • I Didn't Go And See  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 17, 2001
    based on 29 ratings
     | 4,669 views

    I DIDN'T GO AND SEE The story is about shepherd who was a youth on that first Christmas night. And now he is old and as his grandson sits on his knee he recalls that night, "A long, long time ago, when I was a little more than a boy, I was out on the Judean hills one night with some other ...read more

  • I Can't Change Jesus  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 2, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 5,078 views

    Illus.: “I Can’t Change Jesus” Bill Irwin, a man who is blind, has a talking computer he uses to study the Bible. He’s had a few chuckles over some of the pronunciations. "For a long time," Bill says, "the computer pronounced Holy Bible as ’holly bibble’ until I figured out how to modify it." ...read more

  • Every Time You Make A Choice  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 10, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,638 views

    C. S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity: Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are ...read more

  • Dwight L. Moody Said: "I Was Down In Texas Some ...

    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jul 23, 2005
     | 5,323 views

    Dwight L. Moody said: “I was down in Texas some time ago, and happened to pick up a newspaper, and in it they called me “Old Moody.” Honestly, I had never been called old before. I went to my hotel, and looked in the looking glass. I can’t conceive of getting old. I have a life that is never going ...read more

  • A Sweet Scent  PRO

    Contributed by Ron Crow on Mar 7, 2003
    based on 23 ratings
     | 3,734 views

    A SWEET SCENT The story is told of a missionary to China who was in language school. The very first day of class the teacher entered the room and, without saying a word, walked down every row of students. Finally, still without saying a word, she walked around the room again. Then she came back ...read more

  • Residents Along The Mississippi River Are No ...

    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Oct 17, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,370 views

    Residents along the Mississippi River are no strangers to overflows and flooding during the spring thaw and rains. Since the early 18th century, settlers have built levees and floodwalls along the 2,000-mile-long waterway to try and control it. However, in years with record-breaking rainfall, like ...read more

  • Singing Him

    Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 6, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,939 views

    SINGING HIM There was an elderly woman who was a true saint of God in her long life of devotion. She knew much of the Bible by heart and would repeat long passages from memory. But as the years went by, the strength went and with it the memory gradually went too. Finally, there came the time ...read more

  • I Heard A Story One Time About A New, Cocky ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,758 views

    I heard a story one time about a new, cocky young preacher, straight out of seminary. He was going to preach his very first sermon in a big, old Presbyterian church. The church had an elevated pulpit with a long flight of stairs leading up to it. This kid was about as prideful as he could be. All ...read more

  • Someone Once Said That If You Ever Want To Know ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,774 views

    Someone once said that if you ever want to know the truth about something then you should ask children. I love the article in the Vessel this month by our Busy Bees as they shared what love means to them. Yet, I also came across some other responses by children as to what they see love is. Glenn, ...read more

  • Are You At Wit's End Corner?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 30, 2007
     | 2,589 views

    Are You At Wit’s End Corner? Are you standing at “Wits End Corner” Christian, with troubled brow? Are you thinking of what is before you, And all you are bearing now? Does all the world seem against you, And you in the battle alone? Remember at “Wits End Corner” Is where God’s power is shown. Are ...read more

  • Dr. Norman Shawchuck Has Pastored United ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 1, 2007
     | 1,835 views

    Dr. Norman Shawchuck has pastored United Methodist congregations in North Dakota and Indiana and is a prolific author and retreat leader in the area of spiritual formation. His contemporary prayer of repentance is so personally powerful: “O God, I surrender to you the habits and sins that, like ...read more

  • More To Follow

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 31, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,558 views

    MORE TO FOLLOW Sam Ducanannan was a simple man with very few talents, but he had a great desire to do something for the Lord. So he made it his practice to cut out pictures from cards and magazines and to paste onto these pictures appropriate verses and poems. He would then give them as simple ...read more

  • Ironman Christians

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 2,059 views

    Ironman Christians Have you heard of the Ironman Triathlon? It’s held every fall in the US city of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, the race encompasses three endurance events; a 2.4 mile ocean swim in Kailua-Kona Bay, a 112 mile bike ride across the Hawaiian lava desert to Hawi and back, and then to top it ...read more

  • Newton And Amazing Grace

    Contributed by Jesse Bennett on Nov 9, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,977 views

    NEWTON AND AMAZING GRACE A long time ago, a man truly experienced God’s grace His name was John Newton. Though he was brought up in the church as a child, he became a calloused man full of anger, pain, and uncertainty. Because of that, He experienced many troubles. At one time, he was a ...read more

  • Chuck Swindoll Judges A Man Unfairly At A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,963 views

    Chuck Swindoll Judges a Man Unfairly at a Pastor’s Conference It is so easy to get into the trap of judging others unfairly! Chuck Swindoll told of his being at a pastor’s conference where he would be speaking. The first day there a man approached him and said how greatly he had looked forward to ...read more

  • When Church Is Miraculously Moved (Illustration: ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2009
     | 4,093 views

    When Church Is Miraculously Moved (Illustration: 7606) The faith that moves mountains is borne out by the church that was moved by the Hand of God. Such a church stands to this day in the village of Swan Quarter, North Carolina. Before it was built in 1874 the congregation eyed with longing a ...read more

  • A Few Months Ago I Went Into Hospital For An ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 21, 2009
     | 1,332 views

    A few months ago I went into hospital for an operation. I had my wisdom tooth removed as well as a chipped tooth fragment removed, which had found it’s way into my sinus cavity. I was under anaesthetic so I didn’t feel a thing and woke up on the operating table after the procedure was finished. I ...read more

  • Only A Full View Will Do  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,260 views

    Only a Full View Will Do But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord [2Cor. 3:18]. I wish I had spent more time looking in the "mirror," beholding Him more. In the Word of God we ...read more