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  • It's Been Stated These Days, "They Just Don't ...

    Contributed by Evie Megginson on May 11, 2004
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    It’s been stated these days, “They just don’t make missionaries like William Carey.” Carey changed the history of missions and the face of India 200 years ago. Few know of Carey’s sister, paralyzed and bedridden for 50 years. Although unable to speak for much of that period, with great effort she ...read more

  • Joseph Parker Stepped Into The Pulpit Of The City ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    Joseph Parker stepped into the pulpit of the City Temple in London for his Thursday sermon and announced that he was under some trepidation that day because of a letter he had received. It seemed that a gentleman wrote to tell Parker that he would be in the congregation that day for the express ...read more

  • Real Picture  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Wheeler Jones on Dec 24, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,452 views

    Real Picture During the long war years a boy looked frequently at a picture of his daddy on the table. He had left when the boy was a young infant. After several years the boy had forgotten him as a person but he would often look at the picture and say, "If only my father could step out of that ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis Says Of True Friendship, "True ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 31, 2005
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    C.S. Lewis says of true friendship, “True friendship is rare on earth. It means identifying with someone in thought, heart, and spirit. The whole experience of life is designed to enable us to enter in to this closest relationship with Jesus Christ. We receive His blessings and know His Word, but ...read more

  • Of The 7 Deadly Sins, Anger Is Possibly The Most ...

    Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 23, 2006
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    Of the 7 deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving ...read more

  • The Great Violinist, Nicolo Paganini, Willed His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Mar 8, 2006
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    The great violinist, Nicolo Paganini, willed his marvelous violin to Genoa -- the city of his birth -- but only on condition that the instrument never be played upon. It was an unfortunate condition, for it is a peculiarity of wood that as long as it is used and handled, it shows little wear. As ...read more

  • Of The 7 Deadly Sins, Anger Is Possibly The Most ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,206 views

    Of the 7 deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving ...read more

  • Of The 7 Deadly Sins, Anger Is Possibly The Most ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,989 views

    Of the 7 deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving ...read more

  • A Classic Type, Common To Many Renaissance ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Kennicott on May 31, 2006
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    "A classic type, common to many Renaissance paintings is the ’student.’ A favored follower, a protege or disciple, is always portrayed as very youthful, long-haired and clean-shaven...Throughout the Renaissance, artists portray St. John in this fashion. He is the ’disciple Jesus loved’ ....Only a ...read more

  • In "Winnie-The-Pooh," Pooh And Piglet Take An ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Jan 5, 2007
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    In “Winnie-the-Pooh,” Pooh and Piglet take an evening walk. For a long time they walk in companionable silence. Finally, Piglet breaks the silence and asks, “When you wake up in the morning, What’s the first thing you say to yourself?” “What’s for breakfast?” answers Pooh. “And what do you say, ...read more

  • The Fruit Of The Spirit Begins With Love...love ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    "The fruit of the Spirit begins with love...love is the first thing, the first in that precious cluster of fruit. Someone has said that all other eight can be put in terms of love. Joy is love exulting; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love on trial; gentleness is love in society; ...read more

  • History Records A Remarkable Account Of The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 29, 2004
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    History records a remarkable account of the destruction of an ancient town. The watchmen on the walls would call out whenever they thought they saw a foe approaching. Sensing that the people had begun to resent them for giving these false alarms, they decided to remain quiet. Regrettably, not long ...read more

  • Sheltered

    Contributed by Roger Roark on May 19, 2007
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    When I was a child, I was afraid of the dark. I would go get in bed with my dad, and he would tell me a story, and I knew everything was okay. As long as I was with him, I knew nothing would harm me. That is the way our heavenly Father wants us to feal about Him. He wants us to know that He is ...read more

  • Shhhhh

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Shhhhh There was a patient in the mental hospital, holding his ear close to the wall, listening intently. The nurse finally approaches him and says “What are you doing.” “Shhh" he says. And he keeps listening. And finally the patient beckons the nurse over and says, “Listen.” The nurse presses ...read more

  • You Will Have Had Your Own Experiences Of Being ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 16, 2007
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    You will have had your own experiences of being in the dark, wanting light. Do you remember August 14, 2003?It was the night the lights went out in Ontario and the Northeastern and Midwestern United States. It affected 10 million of us in Ontario alone, marking the largest black-out in Northern ...read more

  • To Point Out How Lonely People Can Be, Charles ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Mar 21, 2008
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    To point out how lonely people can be, Charles Swindoll mentioned an ad in a Kansas newspaper. It read, “I will listen to you talk for 30 minutes without comment for $5.00.” Swindoll said, “Sounds like a hoax, doesn’t it? But the person was serious. Did anybody call? You bet. It wasn’t long before ...read more

  • Henry Wingblade Used To Say That Christian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    Henry Wingblade used to say that Christian personality is hidden deep inside us. It is unseen, like the soup carried in a tureen high over a waiter's head. No one knows what's inside—unless the waiter is bumped and he trips! Just so, people don’t know what's inside us until we've been bumped. But ...read more

  • Amazing Grace Was Written By A Man Who Spent His ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 11, 2008
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    Amazing Grace was written by a man who spent his early years as a captain of a slave ship. After his conversion, he served as the minister of a church for 44 years before his death at the age of 83. Here’s what he had inscribed on his tomb stone: "John Newton, … once an Infidel and Libertine, a ...read more

  • Someone You Know

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Apr 12, 2008
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     | 2,856 views

    SOMEONE YOU KNOW A gray haired lady, long a member of her community and Church, shook hands with the minister after the service one morning. "That was a wonderful sermon, she told him, just wonderful. Everything you said applied to someone I know." What is often missed is that God’s word ...read more

  • A Walk By Faith

    Contributed by Barry Edmondson on Aug 10, 2008
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    A WALK BY FAITH I have a friend in Alaska. Some years ago he was a rising executive in a large, influential business. Then God spoke to him to quit his job and go to full-time Bible college. He did so, with no guarantees and no looking back. After he finished Bible college, to the amazement of ...read more