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  • A View Of Suffering  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 18, 2005
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    A VIEW OF SUFFERING Yes, suffering is the enemy of the average American. In America, Christians pray for the burden of suffering to be lifted from their backs. In the rest of the world Christians pray for stronger backs so they can bear their suffering. It’s why we look away from the bag lady ...read more

  • I Had Seen Many Pictures Of Mt Taranaki In Nz It ...

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on Mar 25, 2005
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    I had seen many pictures of Mt Taranaki in NZ it looked beautiful.But I had never seen it for myself. I had been to the area four times before I actually saw the mountain. When the clouds were removed the sight of the mountain took my breath away it was magnificent. Many know alot about the Lord ...read more

  • I Want You To Watch A Modern Day Example Of What ...

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
     | 1,210 views

    I want you to watch a modern day example of what we’re talking about in a clip from the movie, Simon Birch (Chapter 8). Notice particularly the contrast between how some people relate to little Simon Birch versus others. If we were looking for an example of how to not win a child to the Lord I ...read more

  • A Young Couple Who Had Just Witnessed A Bill ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    A young couple who had just witnessed a Bill Cosby performance went backstage hoping to get the comedian’s autograph in their newly born son’s baby book. An aide took the book to Cosby, and when it was returned the couple excitedly looked for his signature. They couldn’t find it, and they left the ...read more

  • George Bernard Shaw Is Perhaps Most Renowned As A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
     | 1,860 views

    George Bernard Shaw is perhaps most renowned as a free thinker and liberal philosopher. In his last writings we read, “The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt. Its counsels, which should have established the millennium, led, instead, directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them ...read more

  • The Story Is Told About The Baptism Of King ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
    based on 24 ratings
     | 5,492 views

    The story is told about the baptism of King Aengus by St. Patrick in the middle of the fifth century. Sometime during the rite, St. Patrick leaned on his sharp-pointed staff and inadvertently stabbed the king’s foot. After the baptism was over, St. Patrick looked down at all the blood, realized ...read more

  • In The German Art Galleries There Hangs A ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 8, 2007
     | 3,399 views

    In the German art galleries there hangs a painting called "Cloud Lane." It hangs at the end of a long dark hall. On first glance it appears to be nothing more than a huge, ugly mass of confused color that is foreboding. However, the closer that one gets to the painting, there is portrayed on the ...read more

  • Spiritual Lasik

    Contributed by David Heflin on Feb 13, 2007
     | 1,990 views

    Spiritual Lasik I have heard people talk about how LASIK dramatically changed the way they saw everything. They could see with greater focus and vividness, in a way they never imagined. Lasik harnesses the power of light in the form of a laser. It is heat that cuts into the retina to correct the ...read more

  • Character Is Like An Icicle

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 28, 2009
     | 1,626 views

    CHARACTER IS LIKE AN ICICLE Have you ever watched the icicle as it is formed? Have you noticed how it froze, one drop at a time, until it was a foot long, or more? If the water were clean, the icicle remained clear, and sparkled brightly in the sun; but if the water were slightly muddy, the ...read more

  • * A Mailman Got A New Route. On The First Porch ...

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 9, 2009
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    *** A mailman got a new route. On the first porch he came to he was confronted by a ferocious-looking German Shepherd poised to jump. The mailman approached the mail box and the dog sprang straight up, 5 feet, and landed in the same place, the mailman was relieved to see the dog keep his distance. ...read more

  • No Future Without Forgiveness

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 12, 2009
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    NO FUTURE WITHOUT FORGIVENESS Archbishop Desmond Tutu cited the crucifixion as his inspiration. Tutu, daily living in the shadow of apartheid, said that the newly empowered South African blacks readily forgave their white persecutors, because they followed "the Jewish rabbi who, when he was ...read more

  • Sir Thomas Beecham, The British Conductor, Once ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Feb 5, 2010
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    Sir Thomas Beecham, the British conductor, once saw a distinguished-looking woman in a hotel foyer. And he was sure that he knew her from somewhere, but for the life of him he couldn’t remember where or her name. But he stopped to talk to her anyway. And as the pair talked he vaguely remembered ...read more

  • Today It A Wonderful Day For Many Of Us Here In ...

    Contributed by Vonnie E James on Mar 21, 2010
     | 1,781 views

    Today is a wonderful day for many of us here in Grenada and elsewhere in the world, while many over are suffering and are going through trials and time of testing. We look at the Haiti situation where just a some time ago, that 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the Capital, city Port-Aux-Prince, ...read more

  • Popular Names

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 9, 2010
     | 2,726 views

    POPULAR NAMES (www.ssa.gov) The Social Security Administration keeps records of what children are named each year and publishes those lists for us to consult when naming a child. I looked up some neat facts: 2009 Jacob, Ethan, Michael 2009 Isabella, Emma, Olivia 1990s Michael, Christopher, ...read more

  • The Colonel Who Served As Inspector General In A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 21, 2011
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    The colonel who served as inspector general in a particular base paid close attention to how personnel wore their uniforms. On one occasion he spotted a junior airman with a violation. "Airman," he bellowed, "what do you do when a shirt pocket is unbuttoned?" The startled airman replied, "Button ...read more

  • Sound Theology

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 9, 2011
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    SOUND THEOLOGY In a Peanuts cartoon Lucy and Linus are staring out the window, watching it rain. Lucy says, "Boy! Look at it pour. What if it floods the whole world?" Linus, "It won't. In Gen. 9, God promised Noah that would never happen again. The sign of that promise is the rainbow." Lucy, ...read more

  • Visiting Beethoven

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 9, 2012
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    VISITING BEETHOVEN Beethoven died in 1827 and is buried in Vienna. A tourist went to visit his grave and found it a deeply moving experience. As they stood looking at the gravestone they could hear music. It was Beethoven’s music only it wasn’t quite right, there was something wrong. Then the ...read more

  • Birthdays ...

    Contributed by Roberta Karchner on Jun 10, 2018
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    While talking to one of the little ones that came forward during children's hour, I was trying to determine if they were old enough for Vacation Bible School (they were four). So I said, "You are four now, when will you be five?" He looked up with complete confidence and seemed amazed I would ...read more

  • Baptism

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Jun 19, 2020
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    The story is told about the baptism of King Aengus by St. Patrick in the middle of the fifth century. Sometime during the rite, St. Patrick leaned on his sharp-pointed staff and inadvertently stabbed the king's foot. After the baptism was over, St. Patrick looked down at all the blood, realized ...read more

  • The Mother Of Seven-Year-Old Karen Was Startled ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,045 views

    The mother of seven-year-old Karen was startled to find her going through a new Bible storybook and circling the word "God" wherever it appeared on the page. Stifling her urge to reprimand the child for defacing the book, the mother quietly asked, ’Why are you doing that?" Karen answered ...read more