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  • A Store Manager Overheard His Clerk Tell A ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jul 10, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
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    A store manager overheard his clerk tell a customer, "No, ma’am, we haven’t had any for a while, and it doesn’t look as if we’ll be getting any soon." Horrified, the manager came running over to the customer and said, "Of course we’ll have some soon. We placed an order last week." Then the ...read more

  • Tombstone Or An Urn?

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
     | 1,887 views

    Tombstone or an Urn? Question that has come up over the years. Should I be buried or cremated? Some insist on bodily burial – so they can be bodily resurrected. If you believe that, then take heed of my advice, Stay clear of cannibals. Believing you have to be buried to be resurrected is ...read more

  • I Was Riding One Of Our Shetland Ponies, Trigger ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Nov 29, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,990 views

    I was riding one of our Shetland ponies, Trigger or Sugarfoot. They were prone to buck you off from time to time and one of those occasions occurred. Well, as I hit the ground I heard someone call my name, “Bruce.” I rolled over to see who it was and no one did I see. However, when I looked ...read more

  • The Problem For Evolutionists Is That The Fossil ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jan 16, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,255 views

    The problem for Evolutionists is that the Fossil Record does NOT show gradual development. Instead it shows what is known as the Cambrian Explosion. This is the sudden appearance of animal life, fully formed and unchanged up to the present --- with no record of fossil ancestors prior to them. ...read more

  • The Virtual Family Dinner, Being Developed By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    The Virtual Family Dinner, being developed by Accenture, will allow family members to chow down together regardless of where they live. It works like this: small, ceiling mounted cameras monitor Accenture’s Chicago test kitchen, tracking a test mom as she prepares a meal. When the system sees her ...read more

  • When My Son Jordan Was About 2 Years Old, I Had ...

    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on May 24, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    When my son Jordan was about 2 years old, I had to stop at the church office while he sat in the car with his mother. Out of the blue, he asked her, "Mommy, Is Jesus in the office?" My wife was taken aback, and rather than get into a long theological discussion with a 2 year old, answered, "No, ...read more

  • Compassion Should Motivate Us To More Than Just ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,398 views

    Compassion should motivate us to more than just feeling sorrow for someone it should motivate us to action. Pity is a feeling, but true compassion demands an action. There is a funny story about Peter admitting people at the gates of heaven. Peter asks one man who appears, ‘Tell me one act of ...read more

  • Some Time Ago, I Was Informed That The Vacuum ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Some time ago, I was informed that the vacuum cleaner at home did not work. I checked the belts, etc., and all seemed fine. Then it came to me. I removed the hose and looked through it. No light came through it from the other end. I removed the clogged up dirt, and the vacuum worked fine after ...read more

  • There Is A Story About A Man Who Had To Cross A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There is a story about a man who had to cross a wide river on the ice. He was afraid it might be too thin, so he began to crawl on his hand and knees in great terror. He thought he might fall through at any moment. Just as he neared the opposite shore, all exhausted, another man glided past him ...read more

  • Several Years Ago A Submarine Was Being Tested ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Several years ago a submarine was being tested and had to remain submerged for many hours. When it returned to harbor, the captain was asked, “How did the terrible storm last night affect you?” The officer looked at him in surprise and exclaimed, “Storm? We didn’t even know there was one” You see, ...read more

  • Lin Smalec Writes, "I Read Recently About A ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 31, 2007
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    Lin Smalec writes, "I read recently about a children’s Sunday School class that heard the Christmas story and sang the beloved Christmas carol, “Silent Night”. They were then asked to draw what they thought the nativity scene might have looked like. One little fellow did a good likeness of Joseph, ...read more

  • I Wonder If You Have Seen That Great Scene In ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 17, 2008
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    I wonder if you have seen that great scene in the the Monty python film where there is a man over indulging himself with food to the disgust of the waiter. As the gentlemen eats he’s get fatter and fatter to the point where he is absolutely full and he cannot eat anymore. His body looks like it ...read more

  • The First Russian Cosmonauts Went Into Space And ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 30, 2008
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    The first Russian Cosmonauts went into space and returned. One of them said when he returned from his journey in outer space, "Some people say there is a God out there, but in my travels around earth all day long I looked around and I didn’t see him. I saw no God, nor angels, I don’t believe in ...read more

  • Some Years After Corrie Ten Boom Had Be Freed ...

    Contributed by Don Crowson on Feb 1, 2008
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    Some years after Corrie Ten Boom had be freed from a Nazi Concentration Camp, she was scheduled to speak at a church. As she sat on the platform and looked out at the congregation, she saw the prison guard who had been so cruel to her sister just prior to her death. She struggled and wrestled ...read more

  • God Fulfills His Promise

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Feb 2, 2008
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    ILUSTRATION God gave me a dream one night, I was on the platform preaching in a large church with a pie shaped auditorium, and there were people there I knew and people I didn’t know. The presence of the Lord had inhabited the place and the glory was falling. God told me, this was my pastorate. Go ...read more

  • Some Time Ago I Saw A Painting Of ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on Mar 24, 2008
     | 1,989 views

    ILLUSTRATION: Some time ago I saw a painting of an old burned-out mountain shack. All that remained was the chimney...the charred debris of what had been that family’s sole possession. In front of this destroyed home stood an old grandfather-looking man dressed only in his underclothes with a ...read more

  • I Was Reading A Misions Magazine That Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,181 views

    I WAS READING A MISIONS MAGAZINE THAT WAS REPORTING ON A MISSIONARY WHO WAS TALKING TO A CHIEF OF A TRIBE IN THE aMAZON ABOUT JESUS CHRIST, AND THE CHIEF TRIED TO IMPRESS THE MISSIONARY WITH GIFTS OF HORSES, BLANKETS AND JEWELRY. THE MISSIONARY LOOKED AT THE CHIEF AND SAID, "MY GOD DOES NOT WANT ...read more

  • Video Illustration: Clips From The "Finger Of ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 25, 2008
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    Video Illustration: Clips from the "Finger of God." In this clip of this movie we see that God is doing supernatural things by His Spirit for people today all over the world. He is winning people in Iraq, China, Africa, USA and other countries by demonstrations of His power not by great speeches ...read more

  • I Took A Piece Of Modeling ...

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Jun 16, 2008
     | 2,531 views

    I took a piece of modeling clay; And idly molded it one day; And as my fingers pressed it still, It moved and yielded to my will. I came again when days were past; The piece of clay was hard at last. The shape I gave it still it bore; And I could change it nevermore. I took apiece of living ...read more

  • Get Recharged Often

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 29, 2008
     | 2,236 views

    GET RECHARGED OFTEN This is our first year with cell phones. Marylu was a counselor up at Camp Emmanuel this year for two weeks. Her cell phone kept needing to be recharged, because out at camp the towers are remote (it said, "extended service area") and cell phones keep looking for a better ...read more