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  • I Have A Friend Back Home Named Alison. I've ...

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jun 11, 2004
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    I have a friend back home named Alison. I’ve known Alison for several years now, and I’ve noticed something. In fact its hard to help noticing if you’re around her a lot. She loves birthdays. You see, Alison will turn 16 this year. And though her birthday isn’t ‘til August, she’s been talking about ...read more

  • Yates Pool Is A Famous Oil Field In West Texas. ...

    Contributed by Steven Angus on Sep 26, 2006
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    Yates Pool is a famous oil field in West Texas. During the Great Depression of the 1930’s, this field was a sheep ranch owned by a man named Ira Yates. Because of Yates’ inability to make enough money on his ranching operation to make his mortgage payment, he was in danger of losing his ...read more

  • Last Sunday, I Was Truly Blessed. Some Of You ...

    Contributed by William Noel on Dec 31, 2006
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    Last Sunday, I was truly blessed. Some of you know, that I was battling with high blood pressure during Sunday School and Church. I had a headache. My vision was a little blurred. And, I felt all-around lousy. Up until last Sunday, I had denied having high blood pressure. · I know high blood ...read more

  • This Past Christmas, The Dallas Family From Our ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 2, 2007
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    This past Christmas, the Dallas family from our church gave us a wonderful gift of Noah’s Ark complete with hand-carved animals. The problem is that it is especially fascinating to children. We have had to glue poor Noah back together more than once. After one visit from our grandchildren, we ...read more

  • You Can Tell What We're Going Through When You ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sullivan on Feb 19, 2008
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     | 1,427 views

    You can tell what we’re going through when you come over to our house and check out the bookshelf. We’ve got James Dobson’s entire library: “Dare to Discipline”, “The Strong Willed Child”; “Parenting isn’t for Cowards.” I can’t tell you that I’ve actually read them all! We’ve got others, “How to ...read more

  • The Clouds Move—but Slowly (Grief)

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    THE CLOUDS MOVE-BUT SLOWLY (grief) I heard her talking about it on the radio. A thoughtful young lady, to be sure. She was discussing her grief - the grief of losing her husband after only two years of marriage. He was a policeman. She knew the dangers he faced, but was proud that he truly cared ...read more

  • One Day A Pastor Had Been Working All Morning On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One day a pastor had been working all morning on his sermon when His computer crashed and he lost it all. He went upstairs and told his wife, and she was amazed at how well he was taking it. She said, “It’s amazing how calm you are and how happy you seem even though you’ve lost a lot of work.” Then ...read more

  • Don Sutton's Motivation  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 1, 2009
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    DON SUTTON'S MOTIVATION Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton hadn’t won a game in 8 weeks. The press was suggesting that he be dropped from the starting lineup. The future looked bleak, and Sutton felt terrible. Then, before a game, Dodgers manager Walter Alston tapped him on the shoulder. "I’d ...read more

  • Decision Without Determination

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 28, 2009
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    DECISION WITHOUT DETERMINATION Some choose and pray a prayer. This is the great heresy of the last hundred years. I made a choice when I was ten. But there is no determination. I have been convinced by the Lord that a decision without determination and effort is absolutely meaningless. In ...read more

  • No Peace In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2009
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    No Peace in World The weekend of December 7, 1941, started out to be another routine weekend. The aircraft carriers were at dockside and the crews were enjoying the day with rest and relaxation. The sky was clear, the sun was shining and the weather was beautiful. This was a perfect picture of ...read more

  • 14 Years Ago Florida State’s Sports ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 16, 2010
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    . 14 years ago Florida State’s sports information department had big news for Clay Shiver last year: Playboy magazine had selected him for its preseason All-America football team. But quicker than he snaps the ball, the 6-foot2, 280-pound center said, “No thanks.” he went on to say, “My mind was ...read more

  • Resisting The Temptation To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2010
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    Resisting the Temptation to Lie It’s the only thing we can do when we can’t see ahead – follow the Lord step-by-step. That means doing what we know HE wants us to do, even if it doesn’t always make sense to us. Jim George, in his book, God’s Man of Influence, talks about trying to sell a used ...read more

  • The Prayer And The Chair

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 22, 2011
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    THE PRAYER AND THE CHAIR A woman called a pastor to come to the house to see her father. He goes to the house not knowing whether the man is Christian or not but he notices as he talks to him and the man answers back that he must be a Christian and there is a chair sitting close by. An empty ...read more

  • Radical Faith  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jan 24, 2011
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    RADICAL FAITH I want to read to you the opening story from David Platt's book "The Radical Question" (Multnomah Press). Imagine a scene that took place in Asia not so long ago: A room in an ordinary house, dimly lit, all the blinds on the windows closed. Twenty leaders from churches in the ...read more

  • The Bill Always Comes Due

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2011
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    THE BILL ALWAYS COMES DUE Bob Harris, weatherman for NY TV station WPIX-TV and the nationally syndicated independent Network news, had to weather a public storm of his own making in 1979. Though he had studied math, physics and geology at three colleges, he left school without a degree but with a ...read more

  • Sleepless Dads!

    Contributed by Eduardo Quintana on Oct 4, 2015
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    You’ll probably not get six continuous hours of good sleep ever again. And if you do, you’ll never admit it because it will make your wife mad for the broken-up sleep she got when she got up and took care of the teething child. Dads, there is nothing more comforting to your little one than to have ...read more

  • Loss

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Aug 9, 2019
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    Have you ever had a time in your life when you suffered drastic income loss? In 1995 I had a dream job, I had an office that was 30 foot by 40 foot with my own private bath, no boss on 2nd and 3rd shift and the pay was great, not bad for a blue-collar worker. We based our lifestyle on my wages, and ...read more

  • The Building Of Busch Stadium, Skirting Rules.

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Mar 16, 2022
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    In 1966 the St. Louis Cardinals built a new ballpark and named it Busch Memorial Stadium. There is a story that the owner of the Cardinals, August Busch, wanted to name it Budweiser Stadium, but the city officials would not allow him to name it after a beer. Frustrated by their answer, he ...read more

  • Fathers Who Talk To Themselves!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 26, 2023
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    There is a story about a man who stopped in the grocery store on the way home from work to pick up a couple of items for his wife. He wandered around aimlessly for a while searching out the needed groceries. As is often the case in the grocery store, he kept passing this same shopper in almost ...read more

  • The Joy Of Hearing Your Name

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Apr 26, 2023
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    This week is the National Football League Draft, a day that thousands of young men have been anticipating for years. I love to watch as the player hears his name called. The smiles. The hugs. Going to the platform and being congratulated by the commissioner. And then donning the jersey and cap of ...read more