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  • Women Avoid Negotiating: These Figures Are Taken ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,433 views

    Women Avoid Negotiating: These figures are taken from Women Don’t Ask, Negotiation and Gender Divide. 2.5 times more women than men feel “a great deal of apprehension” about negotiation. Men initiate negotiations about 4 times as much as women. When asked to pick metaphors for negotiations, men ...read more

  • Love Is The Greatest

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 7, 2011
     | 2,235 views

    LOVE IS THE GREATEST George Sweeting – Love is the Greatest - page 122: "God’s love is not cheap or sentimental. It is priceless and incomparable. The way of love is God’s way, and His way is the only way to abundant and victorious living. It is the best way. Life apart from God's love is ...read more

  • Everything We Need

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Jan 22, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,658 views

    EVERYTHING WE NEED The story is told about an American company which opened a new plant in Central America because the labour was plentiful and inexpensive. Everything went well until the villagers received their first pay cheque; afterward they did not return to work. Several days later the ...read more

  • An Indian Christian, Sandhu Singh, Made A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Apr 20, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,415 views

    An Indian Christian, Sandhu Singh, made a perceptive statement when he said, "One day I was sitting on the banks of a river. I took from the water a round stone and I broke it. Inside it was perfectly dry. That stone had been lying in the water for a long time but the water had not penetrated ...read more

  • Don't Just Admit It

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
     | 1,917 views

    DON'T JUST ADMIT IT There was a cartoon in which little George Washington is standing with an axe in his hand. Before him lying on the ground is the famous cherry tree. He has already made his smug admission that he did it -- after all, he "cannot tell a lie." But his father is standing there ...read more

  • Dave Roever (Ree-Ver) Arrived In Vietnam In Late ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Oct 28, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,482 views

    Dave Roever (REE-ver) arrived in Vietnam in late 1968, serving our nation as a member of the elite Brown Water Black Berets. He was a Christian and really loved the Lord. During his tour, he patrolled the Mekong Delta area until July 26, 1969 when he was severely wounded. As his boat rounded a ...read more

  • Philippine Girl

    Contributed by John Harvey on Nov 2, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,993 views

    **Philippine Girl-{page 33} The Christians surrounding the girl’s bed were sad. Because of her extensive internal injuries doctors could do nothing for her. Weeks ago, the believers had bought her a white dress to celebrate her new life and pure heart in Christ Jesus. Her father had not been ...read more

  • One Day A Farmer's Donkey Fell Down Into A Well. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Kolk on Aug 4, 2001
    based on 293 ratings
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    One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey So he invited all his neighbors to ...read more

  • An Important Business Executive Boarded The ...

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Apr 3, 2008
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     | 2,285 views

    An important business executive boarded the New-Orleans-to-Washington train. He was a heavy sleeper, and he needed to be awakened in order to get off the train in Atlanta about 5 o’clock in the morning. He found a porter and told him, "I want you to awaken me in order that I might get off the ...read more

  • We Don't Know Half Of It  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,462 views

    WE DON'T KNOW HALF OF IT The famous explorer Marco Polo after completing his journeys went back to his home in Venice. When he got back to his home he began to describe some of the things he had seen. But his close friends thought he had gone mad. He told then about black stones that you could ...read more

  • Linus On The Hope In The Truth

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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     | 4,408 views

    Linus on the Hope in the Truth A Peanuts cartoon pictured Lucy and Linus looking out the window at a steady downpour of rain. "Boy," said Lucy, "look at it rain. What if it floods the whole world?" "It will never do that," Linus replied confidently. "In the ninth chapter of Genesis, God promised ...read more

  • Back In 1905, There Was Baseball Game At Salt ...

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jan 14, 2007
     | 3,440 views

    Back in 1905, there was baseball game at Salt Lake City, Utah. The Rhyolites were playing the Beattys and the Beattys were up to bat. The pitcher threw the ball, the batter swung - and the ball rocketed toward 1st base. The 1st baseman was a man named William Giffiths, and as he saw the ball ...read more

  • I Remember Hearing Of A Man Who Was Deeply In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ronald Keller on Apr 6, 2003
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,421 views

    I remember hearing of a man who was deeply in debt. The bill collectors called constantly. One in particular was extremely harassing. The man finally told the bill collector: “When I cash my pay check, I put the name of all my creditors in my hat. I shake the hat. Then I reach in and randomly ...read more

  • A Tragic Event That Occurred In The Spring Of ...

    Contributed by Scott Carroll on Mar 11, 2008
     | 1,586 views

    A tragic event that occurred in the spring of 1931 when nine young black men were pulled off an Alabama freight train and accused of raping two young white women. A fight had broken out between blacks and whites in which, the whites were thrown off the train; the surprise was that two southern ...read more

  • Erma Bombeck – Wrote Something Called Rules…  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Jul 10, 2003
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     | 2,907 views

    Erma Bombeck – wrote something called rules… 1) Never have more children than you have car windows. 2) Never loan your car to someone to whom you have given birth. 3) Pick your friends carefully. A "friend" never goes on a diet when you are fat or tells you how lucky you are to have a husband who ...read more

  • What Did She Just Say?

    Contributed by James Snyder on Jan 22, 2022
     | 1,244 views

    To be honest, I don't always hear what I'm supposed to hear. I do have ears, but sometimes they are not working in such a way as to benefit me. Often, The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage will talk to me about something, and then at the end of that, she will ask me a question of which I ...read more

  • You Know There Are Some Things That I Hate  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 7, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,929 views

    You know there are some things that I hate Like deviled eggs, there is nothing about deviled eggs that I like I don’t like the smell, the looks, or especially the taste Its safe to say I hate deviled eggs Some people dislike boxing or NASCAR or competitive eating as a sport Some hate bell bottom ...read more

  • We Serve Jesus By Serving People. A Wealthy ...  PRO

    Contributed by Darryl Bell on Apr 17, 2006
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     | 5,467 views

    We serve Jesus by serving people. A wealthy American traveler visited a hospital in Southeast Asia. He walked in just as a young missionary nurse was cleaning the sores of a sick, dirty, elderly man who had been found lying in a gutter. The rich man said to the nurse, “I wouldn’t do that for a ...read more

  • After A Violent Storm One Night, A Large Tree, ...

    Contributed by Rusty Davidson on Feb 19, 2007
     | 1,467 views

    After a violent storm one night, a large tree, which over the years had become a stately giant, was found lying across the pathway in a park. Nothing but a splintered stump was left. Closer examination showed that is was rotten at the core because thousands of tiny insects had eaten away at its ...read more

  • Dear Abby Once Wrote In Her Column About A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 17, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,483 views

    Dear Abby once wrote in her column about a lifeguard who was being charged with the death of a teenager. The lifeguard was working at a large pool with two or three others each with a specific area to cover. He was approached by a group of teenagers excitedly telling him of someone who was lying at ...read more

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