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  • Alec ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    ALEC SHEAR Alec Shear has spent the last twenty-five years of his life collecting stuff. He has 6 stars and stripes lunch boxes, 400 transistor radios that look like name brand products, 10,000 match books, and countless other items of vintage Americana. When his wife divorced him over his ...read more

  • Live Like You Were Dying: The Bucket List

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Jun 5, 2009
     | 2,620 views

    LIVE LIKE YOU WERE DYING: THE BUCKET LIST A couple of years ago my wife and I saw a movie entitled “The Bucket List” starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Both men discovered that they had incurable diseases and wound up being roommates in the hospital. They became good friends and ended ...read more

  • Good Jealousy

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,192 views

    GOOD JEALOUSY Dennis De Haan illustrates: Shep, the newest member of our family, is a young Shetland sheepdog who openly displays his jealousy when I kiss my wife. He doesn’t snarl or bite, but in the language of barking he seems to be saying, "Hey, Master, you belong to me!" His jealousy gives ...read more

  • A Far, Far Better Thing

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 29, 2012
     | 1,242 views

    A FAR, FAR BETTER THING In Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, the young Frenchman Charles Darnay was condemned to die by the guillotine. When Sidney Carton learned of his friend’s situation, he determined to lay down his life in place of his friend. He determined to do this, not because he ...read more

  • The Three-Legged Chicken

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 4, 2012
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    THE THREE-LEGGED CHICKEN One day a traveller was driving down a back country road when he noticed that there was a three-legged chicken running alongside his car. He stepped on the gas but at 50 miles per hour, the chicken was still keeping up. After about a mile of running, the chicken ran up a ...read more

  • The White Man

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Sep 8, 2012
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    THE WHITE MAN When Wycliffe Bible translator Doug Meland and his wife moved into a village of Brazil's Fulnio Indians, he was referred to simply as "the white man." The term was by no means complimentary since other white men had exploited them, burned their homes, and robbed them of their lands. ...read more

  • Forget The Gps!

    Contributed by Robert Harmon on Oct 4, 2014
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    My brother Curtis had come home from Italy to visit us, and attended worship at the congregation where I served. Afterword, he wanted to go to Mammoth Cave and show his wife and son one of the natural wonders of the US. We tagged along, and I told him I knew the way. He said, “Naw, we’ll use the ...read more

  • The Nfl...a Moral Compass?

    Contributed by Robert Harmon on Oct 4, 2014
     | 5,058 views

    How would you like to have the NFL as your moral compass? Last week, we were hammered by reports about Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson and how the NFL was responding (or not responding) to the allegations of abuse. Tabloids, Social Media, and ESPN have been overloaded with their stories and many ...read more

  • Christmas Present Unrealized

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 25, 2019
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    This is a true story. Freddie and John were fortunate enough to have a season ticket to watch Chelsea soccer in the UK. They could not help noticing that there was always a spare seat next (B14) to them and they had a friend who would love to buy a season ticket, especially if all three could have ...read more

  • Preach Christ...?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,759 views

    PREACH CHRIST...? A middle-aged farmer wanted to be a preacher for years, but wasn't sure if it was God's will. One day, while he was working in the field, he decided to rest under a tree. As he looked up into the sky he saw that the clouds seemed to form into the letters P and C. As he thought ...read more

  • Dos Políticos Están Debatiendo, Uno Exasperado ...  PRO

    Contributed by Luis Marquez on Dec 3, 2008
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    Dos políticos están debatiendo, uno exasperado grita al otro: ¿“Dime cual es ese gran poder que te controla"? El otro airado responde: “A mi esposa la dejas fuera de todo esto.” En un año de elecciones cosa así pasan. Pero no nos damos cuenta que cada día es un día de elección. Elegimos ante cada ...read more

  • God's "Random" Provision

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 21, 2009
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    God's "Random" Provision Charles Cowman and his wife were missionaries to Asia. He became fatally ill and they returned to their homeland. For six years he battled his illness. Mrs. Cowman says, "... each time when the testings had reached their utmost limit, God would illumine some old and ...read more

  • Head Of Household  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 6, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,570 views

    HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD The story begins in heaven after the final judgment. God appeared and said, "I want the men to make two lines. One line for the men who were true heads of their household and the other line for the men who were dominated by their women. I want all the women to report to St. ...read more

  • Cloudy Days

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Sep 18, 2021
     | 1,635 views

    My wife told me about a dream where she is looking up at a cloudy sky with two arms sticking through the clouds and says, I love you. The arms sign back to her, "I love you." I am cautious about dreams and interpretations because most are just our brains doing what we call in the IT ...read more

  • The American Businessman Was At The Pier Of A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 4, 2001
    based on 135 ratings
     | 7,889 views

    The American businessman was at the pier of a small costal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them. ...read more

  • Tim (The Rock) Raines Returns To The Montreal ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 17, 2001
    based on 120 ratings
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    Tim (The Rock) Raines returns to the Montreal Expos at age 41 Apr. 13, 2001. From THESTAR.COM MONTREAL (CP) - Tim Raines wasn’t prepared for the deafening cheers from the usually quiet crowd when he stepped to the plate in his first game back in Montreal. For Raines, it was like being in the ...read more

  • Tim (The Rock) Raines Returns To The Montreal ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 23, 2001
    based on 81 ratings
     | 2,567 views

    Tim (The Rock) Raines returns to the Montreal Expos at age 41 Apr. 13, 2001 writes the TheStar.Com. MONTREAL (CP) - Tim Raines wasn’t prepared for the deafening cheers from the usually quiet crowd when he stepped to the plate in his first game back in Montreal. For Raines, it was like being in the ...read more

  • Living On The Mountain  PRO

    Contributed by Darren Ethier on Mar 22, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,037 views

    LIVING ON THE MOUNTAIN Listen to one man’s remarkable discovery at Smokey Mountain near the Philippine capital of Manila: "A gigantic man-made mound, perhaps 100 feet high, ran on before us for a mile or more. Wisps of smoke rose from fissures all over the sides and top of this municipal dump and ...read more

  • Fisherman  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Jones on Jan 16, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 13,632 views

    Fisherman American businessman was at a pier in a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow-fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The ...read more

  • The Bible Tells Us This About Love, "So We Know ...  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Feb 24, 2006
    based on 21 ratings
     | 2,984 views

    The Bible tells us this about love, “So we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16) In the very same epistle we find that Scriptures warn us with, “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 ...read more