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  • If 99.9 Percent Is Good Enough, Then...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,739 views

    If 99.9 percent is good enough, then... - Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year. - 811,000 faulty rolls of 35mm film will be loaded this year. - 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60 minutes. - 1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by ...read more

  • Everyday Reminder

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
     | 2,523 views

    EVERYDAY REMINDER Those of you who know me know that I love fishing. I do not however like hunting. For some reason the thought of shooting an animal is just not appealing to me. That does not mean I do not know how to shoot. When I was a kid I was in a gun club. I competed in target shooting and ...read more

  • No Peace In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2009
     | 8,505 views

    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

  • Hope Of Maria

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 5, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,755 views

    HOPE OF MARIA Hope weans God’s people from seeking and trusting this world. The story is told of Maria. She lived in a small town in southern Kentucky. She did not see or hear from her husband for years. Edward was assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division during the Korean war and captured when the ...read more

  • Ravi Zacharias Tells The Story Of A Man Who Went ...

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Aug 7, 2012
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    Ravi Zacharias tells the story of a man who went to School in Wheaton with Billy Graham and later entered into politics. He was a popular man and rose to become the Prime Minister of Canada. In the process of going down that way, to fame, to popularity and power, he began to sacrifice his ethics ...read more

  • When Adam Hamilton Saw Christmas

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Jan 6, 2013
     | 1,895 views

    WHEN ADAM HAMILTON SAW CHRISTMAS Adam Hamilton tells the story of leading his youth group in Dallas, TX to south Dallas, a part of town that was largely forgotten and the remaining people who lived there had been largely forgetten as well. The neighborhood was filled with empty lots, boarded up ...read more

  • The Hobbit: Denying Yourself  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 15, 2013
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,360 views

    The Hobbit: Denying Yourself In the movie “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” there is a scene where the Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit who is accompanying 13 dwarves on a mission, unexpectedly disappears and seems to have abandoned the dwarves during a crucial battle. They were losing. Bilbo does ...read more

  • When Your Sin Finds You Out.  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Turner on Sep 16, 2013
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     | 2,947 views

    I was 18 years old when I stole my first and only item. I was a bagger at a local grocery store. The store had some small battery operated record players that played 45s. (For those too young to remember what 45s were, they looked like bid CDs with a hole in the middle.) A lot of the record players ...read more

  • Where's The Bagel?

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on May 6, 2019
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    On one occasion during my college days in Peterborough I was invited to the Dean of Students residence for a social gathering. Hoping to find food aplenty I was disappointed to see the large dining room table containing a lonely plate of bagels. I quickly grabbed one, but my first bite was more of ...read more

  • Middle Eastern Gate

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 17, 2021
     | 1,970 views

    Derrick Johnson of the Regeneration singing group told a story about his daughter, Debbie. When Debbie was 4 years old, she got lost in a crowded supermarket. After an anxious search, she was found only one aisle over from her mother, but she was petrified. For a long time after that, she was ...read more

  • In 1989 The Sf Bay Area Suffered A Great ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on May 18, 2007
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    In 1989 the SF Bay Area suffered a great earthquake. Katie and I were living there at the time. Growing up there, I had experienced many, many earthquakes – this was the first earthquake where I was truly frightened. After the earthquake I heard many stories about different people’s experiences. ...read more

  • If Anyone Had A Reason To Feel Good About ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 15, 2007
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    If anyone had a reason to feel good about themselves it was Ruth Bell Graham. She was the daughter of missionaries to China, where she lived through her childhood. She was the wife of Billy Graham, whose ministry to the world has possibly had more impact than any other individual in history. T. ...read more

  • A Christian Steamship Captain, A Contemporary Of ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 17, 2007
     | 1,552 views

    A Christian steamship captain, a contemporary of George Mueller, once told of an experience involving Mueller’s great faith. While sailing off the coast of Newfoundland in extremely heavy fog, Mueller came to him and said, “Captain, I need to tell you that I must be in Quebec on Saturday ...read more

  • Recently I Read About A Pastor Who Had A Thorn. ...

    Contributed by Art Good on Jul 26, 2007
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    Recently I read about a Pastor who had a thorn. He had just started - getting involved in teaching and preaching and sensing that it might be some area of calling for him. It was on a Sunday morning at this church and five minutes into his message he started to get dizzy and woozy and the room ...read more

  • Walker Percy, In His Book Lost In The Cosmos, ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Sep 18, 2007
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    Walker Percy, in his book Lost in the Cosmos, describes a scenario that can help us be a little more introspective. Imagine you’re bringing your garbage can out one evening. You roll it down your driveway, out to the street and you see your neighbor, John. You say hi, and he says hi. Then he ...read more

  • I Remember One Day When I Was About 10 Or 11 ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 31, 2007
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    I remember one day when I was about 10 or 11 years old and I had decided to go all the way across town to my grandmother’s house one summer afternoon. It was a scorching hot day in Northern California and I had about 6 miles to walk to my grandmother’s house because my bicycle had a flat tire. I ...read more

  • God Knows Our Needs And We Can Simply Trust Him ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 5, 2007
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    God knows our needs and we can simply TRUST Him to take care of all our needs, day by day. I thought of an example that happened a couple of weeks ago after a Bible Study Group that met at our house. George and Jeni, one of our young couples, were ready to go and Jeni realized she didn¡¦t ...read more

  • Phillip Keller Drew From His Many Years As A ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 14, 2008
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    Phillip Keller drew from his many years as a shepherd to write, A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, a book many Christians find beneficial. In one place he describes “cast” sheep: “This is an old English shepherd’s term for a sheep that has turned over on its back and cannot get up again by itself…. Even ...read more

  • Bad Day

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,877 views

    BAD DAY Brian Hise has had his share of bad stuff happen to him. In just a short time -- one day in July -- his apartment in Provo, Utah apartment became flooded because of an upstairs neighbor’s broken pipe. The manager instructed him to go out and rent a wet/dry vacuum. When he went out to his ...read more

  • Love God, Love ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 18,688 views

    LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE James Moore tells about a man named George. George was a peacemaker with a big heart and wonderful sense of humor. Everyone loved George at church, and he was respected at the hospital where he worked. The reason why so many people loved George was because he was always kind ...read more