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  • The Tv Is My Shepherd, My Spiritual Growth ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Apr 21, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,317 views

    1.The TV is my shepherd, My spiritual growth shall want; It makes me to sit down and do nothing for His Name’s sake. 2. It requires all my spare time; It keeps me from doing my Christian duty. It produces so many good shows that I must see; It restores my knowledge of the world. 3. It keeps me ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of A Young Soldier In The Army ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Aug 6, 2008
     | 3,869 views

    The story is told of a young soldier in the army of Alexander the Great who, during one violent battle, could not control the fear that gripped him. The young man turned from the battle and fled. In the course of his attempt to flee, an officer apprehended him and took in chains to stand before ...read more

  • I Have A Video Tape Of My Favorite Basketball ...

    Contributed by Art Good on Nov 6, 2008
     | 1,531 views

    I have a video tape of my favorite basketball player of all time. His name is Larry Bird. The name of the tape is “Winning Basketball”. The tape is all about the various skills that are needed to be successful at the game of basketball. It’s sort of an instructional video to make the viewer ...read more

  • Be Successful—serve God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
     | 4,082 views

    BE SUCCESSFUL--SERVE GOD Our commitment in the service of Lord in very important in building the body of Christ. And I challenge you to commit your life in the ministry: Confidently, wholeheartedly and absolutely for the glory of God. In Yorkshire, England, during the early 1800s, two sons were ...read more

  • Prof. Howard Hendricks Of Dallas Theo. Seminary ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
     | 851 views

    Prof. Howard Hendricks of Dallas Theo. Seminary said: Years ago in a church in Dallas we were having trouble finding a teacher for a junior high boys’ class. The list of prospects had only one name -- and when they told me who it was I said, "You’ve got to be kidding." But I couldn’t have been ...read more

  • When Evangelist D. L. Moody Was Conducting ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,702 views

    When evangelist D. L. Moody was conducting evangelistic meetings, he frequently faced hecklers who strongly disagreed with him. In the final service of one campaign, an usher handed the famous preacher a note as he entered the auditorium. It was actually from an atheist who had been giving Mr. ...read more

  • Life In Opposition

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 30, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,386 views

    LIFE IN OPPOSITION When I was young, we used to go camping up at the Lodgepole Campground in Sequoia National Park. I think it was the campground at the highest altitude, and we liked it because it wasn’t always as crowded as the lower campgrounds. Now, I always thought the campground was named ...read more

  • Faith In The Colombian Jungle

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Aug 10, 2011
     | 2,202 views

    FAITH IN THE COLOMBIAN JUNGLE A man named Bruce Olson went to Colombia many years ago as a missionary to the headhunters in the far southern jungle, near the border with Brazil. The book that tells his story is Bruchko, the name the Indians called him since they couldn't wrap their tongues around ...read more

  • Wanting To Give Up

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 1, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,740 views

    WANTING TO GIVE UP "In 1965 a divorced mother of two found a classified ad offering a restaurant for sale. She mortgaged her house to purchase the restaurant, the original Chris's steakhouse. In 1976 a fire forced her to relocate. Under the original purchase agreement, the name 'Chris Steak House' ...read more

  • Stalin: Like Steel Toward God

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 6, 2011
     | 3,709 views

    STALIN: LIKE STEEL TOWARD GOD According to Svetlana Stalin, as her father, Joseph Stalin lay dying, he was plagued with terrifying hallucinations. He suddenly sat halfway up in bed, clenched his fist toward the heavens once more, fell back upon his pillow, and was dead. The incredible irony of ...read more

  • If He Had Different Gods  PRO

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jul 1, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,068 views

    IF HE HAD DIFFERENT GODS James Michener, writing in his book, The Source, tells the story of a man named Urbaal, who, was a farmer living about 2200 B.C. He worshiped two gods, one a god of death, the other a goddess of fertility. One day, the temple priests tell Urbaal to bring his young son to ...read more

  • Leadership

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Mar 1, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,660 views

    I remember hearing a story about a famous film producer. As a child, he had a fight with another boy and lost. While his mother was bathing his black eye, he told her how it was entirely the fault of the other boy. It was the other boy who had started the fight, he claimed. His mother said ...read more

  • Just My Type

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
     | 1,931 views

    It all started when Stanley Morison complained. What made it worse was that he wasn’t complaining to just anyone – he was complaining to London’s esteemed The Times newspaper. His complaint was that their newspaper was not as easy to read as it should be because of the typeface that they used. ...read more

  • Fallen

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Sep 23, 2019
     | 899 views

    Fallen I wanted to be the best you ever had. Now, I am a lonesome, loathsome cad. I once drank in Your holy truth. Now, I drown myself in gin and vermouth. I told others of the sacrifice you gave. Now, it is my soul You need to save. I sang the power of the Blood Then dragged you Name ...read more

  • His Rightful Place

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Apr 11, 2022
     | 2,095 views

    I have a dog named Simba. I named him Simba because he is the color of a lion and he has the personality of a lion. One afternoon, we were really tired and I decided to take a quick nap with Simba. Simba has a certain place on the bed beside me where he always lays. I had laid something on the ...read more

  • He Made His Worst Enemy His Best Friend!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jun 12, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 706 views

    In the days of the American Revolution there lived at Ephrata, Pennsylvania, a Baptist pastor by the name of Peter Miller who enjoyed the friendship of General Washington. There also dwelt in that town a man named Michael Wittman who was an evil-minded man who did all in his power to oppose this ...read more

  • In North Shore Baptist Church, In Chicago, The ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Aug 12, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,672 views

    In North Shore Baptist Church, in Chicago, the Sunday School Director and one of the deacons in the church was a man named James L. Kraft. As a young man, just beginning, he wanted to be the most famous manufacturer and salesman of cheese in the world. He was going to be rich and famous, and he ...read more

  • Premature Infant Connects Voice Of Grandfather To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 23, 2009
     | 3,808 views

    Premature Infant Connects Voice of Grandfather to His Touch A man by the name of Max DePree related the following heart-touching story: Esther, my wife, and I have a granddaughter named Zoe, the Greek word for life. She was born prematurely and weighed one pound, seven ounces, so small that my ...read more

  • The Unexpected King

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2011
     | 5,907 views

    THE UNEXPECTED KING Just a year ago (on September 16, 2009), an article in The Washington Post began with these words: "The king folds her own laundry, chauffeurs herself around Washington in a 1992 Honda, and answers her own phone. Her boss's phone, too." The article was about Peggielene Bartels, ...read more

  • Saved By Hope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,686 views

    SAVED BY HOPE An interesting item appeared in a Nashville newspaper, datelined Memphis (UPI): A woman named Hope pulled a man from chilly harbor waters after watching him drive his car off the bank in an apparent suicide attempt. Hope Phillips, thirty-eight, said Monday she was sitting in her car ...read more

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