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  • She Was An Energetic Young Woman Whose Life Was ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on May 18, 2004
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    She was an energetic young woman whose life was forever changed by an accident. Because her spinal cord was severed, she first struggled to survive. Forced to live her life as a quadriplegic, she nearly lost the will to live. Slowly, she achieved the impossible. She painted by holding a brush with ...read more

  • What Happens If Your Physical Heart Doesn't Work? ...

    Contributed by John Harvey on Jul 18, 2004
     | 1,791 views

    What happens if your physical heart doesn’t work? I have a friend named Van who was in a car wreck and his heart was literally torn in two. To save his life the paramedics had to clamp off the blood supply to his brain and his spinal column. After months in the hospital, his brain was fine, but ...read more

  • Managing From Upstairs

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,990 views

    Joe Torre had been a catcher and a broadcast announcer for the St. Louis Cardinals. Shortly after he was named manager, according to the Pittsburgh Press, New York Yankees’ announcer Phil Rizzuto suggested that managing could be done better from high above the baseball field--from the level of the ...read more

  • This Past Week There Was An Interesting Article ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,439 views

    This past week there was an interesting article on the front page of the USA Today entitled, America gets an ‘F’ in religion. The article was about the religious ignorance in America today in the wake of international tension interjected w/ religious indifference. It said that 60% of Americans ...read more

  • A Young Man Wrote This To His Girlfriend. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,919 views

    A young man wrote this to his girlfriend. “Sweetheart, if this world was as hot as the Sahara desert, I would crawl on my knees through the burning sand to come to you. If the world would be like the Atlantic Ocean, I would swim through shark infested waters to come to you. I would fight the most ...read more

  • The Ten Commandments In Verse  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 13, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,963 views

    The Ten Commandments in Verse Above all else love God alone; Bow down to neither wood nor stone. God’s name refuse to take in vain; The Sabbath rest with care maintain. Respect your parents all your days; Hold sacred human life always. Be loyal to your chosen mate; Steal nothing, ...read more

  • Since 1991 Dr. Haddon W. Robinson Has Held The ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Jan 27, 2008
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    Since 1991 Dr. Haddon W. Robinson has held the Harold John Ockenga Distinguished Professor of Preaching Chair at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. In a poll taken by Baylor University in 1996 he was named one of twelve most effective preachers in the ...read more

  • The Man Tells The Story As Simply As It ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 3, 2008
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    The man tells the story as simply as it happened. Notice that he speaks of Jesus as just a man. He must have heard others call Jesus by name. After sending the blind man to the Siloam pond, Jesus leaves. He isn’t waiting for the man to return to thank Him. Whenever we do anything good, don’t ...read more

  • Why Have I Come To Australia? Well, If Dr Salk ...

    Contributed by Noel Atkinson on Jun 23, 2009
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    “Why have I come to Australia? Well, if Dr Salk had kept quiet about the vaccine he had discovered to help polio sufferers, what a tragedy that would have been! And when I have found Jesus to be the answer to the problems we have, both personal and national, I must share it with others.” Sir Lionel ...read more

  • Pray

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Nov 22, 2009
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    Pray “in the name of Jesus.” It is not a catchy phrase we attach to our prayers, that somehow validates what we have to say. It is recognition that what I have prayed about and prayed for is with the same spirit and heart that Jesus himself would have prayed; that my focus is not self-centered or ...read more

  • Howard Hendricks Once Shared How He Challenged A ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 24, 2009
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    Howard Hendricks once shared how he challenged a class of seminary students to each write down the names of 2-3 people whom, in their judgment, would never come to faith in Christ. Then they covenanted together to pray every day for those individuals. At the end of the semester 36 of those people ...read more

  • It

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Jan 15, 2011
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    "IT" Did any of you see a film that came out in the 90s - "The Adams Family". There's a creature named "it" that is a hand that runs around on its own [mime it]. St Paul tells us the church is the body of Christ. We are all parts of a body interconnected with each other. But if we try to be ...read more

  • Holdfast

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 7, 2011
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    HOLDFAST In the plant world, there are plants who hold fast onto objects like rocks. Their root system is called a holdfast. Many people associate holdfasts with seaweed. If we have ever attempted to pull a piece of seaweed from a rock, we can understand the name of this plant structure; we ...read more

  • Protected From The Puck

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Feb 11, 2011
     | 2,260 views

    PROTECTED FROM THE PUCK When Daniel was a little boy, his favorite movie was The Mighty Ducks, which was the story of a pee wee hockey team. Their goalie, whose name was Goldberg, was afraid of the puck and anytime it would come at him he would run away. So the coach duct taped him to the goal and ...read more

  • We Worship What We Are Becoming

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 18, 2011
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    WE WORSHIP WHAT WE ARE BECOMING "THE GODS we worship write their names on our faces, be sure of that. And a man will worship something--have no doubt about that, either. He may think that his tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of his heart, but it will out. That which dominates will ...read more

  • Ignorance

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 18, 2020
     | 4,313 views

    This is a transcript of an actual support call to a computer support number: Me: Thank you for calling —- my name is —- how may I help you? customer: My new laptop won’t turn on. Me: Is it plugged in? Customer: What? Me: Did you plug it in? The battery is probably dead. Customer: It’s a WIRELESS ...read more

  • George Bernard Shaw Is Perhaps Most Renowned As ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bart Leger on Feb 9, 2005
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     | 2,690 views

    George Bernard Shaw is perhaps most renowned as a free thinker and liberal philosopher. In his last writings we read, "The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt. Its counsels, which should have established the millennium, led, instead, directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them ...read more

  • I Am Reminded Of A Story I Heard Some Time Ago Of ...

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on Aug 6, 2005
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    I am reminded of a story I heard some time ago of a missionary family who laboured in a certain field (Because it is an Islamic country I will not name it) for over 25 years they toiled for seemingly no fruit, then the whole family was martyred and that seemed to be that, But 70 years on in that ...read more

  • More Than Conquers!

    Contributed by Val Black on Jul 14, 2006
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    More Than Conquers! Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history. He subdued most of his known world but he was conquered by his own lusts; he died in a drunken stupor. The Christian conquers his own lusts in order to subdue the world within him. We’ve not ...read more

  • Karma - More And More People Are Relying On Karma ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
     | 1,054 views

    Karma - More and more people are relying on Karma to get them blessed here and to heaven. In NBC new show "My Names Earl" the main character has a list of all the things he has done wrong, and in order to get Karma to smile on him he has to undo all the bad he has done. There are those who really ...read more