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  • Over The Past Few Months Stephanie And I Have Had ...

    Contributed by Jason Cole on Feb 26, 2004
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     | 1,993 views

    Over the past few months Stephanie and I have had to do much planning for our wedding. We have picked out tuxedos, she has picked out her dress and the brides maids dresses, we had to determine who was going to be in the wedding and the list goes on and on. There are many things involved in ...read more

  • From The Power Of One Another By Bob Russell, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2004
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    From The Power of One Another by Bob Russell, pg. 20- Christians in Romania relate that during the government oppression they had endured for years, Bibles were very scarce. Christian would tear pages out of the Bible, pass them around, and hide them so that they could have them to read. ...read more

  • The Bridge  PRO

    Contributed by John Gerald on Dec 4, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,521 views

    THE BRIDGE An old man going a lone highway, Came at the evening cold and gray To a chasm vast, deep and wide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim The sullen stream had no fear for him. But he paused when safe on the other side And built a bridge to stem the tide. "Old man," said a fellow ...read more

  • My Daddy Knows…

    Contributed by Daniel Owens on Jan 18, 2008
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     | 2,345 views

    3 little boys were in the back yard playing. Pretty soon they got into this old thing of – you know – My dad is bigger that your dad – better than your dad, greater than yours. My dad can beat your dad and all that. This one little boy says, “My dad knows the Mayor.” Pretty impressive. The ...read more

  • When A Dream Dies The World Is Not The Same You ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Feb 6, 2008
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    When a dream dies the world is not the same you realize in an instant that everything has changed tomorrow will be different the plans will all be new for the dream that you were chasing no longer lives inside of you to know the race is over and you’ve been left behind is like a snowflake in the ...read more

  • A Young Banker Was Driving His Bmw, In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    Illus. A young banker was driving his BMW, in the mountains, during a snowstorm. As he rounded a turn the vehicle slid out of control and toward a cliff. At the last moment he unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped from the car. Though he escaped with his life, his left arm was caught near the hinge of ...read more

  • Looking At The Master

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Apr 25, 2008
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     | 3,788 views

    LOOKING AT THE MASTER A pastor once told his congregation about a man who had a dog, and the man was trying to train his dog to be obedient. And what he would do was to take a large piece of meat--good, red, juicy meat that dogs would normally like to eat--and he would put it in the middle of the ...read more

  • John Quincy Adams Said: "All That I Am My Mother ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 9, 2008
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    John Quincy Adams said: “All that I am my mother made me.” Abraham Lincoln said: “All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” Dwight L. Moody said, “All that I have ever accomplished in life, I owe to my mother.” Napoleon said, “Let France have good mothers, and she will have good ...read more

  • Discover The Power Of Encouragement.

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 16, 2008
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     | 6,370 views

    *Discover the power of encouragement. God wants you to be encouraged, and He wants you to be an encourager to others. *It was on March 23, 1945, during one of the last major offensives of WWII. General Dwight Eisenhower was walking near the Rhine River and fell into step beside a young ...read more

  • 99% Isn't ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    99% ISN’T ENOUGH Back in the 90’s a California research firm considered the advertising slogan for a popular soap that was 99.4% pure. And they asked themselves the question: “What if everything in the world operated at 99% efficiency?” They discovered: Drinking water would be unsafe one hour out ...read more

  • In A Little Fishing Village In Scotland, The ...

    Contributed by Betty Johnson on Sep 22, 2008
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    In a little fishing village in Scotland, the people gathered to welcome home a fishing vessel that had been away at sea for many days. As the boat neared the shore, the men gazed eagerly toward the dock where a group of their loved ones were waiting. The skipper, looking through his telescope, ...read more

  • A Young Banker Was Driving His Bmw, In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
     | 1,185 views

    A young banker was driving his BMW, in the mountains, during a snowstorm. As he rounded a turn the vehicle slid out of control and toward a cliff. At the last moment he unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped from the car. Though he escaped with his life, his left arm was caught near the hinge of the ...read more

  • Christmas Lights In March

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 14, 2008
     | 2,174 views

    CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IN MARCH Robert Russell, pastor and author, tells a story of how about twenty years ago there was a house near the entrance of his subdivision that kept their Christmas lights burning long after the season was past. They burned through January. Even through the first of February ...read more

  • A Young Banker Was Driving His Bmw, In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
     | 881 views

    A young banker was driving his BMW, in the mountains, during a snowstorm. As he rounded a turn the vehicle slid out of control and toward a cliff. At the last moment he unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped from the car. Though he escaped with his life, his left arm was caught near the hinge of the ...read more

  • That Song Your Grace Is Enough, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,099 views

    Illustration: that song Your Grace is Enough, the three Hebrew children, Philip Crosby, in his book March Till They Die, tells of a forced march of American and European soldiers in Korea. In November of 1950, Philip Crosby and his friends, as they passed close to those GI’s who were having a hard ...read more

  • Years Ago, There Was A Wicked Emperor By The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,009 views

    Years ago, there was a wicked emperor by the name of Dionysius. He discovered that near to where he lived was a cave shaped in the form of a funnel with an opening right at the surface. Dionysus used this cave as a workshop for his slaves. He put all the slaves in caves and then he’d go up and put ...read more

  • The Rose Beyond The Wall-A. L. Frink

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 7,026 views

    THE ROSE BEYOND THE WALL-A. L. Frink Near a shady wall a rose once grew, Budded and blossomed in God’s free light, Watered and fed by morning dew, Shedding its sweetness day and night. As it grew and blossomed fair and tall, Slowly rising to loftier height, I came to a crevice in the ...read more

  • The Hermit Seeking To Know God Better

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 22, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,600 views

    ILLUSTRATION: The Hermit Seeking to know God better, John Chrysostom became a hermit in the mountains near Antioch in A.D. 373. Although his time of isolation was cut short by illness, he learned that with God at his side, he could attend alone against anyone or anything. That lesson served ...read more

  • The Big Black Door  PRO

    Contributed by Dennis Marquardt on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 13 ratings
     | 6,014 views

    THE BIG BLACK DOOR An Arab chief tells a story of a spy who was captured and then sentenced to death by a general in the Persian army. This general had the strange custom of giving condemned criminals a choice between the firing squad and the big, black door. As the moment for execution drew near, ...read more

  • The Next Plague In Exodus 9 Is A Severe ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
     | 1,463 views

    The next plague in Exodus 9 is a severe electrical thunderstorm with hail. I remember as a kid looking out over the field near our house and seeing a brown cloud of what looked like dust billowing it’s way towards me. The sky took on a brown tinge that seemed to paint the whole atmosphere and ...read more

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