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  • I Remember When I Was A Kid And This Is True For ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Sep 1, 2009
     | 1,313 views

    I remember when I was a kid and this is true for the vast majority of boys and quite a few girls, getting covered in mud, a rugby game, a decent sized puddle, a building site, mud fights, mud pies any excuse was an opportunity for a wallow. I thought it was great, my mates thought it was great ...read more

  • Hang A White Handkerchief

    Contributed by Wes Richard on Oct 5, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,422 views

    HANG A WHITE HANDKERCHIEF I once read about a young man who had run away from home because he could not get along with his parents. Somehow, his parents were able to get a message to him, inviting him back home. He wrote back, saying that he was coming home and if they were sure he was welcome, ...read more

  • Search And Rescue

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
     | 5,503 views

    SEARCH AND RESCUE There is a group of people I hope we never have to meet. They’re job is hard, exciting, frightening and important all at the same time. They do SAR; Search and Rescue. They work near Reno, Nevada and work ski resorts and desert rescue. They pull people off of Mt. Hood, find lost ...read more

  • Mine Worker Understands The Cost Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
     | 2,983 views

    Mine Worker Understands the Cost of Forgiveness G. Campbell Morgan, the well known pastor of the last century of Westminster Chapel, near Buckingham Palace, was once approached by a soldier who said he would give anything to believe that God would forgive sins, “but I cannot believe He will forgive ...read more

  • Switching Off The Message  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,372 views

    SWITCHING OFF THE MESSAGE The Word will protect us. No soldier is going to go to battle without his armor and his weapons. Yet many Christians today rarely even pick up their bible. A former park ranger at Yellowstone National Park tells the story of a ranger leading a group of hikers to a fire ...read more

  • Praying For Wind

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2010
     | 2,558 views

    PRAYING FOR WIND When Hudson Taylor went to China, he made the voyage on a sailing vessel. As it neared the channel between the southern Malay Peninsula and the island of Sumatra, the missionary heard an urgent knock on his stateroom door. He opened it, and there stood the captain of the ship. ...read more

  • Capture And Control  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,356 views

    CAPTURE AND CONTROL Craig Larson talks about being at a lunch party on a warm, Chicago day in early September with a dozen of his fellow workers. The windows were left open, and soon a bee found its way in. After buzzing around for a while, it landed on some food on the table. Then someone took an ...read more

  • A Child's View Of God

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Feb 26, 2011
     | 1,716 views

    A CHILD'S VIEW OF GOD Many of you know that I did not grow up in the church. My family was not religious, and so, we seldom spoke of God. Still in all, even as a child, I had some conception of God. I don’t know where I got it or how I picked it up, but I had an undeveloped, primitive theology. I ...read more

  • Don't Waste Your Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,326 views

    DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE In his book Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper recounts a story his father often told of his days as a fiery Baptist evangelist. It is the story of a man who came to saving faith in Jesus Christ near the end of his earthly existence. Piper writes: "The church had prayed for ...read more

  • Faith In The Colombian Jungle

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Aug 10, 2011
     | 2,203 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

  • God's Heartbeat In Us  PRO

    Contributed by John D Jones on Oct 26, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,665 views

    GOD'S HEARTBEAT IN US For 72 years Gordon and Norma Yeager shared their lives together as husband and wife. On October 12, 2011, while on a morning drive Gordon came to a stop sign and failed to yield to oncoming traffic. The elderly couple was taken to the Marshalltown Hospital near Des Moines, ...read more

  • Reflecting The Light  PRO

    Contributed by Everette Pafford on Feb 27, 2014
    based on 6 ratings
     | 8,054 views

    REFLECTING THE LIGHT A well-known Bible teacher has just finished speaking to a large class of business people on the Christians' responsibility to be light in the world. He had emphasized the as believers we all have the obligation to reflect the Light in the world, the Lord Jesus. After the ...read more

  • Rebellion

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 15, 2019
     | 3,461 views

    REBELLION Long, long ago in a world far, far away from here there was a great kingdom. It was a kingdom fill with the wonders of all the ages. Everywhere that the eye looked the mind became overwhelmed with all the beauty. This world was filled with such beauty that it surpassed all imagination. ...read more

  • We Can't Know The Day - But We Can Know The Season When Christ Returns.

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 6, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 298 views

    Jesus specifically told us that there would be signs in the sky in the sun and moon and stars (Luke 21:25), and he told us to “look up”, as our redemption draws near. Believers need to look up when the "season" of His return arrives.   The apostle Paul had this to say about the ...read more

  • Unsung Heroes-Claudius Lysias

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Aug 22, 2023
     | 556 views

    Introduction: He was a high-ranking officer in the Roman army, mentioned only a couple of times in Scripture. We don’t know if he ever became a Christian, but we do know that he saved the life of Paul the apostle at least twice! Text: Acts 24:22-23, KJV: 22 And when Felix heard these things, ...read more

  • There Is An Old Story Of An Eagle Who, On An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 7, 2000
    based on 168 ratings
     | 5,615 views

    There is an old story of an eagle who, on an early morning during the Spring thaw, soared high above the forest looking for something to eat. As he followed the course of a river he looked down and spied a small rodent, trapped on a piece of ice that had broken free and was floating down stream. ...read more

  • A Poem By Pastor Clinton Meininger From His Book ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 11, 2000
    based on 116 ratings
     | 4,869 views

    A poem by Pastor Clinton Meininger from his book "Springs of Living Waters"tells us of the mysteries of life. He says: "All around me, Lord of life, My world is tumbling in. There’s nothing sure and nothing safe From gossip, greed and sin: And yet, I know ...read more

  • In The Greek Islands, You Can See The Home Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. Darrel Davis on Oct 27, 2001
    based on 50 ratings
     | 1,527 views

    In the Greek Islands, you can see the home of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine. Near his house there is an olive tree, supposedly dating from his time. The trunk of this tree is very large but completely hollow; it is little more than thick bark. There are a few long, straggling branches, ...read more

  • Which Way Is Up?

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,264 views

    Which Way Is Up? Some years ago I read about a speedboat driver who had recently survived a racing accident. He said that he had been at near top speeds when his boat veered slightly and hit a wave at a dangerous angle. The combined force of his speed and the size and angle of the wave sent the ...read more

  • God Almighty Is With Us In Human Flesh, And We ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Dec 5, 2006
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     | 2,307 views

    God Almighty is with us in human flesh, and we are liberated from the power of sin and death. We are “more than conquerors through Him who loves us.” The hymn writer John W. Peterson expresses it so well: No one understands like Jesus. He’s a friend beyond compare; Meet Him at the throne of ...read more

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