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  • Some Veterans Bear Visible Signs Of Their ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 40 ratings
     | 7,815 views

    Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg--or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul’s ally forged in the refinery of ...read more

  • For Always  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Dec 23, 2001
    based on 228 ratings
     | 4,066 views

    FOR ALWAYS In 1994 two Americans answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics (based on Biblical principles) in the public schools. They were invited to teach at prisons, businesses, the fire and police departments, and a large orphanage. It was ...read more

  • In 1994 Two Americans Answered An Invitation From ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 1, 2002
    based on 29 ratings
     | 2,997 views

    In 1994 two Americans answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics (based on Biblical principles) in the public schools. They were invited to teach at prisons, businesses, the fire and police departments, and a large orphanage. It was nearing the ...read more

  • Football Practice Was Over, And Denny Was Sore ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Apr 26, 2002
    based on 46 ratings
     | 1,666 views

    Football practice was over, and Denny was sore from head to toe. Slowly he climbed the graffiti-laden stairway of the aging apartment building. Suddenly, his mother’s chilling screams pierced the cold, still air. He had heard the sound many times before. Still, a sickening knot formed in Denny’s ...read more

  • Let Me Tell You A Story From Alberta History: ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Dec 12, 2002
    based on 60 ratings
     | 5,105 views

    Let me tell you a story from Alberta history: Cree Chief Maskepetoon met Rev. Robert Rundle, and at their first meeting declared "I will never become a Christian as long as there are horses to steal and scalps to take." Nevertheless Maskepetoon became a staunch friend to Rundle and his attitude ...read more

  • The Saga Of Mitsuo Fuchida  PRO

    Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 9, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,381 views

    the saga of Mitsuo Fuchida. Fuchida grew up loving his native Japan and hating the United States, which treated Asian immigrants harshly in the first half of the twentieth century. Fuchida attended a military academy, joined Japan’s Naval Air Force, and by 1941, with 10,000 flying hours behind ...read more

  • The Two Faces Of Change!" 2 Kings 12: 1-8 Key ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 9, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,172 views

    “The Two Faces of Change!” 2 Kings 12: 1-8 Key verse(s): 2-3:“Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him. The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.” On June 4, 1783 at the ...read more

  • Intro: Football Practice Was Over, And Denny Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,528 views

    INTRO: Football practice was over, and Denny was sore from head to toe. Slowly he climbed the graffiti-laden stairway of the aging apartment building. Suddenly, his mother’s chilling screams pierced the cold, still air. He had heard the sound many times before. Still, a sickening knot formed in ...read more

  • In The Days Of The Roman Emperor Nero, There ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 21, 2007
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    In the days of the Roman Emperor Nero, there lived and served him a band of soldiers known as the "Emperor’s Wrestlers." Fine, stalwart men they were, picked from the best and the bravest of the land, recruited from the great athletes of the Roman amphitheater. In the great amphitheater they ...read more

  • When I Was A Little Girl, I Can Still Remember ...

    Contributed by Elizabeth Stutler on Jul 14, 2007
     | 1,218 views

    When I was a little girl, I can still remember seeing a picture of Jesus. He had curly blonde hair, blue, blue eyes and skin as fair as fair can be. Is that how we picture our Jesus? Do we really grasp how Jesus looked the battering and scars that he bore for us? Sure we see the crown of thorns ...read more

  • The Old Man And The Gulls

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 6, 2007
     | 2,018 views

    The Old Man and the Gulls It is gratitude that prompted an old man to visit an old broken pier on the eastern seacoast of Florida. Every Friday night, until his death in 1973, he would return, walking slowly and slightly stooped with a large bucket of shrimp. The sea gulls would flock to this old ...read more

  • Title: What's In Your Heart? What's In Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Title: What’s in your heart? What’s in your wallet? Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: (illustration ) Let me tell you a story of 2 men. One, we will call Jim, and the other we will ...read more

  • The Wood Had Now Burnt Long Enough To Be Glowing ...

    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,536 views

    The wood had now burnt long enough to be glowing embers of charcoal. The fire was cracking and popping a little. The waves were slapping the shoreline of the lake. A mist was rising off the water and being burned away by the morning sun. It was a good morning for a breakfast of fish and bread. But ...read more

  • The High School That I Went To Was A Big ...

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Nov 21, 2008
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    -The high school that I went to was a big football, track and wrestling school -All of the best athletes played football -The coach of the team highly encouraged his best players to not play basketball anymore but to concentrate during the winter on lifting weights instead of shooting a ...read more

  • Godly Mothers: Always With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2009
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    GODLY MOTHERS: ALWAYS WITH YOU The young mother set her foot on the path of life. "Is this the long way?" she asked. And the guide said: "Yes, and the way is hard. And you will be old before you reach the end of it. But the end will be better than the beginning." But the young mother was happy, ...read more

  • The Praying ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 14, 2009
     | 3,644 views

    The praying hands Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table, the father, who was a goldsmith by profession, had to work almost eighteen hours a day and he took on any other paying work ...read more

  • Christina Recently Gave Birth To Our First ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Jun 17, 2010
     | 2,881 views

    Christina recently gave birth to our first daughter. After three sons I am very pleased to have a little girl. Recently I was speaking to the academic dean of the seminary where I am pursuing doctoral studies. The school had asked for individual and family photos of students like me who are ...read more

  • Gift Of Honor  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,489 views

    GIFT OF HONOR Football practice was over, and Denny was sore from head to toe. Slowly he climbed the graffiti-laden stairway of the aging apartment building. Suddenly, his mother’s chilling screams pierced the cold, still air. He had heard the sound many times before. Still, a sickening knot ...read more

  • The Clarence Principle

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 7, 2011
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    THE CLARENCE PRINCIPLE That's what spiritual maturity is--It's not just being a Christian for a little while. It's being able to discern the difference between right and wrong, because you have practiced applying the principles of God's Word in your every-day life. It's being able to discern the ...read more

  • Fire In The Hole

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 7, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,762 views

    FIRE IN THE HOLE Centralia was a small mining town in the eastern part of Pennsylvania with about 1000 residents making their income off of the coal dug just underneath the crust. The town had existed the same way for over a century when pre-Civil War settlers moved out to dig up the anthracite ...read more