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  • One Day A Little Girl Went Shopping With Her ...

    Contributed by Georgina Pando-Connolly on Apr 30, 2004
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    One day a little girl went shopping with her mother. Her Daddy had given her a couple of dollars to but whatever she wanted and she chose a shiny necklace with shiny beads that looked like pearls. The little girl put on her pearls and wouldn’t take them off. She slept, bathed etc. Her daddy was ...read more

  • A Speaker In Colorado Was About To Address A ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 3, 2005
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    A speaker in Colorado was about to address a gathering of businessmen and women. Sitting a the head table, he turned to the real estate salesman on his left and said, "So, how are things going for you?" "Terrible," he answered. "Haven¡¯t you heard about the strikes? 80% of the people in this ...read more

  • The Great Comedian Carl Hurley Tells The Story ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Kersten on Apr 18, 2005
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    The great comedian Carl Hurley tells the story about trying to throw a trash can away. He said it’s the one thing you can’t get the garbage man to pick up. He said, I set an old rusty garbage can out at the street one morning thinking the garbage man would understand that it needed to be thrown ...read more

  • Some Years Ago Donald Grey Barnhouse Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Some years ago Donald Grey Barnhouse was counseling a young woman on the sidewalk in front of a church following an evening service. She said she was a Christian and that she wanted to follow Christ. But she wanted to be famous too. She wanted to pursue a stage career in New York. "After I have ...read more

  • Back In The 1500's - Ivan The Iv Became The First ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 8, 2007
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    Back in the 1500’s - Ivan the IV became the first Czar of Russia. He ruled a large diverse nation but he wasn’t a good ruler. He wasn’t even a very nice man. In fact he was a very cruel man. He was so cruel they referred to him as "Ivan The Terrible." And he was widely known to be a very immoral ...read more

  • It Comes Back To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    IT COMES BACK TO YOU A preacher was making his rounds to his parishioners on a bicycle when he came upon a little boy trying to sell a lawn mower. "I’ve been needing a lawn mower. How much do you want for it?" asked the preacher. "I just want enough money to go out and buy me a bike," said the ...read more

  • I Can Hear You, The Rest Of The World Can Hear ...

    Contributed by Ronald Courtney on Sep 13, 2008
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    “I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” (President George W. Bush September 14, 2001 Ground Zero) For the last six years we have paused, on a personal level and on a national level to remember the events of ...read more

  • Happiness Vs. Joy

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 15, 2008
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    HAPPINESS VS. JOY There is a pretty common belief that differentiates between happiness and joy. This is one that I believe. Happiness is based on circumstances. Expensive gifts and good food and parties and celebrations and Christmas lights can bring happiness. But they are only temporary. They ...read more

  • Throwing In The Towel

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 30, 2008
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    THROWING IN THE TOWEL I don't know whether you are a lover of boxing as a sport or not, but when a boxer has had enough, the trainer can 'throw in the towel." This signifies we just can't go on any further... We often use the turn of phrase to say were giving up. If were honest, there may be ...read more

  • Paul's Thorn In The Flesh Like Catfish With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
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    Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh Like Catfish with Codfish Years ago in the northeastern United States codfish was a big commercial business. There is a market for eastern cod all over, especially on the West Coast. The demand posed a problem to the shippers. At first they froze the cod, then shipped them ...read more

  • At The Consumer Electronics Show Recently Held In ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Jan 13, 2010
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    At the Consumer Electronics Show recently held in Las Vegas, one company unveiled the unbreakable mobile phone. When asked what the phone was capable of withstanding, the director said you could drop it from a ten storey height, immerse it in over 20 ft of water for up to 30 minutes, and even ...read more

  • When Our Family Moved To East Point, Georgia, A ...

    Contributed by Bobby Gilstrap on May 25, 2010
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    When our family moved to East Point, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, our house was in the flight pattern for Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport. Every few minutes, all day and all night, large commercial jets would take off and fly over our home before veering off to destinations unknown. ...read more

  • In 2009 Picher Oklahoma Closed It’s ...

    Contributed by David Rumley on Aug 19, 2010
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    In 2009 Picher Oklahoma closed it’s doors… the entire city closed, evacuated, and shut down. Once it was a town of 20,000 people… in the first quarter of 1900’s it was a boomtown and had abundant lead and zinc. The Picher area became the most productive lead-zinc mining field in the Tri-State ...read more

  • This Doesn't Mean That We Do Not Feel The Brunt ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 6, 2010
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    This doesn't mean that we do not feel the brunt of bad news, trials, or miseries. It means he helps us gain our composure. Judy Ackerman Link wrote: After my doctor announced that I had cancer, I tried to listen to what he said, but I couldn’t. I went home, pulled a blanket over my head, and fell ...read more

  • Olonga's Persecution

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Mar 10, 2011
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    OLONGA'S PERSECUTION Henry Olonga tells of when he was first selected for the Zimbabwean cricket B-Team. They were touring South Africa and staying in a luxurious Johannesburg Hotel. At that time they had to share a hotel room with a teammate and he was sharing with a more famous, white, senior ...read more

  • Prayer For Thieves  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
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    PRAYER FOR THIEVES About 12 years ago, three men broke into our church building here. They didn't steal much, and they didn't really damage all that much (they broke a couple of doors, and stole a few small items) but we called the police and reported the incident. After the police left, our youth ...read more

  • The Maker

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
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    THE MAKER An old Model T Ford was pulled off to the side of the road with its hood up, and a young man was trying desperately to get it running. He had been working at it for a long time without any success when a beautiful, chauffeur-driven limousine stopped behind him, and a well-dressed man got ...read more

  • The American Businessman Was At The Pier Of A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 4, 2001
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    The American businessman was at the pier of a small costal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them. ...read more

  • Listen - God Says, Don't Buy Into The Myth Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Jun 6, 2002
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    Listen - God says, don’t buy into the myth of more - thinking that having more (of something or someone) will make you happy.... Don’t buy into the myth of thinking that you are just one purchase, one buck, one promotion, one relationship, one accomplishment, one good time or one gut busting ...read more

  • Fisherman  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Jones on Jan 16, 2003
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    Fisherman American businessman was at a pier in a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow-fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The ...read more