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  • What You Can Live ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    WHAT YOU CAN LIVE WITHOUT Jules Verne, the famous author of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", also wrote another book entitled "The Mysterious Island." The story is about five men who manage to escape from a Civil War prison camp by highjacking a hot-air balloon. Once aloft, they very quickly ...read more

  • I Like The Story Of The 72 Year Old Woman Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,570 views

    I like the story of the 72 year old woman who went to bed one night and prayed this prayer: "Please God, give me the skin like a ...read more

  • Richard Selzer, Md, Tells Of Standing Before A ...

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Sep 18, 2006
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    Richard Selzer, MD, tells of standing before a hospital bed where a young woman is recovering from surgery. Her mouth is twisted. A facial nerve connected to her mouth muscles had been severed, and her deformity would be permanent. To remove a tumor in her cheek, the nerve had to be cut. Her ...read more

  • Food For The Next Day

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 14, 2010
     | 2,252 views

    FOOD FOR THE NEXT DAY Psychologist, Charles Allen tells this story in one of his books: As World War II was drawing to a close, the Allied armies gathered up many hungry orphans. They placed them in camps where they were safe and well-fed. Yet despite the excellent care they received, the orphans ...read more

  • Sacrifice Of Love

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 17, 2014
    based on 2 ratings
     | 9,492 views

    J. Vernon McGee- Many years ago down in Houston, Texas, when a boarding house caught on fire, a woman broke through the lines and went into that house. It collapsed, and she was burned to death. The headlines read: “Poor Wretch Dies: Suicide.” Later the newspaper printed an apology. Why? ...read more

  • Fear Torments

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Aug 28, 2017
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,128 views

    A man has been visiting a therapist because he has had a fear of monsters living under his bed. The man has been seeing this doctor for months. Every time he would come in the doctor would ask “have you made any progress?”. Every time the man would say “no”. The man decided to go and see another ...read more

  • Some People Found A Beautiful Log House In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,632 views

    Some people found a beautiful log house in Colorado that was high in the mountains. It had a beautiful view, and they had their heart set on buying it. They prayed about the house, but one thing after another went wrong. The timing was not right, their financing didn’t go through. They had prayed ...read more

  • The Love Of Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 23, 2002
    based on 26 ratings
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    THE LOVE OF CHRIST I want to tell you of a modern day Damascus road experience that some of you may find hard to believe. It is reported in an article by Fred Markert in the current issue of Pray Magazine. Fred is the International Director of YWAM’s Strategic Frontiers, a group that focuses on ...read more

  • Reasons To Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 19, 2009
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    Reasons to be Thankful Let’s stop and think for just a moment. You are sitting in this service this morning listening to the Word of God being preached. How did you get here? Did the Father not give you the breath of life that brought you through the night and did He not give you the strength to ...read more

  • The Queen Mary Was The Largest Ship To Cross The ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 27, 2003
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    The Queen Mary was the largest ship to cross the oceans when it was launched in 1936. Through four decades and a World War she served until she was retired, anchored as a floating hotel and museum in Long Beach, California. During the conversion, her three massive smokestacks were taken off to be ...read more

  • In 1879 The Greatest Annual Loss Of Life In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In 1879 The greatest annual loss of life in the New England fisheries occurred, with 29 vessels and 249 fishermen lost at sea. During that year many women found themselves on lonely widow walks with and eye on the horizon hoping for the return of their loved one. A widow’s walk (or roofwalk) is ...read more

  • A Man And His Dog Were Walking On The Beach When ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Oct 31, 2007
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    A man and his dog were walking on the beach when they came upon another visitor to the beach. The owner of the dog was proud of his dog’s newly mastered feat, so he said to the visitor, "Watch this!" whereupon he tossed a piece of driftwood far out into the sea and the dog immediately ran on top of ...read more

  • George Matheson Was Born In Glasgow, Scotland, In ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
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    George Matheson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1842. As a child he had only partial vision, and his sight became progressively worse, until it resulted in blindness by the time he was eighteen. Despite his handicap, he was a brilliant student and graduated from the University of Glasgow and ...read more

  • Our Solar System Bears Witness To Orderly, ...

    Contributed by Bruce Montgomery on Apr 28, 2008
     | 2,140 views

    Our solar system bears witness to orderly, careful design. Consider the slant of our earth, tilted at a 23° angle. If it wasn't so tilted, we would lose not only our seasons, but life itself, as the vapors from the ocean would move north and south, piling up continents of ice. Or the distance to ...read more

  • More ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 1,578 views

    MORE ICE New satellite data shows that concerns over the levels of sea ice may have been premature. It was feared the polar caps were vanishing because of the effects of global warming. But US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data now show almost all the "lost" ice has come back. ...read more

  • Olonga's Persecution

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Mar 10, 2011
    based on 1 rating
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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

  • The Ten-Dollar Cure For Fear  PRO

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 11, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,458 views

    THE TEN-DOLLAR CURE FOR FEAR Stanley went to a psychiatrist. "Doc," he said, "I've got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there's somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there's somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under ... you gotta help me, I'm going crazy!" "Just put ...read more

  • Peter Marshall In One Of His Sermons Told About A ...

    Contributed by William Beard on May 22, 2007
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    PETER MARSHALL in one of his sermons told about a boy who had a TERMINAL ILLNESS. “One night the boy was especially quiet and so his mother asked him what was BOTHERING HIM. Mother, he said: WHAT IS IT LIKE TO DIE, does it hurt? She was silent for a moment and then she said: “Son do you remember ...read more

  • Simple Solutions

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 22, 2025
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    Not all problems are difficult to solve.. Morris went to a psychiatrist. "Doc," he said, "I've got real trouble. Every time I get into bed, I get his weird feeling that there's somebody under it. I look under the bed, to check it out, but then I think there's somebody on ...read more

  • I Like That Story About The Boy And His Father ...  PRO

    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Mar 25, 2001
    based on 189 ratings
     | 2,370 views

    I like that story about the boy and his father who were planning a fishing trip for the next day. That evening as the father was putting his son to bed, the boy hugged ...read more