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  • Heaven's Gateway  PRO

    Contributed by Stephan Brown on Aug 26, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,321 views

    HEAVEN'S GATEWAY I recently made a trip to Ellis Island in New York. Ellis Island was once the biggest immigration processing center in the U.S. It processed thousands of immigrants a day. All of these immigrants left their homelands through much difficulty to come to “the land of promise.” They ...read more

  • When David Brainerd Took The Message Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Luthy on Nov 16, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 3,712 views

    When David Brainerd took the message of redemption to the North American Indians from 1743 to his death at age 29 just four years later, a revival broke out that impacted the Native American community. Baugh writes, "The revival had greatest impact when Brainerd emphasized the compassion of the ...read more

  • Dr. Anthony T. Evans, Guiding Your ...  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 5, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,381 views

    ILLUSTRATION… Dr. Anthony T. Evans, Guiding Your Family in a Misguided World. One day, two monks were walking through the countryside. They were on their way to another village to help bring in the crops. As they walked, they spied an old woman sitting at the edge of a river. She was upset because ...read more

  • This Is A True Story. Two Guys In A Church, Paul ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jun 11, 2004
    based on 13 ratings
     | 9,661 views

    This is a true story. Two guys in a church, Paul and William decided that they really wanted to become godly men. So they started meeting with one another to pray and encourage one another; they even set goals for themselves and their behavior, and then were accountable to the other one. Paul ...read more

  • Wanted: Movers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 28, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,870 views

    WANTED: MOVERS Suppose that one of the local businessmen had purchased a new building and was planning to move all of his stock into the new store. He placed an ad in the paper offering $100.00 per day to anyone who would come to help him make the move. The first workers were there early on the ...read more

  • The Cohen Brothers And Mr. Ford  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 4, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,072 views

    The Cohen Brothers & Mr. Ford It was a sweltering August day when all three Cohen brothers entered the posh Dearborn, Michigan, offices of Henry Ford, the car maker, "Mr. Ford," announced Norman Cohen, the eldest of the three. "We have a remarkable invention that will revolutionize the automobile ...read more

  • Ever Been On A Great Adventure? A Great Adventure ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Burkey on May 24, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,491 views

    Ever been on a great adventure? A great adventure happens when someone offers a different approach to life. You think their crazy, but try it anyway. The diet you were convinced to try. You were reluctant, You grumbled when you started. You found 3 months later, you had never felt better in your ...read more

  • There Was A Man Many Years Ago Named ...  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jul 31, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,987 views

    ILLUS: There was a man many years ago named Henry Ward Beecher. He was a prominent preacher here in America. He was invited on an occasion to attend a meeting of an atheist club where the noted agnostic Robert Ingersol was speaking. So Mr. Beecher, the preacher, accepted the invitation. ...read more

  • The Power Of Godly Hope

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Feb 23, 2006
     | 3,992 views

    *King Duncan tells the story that reminds us of the power of this hope. This happened in 1993, to a man named Terry Stout. Terry was the business manager for the Psychiatry Department at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. *One Fall morning Terry was running a little late, but (I’m sure led by ...read more

  • One Day, Two Monks Were Walking Through The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 2,318 views

    One day, two monks were walking through the countryside. They were on their way to another village to help bring in the crops. As they walked, they spied an old woman sitting at the edge of a river. She was upset because there was no bridge, and she could not get across on her own. The first monk ...read more

  • From The Straits Times, Monday, September 30, ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Aug 26, 2006
     | 1,362 views

    From The Straits Times, Monday, September 30, 1996 "No money, no rescue" A 6-YEAR-OLD boy drowned in a river in southern China after bystanders refused to rescue him unless his penniless sister paid to save her brother’s life, a newspaper reported. Hongkong’s South China Morning Post said that ...read more

  • The Story Is Told That During His College Years, ...

    Contributed by Patrick Lublink on Oct 18, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,272 views

    The story is told that during his College years, Samuel Logan Brengle was a brilliant law student who was very gifted in the art of speaking. The Lord called him to the ministry of preaching. After he received his Bachelor of Arts degree, he became a circuit preacher with the Methodist ...read more

  • The Little Satellite That Could

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
     | 3,902 views

    THE LITTLE SATELLITE THAT COULD In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. According to Leon Jaroff in Time magazine, the satellite’s primary mission was to reach Jupiter, photograph the planet and its moons, and beam data to earth about Jupiter’s magnetic field, radiation ...read more

  • Thanksgiving At Plymouth ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
     | 6,198 views

    Thanksgiving at Plymouth Colony Think of that little band of people who crossed the Atlantic in a boat that was 26 feet by 112 feet and landed on the New England coast during a bitter cold winter. At times that first year the daily ration of those who were well was only five grains of corn. In ...read more

  • Father Covers Overdraft For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
     | 4,848 views

    Father Covers Overdraft for Daughter In His book, Cure for the Common Life, Max Lucado talks about the time the bank sent him an overdraft notice on the checking account of one of his daughters. He says, “I encourage my college-age girls to monitor their accounts. Even so, they sometimes overspend. ...read more

  • New Year's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
     | 9,141 views

    New Year’s Resolutions How are you coming thus far in 2010 in terms of your new year’s resolutions? Author, innovation consultant, and speaker Stephen Shapiro, with the help of Opinion Corporation of Princeton, New Jersey, offers the following interesting statistics concerning New Year’s ...read more

  • God's Will And The Tablecloth

    Contributed by John Perry on Apr 8, 2010
     | 2,736 views

    GOD'S WILL AND THE TABLECLOTH It happened in 1948, just a few days before Christmas. A flash flood ravaged a small town, leaving a gaping hole in the wall of an old church building--right behind the pulpit. The young pastor knew there was no time to fix the damage and decided to make the best of ...read more

  • Playwright Maria Hedley Had Her Fill Of Terrible ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 23, 2010
     | 2,717 views

    Playwright Maria Hedley had her fill of terrible dates. Most of the dates she went on she thought the guys would be great candidates but they were totally unsatisfying. She got sick of her own taste and decided that fate couldn’t mess up her love life anymore than she could, and it might just do ...read more

  • Make It Right

    Contributed by David Moore on Aug 5, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,403 views

    MAKE IT RIGHT The great evangelist D.L. Moody told a story of a lady in the north of England who said that every time she got down before God to pray, five bottles of wine came up before her mind. She had taken them wrongfully one time when she was a housekeeper, and had not been able to pray ...read more

  • Honey All The Way Down  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,784 views

    HONEY ALL THE WAY DOWN In one of his famous escapades, Winnie the Pooh, this lovable toy bear, tries to trap an elephant--or, as he pronounces it, a heffalump. So Pooh digs a hole to catch the heffalump, and decides to bait the trap with some of his own favorite food: honey. But of course, it is ...read more