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  • "What Kind Of Clothes Would God Wear?"  PRO

    Contributed by Wayne Major on Oct 8, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,020 views

    “What kind of clothes would GOD wear?” I like the answer one person gave, in the story of a man who was commissioned to paint a picture of the Prodigal Son. He went into his work fervently, laboring to produce a picture worthy of telling the story. Finally, the day came when the picture was ...read more

  • There's A Wonderful Story About Jimmy Durante, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Nov 28, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,030 views

    There’s a wonderful story about Jimmy Durante, one of the great entertainers of a generation ago. He was asked to be a part of a show for World War II veterans. He told them his schedule was very busy and he could afford only a few minutes, but if they wouldn’t mind his doing one short monologue ...read more

  • If Your Friend Jumped Off A Clift Would You?  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Bird on Jan 7, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
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    IF YOUR FRIEND JUMPED OFF A CLIFT WOULD YOU? 450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths By The Associated Press posted: 08 July 2005 11:22 am ET ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) _ First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as ...read more

  • Sue Herzog Was 18 When She Was Killed On New ...  PRO

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Feb 14, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,422 views

    Sue Herzog was 18 when she was KILLED on New Year's Day 1982. Kevin Tunell was 17, so his case went to JUVENILE COURT, where he was CONVICTED of MANSLAUGHTER and DRUNKEN DRIVING. Louis and Patricia Herzog filed a $1.5 million suit against Tunell, but settled for $936.00, to be paid $1.00 at a ...read more

  • Long Ago In A Deep Mountain Valley Verdant With ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Mar 23, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,383 views

    Long ago in a deep mountain valley verdant with growth and watered by a crystalline river there lived a tribe. They prospered and grew until the grass was grazed away, the game hunted to extinction, and the river ran dry. A group of young pioneer heroes rose up to say, “We have heard of a wider ...read more

  • The U.s. Standard Railroad Gauge (Distance ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,777 views

    The U.S. standard railroad gauge (distance between rails) is four feet, eight-and-one-half inches. Why such an odd number? Because that’s the way they built them in England, and American railroads were built by British expatriates. Why did the English adopt that particular gauge? Because the ...read more

  • Family  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Dec 18, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,989 views

    Family Clovis Chappell, a minister from a century back, used to tell the story of two paddleboats. They left Memphis about the same time, traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they traveled side by side, sailors from one vessel made a few remarks about the snail’s pace of the ...read more

  • The Battle Is Not To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
     | 6,951 views

    THE BATTLE IS NOT TO THE STRONG A few centuries before Christ, Alexander the Great conquered almost all of the known world with his military strength, cleverness, and diplomacy. One day, Alexander and a small company of soldiers approached a strongly defended, walled city. Alexander, standing ...read more

  • Strangers Have Devoured His Strength - From Hosea ...

    Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
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    Strangers have devoured his strength - from Hosea 7:9 What gives spiritual weakness like allowed sin? It was so with Israel, it will ever be so with us. Yielding to unhallowed association (with) strangers devour our strength. If you ever saw a cake not turned, baked only on one side, ...read more

  • Potato Piles

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Aug 21, 2009
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    POTATO PILES A young man came to a farm looking for work. So the farmer set him to the task immediately. He had a barn that needed painting. So the task was handed to the young man. The farmer said to himself that it would take at least three days to finish the task but in two days the young man ...read more

  • Man Can Tame Beasts Like The Dolphin Flipper, But ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2009
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    Man Can Tame Beasts like the Dolphin Flipper, but not the Tongue The tongue is not only like an uncontrolled fire. It is also like an untamed beast. Every type or species of the four classifications of animals have been subdued or tamed by man. At creation man was given "dominion over the fish of ...read more

  • For Most Of Us Our Only Understanding Of Chariots ...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 8, 2009
     | 1,853 views

    For most of us our only understanding of chariots and there use in warfare comes from movies. Most of us have watch Charlton Heston in the chariot race in ben hur. There is scene in the movie Gladiator that is terrifying. Maximus and the other gladiators are dressed as barbarians. They are ...read more

  • Accepting Forgiveness Can Be Difficult

    Contributed by Greg Bond on Dec 28, 2009
     | 3,009 views

    ACCEPTING FORGIVENESS CAN BE DIFFICULT I’m sure that many of you, just looking at this title, already have emotions running through your mind. Maybe accepting forgiveness from God and acceptance into His fellowship, is something you have struggled with personally, or you know one person, or ...read more

  • A Synergy Is Where Different Entities Cooperate ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 19, 2010
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    A synergy is where different entities cooperate advantageously for a final outcome. Simply defined, it means that the effect of the whole is greater than the sum of the effects of the individual parts. If used in a business application it means that teamwork will produce an overall better result ...read more

  • Restitution And Forgiveness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    Restitution and Forgiveness Keith Drury is a writer from the Wesleyan Church and in one of his books he touches on this whole subject of restoring relationships when talking about restitution. This is what he says. "Restitution deals with more than property. It is also going back and making ...read more

  • Don't Just Know Scripture—let It Change You

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 16, 2010
     | 2,052 views

    DON'T JUST KNOW SCRIPTURE--LET IT CHANGE YOU A father shared an experience he and his wife had with their young children. They began as a family to memorize Scripture, one verse a week. They kept the verses on cards in the middle of the table, and discussed their meanings when they recited the. ...read more

  • Through The Years, I’ve Officiated, Or Been ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jun 4, 2010
     | 2,449 views

    Through the years, I’ve officiated, or been involved, in hundreds of weddings … and I’ve pretty much seen the good, bad, and ugly. * I remember one wedding where the three year old son of the bride was so taken with his new daddy-to-be, that he literally wrapped himself around the groom’s legs ...read more

  • Let The Master Play

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Aug 22, 2010
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    LET THE MASTER PLAY An organist was practicing one day in a great church in Europe. As he was playing, a man came up to the organ and asked if he could play. The organist looked at him and thought to himself. "I shouldn’t let this man play, just look at him, he is unshaven, his clothes are ...read more

  • Why Should I Surrender?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 29, 2010
    based on 1 rating
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    WHY SHOULD I SURRENDER? The story is told of the military legend Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia (336-323) and conqueror of Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia, almost all of the known world. One day on the warpath, Alexander and small company of soldiers approached a strongly ...read more

  • De-Sanctified Churches

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2011
     | 3,983 views

    DE-SANCTIFIED CHURCHES Not too long ago, a real estate listing in Dallas had the simple headline: "Converted Church." In other words, what had once been a church facility is now somebody's house. The listing under the heading had this description: "The altar has been adapted for use as a granite ...read more