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  • The Enemy Is Real  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 6, 2011
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    THE ENEMY IS REAL I am learning some things about the FIRST WORLD WAR. Things like it was a TRENCH WAR in which both sides just looked at each other from trenches for most of the war. Often they did not see one another as enemies. The French would not fire on the Germans when they saw their ...read more

  • Our Lives Are Like A...

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Jun 14, 2011
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    OUR LIVES ARE LIKE A... Listen to what the Bible compares our lives to, and as you do, notice that the central theme of each comparison is the idea of the BREVITY of our lives upon this earth: * First, our lives are compared to A VAPOR (James 4:1) - Think about the vapor from a teapot. It is ...read more

  • A Reggie Jackson Perspective

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2011
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    A REGGIE JACKSON PERSPECTIVE Dave Bosewell tells the story of Earl Weaver who was the manager of the Baltimore Orioles and how he handled slugger Reggie Jackson. Weaver had a rule that no one could steal a base unless the steal sign was given. This upset Jackson because he knew pitchers and ...read more

  • Works-Driven Rituals

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
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    WORKS-DRIVEN RITUALS Every year a great throng of people make pilgrimage to the Shrine of Guadalupe in Mexico, a site where supposedly the Virgin Mary once stood...however unlikely that is. They go there hoping to get her attention, and to get her to intervene for them with her son Jesus. They ...read more

  • The Rug: Making And Keeping Good Boys

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
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    THE RUG: MAKING AND KEEPING GOOD BOYS A preacher tells how he was once entertained by a teacher and his wife who had two boys in their middle teens. He writes, "Immediately on entering, I felt the home atmosphere. They were evidently a fine Christian family. However, I noticed that the carpet in ...read more

  • The Last Letter Of Karen Watson

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
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    THE LAST LETTER OF KAREN WATSON Our International Mission Board is working on a project called "The Last Letter." It’s actually an old tradition of soldiers and missionaries who as they boarded a ship, wrote their family and friends a letter that they think might be their final ...read more

  • Authority At The Airport

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Oct 25, 2011
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    AUTHORITY AT THE AIRPORT Someone the other day told me they had a problem with Security at the airport from something they left in their carry on. Then it got me to thinking, which is a bad idea anyway, about my TSA encounter. I had an early morning flight and I got through security at about ...read more

  • The 40 Martyrs  PRO

    Contributed by David Tack on Feb 25, 2012
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    THE 40 MARTYRS "History knows them as the forty martyrs of Sebaste. They were soldiers in the famed Twelfth Legion of Rome’s imperial army, around A.D. 320. One day the captain informed his troops that Emperor Licinius had sent down an edict commanding all soldiers to offer a sacrifice to his ...read more

  • The Beginning Of Marilyn Manson

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Feb 27, 2012
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    THE BEGINNING OF MARILYN MANSON Brian Warner started going to church with a friend years ago. Brian was a skinny pizza faced nerdy looking kid that nobody liked. He was also a loner who looked out of place most of the time. The youth group took a trip to an amusement park one weekend and when ...read more

  • Christ's Love And Cursive Handwriting

    Contributed by Bobby Oliver on Sep 11, 2017
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    When I was in Kindergarten, the teachers taught me the Alphabet. Obviously, before you can learn how to spell, you have to learn the alphabet. As you learn to spell words, you learn that the letters are written separate, so you lift your pencil up every time you write a letter. Then, when I was ...read more

  • Tour Of The Art Museum

    Contributed by Phillip Holbrook on May 29, 2019
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    Suppose you take a tour of an art museum that is advertising a look at the most important work in all of history. The curator points out some famous and priceless works by Picasso, Rembrandt and others. Then, he says to you, "I want you to see the most significant painting ever created", ...read more

  • Middle Eastern Gate

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 17, 2021
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    Derrick Johnson of the Regeneration singing group told a story about his daughter, Debbie. When Debbie was 4 years old, she got lost in a crowded supermarket. After an anxious search, she was found only one aisle over from her mother, but she was petrified. For a long time after that, she was ...read more

  • Could You Imagine? Tuna And Crackers Every Day?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Aug 31, 2007
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    COULD YOU IMAGINE? TUNA AND CRACKERS EVERY DAY? A. There was a hard working young man. He was very poor. He worked long and hard and saved his money. He met a beautiful young woman and fell in love. He later asked for her hand in marriage, and a few years later after saving and working all the ...read more

  • In My Youth, I Was A Swimmer. I Was A Sprinter. I ...

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Dec 30, 2007
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    In my youth, I was a swimmer. I was a sprinter. I detested the long races and loved the quick spurts of energy that made up the majority of most of my races. My displeasure with long races, however, did not keep one of my coaches from signing me up for the mile race. Like an obedient lamb led to ...read more

  • Her Husband Had Skillfully Amassed A ...

    Contributed by Darren Mccormick on Feb 26, 2008
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    Her husband had skillfully amassed a multi-million dollar fortune. When her husband learned that he was dying he asked only one thing of her---he told her the entire fortune is yours but please do this one thing, have a will drawn up. He said something to the effect----Since we have no children ...read more

  • Phillip Keller Drew From His Many Years As A ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 14, 2008
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    Phillip Keller drew from his many years as a shepherd to write, A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, a book many Christians find beneficial. In one place he describes “cast” sheep: “This is an old English shepherd’s term for a sheep that has turned over on its back and cannot get up again by itself…. Even ...read more

  • The Old Rugged Cross

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
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    THE OLD RUGGED CROSS In 1913 George Bennard was struggling with a problem that caused him much suffering. His mind went back again and again to Christ’s anguish on the cross. This was the heart of the Gospel! The cross he pictured was no gold-covered icon. It was a rough, splintery thing, stained ...read more

  • Imagine You Are On An Airplane That Cannot Lower ...

    Contributed by Lloyd Vorderstrasse on Aug 2, 2008
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    Imagine you are on an airplane that cannot lower its landing gear, you know, let the wheels down. It can’t do anything on its own to land safely. It’s destined to crash and burn with all of its occupants because it no longer has the ability to make it safely on to the runway. It’s just a matter of ...read more

  • Story: Baboons On The ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Aug 22, 2008
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    Story: Baboons On The Loose In eastern Africa a troop of about 50 baboons made themselves at home right next to a farm. The baboons were amusing at first but soon wore out their welcome. Before long they were ravaging the corn and other crops and helping themselves to anything they could get ...read more

  • The Telegraph  PRO

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Nov 10, 2008
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,571 views

    THE TELEGRAPH Back when the telegraph was the fastest means of long-distance communication, there was a story about a young man who applied for a job as a Morse code operator. Answering an ad in the newspaper, he went to the address that was listed. When he arrived, he entered a large, noisy ...read more