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  • Ticket When Going To Train Station-Going 60 In 40 ...

    Contributed by Myriam Salcedo-Gonzalez on Dec 2, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,350 views

    Ticket when going to train station-going 60 in 40 zone. I wanted to fight it! The radar was wrong. When was the last time they checked it? I had just come out from a stop sign and the road was uphill, how could I be going 60? Impossible! Good thing I was not close to the my church! Can you imagine, ...read more

  • Six Humans Trapped By Happenstance In Bleak And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 13, 2001
    based on 95 ratings
     | 1,886 views

    Six humans trapped by happenstance in bleak and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, or so the story goes. Their dying fire in need of logs, The first man held his back, For on the faces around the fire He noticed one was black. The next man looking across the way Saw one not of his ...read more

  • The Furnace Keeper  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 11, 2001
    based on 214 ratings
     | 2,151 views

    Illus.: “The Furnace Keeper” One of the ancient kings of Persia loved to mingle with his people in disguise. Once, dressed as a poor man, he descended the long flight of stairs, dark and damp to the tiny cellar where the fireman, seated on ashes, was tending the furnace.. The king sat down ...read more

  • Soren Kierkegaard, The Great Danish Theologian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Dec 2, 2001
    based on 12 ratings
     | 4,483 views

    Soren Kierkegaard, the great Danish theologian told this story: A prince who wanted to find a maiden suitable to be his queen. One day while running an errand in the local village for his father he passed through a poor section. As he glanced out the windows of the carriage his eyes fell upon a ...read more

  • There's An Ancient Document From The Second ...  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Feb 16, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,380 views

    There’s an ancient document from the second century called the "Epistle to Diognetus". It’s a letter from a Christian to a prominent pagan named Diognetus, in which the author, who is unknown, is describing and defending this strange new religion of Christianity. It reads, in part: "The Christians ...read more

  • The Cold Within  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 24, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,566 views

    THE COLD WITHIN Six humans trapped by happenstance in bleak and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, or so the story goes. Their dying fire in need of logs, the first man held his back, for on the faces around the fire he noticed one was black. The next man looking across the way saw ...read more

  • Anyone Who Has Ever Had Children Knows That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian William on Oct 1, 2002
    based on 49 ratings
     | 1,852 views

    Anyone who has ever had children knows that sometimes an attitude of love is needed when the feeling of love isn’t possible. Because I guarantee that every parent has days when they don’t feel very loving toward their kids – when their kids are making poor decisions, when they’re engaging in ...read more

  • It's The 1930s And The Depression Is Affecting ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Dec 9, 2004
     | 3,838 views

    It’s the 1930s and the depression is affecting families across America. A poor man by the name of E.L. Yates was barely making a living on his sheep farm in West Texas around Odessa and Midland. He was constantly worrying about how he could pay his bills and feed his family. Mr. Yates had about ...read more

  • A Preacher And An Atheistic Barber Were Once ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Evans on Sep 12, 2003
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,671 views

    A preacher and an atheistic barber were once walking through the city slums. Said the barber to the preacher: "This is why I cannot believe in a God of love. If God was as kind and loving as you say, He would not permit all this poverty, disease, and squalor. He would not allow these poor bums to ...read more

  • Do You Know What Sacrifice Means? Two Wealthy ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 14, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 720 views

    Do You Know What Sacrifice Means? Two wealthy Christians, a lawyer and a merchant, joined a party that was going around the world. Before they started, their minister earnestly asked them to observe and remember any unusual and interesting things that they might see in the missionary countries ...read more

  • Truth In Customs

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 28, 2010
     | 2,767 views

    TRUTH IN CUSTOMS I have a friend who lives in France and she lives on a farm with her husband and animals. (On Christmas Day, she and her husband were helping the sheep they own as they gave birth to lambs!) I decided to ask her about table customs in France that were different in America and she ...read more

  • Martyn Lloyd-Jones On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2010
     | 4,231 views

    Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Sin We tend to think of sin as we see it in rags and in the gutters of life. We look at a drunkard, poor fellow, and we say, there is sin. But that is not the essence of sin. To have a real picture and a true understanding of sin, you must look at some great saint, some ...read more

  • Forgiveness Limits...?

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Jul 31, 2010
     | 7,050 views

    FORGIVENESS LIMITS...? I feel more comfortable when I can see the extent of my obligations. That brings light to the lesson of Peter in Matthew 18. Peter was concerned about how many times he should forgive his neighbor. Peter knew what the rabbis had to say on the topic. They had read the hook ...read more

  • Shame Upon The Father

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 30, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,078 views

    SHAME UPON THE FATHER A man was successful in business and had a well-educated son who was highly respected and honored, like his father. But one day to everyone’s surprise, the young man was charged with embezzlement. At his trial, he appeared nonchalant and arrogant about his sinful actions. ...read more

  • Overcoming Evil With Good  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,036 views

    OVERCOMING EVIL WITH GOOD Watchman Nee, the Chinese evangelist, tells this true story. A poor, Christian Chinese farmer had rice fields high in the mountain. Every day he spent hours pumping water into the rice paddies; but when he returned to the fields the next morning, he would find that his ...read more

  • What Will Your Grandchildren Say?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2011
     | 1,830 views

    WHAT WILL YOUR GRANDCHILDREN SAY? Max Lucado shared this in Outlive Your Life: A few years back, three questions rocked my world. They came from different people in the span of a month. Question 1: Had you been a German Christian during World War II, would you have taken a stand against ...read more

  • Maclaren On Facing Death

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,686 views

    MACLAREN ON FACING DEATH The great 1800s Scottish preacher Alexander MacLaren said: "Many of us cling to life with a desperate clutch, like some poor wretch pushed over a precipice and trying to dig his nails into the rock as he falls. Some of us cling to it because we dread what is beyond, and ...read more

  • Why Should I Let You Into Heaven?

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Aug 5, 2011
     | 1,485 views

    WHY SHOULD I LET YOU INTO HEAVEN? If you were to die today and God were to ask you, 'Why should I let you into my heaven?' what would you say?" Over the years I would have to say that 85% of the answers I get are "I have tried to be a good person, I have tried to be a good parent, I have tried to ...read more

  • J. C. Ryle On Zeal  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,469 views

    J. C. RYLE ON ZEAL Recently I found a book by Bishop J.C. Ryle, the first bishop of Liverpool, England on the subject of zeal. He wrote: "Zeal is a burning desire to please God, to do His will, and to advance His glory in the world in every possible way. A zealous man is preeminently a man of ...read more

  • Substitute Soldiers

    Contributed by David Simpson on Jan 15, 2013
     | 6,987 views

    Here in the South, there are memorials in most towns to the bloodiest war fought on American soil – the Civil War. Over 600,000 died in that conflict. What is often not known is that both the North and the South allowed “substitute soldiers.” A man drafted for military service could literally ...read more

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