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  • Jimmy Carter Recently Spoke About Mission In His ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 28, 2006
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    Jimmy Carter recently spoke about mission in his home town over 14 years he had visited 140 homes. When he was running for political office in 1966 for governor for Georgia, he met 300,000 people to vote for him the comparison struck him 300,000 for me in 3 ...read more

  • Dwight Moody Was Once Addressing A Crowded ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,005 views

    Dwight Moody was once addressing a crowded meeting of children in Scotland. To get their attention, he asked, “what is prayer?” He really wasn’t expecting the children to answer. To his amazement, hands shot up all over the auditorium. One lad quoted his textbook answer, “Prayer is an offering up ...read more

  • Dwight Moody Was Once Addressing A Crowded ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,591 views

    Dwight Moody was once addressing a crowded meeting of children in Scotland. To get their attention, he asked, “what is prayer?” He really wasn’t expecting the children to answer. To his amazement, hands shot up all over the auditorium. One lad quoted his textbook answer, “Prayer is an offering up ...read more

  • Fishing Or Drinking

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 14, 2007
     | 3,259 views

    Fishing or Drinking My cousin Phil was asked by guys he went to school with or worked with how they had got drunk on the weekend and had a hangover. Then how much fun it was, and then asked him what he did on the weekend. He gladly said, "I went fishing." They thought that was a little lame. But ...read more

  • A Farmer Noticed A Highway Department Truck ...  PRO

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Jan 19, 2008
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     | 4,733 views

    A farmer noticed a highway department truck pulling over on the shoulder of the road. A man got out and dug a hole, then got back into the truck. Then the other occupant got out, filled up the hole and got back in the truck. Every fifty yards this amazing process was repeated. “What are you doing?” ...read more

  • John Tyler, After Death Of William Henry Harrison ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    John Tyler, after death of William Henry Harrison … When a Christian people feel themselves to be overtaken by a great public calamity, it becomes them to humble themselves under the dispensation of Divine Providence, to recognize His righteous government over the children of men, to acknowledge ...read more

  • Spurgeon Said It Like This, "With Out The ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 9, 2008
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    Spurgeon said it like this, “With out the shedding of blood there is no remission. Every drop of blood which flowed out of Jesus’ body is still in existence, and it is just as it was over 2,000 years ago wiping away the sins of mankind. The blood has been shed – the incorruptible, eternal, divine, ...read more

  • Once Winston Churchill Was Sitting On A Platform ...

    Contributed by Edwin Garvin on Sep 3, 2008
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    Once Winston Churchill was sitting on a platform waiting to speak to a large crowd gathered to hear him. The chairman of the event leaned over and said, "Isn’t it exciting, Mr. Churchill, that all these people came just to hear you speak?" Winston Churchill responded, "It is quite flattering, but ...read more

  • It Can Be Tough To Buy A Ripe Watermelon. I Have ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 29, 2008
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    It can be tough to buy a ripe watermelon. I have bought them when they are over-ripe, mushy, and inedible. In other cases, the still taste "greenish," like a cucumber with sugar on it. But note that on the outside, they look alike. And you can thump and bump. But it is what is on the inside that ...read more

  • The Past Is Just The Beginning

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    THE PAST IS JUST THE BEGINNING There is in Washington D.C., a sign over the entrance to the U.S. Patent Office -- where new things are the order of the day. The sign proclaims: "The Past is but Prologue." One day a tourist asked a cab driver what the sign meant. Said the cabbie: "It ...read more

  • Quote: C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
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    Quote: C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed: "You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang ...read more

  • You Be Jesus!

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Apr 5, 2011
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    YOU BE JESUS! A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. "If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, 'Let my brother have the first ...read more

  • Prayer Of The Persecuted

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 25, 2011
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    PRAYER OF THE PERSECUTED Author Eugene Peterson says in Reversed Thunder, "While conflicts raged between good and evil, prayers went up from devout bands of 1st c. Christians all over the Roman empire. Massive engines of persecution and scorn were ranged against them. They had neither weapons ...read more

  • Sin Is Like A Vacuum Cleaner

    Contributed by Daniel J. Little on Nov 15, 2011
     | 2,716 views

    SIN IS LIKE A VACUUM CLEANER SIN we said, is stretching our will and our actions past the limits of God’s laws. The result is not unlike pulling a vacuum cleaner beyond the length of its cord, you still have the machine (your body) but now it is disconnected from the power that makes it behave ...read more

  • Abraham Kuyper: "Among The Divine Works Of Art ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 13, 2012
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    Abraham Kuyper: "Among the divine works of art produced by the Holy Spirit, the Sacred Scripture stands first. It may seem incredible that the printed pages of a book should excel His spiritual work in human hearts, yet we assign to the Sacred Scripture the most conspicuous place without ...read more

  • Optimism Is Healthy

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 19, 2013
     | 2,589 views

    OPTIMISM IS HEALTHY "Middle-aged adults who are more optimistic about their future tend to have higher antioxidant levels than their less optimistic peers, according to new research out of Harvard. Investigators studying nearly one thousand people over ten years found that increases in optimism ...read more

  • Fishing Out The Windows

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 7, 2014
     | 7,038 views

    A hotel in Galveston, Texas, that overlooks the Gulf of Mexico, faced a potential problem. The edge of the hotel hangs over the water. Before the hotel opened, someone thought, "What if someone decides to fish out of the windows?" This person then erected signs saying not to fish from the hotel ...read more

  • Why The Decline?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 4, 2019
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    ***ALEXANDRIAN SOLZHENITSYN asked a question in 1978 that is worthy to ponder. HOW DID THE WEST DECLINE FROM ITS TRIUMPHAL MARCH TO ITS PRESENT SICKNESS? He answered ANTHROPOCENTRIC- The elevation of man over God. OBSTACLES ARE WHAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOSE SIGHT OF THE GOAL! Stay focused on the ...read more

  • Something Somewhere

    Contributed by David Dunn on Nov 2, 2025
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    I once read a novel about a father and son wandering through a burned, ashen world. Everything alive was gone. They survived on scraps, dodging others who had turned to cannibalism just to stay alive. When they finally reached the sea, the boy looked out over the gray horizon and asked, “What’s ...read more

  • Breaking In Baby By Dave Berry

    Contributed by N A on Jan 5, 2008
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     | 2,540 views

    ILLUSTRATION: BREAKING IN BABY BY DAVE BERRY: • There is a parallel between physical growth and the spiritual growth of a Christian. We have a son who began as a baby and has successfully reached the age of three without becoming an axe murderer, as far as we know. Thus we are eminently qualified ...read more