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  • What Do You See?  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Jul 7, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,040 views

    WHAT DO YOU SEE? I don’t know if you’ve heard of Scott Ginsburg, but he is known for something very strange. As of today, he has worn a "Hello my name is..." tag for 3140 days. On one occasion he had given a speech to an employee group in South Dakota and told how he started wearing the name tag. ...read more

  • Revival Is The Visitation Of God, Which Brings To ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 30, 2009
     | 1,520 views

    Revival is the visitation of God, which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God’s near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow. Each revival ...read more

  • A Simple Hose Clamp Causes Failure Of Balloon's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2009
     | 4,145 views

    A Simple Hose Clamp Causes Failure of Balloon’s Attempt to Circle the Earth Piccard and Richard Conniff writes in National Geographic that on January 12, 1997, two Swiss men, Bertrand Piccard and Wim Verstraeten, set out to be the first to CIRCLE THE EARTH in a balloon. Their aircraft was called ...read more

  • Complicated Directions

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
     | 4,162 views

    COMPLICATED DIRECTIONS Matt Woodly, a father of four, talks about buying his children a swing set, about 15 years ago, as an early Christmas present. It was an extra long metal set with two swings, a two-seater swinging bench, a slide, monkey bars, and a series of hanging rings. He thought the ...read more

  • A Story Of Revenge

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Aug 29, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,420 views

    A STORY OF REVENGE The other day, a soldier was in my office. He had been exposed to radiation poisoning while deployed in Afghanistan and was brought home to prepare for death. But he told me his story and said he wasn't prepared to die and meet God on Judgment Day. This soldier said that his ...read more

  • Inspiration: Ten Feet At A Time

    Contributed by Dave Clark on Dec 11, 2012
     | 3,334 views

    INSPIRATION: TEN FEET AT A TIME Being a provoker doesn’t mean you have to be a perfect person, it just means you have to be a person doing your best in the situations where you find yourself. Several years ago after a devastating California earthquake, the news camera panned a devastated ...read more

  • Spiritual Values In Collegians A Ucla Study ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
     | 1,324 views

    Spiritual Values in Collegians A UCLA study found college juniors are more likely to be engaged in a spiritual quest compared to when they first entered college as freshmen. The study showed 41.2% of freshmen in ’04 reported they considered developing a meaningful philosophy of life “very ...read more

  • Christ Died In My Place

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,917 views

    Christ died IN MY PLACE. During the U.S. Civil War, a farmer named Blake was drafted as a soldier. He was deeply troubled about leaving his family because his wife had died and there would be no one to support and take care of his children in his absence. The day before he was to leave for the ...read more

  • Wooden's Attitude

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 20, 2009
     | 2,714 views

    WOODEN'S ATTITUDE Coach John Wooden at U.C.L.A. won 665 games in 27 seasons and 10 NCAA titles during his last 12 seasons, including 7 in a row from 1967 to 1973. His UCLA teams also had a record winning streak of 88 games, four perfect 30-0 seasons, and won 38 straight games in NCAA Tournaments. ...read more

  • In James Michener's "Hawaii", Nyuk Tsin Kee ...

    Contributed by Scott Chambers on Apr 23, 2007
     | 2,640 views

    In James Michener’s “Hawaii”, Nyuk Tsin Kee stands before the officer in her examination for United States citizenship. She has relentlessly driven herself to prepare for this exam. More than anything else, she wants to become a citizen of America. But now she is strangely silent. When the ...read more

  • I Like Some Of What Edwene Gaines Writes About ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Sep 30, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,175 views

    I like some of what Edwene Gaines writes about although I do not agree with all her views on spirituality. But I have learned enough from her writings that I decided not to be bothered in areas where I disagree. I find her life story and spiritual journey though to be compelling. Years before she ...read more

  • Servanthood

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Aug 4, 2022
     | 1,611 views

    As Christians can find all kinds of ways to minister in the name of Jesus. For example, there are 21,800 patients per year who receive chemotherapy treatments in Louisville, Kentucky, and most lose their hair. When Lynette Le Gette discovered this, it brought her to tears. She ...read more

  • Ministry Meltdown

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2013
     | 4,174 views

    MINISTRY MELTDOWN My dear friends, when life seems overwhelming, don't get busy; get help! Otherwise, you'll just wear yourself out and those around you. That's what Bob Merritt, pastor of the Eagle Brook Church in Minnesota, was doing. In a recent issue of Leadership Journal he writes about ...read more

  • Black Bart Was A Professional Thief Whose Very ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Hill on Jul 8, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,641 views

    Black Bart was a professional thief whose very name struck fear as he terrorized the Wells Fargo stage line. From San Francisco to new York, his name became synonymous with the danger of the frontier. Between 1875 and 1883 he robbed 29 different stagecoach. Amazingly, Bart did it all without ...read more

  • Suppose There Was A King Who Loved A Humble ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 25, 2001
    based on 127 ratings
     | 2,579 views

    Suppose there was a king who loved a humble maiden. The king was like no other king. Every statesmen trembled before his power. No one dared breathe a word against him, for he had the strength to crush all his opponents. And yet this mighty king was melted by love for a humble maiden. How could ...read more

  • When My Wife And I Lived In Florida I Had A ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Aug 26, 2009
     | 1,588 views

    When my wife and I lived in Florida I had a little bitty lime tree which never produced good fruit. It was amazing. No matter what I did the tree never produced any fruit which I could use. The limes were always covered in black kind of mold or fungus or something. I would wash them off but it ...read more

  • The Joy Of Our Reunion

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Oct 29, 2010
     | 3,088 views

    THE JOY OF OUR REUNION Rev. Don Piper in his "death experience" describes the reunion he experienced in heaven in his book 90 Minutes in Heaven. Listen to an excerpt: (p. 21) "Joy pulsated through me as I looked around, and at that moment I became aware of a large crowd of people. They stood" ...read more

  • Encountering Angels

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Dec 8, 2014
     | 4,195 views

    Some years ago, I had occasion to read Madeleine L’Engle’s book, A Wind in the Door. It’s about a young girl named Meg and her brother Charles Wallace. One day, Charles Wallace tells Meg that he has seen a drive of dragons in the broccoli patch. Meg goes with her brother to check it out, but all ...read more

  • My Maternal Grandfather Who Was A Devout Hindu ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Feb 20, 2008
     | 1,022 views

    My maternal grandfather who was a devout Hindu by birth did his schooling at a Missionary school in the state of Haryana in the North of New Delhi, India. He had learned about Christ and been invited to accept Him as His personal Savior but shrugged the opportunity. After qualifying as a ...read more

  • One Of The Things I Enjoy Most About The Movies ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Mar 24, 2008
     | 836 views

    One of the things I enjoy most about the movies made from Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” is the camaraderie among the various groups of friends and traveling partners as the character, Frodo, made his way to the mountain where he was to destroy the powerful, evil ring that was a threat to all ...read more

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