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  • Rainbows

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Aug 16, 2008
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     | 5,575 views

    I saw the greatest rainbow ever coming home from work the other day. Often you see bits of a rainbow or both legs but this was a perfect bow that seemed to stretch from downtown Terrell to downtown Crandall. It was vivid as none before. I was awestruck. Yet, if you looked closely there was a ...read more

  • God Can Change Your Attitude

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 27, 2008
     | 2,588 views

    God Can Change Your Attitude We live in an angry world, surrounded by angry people. We can give all kinds of excuses for being an angry person, but none of them really make an angry attitude the only option. I went out to visit our friend Bruce Thursday. If you remember he had surgery for a ...read more

  • Thomas Costain's History, The Three Edwards, ...

    Contributed by Robert Joseph on Sep 5, 2008
     | 2,640 views

    Thomas Costain’s history, The Three Edwards, describes the life of Raynald III, a fourteenth century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald was often called by his Latin nickname, Crassus, which means “fat.” After a violent quarrel, Raynald’s younger brother Edward led a ...read more

  • Thomas Costain's History, The Three Edwards, ...

    Contributed by Robert Joseph on Sep 10, 2008
     | 3,188 views

    Thomas Costain’s history, The Three Edwards, describes the life of Raynald III, a fourteenth century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald was often called by his Latin nickname, Crassus, which means “fat.” After a violent quarrel, Raynald’s younger brother Edward led ...read more

  • Thomas Costain's History, The Three Edwards, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Joseph on Sep 10, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,635 views

    Thomas Costain's history, The Three Edwards, describes the life of Raynald III, a fourteenth century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald was often called by his Latin nickname, Crassus, which means "fat." After a violent quarrel, Raynald's younger brother Edward led a ...read more

  • Talk About Doing Good, Or Do Good

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
     | 8,125 views

    Talk About Doing Good, or Do Good In A Pretty Good Person, Lewis Smedes wrote: A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public school to African-American children. The white parents decided that, if they had to let black children in, they would keep their children out. They let it ...read more

  • The Boll Weevil

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
     | 3,786 views

    The Boll Weevil In the center of Main Street in Enterprise, Alabama, stands one of the strangest monuments in the world. It's a memorial to an insect! Handsomely carved in stone is the likeness of a boll weevil. Many believe that divine providence was involved in the circumstances that led to the ...read more

  • There Is A Story About A Former Prizefighter That ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
     | 1,303 views

    There is a story about a former prizefighter that had been converted and thought God had called him to preach The only problem was, while he thought he had the gift of preaching, nobody else had the gift of listening So he couldn’t get a church He got a little pulpit, found a street corner and ...read more

  • I Can Hear You, The Rest Of The World Can Hear ...

    Contributed by Ronald Courtney on Sep 13, 2008
     | 2,578 views

    “I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” (President George W. Bush September 14, 2001 Ground Zero) For the last six years we have paused, on a personal level and on a national level to remember the events of ...read more

  • Our Apartment In Romania Was Close To The Train ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Oct 16, 2008
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    Our apartment in Romania was close to the train station. And one of our distant relatives, Emil, who happens to run a small business two hundred miles from us, discovered how convenient is to have a place to stay for free while he was around shopping for his business, in our area. So from time to ...read more

  • Possibilities

    Contributed by Bobby Bodenhamer on Oct 17, 2008
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    Possibilities He was born into wealth and was raised in a mansion. Today he wears prison gray after being convicted of planting a car bomb that took the lives of two members of his family. His almost unbelievable reversal of circumstances came after he tried to get control of a $10-million family ...read more

  • Natural Says...jesus Says...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Dec 8, 2008
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    NATURAL SAYS...JESUS SAYS... The natural says that you must be conceived of a man and a woman, yet he was conceived of the Holy Spirit. The natural says that your birth will bring your family joy, yet when He came He brought joy to the world and heaven. (At his birth, and angelic choir erupted in ...read more

  • Jesus The Rosetta Stone

    Contributed by Stephen Collins on Dec 11, 2008
     | 2,696 views

    JESUS THE ROSETTA STONE Do remember the Rosetta Stone from history class in school? What was it? It was a tablet that was discovered that allowed archeologists to translate ancient, Egyptian hieroglyphics to modern-day languages. Without the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, all the ancient ...read more

  • On January 8, 1956 Jim Elliot, Along With Four ...

    Contributed by Steve Gallimore on Dec 14, 2008
     | 2,564 views

    On January 8, 1956 Jim Elliot, along with four other missionaries was killed while trying to bring this Good News of Christ to the Waodoni people of the Auca Indians in Ecuador. In his journal published in a book titled SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY, Jim wrote these words: “One doesn’t learn to speak a ...read more

  • The Golf Club

    Contributed by Michael West on Dec 20, 2008
     | 2,963 views

    The Golf Club There was a famous golfer who had been invited by the king of Saudi Arabia to play in a tournament. He accepted and was flown there by the King in his own private jet. They played golf, had a good time and the golfer went home. But before he left, the king offered the golfer anything ...read more

  • Mary Had The Little Lamb  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 21, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,562 views

    Mary Had The Little Lamb Mary had the little Lamb, who lived before His birth; Self-existent Son of God, from Heaven He came to Earth. (Micah 5:2) Mary had the little Lamb; see Him in yonder stall— Virgin-born Son of God, to save man from the Fall. (Isaiah 7:14) Mary had the little Lamb, ...read more

  • Where Is Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Where Is Your Treasure Intro: Long ago, in a kingdom far, far away, a rich king hired a “fool” to entertain him and make him laugh when he was sad. He gave the fool a golden scepter and told him that when he met a greater fool than he, to pass the golden scepter to that person. Years passed ...read more

  • Very Hard Work

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    VERY HARD WORK A favorite book for children is Frog And Toad Together by Arnold Lobel. Frog had a garden that Toad admired, and he wanted one too. So Frog told him: "It is very nice, but it was hard work." When he gave Toad some flower seeds, Toad quickly ran home and planted them. "Now seeds," ...read more

  • Not A Voice, But A Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    NOT A VOICE, BUT A LIFE The late great Presbyterian clergyman and hymnist, Rev. Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858 - 1901) once wrote: "Christianity is not a voice in the wilderness but a life in the world. It is not an idea in the air but feet on the ground, going [Almighty] God's way. It is not an ...read more

  • Sheep Alive  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Cleveland on Jan 18, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,805 views

    Sheep Alive In 1972, a shepherd had brought his sheep into a walled-off, enclosed area for the night, and he had just gone to sleep when he heard a commotion. He quickly rushed over to where the sound was coming from and to his horror he discovered that a wolf was in the process of dragging off ...read more