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  • One Day My Mother Was Out And My Dad Was In ...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Feb 16, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,719 views

    One day my mother was out and my dad was in charge of me and my brother who is four years older than I am. I was maybe 3 and one half years old and had just recovered from an accident in which my arm had been broken among other injuries. Someone had given me a little ’tea set’ as a get-well gift ...read more

  • It Has Been Interesting To Have A Female Cat In ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 7, 2008
     | 785 views

    It has been interesting to have a female cat in the house because there have been moments, when either real or playing, one of the boys has cried and Hanna (yes that is her name, Hanna) has come running to check them out. She gets in their face and sniffs and by her actions you can tell she is ...read more

  • Shout

    Contributed by Arliss Beavers on May 12, 2008
     | 3,749 views

    SHOUT A church ran into difficulty when the elders decided that one man was shouting too much in church. They thought he might disturb the very distinguished guests the church was suddenly now having. So the elders called the pastor aside and notified him that this shouter must be refrained. The ...read more

  • Jesus Didn't Come To Burden Us With A List Of ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 27, 2008
     | 1,839 views

    Jesus didn't come to burden us with a list of rules and regulations and things that holy people do and don't do. Oh, he still calls us to be holy but not according to some manmade list: don't drink, don't ever go into a bar or a pub, don't go to movies, don't play cards, don't wear this clothing, ...read more

  • A Sunday School Was Putting On A Christmas ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,413 views

    A Sunday school was putting on a Christmas pageant which included the story of Mary and Joseph coming to the inn. One boy wanted very much to be Joseph. But when the parts were handed out, a boy he didn’t like was given the part, and he was assigned to be the inn-keeper instead. He was pretty upset ...read more

  • Twas Battered And Scarred, And The Auctioneer ...

    Contributed by Jonathan Campbell on Jun 4, 2008
     | 2,520 views

    Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer thought it scarcely worth his while to waste much time on the old violin. But he held it up with a smile; "What am I bidden, good folks?" he cried. "Who’ll start the bidding for me?" "A dollar, a dollar"; then two!" "Only two? Two dollars, and who’ll ...read more

  • Our Family Dog, Happy The Saint Bernard, Is Much ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Jul 11, 2008
     | 1,240 views

    Our family dog, Happy the Saint Bernard, is much more active than the book on the breed, and the breeder, had promised. She is calm most of the time but every now and then when she gets worked up over food which is out of her reach, children she wants to play with, or, to quote Elmer Fudd, “a ...read more

  • A Winning Team  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 8,738 views

    A WINNING TEAM Lee Iacocca once asked legendary football coach Vince Lombardi what it took to make a winning team. In the book Iacocca records Lombardi’s answer: "There are a lot of coaches with good ball clubs who know the fundamentals and have plenty of discipline but still don’t win the game. ...read more

  • John Suk Writes, "Soldiers Of The Symbionese ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 26, 2008
     | 1,193 views

    John Suk writes, “Soldiers of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst from her Berkeley, California, apartment on February 4, 1974. In return for her release, Patty’s kidnappers demanded that her father, Randolph Hearst, give millions of dollars to the poor. “On ...read more

  • Grace Or Permission?

    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Oct 12, 2008
     | 4,351 views

    Grace or Permission? You're worried about permissiveness—about the way the preaching of grace seems to say it's okay to do all kinds of terrible things as long as you just walk in afterward and take the free gift of God's forgiveness. While you and I may be worried about seeming to give ...read more

  • John Taylor Recently Invented A Clock Called The ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jan 19, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,408 views

    John Taylor recently invented a clock called the Chronophage. Literally it means time eater. It was donated to Corpus Christi College at Cambridge. It combines the Greek word for time, chronos, and the word phageo meaning “to eat”. A monster-looking grasshopper with a mouthful of teeth devours ...read more

  • The Worst Industrial Accident In History ...

    Contributed by Wayne Presnell on Feb 10, 2009
     | 2,498 views

    "The worst industrial accident in history occurred on April 26, 1986, in the town of Chernobyl in north central Ukraine of the former Soviet Union. It was caused by two electrical engineers who were playing around with one of the nuclear reactors. They were conducting an unauthorized experiment ...read more

  • In His Book, Integrity, Ted Engstrom Told This ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 20, 2009
     | 932 views

    In his book, Integrity, Ted Engstrom told this story: For Coach Cleveland Stroud and the Bulldogs of Rockdale County High School (Conyers, Georgia), it was their championship season. They had 21 wins and 5 losses on the way to the Georgia boys’ basketball tournament in March, then a dramatic ...read more

  • Legendary Baseball Player Jackie Robinson's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2009
     | 3,615 views

    Legendary Baseball Player Jackie Robinson’s Humble Act of Kindness to a Boy As a 7-year-old, Richard Bernstein admired Jackie Robinson’s athletic ability and courage as the first African-American man to play Major League baseball in the modern era. A few years later, while working at a small-town ...read more

  • N. T. Wright Is The Bishop Of Durham And A New ...

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Mar 6, 2010
     | 2,003 views

    N. T. Wright is the bishop of Durham and a New Testament scholar without equal in my judgment. Bishop Wright describes the kingdom as God’s “ultimate future and urgent present.” What does he mean? He means what so many others mean when they say the kingdom is both now and not yet. There is a ...read more

  • The Idea Of The Cloven Tongues Has Always ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on May 29, 2010
     | 2,912 views

    The idea of the cloven tongues has always bothered me. At least, that’s the way we usually see this phrase translated. When I was young, that really used to bother me. I’d watched all those old westerns where the Native Americans would say, “White man speak with forked tongue.” I didn’t like the ...read more

  • The Doubting Of Thomas  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 12,469 views

    THE DOUBTING OF THOMAS In 1943, Dorothy Sayers created a series of dramatic readings from the life of Christ for broadcast on the BBC. They are published under the title, The Man Born to Be King. For each of the plays, Sayers offers notes on the characters and the way they should be read. She ...read more

  • The Mission: Tethered To Sin

    Contributed by William Hooper on May 3, 2011
     | 2,802 views

    THE MISSION: TETHERED TO SIN In the award winning film called "The Mission," Robert DeNiro plays a mercenary who has taken asylum in the local church after killing his brother in a fit of jealous rage. He eventually leaves the church and heads to a mission post located above the waterfalls in a ...read more

  • Reactions Can Be Worse Than Actions  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Sep 12, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,212 views

    REACTIONS CAN BE WORSE THAN ACTIONS While in seminary, I worked at a local Christian radio station. Part of my duties was to take hourly meter readings from the transmitter and place them on a log sheet that was subject to FCC review. The building featured indoor/outdoor green carpet, and the day ...read more

  • The Croquet Lesson

    Contributed by Scott Spencer on Oct 16, 2011
     | 2,725 views

    THE CROQUET LESSON Some missionaries in the Philippines set up a croquet game in their front yard. Several of their Agta Negrito neighbors became interested and wanted to join the fun. The missionaries explained the game and started them out, each with a mallet and ball. As the game progressed, ...read more