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  • My Friend Agnes Is An Accomplished Harpist Who ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 25, 2008
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    My friend Agnes is an accomplished harpist who frequently plays for weddings, receptions, parties and other such events. She is also blond and has an appropriately cherubic face. She was on her way to an engagement at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, and stepped into an elevator with her large golden ...read more

  • Active Father Figures

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    ACTIVE FATHER FIGURES Active fathers and father figures play a key role in reducing behavior problems in boys and psychological problems in young women, according to the peer-reviewed journal Acta Paediatrica. Swedish researchers found regular positive contact reduces criminal behavior among ...read more

  • Watching From The Bleachers

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 21, 2009
     | 1,495 views

    Cymbala shares in his book, "Fresh Power": "But just as there are people who watch from the bleachers and never know the challenge of competing on the court, we have millions of churchgoers who sit in pews every week without ever entering the game. They sacrifice nothing, strain toward no ministry ...read more

  • Buying A New Chandelier

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Buying A New Chandelier The pastor called a special meeting of the congregation to approve the purchase of a brand new chandelier. After some discussion pro and con, an old farmer stood up and said, "Buying a new chandelier may seem like a good idea to you, but I’m against it for three ...read more

  • 9998; When Was The Last Time You Fed A Baby ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on May 8, 2003
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    ✎ When was the last time you fed a baby oatmeal? Peaches or applesauce? How about my all time favorite green beans or peas? Regardless of what you may be serving when your baby does not want to eat his or her entire body gets engaged in the struggle. The jaws become cast iron letting ...read more

  • Andrew Was A Grown Man, But Had Some Real Trouble ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2003
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     | 1,471 views

    Andrew was a grown man, but had some real trouble adjusting to the adult world. He had a pleasant simplicity that many mistakened for a slowness of mind. One day he came to me upset because his bike had been stolen for the second time. I told him about the time someone had stolen my favorite ...read more

  • 2. Gary Thomas, A Friend Of Rick Warren, Noticed ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jan 6, 2004
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    2. Gary Thomas, a friend of Rick Warren, noticed that many Christians were stuck in a worship rut. He raised the question, “Since God has intentionally made us all different, why should everyone be expected to love (worship) God the same way?”(1) Gary has discovered that for 2,000 years Christians ...read more

  • A 2 A.m. Miracle – Joni Eareckson Tada

    Contributed by Greg Buchner on Oct 11, 2004
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    “A 2 a.m. Miracle” – Joni Eareckson Tada It was 2 a.m. and Ken, my husband was snoring softly beside me, not aware that I was biting my lip to keep from waking him up. The combination of my paralysis with middle-of-the-night insomnia always makes me feel claustrophobic. But this was different. The ...read more

  • If It Moves, Sin!

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Dec 4, 2005
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    Chuck Swindoll writes: “One of my favorite stories comes from a man who used to be in our church. He and his wife were close friends of our family, but they have now moved to another part of the country. We really miss their joyful presence. When he was a youth worker many years ago in an ethnic ...read more

  • The Power Of Shame

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    THE POWER OF SHAME I remember how troubled I was after attending the funeral of an old lady who used to be my visitation partner for many years in a two-person team at a former church. Her brother and sister-in-law were deacons at the church. When I heard she had cancer some years after I left, I ...read more

  • If You Care, Give Your Testimony

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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    IF YOU CARE, GIVE YOUR TESTIMONY God wants us to be concerned about other people. And one of the best ways we can show our concern is by giving them testimonies about Jesus. One of my all-time favorite teachers was Don Wilton. One day in class, Dr. Wilton told us about getting to serve on Billy ...read more

  • Relationships And Bats

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 9, 2010
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    RELATIONSHIPS AND BATS In the Spring, Marylu and I spent a day at one of our State Parks, McCormick's Creek (my personal favorite). But we could not go into the cave there because of a deadly disease that is annihilating bats. 2. This week, an AP story broke: "A mysterious illness is ...read more

  • Save One More For Jesus

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 9, 2010
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    Rick Warren about his dad- My father was a minister for over 50 years, serving in small churches. His favorite activity was taking teams of volunteers overseas to build church buildings for small congregations. In his lifetime, Dad built over 150 churches around the world. In 1999, my father ...read more

  • Bats

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 10, 2010
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    In the Spring, Marylu and I spent a day at one of our State Parks, McCormick's Creek (my personal favorite). But we could not go into the cave there because of a deadly disease that is annihilating bats. This week, an AP story broke: "A mysterious illness is threatening the bat population in ...read more

  • The Heizer Creek Baptism

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
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    Note: this story happened to me - Jim Butcher of Madison WV. One of my favorite baptism stories comes from a friend of mine who owns a house on Heizer Creek. He had a nice spot on his property to do baptisms and told the nearby country churches they were welcome to use it anytime, which a few of ...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

  • Sex Is Like A ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 19, 2009
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    Sex is Like a Maserati (Based on an illustration given by Pastor Ed Young Fellowship Church C3 conference February 19, 2009) Pastor Young was talking to a porn actress from Europe about salvation through Jesus Christ. She did not believe and questioned him. She wondered if she would have to ...read more

  • One Mountain Too Many

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    ONE MOUNTAIN TOO MANY "No one has the right to an activity that can cause so much suffering and pain to others just so they can do something fun." Those are the words of Karl Purnell who lost his 28 year-old son Chris to an avalanche when Chris was ice-climbing in Canada. You can hear and maybe ...read more

  • There Is A Neat Feature On Windows Xp…it's Called ...  PRO

    Contributed by Art Good on Jun 8, 2007
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    There is a neat feature on Windows XP…it’s called “System restore”. Here’s how it works… Suppose you suffer a system crash on Thursday, you downloaded a bad program or something…You’re not a computer expert and you aren’t sure how to recover the last 2 weeks of financial information you had saved ...read more

  • Birdy, Birdy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,501 views

    Birdy, Birdy One of my favorite memories of my time serving as a youth pastor, was in the mid 1980’s when I took a group of teenagers to a nursing home in Arkadelphia, AR. While there, we sang songs to the residents, we shared a testimony of how Christ touched our life, and then, a young man in ...read more