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  • Our Train Rolled Into Kansas City At 1 A.m. Dim ...

    Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Oct 27, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,396 views

    Our train rolled into Kansas City at 1 a.m. Dim lights came on to help the new passengers find seats. Many of us who had been riding home through the night had spread out to occupy two seats apiece. An attractive woman made her way down the aisle with her bags. She was looking from side to ...read more

  • Christmas: A Season Of Stress?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,268 views

    Christmas: A Season of Stress? The picture the Bible gives us of the first Christmas is one of peace and serenity. You can see it with your mind’s eye: There are the shepherds, gathered around a campfire under a clear, starlit sky, quietly talking among themselves about their flocks, their ...read more

  • A Bruise Is Better Than A Bite!" 1 Samuel 1:1-8 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 13, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,852 views

    “A Bruise Is Better than A Bite!” 1 Samuel 1:1-8 Key verse(s): 8:“Elkanah here husband would say to her, ‘Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?’” “Constructive criticism is when I criticize you. Destructive criticism is ...read more

  • Sexuality Teens And Sex / Research Review

    Contributed by David Kim on Jan 23, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,200 views

    SEXUALITY TEENS AND SEX / RESEARCH REVIEW Pauley, J. (1995). Sex, teens, and public schools. NBC. One million U.S. teenagers become pregnant each year. U.S. has highest rates for teenage pregnancies, abortions, and child bearing in the industrialized world. In 1970, 70% of U.S. teenage ...read more

  • When I Was About 4th Grade, I Was Playing Little ...

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Apr 16, 2007
     | 1,076 views

    When I was about 4th Grade, I was playing Little Leauge Baseball…Well, mostly I played “benchwarmer” for the Reds. The two coaches were Methodist… Members of the church my father pastored. You think that would help. Sometimes, if the Reds were ahead…I’d get in for just a little bit. But, mostly we ...read more

  • Every Time I Read This Story In Genesis I Recall ...

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on May 2, 2007
     | 1,775 views

    Every time I read this story in Genesis I recall a scary situation that happened to me as a boy. I was in Jr. high (my exact age slips me, but I know I couldn’t drive yet), and I was riding my bike to the gym, which was about 30 minutes away in another part of Chattanooga. I had no sooner left the ...read more

  • God: Frank, You Know All About Gardens And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 8, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
     | 2,322 views

    GOD: Frank, you know all about gardens and nature, what in the world is going on down there in the U.S.? What in the world happened to the dandelions, violets, thistles and the stuff I started eons ago? I had a perfect no-maintenance garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, withstand ...read more

  • The Apostles Were A Great Example Of The ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jun 3, 2007
     | 2,015 views

    The apostles were a great example of the difficulties of loving one another, and Jesus knew it. There’s a scene in the epic Franco Zefferelli movie, Jesus of Nazareth, in which Jesus arrives at the house of Matthew, the tax collector, for dinner as he told Matthew he would. Peter and the other ...read more

  • A Luge Ride Is Like Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,678 views

    A Luge Ride is Like Life While we were away last weekend, we went on the luge at the top of the gondola ride in Queenstown. You go up on the gondola to the hill above Queenstown. The restaurant and café has a luge track running around it. For those who have not seen it or been on one, the luge is a ...read more

  • If You Are Going To Be Jesus' Apprentice Only ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,392 views

    If you are going to be Jesus’ apprentice only one essential condition must be met: you must spend time with the person you are mentoring. You can’t do discipleship at arms length or through distance learning. Most Christians don’t think in terms of this lifestyle of apprenticeship. They spend ...read more

  • Here Is A Story By A Guy Named Cliff Davis, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,592 views

    Here is a story by a guy named Cliff Davis, which portrays in a beautiful way what childlike faith is all about. One afternoon in early autumn, Ric (the husband/father in the other family) and I were setting out on our tractor to pick up a wagon, which we had a few days earlier lent to a neighbor. ...read more

  • The Year Was 1992. A Man Was On Parole For Child ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,830 views

    The year was 1992. A man was on parole for child molesting. His fellow apartment renters complained of odors and chainsaw noises. When the police searched his apartment, they found it full of skulls, headless torsos and body parts. He would murder, mutilate and sometimes cannibalized boys and men. ...read more

  • The World Wide Web Is Amazing All That ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 24, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,006 views

    The world wide web is amazing all that information being passed down phone lines coming down onto our screens from all over the world right into our homes, I don’t really know how it works, its mind boggling, But I know it does work and I enjoy it. Over the last few months in our house the ...read more

  • Gladys Aylward (1902-1970)

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 3, 2007
     | 2,764 views

    Gladys Aylward (1902-1970) As a teenager, Gladys read a magazine article about China that changed her life. She kept thinking about the millions of people in that distant land who had not yet heard of God’s love. She knew she had to tell them. To do this, she was told, she would have to go to ...read more

  • Mark Early Tells This Remarkable Story Of How ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 9, 2007
     | 1,591 views

    Mark Early tells this remarkable story of how truly following Jesus transforms the lives of those who follow him and the lives with whom they come into contact. “For thirteen weeks, former child soldier Ishmael Beah has seen his memoir, A Long Way Gone, hover in the top ranks of the New York Times ...read more

  • When Steve And I Went To Germany To Live, I ...

    Contributed by Amanda Wilson on Oct 20, 2007
     | 1,324 views

    When Steve and I went to Germany to live, I didn’t know any German, and I knew so little about what it was like to live in Germany that I set out to live there with what I now see as an unbelievably naive optimism that was close to sheer stupidity in its ignorance. Sure I’d seen Germany on TV, and ...read more

  • God Spoke To Me Recently Through A Homeless Guy I ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 5, 2007
     | 1,326 views

    God spoke to me recently through a homeless guy I know. This man is a full-blown practicing alcoholic. Does he live out the Shema of Jesus? No. Not even close. But he is pretty intelligent although not very wise (except he does exhibit occasional profound insight). When he is sober and cleaned up, ...read more

  • Twenty Questions: How Do I Know If I'm A ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 13, 2007
     | 776 views

    Twenty Questions: How Do I Know If I’m A Workaholic? ________________________________________ 1. Do you get more excited about your work than about family or anything else? 2. Are there times when you can charge through your work and other times when you can’t? 3. Do you take work with you to ...read more

  • The Young Pastor Came Before His Congregation And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 28, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,126 views

    The young pastor came before his congregation and began to preach his sermon. God had placed it on his heart to begin a series on loving God, loving others. He preached his heart out, making points and using illustrations that moved people to tears and emotion. The pastor came to the end of the ...read more

  • Speaking Of Contaminants Let Me Tell You About A ...

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Dec 13, 2007
     | 1,683 views

    Speaking of contaminants let me tell you about a house I once helped my landlord clean. It was back when we lived in Moberly, just a few blocks away from our house. I had helped my landlord, Dr. Stan McCreary, do many things and so he asked me if I wouldn’t mind helping him fix up a house he had ...read more

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