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  • Daddy, Let's Go!

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Mar 1, 2016
     | 6,928 views

    DADDY LET’S GO! A little girl with shining eyes, Her little face aglow, Said, "Daddy, it is almost time For Church......let’s go!" They teach us there of Jesus’ love, Of how he died for all Those who on Him call.” Oh, no!” said Daddy, “Not today. I’ve worked hard all week; I’m going to the ...read more

  • John Was Born In 1917 In Brookline, ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 1, 2007
     | 1,123 views

    John was born in 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended school at Harvard University. He was the author of two books. One was his thesis at Harvard, which was entitled Why England Slept. The other was Profiles in Courage, which won him a Pulitzer Price. He was the Captain of a PT boat in ...read more

  • Two Men Had An Argument. To Settle The Matter, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,653 views

    Two men had an argument. To settle the matter, they went to a judge to let him decide. The plaintiff made his case. He was very eloquent and persuasive in his reasoning. When he finished, the judge nodded in approval and said, "That’s right, that’s right." On hearing this, the defendant jumped up ...read more

  • Two Boys Were Playing In The Snow One Day, When ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 3,755 views

    Two boys were playing in the snow one day, when one said to the other, "Let us see who can make the straightest path in the snow." His companion readily accepted the proposition, and they started. One boy fixed his eyes on a tree, and walked along without taking his eyes off the object selected. ...read more

  • Helen Keller, The Much Beloved Blind, Deaf, And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,833 views

    Helen Keller, the much beloved blind, deaf, and dumb American author, envisioned what she would most like to see if she could see for just three days. In her article “Three Days to See,” she wrote that she would like to see those she loved on the first day - to look deeply and lovingly into the ...read more

  • Video Clip: The Guardian - Start: Chp. 5 43:54 - ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 23, 2007
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    Video Clip: The Guardian - Start: Chp. 5 43:54 - Stop: 46:16 Senior Chief Randall had a choice. He could have taught the recruits about hypothermia as an abstract theory during a lecture from the comfort of a classroom. Instead, Randall chose to fill the pool with freezing water and then share ...read more

  • John Piper Compares The Gift Of Teaching To The ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 29, 2007
     | 2,227 views

    John Piper compares the gift of teaching to the gift of prophecy: "And yet, even though the gift of teaching is fallible and even though it lacks intrinsic, divine authority, we know it is of immense value to the church. We are all edified and built up by gifted teachers. God is in it. He does use ...read more

  • Mary Had The Little Lamb  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Steiner on Nov 29, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,006 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 ...read more

  • Make Sure We Were Abiding

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
     | 7,205 views

    MAKE SURE WE WERE ABIDING Stuart Briscoe, author and long-time pastor of Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin, tells about the time he traveled to Poland during the cold war. He was involved in several weeks of itinerant ministry, and one winter day his sponsors drove him in the dead of night ...read more

  • Dr. Maxie Dunnam Is One Of The Outstanding ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Feb 9, 2008
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     | 2,034 views

    Dr. Maxie Dunnam is one of the outstanding evangelical leaders in the United Methodist Church that I deeply admire. Maxie is the current Chancellor of Asbury Theological Seminary and her former President. He served the Upper Room Fellowship as their world editor and was the founding International ...read more

  • John Was Born In 1917 In Brooklin, Massachusetts. ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 9, 2008
     | 1,718 views

    John was born in 1917 in Brooklin, Massachusetts. He attended school at Harvard University. He was the author of two books. One was his thesis at Harvard, which was entitled Why England Slept. The other was Profiles in Courage, which won him a Pulitzer Price. He was the Captain of a PT boat in ...read more

  • An Impressive Record

    Contributed by Elijah Stepp on May 11, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,405 views

    AN IMPRESSIVE RECORD An anonymous author made this striking observation: Socrates taught for forty years, Plato for fifty, Aristotle for forty, and Jesus for only three. Yet the influence of Christ's three-year ministry infinitely transcends the impact left by the combined 130 years of teaching ...read more

  • Parents, You Are Accountable For Disciplining ...

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 19, 2009
     | 3,327 views

    Parents, you are accountable for disciplining and teaching your children about God, salvation, and how to live and make godly decisions · How important is it? · A Spiritual Clinic, J. Oswald Sanders recorded observations about two Revolutionary War era families from New England, and the differing ...read more

  • Richard Wumbrand

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jun 3, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,661 views

    RICHARD WUMBRAND Richard Wumbrand was sent to study Marxism in Moscow, but returned clandestinely the following year. Pursued by Siguranþa Statului (the secret police), he was arrested and held in Doftana prison. Wurmbrand subsequently renounced his political ideals. He started to preach Christ. ...read more

  • Silence: Taking Your Soul With You  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,191 views

    SILENCE: TAKING YOUR SOUL WITH YOU Author Kathleen Norris used to play a game with elementary-school children in which she would make a deal with them. "First you get to make noise," she would bargain, "and then you’ll make silence." The time of noise was always predictably chaotic -- shouting, ...read more

  • Honesty (Or Not) In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    HONESTY (OR NOT) IN AMERICA In the book, The Day America Told the Truth, of the people surveyed, the authors found these results – 91 percent of American lie about trivial matters; 36 percent of Americans lie about important matters; 86 percent regularly lie to parents, 75 percent regularly lie ...read more

  • Confusing Messages

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 19, 2009
     | 4,010 views

    CONFUSING MESSAGES PARIS (AFP) – Heart attack survivors who eat chocolate two or more times per week cut their risk of dying from heart disease about threefold compared to those who never touch the stuff, scientists have reported. ...the new study, led by Imre Janszky of the Karolinska Institute ...read more

  • Rights Vs. Responsibilities, Owners Vs. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 8, 2009
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    Rights vs. Responsibilities, Owners vs. Stewards While scouting locations for a popular TV series, an advance team came upon the perfect site for an action scene—an impressive house with a beautiful, large, lush, green lawn. The script called for the cars to be spinning out of control and crashing ...read more

  • The Choice: Build Up Or Tear Down  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 11, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,334 views

    THE CHOICE: BUILD UP OR TEAR DOWN Years ago I picked up a poem named "The Choice." I do not know where I got it nor the author, but it illustrates the importance of building others up. This poem raises the question of whether we will "tear down or build up." "I watched some men tearing a building ...read more

  • The Magi -- Who Were They?

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 25, 2019
     | 3,134 views

    Lambert Dolphin writes: “The ancient Magi were a hereditary priesthood of the Medes (known today as the Kurds) credited with profound and extraordinary religious knowledge. After some Magi, who had been attached to the Median court, proved to be expert in the interpretation of dreams, Darius the ...read more