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  • An Old Mountaineer And His Wife Were Sitting In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,248 views

    An old mountaineer and his wife were sitting in front of the fireplace one evening taking life easy. After a long silence, the wife said: "Jed, I think it’s raining. Why don’t you get up and go outside and see?" The old mountaineer continued to gaze into the fire for a while, sighed and then said, ...read more

  • Sulfur Caves  PRO

    Contributed by David Selleck on Nov 17, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,970 views

    Sulfur Caves In Southern Mexico lies the Cueva de Villa Luz, or Cave of the Lighted House. As you make your way to the cave you walk through a veritable paradise of tropical birds and lush rain forest. Underwater the cave is fed by 20 underground springs, beautiful watercourses which teem with tiny ...read more

  • Billy Graham Wrote In "The Key To Personal ...

    Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Mar 28, 2007
     | 1,182 views

    Billy Graham wrote in "The Key To Personal Peace" “One of the powerful, enduring images that my wife, Ruth, and I have of our early years together is of the ticker-tape parades in New York City celebrating the end of WWII. The war was finally over! And those who were spared from death by the ...read more

  • If God Intended Man To Live On Bread, Why Didn't ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jul 31, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 9,759 views

    ‘If God intended man to live on bread, why didn’t he create a bread tree?’ And the answer, in effect, is that God could have created a tree that produced crusty loaves of bread, but he prefers to offer us a grain and invite us to buy a field and plant the seed. He prefers that we till the soil ...read more

  • A Georgia Farmer, Ragged And Barefooted, Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,665 views

    A Georgia farmer, ragged and barefooted, was standing on the steps of his tumbledown shack. A stranger stopped for a drink of water and just to pass the time of day he asked: "How is your cotton coming along?" he asked. "Ain’t got none," replied the farmer. "Did you plant any?" asked the ...read more

  • Sulfur Caves

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Dec 11, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,458 views

    Sulfur Caves In Southern Mexico lies the Cueva de Villa Luz, or Cave of the Lighted House. As you make your way to the cave you walk through a veritable paradise of tropical birds and lush rain forest. Underwater the cave is fed by 20 underground springs, beautiful watercourses which teem with tiny ...read more

  • I Thirst

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Apr 2, 2010
     | 4,534 views

    I THIRST "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. He poureth out the streams that run among the hills, the torrents which rush adown the mountains, and the flowing rivers which enrich the plains. One would have said, If he were thirsty he would not tell ...read more

  • Are You Still Carrying Her?

    Contributed by Carl Greene on Jun 21, 2010
     | 2,227 views

    ARE YOU STILL CARRYING HER? There is a story about two monks in Japan traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling. Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection. "Come on, girl," said Tanzan at once. Lifting her ...read more

  • What Did She Say?

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Jan 15, 2011
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    WHAT DID SHE SAY? There were once two men, Pete and Joe out sailing in a boat. A fierce storm blew up. Torrents of rain splashed down. The waves were rocking them. They desperately the rigging this way and that trying to keep the boat upright. "It's at times like this" shouted Pete above ...read more

  • One Major Difference Between God And Us

    Contributed by Ryan Johnson on Oct 13, 2016
     | 5,954 views

    You may plan to go on a picnic on a certain day, but can you be sure you will be able to do what you plan? What could happen to prevent you from going on that picnic? It could rain. You could get sick. You could get a flat tire... Many things could happen to keep us from accomplishing what we ...read more

  • Sulfur ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
     | 1,253 views

    Sulfur Caves In Southern Mexico lies the Cueva de Villa Luz, or Cave of the Lighted House. As you make your way to the cave you walk through a veritable paradise of tropical birds and lush rain forest. Underwater the cave is fed by 20 underground springs, beautiful watercourses which teem with tiny ...read more

  • A Candidate For Church Membership Was Asked, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on May 11, 2006
    based on 7 ratings
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    A candidate for church membership was asked, "What part of the Bible do you like best?" He said: "I like the New Testament best. Then he was asked, "What Book in the New Testament is your favorite?" He answered, the Book of the Parables, Sir." They then asked him to relate one of the parables to ...read more

  • Revival Came To North China In 1932 In Answer To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,764 views

    Revival came to north China in 1932 in answer to several years of prayer. At one point, Norwegian missionary Maria Monsen wondered what good her praying could do. She longed to see God’s river of life flood spiritually dry China. Then she realized that the mighty Yangtze River began when the tiny ...read more

  • George Washington's Prayer

    Contributed by Jeffrey Powell on May 25, 2009
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     | 3,249 views

    GEORGE WASHINGTON'S PRAYER We have a rich history of how God miraculously intervened in the creation of this nation. You won’t read this in the public school history books because anti-Christian writers take great pains to remove God’s handiwork in the building of America. In 1776, British ...read more

  • Poem: I Am Just A Raindrop  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
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    POEM: “I Am Just a Raindrop” The following poem was heard on Paul Harvey’s broadcast in 2004: I AM JUST A RAINDROP I am just a raindrop I was born in the sky and settled into a hillside there to dance in the sun and sparkle And nourish green and growing things But there are other raindrops on the ...read more

  • All I Will Ever Need To Know I Learned From ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wayne Burnett on Feb 28, 2001
    based on 302 ratings
     | 2,720 views

    -All I will ever need to know I learned from Noah. One, Don’t miss the boat. Two, Remember that we are all in the same boat. Three. Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark . Four, Stay fit. When you’re 600 years old someone may ask you to do something really big. Five, Don’t listen to ...read more

  • A Mother Noticed That It Was About Time For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Mccutchen on Jan 29, 2001
    based on 119 ratings
     | 2,718 views

    A mother noticed that it was about time for school to dismiss and since it looked like it would rain, she drove toward the school to pick up her eight-year-old daughter. She turned down the street to see her daughter running towards her down the sidewalk. A lightning bolt flashed and the little ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About A Train Traveling Through ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jun 25, 2006
    based on 44 ratings
     | 1,690 views

    I heard a story about a train traveling through the night in a very violent rainstorm. The lightning flashes were almost blinding, the rain hitting the windows was deafening and the strong gust winds rocked the train from side to side. When the lightening flashed and lighted up the darkness, the ...read more

  • Shakespeare On Mercy (From The Merchant Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Aug 18, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,189 views

    Shakespeare on mercy (From the Merchant of Venice) The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: ’Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better ...read more

  • Too Afraid To Plant  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 11, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,136 views

    TOO AFRAID TO PLANT A Georgia farmer, ragged and barefooted, was standing on the steps of his tumbledown shack. A stranger stopped for a drink of water and just to pass the time of day he asked: "How is your cotton coming along?" he asked. "Ain’t got none," replied the farmer. "Did you plant ...read more