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  • Speaking In Tongues Has Continued On Through The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 9, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,725 views

    Speaking in tongues has continued on through the history of the church and reveals why it is not to be forbid even today: Early Church history reveals this gift as legitimate and being practiced (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia#Church_History_.28A.D._100_to_500.29) 1. For the ...read more

  • Don't Quit! Don't Quit!  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 8, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 18,525 views

    DON’T QUIT! DON’T QUIT! Many years ago I was visiting a lady named Deanna in the resthome, she had a copy of this little poem, I borrowed it and made a copy. I ask you to ponder these words: DON’T QUIT (author unknown) When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re ...read more

  • To Despair Means To Be Hopeless; To Have No Hope; ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Feb 18, 2007
     | 5,226 views

    To despair means to be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation. I saw hopelessness displayed in full force a couple weeks ago as I was driving toward Coast Highway. While at a traffic light, I was reading the bumper stickers on the car in front of me. One of them had a drawing ...read more

  • Jehovah-Shalom: The Lord Send Peace (Judges ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 9, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,663 views

    Jehovah-Shalom: The Lord Send Peace (Judges 6:24) Jesus! whose blood so freely stream'd To satisfy the law's demand; By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd, Before the Father's face I stand. To reconcile offending man, Make Justice drop her angry rod; What creature could have form'd the plan, Or ...read more

  • Joni Eareckson Tada, A Paraplegic Confined To A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,973 views

    Joni Eareckson Tada, a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair, wrote the following poem by holding a pen between her teeth: When God wants to drill a man, and thrill a man and skill a man, When God wants to mold a man to play the noblest part, When He yearns with all His heart to build so great and ...read more

  • By The Power Of His Holy Spirit Filling And ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Jul 2, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,102 views

    By the power of His Holy Spirit filling and empowering us, let us fulfill the fervor of Dorothea Day’s poem “My Captain”: Out of the night that dazzles me, Bright as the sun from pole to pole, I thank the God I know to be For Christ the conqueror of my soul. Since His the sway of ...read more

  • War

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 15, 2019
     | 3,793 views

    WAR My life fell apart in the summer of ‘68. One minute I was the happiest man in the world then wham! It was all over. My countenance changed from a look of total contentment into one filled with agony and anguish. Here I was living in total rapture, married to the woman of my dreams. It’s hard ...read more

  • The First Thing Bartimaeus Saw

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 30, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,242 views

    Think of what Bartimaeus saw when he received his sight! Think of the wonders of seeing for the first time a crowd of human beings just like himself, the walls and palm-tree groves of Jericho, the sky, so blue above him, and the hills of Moab in the distance. But that was not the first thing that ...read more

  • There Are Many Heresies Among Us; All Of Them ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,106 views

    There are many heresies among us; all of them detract from the eternal truths of God. The most dangerous one is the one we hear as the new theme of political speeches and commencement addresses. This heresy is rooted in academia and thrives in prideful minds. This heresy is very evident in popular ...read more

  • Heaven Bound

    Contributed by David Rogers on Jan 29, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,606 views

    Heaven Bound Walking through the storms of life Facing all the strife I realize that I am all alone Facing the lighting and the crash of thunder Oh How I wonder Is there no hope of me ever going home I was walking through the storm all alone. Fear and despair all around No hope could be ...read more

  • Mary Had The Little Lamb  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Steiner on Nov 29, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,885 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

  • Just As You Are  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,844 views

    JUST AS YOU ARE Jesus affirms that many would come to Him in faith and partake of Him as the Bread of Life, because of the Father. Man’s blindness does not keep God’s grace from working. When they come, they find that God does not turn them away nor cast them away later. CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT learned ...read more

  • Isaac Watts

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 7, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,924 views

    ISAAC WATTS Isaac Watts was a genius. At four years of age, he had learned Latin, at nine Greek, at 11 French, and at 13 years old, Hebrew. His poetic re-working of the Psalms was magnificent. Unfortunately for poor Isaac, he was not a looker. His one chance at love came and went with a young ...read more

  • Silence: Taking Your Soul With You  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,089 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

  • Testimony About God's Comfort After A Suicide

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jun 26, 2012
     | 2,898 views

    Mot Richey was one of the precious senior adults at McClendon Baptist Church in West Monroe. She went home to be with the Lord in 2006. Mot was a lovely Christian lady. She was also a wonderful singer, wife and cook. In my whole life, I never met a more loving couple than Jack and Mot Richey. ...read more

  • What Makes A Hero? Webster’s Defines A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Haselhuhn on Mar 20, 2001
    based on 103 ratings
     | 2,339 views

    What makes a hero? Webster’s defines a hero as a person “of distinguished courage, moral or physical; chief character in a play, novel, poem, etc.” One of my wife and my favorite movies is “The Princess Bride.” One character of the movie, Inigo Montoya, fits the definition of hero found in the ...read more

  • I Have Been Amazed At The Story Coming Out About ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 8, 2005
     | 1,580 views

    I have been amazed at the story coming out about the BTK killer. BTK stands for Bind, Torture and Kill, an acronym that 60-year-old Dennis Rader gave to himself after killing 10 people, starting in the 1970’s. (PPT:Here is how he looked in his arrest photo, and here is how he looked in his ...read more

  • The Year 1636 Was Unbelievable For German Pastor, ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Nov 21, 2006
     | 1,509 views

    The year 1636 was unbelievable for German pastor, Martin Rinkart. Amid the darkness of the Thirty Year War, Pastor Rinkart is said to have buried 5000 of his parishioners, including his wife, in the year 1636, an average of 15 per day. In the heart of that kind of grief and pain, his parish ...read more

  • Mary Had A Little Lamb  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 3,640 views

    MARY HAD A 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 Fall. (Isaiah 7:14) Mary had the little Lamb, obedient ...read more

  • History Of The Song, "The Love Of God"

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Apr 4, 2004
     | 6,463 views

    Could we with ink the oceans fill And were the skies of parchment made And every stalk on earth a quill And every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above Would drain the oceans dry, Nor could that scroll contain the whole Though stretched from sky to sky Frederick M. ...read more