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  • It's Amazing How Quickly A Classroom Can Turn ...

    Contributed by James Jack on Jul 6, 2005
     | 1,981 views

    It’s amazing how quickly a classroom can turn when a teacher walks out for a moment. Paper, hats, pens, shoes, glass bottles get thrown at fans. Bags get thrown out of windows. Furniture is mysteriously re-arranged so that all students are now sitting in the back corners of the room. Two of the ...read more

  • What's Wrong With Same Sex Marriage, A New Book ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,630 views

    What’s Wrong With Same Sex Marriage, a new book from Crossway by D James Kennedy & Jerry Newcombe, is packed with revealing and insightful data that can help jolt many believers out of their complacency on this core cultural threat. Netherlands researchers (where homosexual marriage has been legal ...read more

  • When I Was Growing Up In L.a. (Lower Alabama) We ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Dykes on Oct 9, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,007 views

    When I was growing up in L.A. (Lower Alabama) we usually had four or five dogs and cats to claim as our pets. By virtue of being the oldest child, my older sister, Judy, demanded the right to name all our pets. (First-born siblings can be control-freaks as the rest of us know). We had a dog that ...read more

  • When We Have The Opportunity To Speak To Another, ...

    Contributed by James Westmoreland on Dec 23, 2006
     | 1,992 views

    When we have the opportunity to speak to another, to share with them how God makes a difference in our lives, to encourage them to prepare for the coming of God, will we get the message right? Or, will we talk only about the incidentals and not what is important? On Sunday December 17, 1903, a ...read more

  • There Was A Mental Hospital That Devised A Very ...

    Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
     | 2,325 views

    There was a mental hospital that devised a very unusual test to determine whether their patients were ready to go back into the real world. They took the mental patients who looked like they were making progress into a room where they had a water faucet that was turned on, and water was draining ...read more

  • One Day A Man Went Out Walking In The Woods. He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 4, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,080 views

    One day a man went out walking in the woods. He really wasn’t paying much attention to what was going on around him or to where he was. He was just walking aimlessly through the forest. As he walked he came to the edge of a sharp cliff. Like I said, he wasn’t paying much attention to where he ...read more

  • My Dad's Flowers

    Contributed by Rommel Samaniego on Oct 21, 2007
     | 3,139 views

    My Dad’s Flowers The air is cool today, the streets are wet with last nights rain. I went out to do some cleaning and saw my Dad’s flowers come to bloom, so beautiful. You see, My Dad has been away for 10 years now, living in Hong Kong and one of his main concerns before he left the PI ...read more

  • Wall Street Journal Banned From Church

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 4, 2008
     | 1,435 views

    Wall Street Journal Banned From Church Reviving an ancient practice, churches are exposing sinners and shunning those who won’t repent. By ALEXANDRA ALTER January 18, 2008; Page W1 On a quiet Sunday morning in June, as worshippers settled into the pews at Allen Baptist Church in southwestern ...read more

  • Gianni Poli Of Italy Won The 1986 New York ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,451 views

    GIANNI POLI OF ITALY WON THE 1986 NEW YORK MARATHON IN 2:11:06 AND ON MARCH 2, 2003, MARK YATICH OF KENYA WON THE LOS ANGELS MARATHON IN 2:09:52, BUT TO ME, THE REAL HERO OF BOTH MARATHONS WAS THE MAN WHO FINISHED DEAD LAST IN BOTH MARATHONS. HIS NAME IS BOB WIELAND A FIFTY-SEVEN YEAR OLD VIETNAM ...read more

  • Truth Stats In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
     | 4,086 views

    TRUTH STATS IN BELIEVERS A 2002 survey by the Barna Group found that adults, by a 3-to-1 margin believe that truth is relative to each individual person and his or her circumstances as opposed to the concept of absolute truth. And frankly, that isn’t all that surprising. But what is really ...read more

  • Sole Witness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,558 views

    SOLE WITNESS A fine lad entered the Army. He faced a real test the first night he went to be in the barracks. He had formed the commendable habit of placing his Bible on his bed at home and kneeling down to read a chapter while having his daily prayer time before retiring. Surrounded by scores of ...read more

  • Sir Isaac Newton Was A Very Famous Mathematician ...

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on May 19, 2009
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     | 4,153 views

    Sir Isaac Newton was a very famous mathematician and scientist who strongly believed in God. However, he had a very close friend who did not believe in God, so Sir Isaac devised a plan to try to convince his friend that God did exist and had created the Universe. One day, he went to a carpentry ...read more

  • Maggie's Poem

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 24, 2009
     | 5,899 views

    Dads: I want you to listen to a poem from a teenager in Chicago who expresses how important you are as fathers and fatherly figures: Maggie’s Poem Do you know, do you understand, that you represent Jesus to me? Do you know, do you understand, that when you treat me with gentleness It raises the ...read more

  • The Difference Between Knowing About And ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 9, 2009
     | 2,036 views

    The difference between knowing about and knowing: I’ve read several books about Winston Churchill … but of course, I never met the man. I admire him and appreciate him, but can’t say that I know him in the way that I know my own father. The difference lies in the fact that I have been around my ...read more

  • I Remember Once My Car Was Not Running Quite ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 13, 2010
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     | 2,826 views

    I REMEMBER ONCE MY CAR WAS NOT RUNNING QUITE RIGHT - I CHOSE TO IGNORE IT THINKING IT MIGHT GO AWAY – BUT IT DIDN’T - I REMEMBER THE NEXT DAY OPENING THE BONNET FIDDLING WITH THE WIRES AND SO ON - YET THE PROBLEM STILL PERSISTED - SO I TOOK IT INTO THE GARAGE – THEY RAN A FREE ...read more

  • Mitch Albom: Testimony

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 19, 2010
     | 3,037 views

    MITCH ALBOM: TESTIMONY Mitch Albom is the author of the bestselling book titled, "Tuesdays with Morrie." He wrote another book recently called "Have a Little Faith." In describing his motivation for writing it, he will tell you that up until a few years ago he would have been among the many that ...read more

  • Roberts Book "One Thing” And He ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 7, 2010
     | 1,494 views

    Roberts book “One Thing” and he states this about our society, “We’ve been bombarded from every angle by the media, and their message is always the same: you don’t look good enough, smell good enough, sing well enough, dance well enough; you aren’t smart enough, aren’t rich enough; and even if you ...read more

  • Gladstone: Risk For The Greater Victory  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,738 views

    GLADSTONE: RISK FOR THE GREATER VICTORY WILLIAM GLADSTONE, a prime minister of England in the nineteenth century, one night was working late on an important speech he was to give to the House of Commons the next day. At about two o'clock in the morning a woman knocked on his door, asking the ...read more

  • Fulfilling Your Purpose

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 24, 2012
     | 7,502 views

    FULFILLING YOUR PURPOSE When we lived in Wiesbaden, some missionary friends bought a German toaster. When they got home, they plugged it in, placed some bread in it, and then waited for the toast to pop up a few minutes later. Well, the toast never did pop up from it because...well, it didn’t ...read more

  • Do Not Trust Your Eyes

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 12, 2013
     | 2,833 views

    DO NOT TRUST YOUR EYES The enemy's strategy is to be invisible, so we have to always be on guard. Mike Slaughter tells the story of his mission trip back to Darfur and traveling from their compound in Ed Daein to Adilla Town, which is a six-hour round trip over rough desert terrain. On this ...read more