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  • The Circles Of Life

    Contributed by Patrick Marino on Mar 16, 2006
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     | 3,334 views

    The circles of life I remember when I was a kid, seeing my mom hand feed my sister. I realize that she did the same with me as well. After a while I began to take the spoon and feed myself. At first it was a little messy (missed my mouth most of the time). As time and experience went on, I ...read more

  • Never Give Up  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,725 views

    NEVER GIVE UP Haddon Robinson tells the following story. I hope you appreciate it as I did. It was New Year’s Day, 1929, and Georgia Tech. and UCLA were battling it out in the Rose Bowl. Georgia Tech. fumbled the football late in the first half. Roy Riggles recovered for California. Picking up the ...read more

  • How Do You Decide Whom To Marry? (Written By ...  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Feb 9, 2007
    based on 15 ratings
     | 2,329 views

    HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHOM TO MARRY? (Written by kids) You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming. -- Alan, age 10 No person really decides before they grow up who they’re going ...read more

  • Told By Philip Yancey In His Book: What's So ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Drummond on Feb 18, 2007
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    told by Philip Yancey in his book: What’s so Amazing about Grace. Yancey tells the story of a prodigal daughter who grows up in Traverse City, Michigan. Disgusted with her old fashioned parents who overreact to her nose ring, the music she listens to, the length of her skirts, she runs away. She ...read more

  • Listen To This Story Of Grace As Told By Philip ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
     | 1,827 views

    Listen to this story of grace as told by Philip Yancey in his book: What’s so Amazing about Grace. Yancey tells the story of a prodigal daughter who grows up in Traverse City, Michigan. Disgusted with her old fashioned parents who overreact to her nose ring, the music she listens to, the length of ...read more

  • A Missionary In Abidjan, Ivory ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,080 views

    Illustration: A missionary in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, reports that recently an African pastor passed through on his way home to Chad, where civil war was raging. "What would you like to take to complete your forty-four pounds of baggage allowance?" asked the missionary. "Sugar? Powdered milk? ...read more

  • When We Engage In That Type Of Witnessing – When ...

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Mar 27, 2007
     | 1,776 views

    When we engage in that type of witnessing – when we follow the prescription here in Luke 24 – we have the honor of partnering with God as he opens their eyes, minds, and mouths. Those who once didn’t know, now know! Those who have never heard, now hear! Those who before didn’t understand – they now ...read more

  • Economist Robert Heilbroner Describes The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
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     | 1,770 views

    "Economist Robert Heilbroner describes the luxuries a typical American family would have to surrender if they lived among the one billion hungry people in the Third World: We begin by invading the house of our imaginary American family to strip it of its furniture. Everything goes: beds, chairs, ...read more

  • Becky Pippert Tells A Wonderful Story, An Old ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 28, 2004
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    Becky Pippert tells a wonderful story, an old legend really or three trees that make this very clear for me. “There were once 3 ambitious trees on a mountain who were small and were talking about what they wanted to be when they grew up. The 1st tree said, "When I look at the stars and see them ...read more

  • Someday Soon  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,233 views

    SOMEDAY SOON You just know that some things are going to happen sooner or later. That’s the way it was with Michael Parfit, a writer for Smithsonian magazine. For a feature article on the mighty Mississippi River, Parfit rode in a twelve-foot rubber dinghy down the Mississippi from Memphis, ...read more

  • Erma Bombeck Wrote This Essay Entitled, When God ...  PRO

    Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Sep 26, 2002
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    Erma Bombeck wrote this essay entitled, When God Created Women. “By the time the Lord made mothers, he was into his sixth day of working overtime. An Angel appeared and said "Why are you spending so much time on this one?" And the Lord answered and said, "Have you seen the spec sheet on her? She ...read more

  • Years Ago I Was At A Promise Keepers Pastor's ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on May 18, 2007
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    Years ago I was at a Promise Keepers Pastor’s Conference – It was a great conference. I went with pastor friend of mine and to save some cash we went in together on renting a car and a hotel room. So we booked all of this months in advance believing everything would be ready for us when w arrived. ...read more

  • Joni Eareckson Tada, A Quadriplegic Who Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 3, 2007
    based on 22 ratings
     | 5,393 views

    Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic who was paralyzed in a diving accident as a teenager, talks about her wedding day. She says, “I felt awkward as my girlfriends strained to shift my paralyzed body into a cumbersome wedding gown. No amount of corseting and binding my body gave me a perfect ...read more

  • Well When It Came To My Favorite Subjects Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Well when it came to my favorite subjects their were two that I just were not good at. One was Math and the other was science. Though science and math are still weaknesses of mine, I do remember learning one law that will help us in understanding this subject of how we treat grace. What I have ...read more

  • Ever Had A Time When You Felt All Alone In Life, ...

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 26, 2007
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    Ever had a time when you felt all alone in life, didn’t know which way to turn? Do you ever have a point in your life where you felt so overwhelmed and frustrated that you just didn’t know what to do? You might be like a guy who went alone on a vacation up in the mountains and he was walking ...read more

  • Donald Miller, In His Excellent Book Searching ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 2, 2007
     | 3,347 views

    Donald Miller, in his excellent book Searching for God Knows What, tells about going to a Bible college where he taught one of the classes. Speaking to this group of Bible students, he told them he was going to present the plan of salvation, but he was going to leave out one key element, and they ...read more

  • Forgiving One Another — The Monkey Trap

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Feb 10, 2008
     | 6,224 views

    Forgiving One Another -- the Monkey Trap >>I used this as a children’s sermon to open the worship services<< I’m going teach to you something this morning. I’m going to show you how to catch a monkey! Do any of you have wild monkeys running around your neighborhood? Well, in case there ever is ...read more

  • Security

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 21, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,163 views

    SECURITY When something historic occurs, we remember it the rest of our lives. Where were you on September 11, 2001? I was listening to the radio after taking my wife to work. Suddenly, an announcer interrupted and said there was "an incident" in New York. The reports worsened during that ...read more

  • Keep Your Eyes On The Prize  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,557 views

    Keep Your Eyes on the Prize The year Pete Rose was about to break Ty Cobb's all-time hits record in spring training, he was being interviewed. One reporter blurted out, "Pete, you only need 78 hits to break the record. How many at-bats do you think you'll need to get the 78 hits?" Without ...read more

  • On Martin Luther  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 7, 2009
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     | 3,365 views

    ON MARTIN LUTHER Church history illustrates that if a church quits being renewed and refreshed every day then they slide into apathy -- this leads toward man made religion and deadness. In essence the people of God lose their anointing and their transformational power to see lives changed. The ...read more