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  • On January 9, 1985, A Congregational Pastor In ...

    Contributed by Joel Vicente on Mar 6, 2004
     | 1,796 views

    On January 9, 1985, a Congregational pastor in Bulgaria named Christo Kuleczef, was arrested and put in jail. His crime was preaching in his church, just like I am right now. It was a crime because the week before the village committee had appointed a new pastor. The secular committee who runs the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Godly Mother/Behind The Scenes: (Wesley ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Jan 4, 2005
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     | 4,609 views

    GODLY MOTHER/BEHIND THE SCENES: (Wesley Brothers) Susannah Wesley was one of the most terrific mothers of all time. Susannah’s father was a minister and she was born in England in 1669 as the youngest of twenty-five children! Susannah was married at 19 to Samuel Wesley, also a minister and, not ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • There's A Far Side Cartoon That Shows A Bum ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kory Wilcoxson on Jan 12, 2005
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    There’s a Far Side cartoon that shows a bum sitting in a dirty alley, and there’s a giant bug next to him. And the bug is saying, “There I was, vice president, stock options, corner office, Mercedes, then one day someone comes in and says, “Wait a minute! He’s nothing but a giant cockroach!” Very ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • The Closest I Ever Came To Feeling Like ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 13, 2005
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     | 1,830 views

    The closest I ever came to feeling like Abraham’s servant: our return from Alaska. After serving with a mission congregation for five years, we concluded it was time to return to the "Lower 48." I made arrangements to visit four seperate congregations in the midwest; each paid one fourth of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Let Me Illustrate With The Words That Mark ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Apr 13, 2007
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    Let me illustrate with the words that Mark Buchanan wrote of his own experience in his book entitled “Your God Is Too Safe.” He wrote that when he was saved, “I hit the ground running. Immediately, I volunteered for everything, anything, that I felt vaguely interested in and marginally qualified ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Back In The Early 1980's, A Young Man Was Found ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Jun 7, 2007
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    Back in the early 1980’s, a young man was found GUILTY of ROBBING a CONVENIENCE store. He told the COURT that he had LOST his JOB months before and had been unable to MAKE enough MONEY working at ODD JOBS to SUPPORT his FAMILY and PAY his BILLS. “I know it was WRONG to ROB the STORE,” he pleaded. ...read more

    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • A Monument Is A Stone Or A Building That Is Set ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A monument is a stone or a building that is set up to remember a person or an event. On July 3, 1775, he took on what was thought to be an impossible task. He became the commander of an army of rag-tag volunteers that were so determined to throw off the British yoke, that they were willing to war ...read more

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  • Helen Roseveare Is A British Medical Doctor Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Helen Roseveare is a British medical doctor who worked for many years as a missionary in Zaire. During the revolution of the 1960s, she often faced brutal beatings and other forms of physical torture. On one occasion, when she was about to be executed, she feared God had forsaken her. In that ...read more

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  • We Should Also Note That Single Mothers Are ...

    Contributed by Dr. Franklin Kirksey on Jul 3, 2007
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    We should also note that single mothers are quite often in that position by no choice of their own, due to death, divorce or desertion. Some single mothers do a wonderful job of raising children to know and to serve the Lord. For example, “John M. Webb was born to Dr. Alfred Pellar Webb and Ida ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • The Hermit Seeking To Know God Better

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 22, 2007
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     | 3,814 views

    ILLUSTRATION: The Hermit Seeking to know God better, John Chrysostom became a hermit in the mountains near Antioch in A.D. 373. Although his time of isolation was cut short by illness, he learned that with God at his side, he could attend alone against anyone or anything. That lesson served ...read more

    Denomination: Other

  • I Can't Remember Where I Got This Illustration ...

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 15, 2007
     | 1,176 views

    I can’t remember where I got this illustration from but I love it: Behind a church in the small town of Flint Hill, Virginia, you will find the grave of a young seminary student named Albert Gallatin Willis who died on October 14, 1864. Albert Willis’ story is unusual. Albert Willis served with the ...read more

    Denomination: Lutheran

  • There Is A Man Who Keeps On His Desk A Fairly ...

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 4, 2007
     | 1,335 views

    There is a man who keeps on his desk a fairly large stone on which is lettered one word: FIRST. Acting as a constant reminder of Jesus’ words, “He that is without sin… let him cast the first stone,” it helps check within him the automatic desire to be hasty in condemning others. As he daily ...read more

    Denomination: Methodist

  • Charles Mccarry Almost Wasn't Born

    Contributed by Daniel Owens on Jan 8, 2008
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     | 1,233 views

    Charles McCarry has lived an interesting life. In addition to being the author of The Tears of Autumn and The Last Supper, He served as Assistant to the Secretary of Labor in the Eisenhower cabinet, as well as, worked for the CIA. However, Charles McCarry almost wasn’t born . . . He explained it ...read more

    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • When I Was 14 Months Old He Had A Medical ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 26, 2008
     | 991 views

    When I was 14 months old he had a medical ailment, which could have been fatal in the 1960s. The surgeons thought I had no hope and my parents gave him up for dead. They promised God that if I lived, I would minister unto the Lord all the days of his life. The churches all over Delhi prayed for my ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • I Believe That The Church In America Is Suffering ...

    Contributed by Charles Whitmire on Mar 30, 2008
     | 1,535 views

    I believe that the Church in America is suffering because too many of us are not growing. We are not allowing God to speak to our lives. We are holding onto sin and attitudes that are not biblical, and we go to church every week, we hear a good message and we go home!! Listen up church - I have ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • Baring My Soul  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Apr 28, 2008
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     | 3,844 views

    BARING MY SOUL When we carried our son and daughter-in-law to the airport in Birmingham, as they left to go overseas, I cried. I had told myself not to cry. Get this picture. My oldest son felt led of God to spend his life serving in southeast Asia. He was about to leave. I knew that for the rest ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Nero Fastened The Guilt And Inflicted The Most ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
     | 2,684 views

    "Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators Pontius ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rights And ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 16, 2008
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    Illustration “Rights and responsibility” In America we have the Statue of Liberty on the East coast but I often thought we need to have a Statue of Responsibility on the West coast to balance everything out here in America. The Statue of Liberty in New York is known for its meaning of freedom and ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • It Just Seemed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 1,650 views

    IT JUST SEEMED LONG George Buttrick is considered one of the top ten preachers of the 20th Century. He served nearly thirty years as pastor of New York’s Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. From that distinguished pulpit, Buttrick began a teaching career at Union Theological Seminary, then as ...read more

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  • Ken Hannah Snowboards Off Cliffs, Flies 40 Feet ...

    Contributed by Art Good on Nov 6, 2008
     | 1,967 views

    Ken Hannah snowboards off cliffs, flies 40 feet straight up on a bicycle, and jumps out of airplanes on a snowboard. Someone once asked him how he learned to do all those incredible things. He answered, "I'm an extreme person. When I was 6 years old I rode my bike down a flight of stairs. At 7 ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan