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  • How To Be Liked By Your Peers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2012
     | 3,368 views

    HOW TO BE LIKED BY YOUR PEERS ScienceDaily (Apr. 16, 2010) — People who pursue happiness through material possessions are liked less by their peers than people who pursue happiness through life experiences, according to a new study...The "take home" message in his most recent study, which appears ...read more

  • Steering Your Ship In A Storm

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 7, 2012
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     | 6,499 views

    STEERING YOUR SHIP IN A STORM An old seaman once said, "During the fiercest storms the only way a ship can survive is to keep its nose pointed straight into the wind. If you try to turn to the left or the right, the ship may capsize. If you try to run from the wind, the waves can surge over the ...read more

  • When To Let Your Light ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2012
     | 6,699 views

    WHEN TO LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE A young man who had heard the Gospel accepted Christ. A little while after this, a Christian teacher asked him: "What have you done for Christ since you believed?" He replied: "Oh, I’m a learner." "Well," said the questioner, "when you light a candle do you light it ...read more

  • Go Get Your Mother!

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 27, 2012
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     | 7,568 views

    GO GET YOUR MOTHER! One of my favorite stories of a door is the story of the Amish boy and his father who went to the big city for the very first time. They were amazed by everything they saw. Having grown up and lived all their lives on a rural farm everything was completely new to them. The ...read more

  • Where Your Treasure Is...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Aug 31, 2012
     | 2,995 views

    I once read about in one of Richard Wurmbrand’s books. “An elder of a local free Church in Communist Romania was brought before the judge for embezzlement - a crime he had not committed. His defence lawyer started his defence plea by telling the Court of a well known story about the man that was ...read more

  • Look Up In Your Heart  PRO

    Contributed by David Tack on Oct 17, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,984 views

    LOOK UP IN YOUR HEART A.W. Tozer reminds us, "You may be still with arthritis so that you can’t even get on your knees to pray, but you can look up in your heart, for prayer isn’t a matter of getting on your knees. Prayer is the elevation of the heart to God and that is all a man needs to praise, ...read more

  • What's Your Dream Job?

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Jan 27, 2013
     | 2,677 views

    WHAT'S YOUR DREAM JOB? What would be your dream job? According to http://www.the-top-tens.com/lists/top-ten-dream-jobs.asp here are some dream jobs indicated by a recent survey: Author Jet Pilot Inventor Pro-Athlete Race Car Driver Video Game Tester Chocolate Taste tester Hit Man Pro ...read more

  • Your Attitude Toward Attitude

    Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Jan 28, 2013
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    YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARD ATTITUDE It was February 20, 1962, when a man by the name of John Glenn circled the earth in outer space three times; and we thought it was tremendous. We followed. We listened. We saw him on television. And if you listened carefully, you would have heard from a man in ...read more

  • Focus On God's Purposes, Not Yours  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 7, 2013
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    FOCUS ON GOD'S PURPOSES, NOT YOURS Blackaby states in Experiencing God, "You never find God asking persons to dream up what they want to do for Him" (28, workbook) He adds, "To live a God–centered life, you must focus your life on God’s purposes, not your own plans. You must seek to see from ...read more

  • What Will Your Legacy Be?  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Van Wyk on Feb 24, 2013
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    WHAT WILL YOUR LEGACY BE? I visited the home of Elvis in Graceland, Tennessee. After so many years after his death, I was amazed at the crowds of people that take the tour and listen to his life’s story. The sad thing is, the story will never change, because he has lived his life and what he has ...read more

  • Forgetting Your Wife's Birthday

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 19, 2013
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    On a business trip to California, I realized that I had forgotten my wife's birthday the day before. Expecting I was in big trouble, I went to the jewelry section of a department store. After explaining my situation the ...read more

  • Do Not Trust Your Eyes

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 12, 2013
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    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

  • Is Your God Too Small?

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 28, 2014
     | 5,545 views

    IS YOUR GOD TOO SMALL? "If God were small enough to be UNDERSTOOD........He would not be big enough to ...read more

  • Does Your God Bleed?  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 4, 2014
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     | 7,234 views

    DOES YOUR GOD BLEED? A little boy went up to a missionary Sunday School leader in another country. The boy said, "I like what you say about the God of the Bible but I can’t see him. But if I go to the temple I can see my God." The missionary said to the little boy, "Son, may I ask you a ...read more

  • What Is Your Answer To Him?

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 27, 2015
     | 4,549 views

    At the beginning of the school year during recess I was on the playground looking for some of my friends. I couldn’t find them. I had two boys come up to me and asked, “Do you need a friend? We want to be your friends?” I said, “No.” Was I mean? No, I just didn’t know them. Through time, we ...read more

  • The Ballerina - Using Your Talents

    Contributed by John Gullick on Oct 22, 2015
     | 7,294 views

    Let me tell you a story - it is a modification of a story I wrote a few years ago and I simply want to draw out that each person invested what God had invested in them. It is called the Ballerina. Once upon a time there was an orphan ballerina - how she loved to dance. She was the most elegant of ...read more

  • Offer Your Life To Him

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Dec 26, 2007
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     | 2,671 views

    OFFER YOUR LIFE TO HIM In a large cathedral in Europe there was a very large, magnificent pipe organ. It was a Saturday afternoon, and the custodian was making one final check the organ loft high in the balcony at the back of the church. He was startled to hear footsteps echoing up the ...read more

  • Hot-Sync Your Marriage!

    Contributed by Mike Fox on Feb 23, 2008
     | 1,686 views

    Hot-Sync Your Marriage! "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." Proverbs 18:21 We used to have just PDA’s. Now, like most, we’ve updated to PDA Phones, mainly for business. But when we had our PDA’s, we had a feature called "Hot-Sync". The ...read more

  • Your Will Gives Out First

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
     | 1,868 views

    YOUR WILL GIVES OUT FIRST I can remember trying out for the cross country team at my high school, I could not understand how some of these guys did it, they could run and be fine at the finish line, I on the other hand was literally dying and giving up a mile short. The coach told me that the ...read more

  • Is Your Faith The Real Thing?

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
     | 1,683 views

    Is your faith the real thing? There are many different flavors of faith available Is your faith the real thing? Diet Coke - says Coke, but without the guilt this is like the person that says they are saved, but lives however they want Diet Caff. Free - says Coke, no guilt and no power, same as Diet ...read more

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