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  • Reagan's Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,212 views

    REAGAN’S PRAYER "If I had a prayer for you today, among those that have all been uttered, it is that one we’re so familiar with: ’The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.’ Thank ...read more

  • The Gift Of Their Lives

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 21, 2012
     | 2,846 views

    THE GIFT OF THEIR LIVES A Dutch pastor was helping Jews escape the Nazis when he himself caught. He was loaded into a boxcar with several Jews and others to be sent to a concentration camp. It was a long, frightening journey through the night. Finally the train stopped, the doors opened, and ...read more

  • I Was Coming Home From A Meeting An Hour Away. ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 14, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,015 views

    I was coming home from a meeting an hour away. It was in the evening and as I was driving home, I was amazed at the beauty of the sunset. It was so beautiful that I didn’t listen to the radio or even notice that my lights were not on. The amazing thing about a sunset or sunrise is that its ...read more

  • In Canada It Is Possible To Go Camping Hundreds ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 1,634 views

    In Canada it is possible to go camping hundreds of miles away from any city or town. If it is a cloudy night, and there is no phosphorus in the area, the blackness is total. A hand held three inches from your face cannot be seen. But if there is a city nearby, perhaps a hundred miles away, the ...read more

  • A Story For Peace-Lovers  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Jan 21, 2013
    based on 23 ratings
     | 4,334 views

    A STORY FOR PEACE-LOVERS (Narrated by Dorothy S. Mclaren) One morning a little girl, dressed in spotless white, with a lovely bouquet of flowers in her hands, passed by a boy who was playing in the dusty street. The sight of this pretty girl stirred the spirit of mischief in the boy’s heart and ...read more

  • Basic Training

    Contributed by John Telgren on Feb 11, 2017
     | 6,408 views

    I hated shining shoes in Basic Training. There were other things I would rather be doing instead of sitting on the floor with a brush and mounds of cotton balls stained with black Kiwi shoe polish! If our boots and dress shoes were not perfect we paid for it dearly! During one of our trips to the ...read more

  • It Is A Great Deal Better To Live A Holy Life ...

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Sep 9, 2006
     | 2,335 views

    It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it. Lighthouses do not ring bells and fire cannon to call attention ...read more

  • A Little Boy Was Asked, "What Is A Saint?" He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Curtis Kittrell on Aug 20, 2003
    based on 12 ratings
     | 3,682 views

    A little boy was asked, "What is a saint?" He replied, "A saint is a person who lets the light shine through." Evidently he got this idea by watching the sun shine through the prophets and other great people of God in the stained-glass windows of his church. But he was certainly not far off base. A ...read more

  • Hold Up The Chem.-Light For Everyone To See And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ned Bartlebaugh on Jun 21, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,103 views

    Hold up the chem.-light for everyone to see and say. Let’s use this chem-light as an example. This chem-light is designed to shine light in a dark area. It consists of a plastic container and we can see a fluid inside but it is not fulfilling its purpose. It is not giving off light. It is only ...read more

  • Very Hard Work

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,445 views

    VERY HARD WORK A favorite book for children is Frog And Toad Together by Arnold Lobel. Frog had a garden that Toad admired, and he wanted one too. So Frog told him: "It is very nice, but it was hard work." When he gave Toad some flower seeds, Toad quickly ran home and planted them. "Now seeds," ...read more

  • Charles Swindoll Gives Us Some Interesting Advice ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 21, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 6,088 views

    Charles Swindoll gives us some interesting advice when he states: When you live in darkness, you not only have no ray of light, you don’t even know where home is. That is the way it is for the majority in the world. Some folks are born, raised, and die in cultures that have never seen their first ...read more

  • The Moon Keeps ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 14, 2010
     | 1,793 views

    The Moon Keeps Shining The story is told of a judge who had been frequently ridiculed by a conceited lawyer. When asked by a friend why he didn’t rebuke his assailant, he replied, “In our town lives a widow who has a dog. And whenever the moon shines, it goes outside and barks all night.” Having ...read more

  • The Donkey And The Complaining Wife

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on May 7, 2013
    based on 3 ratings
     | 9,170 views

    THE DONKEY AND THE COMPLAINING WIFE I once heard of a farmer who had a complaining wife. From morning till night she would complain about something or the other. The only time he got relief was when he went to the farm with his donkey. One day as he was plowing, his wife brought him lunch. He ...read more

  • Clean Conscience

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Jul 24, 2017
     | 6,270 views

    Xaviera Hollander wrote a book with a title: The Happy Hooker. Hollander, a prostitute, sought to silence the people who believe that no prostitute could find joy in what she was doing. In her book, Hollander celebrates the joy that she experienced in her profession, saying that she never felt ...read more

  • Conscience

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Aug 1, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,958 views

    In 1984, Avianca Airlines, Spanish airline 707, had a crash, hit a mountain. They went into the rubble, everybody died, the plane is all over the place. Finally, they found little black box which has the cockpit recorder on it so they can get the dialogue that’s going on in the cockpit just before ...read more

  • Clean Conscience

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Aug 1, 2017
     | 3,700 views

    Martin Luther who brought the protestant reformation out of the Catholic church questioned the doctrine and practices of the Catholic church in a thesis called ‘The Ninety-Five Theses’ in October of 1517. The Roman Catholic church wanted Martin Luther to recant his view. The Diet of Worms of 1521 ...read more

  • Fear Statistics

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Aug 28, 2017
     | 4,399 views

    Fear and worry statistics from U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, Sep. 4, 2016: Percentage of things feared that will never take place: 60% Percentage of things feared that are considered to be insignificant for you: ...read more

  • Protective Fear Illustration

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Aug 28, 2017
     | 2,765 views

    When I was a child I loved going to my grandparents’ home in Kerala. I used to enjoy the days but dread the nights. It was in the early 80’s and there were absolutely no streetlights. They had meetings almost every night and coming back from the meetings were so fearful. I was afraid if I would ...read more

  • Fear Torments

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Aug 28, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,820 views

    A man has been visiting a therapist because he has had a fear of monsters living under his bed. The man has been seeing this doctor for months. Every time he would come in the doctor would ask “have you made any progress?”. Every time the man would say “no”. The man decided to go and see another ...read more

  • Fear Restrains

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Aug 28, 2017
     | 3,775 views

    Janez Rus lived in Germany during the days of the Nazi ruler Adolf Hitler. During that time he was a young shoemaker, looking to make his name prominent. Because of the power of the German government, he participated in public supports of the Nazi regime in hopes of gaining recognition. But after ...read more