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  • Have You Seen The Insurance Commercial On Tv ...

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Dec 15, 2009
     | 2,479 views

    Have you seen the insurance commercial on TV that shows a talking pot hole? “Did I do that? Let me call someone for you! Oh, I don’t have a cellphone.” The talking pothole just causes problems and does nothing to fix them. People have built all sorts of roads: roads of commerce and conquest. ...read more

  • Salvation Brings Forgiveness...for You And For ...

    Contributed by Vonnie E James on Mar 21, 2010
     | 3,214 views

    SALVATION BRINGS FORGIVENESS...FOR YOU AND FOR OTHERS This person was working in a certain company for may years. However for whatever reason, he was unable to get along well with the Supervisor. The relationship was like trying to stick adhesive tape on a bottle covered with grease. He never ...read more

  • Ok Here, Banned Overseas

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jun 2, 2010
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     | 1,248 views

    OK HERE, BANNED OVERSEAS When I was a child, this advertisement would not have had a dog's show of making it onto the tele. It's a picture of this young lady on an Australian beach, saying "We've saved a spot on the beach," and I think there's a bit that says, "We've had the camels shampooed." We ...read more

  • The Public Scavenger

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2011
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    THE PUBLIC SCAVENGER A long time ago in Greece, some politicians decided to play a joke on a fellow politician in their group. They got him appointed to the post of Public Scavenger. It was a dirty, lowly post. But instead of being humiliated, the man decided he would show everybody what he could ...read more

  • The Heating Plant

    Contributed by Christopher Gregas on May 17, 2011
     | 2,983 views

    THE HEATING PLANT Five young college students were spending a Sunday in London, so they went to hear the famed C.H. Spurgeon preach. While waiting for the doors to open, the students were greeted by a man who asked, "Gentlemen, let me show you around. Would you like to see the heating plant of ...read more

  • Let Us Love Them

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 25, 2011
     | 1,648 views

    LET US LOVE THEM Tony Campolo tells about some homeless teenagers from the Philadelphia streets who beat to death a Korean honor student doing graduate work in medicine at the U of PA. His parents came to the U.S. for the trial, and sat silently through his murderers’ entire trial. At the end, ...read more

  • Sin And Dirty Water

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Jun 26, 2011
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    SIN AND DIRTY WATER A group of explorers in Africa came across some natives who for centuries had made their home on the banks of this one particular river. They showed the explorers the polluted stream that they drank from. It was filled with dirt and every contamination imaginable. The natives ...read more

  • He Didn't Ask

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jul 21, 2011
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    HE DIDN'T ASK A man works as a signalman by the sea, giving important signals to the ships as they move into the narrow harbour. On one stormy night, a ship crashed because they couldn't see his signals. He was taken to court because they wanted how the accident happened. The judge asked, "Were ...read more

  • Answered Prayer

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Jul 28, 2011
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    ANSWERED PRAYER When I say YOUR prayers to our Lord Jesus who has the power to do anything, let me tell you this. The MRI clearly showed 4 tears to different tendons and ligaments. But when the doctor got in he could not see them! What he did see were some large spurs that we rubbing against my ...read more

  • Praying For Your Prosperity

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
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    PRAYING FOR YOUR PROSPERITY One day a man was walking with this pastor. He knew this pastor was living in horrible poverty in Ethiopia, and he made the mistake of showing a little bit of what he thought would be gracious sympathy. He told the Ethiopian pastor, brother, we pray for you in your ...read more

  • God Has Something Better For You

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Mar 10, 2013
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    GOD HAS SOMETHING BETTER FOR YOU A daddy took his little girl to the park one Saturday afternoon. She was about 4 and was having such a good time in the sun and the presence of her daddy. The ice cream vendor came by and daddy bought her an ice cream cone. Then he noticed that his little girl had ...read more

  • The "Stream Of Forgiveness"  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Apr 14, 2013
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    THE "STREAM OF FORGIVENESS" Mirosalv Volf wrote a fantastic book on forgiveness titled "Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace." In the book he uses the beautiful imagery of a stream to show how God's character (love) is poured into us by His Spirit and becomes our ...read more

  • Wild Bill Resurrected?

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 15, 2013
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    WILD BILL RESURRECTED? In 1876, Wild Bill Hickock was killed in Deadwood, SD by Jack McCall while playing poker at the Nuttal and Mann's Saloon. You may recall that he was holding what has been referred to as the "Dead Man's Hand" (2 8s and 2 Aces -- all black with an unknown 5th card). He was ...read more

  • Old Nature

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 15, 2019
     | 4,705 views

    OLD MAN Some time ago, a person I worked with came up to me and said, “if I didn’t know you, I would be terrified to meet you on the street”. If my coworker only knew half of what I’d been, He would never even talk to me. God took the most vile, evil, misguided person in the world and ...read more

  • My Favorite Palm Sunday Story!

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 7, 2022
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    Palm Sunday is a very important, reverent occasion for every child of God to remember. However, sometimes children remind us of how genuine they are even in the most serious moments of worship. For example, It was Palm Sunday at church, but because of a sore throat, 5-year-old Annie stayed home ...read more

  • Michael Griffiths Once Wrote A Book With The ...

    Contributed by John Cuddeford on Nov 1, 2007
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    Michael Griffiths once wrote a book with the intriguing title “Cinderella With Amnesia. ” The cover shows a picture of Cinderella sitting in rags by the fireplace. She is gazing at a glass slipper in her hand, and her face reveals utter bewilderment. She obviously has no idea what it is. Nor ...read more

  • Who Is Robbed In Unfaithfulness?

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 6, 2008
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    Who Is Robbed in Unfaithfulness? An interesting fable is told of a rich man who wanted to help a poor man. The rich man hired the poor man to build a house on the hillside and went away on a long journey. The carpenter said to himself, “My boss is away and I can use cheap materials for the parts ...read more

  • Praising God In Worship  PRO

    Contributed by Karen Wheat on Feb 8, 2008
    based on 14 ratings
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    Illustration About Praising God in Worship There’s the story of a church in an old town that was very sophisticated, dignified, and quiet. One day a visitor showed up in worship. When the preacher began to preach and say something like God is a good God, the visitor would shout, “Praise the Lord,” ...read more

  • Another Result Is That We Pervert Our Assignment ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 18, 2008
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    Another result is that we pervert our assignment to care for the earth. Humans have misunderstood the use of having dominion over the earth as a license to do what we want with the earth. After all, since it is all going to be incinerated (rather than purified by a refiner’s fire), then let’s use ...read more

  • Too Many Christians Of Our Day Seem To Be Totally ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
     | 1,770 views

    Too many Christians of our day seem to be totally unconcerned with the need to be conformed to the image of Christ (Rom.8: 29). Rather, they seem to think that they can live pretty much as they please, as long as they admit it to God. This could not be farther from the truth. Somewhere along the ...read more