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  • Backsliding Is Miserable

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
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    BACKSLIDING IS MISERABLE It is a miserable thing to be a backslider. Of all unhappy things that can befall a man, I suppose "backsliding" is the worst. A stranded ship, a broken-winged eagle, a garden overrun with weeds, a harp without strings, a church in ruins--all these are sad sights. But a ...read more

  • Never, Never Be Late  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2011
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     | 4,991 views

    NEVER, NEVER BE LATE A local priest was being honored at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish. A leading local politician and member of the congregation was chosen to make the presentation and to give a little speech at the dinner. However, he was delayed so the priest decided to say ...read more

  • Stop Or Slow Down  PRO

    Contributed by Akinsanya Adubi on May 6, 2011
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,579 views

    STOP OR SLOW DOWN Pastor John Hagee told us a story of a driver that refused to stop at a STOP sign; he was then pulled over by a cop. The cop told him that the reason he pulled him over was because he refused to stop at a STOP sign. He replied that he slowed down, the cop then explain to him that ...read more

  • What's Wrong With The World?

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 6, 2011
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    WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD? When asked what was wrong with the world, renowned Catholic ...read more

  • Everyone Needs A Savior

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jun 25, 2011
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    EVERYONE NEEDS A SAVIOR Billy Sunday was a famous baseball player in the early part of the last century. He was dramatically converted to Christ, and became then even more famous as an evangelist. In preparation for a city wide mission in a large American city, Billy Sunday wrote a letter to the ...read more

  • How Not To Achieve Virtue

    Contributed by Michael Walther on Jul 4, 2011
     | 2,184 views

    HOW NOT TO ACHIEVE VIRTUE How do we move from vice to virtue? Let me tell you first of all how not to... Even ancient pagans, those who never heard the Bible, recognized that living in vice was deadly and destructive. They were far ahead of our modern culture that is foolishly accepting vices ...read more

  • Dead To Garlic

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 20, 2011
     | 2,716 views

    DEAD TO GARLIC The problem is we are so accustomed to sin we do not recognize it's gravity. I once read the news account of the two Lake Worth, Florida, high school boys. They were suspended from school because they ate so much garlic that no one could stand to have them around. They had read ...read more

  • Humorist Dave Barry Wrote, "Crabgrass Can Grow ...

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Jul 31, 2011
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    Humorist Dave Barry wrote, "Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill ...read more

  • Every Gardener Knows The Difficulty Of Keeping ...

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Jul 31, 2011
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    Every gardener knows the difficulty of keeping weeds out of their garden. One gardener wisely said, "When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it ...read more

  • A Confession Of Stealing

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    A CONFESSION OF STEALING Jack removes the envelope from the small pile of mail and draws in a deep breath. It is from his former employer. He has lost sleep waiting for it. What he is about to read could lead to his exoneration or to imprisonment. He had written to this man two weeks ago, ...read more

  • Consequences For Karla Faye Tucker

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2011
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    CONSEQUENCES FOR KARLA FAYE TUCKER Karla Faye Tucker was convicted in 1983 for the murders of two people. While on death row in 1985, she picked up a Bible from the prison ministry program and prayed to receive Christ after reading it. On June 22, 1992, Tucker requested that her life be spared on ...read more

  • Beware Of Attachments

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2011
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    BEWARE OF ATTACHMENTS Felipe Massa of Brazil should have won the Formula One Grand Prix in Singapore in September 2008. But as he drove off from a refueling stop while in the lead, the fuel hose was still attached. By the time his team removed the hose, he had lost so much time that he finished ...read more

  • Running While Weighed Down

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 5, 2011
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    RUNNING WHILE WEIGHED DOWN David Posman was arrested in Providence, Rhode Island, after allegedly knocking out an armored car driver and stealing the closest 4 bags of money. It turned out they contained $800 in pennies, weighing 30 pounds each, and slowed him to a stagger during his getaway so ...read more

  • Set Free

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 5, 2011
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    SET FREE It all began on Sunday, December 11, 2005, when a fisherman spotted a 50-ton humpback whale tangled up in crab trap lines off the coast in northern California. His call for help was answered by a group of Coast Guard divers and whale experts. The rescue operation was both difficult and ...read more

  • Chaos Theory

    Contributed by Tim White on Sep 7, 2011
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    CHAOS THEORY In the 1960s, Dr. Edward Lorenz, in trying to develop a systematic method for developing long range weather predictions, began focusing on chaos theory. Chaos theory basically is a study of how things that seem chaotic and random are actually more predictable from seemingly unrelated ...read more

  • Gluttony Pants

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
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    GLUTTONY PANTS Chef Chris Cosentino, Food Network star and executive chef at Incanto restaurant in San Francisco, has created the Gluttony Pants for those of us who occasionally indulge and engorge without the post-meal awkwardness. The pants have three buttons, allowing you to expand the pants' ...read more

  • The Glue Trap Of Lust

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
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    THE GLUE TRAP OF LUST Adam Hamilton tells the story of moving into his house after it was built only to discover that it was infested with mice. So he got glue traps which have a scent that attracts the mice. They step on it and then are stuck. Then the mice need to be killed and disposed of. He ...read more

  • At Any Price

    Contributed by David T. Smith on Oct 24, 2011
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     | 2,333 views

    AT ANY PRICE Several years ago a woman by the name of Mrs. Jane Kolodziej was attempting to have her husband released from the psychiatric ward where he had been committed because she had testified that he had tried to kill her and their two sons. She had told the judge that she believed her ...read more

  • Taste Is All Wrong

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Nov 29, 2011
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     | 2,401 views

    TASTE IS ALL WRONG I remember one of the stories from the Chronicles of Narnia from the book "The Last Battle." It was the story of a number of dwarfs who just didn't believe in Aslan (who represented Jesus Christ in all the books). They were blind to reality refusing to be "taken in" by those ...read more

  • Salt Water And Self

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 8, 2011
     | 5,037 views

    SALT WATER AND SELF I watched a movie once, where several men were left drifting aimlessly on the ocean, in a small lifeboat, after a terrible shipwreck. The sun was hot and their rations were low--soon they ran out of fresh water. One night while the others were sleeping, one man drank from ...read more