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  • Some Of You Here Tonnight Will Be In That Same ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 18, 2008
     | 975 views

    SOME OF YOU HERE TONNIGHT WILL BE IN THAT SAME PREDICAMENT - STILL IN YOUR TRESPASSES AND SINS, BUT THE WHY OF CHRISTMAS MEANS YOU CAN BE REDEEMED AND MADE A CHILD OF GOD. I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT A TRUE STORY TO DRIVE THIS TRUTH HOME TONIGHT. IT’S TOLD BY ERNEST GORDON INFACT THERE IS A FILM ...read more

  • An Australian Mining Town Will Always Remember ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Dec 29, 2008
     | 1,323 views

    An Australian mining town will always remember the year of the dramatic rescue. An earthquake killed one miner and trapped two others 3,000 feet under the ground. Days turned into weeks as miners bore through tons of rock; rescuers could only work one at a time on their backs in a cramped rescue ...read more

  • Rescue From The Biggest Prison

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 7, 2009
     | 3,284 views

    RESCUE FROM THE BIGGEST PRISON An Australian mining town will always remember the year of the dramatic rescue. An earthquake killed one miner and trapped two others 3,000 feet under the ground. Days turned into weeks as miners bore through tons of rock; rescuers could only work one at a time on ...read more

  • Volcanic Rock And Coal

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Feb 3, 2009
     | 2,248 views

    VOLCANIC ROCK AND COAL When I went to Italy on holiday, one of the tours was to visit Mount Vesuvius. I climbed to the summit, and there was a huge crater with smoke coming out of it because, although the volcano is dormant just now, deep down in the earth there's molten rock. When the pressure ...read more

  • Erich Remarque's Book, All Quiet On The Western ...  PRO

    Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Jun 23, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,792 views

    Erich Remarque’s book, All Quiet on the Western Front tells of a remarkable encounter between two enemy soldiers during the Second World War. During the confusion of an infantry attack a soldier plunged into an out of the way shell hole. There he found a wounded enemy. The sight of the man moved ...read more

  • In His Brilliant New Book, Catching The Light, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,642 views

    In his brilliant new book, Catching the Light, quantum physicist Arthur Zojanc writes of what he describes as the "entwined history of light and mind" (correctly described by one admirer as the "two ultimate metaphors of the human spirit"). For our purposes, his initial chapter is most helpful. ...read more

  • Last Sunday, I Was Truly Blessed. Some Of You ...

    Contributed by William Noel on Dec 31, 2006
     | 1,701 views

    Last Sunday, I was truly blessed. Some of you know, that I was battling with high blood pressure during Sunday School and Church. I had a headache. My vision was a little blurred. And, I felt all-around lousy. Up until last Sunday, I had denied having high blood pressure. · I know high blood ...read more

  • The Humans Do Not Start From That Direct ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Feb 16, 2007
     | 1,168 views

    “The humans do not start from that direct perception of Him which we, unhappily, cannot avoid. They have never known that ghastly luminosity, that stabbing and searing glare which makes the background of permanent pain to our lives. If you look into your patient’s mind when he is praying, you will ...read more

  • Leaving Behind A Godly Legacy Is A Long, And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Milt Johnson on May 9, 2002
    based on 71 ratings
     | 3,714 views

    Leaving behind a godly legacy is a Long, and sometimes Difficult Process. Let me try to explain this process through a simple illustration. If you have been around CBC for a while you have already seen this but I think that is worth repeating. (Hold up a Helium filled Balloon) When a child is ...read more

  • How It Happened  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jul 17, 2002
    based on 25 ratings
     | 2,429 views

    How It Happened: God populated the earth with broccoli & cauliflower & spinach, green & yellow vegetables of all kinds, so Man & Woman would live long & healthy lives. Then Satan created McDonald’s. And McDonald’s brought forth the 99-cent double-cheeseburger. Then Satan said to Man, "You want ...read more

  • Philip Yancey, In His Book "Reaching For The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Kersten on Nov 12, 2002
    based on 41 ratings
     | 3,208 views

    Philip Yancey, in his book "Reaching for the Invisible God" describes the way God get’s blamed for things in this way. "When Princess Diana died in an automobile accident, a minister was interviewed and was asked the question “How can God allow such a terrible tragedy?” And I loved his response. ...read more

  • Personal Truth To The Resurrection  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 2,853 views

    PERSONAL TRUTH TO THE RESURRECTION Christian author and activist Chuck Colson draws evidence for the resurrection for personal experience. Colson was a part of the Nixon Whitehouse during the Watergate scandal of seventies. He writes: Watergate involved a conspiracy to cover up, ...read more

  • A Couple Of F-15's Are Escorting A C-130 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Apr 20, 2003
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,482 views

    A couple of F-15’s are escorting a C-130 Hercules, and their pilots are chatting with the pilot of the transport to pass the time. Talk comes around to the relative merits of their respective aircraft. The fighter pilots contend that their airplanes were better because of their superior speed, ...read more

  • Is This What I'm Here To Do?  PRO

    Contributed by Glenn Hickey on Jun 9, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,575 views

    IS THIS WHAT I’M HERE TO DO? At 39, Garth Brooks is probably the world’s most successful singer. He has sold more records than Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, Elvis Presley, or any other solo act in history and he has done it in only 12 years. He has won every prize in the recording business. A ...read more

  • When You Work Around The Church A While It Comes ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 8, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,261 views

    When you work around the church a while it comes quite naturally, the laughter of cynical disbelief. In 1986 the United Methodist General Conference, on the last day of two weeks of meetings, passed a resolution that said we were going to make 9 million new United Methodists by about 1994--this in ...read more

  • In 1926, A Wealthy Toronto Lawyer Named Charles ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joanna Beveridge on May 25, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,222 views

    In 1926, a wealthy Toronto lawyer named Charles Vance Millar died, leaving behind him a will that amused and electrified the citizens of his Canadian province. Millar, a bachelor with a wicked sense of humour, stated clearly that he intended his last will and testament to be an “uncommon and ...read more

  • While Reading Last Month About The 1936 Olympic ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,522 views

    While reading last month about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin Germany, there is a story about a friendship that was birthed between Jesse Owens a Black man and Luz Long a German. Both men were competing in the long jump, Jesse Owens was the early pick to win the event. You see the year before he ...read more

  • Back On The Ranch Where I Spent My Summers When I ...

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jun 23, 2007
     | 1,187 views

    Back on the ranch where I spent my summers when I was young, my Dad and some of the other men used to break horses to ride and then would train them for various tasks according to their abilities and breeding. The first thing they always did was to gain the animal’s trust. They would then trained ...read more

  • The Weak Ones

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 20, 2008
     | 2,941 views

    1 Peter 5:8 – Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Any of you watch those nature shows? Growing up, we’d always watch “Mutual of Omaha’s ‘Wild Kingdom,’” with Marlin Perkins. Remember that? We loved that show. My ...read more

  • In 1988, Author Robert Fulghum Had A Book ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
     | 3,752 views

    In 1988, author Robert Fulghum had a book published entitled, “All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten”. The idea behind the little book was that since the basics of human social behavior are taught us as young children, such as kindness, fairness, cleaning up after yourself, sharing ...read more

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