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  • Gordon Macdonald, --> "Repentance Is Not ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Frailey on May 3, 2002
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    Gordon MacDonald, --> "Repentance is not basically a religious word. It comes from a culture where people were essentially nomadic and lived in a world with no maps or street signs. It’s easy to get lost walking through the desert. You become aware that the country side is strange. You finally ...read more

  • A Little Boy Forgot His Lines In A Sunday School ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 9, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 8,391 views

    A little boy forgot his lines in a Sunday School presentation. His mother was in the front row to prompt him. She gestured and formed the words silently with her lips, but it did not help. Her son’s memory was blank. Finally, she leaned forward and whispered the cue, "I am the light of the ...read more

  • Being Criticized Is Not A Problem If You Develop ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2002
     | 2,022 views

    Being criticized is not a problem if you develop a positive way of dealing with it. Winston Churchill had the following words of Abe Lincoln framed on the wall of his office: "I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t ...read more

  • Subtlety Of Pride  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 14, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
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    SUBTLETY OF PRIDE Paul W. Powell once observed: “Pride is so subtle that if we aren’t careful we’ll be proud of our humility. When this happens our goodness becomes badness. Our virtues become vices. We can easily become like the Sunday School teacher who, having told the story of the Pharisee and ...read more

  • Alan Redpath Sums Up How Many Feel Even When They ...

    Contributed by John Hamby on Aug 6, 2002
    based on 1 rating
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    Alan Redpath sums up how many feel even when they have prayed, “When we have finished our praying we can scarcely bring ourselves to believe that our feeble words can have been heard, or that they can have made a difference in the things concerning which we have been praying. We’ve said our prayers ...read more

  • Being Criticized Is Not A Problem If You Develop ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 12, 2001
     | 1,355 views

    Being criticized is not a problem if you develop a positive way of dealing with it. Winston Churchill had the following words of Abe Lincoln framed on the wall of his office: "I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t ...read more

  • When Former President Gerald Ford Visited ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2002
    based on 41 ratings
     | 1,211 views

    When former President Gerald Ford visited Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma several years ago, he had breakfast with some student leaders. As one of the students stepped out of an elevator, her heel caught on the carpet and she crashed into Ford. She repeatedly apologized as he ...read more

  • In New York City A Few Weeks Ago A 25-Year Old ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Dec 27, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
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    In New York City a few weeks ago a 25-year old freshman art student’s project got him in jail for “reckless endangerment”. He distributed throughout the city in public places 37 black boxes with the word “fear” on them, which was supposed to make some kind of statement, but this “conceptual ...read more

  • In The Movie The Passion Of Christ, One Scene ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on May 21, 2007
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    In the movie the Passion of Christ, one scene shows Jesus carrying the cross on the way to Golgotha (Calvary) and he stumbles. His mother, Mary, comes before him, and holds him. And there is a flashback to his childhood when Mary picked him up after he had fallen, and he says to his mother, "I ...read more

  • In 1961 A.w. Tozer Was Given The Opportunity To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In 1961 A.W. Tozer was given the opportunity to speak to a group of ministers on a subject of his choice. Not surprisingly he chose to speak to them about the holiness of God. During that talk he said the following words: “I believe we ought to have again the old biblical concept of God which makes ...read more

  • Right After The 9/11 Attacks, The President ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Right after the 9/11 attacks, the president addressed the nation. He said, “A great people have been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot shake the foundation of America” In other words, “even though we just ...read more

  • Annie Armstrong Was Called Indefatigable. She ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    Annie Armstrong was called indefatigable. She never tired of serving God and serving People. In 1893 because of her belief in the powerful hand of God to change lives and our world she wrote over 18,000 letters many by hand. She was the driving force in founding the lottie Moon Christmas offering, ...read more

  • Claria Knall, A Young Mother From Oklahoma ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Claria Knall, a young mother from Oklahoma writes, “It was one of the worst days of my life. The washing machine broke down, the telephone wouldn’t stop ringing, my head ached, and the mailman brought the bill that I had no money to pay. Almost at the breaking point I lifted my one-year-old into ...read more

  • The Rev Martin Luther King Lived A Short But High ...

    Contributed by W F on Jul 15, 2007
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    The Rev Martin Luther King lived a short but high impact life. He once said … “…if I can help somebody as I pass along, If I can cheer someone with a word or a song, If I can show somebody he is travelling wrong, Then my living will not be in vain. If I can do my duty as a Christian ought, If I ...read more

  • British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith Once Spent ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 13, 2007
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    British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith once spent a weekend at the Waddesdon estate of the 19th-century Rothschild family. One day, as Asquith was being waited on at teatime by the butler, the following conversation ensued: “Tea, coffee, or a peach from off the wall, sir?” “Tea, please,” answered ...read more

  • Comment On A Blog Said, "Christianity Is Boring. ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 5, 2007
     | 1,318 views

    Comment on a blog said, “Christianity is boring. It's the same stuff over and over, and sometimes they try to throw some fun stuff in there to get you to come, but sitting around studying a 2000 year old book, singing dull songs with words like thee, thou and thine and tunes out of the Victorian ...read more

  • Today, More Than 200 Million Christians In Over ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
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    Today, more than 200 million Christians in over 60 countries around the word – our brothers and sisters in the faith – face brutal opposition and persecution because of their faith in Jesus. The number one request they have when asked, is always “please pray for us”. So today we bring their ...read more

  • Charlie Peace, A Criminal In England, On The Day ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 25, 2007
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    Charlie Peace, a criminal in England, on the day he was being taken to his execution, listened to a minister reading from the Word. And when he found out he was reading about heaven and hell, he looked at the preacher and said, "Sir, if I believed what you and the church of God say, and even if ...read more

  • A Gallup Poll Conducted Some Years Ago Revealed ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
     | 1,384 views

    A Gallup poll conducted some years ago revealed that 60 percent of Americans did not know what "the Holy Trinity" was. Sixty-six percent couldn’t say who delivered the Sermon on the Mount, and 79 percent were unable to name a single Old Testament prophet. How is your Bible knowledge? Do you ...read more

  • Agent Orange In The Vietnam War

    Contributed by James Owens on Feb 6, 2008
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    a) AGENT ORANGE IN THE VIETNAM WAR It would affect your eyes and cause blindness to occur. Breathing would become increasing difficult and choking would occur. It would affect the nervous system – unable to control bodily functions. b) SATAN’S ATTACK ON GOD’S PEOPLE IN THESE LAST ...read more