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  • There's A Guy By The Name Of Harley Whom A Bible ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 20, 2006
     | 1,647 views

    There’s a guy by the name of Harley whom a Bible teacher had met in a Sunday School class. He realized that what the teacher was sharing was not real for him. He wasn’t experiencing Christ as his life. The reason he realized it was he was an unhappy camper when Lee met him. Harley’s married to ...read more

  • The Good Ship Commerce Under Captain Riley And ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 13, 2007
     | 1,656 views

    The good ship Commerce under Captain Riley and his 11-man crew Wrecked on the north coast of Africa in 1815. They were alone on the edge of the largest desert in the world – the Sahara. They were men without hope. Desert nomads came upon them and they thought they were saved, But they turned ...read more

  • I Am Neither A Liberal Theologian Nor A Feminist ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Jan 22, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,182 views

    I am neither a liberal theologian nor a feminist believing that God is both Father and Mother to us, but many of the finest traits of motherhood we find in Him who is our Everlasting Father. Jesus, our Everlasting Father, uses the imagery of a mother hen in describing his desire to care for the ...read more

  • Children Leave Gift Of Love At Funeral By Paul ...  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 4, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,345 views

    Children leave gift of love at funeral by Paul Harvey The Rev. Harry Pritchett Jr. is rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta. His church includes specific ministries for the poor, for street people, for college students. It is Pritchett who called my attention to a boy named ...read more

  • Brother's Brother

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
     | 3,909 views

    BROTHER’S BROTHER Robert Hingson is a physician, an anesthesiologist, working out of Pittsburgh. A Baptist layman, he got interested in the plight of the diseased peoples of the world. He found out that thousands of the world’s children are dying from a host of contagious diseases. So Bob Hingson ...read more

  • No Record

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,324 views

    "NO RECORD" Several years ago Bob Sheffield of the Navigators told a moving story picturing the essence of what it means to receive God’s forgiveness. Before he became a Christian, Bob played professional hockey in Canada. He was tough, loved to fight and found himself in jail one night after a ...read more

  • Saved From Sharks

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 22, 2009
     | 1,459 views

    Peter Michelmore reported this story in the Oct. 1987 Reader’s Digest: Normally the flight from Nassau to Miami took Walter Wyatt, Jr., only 65 minutes. But on Dec. 5, 1986, he attempted it after thieves had looted the navigational equipment in his Beechcraft. With only a compass and a hand-held ...read more

  • Buying Them Back

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 11, 2009
     | 2,116 views

    BUYING THEM BACK We're told about a gift of grace (singular) and informed that it will help us to build up the church in LOVE. Do you see a pattern, here? Whatever we have to use in God's service comes directly from God. It's a lot like a former colleague experienced at Ziff-Davis Publishing. He ...read more

  • Daddy's Empty ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 28, 2009
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    DADDY’S EMPTY CHAIR A man’s daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her father. When the minister arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed. The minister assumed that the old fellow had been informed of ...read more

  • Medical Volunteer Transforms Life Of Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2010
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    Medical Volunteer Transforms Life of Man Previously Thought To Be In A Vegetative State The simple point to what God is reminding us of is, “The Extra Mile” can change a life and win a soul to Jesus. To me that makes the pain of going the extra mile a pleasure. I listened to an interview on Jeremy ...read more

  • Antivirus: Holy Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Mar 18, 2010
    based on 7 ratings
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    ANTIVIRUS: HOLY SPIRIT Jesus said in verse 7 of John 16, "For if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you." Jesus was God in the flesh, of course. He could have spoken this world out of existence at any given time, but, I would like to use an ...read more

  • Man-Speak  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,066 views

    MAN-SPEAK Men don't always say what they mean. When a man says "IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO EXPLAIN." He means: "I have no idea how it works." When a man says "TAKE A BREAK, HONEY. YOU ARE WORKING TOO HARD." He means: "I can't hear the game over the vacuum cleaner." When a man says "THAT'S ...read more

  • The Ant, The Prayer, And The Contact Lens  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2011
    based on 27 ratings
     | 8,441 views

    THE ANT, THE PRAYER, AND THE CONTACT LENS A true story: Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was scared to death, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took a hold on the rope, and started up the face ...read more

  • One Man Who Learned To Experience The Peace Of ...

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Dec 31, 2011
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    One man who learned to experience the peace of God was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. For the famous American poet and author, life was well. After the death of his first wife, he met Francis Appleton. He courted her for seven years! She finally said yes! Longfellow experienced fame and success. ...read more

  • The Most Watched Rescue Mission In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 27, 2012
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    THE MOST WATCHED RESCUE MISSION IN HISTORY "Estamos bien en el refugio, los 33. " ("We are well IN THE SHELTER, the 33.") That seven-word message set off a wave of euphoria in Chile and around the world. It had been written in red letters on a scrap of paper and taped to a drill bit that penetrated ...read more

  • William Booth Our First General Was A Remarkable Man.

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Nov 12, 2012
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    William Booth our first General was a remarkable man; I have recently been reading a book that was published last year on his visions, with strangely enough the name “William Booth’s Amazing Visions”. In it the editor David Ravenhill mentions that “For far too long the Body of Christ [for the ...read more

  • God Is Absolute

    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 4, 2013
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    GOD IS ABSOLUTE If we bought a new piano or a new organ and moved it into the sanctuary, we would need to tune it, or everything else, typically. The impression is that there are differences in how the instruments are tuned. If the new piano is tuned a little higher than the old equipment, then ...read more

  • Taking Out The Trash

    Contributed by Paul Steen on Dec 12, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,751 views

    When my wife and I got married, we were able to move into a small little house. It was just right for us two kids. We soon realized, however, that we needed to have a discussion about the division of duties. I was the bigger of the two of us and we decided that I would be responsible for taking ...read more

  • The Carnival Ride

    Contributed by Paul Steen on Dec 9, 2017
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     | 3,522 views

    Some years ago, while our family was vacationing in the high Sierras, we decided to visit a small county fair near the town of Quincy. There weren't many people there that morning. In fact, we were about the only ones visiting the carnival rides. So when I climbed into the Tilt-O-Wheel with my ...read more

  • Weeping Over Others

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 15, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,211 views

    Do you weep for your family, friends, church, nation and world? 1) Jesus did- Jesus wept over the sins of others, over their bitter consequences in judgment and death, and over Jerusalem which would not receive him. Jesus was a Man of Sorrows (Isaiah 53). Why? Because he took our sins upon ...read more