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  • Physical Death Will Continue Until The Lord ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 15, 2010
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    Physical death will continue until the Lord returns and takes us home to heaven. However, the sting has been taken out of death. A boy and his father were driving down a country road on a beautiful spring afternoon, when a bumblebee flew in the car window. The little boy, who was allergic to bee ...read more

  • Viticulture In The Near East

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 10, 2010
     | 1,977 views

    VITICULTURE IN THE NEAR EAST The vine has been cultivated in Pal. from the earliest times. The climate of Pal. is peculiarly adapted to viticulture with the country's bright sunshine and the heavy dew of the late summer nights (Tenney Pg. 882) Its Cultivation The cultivation of the vine ...read more

  • Accountability

    Contributed by Thomas Donelan on Aug 4, 2010
     | 5,233 views

    He wanted to get out from out of the sphere of his father’s influence. Think about it, every year we get flooded in Florida for about a week or so every year with a bunch of college students for a thing called “spring break” and these kids go out and get drunk, do drugs, get their groove on, and ...read more

  • Jealous Horses

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Feb 3, 2011
     | 4,655 views

    JEALOUS HORSES When we lived in a small town in central Kansas (Ellsworth), we made many trips to the nearest big town, Salina, Kansas on old Kansas Route 140. On one of those trips in the spring (March 12, 1990), we saw a horse at the edge of a luscious, green pasture with his head stuck through ...read more

  • Samuel Chadwick: Guiding His Life By The Bible

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 19, 2011
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    SAMUEL CHADWICK: GUIDING HIS LIFE BY THE BIBLE Let me conclude by sharing something written many years ago by Samuel Chadwick. "I have guided my life by the Bible for more than sixty years, and I tell you there is no book like it. It is a miracle of literature, a perennial spring of wisdom, a ...read more

  • The Intruder

    Contributed by James Dorman on May 11, 2017
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     | 6,606 views

    One night I was certain that I was about to become the victim of a home invasion. Something had awakened me. I heard a strange noise and became even more alert. As I slowly looked around with my heart thumping I saw him! He was standing there looking at me. I wasn’t sure what to do. I ...read more

  • If I Had But One Sermon To Hear

    Contributed by David Parks on Jun 16, 2021
     | 2,046 views

    IF I HAD BUT ONE SERMON TO HEAR In 1906 Charles Reynolds Brown was preaching in the San Francisco Bay area of California. That spring, on the Sunday generally designated as Easter, he and the other preachers of the region spoke to full houses. Years later, he mentioned that particular Sunday in his ...read more

  • Jesus Satisfies

    Contributed by David Dunn on Jan 22, 2026
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    More than a century ago, a young woman named Clara Tear Williams lived in a shack far from luxury. A dirt floor. A thin roof. A day’s supply of food. No prospects. No wealth. No comfort. By Solomon’s standards, she had nothing. But she possessed something Solomon spent years searching for—the ...read more

  • J.r.r Tolkein, Famous Writer Leaves Us With This ...

    Contributed by Charles Bruner on Jul 19, 2005
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    J.R.R Tolkein, famous writer leaves us with this profound thought. “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to ...read more

  • C. S. Lewis Recounts That When He First Started ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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    C. S. Lewis recounts that when he first started going to church he disliked the hymns, which he considered to be fifth-rate poems set to sixth-rate music. But as he continued, he said, "I realized that the hymns (which were just sixth-rate music) were, nevertheless, being sung with devotion and ...read more

  • A Businessman Owned A Warehouse That Had Sat ...  PRO

    Contributed by Warren Curry on Sep 22, 2004
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    A businessman owned a warehouse that had sat empty for months and needed repairs. Vandals had damaged the doors, smashed the windows, and trash was everywhere inside the building. The businessman showed a prospective buyer the property and took great pains to say that he would replace the broken ...read more

  • A Teacher Asked The Children In Her Sunday ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A teacher asked the children in her Sunday school class, "If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would I get into Heaven?" "NO" The children all answered. "If I cleaned the church every day, mowed the yard, and kept everything neat and tidy, would ...read more

  • Mother's Teach On A Daily ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on May 12, 2008
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    Mother’s teach on a daily basis… RELIGION: "You better pray the stain will come out of the carpet." FORESIGHT: "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident." IRONY: "Keep laughing and I’ll give you something to cry about." STAMINA: "You’ll sit there ’til all that ...read more

  • A Little Boy Was Talking To The Girl Next Door: ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 20, 2008
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    A little boy was talking to the girl next door: "I wonder what my mother would like for Mother’s Day." The girl answers: "Well, you could promise to keep your room clean and orderly -- you could go to bed as soon as she tells you -- you could go to her as soon as she calls you -- you could brush ...read more

  • For Those Who Choose To Put Jesus On The Throne, ...

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Sep 4, 2008
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    For those who choose to put Jesus on the throne, life is different....and that difference is love. Billy Graham tells of the mountain folks in our state, and how they would take a slatted cradle, place their laundry in it and tie it crossways to the rushing water of the creek. The agitation of ...read more

  • When A Worker At An At&t Building In San Jose, ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on May 19, 2009
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    When a worker at an AT&T building in San Jose, California, took it upon herself to clean out an office refrigerator during her lunch hour Tuesday, the smell from the moldy food was so noxious that it sent 28 of her co-workers to the hospital and prompted the evacuation of all 325 people in the ...read more

  • The Man Whose Heart Is Pure

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 9, 2011
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    THE MAN WHOSE HEART IS PURE Charles Spurgeon: “The man whose heart is pure, will be able to see God in nature. When the heart is clean, he will hear God's footfall everywhere in the garden of the earth in the cool of the day. He will hear God's voice in the tempest, sounding in peal on peal from ...read more

  • The Lord's Priorities  PRO

    Contributed by David Tack on Oct 17, 2012
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     | 5,847 views

    THE LORD'S PRIORITIES "The Lord’s priorities are not the same as ours. Jesus isn’t as concerned about our lace tablecloths and clean kitchens as we are. He’s concerned with the state of our heart. He’s more interested in the time we spend at his feet, reflecting on his words and resting in his ...read more

  • So Humility Is Seeing Our Own And Other Peoples ...

    Contributed by Ruth Hind on Oct 11, 2008
     | 1,624 views

    So humility is seeing our own and other peoples worth with a God’s eye view and treating them accordingly. But perhaps the best way to describe humility is to turn to an example, My example is George Carey former Abof C who when he was Vicar of a large Church in Durham which was left open all the ...read more

  • The Plan  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Brewer on Dec 16, 2002
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     | 4,006 views

    The Plan People do not have any control over when they are born, to whom they are born. The local, national or worldwide environment that they are born in. If Jesus is the messiah, the anointed one, God made to be a man that is here to complete a perfect task, then the time and place of his ...read more