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  • Movie: Pay It Forward  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 14, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,209 views

    Video Illustration: Movie Pay It Forward. Clip is from the beginning of the movie were a reporter becomes the recipient of a random act of kindness after his car is smashed at a police domestic scene. The reporter is given a new jaguar by a stranger to replace his old wrecked mustang. He responds ...read more

  • Are You Doing What You Are Called To Do?  PRO

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 19, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,033 views

    ARE YOU DOING WHAT YOU ARE CALLED TO DO? Last week was a very interesting week. About a year ago, when our finances started to dwindle, I sent my resume out to an Executive Search Group (Headhunter). Now that’s a unique name! Last week, I got a call that there was a possibility of an awesome ...read more

  • The Cost Of Trying To Fit In

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 19, 2012
     | 3,696 views

    THE COST OF TRYING TO FIT IN Kevin Miller of Wheaton, Illinois wrote the following: Right after I finished 6th grade, my family moved to a new town. As I started junior high that fall, I suddenly found myself in a school I didn’t know, in a town I didn’t know, with people I didn’t know. I felt ...read more

  • We Sing When We Face ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 11, 2010
     | 2,867 views

    We sing when we face death. Lavena (Beanie) Peters was dying of liver cancer. I was at the hospital with her family, essentially on a deathwatch. Beanie’s pain was excruciating, and the pain medicine kept her in a nearly unconscious state. Others left the room for a moment; only Harriet her ...read more

  • The Lady In A Faded Gingham Dress And Her ...

    Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Sep 3, 2006
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    The lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston and walked timidly, without an appointment, into the president of Harvard’s outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business ...read more

  • God's ...

    Contributed by Todd Leupold on Aug 4, 2008
     | 4,895 views

    GOD’S GARDEN Things that compete with peace are like the weeds competing with your flowers to dominate the space, nutrients, sunlight, water and character of your garden or lawn. Weeds so easily spread, multiply and thrive because they are at their best when they are most shallow. You see, most ...read more

  • Building Eternally, Not Eternity  PRO

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 15, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 6,473 views

    BUILDING ETERNALLY, NOT ETERNITY Sarah Winchester’s husband had acquired a fortune by manufacturing and selling rifles. After he died of influenza in 1918, she moved to San Jose, California. Sarah was convinced that the dead souls of the many Indians who lost their lives because of Winchester ...read more

  • I Got This Story Recently In An Email And Felt It ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donald Stevens on May 12, 2005
    based on 10 ratings
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    I got this story recently in an email and felt it had to be shared with all of you. It is a story as told by a young lady who also happened to be a Sunday School teacher. It goes like this. I was testing the children in my Sunday school class one morning, to see if they understood the concept of ...read more

  • Another Man Wrote A Book On How To Catch Fish. ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Jun 25, 2005
     | 2,023 views

    Another man wrote a book on how to catch fish. The book was an instant best seller. In a matter of weeks, the man was scheduled to talk about fishing on all the talk shows, and he was kept constantly busy with personal appearances and book signings. Over the next few years, he had taught just ...read more

  • 30 Million Babies Have Been Born Annually In This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
     | 1,765 views

    30 million babies have been born annually in this country since 1990, and it’s the largest generation to flood the market since their baby boomlet parents. However, more impressive than their numbers is their wealth. The increase in single-parent and dual-earner households means kids are making ...read more

  • Maybe When You Were At Camp Or In The Boy Or Girl ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jan 20, 2006
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    Maybe when you were at camp or in the boy or girl scouts you sang... "One dark night when we were all in bed, old lady O’Leary lit a lantern in her shed. And when the cow kicked it over, she winked her eye and said, "It’ll be a hot time in the ole town tonight." And we’d yell, "Fire-Fire-Fire." It ...read more

  • In Her Famous Book And Film, "The Hiding Place" ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 15, 2007
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    In her famous book and film, “The Hiding Place” Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family - her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the salvation of the Jews. And ...read more

  • Now Contrast That With One The Story Of Another ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
     | 1,491 views

    Now contrast that with one the story of another man. He owned a liquor store. One day, the liquor store owner met the Jesus. He poured all of his inventory down the drain. That’s called disposing of your liquid assets. And he owed a lot of money on some of that. He worked for along time paying off ...read more

  • The Second Richest Man In Rockefeller's Time Was ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Sep 18, 2007
     | 1,943 views

    The second richest man in Rockefeller’s time was Andrew Carnegie (car-NEGG-ee). He spent the first 66 years of his life accumulating wealth, and then spent the last 18 giving as much of it away as he could. He said, “I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and ...read more

  • Customer ...

    Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on May 2, 2010
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    (ILL: Customer Service) Have you ever had to call a company about a product, and had to deal with customer service? It can be a nightmare, can’t it? I have had to call the IRS a few times in the past. You see, ministers are given some benefits in regard to their taxes, but you have to record the ...read more

  • Because You Did, Dad  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 14, 2012
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,356 views

    "BECAUSE YOU DID, DAD." James Bryan Smith begins this chapter of his book by telling a story about taking his six year old son to an amusement park. While at the park, he and his son got on a ride. A teenage boy buckled them into their seats and then started the ride. The entire time during the ...read more

  • God, You're In My Way.  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,312 views

    "GOD, YOU'RE IN MY WAY." A California pastor, Kyle Idleman, talks about his last move in his book, Not a Fan. In that move, he saved the heaviest piece of furniture for last -- the desk from his office. And as he was pushing and pulling the desk with all his might, his four-year-old son came over ...read more

  • All Moms Know This Stuff  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 7, 2012
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,771 views

    ALL MOMS KNOW THIS STUFF One mom was out walking with her 4-year-old daughter when her girl picked up something from the ground and started to put it in her mouth. The mother tells what happens in her own words: "I took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that." My daughter quickly ...read more

  • How Steinway Pianos Are Crafted

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 14, 2021
     | 1,587 views

    THE POUNDER ROOM The Steinway piano has been preferred by keyboard masters such as Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Cliburn, and Liszt and for good reason. It is a skillfully crafted instrument that produces phenomenal sound. Steinway pianos are built today the same way they were 140 years ago when Henry ...read more

  • Wesley Fetter Lane

    Contributed by John Bright on Jun 5, 2025
     | 253 views

    Each year, on May 24, we remember the date in 1738 when John Wesley had his heart “strangely warmed” in the Bible study on Aldersgate Street. I tend to agree with the folks that claim this is the day Wesley became a Believer and after this, he had a great assurance of his salvation. Have you ever ...read more