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  • Who I Am Makes A Difference

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 29, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,097 views

    WHO I AM MAKES A DIFFERENCE A teacher in New York decided to honor each of her high school seniors for the difference they made in her life. Then she presented each of them with a Blue Ribbon imprinted with gold letters, which read, "Who I Am Makes a Difference."™ Afterwards the teacher gave each ...read more

  • Six Weeks Before He Died, A Reporter Asked Elvis ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 24, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 850 views

    Six weeks before he died, a reporter asked Elvis Presley, "Elvis, when you first started playing music, you said you wanted to be rich, famous and ...read more

  • We Went To Disneyland A Few Weeks Ago And Stood ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brad Froese on Aug 30, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,031 views

    We went to Disneyland a few weeks ago and stood in line together for the 3-D movie, “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.” I promised my son there was nothing in there that could hurt him when we walked in to sit down, because he was afraid of the dark and unfamiliar theater. When we sat down, I noticed ...read more

  • Loving Without Agreeing  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,897 views

    LOVING WITHOUT AGREEING We can love others without totally agreeing with them. Often love is worked out by agreeing to disagree. We can offer love and care for people who are different from us and people we don’t agree with. This fact is illustrated by a true story that took place in the state of ...read more

  • Discipleship And Pioneering

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 20, 2010
     | 5,167 views

    DISCIPLESHIP AND PIONEERING George Washington Bush was born in Pennsylvania in 1778 and was a veteran of the War of 1812 fighting in the battle of New Orleans. In 1830, he moved to Missouri where he met and married Isabella, a young German American. One of the first African Americans to head out ...read more

  • George Washington Bush Was Born In Pennsylvania ...

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 20, 2010
     | 1,600 views

    George Washington Bush was born in Pennsylvania in 1778 and was a veteran of the War of 1812 fighting in the battle of New Orleans. In 1830, he moved to Missouri where he met and married Isabella, a young German American. One of the first African Americans to head out West, Bush purchased six ...read more

  • Holy Images

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,357 views

    HOLY IMAGES There are three true stories about holy images: A few years ago a woman in New Mexico was frying tortillas. One of the tortillas burned and the result was an image that looked like a face; she thought it looked like Jesus. She took the tortilla to her priest and he agreed it looked ...read more

  • Jack Was A Man Whose Whole Life Fell Apart In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,062 views

    Jack was a man whose whole life fell apart in the span of about a year. His wife left him because he was a workaholic. His 15 year old daughter left home, his college age son dropped out of school, and the business he had built up collapsed around him. His business partner turned against him. And ...read more

  • Sing

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 21, 2008
     | 2,916 views

    SING Let me tell you about some dear friends of mine: "Punk" and "Beanie" Peters. Punk’s real name was Ralph; Beanie’s was Lavena. They were members of Driftwood Christian Church near Vallonia, Indiana. Beanie was a simple farm wife who had an unshakable faith. Dying of liver cancer, I was at the ...read more

  • Christian One Liners  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Aug 22, 2008
    based on 15 ratings
     | 5,053 views

    Christian One Liners Don't let your worries get the best of you; remember, Moses started out as a basket case. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited, until you try to sit in their pews. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Many folks want to serve God, but ...read more

  • Ever Had A Time When You Felt All Alone In Life, ...

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 26, 2007
     | 1,373 views

    Ever had a time when you felt all alone in life, didn’t know which way to turn? Do you ever have a point in your life where you felt so overwhelmed and frustrated that you just didn’t know what to do? You might be like a guy who went alone on a vacation up in the mountains and he was walking ...read more

  • He Can See Me Now  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Jun 5, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,070 views

    HE CAN SEE ME NOW I want to share a story with you in closing. It’s a story I heard several years ago about a high school football player. I don’t know his name, or what number he wore on his uniform or anything like that. All I know is that this kid wasn’t really that great of an athlete. He ...read more

  • The Unquenchable Worshipper, Matt ...

    Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 30, 2008
     | 3,328 views

    Illustration: The Unquenchable Worshipper, Matt Redman Regal Books; Ventura California, ©2001 When we come together as congregations, we can just as easily get thrown off course. A few years back in our church, we realized some of the things we thought were helping us in our worship were ...read more

  • Jokes And Potato Salad  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 22, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,045 views

    JOKES AND POTATO SALAD Tony Campolo said, "If you ever start to feel proud, just remember that soon after your body has been lowered into the grave, your family & friends will ...read more

  • Andrew Jackson:

    Contributed by Rev Dr Randall M Deal Sr on Jun 7, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,320 views

    Andrew Jackson: "There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I ...read more

  • Globe – You Can Only Go South So Far Before You ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 29, 2007
     | 541 views

    Globe – you can only go south so far before you start heading north. But you can go west forever, circling the globe, and never go east. ...read more

  • During The Height Of The Cold War, A Former Fbi ...  PRO

    Contributed by Thomas Hensley on Nov 5, 2000
    based on 194 ratings
     | 2,309 views

    During the height of the Cold War, a former FBI agent wrote a book about Soviet spies working in Washington, and how the KGB would solicit workers in the FBI and CIA and in the military to work for them. The KGB would never start by approaching an American and asking him or her to steal "top ...read more

  • One Time A New Pastor Came To A Church, And He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jan 17, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,659 views

    One time a new pastor came to a church, and he preached a sermon that the people just loved. It was perfect in that it discussed just the right things. The next week he preached the same sermon, and while the congregation enjoyed it, they were a little confused that he gave the same sermon ...read more

  • Peace  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Dec 11, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 13,075 views

    A friend sent me this email recently ... A Wise man said to me! "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you’ve started." So I looked around the house to see all the things I started and hadn’t finished ... and before leaving the house this morning I finished off a bottle of red ...read more

  • Childlike Forgiveness

    Contributed by Ramon Canals on Jun 5, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,751 views

    CHILDLIKE FORGIVENESS A few months ago, I was in El Paso holding an evangelistic meeting, and the young people were serving dinner to the mothers being that it was Mother’s Day. I was seating in a chair watching what was going on, and right in front a four-year-old girl pushed a two-year-old boy, ...read more

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