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  • Just Didn't Work Right  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Boyne on Aug 13, 2012
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     | 3,315 views

    JUST DIDN'T WORK RIGHT My parents bought my 16 year old daughter her first car, a 1970 VW Beetle. While it was cute and a collector car, it wouldn’t run right. Even though it had been a gift from her grandparents, it cost as much in repairs as a new car would have cost in payments. While it had ...read more

  • The Power Of Singing

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on May 14, 2020
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     | 3,527 views

    Its been observed that Singing Together Shapes Community. ***Songs are one way that a community has its identity and one way that individuals find their identity within a community. (therefore old songs –passed on to the next generation- help create community bonds) Baseball has a song – during ...read more

  • The Answer To My Prayers

    Contributed by John Bright on Mar 5, 2021
     | 1,838 views

    I don’t see as many vending machines around as I used to see. The ones I see now, you can pay with your phone or your smart watch. In the old days, all the vending machines had the food on metal coils that would rotate and move the food forward when you make your selection. Sometimes, that item ...read more

  • During The Vietnam War A Rural Village Had Been ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,689 views

    During the Vietnam war a rural village had been bombed and an orphanage run by missionaries had been hit. An 8 year old girl had multiple injuries and was bleeding profusely. A Navy doctor and nurse came but only had their medical kits. The girl was in critical condition and needed an immediate ...read more

  • In His Book Written In Blood, Robert Coleman ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 6, 2007
     | 2,593 views

    In his book Written In Blood, Robert Coleman tells the story of a little boy whose sister needed a blood transfusion. The doctor explained that she had the same disease the boy had recovered from two years earlier. Her only chance for recovery was a transfusion from someone who had previously ...read more

  • The Root Of Bitterness  PRO

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 16, 2007
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     | 4,810 views

    Illustration ------------ Years ago there was a terrible outbreak of disease in a tiny village in a remote part of Africa. Both children and adults were, getting sick and overcome with nausea. Several,weeks passed, and the sickness became widespread, and people started dying. Word of the disease ...read more

  • The Pastor Of A Church That Didn't Have The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Feb 4, 2008
    based on 32 ratings
     | 5,482 views

    The pastor of a church that didn’t have the reputation for being very generous with their giving decided that it was time to do something drastic in order to teach the congregation the importance of giving. He contacted an electrician and had all of the pews wired. The next Sunday which was the ...read more

  • The Law Was To Remind Us That We Were Guilty For ...

    Contributed by A. David Hart on Apr 13, 2008
     | 2,231 views

    the law was to remind us that we were guilty for violating that law, the down side of that was that the law did not provide a satisfactory pardon for anyone who broke the law. So the law has its limitations. I am reminded of something that recently happened to my older brother. He is a long ...read more

  • Not-So-Blessings  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Jul 23, 2008
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     | 4,590 views

    NOT-SO-BLESSINGS Recently I was taking another turn teaching the children on Wednesday night. After opening with some conversation with the kids about what was going on in their lives I asked for any prayer requests. One girl asked that we pray for her because school would soon start and she was ...read more

  • Lying

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    LYING Penn State researcher Dr. Nancy Darling reports 98% of teens reported lying to their parents in a recent study. They lied about what they spent their allowances on, whether they’d started dating, what clothes they put on away from the house, what movie they went to, and whom they went with. ...read more

  • Are You A Weed?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    ARE YOU A WEED? I would like to tell you a story about how a little girl helped the neighbor bully change his ways. The bully's name was Todd; his parents were divorced, and he was left to fend for himself. He's rude, and for an eight-year-old he can swear pretty good. When he comes over to ...read more

  • He Endured To The End

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 9, 2009
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    HE ENDURED TO THE END We need to possess an enduring love. Endurance: the power to withstand hardship or stress, to keep on going despite all setbacks. I recently heard of a Leicester women who, after having four children, started running then entered marathons. This year, she is running the ...read more

  • Taken Out By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 12, 2009
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    TAKEN OUT BY WATERMELONS Years ago, I went to the Sultan Centre in Salmiya. This was back in the days when it was the only one in town, and you were still allowed to take your shopping cart up that moving ramp to the second floor. I had gone upstairs after getting some groceries. As I was coming ...read more

  • Sole Witness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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     | 6,578 views

    SOLE WITNESS A fine lad entered the Army. He faced a real test the first night he went to be in the barracks. He had formed the commendable habit of placing his Bible on his bed at home and kneeling down to read a chapter while having his daily prayer time before retiring. Surrounded by scores of ...read more

  • Once Shaved, Always Shaved!!!

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Oct 23, 2022
     | 2,102 views

    After twenty years of shaving himself every morning, a man in a small southern town decided he had been doing that long enough. He told his wife that from then on he’d let the local barber shave him each day.The man went to the barbershop which was owned by the pastor of the local Baptist church. ...read more

  • True/False Quiz

    Contributed by Roger Haber on Oct 24, 2006
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    Let’s start with a true/false quiz: • I am growing in my intimacy with God and faithfulness to his word. • I am growing in real relationships with others in a small group. • I am growing in my service to God and others. • I am growing in reaching my pre-Christian relationships for ...read more

  • Misunderstanding Can Lead To Creativity. "Bell ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 29, 2006
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    Misunderstanding can lead to creativity. "Bell was inspired to start development of the telephone when he read an account, written in German, describing an invention which he thought had the function of a telephone. After demonstrating his first working telephone Bell learned that, because of the ...read more

  • H. G. Wells, Who Was An Agnostic At Best, An ...

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Feb 1, 2006
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    H. G. Wells, who was an agnostic at best, an atheist at worst, said Jesus “is easily the dominant figure of history.” He would further say that any historian, regardless of theological bias, simply cannot portray history accurately without giving proper place to “a penniless teacher from ...read more

  • Alex Haley, The Author Of Roots, Has A Picture ...

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 7, 2009
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    "Alex Haley, the author of ROOTS, has a picture in his office, showing a turtle sitting on a fence post. He says, ‘Any time I start thinking, WOW, ISN’T THIS MARVELOUS WHAT I’VE DONE!’ I look at that picture and remember what I learned a ...read more

  • Steps Of Bible Study

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
     | 3,092 views

    STEPS OF BIBLE STUDY Bible study starts with Observation: What does it say? Then we move on to step 2 with Interpretation: What does it mean? Then we move on to step 3 with Correlation: How does it fit with the Bible as a whole? Finally, we end with Application: How do I use it in my life? ...read more