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  • Literal Hell

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
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    LITERAL HELL When it comes to believing in hell I think of the story of Dr. Maurice Rawlings a noted and celebrated coronary care doctor, who writes of his conversion to belief in a literal hell in Beyond Death’s Door. In 1977 he was giving a stress test to a man who was having chest pains. In the ...read more

  • So Many Valuable Possessions  PRO

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Sep 26, 2012
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    SO MANY VALUABLE POSSESSIONS Waylon Prendergast, 37, of Tampa, Florida, committed a spur-of-the-moment robbery while on his way home from a late-night drinking session. A very inebriated Mr. Prendergast forced his way into the house through an open upstairs window, filling a suitcase with cash and ...read more

  • The Jim Twins. ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Dec 18, 2012
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    Maybe you’ve heard the story of the Jim twins. Jim Springer and Jim Lewis were twin sons of a fourteen-year-old Italian girl. She gave birth to them in a small town in Ohio and then disappeared. They were adopted into two separate loving families, but after 39 years of life had never seen one ...read more

  • Husband Doesn't Get It

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Jun 19, 2013
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    TWICE A WEEK After just a few years of marriage filled with disagreements and arguments, a young man and his wife decided the only way to save their marriage was to try counseling. Things had slipped from bad to worse as the months passed, turning their marriage into a marathon of misery. They had ...read more

  • Loss

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Aug 9, 2019
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    Have you ever had a time in your life when you suffered drastic income loss? In 1995 I had a dream job, I had an office that was 30 foot by 40 foot with my own private bath, no boss on 2nd and 3rd shift and the pay was great, not bad for a blue-collar worker. We based our lifestyle on my wages, and ...read more

  • I Love The 23rd Psalms Where It Says "Surely ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Hines on Jun 12, 2007
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    I love the 23rd Psalms where it says "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me. all the days of my life." I imagine two angels, one named goodness and one named mercy, and everywhere I go they follow me, and protect me. I had the chance to experience this first hand. I was travelling to ...read more

  • The Fields Of Flanders Were No Place To Be On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The fields of Flanders were no place to be on Christmas Eve, 1914. Thousands of British, French, Belgian and German troops were dug-in and planning yet another day’s carnage. None of them would have guessed that the “War to End All Wars” would continue nearly four more years and ultimately cost ...read more

  • The Clouds Move—but Slowly (Grief)

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    THE CLOUDS MOVE-BUT SLOWLY (grief) I heard her talking about it on the radio. A thoughtful young lady, to be sure. She was discussing her grief - the grief of losing her husband after only two years of marriage. He was a policeman. She knew the dangers he faced, but was proud that he truly cared ...read more

  • In A Hurry  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A news story out of St. Louis last year began… "He was a loving father and loved his grandkids," Linda Heath never imagined Wednesday would mark the first time she referred to her husband of 31 years in the past tense.” On April 26, 2006 Henry Heath was killed while directing traffic in a ...read more

  • Back On The Ranch Where I Spent My Summers When I ...

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jun 23, 2007
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    Back on the ranch where I spent my summers when I was young, my Dad and some of the other men used to break horses to ride and then would train them for various tasks according to their abilities and breeding. The first thing they always did was to gain the animal’s trust. They would then trained ...read more

  • In A Recent Issue Of Preaching Today (Sept/Oct ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
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    In a recent issue of Preaching Today (Sept/Oct 1998), Dr. Brian Harbour related the following story. Dr. Harbour, pastor of FBC Richardson and Dr. Duane Brooks, pastor of Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, were in Waco attending a Baylor Regents meeting. They were on the elevator and were going ...read more

  • I Remember One Day When I Was About 10 Or 11 ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 31, 2007
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    I remember one day when I was about 10 or 11 years old and I had decided to go all the way across town to my grandmother’s house one summer afternoon. It was a scorching hot day in Northern California and I had about 6 miles to walk to my grandmother’s house because my bicycle had a flat tire. I ...read more

  • Mary Jane Hansen Relates The Following: "Several ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 13, 2007
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    Mary Jane Hansen relates the following: “Several months ago, I was involved in a traffic accident while driving along a major roadway in a shopping mall parking lot. My car was hit by a driver coming out of an aisle, resulting in $2,100 damage to the rear right-hand door. When I reported the ...read more

  • Speaking About Balance, Yesterday I Read About A ...  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Jan 27, 2008
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    Speaking about balance, yesterday I read about a 28 year old woman in Sacramento who died last week from drinking too much water! The woman had entered a competition on a radio station and the idea was to see who could drink the most water without having to go to the bathroom. The comp was called, ...read more

  • You Can Tell What We're Going Through When You ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sullivan on Feb 19, 2008
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    You can tell what we’re going through when you come over to our house and check out the bookshelf. We’ve got James Dobson’s entire library: “Dare to Discipline”, “The Strong Willed Child”; “Parenting isn’t for Cowards.” I can’t tell you that I’ve actually read them all! We’ve got others, “How to ...read more

  • A Friend In Erie Who Had A Huge Irish ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Illus. A friend in Erie who had a huge Irish Setter. Truman was not very discriminating when it came to chasing after female dogs. He didn’t much care what kind of dog she was, he was interested. Truman was getting himself in trouble so my friend put in one of those invisible fences. Collar on ...read more

  • Parents: How Do You React?

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 3, 2008
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    PARENTS: HOW DO YOU REACT? When it came to our children’s younger days in school, they pretty much were raised in a semi-protected environment. They all went to pre-school at our church in Florida. As the minister, they know Daddy was just down the hall; in fact Deb was the Assistant Director. ...read more

  • Blood Gift  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    BLOOD GIFT In 1949, my father had just returned from the war. On every highway you could see soldiers in uniform hitchhiking home to their families. The thrill of the reunion with his family was soon overshadowed by my grandmother’s illness. There was a problem with her kidneys. The doctors told ...read more

  • Perspectives

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    PERSPECTIVES It is because of some of the unique properties of water, a substance that makes up 75% of the earth and even makes up a large portion of your body, that life is even possible. Because ice floats, the oceans and rivers and lakes can continue to keep all of the living things in the ...read more

  • A. According To A Usa Today Article, In 2003 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    A. ACCORDING TO A USA TODAY ARTICLE, IN 2003 AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT #316 WITH 68 PASSENGERS SAT ON THE RUNWAY AT NEW YORK’S JFK AIRPORT, WHILE GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES TRIED TO DETERMINE IF A WOMAN ON BOARD WAS LEAVING THIS COUNTRY AGAINST HER WILL. B. SHE AND HER HUSBAND HAD SERVED AS ...read more