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  • I Once Heard A Humorous Story About The Pope Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Makari on Jan 8, 2001
    based on 242 ratings
     | 11,145 views

    I once heard a humorous story about the Pope who was on a visit to America for a period of time. On his last day of the visit, he was delayed due to meetings and was unable to break away to catch a flight. Since he couldn’t depend on his Pope Mobile, he phoned for a limousine. When the limousine ...read more

  • Fred Smith, In His Book Learning To Lead Wrote ...  PRO

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 23, 2000
    based on 110 ratings
     | 2,615 views

    Fred Smith, in his book Learning to Lead wrote “The shepherd or pastor’s ultimate goal is not to please the sheep but to please God.” Cecil Paul the Author of Passages of a Pastor says that pastors need to free themselves from and I quote “The Tyranny of Evaluation.” Tim Hansel writing in his ...read more

  • Dr. James Dobson Reports The Findings Of An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Moore on Mar 21, 2002
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    Dr. James Dobson reports the findings of an interesting study done on school children recently in his film series "Focus on the Family." A group of educators decided to remove the chain-like fences from around the school playgrounds. They believed the fences promoted feelings of confinement and ...read more

  • Bernard Shaw, The Winner Of The 1925 Nobel Prize ...

    Contributed by David Taylor on Apr 23, 2003
    based on 1 rating
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    Bernard Shaw, the winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature, played the “What If” game before he died. A reporter asked him if he could live his life over, and be any person he has know, or any other person in history, who would he be? Mr. Shaw ...read more

  • Bill Bradley Was The Basketball Star Of The 1964 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,091 views

    Bill Bradley was the basketball star of the 1964 Olympics. Someone said to him, “I wish I could shoot baskets like you.” Bradley replied, “Would you stay in one place until you hit 24 consecutive baskets?” That can apply to almost any ministry. Practice makes perfect in almost ...read more

  • Volunteers Down

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 2,244 views

    VOLUNTEERS DOWN In ’06 more than 61 million Americans donated their time to charity, the fewest since ’02, and down 4.4 million from ’05, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experts note volunteering spiked after 9/11/01 and Hurricane Katrina may have played a role in that it wiped out ...read more

  • The Early Church Of God Reformers Called ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 26, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,668 views

    The early Church of God reformers called themselves The Gospel Trumpet family. As many as three hundred people lived, worked, played, worshipped and ate together. They came together to publish materials that would be used to spread the gospel and teach others what the Church of God believed. They ...read more

  • Yet It Is So Difficult To Convince Others To ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 30, 2009
     | 1,241 views

    Yet it is so difficult to convince others to take that course, even when they see it. The problem is that only God can give the appetite for the Scriptures that brings such great spiritual nutrition. The natural man is like a dying cancer patient to whom food has become detestable. The ...read more

  • No Longer On Trial

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on May 11, 2010
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    NO LONGER ON TRIAL In a museum art gallery of old masters, one visitor was being particularly and audibly critical of these great works of art. Finally, an elderly attendant could stand it no longer and said, "If you please, sir, the pictures are no longer on trial...but the spectators are." ...read more

  • A Little Girl's Dreams

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 2, 2011
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    A LITTLE GIRL'S DREAMS A mother was taking her four-year-old daughter to school. She was a doctor and had left her stethoscope on the car seat. Her little girl picked it up and very excited began to play with it. Excellent, thought the doctor, my daughter wants to follow in my ...read more

  • It's One Thing To Talk To Our Kids About Jesus; ...

    Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
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    It’s one thing to talk to our kids about Jesus; it’s another thing to talk like Jesus in front of our kids. The fact of the matter is: our kids might stop ...read more

  • Too Big To Miss  PRO

    Contributed by Billy Kryger on Aug 14, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
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    “Too Big To Miss” The story’s told in the Bible about a mighty king. And how when he was just a little boy he played around with a sling. Well he got up early one morning and before the sun had set that day, a nasty ol’ giant had lost his head and his body lay cold on the clay. When David went ...read more

  • George Beaverly Shea Has Sung Many Times A Song ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ray Ellis on Sep 10, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
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    George Beaverly Shea has sung many times a song written by Rhea Miller. It was George’s mother who started the whole course of events when she left a copy of Miller’s song on the family piano in their home in New York City. Years later, George Beaverly Shea wrote: "Instead of practicing the hymn I ...read more

  • Her God Was Able

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 22, 2007
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    Her name will never be in the history books, but it is written in the Book of Life. She was never an item in the newspaper, but she was God’s reporter, telling His good news. She never had much formal education, but like her Lord she taught with authority from her own experience of God’s grace. ...read more

  • The Origin Of Taps

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
    based on 1 rating
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    The Origin of Taps It all began in 1862 during the Civil War when Union Army Captain Robert Ellicombe was with his men near Harrison’s Landing in Virginia. The Confederates were on the other side of the narrow strip of land. During the night, Captain Ellicombe heard the moans of a soldier who ...read more

  • Roy Riegels: Don't Give Up

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 21, 2010
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    ROY RIEGELS: DON'T GIVE UP On New Year’s Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played the University of California in the Rose Bowl. A UC player named Roy Riegels, who was their center, recovered a fumble for California and in the confusion of evading some of the Georgia Tech tacklers, started running ...read more

  • Crashing Through  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 9, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,042 views

    CRASHING THROUGH At three years old, Mike Mays was accidentally blinded by a chemical explosion when he and his 4-year-old sister were playing in the garage. He lived his entire life until he was well into his forties before having his eyesight was restored by a pioneering ophthalmologist. But ...read more

  • Ordinary People Is A Book That Was Later Made ...

    Contributed by Bobby Touchton on May 10, 2004
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    ORDINARY PEOPLE is a book that was later made into a movie. It is set in Lake Forest, Illinois, during the 1970s. The action focuses on the Jarrett family--Calvin and Beth and their son Conrad. Before the action of the book begins, there was a second Jarrett son--Buck--who was killed in a boating ...read more

  • Helen Roseveare Is A British Medical Doctor Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,046 views

    Helen Roseveare is a British medical doctor who worked for many years as a missionary in Zaire. During the revolution of the 1960s, she often faced brutal beatings and other forms of physical torture. On one occasion, when she was about to be executed, she feared God had forsaken her. In that ...read more

  • There's An Old Fable About A Miserable Rich Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
     | 1,410 views

    There’s an old fable about a miserable rich man who went to visit a rabbi. The rabbi took the rich man by the hand and led him to a window. "Look out there," he said. The rich man looked into the street. "What do you see?" asked the rabbi. "I see men, women, and children," answered the rich ...read more