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  • Car Radio. (I Kings 19:9-13 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Raymond Petzholt on Mar 25, 2004
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    Illustration: Car Radio. (I Kings 19:9-13 Elijah, still small voice). One of my Professors at Seminary shared about a time he was driving to a speaking engagement with his wife. There was a storm coming so he needed to listen to the radio to hear the weather report. But he also wanted to talk ...read more

  • Family  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Dec 18, 2006
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    Family Clovis Chappell, a minister from a century back, used to tell the story of two paddleboats. They left Memphis about the same time, traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they traveled side by side, sailors from one vessel made a few remarks about the snail’s pace of the ...read more

  • I've Learned The Meaning Of A Few Words That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Jan 15, 2007
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    * I’ve learned the meaning of a few words that women use from time to time. * For instance ... The word “Fine.” * This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up. C) “Five Minutes.” * If she is getting dressed, this is half an hour! * Five minutes is ...read more

  • One Raw Winter Night A Farmer Heard An Irregular ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joo-Ching Chng on Dec 30, 2007
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    One raw winter night a farmer heard an irregular thumping sound against his kitchen storm door. He went to a window and watched as tiny, shivering sparrows, attracted to the evident warmth inside, beat in vain against the glass. Touched, the farmer bundled up and trudged through fresh snow to open ...read more

  • One Raw Winter Night A Farmer Heard An Irregular ...

    Contributed by Joo-Ching Chng on Jan 1, 2008
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    One raw winter night a farmer heard an irregular thumping sound against his kitchen storm door. He went to a window and watched as tiny, shivering sparrows, attracted to the evident warmth inside, beat in vain against the glass. Touched, the farmer bundled up and trudged through fresh snow to open ...read more

  • God Is My Co-Pilot

    Contributed by Gordon Douglas on Mar 4, 2008
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    GOD IS MY CO-PILOT - A few years ago someone coined the phrase, God is my co-pilot. There were bumper stickers available… other types of signs. Having flown a lot I never did fully understand that phrase. Do you know what the co-pilot does? He takes over when everything is going well… Or he ...read more

  • Pickup In The Rain

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 16, 2008
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    PICKUP IN THE RAIN One night in the 1960s, at 11:30 p.m., an older African-American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a windy rain storm which was accompanied by lightning. Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she decided to ...read more

  • Ignoring The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    IGNORING THE WARNINGS On Sep. 28, 1986 heavy rains flooded many low-lying areas of the Midwest. Two years before, there was a flood that many remember as the "Memorial Day Massacre" that claimed the lives of twenty people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as small creeks and drainage ditches became killer ...read more

  • Hymn Story: Precious Lord, Take My Hand By Thomas ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2009
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    Hymn Story: Precious Lord, Take My Hand by Thomas Dorsey Thomas Dorsey was a black jazz musician from Atlanta who was known in the early 1920’s for the suggestive lyrics he combined with original music. Then God touched his life and in 1926 he gave up the suggestive music and began to write ...read more

  • When Church Is Miraculously Moved (Illustration: ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2009
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    When Church Is Miraculously Moved (Illustration: 7606) The faith that moves mountains is borne out by the church that was moved by the Hand of God. Such a church stands to this day in the village of Swan Quarter, North Carolina. Before it was built in 1874 the congregation eyed with longing a ...read more

  • Lucado On John 3:16

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 28, 2009
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    LUCADO ON JOHN 3:16 Max Lucado describes John 3:16 this way in his book "3:16 The Numbers of Hope" pages 8, 9: "A twenty-six-word parade of hope: beginning with God, ending with life, and urging us to do the same. Brief enough to write on a napkin or memorize in a moment, yet solid enough to ...read more

  • Sitting Down

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2011
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    SITTING DOWN It’s said that when Henry Ward Beecher was a boy, he had a teacher at school who asked one of the boys in class a question which the boy answered. The teacher became angry and told the boy he was wrong and commanded him to: "Sit down!" The boy was obviously confused because he’d ...read more

  • Bad News, Then Good News  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
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    BAD NEWS, THEN GOOD NEWS Nearly 20 years ago at the height of Operation Desert Storm, Ruth Dillow received a very sad message from the Pentagon. The message stated that her son, Clayton had stepped on a landmine in Kuwait and was killed. Ruth later wrote these words, "I can't begin to describe my ...read more

  • Return To The Right Path

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2012
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    RETURN TO THE RIGHT PATH In one section of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Christian and Hopeful are walking the King's Highway to the Celestial City. The path, once smooth and easy, becomes rough and hard. Then they come to an attractive place called Bypath Meadow. They climb over a fence into ...read more

  • Where Is The Church When It Hurts?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 13, 2012
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    WHERE IS THE CHURCH WHEN IT HURTS? Where is God in the midst of the storm? One author answered that question with this incident: "In Washington and Chicago, as I talked about the special edition of Where Is God When It Hurts?, inevitably the interviewer would turn the question back on me. 'Well, ...read more

  • God's Taking My Picture  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Jan 23, 2013
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    GOD'S TAKING MY PICTURE I heard a story of a little girl who walked to and from school daily. The weather one morning was questionable and clouds were forming, yet she made her daily trek to the elementary school. As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with thunder and ...read more

  • Power Of A Praying Mother  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 28, 2004
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    POWER OF A PRAYING MOTHER The year was 1820 and Peter Richley was a grateful man. He had survived one of the strangest and most harrowing events known to mankind. The ship which he had been traveling on sank. He was rescued. By some strange twist of circumstance, however, this ship sank. He was ...read more

  • Is There Really A God??  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Weimeschkirch on Aug 15, 2005
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    Is There Really A God?? 93 million miles from the blistering surface of the sun hangs the planet earth. A rotating sphere perfectly suspended in the center of the universe. The ultimate creation from an infinite mind. An unbelievable intricate complex design. A supernatural testimony, an ...read more

  • No More Merry Christmas: Henry Wadsworth ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Dec 19, 2008
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    No More Merry Christmas: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow On July 13th, Frances changed Henry’s life by saying "YES" to Him in marriage. Less than a year later, their little home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was blessed with the birth of their first child, Charles. Eventually, the Longfellow household ...read more

  • The Ranger Creed

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2011
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    THE RANGER CREED Recognizing that I volunteered as a Ranger, fully knowing the hazards of my chosen profession, I will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor, and high esprit de corps of my Ranger Regiment. Acknowledging the fact that a Ranger is a more elite soldier who arrives at the ...read more