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  • Python Swallows ...

    Contributed by Susan Blader on May 13, 2008
     | 1,918 views

    Python Swallows Alligator I read a rather weird news story in October of 2005. A researcher named Michael Barron was traveling through the Everglades National Park when he stumbled upon a bizarre sight. Prior to his arrival, a 13-foot long Burmese python had apparently attacked and subdued a ...read more

  • I Read A Story Of A Soldier In Wwi Who Was So ...

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Jan 21, 2009
     | 2,298 views

    *I read a story of a soldier in WWI who was so distraught with the war that he deserted! * Tried to find his way to the coast so he could catch a boat, make his way back home to England. * In the darkness of the night he stumbled on a road sign. * It was so dark and he was so lost, he had no ...read more

  • There Is An Ancient Scottish Legend - A Shepherd ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 12, 2001
    based on 55 ratings
     | 3,688 views

    There is an ancient Scottish legend - a shepherd boy tending a small flock of sheep on the side of a mountain. One day as he cared for his sheep he saw at his feet a beautiful flower -- one that was more beautiful than any he had ever seen in his life. He knelt down upon his knees and scooped the ...read more

  • Work In God's Kingdom  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 23, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,336 views

    WORK IN GOD’S KINGDOM John Stott tells a joke against his vocation: a clefgyman is the last person in the world to write about work. For, as everybody knows, he has not done an honest day’s work in his life. As the old saying goes, he is ‘six days invisible and one day incomprehensible!’ The ...read more

  • Hold Up The Light  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 11, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,290 views

    Illustration: Hold Up the Light The famous Eddystone lighthouse off the coast of Cornwall, England, was first built in a fanciful way, by the learned and eccentric Winstanley. On its sides he put various boastful inscriptions. He was very proud of his structure, and from his lofty balcony used ...read more

  • Astray

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Sep 23, 2019
     | 1,449 views

    Astray They sing, Farther along we'll understand. Oh, how I wish I'd been a holy man, But I wandered so far astray Now all I can see is Judgment Day. I fell on my knees and begged for Your grace, Then turned around and spat in Your face. I walked along in my foolish will, Now I fear ...read more

  • In 1989, A Terrible Earthquake Almost Flattened ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 5,880 views

    In 1989, a terrible earthquake almost flattened Armenia. It killed over 30,000 people in less than four minutes. One father rushed to his son's school and found the building flat as a pancake. Standing there in tears, he remembered a promise he had made to his son, "No matter what, I'll always be ...read more

  • St. Valentine - Valentinus -- Christian Martyr, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gary Kins on Feb 7, 2003
    based on 51 ratings
     | 2,927 views

    St. Valentine - Valentinus -- Christian martyr, c270 A.D. -- "Valentine was the name of a young man who lived in Rome during reign of Claudius II when Christians were being persecuted. Although he was not a Christian, he helped them, but he was caught and put into prison. In prison he became a ...read more

  • We Need God When We Are Underneath The Great ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 8, 2007
     | 1,572 views

    We need God when we are underneath the great burdens of life. All of God’s great men had to endure great burdens and during those times of burden, they were in a time of great need. Job – The burden of Satan’s attack. Abraham – The burden of sacrificing his dearest possession, Isaac. Jacob – ...read more

  • A Sunday School Teacher Had Just Finished Telling ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Kersten on Jan 22, 2004
    based on 38 ratings
     | 3,721 views

    A Sunday School teacher had just finished telling her third graders about how Jesus was crucified and placed in a tomb with a great stone sealing the opening. Then, wanting to share the excitement of the resurrection, she asked: "And what do you think were Jesus’ first words when He came bursting ...read more

  • One Day John Wesley Was Walking With A Troubled ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 27, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,908 views

    One day John Wesley was walking with a troubled man who expressed his doubt as to the goodness of God. He said, "I do not know what I shall do with all this worry and trouble." At the same moment Wesley saw a cow looking over a stone wall. "Do you know," asked Wesley, "why that cow is looking over ...read more

  • Cnidius, A Skillful Architect, Building A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 27, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 8,368 views

    Cnidius, a skillful architect, building a watchtower for the King of Egypt, caused his own name to be engraved upon a stone in the wall in great letters, and afterwards covered it, with lime and mortar, and upon the outside of that wrote the name of the King of Egypt in golden letters. This was all ...read more

  • Several Years Ago, I Was Working On Replacing An ...

    Contributed by Todd Pugh on Jan 14, 2008
     | 1,168 views

    Several years ago, I was working on replacing an old, falling-over retaining wall on the side of my house. Some of the stones I replaced were too big for me to move and some were cemented together into “blobs” of rock and concrete. So I set out to bust them up with a sledge hammer. I struck ...read more

  • One Day John Wesley Was Walking With A ...

    Contributed by Gregg Rustulka on Mar 29, 2008
     | 2,566 views

    Ill: One day John Wesley was walking with a troubled man who expressed his doubt as to the goodness of God. He said, "I do not know what I shall do with all this worry and trouble." At the same moment Wesley saw a cow looking over a stone wall. "Do you know," asked Wesley, "why that cow is ...read more

  • Blood Is Thicker Than Water  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 25, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,866 views

    BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER At some point or another you may have used this familiar phrase - Blood is thicker than water. The context in which we use it is to describe the meaning that blood-related families are more important than anyone else. R. Richard Pustelniak, congregational leader for the ...read more

  • Strauss On The Death Of Jesus

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Feb 19, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,382 views

    STRAUSS ON THE DEATH OF JESUS The German skeptic David Friedrich Strauss, who spent most of his life arguing against the fundamental truths of Christianity, famously discounted this theory in his book, The Life of Jesus for the People. He wrote: "To conceive of a man hanging on a Roman cross in a ...read more

  • Spurgeon On The Gospel's Power  PRO

    Contributed by Spencer Miller on Jun 9, 2013
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,918 views

    The great English preacher Charles Spurgeon once said, "The gospel is preached in the ears of all men; it only comes with power to some. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher’s ...read more

  • Drink Deeply  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,444 views

    DRINK DEEPLY Picture this: You have just finished a ten-mile hike on a 95 degree day, and on the entire journey you haven’t had a thing to drink. Stumbling with thirst, you come to your father’s house and plea for water. With love and concern, he brings you a cold pitcher of water and a glass and ...read more

  • The Jeweled Lady Of Pompeii

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,452 views

    THE JEWELED LADY OF POMPEII Of the 20,000 inhabitants of Pompeii, some 2,000 lost their lives, among them a woman who loved finery above all else. As the deadly rain of fire came down, she decided to run to the harbor and escape by ship. That was wise, but this rich and beautiful woman stayed ...read more

  • I Tithe—he'll Find Me.  PRO

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on May 1, 2011
    based on 16 ratings
     | 7,380 views

    "I TITHE--HE'LL FIND ME." Two men have ended up marooned on an island in the South Pacific. You can fill in the blanks as to how they got there. So they are on the clichéic deserted island, one palm tree, nothing to see but the ocean. One guy is in a complete panic, pacing back and forth, ...read more

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