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  • When My Mother Married My Dad, She Did Know Not ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 25, 2007
     | 933 views

    When my mother married my dad, she did know not how to cook. My grandmother on my mom’s side left her home in Poland to work in the salt mines of Germany at age 13 because she could not get along with her step mother. She never learned to cook. But my mom became an excellent cook. When we were ...read more

  • Sifting

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on May 31, 2009
     | 2,982 views

    *In vs. 31 Jesus told Peter, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.” *Satan is certainly still at work in the world today. Satan wanted to sift Peter, and Christian, you can be sure that he wants to sift us. *In Bible days grain was sifted a couple of ...read more

  • Bless Assurance: Fanny Crosby

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 16, 2021
     | 3,562 views

    ASSURANCE: free from doubt, a positive declaration intended to give confidence, a sure promise, in a religious sitting it means salvation by the inner witness of the Holy Spirit that we are justified. No harm will come, with great faith. FANNY JANE CROSBY was born in 1820 and died in 1915 at the ...read more

  • When We Lived In The Ukraine For A Month, We ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 20, 2009
     | 1,528 views

    When we lived in the Ukraine for a month, we witnessed incredible poverty. The beautifully ornate Churches over there have domes which are actually covered in gold leaf, but under them are the beggars. Such a contrast. I noticed at one point some priests driving around in BMW’s, while beggars eked ...read more

  • On March 30th Of 1981 When Then President Ronald ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Carson on Mar 29, 2001
    based on 110 ratings
     | 2,306 views

    On March 30th of 1981 when then President Ronald Reagan was shot in the left side of his chest by a deranged John Hinckley Jr., Reagan was rushed to George Washington University Hospital. When one of the doctors told the President that they were going to operate on him, Reagan, with his ...read more

  • Think Of How Often In Scripture It Is The Woman ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeffrey Sackett on Jan 24, 2003
    based on 180 ratings
     | 4,433 views

    think of how often in scripture it is the woman who is the vehicle for ministry. Who prompted Jesus to perform His first miracle? A Woman! Who ministered to Christ during His public ministry? The women! Who anointed the body of Jesus? The women! Who stayed with Jesus throughout his trial and ...read more

  • In Our Own Day The Dramatic Turnaround In The ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 8, 2008
     | 1,490 views

    In our own day the dramatic turnaround in the life of such a person as Charles Colson can only be explained by a divine intervention from above. While many were at first wary of Colson’s “born-again” experience, no objective observer, not even his detractors, can gainsay the sincerity of his ...read more

  • Evangelism Quotes And Illustrations  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Apr 19, 2004
    based on 70 ratings
     | 8,348 views

    Evangelism Quotes and Illustrations 1. Paul Harvey said, "Too many Christians are no longer fishers of men but keepers of the aquarium." 2. Paul Little in his book "How to Give Away Your Faith" defines witnessing: "Witnessing is that deep-seated conviction that the greatest favor I can do for ...read more

  • I Am Drawn To Realize That I Must Make Room And ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 4, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,467 views

    I am drawn to realize that I must make room and give careful attention to the witness of the Scriptures. It is my attention to the Scriptures as the challenged, but undefeated Word of God that I will overcome the flood of doubts and opposition to my faith that will come in 2008. I need an anchor ...read more

  • Dr. Joon-Gon Kim, Was A Well-Known Korean ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 2,302 views

    Dr. Joon-Gon Kim, was a well-known Korean Christian leader. He witnessed his wife and father slaughtered before his eyes by communist sympathizers from his own village. He was beaten senseless and left for dead. He survived the beating and asked God to give him love for the souls of his enemies. ...read more

  • Guests At Weddings Are Seated By Taking The Right ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,316 views

    Guests at weddings are seated by taking the right arm of the usher. However, the bride comes down the aisle on her father’s left arm. He stands between his daughter and the groom to protect her, until she finally says she does indeed want to go away with Big & Ugly. We begin the ceremony on the ...read more

  • When Nasa First Started Sending Up Astronauts, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,833 views

    When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including ...read more

  • Ichthys — The Christian Fish Symbol  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Aug 26, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,718 views

    ICHTHYS - THE CHRISTIAN FISH SYMBOL I’ve got a picture here. Do you know what it is? <>< (www.epworthsteeple.org/symbols.htm). Yes, it’s a symbol of a fish. But it’s more than that, it’s a Christian symbol going back to the time of the first years of the Christian church. In the first century ...read more

  • John Wesley Did Not Have The Assurance The Jesus ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Dec 17, 2007
     | 2,574 views

    John Wesley did not have the assurance the Jesus had saved him from his sins until he was nearly 35 years old. He was a good moral person but not a Christian even though he was an Anglican priest and missionary to Georgia. Wesley shares his encounter with a Moravian Christian August Gottlieb ...read more

  • John Wesley Did Not Have The Assurance The Jesus ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Dec 17, 2007
     | 2,547 views

    John Wesley did not have the assurance the Jesus had saved him from his sins until he was nearly 35 years old. He was a good moral person but not a Christian even though he was an Anglican priest and missionary to Georgia. Wesley shares his encounter with a Moravian Christian August Gottlieb ...read more

  • Cult Growth

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 2,377 views

    CULT GROWTH Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) reported the largest membership increases in a year, according to the National Council of Churches’ 2008 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches. Although Jehovah’s Witnesses currently rank 25th in size ...read more

  • After John Wesley Had Been Preaching For Some ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,584 views

    After John Wesley had been preaching for some time, some one said to him, "Are you sure, Mr. Wesley, of your salvation?" "Well," he answered, "Jesus Christ died for the whole world." "Yes, we all believe that; but are you sure that you are saved?" Wesley replied that he was sure that provision had ...read more

  • For All The Promises Of God In Him Are Yea, And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,277 views

    "For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us" (II Corinthians 1:20). The word "amen" is a most remarkable word. It was transliterated directly from the Hebrew into the Koine Greek of the New Testament, then into Latin and into English and many other ...read more

  • Undertakers

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Jan 8, 2004
     | 1,412 views

    Undertakers Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was a member of the U.S. Supreme Court for 30 years. His mind, wit and work earned him the unofficial title of "the greatest justice since John Marshall." At one point in his life, Justice Holmes explained his choice of a career by saying: "I might have ...read more

  • George Bernard Shaw Is Perhaps Most Renowned As ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bart Leger on Feb 9, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,463 views

    George Bernard Shaw is perhaps most renowned as a free thinker and liberal philosopher. In his last writings we read, "The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt. Its counsels, which should have established the millennium, led, instead, directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them ...read more