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  • Build Me A Son By General Douglas A. Macarthur  PRO

    Contributed by Danny Thomas on Jun 5, 2003
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,536 views

    Build Me a Son by General Douglas A. MacArthur Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face him self when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishbone ...read more

  • While The Dorman's And We Were In San Diego For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 13, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,258 views

    While the Dorman’s and we were in San Diego for the National Outreach Convention, we went for a walk on the beach by the ocean. None of us had ever been in the Pacific Ocean, so as a wave came in we walked up to it until it faded out at our feet. The wave became a thin sheet of water at the tip ...read more

  • Successful Author And Christian Psychologist, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Amanda Wilson on May 6, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,997 views

    Successful Author and Christian psychologist, Larry Crabb, begins his book Connecting with the story of his eldest son. Larry had two sons, and being a theologian, psychologist, and loving father, he wanted to do all that was right for his sons. So he gave his sons hugs, and spankings, detailed ...read more

  • Far Too Many People Are Deceived About The Danger ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,576 views

    Far too many people are deceived about the danger of sin. Take it too lightly, and it may destroy you. What happened to the great city of Ephesus? Often mentioned in the New Testament, it was one of the cultural and commercial centers of its day. Located at the mouth of the Cayster River, it was ...read more

  • Flying A Plane Down  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jul 6, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
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    FLYING A PLANE DOWN Robert and his pilot friend Wesley went for a flying trip from Indianapolis to Muncie, Indiana, in June 1998. During the flight, his pilot had a heart attack and slumped over the controls. He was dead. The Cessna 172 single-engine plane began to nosedive and Robert grabbed ...read more

  • Irene Pepperberg, A Visiting Professor Of Animal ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joe Fornear on Sep 2, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,908 views

    Irene Pepperberg, a visiting professor of animal behavior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is teaching a parrot how to surf the Internet. "Parrots are very social creatures," she says, but people who own them "leave them alone eight or nine hours a day." She says that leads to boredom ...read more

  • Instruments Of Grace In His Service  PRO

    Contributed by John White on Aug 15, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,163 views

    InstrumentsOf Grace In His Service The grace of God can  turn problems to patience, vexation to victory and tragedy to triumph.   The same pressure that can cause a destructive explosion can be harnessed to drive the wheels of progress.   Pressure usually produces and the production can be good or ...read more

  • I Heard A Story Of A Woman Who Was Out Christmas ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Weber on Dec 14, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 1,347 views

    I heard a story of a woman who was out Christmas shopping with her two children. After many hours of looking at row after row of toys and everything else imaginable. And after hours of hearing both her children asking for everything they saw on those many shelves, she finally made it to the ...read more

  • Who Are Today's Kids? A Recent White House Forum ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 1,629 views

    Who Are Today’s Kids? A recent White House forum entitled Exploring the Digital Generation revealed these insights: · To a kid of the twenty-first century, learning is different than schooling. Learning, even education-based learning, takes place in many locations, with authorities ranging from ...read more

  • A Christian Puppy

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 26, 2006
    based on 1 rating
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    On the lighter side of life: A Christian Puppy A Baptist couple decide that they want to get a dog. As they are walking down the street in town, they notice that a sign in the pet shop is advertising "Christian Puppies." Their interest piqued, they go inside. "How do you know they’re Christian ...read more

  • Family  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Dec 18, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,977 views

    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

  • This Week I Came Across This Tongue Firmly ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,869 views

    This week I came across this tongue firmly implanted in cheek article titled “Pastor Quits Sports”. Here is why this pastor quit going to sporting events: 1. Every time I went they asked me for money. 2. The people with whom I had to sit didn’t seem very friendly. 3. The seats were too hard and ...read more

  • America Split Into Three Financial Camps Last ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
     | 2,024 views

    America split into three financial camps last year that came sharply into focus at Christmas. 1-The Hunker-Down crowd cut back their purchases, uneasy about dwindling dollars and rising debt. Traffic in non-discount retail stores was sluggish as a result. 2-The Full-Speed-Ahead crowd did business ...read more

  • Ignoring The Warnings  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 28, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,273 views

    IGNORING THE WARNINGS Listen to this description of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in northern Ukraine: "There were two electrical engineers in the control room that night, and the best thing that could be said for what they were doing is they were 'playing around' with the machine. They ...read more

  • Jesus Took Our Place At Calvary

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 19, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
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    Jesus Took Our Place At Calvary A man named Goho rose to be chief of the tribe. He was a good man, and far wiser and advanced in understanding than his fellow tribesmen. The year he became chief, the tribe brought in 40 heads. He judiciously suggested that the tribe use one head each year as a ...read more

  • God Blesses Christian Parents

    Contributed by Eric Hanson on Nov 17, 2008
     | 2,761 views

    GOD BLESSES CHRISTIAN PARENTS How wonderful for children to have parents who are truly "in the Lord." They will be able to honor such men and women, thus activating the promise mentioned in verse 3. Nancy’s Grandparents took her Grandfather’s mother into their home and cared for her when she ...read more

  • A Light Of Hope  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
    based on 8 ratings
     | 10,161 views

    A Light of Hope There is a story about how the caverns north of Yellowstone National Park were discovered. As the story goes, one of the original explorers was walking along the top of that mountain and fell through a hole, and he dropped down several hundred feet into this cavern and was stuck in ...read more

  • A Father's Duty Never Ends

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 23, 2009
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    A FATHER'S DUTY NEVER ENDS I went to a Saturday matinee showing of that great Sidney Poitier movie, "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?" and I reveled in that confrontation between Poitier’s world-renowned doctor character and his inner-city postman father. The postman father plays the "I sacrificed ...read more

  • O Let Him ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Mar 19, 2009
     | 920 views

    “O Let Him In!” A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son. Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen and when the small boy came in from school, he ...read more

  • Chuck Swindoll Judges A Man Unfairly At A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,985 views

    Chuck Swindoll Judges a Man Unfairly at a Pastor’s Conference It is so easy to get into the trap of judging others unfairly! Chuck Swindoll told of his being at a pastor’s conference where he would be speaking. The first day there a man approached him and said how greatly he had looked forward to ...read more