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  • What Does Living By Faith Mean Today? It Means ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 122 ratings
     | 6,202 views

    What does living by faith mean today? It means deciding what is the controlling principle in our lives. Is it luck or chance? I had just parked my car at the office and a lady came up to me and said, "That’s a nice car but I wouldn’t want to drive it!" I was rather puzzled and asked "Why not?" ...read more

  • Church Conflicts Happen For Pretty Unusual ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dan Erickson on Jan 28, 2001
    based on 124 ratings
     | 9,395 views

    Church conflicts happen for pretty unusual reasons. In the 1890s there was a small Baptist church in Mayfield County, Kentucky. The church had just two deacons, and those two men seemed to be constantly arguing and bickering with each other. On a particular Sunday, one deacon put up a small wooden ...read more

  • We're Like The Little Boy Who Was Sitting In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2001
    based on 126 ratings
     | 1,636 views

    We’re like the little boy who was sitting in church one day. The preacher was going on and on about how great heaven would be. He talked about the streets of gold and the angels and about seeing God face to face. He concluded his message by asking the members of the congregation to raise their ...read more

  • Vance Havner Says, "God Is Faithful, And He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Yount on Oct 28, 2001
    based on 53 ratings
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    Vance Havner says, “God is faithful, and He expects His people to be faithful. God’s Word speaks of faithful servants, faithful in a few things, faithful in the least, faithful in the Lord, faithful ministers. And all points up that day when He will say, “Well done, thou good and faithful ...read more

  • The Last Minute  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 12, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,599 views

    This brings me to my "TERM PAPER THEORY." The student knows the whole semester: there will be a term paper required at the end of the term. So, the night before the paper is due, the student pushes the dead line, runs to the library and does the last minute research, and can’t hold his head ...read more

  • Harry Truman Enjoyed Telling About The Man Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 21, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,802 views

    Harry Truman enjoyed telling about the man who was hit on the head at work. The blow was so severe he was knocked unconscious for an extended period of time. His family, convinced he was dead, called the funeral home and asked the local undertaker to pick him up at the hospital, which he did. ...read more

  • On Saturday, December 23, 1972, Richard Knecht Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 15, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 989 views

    On Saturday, December 23, 1972, Richard Knecht of Prospect, Oregon, set out to shatter the existing world sit-up record. For the past six months a Marine Corps captain had held the record, with an amazing 17,007. Knecht was determined to capture the title for his family team, which tours the nation ...read more

  • Ralph Barton, A Successful Cartoonist, Left This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,133 views

    Ralph Barton, a successful cartoonist, left this note pinned to his pillow as he took his own life: “I have had few difficulties, many friends, great successes; I have gone from wife to wife, and from house to house, visited great countries of the world, but I am fed up with inventing devices to ...read more

  • Picked Last

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 21, 2008
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    Picked Last It happened several times a week, almost without fail. Whether they lined up against the wall of the gymnasium, the local ice rink or the snow bank for the back-roads hockey, it was always the same. The leaders picked him last. Last for basketball because he was too clumsy; in hockey ...read more

  • Nobody Knew He Was Gone

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jun 15, 2009
     | 2,371 views

    NOBODY KNEW HE WAS GONE The rent hadn’t been paid, so the landlord came knocking. For years, the rent was paid automatically from the tenant’s bank account. But suddenly, there were no funds available and no response from the tenant. When he didn’t come to the door, the landlord let himself in to ...read more

  • Break New Ground For God

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Jun 14, 2010
     | 2,382 views

    BREAK NEW GROUND FOR GOD od has called us to go. Are you going? I challenge you to dare to go where no man has gone before. Charles Haddon Surgeon said it best when he said, "The most successful servants of god have been those who have not built upon the foundation of others, but have ventured ...read more

  • Jesus Knocking

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Oct 14, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,428 views

    JESUS KNOCKING A nurse on the Pediatric Ward before listening to the little ones' heart beat would plug the stethoscope into their ears and let them listen to their own hearts. Their eyes would always light up with awe, but she never got a response to equal four-year old David's comment. She ...read more

  • Paul Powell Wrote In His Book The Complete ...  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Dec 1, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,415 views

    Paul Powell wrote in his book The Complete Disciple: "Many churches today remind me of a laboring crew trying to gather in a harvest while they sit in the tool shed. They go to the tool shed every Sunday and they study bigger and better methods of agriculture, sharpen their hoes, grease their ...read more

  • I Saw It Again This Last Summer - The Small ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Aug 24, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,199 views

    I saw it again this last summer - the small cathedral in Bethlehem that marks the birthplace of the Savior. Behind a high altar in the church is a cave, a little cavern lit by silver lamps. There are two entries for pilgrims. One is through the main church, allowing you to admire the grandeur of ...read more

  • Six Inches Beyond  PRO

    Contributed by Frank Gough Ii on Nov 4, 2005
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    Do you any of you remember Bruce Lee? He was a world-champion martial artist and an actor, and he had a fighting style unlike any other because he developed it himself. In demonstrations, he often exhibited an almost inhuman ability in the force and power of his blows. He was once asked by ...read more

  • Life Caching: With The Experience Economy Still ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Life Caching: With the experience economy still gaining ground—with consumers more often favoring the intangible over the tangible--collecting, storing and displaying experiences is ready for its big moment. This emerging mega trend is being dubbed Life Caching. The necessary enablers are now all ...read more

  • Fear To Joy, Bondage To Freedom  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Apr 15, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,698 views

    FEAR TO JOY, BONDAGE TO FREEDOM A poor German girl announced that she was going to give a piano concert. In order to attract people to come, she mentioned in the advertisements that she was the student of the famous Hungarian professor, Franz Liszt. But it was a falsehood. To her dismay, she ...read more

  • Inasmuch As The Great Father Has Given Us This ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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     | 4,450 views

    Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared ...read more

  • Us Golfer Arnold Palmer Once Played A Series Of ...

    Contributed by W F on Jun 25, 2006
     | 5,909 views

    US golfer Arnold Palmer once played a series of exhibition matches in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi king was so impressed that he wanted to give Palmer a gift. Palmer said, “That really isn’t necessary, Your Highness. I’m honoured just to have been invited." The king said, "I would be deeply upset, if ...read more

  • El Roi, The God Who Sees

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Jul 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,644 views

    Illustration ------------ El Roi, The God Who Sees Only used once in the Bible, Genesis 16:13, on the lips of Hagar. Sarah had given Hagar to Abraham to have children. This was according to custom in those days, but not according to God. After Hagar bore Ishmael, Sarah treated her so harshly, Hagar ...read more