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  • When I Was Growing Up In West Texas Cicada ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Oct 14, 2003
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    When I was growing up in West Texas cicada (pronounced si-ka'-da) “locusts” like the one pictured on the screen filled the giant elm trees at times. During the heat of the summer the shrill buzzing sound of their mating call filled the air. To this day anytime I get in dry, hot weather I remember ...read more

  • A Young Boy Was Leaving For Iraq And On His Last ...

    Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Jun 16, 2007
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    A young boy was leaving for Iraq and on his last night at home he went out with his friends. Arriving home about 11:30 he made his regular stop at the refrigerator. The mother and father were in bed upstairs, and as always did not feel right until they heard him come in. The mother said to the ...read more

  • Reporters And City Officials Gathered At A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Reporters and city officials gathered at a Chicago railroad station one afternoon in 1953. The person they were meeting was the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner. A few minutes after the train came to a stop, a giant of a man - six feet four inches with bushy hair and a large mustache stepped from the ...read more

  • The Basics

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Charles Spurgeon, “A man’s life is always more forcible than his speech. When men take stock of him they reckon his deeds as dollars and his words as pennies. If his life and doctrine disagree the mass of onlookers accept his practice and reject his preaching.” Will Rogers, “Live in such a way ...read more

  • Have You Seen Those New Gps Guidance Systems ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Have you seen those new GPS guidance systems that you can get for your car? Some are built in (for several thousand dollars) and some are portable. You can plug them into your lighter or cell phone connection in your car. Then you can touch the screen and tell it where you would like to go and it ...read more

  • Many Have Asked Me, "Preacher, Where Is Hell, Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeffery Russell on Dec 6, 2007
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    Many have asked me, “Preacher, where is hell, is it down?” Back in 2003 we visited the Kilauea Volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii. To me it was fascinating to stand there and see these red-hot, smoking chasms. There were barricades all around them and the guides kept cautioning people. We ...read more

  • The Value Of Connecting

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jun 15, 2009
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    THE VALUE OF CONNECTING Larry Crabb tells the story of a man he knew that attempted suicide. His injury was so severe that he should have died, but he recovered and sought out Dr. Crabb for therapy. The two had been meeting together for some time. They covered a lot of ground. Dr. Crabb ...read more

  • Frog Prince

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 10, 2009
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     | 2,411 views

    FROG PRINCE An 80 year-old woman was walking down the main street in her hometown one evening when she heard a low voice say, "Hey lady." She looked around to see who was talking but upon seeing nobody there she shrugged it all off and continued walking. Before she got another five feet, she ...read more

  • I Once Took A Graduate Level Class On The ...

    Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Jan 10, 2010
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    I once took a graduate level class on the psychology of learning, and in that class we talked about the way people learn. And I remember one time we were talking about babies and how they perceive certain things. It was kind of amusing actually, but they did a study where they would sit a baby ...read more

  • One Of The Great Paradoxes Of The Christian Faith ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 7, 2010
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    One of the great paradoxes of the Christian faith is that God wants us to talk to Him about everything that is going on in our lives, even though He already knows everything. So why pray? If you’ve ever wrestled with that question, perhaps the thoughts of the 19th-century preacher, R. A. Torrey, ...read more

  • Hope Is The Dream Of A Soul

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2011
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    HOPE IS THE DREAM OF A SOUL When a member of my congregation, 18-year-old Heidi, was thrown from a car back in May and suffered a head injury, it was a real miracle that she recovered and was soon in rehab at Crystus Santa Rosa. She was learning to walk again through rehab and therapy when a young ...read more

  • The Obedient Mule

    Contributed by Eugene Morell on Oct 11, 2011
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    THE OBEDIENT MULE There is a story about a farmer who wanted to sell his mule so The put the add in the local paper. One day a man from another community came to the farm. The two farmers got to talking and eventually they got around to talking about the mule. The farmer who wanted to buy the ...read more

  • Who Influences Whom?

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 15, 2012
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    WHO INFLUENCES WHOM? I heard a joke about Bill and Hillary Clinton recently. It seems they were on vacation one weekend, and decided to go for a drive to see the beautiful countryside. After a while, they needed to stop for gas. They pulled into a tiny gas station, and out walked a man to help ...read more

  • Labor Day And Our Divine Union

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2012
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    LABOR DAY AND OUR DIVINE UNION I’ve heard that Labor Day was first celebrated in Boston on Sept 5, 1882. It wasn’t until 1894 that it became a federal holiday. That was an effort encouraged by President Grover Cleveland to reconcile with the labor movement and prevent further violence. You see, ...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

  • Last Lecture

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 2, 2008
     | 2,537 views

    LAST LECTURE You may have heard about the death of 47 year old Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor Randy Pausch last week from pancreatic cancer. Pausch was most famous for his "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" speech made last fall just after he learned he had months to ...read more

  • Give It To Get It

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 18, 2008
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     | 3,163 views

    Give It to Get It I have the opportunity to hang out with alcoholics and addicts that are working on recovery. And it is truly amazing to see how they often serve one another. You see for those in recovery serving those who are still suffering in terms of sharing the greatest thing that they have, ...read more

  • Sin Sickens The ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
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    Sin sickens the body An illustration of this Mother calls that dinner is ready Mom ,dad, brother and sister sit down to this wonderful meal that mom has fixed Everything is fine until brother asks Dad can I use the car tonight? And sister says, no you can’t use the car tonight You used the car last ...read more

  • Time For Jesus

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Sep 19, 2008
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    Time for Jesus Suppose you walked into your kitchen one morning and found Jesus sitting at the table. What would you do? Would you say: "Jesus! I'm thrilled to see You! I just wish I had time to talk, but right now I'm running late for work. When I get home tonight, we'll have a nice visit"? ...read more

  • Look At This: Three Times Balaam Beats His ...

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Jan 28, 2009
     | 2,614 views

    Look at this: three times Balaam beats his reliable donkey because he was too wrapped up in himself to see God’s road block in front of him. By the 3rd time he got his staff out he was going ballistic!!! Red-in-the-face and spitting mad! Then, right there in the middle of Balaam’s donkey-beatin’ ...read more

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