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  • [026] A Message From A Poem – Based On Psalm 17

    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Feb 9, 2025
     | 187 views

    [026] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – BASED ON PSALM 17 The Psalms are always wonderful. Each one has come from the emotional positions of the writers. They represent worship, praise, request, history, prophecy, and prayer, among other things, such as the great Psalm 119 uplifting the word of ...read more

  • Christmas Can Still Arrive When You Least Expect ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 20, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,705 views

    Christmas can still arrive when you least expect it, sometimes in the most unexpected manner. Dr. James Dobson relates a story of an elderly woman named Stella Thornhope who was struggling with her first Christmas alone. Her husband had died just a few months prior through a slow developing cancer. ...read more

  • Christmas Can Still Arrive When You Least Expect ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 20, 2008
     | 1,522 views

    Christmas can still arrive when you least expect it, sometimes in the most unexpected manner. Dr. James Dobson relates a story of an elderly woman named Stella Thornhope who was struggling with her first Christmas alone. Her husband had died just a few months prior through a slow developing cancer. ...read more

  • The Praying ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 14, 2009
     | 3,515 views

    The praying hands Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table, the father, who was a goldsmith by profession, had to work almost eighteen hours a day and he took on any other paying work ...read more

  • The Young Woman Was Married And Had Two Beautiful ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 20, 2003
    based on 106 ratings
     | 2,577 views

    The young woman was married and had two beautiful children, but one day as she was standing over the sink, washing dishes, she thought, ’There must be more to life than this.’ When her husband came home, he found a note she’d written and began to weep. She would call him about once every week to ...read more

  • One Evening Mother Was Busy Fixing Supper. Her ...  PRO

    Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 5, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,857 views

    One evening mother was busy fixing supper. Her little boy came up to her and gave her a piece of paper. She dries her hands on her apron and reads. For cutting the grass: $5.00 For cleaning up my room this week: $1.00 For going to the store for you: $.50 Baby-sitting my kid brother while ...read more

  • You Showed Me

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Mar 31, 2009
     | 1,768 views

    YOU SHOWED ME The young woman was married and had two beautiful children, but one day as she was standing over the sink, washing dishes, she thought, "There must be more to life than this." When her husband came home, he found a note she’d written and he began to weep. She would call him about ...read more

  • Invictus  PRO

    Contributed by R. Darrel Davis on Aug 5, 2001
    based on 47 ratings
     | 2,187 views

    William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is ...read more

  • Although I Do Not Know Why…  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Buchner on Mar 8, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,614 views

    A quote from Cliffe Knechtle… “Although I do not know why God allowed evil, I do know that he wants to destroy it. That is why there is hell. Although I do not know why God allowed pain, I do know he wants to wipe every tear from our eyes and give us joy for eternity in his presence. That is why ...read more

  • What Does Freedom Mean?

    Contributed by Kenneth Hampton on Jul 6, 2005
     | 5,156 views

    This is a story I came up with- A little girl asked her father what freedom meant. Her dad answered by saying, "Darling, freedom is something you can’t hold with your hands but that people have fought and died to protect. Freedom is something you can’t have without someone shedding their blood, ...read more

  • Memorials  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Dec 28, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,651 views

    • Noah’s Memorial was an Ark. • Abraham’s Memorials was found in his altars. • Isaac’s Memorials flowed from his wells. • Moses’ Memorial was the Law (which included the Tabernacle and it’s furnishings). • Caleb’s Memorial was a mountain discovered in his youth but captured in his old ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis Understood That Confidence And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,003 views

    C.S. Lewis understood that confidence and arrogance were components of pride, too, and that humility was what kept them in balance. There was no simpering, sniveling, “I can’t do anything,” in what he did, but neither was there the pride that says “It’s all me.” He suggested a definition that I ...read more

  • Spiritual Leadership

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 9, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,345 views

    Spiritual Leadership Samuel Logan Brengle said: Spiritual leadership is not won by promotion, but by prayers and tears. It is attained by much heart-searching and humbling before God; by self-surrender, a courageous sacrifice of every idol, a bold, uncompromising, and uncomplaining embracing of ...read more

  • The New Baby...?

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 13, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,002 views

    THE NEW BABY...? For weeks a six-year-old lad kept telling his first-grade teacher about the baby brother or sister that was expected at his house. One day the mother allowed the boy to feel the movements of the unborn child. The six-year old was obviously impressed, but made no comment. ...read more

  • New Hope From Nothing  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2002
    based on 24 ratings
     | 5,108 views

    NEW HOPE FROM NOTHING In Jim Cymbala’s book, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, there is the story of a woman named Roberta Langella. A story she tells in her own words. At the age of 16 she left a broken home to move to New York City where she began living with a man twice her age. A man that got her into ...read more

  • In My Studies This Week I Came Across These Words ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Apr 5, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 2,658 views

    In my studies this week I came across these words from a book in my office called, The Jesus I Never Knew, by Philip Yancey. As my class in Chicago read the Gospels and watched movies about Jesus’ life, we noticed a striking pattern: the more unsavory the characters, the more at ease they seemed ...read more

  • A Man Named Jacob Had Hit A Low Point In His ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 14, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,607 views

    A man named Jacob had hit a low point in his life. He had thought about killing himself but he was too poor and too tired to secure the means to do it. He found a park bench and just lay down to die. He did not eat, because there was nothing to eat. All he thought about was his death. A couple ...read more

  • Twin Brothers And A Dollar

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 11, 2009
     | 5,201 views

    TWIN BROTHERS AND A DOLLAR In his book, The Preaching Event, John Claypool tells a poignant story about identical twin brothers who never married because they enjoyed each other’s company so much. When their father died, they took over his store and ran it together in a joyful collaboration. But ...read more

  • If ...

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 1, 2012
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     | 6,524 views

    IF ONLY There was a great Scotch writer and historian in the nineteenth century named Thomas Carlyle. He married a woman, who’d worked as his secretary named Jane Welsh. But Carlyle was dedicated to his writing so he didn’t spend much time with her. He just mostly wrote. At one point she became ...read more

  • Being A Blessing

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Jan 25, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,426 views

    BEING A BLESSING Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were 8 children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell ...read more