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  • On New Year's Day, 1929, Georgia Tech Played ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,654 views

    On New Year’s Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played UCLA in the Rose Bowl. In that game a young man named Roy Riegels recovered a fumble for UCLA. Picking up the loose ball, he lost his direction and ran sixty-five yards toward the wrong goal line. One of his teammates, Beeny Lom, ran him down and tackled ...read more

  • When Queen Elizabeth Was A Little Girl, She ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim George on Feb 14, 2001
    based on 114 ratings
     | 2,440 views

    When Queen Elizabeth was a little girl, she threw a tantrum. Her nanny said, “Do you know who you are?’ “Of course, “ she replied, “ I am Elizabeth.” “No,” scolded her nanny, “you are the heir apparent to the throne of the British Empire and the future Queen of England.” To that the ...read more

  • Your Death And My Death Are Mainly Of ...

    Contributed by Sean Smuts on Jan 29, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,659 views

    "Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us, and those who ...read more

  • Again Emotions Would Temp Us To Do What Is Easy ...

    Contributed by Andrew Drummond on Jul 22, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,451 views

    Again emotions would temp us to do what is easy and selfish. When Donna and I were leaving our family at the airport in Montreal for Melbourne we were experiencing emotions we had never experienced before. The temptation would have been to tear up the tickets and stay with our family, but God was ...read more

  • A Shallow View Of Love

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 24, 2007
     | 1,707 views

    Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. These lines spoken by Romeo in Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet, give us a very shallow view of love. Love, to Romeo, is really only infatuation. ...read more

  • Ken Medema, Blind Songwriter Wrote The Powerful ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,524 views

    Ken Medema, blind songwriter wrote the powerful words of a song called “If this is not a Place” which is so fitting to the message of what the family of God should be. “If this is not a place where tears are understood, Then where shall I go to cry? And if this is not a place where my spirit can ...read more

  • He Brings Peace At The End Of The Day He Was Near ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Sep 12, 2006
     | 717 views

    HE BRINGS PEACE AT THE END OF THE DAY HE WAS NEAR THEN AND HE IS NEAR NOW. HE SHOWED THEM HIS HANDS. THOSE HANDS FOUND ME AND HELD ME, KEPT MY HEART FROM BREAKING AND BRUSHED AWAY TEARS. Perhaps this is why David said in: (Psa 55:17 KJV) Evening, and morning, ...read more

  • M-O-T-H-E-R  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 14, 2004
    based on 20 ratings
     | 2,098 views

    M-O-T-H-E-R "M" is for the million things she gave me, "O" means only that she’s growing old, "T" is for the tears she shed to save me, "H" is for her heart of purest gold; "E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining, "R" means right, and right she’ll always be, Put them ...read more

  • In A Church I Know Well One Lady Slapped Another ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 6, 2004
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    In a church I know well one lady slapped another ladies child in the nursery. When the lady found out about it she was furious, but she didn’t want to say anything. Her pastor encouraged her to talk to the other lady about what had happened. When she confronted her in love, the other lady ...read more

  • I Also Thank God As Does Joseph Bayly In Psalms ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Nov 18, 2006
     | 1,606 views

    I also thank God as does Joseph Bayly in PSALMS OF MY LIFE in these words: Thank You God that You see armies march a sparrow fall hear atom’s blast a baby’s cry smell volcano’s flow a man’s sweat feel contour of mountains a little lump taste ocean’ salt my ...read more

  • Broken Dreams As Children Bring Their Broken ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Broken Dreams As children bring their broken toys With tears for us to mend, I brought my broken dreams to God Because He was my friend. But then instead of leaving Him In peace to work alone I hung around and tried to help With ways that were my own. At last I snatched them back ...read more

  • In The Twisted Wreckage Of A Metrolink Train ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 8, 2010
     | 2,381 views

    In the twisted wreckage of a Metrolink train crash, firefighters from Los Angeles Fire Station 27 found a message that brought tears to their eyes. A survivor of the crash, thinking he was dying, had used his own blood to write on the seat in front of him that he loved his wife and kids. Normally, ...read more

  • Holdfast

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 7, 2011
     | 941 views

    HOLDFAST In the plant world, there are plants who hold fast onto objects like rocks. Their root system is called a holdfast. Many people associate holdfasts with seaweed. If we have ever attempted to pull a piece of seaweed from a rock, we can understand the name of this plant structure; we ...read more

  • What's Left Of Your Heart

    Contributed by Gregg Barbour on Feb 8, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,132 views

    What's Left of Your Heart Anna's wedding day was finally here. She planned for months and months, and in the small church with her family and friends, she was ready to take the vow's with her fiancé, David. He gently took her hand and they turned toward the altar. But, as the minister began to ...read more

  • There Was A Family With One Little Daughter. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 9, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
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    There was a family with one little daughter. Mother and daughter were very faithful in church and Sunday School attendance…The father wasn’t interested and he made it plain it was okay for his wife and daughter, but not for him. He worked in a steel mill, a huge hulk of a man who had been a ...read more

  • If Tomorrow Starts Without Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 3, 2002
    based on 33 ratings
     | 5,321 views

    IF TOMORROW STARTS WITHOUT ME If tomorrow starts without me, And I’m not there to see; If the sun should rise and find your eyes All filled with tears for me; I wish so much you wouldn’t cry The way you did today, While thinking of the many things, We didn’t get to say. I know how much you love ...read more

  • Two Books About The Life Of John Lennon, One Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Apr 1, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,153 views

    Two books about the life of John Lennon, one of the Beatles, have come out. One by Robert Rosen is titled Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon, and another is Lennon in America by Geoffrey Giuliano. Both talk about the famous singer’s conversion to Christ on Palm Sunday. He began watching ...read more

  • The Brother's Song

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Apr 13, 2012
     | 3,297 views

    THE BROTHER'S SONG Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son, Michael, prepare for his sister. Day after day and night after night, Michael sang to his sister in Mommy's tummy. He was building a bond of love ...read more

  • Dr. And Mrs. Oswald Goulter Were Missionaries In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Jun 23, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,728 views

    Dr. and Mrs. Oswald Goulter were missionaries in China for 41 years. Then one morning outside of Nanking, they heard the sounds of guns. Before they could even get out of bed, the Communist soldiers came and ransacked their house and tore up their mission station. They captured he and his wife and ...read more

  • A Man Was Watching A Little Tv On Sunday Instead ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
     | 1,837 views

    A man was watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, He was watch a Church service in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years...... The retired minister was 92 at that time and he wondered why the Church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to ...read more