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  • The Tannur (Oven) Did Need To Be Hot In Order To ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 30, 2009
     | 1,517 views

    The tannur (oven) did need to be hot in order to bake the bread, but if there was too much heat when the dough was supposed to be rising, it would kill the yeast and stop the process. I get it. Wailam, my wife, laughed at me when I made a cake and forgot to put any baking powder in it. It ended up ...read more

  • It's Sort Of Like The Fable That Evangelist D. L. ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 30, 2009
     | 1,994 views

    It’s sort of like the fable that evangelist D. L. Moody used to tell. It seems there were two eagles. One of the eagles won every race and the other eagle was jealous. One day, the jealous eagle overheard a hunter say, “I’d bring down that eagle if I had decent fletching on my arrows.” The eagle ...read more

  • Bad Experiences With Christians

    Contributed by Nigel Heath on Apr 4, 2009
     | 2,469 views

    BAD EXPERIENCES WITH CHRISTIANS A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with the Rt. Hon. Adam Ingram MP. I dared to ask him about something I had heard to see if it was true. I had been told that Adam Ingram as a young man had attended the BTI (Bible Training Institute) Bible College in Glasgow. ...read more

  • A Good ...

    Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
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    A GOOD MOTHER (a classic illustration by D. L. Moody) A young man went home from one of our meetings some time ago. He had been converted. He had previously been a dissipated young man. His mother had made it a rule, she told me, that she "would not retire till he came home." That was her rule, ...read more

  • The Most Important Gift

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 16, 2009
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     | 3,008 views

    THE MOST IMPORTANT GIFT Rob Parsons, the founder of "Care for the Family," asks the question, "What is the most important gift a father can give to his child?" He always gives the same answer: it is his unconditional love and acceptance. The key to a child’s heart is to let him or her know that ...read more

  • Lincoln: Keep Trying

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Sep 13, 2009
     | 1,463 views

    LINCOLN: KEEP TRYING Let me tell you about a man who made a disastrous first attempt in the world of business. He switched to politics but within only one year that did not work out either. He tried his hand for a second time at business, but failed again. That meant 3 failures in 3 years, (time ...read more

  • Faith Fights  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 19, 2009
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    FAITH FIGHTS Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. I heard a story about a midwestern farmer 50 years ago. The farmer went to the bank to borrow money to buy seed to plant his whole farm in corn. He fired up the old tractor ...read more

  • We Bring You Us!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    "WE BRING YOU US!" Michael Sattler tells the story of Christmas 1930. His wife had just passed away the month before, and he was lonely and heartsick. But mostly, he worried about the type of Christmas his girls would have. When Christmas morning came, they opened their presents with unusual ...read more

  • Office Worker Reads Bible In Secret At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2009
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    Office Worker Reads Bible In Secret at Work When I was a college student I worked for a time in a government office. I noticed after a while in that office that one of the engineers whose desk was back-to-back with mine would perform a little lunch hour ritual involving something in his desk ...read more

  • John F. Kennedy Questioned By Coal Miner About ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2009
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    John F. Kennedy Questioned by Coal Miner About His History of Work In 1960, John Kennedy was running for the presidency, and was campaigning near a coal mine in West Virginia. One of the miners put a series of questions to Kennedy: "Is it true that your father is one of the wealthiest men in the ...read more

  • The Legend Of A Cherokee Indian ...

    Contributed by Bill Burress on Dec 28, 2009
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    The Legend of a Cherokee Indian Youth’s Rite of Passage? A father takes his son into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. The youth is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot ...read more

  • Donald Grey Barnhouse Scratches A Mark On A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2010
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    Donald Grey Barnhouse Scratches a Mark On a Postal Box to Make a Point Some years ago Donald Grey Barnhouse was counseling a young woman on the sidewalk in front of a church following an evening service. She said she was a Christian and that she wanted to follow Christ. But she wanted to be famous, ...read more

  • They Say A Woman Is Never Prettier Than On Her ...

    Contributed by Jorge Acevedo on Feb 17, 2010
     | 3,181 views

    They say a woman is never prettier than on her wedding day. She is beaming! I thought, why? Is it the makeup? Not really, girls wear make up all the time. Is it the dress? Nope, though wedding dresses are usually pretty not all of them are stunningly beautiful. People lie, though, and they’ll tell ...read more

  • Size Of Congregation Doesn't Guarantee ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2010
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    Size of Congregation Doesn’t Guarantee Fruitfulness It is important to note that large crowds do not necessarily mean that a teacher has a fruitful ministry. He may have a “successful” ministry, in the sense that the world measures success: by buildings, budgets, and bodies. But a “successful” ...read more

  • The Witness Of Booth And Lee

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jul 15, 2010
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    THE WITNESS OF BOOTH AND LEE In the early years of her life she witnessed horrific events as members of her family were beheaded in conflicts in China. Although she was only a little girl, MI LEE (not her real name) was forced to watch and still hallucinates about these terrible and barbaric ...read more

  • He Lay In A Bed Seat, Slightly Twisted And ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 12, 2010
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    He lay in a bed seat, slightly twisted and looking at me with one eye half open. I was finishing a small Bible study devotional with a group of aged people on a passage from the book of Job in the Bible, telling them that God loves them and still has a purpose for their lives, to look UPWARD NOT ...read more

  • Work For The Glory Of God

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 20, 2010
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     | 5,851 views

    Mark is a young businessman who does business in China. Each time he has gone to China, he has asked God to reveal to him whom he might speak to on behalf of Jesus. What might happen if every one of you went to work praying for God to reveal to him whom he might speak to on behalf of Jesus. You’re ...read more

  • God Delivers A North Korean Pastor's Son Through ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    God Delivers A North Korean Pastor’s Son Through His Honesty Duk-Soo was found by North Korean soldiers in the family cellar on November 20, 1950. He and his father, a Presbyterian pastor for 42 years, were taken to prison and told they would be executed in the morning. His father told him they ...read more

  • As You Know, Years Ago When I Lived In The San ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Apr 15, 2007
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    As you know, years ago when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, I had a business on the side cleaning Aquariums. I did ok, I was a young man struggling along with my business and one day I was at my aquarium wholesaler and I ran into a man who was in the same business, except he knew what he was ...read more

  • Just Over A Year Ago, Kerry Packer Died. You've ...

    Contributed by James Jack on Jun 9, 2007
     | 1,379 views

    Just over a year ago, Kerry Packer died. You’ve probably all heard of him. Richest man in Australia, he was. When he died there were memorial services, TV specials, an outpouring of praise for this “Great Australian”. Now I’m not going to compare Packer to an Adolf Hitler, but he was like many ...read more