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  • Lori Was 14 Years Old When She Was Baptized At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Lori was 14 years old when she was baptized at Blue Springs Community Church, a one-room country church only a few miles from her house. A few months later, Lori dropped out of the church. The pastor and his wife visited her several times, but failed to persuade Lori to return to church. Everyone ...read more

  • Some Fun Hearing What Kids Think About Husbands ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,716 views

    Some fun hearing what kids think about husbands and wives. HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY? Alan, age 10—You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming. Kirsten, age 10—No person ...read more

  • When I Was In The Navy, Sailors Told Each Other ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Oct 28, 2007
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    When I was in the Navy, Sailors told each other all sorts of stories about what happened on various deployments or on liberty. They were called sea stories, and were often far from being true. In fact we used say that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story was that a fairy tale begins ...read more

  • Information From Rev. Bruce Goettsche  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 7, 2007
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    Information from Rev. Bruce Goettsche: You have probably heard the phrase many times, "timing is everything". There is a great deal of truth in that statement. The difference between a good joke and a bad one is a person’s sense of timing. An appropriate pause makes a joke . . . an inappropriate ...read more

  • I Read A Story Of A Woman On Vacation That Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kl Burrus on Nov 19, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
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    I read a story of a woman on vacation that was shopping in the finest stores. One day she saw the most beautiful cup she had ever seen. She went in bought the cup and everyday she would take the cup out and admire it. She would even talk to the cup and say, ’’I’m glad that I found you. You’re one ...read more

  • Paul Harvey Told The Story Of A Family On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Jan 1, 2008
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    Paul Harvey told the story of a family on Christmas Eve. For several years this family had a tradition where the Mother and children would go to the Christmas Eve service, and the Father would stay home and read the paper. Then when they got back from church, they would open their gifts. The ...read more

  • During The Early Morning Hours Of Sunday, January ...

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Feb 12, 2008
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    During the early morning hours of Sunday, January 27, just one week ago today, fire swept through Tim and Victoria Lasita’s Delhi Township home. The house was destroyed, and with it, practically all their possessions. Tim, Victoria and their two sets of triplets—6 children in all, under the age ...read more

  • Max Lucado, In His Book In The Eye Of The Storm, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Feb 18, 2008
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    Max Lucado, in his book In the Eye of the Storm, tells the story of Chippie the Parakeet. He writes: "Chippie the Parakeet never saw it coming. One second he was peacefully perched in his cage. The next he was sucked in, washed up, blown over. The problems began when Chippie’s owner ...read more

  • 37 Things To Say To Your Spouse

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 20, 2008
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    37 THINGS TO SAY TO YOUR SPOUSE A healthy marriage is a safe haven where we can relax and recuperate from the tensions of everyday life. We need to hear positive things from our mate. Just as I gathered together some friends to tell me what not to say to a spouse, so they also suggested what they ...read more

  • Not Easy Being ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
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    NOT EASY BEING MOM A University of Minnesota study on Motherhood released this week said moms should get $131,000 a year for what they do! When you add together all the different jobs they do it becomes obvious how valuable mothers are in our lives. Some reports say mothers do 17 different jobs ...read more

  • The Significance Of Nazareth  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    The Significance of Nazareth "God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee." (Luke 1:26) Many Christian historians tell us that by the time of the birth of Christ, Nazareth had become an unimportant town. It was the home of Joseph and Mary (Luke 2:39) and Nazareth was where the ...read more

  • The Heart Of Mary: Submission To The Lord  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    The Heart of Mary: Submission to the Lord "I am the Lord's servant... May it be to me as you have said." (Luke 1:38) The first desire in the child of God who wants to enjoy the favor of God in his life is to die to self and surrender to the will of God in his life. The key word here "servant" ...read more

  • Actions Speak Louder  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Dec 10, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
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    ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER Andy Stanley tells the story of when he was 13 and learning the meaning of the phrase, "Actions speak louder than words." His dad was the Associate Pastor of First Baptist in Atlanta when the senior pastor was asked to resign. Charles Stanley was asked to preach on Sundays ...read more

  • The More You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    THE MORE YOU KNOW Allen Rex Sandage, the greatest observational cosmologist in the world--who has deciphered the secrets of the stars, plumbed the mysteries of quasars, revealed the age of globular clusters, pinpointed the distances of remote galaxies, and quantified the universe’s expansion ...read more

  • Does God Exist? Barbers Don't ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 18, 2009
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    Does God exist? Barbers Don’t Exist… This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen. It’s an explanation other people will understand. Does God exist? A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, ...read more

  • A Forever Family

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    A FOREVER FAMILY Author Keith Miller tells of an outgoing 40-year-old woman who was part of a sharing group he led. Here is her story: "When I was a tiny little girl, my parents died and I was put in an orphanage. I was not pretty at all and no one seemed to want me. But I longed to be adopted ...read more

  • Now You Know How To Treat Him

    Contributed by Noel Atkinson on Aug 3, 2009
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    NOW YOU KNOW HOW TO TREAT HIM A true story, a friend of mine 'John' was new at a company. He was told be careful with the new photocopier it gets hot and can melt overheads when you put them through the photocopier. So treat it carefully. On his third week there he stayed back late and ...read more

  • Words Of Discouragement From Lucy To Charley ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    Words of Discouragement from Lucy to Charley Brown Charley Brown says to Lucy, still dispensing sage wisdom for the pre-inflationary price of five cents, "Nobody likes me, Lucy. Everybody hates my guts. Do you see that plane up there, Lucy? It’s a plane full of people going somewhere else. That’s ...read more

  • Missionary Encounters ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    Missionary Encounters Ants Steven Cook tells of reading an account of a missionary from India: "The Lord must have desired to teach me something through the "ants" because He allowed me to come in contact with enough of them! The encyclopedia says there are more ants than any other insect. It seems ...read more

  • Give-Away Christmas  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
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    GIVE-AWAY CHRISTMAS Richard Myers tells the story of being a reservist and being called back to active duty in Fort Monmouth, NJ, canceling his Christmas plans with his family in IN. Feeling low, he turned on the radio and heard an appeal from the Post Office for volunteers to answer letters sent ...read more