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  • Who Has Ever Heard Of Harriet Tubman Before? Her ...  PRO

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Feb 25, 2003
    based on 21 ratings
     | 3,958 views

    Who has ever heard of Harriet Tubman before? Her story is an exciting one. She was a runaway slave who was able to get to the north with the help of some sympathetic people both white and black. She was so thankful for the help that she had received that she decided to risk her own life to ...read more

  • A Young Man Was At The End Of His Rope. Seeing No ...  PRO

    Contributed by Johanna Radelfinger on May 26, 2003
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,381 views

    A young man was at the end of his rope. Seeing no way out he dropped to his knees in prayer. "Lord, I can’t go on," he said. "I have too heavy a cross to bear." The Lord replied, "My son, if you can’t bear its weight, just place your cross inside this room. Then open that other door and pick out ...read more

  • Unused Spiritual Resources  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Sep 12, 2003
    based on 51 ratings
     | 6,836 views

    Unused Spiritual Resources During Superbowl XXXVII, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie Castaway, in which Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker whose company plane went down, stranding him on a desert island for years. Looking like the bedraggled Hanks in the movie, the FedEx employee in the ...read more

  • Charles Swindoll Says That Competitive ...

    Contributed by Richard Wafford on Nov 24, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,321 views

    Charles Swindoll says that competitive excellence requires one hundred percent all of the time. If you doubt that, try maintaining excellence by setting your standards at 92 percent. Or even 95 percent. People figure they’re doing fine so long as they get somewhat near it. Excellence gets reduced ...read more

  • F. B. Meyer Wrote About Two Germans Who Wanted To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Dec 28, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,599 views

    F. B. Meyer wrote about two Germans who wanted to climb the Matterhorn. They hired three guides and began their ascent at the steepest and most slippery part. The men roped themselves together in this order: guide, traveler, guide, traveler, guide. They had gone only a little way up the side when ...read more

  • A Boy Asked His Father, "How Much Do You Make In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,680 views

    A boy asked his father, "How much do you make in an hour?" The father got mad and answered roughly, "Don’t bother me." He was tired and irritable after a tough day at work, but the boy insisted. "Please, how much do you make?" The father said in a bad tone of voice, "six pounds." Then his son ...read more

  • Dr. Tim Lahaye Tells The Story (Which I Have ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,029 views

    Dr. Tim Lahaye tells the story (which I have repeated many times, but which perfectly illustrates a point); it’s about a husband who was receiving marital counseling. The obvious truth was that He and His wife were at odds with each other and were in the mode of fault-finding. After giving a ...read more

  • We Stand Before The Lord

    Contributed by Mark Bauer on Aug 1, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,094 views

    We stand before the Lord like a child with her hand in the candy jar. who finds he cannot withdraw his hand without letting go of the candy. She is unwilling to do this The candy represents everything we want in life at that moment. But he child is helpless caught between 2 desires candy ...read more

  • Double Message Noted

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 18, 2007
     | 1,326 views

    Double Message Noted A man sat down to supper with his family and said grace, thanking God for the food, for the hands which prepared it, and for the source of all life. But during the meal he complained about the freshness of the bread, the bitterness of the coffee, and the sharpness of the ...read more

  • As A Young Boy My Father Took Me Out Pheasant ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,117 views

    As a young boy my father took me out pheasant hunting. We didn’t have a dog and as I was too young to fire a gun I took on the role of the dog. It was a few hours until we found a pheasant under a fence row. I was sent in to flush the bird. As it took wing a shot rang out. Feathers exploded ...read more

  • A Minister Travelling On A Train In Europe Was ...

    Contributed by Darren Rogers on Jan 31, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,489 views

    A minister travelling on a train in Europe was the sole occupant of a compartment, except for a young man reading a newspaper. The youth was also a Christian, but so weak was his faith, and so many were his temptations, that he told the minister he did not think he would be able to stand life a ...read more

  • Eternity Magazine Contained A New Item On ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 9, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,713 views

    Eternity magazine contained a new item on immortality and people's fascination with it. The article read: “The quest for pseudoimmortality took a giant leap forward with the announcement that you can send your remains "to the heavens" when you die. The Celestis Group of Melbourne, Florida, has ...read more

  • Which Do You Think He Believed?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,533 views

    WHICH DO YOU THINK HE BELIEVED? A man sat down to supper with his family and said grace, thanking God for the food, for the hands which prepared it, and for the source of all life. But during the meal he complained about the freshness of the bread, the bitterness of the coffee, and the sharpness ...read more

  • Bound To Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 29, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,388 views

    BOUND TO CHRIST F.B. Meyer wrote about two Germans who wanted to climb the Matterhorn. They hired three guides and began their ascent at the steepest and most slippery part. The men roped themselves together in this order: guide, traveler, guide, traveler, guide. They had gone only a little way ...read more

  • The Right Use Of The Eyes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2012
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,300 views

    THE RIGHT USE OF THE EYES A bishop of the early church, who was a remarkable example of the virtue of contentment, was asked his secret. The venerable old man replied: "It consists in nothing more than making a right use of my eyes. In whatever state I am, I first of all look up to heaven and ...read more

  • Charles Dickens And Reviving Christmas  PRO

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Dec 24, 2012
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,234 views

    Two hundred years ago, in the early 19th Century, as astonishing as it may seem, Christmas in Great Britain had become almost extinct. The Times newspaper did not mention Christmas once between 1790 and 1835. Not once! However, Charles Dickens was instrumental in reviving Christmas during the ...read more

  • The Debt Is Paid

    Contributed by Daniel King, D. Min. on Jul 25, 2018
     | 4,767 views

    Main Idea: Because of our sin, we owe a great debt that is impossible to pay, but Jesus paid the debt. Verse: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23 NKJV). Illustration: One time I was buying a sandwich at a store and I did not ...read more

  • The Definition Of A Bbq

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jul 8, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,675 views

    THE DEFINITION OF A BBQ It’s the only type of cooking a "real man" will do. When a man volunteers to do the ’BBQ’ the following chain of events is put into motion: 1) The woman goes to the store. 2) The woman fixes the salad, vegetables, and dessert. 3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, ...read more

  • Victor Frankl: Prisoner Story

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
     | 3,422 views

    VICTOR FRANKL: PRISONER STORY Victor Frankl was a Viennese psychiatrist whose entire family was captured and kept in Concentration camps in Nazi Germany. While Frankl was being held prisoner his father, mother and wife all died in camps. Only Frankl’s sister and himself survived. Dr. Frankl has ...read more

  • Carrying Guilt

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 26, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,039 views

    CARRYING GUILT When I was a summer chaplain, I visited a person in the ICU hooked up to the machines and such, and suddenly I was overwhelmed with grief that I also had a strong panic attack. Although the patient looked nothing like my grandfather, I was just suddenly stuck with the picture of him ...read more

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