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  • Parents, If You Get Angry With Your Kids For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bev Sesink on Feb 5, 2005
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     | 2,103 views

    Parents, if you get angry with your kids for something they do wrong, and you lose it, do you wait for your children to apologize or do you set the example and go to them? Teenagers, do you find it beneath your dignity to humble yourself to obey your parents’ reasonable expectations? I remember ...read more

  • A Young Girl Became A Christian In An Exciting ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bart Leger on Feb 6, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,436 views

    A young girl became a Christian in an exciting revival at her church and was baptized the closing Sunday morning. That afternoon she ran through the house singing and dancing. Her sour grandfather rebuked her with these words, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You just joined the church and ...read more

  • Describe Me

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 14, 2009
     | 3,038 views

    DESCRIBE ME I heard about a rabbit and a snake meeting in the forest. The rabbit said, "We don’t know how we look. Why don’t we describe each other to the other so we’ll know how we look?" The snake said, "Good idea. You’ve got a pink nose, long ears, and a fluffy little tail." The rabbit liked ...read more

  • How May We Be Forgiven? Some People May Think ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 11, 2010
     | 1,204 views

    How may we be forgiven? Some people may think they can outrun the judgment. A Spaniard committed a murder at a castle many years ago. He jumped upon a horse and rode wildly into the night. He rode for hours to escape. Finally, exhausted, he lay down to sleep for a couple of hours. When he awoke it ...read more

  • Jesus Knocking

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Oct 14, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,951 views

    JESUS KNOCKING A nurse on the Pediatric Ward before listening to the little ones' heart beat would plug the stethoscope into their ears and let them listen to their own hearts. Their eyes would always light up with awe, but she never got a response to equal four-year old David's comment. She ...read more

  • Delivering Death Notices

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Mar 30, 2011
     | 1,992 views

    DELIVERING DEATH NOTICES When I lived in Albuquerque I was trained by the Albuquerque Police Department to deliver death notifications to people in town. The Police Department used local preachers wearing suits with Police Chaplain badges instead of sending uniformed officers because it was ...read more

  • Muslims Who Turn To Christ

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,567 views

    MUSLIMS WHO TURN TO CHRIST In an article in Breakpoint entitled "Drawn to the Light--Why Muslims Convert to Christianity" , Dr. Dudley Woodberry, professor of Islamic Studies...aware that throughout the world Muslims have been turning to Christ, was curious about the reasons why--especially in ...read more

  • Uh, That's "Maranatha"

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 1, 2012
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    UH, THAT'S "MARANATHA" An elderly Christian lady attended a Christian conference gathering, similar to Keswick/Spring Harvest etc. For her it was really the first time she had mixed with Christians from other denominations. This really blessed her and opened her eyes to the richness of Christian ...read more

  • Telling A Secret

    Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Dec 18, 2012
     | 4,214 views

    Is there anybody here who has ever told somebody a secret? What’s the first thing you say, when you are about to tell somebody a secret? Right-Don’t tell anybody. But if the secret is some really good news, and you’re the person who is being told the secret, your face lights up, your eyes get ...read more

  • Guard Your Heart

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,795 views

    Edgar Guest said: I must be fit for a child to follow, scorning the places where loose men wallow; knowing how much he shall learn from me, I must be fair as I’d have him be. I must come home to him day by day, clean as the morning I went away. I must be fit for a child’s glad greeting; his are ...read more

  • John Fischer, On A Hill Too Far Away: Tells ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    John Fischer, On a Hill Too Far Away: tells about a church in Old Greenwich, CT which has a ten-foot cross located not on a wall or suspended from the ceiling or even on the steeple of the building. This cross is bolted firmly in front of the platform not three feet from where the preacher ...read more

  • In 1879 The Greatest Annual Loss Of Life In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,562 views

    In 1879 The greatest annual loss of life in the New England fisheries occurred, with 29 vessels and 249 fishermen lost at sea. During that year many women found themselves on lonely widow walks with and eye on the horizon hoping for the return of their loved one. A widow’s walk (or roofwalk) is ...read more

  • Some Years Ago A Famous Actor Was Giving An After ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Feb 1, 2008
    based on 1 rating
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    Some years ago a famous actor was giving an after dinner speech. He asked his audience if there was any famous poem that they would like him to recite. There was a silence. Eventually an old vicar raised his hand and said: "Psalm 23 please." The actor agreed, on one condition: that the ...read more

  • Imagine This; You're On Your Way To Jerusalem To ...

    Contributed by Nathan Cooper on Feb 26, 2008
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     | 2,836 views

    Imagine this; you’re on your way to Jerusalem to offer a Passover sacrifice. As you are walking down the road, an area peddler calls to get your attention. He has in his possession a lamb that is being made available to you for this one time low price. As you look over this possible purchase ...read more

  • Augustine Credits His Mother For Leading Him To ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 25, 2008
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    Augustine credits his mother for leading him to Jesus Christ. He was a notorious sinner and this is what he says of his mother after becoming a Christian in his book Confessions. “You (God) drewest my soul out of that profound darkness, my mother, thy faithful one, weeping to Thee for me, more ...read more

  • The Story Is Told By Dr. John R. Rice That Once ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on May 9, 2008
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    The story is told by Dr. John R. Rice that once he was preaching in a conference with the late Gypsy Smith. After the service he walked out of the building to catch a cab back to his motel. Once in the cab, he began to witness to the driver, whereupon the driver with tears in his eyes, told him ...read more

  • Jesus Christ Is The Only Who Lived Who Claimed To ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Jun 2, 2008
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    Jesus Christ is the only who lived who claimed to be God and proved to be God. When I compare this to all other claimants of all other religions, it is like the poet who said, 'The night has a thousand eyes and the day has but one, The light of the whole world dies with the setting of the sun.' At ...read more

  • The English Word "Image" In The Greek Is Like Our ...

    Contributed by John Boquist on Aug 3, 2008
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    The English word "image" in the Greek is like our word icon. Now you know from your computer that an icon is a little picture that represents a larger program. In the same way, Jesus is a man who represents the fullness of God. He not only represents God, He is God. Another way the word was used ...read more

  • Picked Last

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 21, 2008
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    Picked Last It happened several times a week, almost without fail. Whether they lined up against the wall of the gymnasium, the local ice rink or the snow bank for the back-roads hockey, it was always the same. The leaders picked him last. Last for basketball because he was too clumsy; in hockey ...read more

  • A Jewish Banker Gives This Witness Of The Power ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 19, 2000
    based on 106 ratings
     | 4,126 views

    A Jewish banker gives this witness of the power of God through Christ to change lives. He says, "A few years ago I was sent to a place in Puerto Rico to make some studies for the bank. It was the worst, the dirties city imaginable Two years later I returned and it was completely changed. ...read more