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  • A Christmas Parable

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 2, 2007
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    A Christmas Parable A man is climbing a mountain, at the top of which he hopes to find God. By ascending the heights, the seeker expects to leave all the cares and miseries of life behind in the valley. But while he climbs, God is coming down the mountain into the toil and grief. In the mists ...read more

  • Feeling Like A Nobody  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 10, 2007
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     | 3,642 views

    Feeling Like A Nobody We all feel like a nobody sometimes, and some of us feel like a nobody all the time. Some time ago a new employee at a Wal-Mart had an unusual experience. The young man had just been at work three days and was the low man in the pecking order at the store. He was standing ...read more

  • The Story Is Told That Jonathan Edwards, The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
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    The story is told that Jonathan Edwards, the third president of Princeton University and a great preacher of another generation, had a daughter who had a nasty temper, which was not well known to many people outside the family. Well it happened that a young man met and fell in love with this young ...read more

  • In His Book The Gospel As It Really Is Stuart ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 15, 2008
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    IN HIS BOOK THE GOSPEL AS IT REALLY IS STUART OLYOTT GIVES THE ILLUSTRATION OF A MAN WALKING DOWN A LANE BY NIGHT WHO FALLS INTO A PUDDLE OF MUD . HE DIDN’T REALISE HOW DIRTY HE WAS UNTIL HE BEGAN TO REACH THE STREET LIGHT . THE NEARER HE CAME TO THE LIGHT THE MORE HE BECAME AWARE OF HIS FILTH ...read more

  • Power Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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    POWER OF PRAYER There was a young Christian lady from Boston who left work and went to the parking garage to get in her car and go to church one Wednesday evening, and when she stepped into the elevator a man grabbed her and began to try to rape her. She yelled out: "In the name of Jesus, stop it, ...read more

  • The Broom And The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    THE BROOM AND THE WATER In his Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes Interpreter’s house, which Pilgrim entered during the course of his journey to the Celestial City. The parlor of the house was completely covered with dust, and when a man took a broom and started to sweep, he and the others ...read more

  • It Could Be Done

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 14, 2009
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    IT COULD BE DONE "Why are you bothering yourselves with a knitting machine?" asked Ari Davis of Boston, a manufacturer of instruments. "Why don’t you make a sewing machine?" That particular question was overheard by a young man of twenty - Elias Howe. No one took that question seriously, except ...read more

  • Many People Find It Much Easier To ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 18, 2010
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    Many people find it much easier to compartmentalize their lives and justify their inconsistencies. Consider this story. A man and his girlfriend went to a fast food restaurant. They bought a bucket of chicken to take on a picnic, but the cashier mistakenly gave them the bucket full of the day’s ...read more

  • The Duration Of Life

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
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    THE DURATION OF LIFE God originally determined 30 years as the ideal span of life for all animals, including mankind. The donkey, the dog, and the monkey considered it much too long, however, and begged God to reduce their years by 18, 12, and 10. Being healthy, vigorous, and somewhat greedy, the ...read more

  • Strength Won't Do It

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jul 30, 2011
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    STRENGTH WON'T DO IT My Dad died in Dec 04. He was the strongest man I ever knew...he was the most honest man I ever knew….he was a good farmer...good mechanic ...good Dad...good husband...but he wasn't strong enough to defeat death. If I could write down the good deeds my Dad done in his life on ...read more

  • Know Why You Worship As You Do  PRO

    Contributed by Tim White on Dec 5, 2011
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    KNOW WHY YOU WORSHIP AS YOU DO Why would some people buy a cat and tie it to the bedpost to show their reverence to God? Many years ago, a very poor holy man lived in a remote part of China. Every day before his time of meditation, in order to show his devotion, he put a dish of butter up on the ...read more

  • Vanishing Waves

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2012
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    VANISHING WAVES A wise man once told me to pour a glass of water. He dipped his index finger into the cup, I watched as miniature waves hit the glass only to halt seconds later. The wise man told that regardless of how important the world will ever view me or my accomplishments, history will only ...read more

  • Who Am I?  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Feb 26, 2013
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    WHO AM I? The German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, used to love to take long walks of a summer evening, meditating and thinking. On one occasion he was seated in a park when a suspicious policeman noticed that he had been there for several hours. The policeman came up to him and said, "What are you ...read more

  • The Two Upper Rooms

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 24, 2014
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    In his book Life Looks Up, Charles Templeton remarks how ironic it is that the course of human history has been affected so positively and negatively by events that have occurred in two small upper rooms. One of them is a drab apartment in London's Westside, dirty, curtain less, with stacks of ...read more

  • Compassion For The Lost

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Nov 9, 2018
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    D.L. Moody told the story of his conversion this way: “When I was in Boston I used to attend a Sunday school class, and one day I recollect my teacher came around behind the counter of the shop I was at work in, and put his hand upon my shoulder, and talked to me about Christ and my soul. I had not ...read more

  • Flying High

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 8, 2020
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    Sept. 1 2020 (UPI) -- An American Airlines pilot preparing to land in Los Angeles reported an unusual encounter at about 3,000 feet with a "guy in a jetpack." A recording of the conversation between the pilot and air traffic control Sunday evening at Los Angeles International Airport ...read more

  • An Empty Agnostic Who Wanted To Believe

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 4, 2022
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    T.H. Huxley, a well-known agnostic, was with a group of men at a weekend house party. On Sunday morning, while most of them were preparing to go to church, he approached a man known for his Christian character and said, "Suppose you stay at home and tell my why you are a Christian." The ...read more

  • Mother's Day Joke

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 19, 2022
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    Several years ago, when fathers were not with the mom for her delivery, a group of expectant fathers were in a waiting room, while their wives were in the process of delivering babies. A nurse came in and announced to one man that his wife had just given birth to twins. "That's quite a ...read more

  • Individually, We Are Weak

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2022
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    This story was written by Donald Grey Barnhouse. Several years ago, two students graduated from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. The highest ranking student in the class was a blind man named Overton and, when he received his honor, he insisted that half the credit should go to his friend, ...read more

  • If Marriage Is That Much Work....

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Oct 23, 2022
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    Because of a shortage of maids, the minister’s wife advertised for a male servant to help around the house. The next morning, a nicely dressed young man came to the front door of the parsonage. The minister opened the door and jumped right into the conversation. "Can you start breakfast by 7 ...read more