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  • The Trouble With Money  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 2, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,906 views

    Illustration: The Trouble with Money Guys, just remember, if you get lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you get out and buy a lot of stuff--it’s gonna break. You got your biggest,fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It’s got a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going ...read more

  • Anger Is The Spontaneous Reaction We Have When ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 5, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,952 views

    Anger is the spontaneous reaction we have when someone interferes with our will or messes up our plans. If you doubt that, see what emotion seizes you on the way home when someone cuts you off on Loop 410. (The other day, Susan and I were driving to church when a car wasn’t cooperating with my ...read more

  • Mary Had The Little Lamb  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 27, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,619 views

    Mary Had The Little Lamb Mary had the little Lamb, who lived before His birth; Self-existent Son of God, from Heaven He came to Earth. Mary had the little Lamb; see Him in yonder stall -- Virgin-born Son of God, to save man from the Fall. Mary had the little Lamb, obedient Son of ...read more

  • Leaders Learn From Their Mistakes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 2, 2002
    based on 38 ratings
     | 3,480 views

    Leaders Learn from Their Mistakes In his book Managing People is Like Herding Cats, leadership guru Warren Bennis observes that "Almost invariably, great leaders have had a significant setback, crisis or failure in their lives. Many of the leaders I studied faced adversity early in their lives. ...read more

  • A Man In The Hospital Experienced This Kind Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jan 6, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,232 views

    "A man in the hospital experienced this kind of love, a love he had not known before. This love made him think about his life made him seriously see what life was all about. One day he said to the chaplain, ’I am beginning to see what life is all about,. I saw it in the nurses who cared for me ...read more

  • Einstein Gave Grudging Acceptance To "The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 28, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,794 views

    Einstein gave grudging acceptance to "the necessity for a beginning" and eventually, to "the presence of a superior reasoning power," but never did he accept the doctrine of a personal God. Two specific obstacles blocked his way. According to his journal writings, Einstein wrestled with a deeply ...read more

  • A Vanished Friend

    Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Feb 22, 2006
     | 2,162 views

    Around the corner I have a friend, In this great city that has no end; Yet days go by and weeks rush on, And before I know it, a year is gone, And I never see my old friend’s face. For life is a swift and terrible race. He knows I like him just as well As in the days when I rang his bell And he ...read more

  • To Know God's Will, Follow The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
     | 5,911 views

    To Know God’s Will, Follow the Guide In A Slow and Certain Light, Elizabeth Elliot tells of 2 adventurers who stopped by to see her, all loaded with equipment for the rainforest East of the Andes. It was the first time they are trekking the forest but they sought no advice, just a few phrases to ...read more

  • A Bug's Life (Disney)

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 19, 2010
     | 3,034 views

    A Bug's Life (Disney) Overview -- Hopper explains to his gang that one ant may be harmless and unable to stop them, like throwing one seed at a gang member. Hundreds of ants joined together, though, could bury them as surely as hundreds of seeds do. This speech rallies his gang to crush the ants' ...read more

  • The Ring And The Carrot

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 9, 2012
     | 1,489 views

    THE RING AND THE CARROT "A Swedish woman who lost her wedding ring 16 years ago was flabbergasted when she found it again, around a carrot growing in her garden, media reported Saturday. Lena Paahlsson had taken off the white gold ring before a Christmas baking session with her daughters in 1995, ...read more

  • The Evil In Ourselves

    Contributed by Steven Ferber on Apr 10, 2012
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     | 3,174 views

    THE EVIL IN OURSELVES A few weeks ago Americans were stunned by the news that an American soldier in Afghanistan apparently killed 17 Afghan civilians. Friends and teachers of Robert Bales describe him as caring, gregarious and self-confident before he just "snapped." One childhood friend told the ...read more

  • The Finality Of Death  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Hoos on Apr 21, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,870 views

    The Finality of Death When I was just around the age of five or six years old I attended my first funeral. They have since become something that I am used to, but this first time was something that was very memorable for me. I remember standing there, barely able to see into the coffin, and ...read more

  • The Pilgrims Who Arrived On The Mayflower Were ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 24, 2008
     | 1,760 views

    The Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower were not the first to celebrate Thanksgiving in the New World. Several groups before them had done similar things. But the Plymouth Rock Thanksgiving is the one we model our celebration after; for one thing, it included turkey: Governor William Bradford ...read more

  • The Attitude Of The Average Christian Today Is ...

    Contributed by Hugh Laing on Jan 19, 2010
     | 2,528 views

    The attitude of the average Christian today is … “JUST RELAX AND ONE DAY BE RAPTURED.” But He is coming with flaming vengeance on this world...with flaming vengeance!!! And to you who think... “Some time ago I bought my ticket to Jordan” be warned...true Christians ...read more

  • God Changes Things

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
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    GOD CHANGES THINGS It was the late Donald Barnhouse the American pastor and author who stunned his congregation by saying, "Prayer changes nothing." The church was packed full of people, yet you could have heard a pin drop. Now his comment was ...read more

  • A Woman Decided The Time Had Come To Talk To Her ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2008
     | 1,167 views

    A woman decided the time had come to talk to her bright four-year-old son, Benji, about receiving Christ. "Benji," she asked quietly, "would you like to have Jesus in your heart?" Benji rolled his blue eyes ...read more

  • How Many Coughs Is Enough For One Day

    Contributed by James Snyder on Sep 2, 2023
     | 812 views

    This past week started rather rough. At least rougher than others. It started with a cough. A cough is not that serious if it's just one cough or maybe two. But it is not good when it is one cough after another and another. One day last week, right after this coughing spell began, the ...read more

  • I Heard About A Woman Whose Dad Owned A Grocery ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 4, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,628 views

    I heard about a woman whose dad owned a grocery store when she was growing up, and several times a week the milkman would come to deliver milk to the store, and every time he saw her he would say, "How is my little Miss America doing today? So beautiful, so talented." Everyday, he would stack the ...read more

  • Grandma's Hands

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Mar 23, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,696 views

    Grandma’s Hands When I stand at the graveside for an elderly person, I think about the life they have lived, that dash between the birth date and date of death. I think about all they have seen, all they have experienced. And I think about this story that is told: Grandma, some 90+ years, sat ...read more

  • Nothing But Prayer And Worship  PRO

    Contributed by Ray Pritchard on Aug 28, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,619 views

    Nothing But Prayer and Worship This week I chance to stop and worship God in an extended way for the first time in the last seven years. I spent four days with 75 other pastors in a Pastor’s Prayer Summit at a place called Wonderland Camp in Wisconsin. In my time I’ve been to many camps, ...read more