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  • I Did A Google Image Search For The

    Contributed by James Jack on Apr 11, 2009
     | 3,549 views

    I did a google image search for the “armour of God.” It’s extraordinary the number of diagrams and pictures devoted to this theme. For our instruction and entertainment (well, actually more for our entertainment), I’ll show you a selection. • They normally involve someone decked out somewhat like ...read more

  • The Day Mom Turned Blue

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on May 20, 2014
     | 5,042 views

    Just after Thanksgiving last year, the family was gathered for a dinner at my house. Mom had just returned from visiting my sisters in New York. She was having trouble with her asthma and was tired and short of breath. While in NY, she felt poor enough to see the Doctor, so naturally, we were ...read more

  • Shake It Off And Step Up  PRO

    Contributed by Travis Moore on Feb 12, 2001
    based on 270 ratings
     | 3,844 views

    SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule "braying", or whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that ...read more

  • Gifts Aren't Fair

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Feb 23, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,918 views

    Gifts aren’t fair To receive a gift, really and truly for free, is a rare thing in this world, and may even make the receiver uncomfortable. Even the lotteries and sweepstakes have to go to a great deal of trouble to prove to everybody that it is chance that picks the winner—that the winner is ...read more

  • Making A Difference  PRO

    Contributed by Al Schifano on Mar 25, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,551 views

    Making A Difference Don’t Look Back As you travel through life there are always those times when decisions just have to be made, when the choices are hard and solutions seem scarce and the rain seems to soak your parade! There are some situations where all you can do is to simply let go and ...read more

  • Once He Started Clamping Down, I Remember ...

    Contributed by David Ward on Dec 10, 2004
     | 1,202 views

    "Once he started clamping down, I remember thinking, This is it. I’m going to die." These were Anne Hjelle’s words in an interview with Inside Edition. Riding her mountain bike in a Southern California wilderness park, Anne was ferociously attacked by a mountain lion. Thrown off her bike, Anne ...read more

  • Oscar Did Not Know What Would Be In Store For His ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Sep 10, 2007
     | 1,162 views

    Oscar did not know what would be in store for his family as they disembarked at Ellis Island. There were times during their long journey from Sweden that young Oscar wondered if they would ever get to this wonderful place called America. Yet Oscar and his family settled in Minnesota and began to ...read more

  • When Larry Crabbe, Christian Psychologist And ...

    Contributed by Amanda Wilson on Oct 20, 2007
     | 1,422 views

    When Larry Crabbe, Christian psychologist and author, became a father, he decided he was going to do parenting right! So Larry made sure he hugged his sons and told them he loved them. He had father-son talks, dinners and camping trips. He personally saw to it that his sons had a thorough ...read more

  • Are You A Big-Godder Or A Little ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 29, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,453 views

    Are You a Big-Godder or a Little Godder? Many years ago, there was a learned Hebrew professor at Princeton Seminary named Robert Dick Wilson. He could read more than 30 Semitic languages! One time about twelve years after Donald Grey Barnhouse had graduated; he went back to the seminary to preach ...read more

  • The Love Of A Sister

    Contributed by Rev.james Kelly on Aug 15, 2011
     | 3,859 views

    THE LOVE OF A SISTER What is love? This story was found while watching Crime Investigation Channel in our home here in the Philippines: Kip Kinkel was a troubled young men and at the time of this story I am about to tell you happened when Kep was seventeen. Kip lived with his parents, Faith and ...read more

  • Looking At The Light

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,182 views

    LOOKING AT THE LIGHT A pastor told a story of a man in his congregation who had lost literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. He owed everybody. One day the pastor asked him, "How in the world are you even surviving? How can you smile? How can you be enthusiastic about Jesus and about life when ...read more

  • There Was A Man Who Was Having Some Very Serious ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Mar 3, 2008
    based on 19 ratings
     | 1,659 views

    There was a man who was having some very serious financial problems. He went to his pastor and told him of all his troubles. The Pastor told him that if he would pray then God would provide for his needs. So the man went home that night and prayed “Dear Lord please let me win the lottery so that ...read more

  • The Unpublished Hymn

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,242 views

    THE UNPUBLISHED HYMN The hymn writer Fanny Crosby gave us more than 6,000 gospel songs. Although blinded by an illness at the age of six weeks, she never became bitter. One time a preacher sympathetically remarked, "I think it is great pity that the Master did not give you sight when He showered ...read more

  • Five Finger ...

    Contributed by John Browning on Jan 31, 2009
     | 3,163 views

    Five Finger Prayer This is so neat. I had never heard this before. This is beautiful - and it is surely worth making the 5 finger prayer a part of our lives. 1. Your thumb is nearest you. So begin your prayers by praying for those closest to you. They are the easiest to remember. To pray for our ...read more

  • Thank You Sir! May I Do Another?" Matthew 4:1-11 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Feb 3, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,229 views

    “Thank You Sir! May I Do Another?” Matthew 4:1-11 Key verse(s): 9-10:“Then the devil left him and angels came and attended him.” “Thank you sir! May I do another?” Crouching on the ground, the recruit seemed barely touched by the sergeant’s rough treatment. He was doing push-ups; and a lot of ...read more

  • The Preacher Who Wouldn't Do  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Feb 8, 2006
    based on 31 ratings
     | 3,458 views

    THE PREACHER WHO WOULDN’T DO A church was in need of a preacher. One of the elders was interested in finding out just what kind of a preacher the church wanted. In order to do this he composed a letter as though it had been received from a preacher and read it to the committee selecting a new ...read more

  • I Don’t Have Any Paid Employment At ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Feb 7, 2010
     | 1,617 views

    I don’t have any paid employment at present. Moving to Sydney has been a step of faith. We have limited resources for the future. Our possessions fit into a garage. Somewhere under all those boxes is a piano that we have carted around on all our moves and still has future moves to come. I am ...read more

  • Hospitality To Strangers  PRO

    Contributed by Susan Babb, Osl on Oct 9, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,608 views

    A. Friend – some years ago B. Sunday worship service, church like ours C. Service begun – member of congregation began worship, no pastor yet D. Man dressed shabbily in a heavy overcoat and wild hair and who could of used a bath came into service 1. Trouble finding a seat, pretty ...read more

  • While Grace And Mercy Are Basically One And The ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Dec 25, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,114 views

    While grace and mercy are basically one and the same characteristic of God, we can “split hairs” and see a distinction. Vaughan Durston, Founder of “U. B. David and I’ll B. Jonathan Inc.,” shares two stories that make this clear. Remember Rolfe Barnard’s definition: “Grace is God’s favour that ...read more

  • Thin Slices! (07.15.05--Tomorrow--Deuteronomy ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jul 13, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,588 views

    Thin Slices! (07.15.05--Tomorrow--Deuteronomy 29:29) Did you ever notice how at least having just a taste of something, a little hint or just a brief encounter with what we were anticipating, can be so much fun? I know a lot about anticipation. Being a bird watcher for many years, I am familiar ...read more

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