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  • Amish Grace And Forgiveness

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 9, 2012
     | 3,524 views

    AMISH GRACE AND FORGIVENESS Following the tragic Amish school shooting of 10 young schoolgirls in a one-room Amish school in October 2006, reporters from throughout the world invaded Lancaster County, PA to cover the story. However, in the hours and days following the shooting a different, an ...read more

  • If ...

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 1, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,520 views

    IF ONLY There was a great Scotch writer and historian in the nineteenth century named Thomas Carlyle. He married a woman, who’d worked as his secretary named Jane Welsh. But Carlyle was dedicated to his writing so he didn’t spend much time with her. He just mostly wrote. At one point she became ...read more

  • You Promised Me  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on May 6, 2013
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,589 views

    "YOU PROMISED ME" Love always perseveres. Love never Fails. In 1989, an 8.2 earthquake almost flattened Armenia, killing over 30,000 people in less than four minutes. Surprisingly, such tragedies often bring out the best in people. Let me show you the loving heart of a father. In the midst of ...read more

  • Selling Your Cow  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 31, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,678 views

    Daniel Overdorf: One of my older sisters and her husband served for 12 years as missionaries to Haiti. Among various other ministries, such as church plants, a school and feeding programs, they discipled a few young men who today lead various churches and ministries. One participant in this was ...read more

  • God's Great Faithfulness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,238 views

    GOD'S GREAT FAITHFULNESS You can find hope in your darkest hour through the faithfulness of God. Harry Teuchert knows this is true. For years Harry had been a successful publisher of materials for churches. Everything in his life seemed to be perfect: A lovely home, a family, a solid future; but ...read more

  • A Teen's Plea On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
     | 1,982 views

    A TEEN’S PLEA ON LISTENING I want to close now by reading a letter. Here is a modern example of the tragedy of not listening, a modern example of the measure you measured with being measured back to you. In this particular case, it’s a college girl pleading with parents to listen. But I think I ...read more

  • A "Conquering" Faith

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jan 31, 2011
     | 7,699 views

    A "CONQUERING" FAITH The following story comes from Hank Hanegraaff's book, "The Last Disciple" (which refers to the Apostle John, the last one of the 12 to die). It is set within the historical context of first century Rome's persecution of the church. Leah is the sister of a young Christian ...read more

  • Economist Robert Heilbroner Describes The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,671 views

    "Economist Robert Heilbroner describes the luxuries a typical American family would have to surrender if they lived among the one billion hungry people in the Third World: We begin by invading the house of our imaginary American family to strip it of its furniture. Everything goes: beds, chairs, ...read more

  • Heavenly Botox! (09.12.05--Heavenly Citizens!--2 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 8, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,982 views

    Heavenly Botox! (09.12.05--Heavenly Citizens!--2 Cor. 5:17) Make-overs! We are a people obsessed with them these days. We restore our cars, pump botox into our chins and eyelids, remodel our homes at a record pace and are transfixed by the various shows on television whose story lines are founded ...read more

  • One Of America's Greatest Poets Is Henry ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Skinner on Dec 4, 2005
    based on 72 ratings
     | 4,847 views

    One of America’s greatest poets is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The year 1860 found Longfellow happy in his life, enjoying a widening recognition, and elated over the election of Abraham Lincoln which he believed signaled the triumph of freedom and redemption for the nation. The following year the ...read more

  • Clarence Jordan Was A Man Of Unusual Abilities ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2001
    based on 110 ratings
     | 2,803 views

    Clarence Jordan was a man of unusual abilities and commitment. He had two Ph.D.s, one in agriculture and one in Greek and Hebrew. So gifted was he, he could have chosen to do anything he wanted. He chose to serve the poor. In the 1940’s, he founded a farm in Americus Georgia, and called it ...read more

  • I Read A Story Recently That Illustrates What I'm ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 14, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,589 views

    I read a story recently that illustrates what I’m talking about. Back in the days when racial prejudice was open, vile and violent, a man was raised in the South under the bigotry and prejudice of that day. His mother and father had been killed by whites. He lived with his grandmother and with his ...read more

  • Security

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 21, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,825 views

    SECURITY When something historic occurs, we remember it the rest of our lives. Where were you on September 11, 2001? I was listening to the radio after taking my wife to work. Suddenly, an announcer interrupted and said there was "an incident" in New York. The reports worsened during that ...read more

  • Why Does God Allow Hardship?  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 16, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,455 views

    WHY DOES GOD ALLOW HARDSHIP? We live in a mixed-up, messed-up world. Sometimes terrible things happen that don't make any sense at all, and we wonder why? Steven Curtis Chapman is one of the best known singer-songwriters of contemporary Christian music. Over the last 15 or 20 years his songs have ...read more

  • The Son And The Rose

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 22, 2011
    based on 1 rating
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    THE SON AND THE ROSE Arnold Prater, in his book You Can Have Joy! tells about a man in a little English village named John Deckard. He was a clerk in a textile factory. A modest and quiet man, he lived in an ordinary little house at the edge of town with his wife and his six-year-old son, Rob. ...read more

  • This Baby Is For You

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2011
     | 4,341 views

    THIS BABY IS FOR YOU Pastor and author Richard Foster writes about genuine, joyous giving. "Giving with a glad and generous heart has a way of rooting out the tough old miser within us. Just the very act of letting go of money or some other treasure does something great within us."1 Such genuine, ...read more

  • The Most Watched Rescue Mission In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 27, 2012
     | 5,335 views

    THE MOST WATCHED RESCUE MISSION IN HISTORY "Estamos bien en el refugio, los 33. " ("We are well IN THE SHELTER, the 33.") That seven-word message set off a wave of euphoria in Chile and around the world. It had been written in red letters on a scrap of paper and taped to a drill bit that penetrated ...read more

  • Growing Through Pain

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Oct 2, 2020
     | 2,856 views

    Paul Tournier, the famous Swiss physician and counselor, reported his surprise in his book Creative Suffering upon reading an article entitled “Orphans Lead the World.” The article appeared in a respected medical journal and surveyed the lives of 300 leaders who had an impact on world history. ...read more

  • Zorthian's Fear

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Jan 26, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,101 views

    ZORTHIAN'S FEAR A mural artist named J.H. Zorthian read about a tiny boy who had been killed in traffic. His stomach churned as he thought of that ever happening to one of his three children. His worry became an inescapable anxiety. The more he imagined such a tragedy, the more fearful he became. ...read more

  • Broken Hearts Don't Need Vince Lombardi!" Mark ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Apr 13, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,266 views

    “Broken Hearts Don’t Need Vince Lombardi!” Mark 5:35-43 Key verse(s) 41:“He took her by the hand and said to her, ‘Talitha koumi!’ (which means, ‘Little girl, I say to you, get up!’).” I did not know what to do for her. Her heart was breaking right in front of me. She so much wanted to be held, ...read more