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  • We Are Meant To Struggle

    Contributed by Spencer Miller on May 13, 2013
     | 5,352 views

    WE ARE MEANT TO STRUGGLE You remember the story of the little boy who was playing outdoors and found a fascinating caterpillar. He carefully picked it up and took it home to show his mother. He asked his mother if he could keep it, and she said he could if he would take good care of it. The ...read more

  • Be Holy?

    Contributed by John Kilough on Apr 24, 2014
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     | 15,183 views

    "Be holy, for I am holy." For most people this can be a very intimidating statement. The Lord God says, "Be holy, for I am holy." The issue with that is, well God is God and I am not. It is easy for Him to say be holy, but I just have way too many faults. However, we love the Lord and we are ...read more

  • Beholding The Night Sky

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jan 2, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,116 views

    When our daughter was in Junior High School, she made friends with a group of girls from Olney, Texas, a community about forty minutes to the south of us. And they invited her to a function their school was having on a certain Friday night. So, I drove her over, and, when the time came, I went ...read more

  • I Was Talking To A Young Man Just A Few Days ...

    Contributed by Fred Parker on Jan 27, 2015
     | 3,572 views

    I was talking to a young man just a few days ago about our greatest gift. He guessed several different things such as health, strength, possessions (Cars, houses, plenty of money) and each time he would give me an answer I would tell him, “No.” He said, “If I only had plenty of money everything ...read more

  • The Power Of Silence

    Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Jun 4, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 11,421 views

    They say silence is golden – but is it possible that too much silence is not such a good thing? There’s a room in the United States that’s so quiet it becomes unbearable after a short time. The longest anyone has survived in the ‘anechoic chamber’ at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is ...read more

  • Free For The Taking: Grace

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Jul 18, 2017
     | 5,061 views

    Joseph Cooke was a missionary to Thailand a generation ago. He illustrated grace this way. Picture a happily married couple in which both husband and wife are all that either could ever wish the other to be. The husband always respects his wife’s feelings, always treasures her individuality, is ...read more

  • Is There A Limit To My Power?

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Apr 19, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,533 views

    Mark Batterson in his book "The Circle Maker" asks a very provocative question based upon a question that God asks Moses; "Is there a limit to my power?" (Numbers 11:23) GNT. "Are your problems bigger than God, or is God bigger than your problems? Our biggest problem is our small view of God. ...read more

  • It’s Closer Than I Thought!

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Feb 7, 2020
     | 1,934 views

    My wife and her parents used a certain brand of ketchup for many things over a long period of time. They hadn’t had any of it, though, in maybe 30 years or so. They believed this brand wasn’t available, locally, so they never got around to finding any more of it. Now, I grew up in a different part ...read more

  • They Took It Away!

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Mar 3, 2020
     | 2,648 views

    My parents used to operate a true “Mom and Pop” grocery store before I started school. I still remember some of the good times—and some of the bad times, too, unfortunately—from those days gone by. Some of the items they had for sale were plastic models. These were mostly Revell, Lindberg, or ...read more

  • Obedience

    Contributed by Anitha Jabastion on Jan 2, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,058 views

    There was a boy who went trekking on the mountain. He reached a great height when he realized that it was getting dark and he had to reach the bottom soon. He began climbing down. It was getting darker and darker, so dark that he could barely see. He was somehow managing to get down the mountain ...read more

  • Bless Assurance: Fanny Crosby

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 16, 2021
     | 3,758 views

    ASSURANCE: free from doubt, a positive declaration intended to give confidence, a sure promise, in a religious sitting it means salvation by the inner witness of the Holy Spirit that we are justified. No harm will come, with great faith. FANNY JANE CROSBY was born in 1820 and died in 1915 at the ...read more

  • Old Bible

    Contributed by John Bright on Jan 17, 2021
     | 2,465 views

    A collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance who told him he had just thrown away an old Bible that he found in a dusty, old box. He happened to mention that Guten-somebody-or-other had printed it. "Not Gutenberg?" gasped the collector. "Yes, that was it!" "You ...read more

  • Warren Wiersbe Said, "It's Not The Fact Of Life ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Aug 16, 2008
     | 1,431 views

    Warren Wiersbe said, "It's not the fact of life that determines ...read more

  • Your Chains Are Gone

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Sep 23, 2008
     | 3,935 views

    Your Chains Are Gone You will never be a visionary if you cannot see your future. I had a Lab when we were pastored before, and I kept her on a chain. In a few days she had worn the ground to dirt all the way to the end of her chain. She would take off and stop at the dirt just before the ...read more

  • Linus On The Hope In The Truth

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,973 views

    Linus on the Hope in the Truth A Peanuts cartoon pictured Lucy and Linus looking out the window at a steady downpour of rain. "Boy," said Lucy, "look at it rain. What if it floods the whole world?" "It will never do that," Linus replied confidently. "In the ninth chapter of Genesis, God promised ...read more

  • Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 2,075 views

    BE INTENTIONAL A guy stopped at a local gas station and, after filling his tank, he paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola and watched a couple of men working along the roadside. One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other man ...read more

  • Worldly Distraction  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Nov 13, 2008
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     | 7,589 views

    WORLDLY DISTRACTION A man bought a new hunting dog. Eager to see how he would perform, he took him out to track a bear. No sooner had they gotten into the woods than the dog picked up the trail. Suddenly he stopped, sniffed the ground, and headed in a new direction. He had caught the scent of a ...read more

  • Running For Life

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Nov 13, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,878 views

    RUNNING FOR LIFE Recently I read a fable about a dog who loved to chase other animals. He bragged about his great running skill and said he could catch anything. Well, it wasn’t long until his boastful claims were put to the test by a certain rabbit. With ease the little creature outran his ...read more

  • A Change In Hope

    Contributed by Fred Schaeffer on Nov 20, 2008
     | 7,897 views

    A CHANGE IN HOPE Ben was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the age of 16 years old. Hope is the one thing that kept his parents, Kevin and Laura moving forward. Hope is what kept them from giving up. His younger sister, Bethany, always kept her sights on the silver lining. He went through a series ...read more

  • Harmful ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Nov 25, 2008
     | 1,616 views

    Harmful talk: I remember years ago, standing at the church door next to the sr. minister greeting people at the end of the service. This one guy, every week would come up to the minister and say, “Pastor, you’d better keep your eye on that youth minister or some day he’ll have your job.” Now, he ...read more