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  • Don't Quit! Don't Quit!  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 8, 2005
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     | 19,154 views

    DON’T QUIT! DON’T QUIT! Many years ago I was visiting a lady named Deanna in the resthome, she had a copy of this little poem, I borrowed it and made a copy. I ask you to ponder these words: DON’T QUIT (author unknown) When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re ...read more

  • Poem: Don't Quit  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jun 4, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,765 views

    POEM: DON’T QUIT When things go wrong as they sometime will, when the road your trudging seems all up hill, When funds are low and debts are high, and you want to smile but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit rest if you must but please ...read more

  • Poem: Don't Quit

    Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
     | 2,874 views

    POEM: DON’T QUIT When things go wrong as they sometime will, when the road your trudging seems all up hill, When funds are low and debts are high, and you want to smile but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit rest if you must but please don’t quit. Life is queer with it’s twist ...read more

  • Jealousy/Envy  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Klinedinst on Aug 14, 2002
    based on 28 ratings
     | 5,939 views

    Jealousy/evny There is a distinction between jealousy and envy. To envy is to want something which belongs to another person. "You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, his wife or his servant, his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor." In contrast, jealousy is the fear that ...read more

  • A Genuine Free Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,758 views

    A Genuine Free Spirit It took just a few hours for budget carrier Spirit Airlines to give away 13,400 free tickets on 90 flights to 14 cities - every seat for an entire day. The catch? That day is Sept. 11. Like most airlines, Miramar, Fla.-based Spirit had found few willing to fly on the first ...read more

  • My Favorite Station  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,478 views

    MY FAVORITE STATION Good listening is like tuning in a radio station. For good results, you can listen to only one station at a time. Trying to listen to my wife while looking over an office report is like trying to receive two radio stations at the same time. I end up with distortion and ...read more

  • Are We So Focused On The Crowd And The Offerings ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jun 10, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,228 views

    ARE WE SO FOCUSED ON THE CROWD AND THE OFFERINGS THAT WE CAN’T SEE? ARE WE MATERIALISTIC MINDED? I love Indian arrow heads. I lived in Virginia and I collected arrow heads for me and a few friends. I had a super collection. I displayed my arrow heads in my office at church. Someone broke into the ...read more

  • Security In The Rock  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jan 1, 2006
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    SECURITY IN THE ROCK The rock badger hides in the crags in the rock. They are greyish in colour and blends well with the rocks. When a predator comes to attack, they will run into a hole, the crag in the rock. The vulture or eagle must sweep down on them before they get into the rocks. ...read more

  • Who Is Robbed In Unfaithfulness?

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 6, 2008
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    Who Is Robbed in Unfaithfulness? An interesting fable is told of a rich man who wanted to help a poor man. The rich man hired the poor man to build a house on the hillside and went away on a long journey. The carpenter said to himself, “My boss is away and I can use cheap materials for the parts ...read more

  • Many Of Us Are Lost And We Don't Even Know ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 24, 2008
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    Many of us are lost and we don’t even know it…George Orwell’s essays, offers a graphic image of human lostness. Orwell describes a wasp that “was sucking jam on my plate and I cut him in half. He paid no attention, merely went on with his meal, while a tiny stream of jam trickled out of his ...read more

  • Lincoln's Planned Treatment Of Southerners After ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2010
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    Lincoln’s Planned Treatment of Southerners After the Civil War Likened to God’s Forgiveness of Our Sins Abraham Lincoln was interviewed by someone right before the end of the Civil War. The reporter said “What are you going to do to those rebellious southerners after the war is over? How are you ...read more

  • Sometimes We Come Against Things That Violates ...

    Contributed by Pastor Gbenga Shadare on Jun 11, 2010
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    Sometimes we come against things that violates our core principles and we may not be able to speak up or stand up for what we know we should. But with the conviction and power of faith, we stand up for our beliefs and consequently do the right thing. Doing the right is powered by faith! The bible ...read more

  • The Importance Of The Fence

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 22, 2010
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    THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FENCE Pleasure, delight, sweets, is not the way Christianity is usually described. It is described by some as a restrictive life. Let’s think of it as a group of children who are playing on top of a monadnock (Pilot Mountain) and around the point where the rock drops off ...read more

  • Broken Heart

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 11, 2015
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    In Fox’s Book of Martyrs, there is the story of a 26 year old mother named Perpetua. The early church was growing dramatically and she came to faith in Jesus. The Roman government was trying to get her to renounce her faith but she refused. They threw her in prison. Her father came and begged her ...read more

  • Freedom

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Jun 11, 2020
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    Freedom: “You feel you were hedged in you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order to get free: rather dig in the narrow place which has been given you; you will find God there and everything. God does not float on your horizon, he sleeps in your substance. Vanity ...read more

  • The Old Judge Converted

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009
     | 3,618 views

    THE OLD JUDGE CONVERTED I remember, as I was coming out of the daily prayer meeting in one of our American cities a few years ago, a lady said she wished to speak to me; her voice trembled with emotion, and I saw at once that she was heavily burdened by something or other. She said she had long ...read more

  • Chrysostom On Ecclesiastes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 21, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,308 views

    CHRYSOSTOM ON ECCLESIASTES Eutropius had fallen into disgrace. As the highest-ranking official in the Byzantine Empire (late fourth century), he served as the closest adviser to the emperor Arcadius, then ruling in Constantinople. But Eutropius abused his imperial power and aroused the anger of ...read more

  • Have You Been To The Great Physician?

    Contributed by David Goering on Sep 6, 2018
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    Mr. Pharisee and Mr. Publican lived in the town of Doomsville, both heard that a great Physician was going to be in the neighboring town of Gilead. The great Physician was going to hold a free Health Clinic and give people a free complete examination, and if they passed this examination he would ...read more

  • The Definition Of Prayer Found In The Devils ...  PRO

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 31, 2000
    based on 108 ratings
     | 3,363 views

    The definition of prayer found in the Devils Dictionary, written by Ambrose Bierce around the turn of the century-- "To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled ...read more

  • Since Changes Are Going On Anyway, The Great ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 1,469 views

    "Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them ...read more