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  • Too Much Of A Good Thing

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 8, 2011
     | 1,921 views

    TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING Reuters, had a rather strange story: Heat Wave Claims a Frostbite Victim. While the rest of Europe suffered under a record heat wave, back in August 2003, 46 year-old Mike Ball literally froze his foot driving 250 miles with his toes too close to the air conditioning ...read more

  • Overwhelming Forgiveness

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 12, 2011
     | 3,906 views

    OVERWHELMING FORGIVENESS A wonderful example of how to practice the lifestyle of grace comes from an incident in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 2006, when a man entered an Amish schoolhouse and murdered 5 girls while wounding 5 others before killing himself. As horrific as this ...read more

  • How Did You Become A Christian?  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 21, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,338 views

    HOW DID YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN? A couple of years ago a 22-year-old woman spent the night at our house before flying out of San Antonio to return to her country of China. She was a Chinese Christian who had come to America to translate some Christian literature into Chinese for the house churches ...read more

  • Contaminated

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Feb 22, 2012
     | 1,774 views

    CONTAMINATED I'm all thumbs when it comes to band-aids. I know you're not supposed to touch the pad, the part that compresses the wound. If you do, then you contaminate it, and you run the risk of infection. And, of course, you don't want to do that. So, every time I use a band-aid, it's something ...read more

  • Object Lesson: Lego Bricks

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 26, 2012
     | 6,740 views

    OBJECT LESSON: LEGO BRICKS When you came in you received Lego building blocks of differing sizes and shapes. I’ve got a challenge for you; I want you to build something with your Lego blocks but there is one condition, you cannot use anybody else’s Lego block. Now what can you build with one Lego ...read more

  • Loss Of Joy = Incomplete Obedience

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012
     | 4,800 views

    LOSS OF JOY = INCOMPLETE OBEDIENCE F. B. Meyer: Sometimes a soul comes to its spiritual adviser, speaking thus: "I have no conscious joy, and have had but little for years." "Did you once have it?" "Yes, for some time after my conversion to God." "Are you conscious of having refused obedience to ...read more

  • Bible Marketing ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Aug 9, 2012
     | 2,827 views

    Bible Marketing Plan An Anglican priest, Roman Catholic priest and Pentecostal minister went on a marketing course selling Bibles in Nottingham to supplement their incomes. Before going on the course, they were asked to go around the week before and see how many Bibles they could sell. The ...read more

  • A Personal Surgery

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Aug 21, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,846 views

    A PERSONAL SURGERY Dr. Evan Kane was the head of Summit hospital in New York, in the 1920s. At that time when they operated they used general anesthesia. Dr. Kane felt, local anesthesia would do and would help patient do better, and recovery would be quicker. His theory seemed true, but no one ...read more

  • The White Man

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Sep 8, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,768 views

    THE WHITE MAN When Wycliffe Bible translator Doug Meland and his wife moved into a village of Brazil's Fulnio Indians, he was referred to simply as "the white man." The term was by no means complimentary since other white men had exploited them, burned their homes, and robbed them of their lands. ...read more

  • A Brief Excerpt From The Biography* Of ...

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Sep 18, 2012
     | 1,954 views

    A brief excerpt from the Biography* of D.Livingstone that immortal missionary to Africa captures the essence of his ministry…on how he had modeled it on His master. ‘They (people to whom he ministered) had decided to go to Kolobeng, too, for they felt that they could not live without their white ...read more

  • Master Your Emotions

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 26, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,552 views

    Master Your Emotions John Maxwell relates the story of Bobby Jones, a legendary golfer who won a major tournament at twenty-one. By age twenty-eight, he had already won the grand slam and retired. Jones had an uncle who said that by the time he was fourteen, Bobby was probably already the best ...read more

  • We Humans Tend To Come To Blockages And Stop. ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Dec 28, 2012
     | 2,913 views

    We humans tend to come to blockages and stop. The other day I was using a vacuum cleaner, the nice new yellow one here at the hall, I turned it on and it worked (tuned it on made all the right noises). But it had no suck. It had become blocked and jammed with hay where the hose met its body, thanks ...read more

  • About Orion

    Contributed by David Simpson on Jan 15, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,536 views

    ABOUT ORION It doesn't take much for me to believe in our great God. Just this past Friday morning...about 5:30am....I went outside to walk our dog and couldn't help but notice the stars in the sky. They were brilliant. I looked up at the constellation Orion and saw what is actually the 6th ...read more

  • No Atheists In The Water  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Mar 31, 2013
    based on 11 ratings
     | 6,787 views

    NO ATHEISTS IN THE WATER David Harrell wrote a book telling the story of his father, Edgar Harrell. Edgar was one of the 300 survivors of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, the last US ship sunk by enemy contact in WW2. 600 of the 900 men who survived the ship's sinking were stranded in the ...read more

  • Tearing Down The Name Of Jesus  PRO

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 19, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,762 views

    TEARING DOWN THE NAME OF JESUS When I was in college at Dallas Baptist University, I drove through Dallas on the way to my classes. I would always see a huge sign of a dynamic church in the area that said, "Lifting Up the Name of Jesus!" It was very impressive. One day while I was driving to ...read more

  • Dan Kimball: Passionate About Hell

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 11, 2014
     | 3,644 views

    Dan Kimball writes, "I am passionate about hell. That sounds odd -- but I am not passionate about hell itself, but passionate about studying what it is because of the seriousness of what it is. I am passionate about it as I don't want anyone to experience it. Sort of like when you study cancer, you ...read more

  • The Relationship We Share

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 2, 2014
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,749 views

    While many people hunger for family closeness, we often miss the opportunities that stand immediately before us. Tammy Harris of Roanoke, Virginia, began searching for her biological mother when she turned 21. A year of searching proved fruitless. Tammy did not realize, however, that her ...read more

  • What Are You Holding Onto?

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Mar 18, 2016
     | 5,990 views

    Props: trophies, on large nice trophy for the main story. These are some nice trophies. This one was earned by my daughter through playing softball. She was so proud as they called her name up to receive this trophy. This is from a contest that one of them had worked hard for. This large ...read more

  • Godly Counsel

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jul 7, 2016
     | 5,329 views

    GODLY COUNSEL Proverbs 11:14 is a timely verse for the United States of America. It declares, “A nation falls through a lack of guidance, but victory comes through the counsel of many.” God has placed godly men and women around you in the Body of Christ. Use their wisdom, experience and ...read more

  • An Order Of Worship Spelling Mistake

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 10, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,089 views

    I was looking at the order of worship in a bulletin for another church recently when I noticed a spelling mistake. After the sermon, they had listed that they would have an “Alter Call.” That’s a mistake because the front of a church is referred to as an “altar.” Then I thought for a moment ...read more