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  • 5 Ways To Get Rid Of Your Pastor  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Feb 9, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,228 views

    5 WAYS TO GET RID OF YOUR PASTOR John R. Rice told of five ways to get rid of your pastor that you might should think about. 1. Sit on the front pew, smile and say AMEN real loud. Your pastor will preach himself to death. 2. Compliment your Pastor often, pat him on the back, brag on how well he ...read more

  • New Sick Leave Policy  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 4, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,469 views

    New Sick Leave Policy 1. SICKNESS: No excuse. We will no longer accept your doctor’s statement as proof, as we believe that if you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work. 2. LEAVE OF ABSENCE (for an operation): We are no longer allowing this practice. We wish to discourage any ...read more

  • Erik Weihenmayer Is Blind, Yet On May 25, 2001, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,448 views

    Erik Weihenmayer is blind, yet on May 25, 2001, he reached the peak of Mt. Everest. Suffering from a degenerative eye disease, he lost his sight when he was 13, but that didn’t stop him. On a mountain where 90 percent of climbers never make it to the top—and 165 have died trying since 1953—Erik ...read more

  • The Pet Rattler

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Aug 3, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,729 views

    ILLUSTRATION: The Pet Rattler A newspaper told the story of a man in Arkansas who had a pet rattlesnake. The man found the snake as a baby. He took it, fed it, and made it a pet. The reptile would come when he whistled, it would eat from his fingers, and it would coil around his arm and let him ...read more

  • We Can Glorify God By How We React To Life And ...

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Mar 9, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,235 views

    We can glorify God by how we react to life and death. Some of you know Dorothy Krist a lady who was a member of our congregation for over 20 years. For much of that time Dorothy had cancer. And she encouraged me to use her story whenever I saw fit. She spent the last three months of her life in ...read more

  • To The Best Of Our Knowledge, The New Hebrides ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Mar 25, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,297 views

    “To the best of our knowledge, the New Hebrides had no Christian influence before John Williams and James Harris from the London Missionary Society landed in 1839. Minutes after going ashore, both missionaries were killed and eaten by cannibals” (John Piper, online paper). Eighteen years later, ...read more

  • Despite His Busy Schedule During The Civil War, ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 26, 2009
     | 1,136 views

    Despite his busy schedule during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln often visited the hospitals to cheer the wounded. On one occasion he saw a young fellow who was near death. “Is there anything I can do for you?” asked the compassionate President. “Please write a letter to my mother,” came the reply. ...read more

  • Brits Are Emotional Too

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Feb 20, 2010
     | 1,661 views

    BRITS ARE EMOTIONAL TOO I remember hearing a discussion on Radio Humberside about 10 years ago about the Toronto blessing. The Toronto Blessing was a powerful move of God in a Vineyard Church at the end of the runway at Toronto International Airport. People were crying and laughing in the ...read more

  • A Marriage Made In Heaven

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 8, 2010
     | 3,150 views

    A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN An elderly Italian man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favorite Italian sprinkle cookies wafting up the stairs. Gathering his remaining strength, he lifted himself from the bed. Leaning against ...read more

  • The Kindness Of Abraham Lincoln

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
     | 4,998 views

    THE KINDNESS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Despite his busy schedule during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln often visited the hospitals to cheer the wounded. On one occasion he saw a young fellow who was near death. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the compassionate President. "Please write a ...read more

  • Lincoln Writes A Letter

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 24, 2011
     | 2,376 views

    LINCOLN WRITES A LETTER Despite his busy schedule during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln often visited the hospitals to cheer the wounded. On one occasion he saw a young fellow who was near death. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the compassionate President. "Please write a letter to ...read more

  • He's No Longer In The Grave  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
    based on 21 ratings
     | 7,990 views

    HE'S NO LONGER IN THE GRAVE In 1887, twenty two years after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, his coffin was dug up and opened because there were constant rumors that his body was not in the grave. So they dug it up and the body was there. The rumors continued so 14 years later they ...read more

  • Waking Up In Another Room

    Contributed by Jason W. Lawson on Nov 17, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,976 views

    WAKING UP IN ANOTHER ROOM A young child was diagnosed with a terminal disease. The parents knew that he would die soon. The child as well knew that his death would be soon. One night he was sitting in his mother's lap watching television with her. He looked up into her eyes and said, "Mommy does ...read more

  • Trapped

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Mar 15, 2024
     | 438 views

    Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. When my son was practicing with his little league baseball team there was a practice field. The practice field was ...read more

  • Almost Morning  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2002
    based on 48 ratings
     | 4,750 views

    ALMOST MORNING Dr. W. A Criswell, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas Texas, said on one occasion on an airplane flight he found himself seated beside a well-known theologian. He desperately wanted to start a conversation and they did get to talk. The man told Dr. Criswell about how he ...read more

  • If Some Of You Are Like Me, You've Been Waiting ...  PRO

    Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Nov 13, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,861 views

    If some of you are like me, you’ve been waiting with a bit of anticipation for the final segment of J.R.R. Tolkiens, The Lord of the Rings, to be released to movie theatres some time in the near future. If you’ve been following the story on the screen or reading it from the pages of a book, you’ve ...read more

  • The Flag And The Cross

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 1, 2020
     | 2,505 views

    Symbols evoke feelings of adoration or hatred. In this election year, the elephant and donkey mean different things to different people. Let's talk about a symbol that all Americans should be able to adore. In 1813 General Armistead commissioned Mary Pickersgill to make a huge flag that ...read more

  • Here Are Some Twisted Facts From Various Media ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 29, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,113 views

    Here are some twisted facts from various media sources (not true but reported as true): The following information is from the website legendsofamerica.com. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. Butterflies taste with their feet. More people are killed by donkeys ...read more

  • Man Gives His Life Rescuing Airplane ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
     | 3,366 views

    Man Gives His Life Rescuing Airplane Passengers But what do we see if we look at the cross from another angle—from God’s perspective? What if we have in our minds, as Jesus says, “the things of God”? Then we can see the cross as part of God’s rescue plan. We can see that Jesus chooses to be ...read more

  • 40 Men Die For Christ

    Contributed by Benjamin Karner on Sep 18, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,560 views

    40 MEN DIE FOR CHRIST One such story took place in 328 B.C. in a city high in the icy mountains of Armenia. It was a bitterly cold winter and in the middle of that winter an order came from the Roman emperor that every man, woman, and child under the rule of his empire must bow down to ...read more

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