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  • There Is No Substitute Or Shortcut To Gain The ...

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on Dec 15, 2006
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     | 2,797 views

    There is no substitute or shortcut to gain the measure of God you desire in your life. Time before God in His presence releases the store house of heaven that is full of blessings and opens the flood gate of revelation you desire! Intimacy with the living God is the hall mark of every great man or ...read more

  • A Guy Had A Dream He Had Went To Heaven And Saw ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Jan 11, 2007
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    A guy had a dream he had went to heaven and saw many clocks. As is customary with these stories St. Peter is attending the gate. When asked what the clocks were for Peter replied that every person on earth has a clock here, and each time one sins, the hand on their clock moves just a bit. The ...read more

  • Can I Hug You?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,040 views

    I heard a story about a father who told his son when he reached 12 years old that he would only shake hands with him from now on. Finally, some 20 or 25 years later the son, now a grown man, said, “Dad can I hug you?” And the son and ...read more

  • When A Whale Comes To The Surface To Blow, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 4, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,146 views

    When a whale comes to the surface to blow, that’s when it gets harpooned. Whales blow to clear their air passage of water in order to replenish their air supply. Man doesn’t blow to get air; he blows to get attention. So, beware, if we plan to rise to the top in order to blow our ...read more

  • A Farmer Noticed A Highway Department Truck ...  PRO

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Jan 19, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,558 views

    A farmer noticed a highway department truck pulling over on the shoulder of the road. A man got out and dug a hole, then got back into the truck. Then the other occupant got out, filled up the hole and got back in the truck. Every fifty yards this amazing process was repeated. “What are you doing?” ...read more

  • God's Picture

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008
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    GOD'S PICTURE There's a story of a third grade student who was asked to draw a picture of what she thinks God looks like. The little girl showed the teacher - teacher said "Wait a minute, that looks like a man - that's not God!" And the little girl said "Well, I don't know what God ...read more

  • The Last Invitation

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Feb 14, 2009
     | 4,205 views

    THE LAST INVITATION While pastoring at the FBC of Cherryville, North Carolina, a disturbance was observed, and shortly afterward a man was taken from the balcony of the church [and placed] in an ambulance. He was dead before they got him to the hospital. He died before the invitation could be ...read more

  • Give The Bible To The People, Unadulterated, ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 27, 2009
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    "Give the Bible to the people, unadulterated, pure, unaltered, unexplained, uncheapened, and then see it work through the whole nature. It is very difficult indeed for a man or for a boy who knows the Scriptures ever to get away from it. It follows him like the memory of his mother. It haunts him ...read more

  • I Would Rather Be Ashes Than Dust I Would ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to ...read more

  • One Of These Days In Your Travels, A Guy Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not ...read more

  • The Blessed Future

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jun 11, 2009
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    The Blessed Future The doctor did not think the dying daughter would hear when he said to the mother, "Poor child; she has seen her best days." But she heard him and said, "No, Doctor, I haven’t seen my best days; my best days are still to come when ...read more

  • Two Psychiatrists Meet At Their 20th College ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Nov 2, 2009
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    Two psychiatrists meet at their 20th college reunion. One is vibrant, while the other looks withered and worried. "So what’s your secret?" the older looking psychiatrist asks. "Listening to other people’s problems every day, all day long, for years on end, has made an old man of ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of An English Teacher Who Told ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 27, 2010
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    The story is told of an English teacher who told her class to write a composition on, “What I would do if I had a million dollars.” After the students had been working on the assignment for about thirty minutes, one young man approached the teacher’s desk and very quietly said, “A ...read more

  • There Would Be No Islam

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2011
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    THERE WOULD BE NO ISLAM A Hindu professor once found out that a man in his class was a Christian. The professor said to this student, "If you Christians were like Jesus Christ, India would be at your feet tomorrow." A learned Muslim who recently became a Christian said, "If Christians were truly ...read more

  • What Can Be Proved Requires No Faith To Accept. ...

    Contributed by David Tack on Nov 24, 2011
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    "What can be proved requires no faith to accept. Faith rests upon the character of God, not upon the demonstrations of laboratory or logic...To try to find a common ground between the message of the cross and man's fallen reason is to try the impossible, and if persisted in must result in an ...read more

  • Avoiding Sales

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2012
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    AVOIDING SALES The Houston Chronicle, Sept. 25, 1995 records the following quote. As a man sat contemplating the impending expenses of Christmas, his wife burst through the door with an armload of packages. She gleefully remarked, "You told me to stay away from all of those sales so ...read more

  • Who To Worry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2012
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    WHO TO WORRY ABOUT I remember an old Amish man sitting on the back of his produce wagon doing a little philosophizing as he sold his wares. He said, “Never worry about your enemy because if anything happens to you he will be the first one they will suspect. Worry about you friend ...read more

  • The Power Of Forgiveness  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 20, 2014
    based on 14 ratings
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    THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS An African woman gave her heart to Christ. Her husband was the chief of a Zulu tribe. When she told him what she had done, the chief beat her brutally. As she was lying in the floor bleeding, the man mocked her and said, “Now, what can your Jesus do for ...read more

  • Why The Decline?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 4, 2019
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    ***ALEXANDRIAN SOLZHENITSYN asked a question in 1978 that is worthy to ponder. HOW DID THE WEST DECLINE FROM ITS TRIUMPHAL MARCH TO ITS PRESENT SICKNESS? He answered ANTHROPOCENTRIC- The elevation of man over God. OBSTACLES ARE WHAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOSE SIGHT OF THE GOAL! Stay focused on the ...read more

  • Thank God For The Delusion!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 4, 2021
     | 2,682 views

    Someone told a reformed alcoholic that his experience wasn't valid; that his religion was a delusion. He said, "Thank God for the delusion; it has put clothes on my children and shoes on their feet and bread in their mouths. It has made a man of me and it has put joy and peace in my ...read more