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  • My Family And I Were Watching America's Funniest ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2006
     | 1,258 views

    My family and I were watching America’s Funniest Videos Friday night. There’s clip of a bike race. A guy is approaching the finish line, way out in front. He pauses to raise his hands in victory, and as he does, he wipes out. As he gets back up, some 20 other bikes pass him and he creeps across ...read more

  • An Old Lady Found Herself Hungry With No Food, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,737 views

    An old lady found herself hungry with no food, no money and nobody to care for her. So she fell down on her knees and cried out to God, “O Lord, please send me a piece of ham and some collard greens.” All day long she prayed “O Lord, please send me a piece of ham and some collard greens.” The ...read more

  • Boat Without Oars

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 17, 2008
     | 1,833 views

    Boat Without Oars One day I was goofing off with a friend at the lake shore and we found a boat. It was a sixteen foot long metal tub with no identifying marks on it. The thing had apparently come loose from its moorings somewhere around the lake and come up against the eastern shore. So, being ...read more

  • The Day After The Wedding, We Had To Drop Luke ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 23, 2009
     | 1,497 views

    The day after the wedding, we had to drop Luke off at Moody. Right in back of the visitor’s parking lot was a Pakistani cafeteria. A real dive, but dives often have the best food. I ordered my favorite, goat; Luke had fish and Marylu and Hannah- chicken. As I was standing in line, the small ...read more

  • Have No Fear Of Sudden Disaster...

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Oct 27, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,936 views

    HAVE NO FEAR OF SUDDEN DISASTER... I was taking Julie and the boys on the Blue Ridge Parkway from Asheville to Boone, North Carolina. First of all let me say we didn't make it. I rounded a corner in the road and all of a sudden you could see down a couple thousand feet. The "Grip" came on, my ...read more

  • Three Feet Away

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Dec 14, 2020
     | 3,490 views

    During the gold rush, a man from Ohio traveled to California. It had taken him months to get there. He had to get a claim and register it and buy tools before he could start mining. The Ohioan had been mining for months. Finally after all the hard work and finding nothing quit his claim. He was ...read more

  • The Clarence Principle

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 7, 2011
     | 3,238 views

    THE CLARENCE PRINCIPLE That's what spiritual maturity is--It's not just being a Christian for a little while. It's being able to discern the difference between right and wrong, because you have practiced applying the principles of God's Word in your every-day life. It's being able to discern the ...read more

  • Since Isaiah (And Later, The New Testament ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 31, 2009
     | 1,764 views

    Since Isaiah (and later, the New Testament writers) spoke of God’s "tested" keystone (cornerstone?) or foundation stone in terms of depending upon God rather than what anyone else says or promises, it might be good to look at the importance of "foundations" and Jesus Christ as our "tested" ...read more

  • Moody's Barroom Meeting  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 4, 2002
    based on 97 ratings
     | 1,971 views

    “Moody’s Barroom Meeting” D.L. Moody once entered a tavern in order to ask the bartender if his two little girls might attend his Sunday School. He was told that an atheist club met there every Thursday night and the owner of the bar was in no mood to offend them. Moody looked into the face of ...read more

  • So, I'm Waiting In Line At That High End Culinary ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 8, 2008
     | 1,359 views

    So, I’m waiting in line at that high end culinary experience, Taco Bell, and I get into a conversation with this woman. The conversation starts off with how crazy it is that Taco Bell can make fifty menu items out of only about seven ingredients and then moves on to Christianity. At one point this ...read more

  • Have You Ever Seen Those Frequent Flyer Programs ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 14, 2009
     | 2,126 views

    Have you ever seen those frequent flyer programs that the airlines have? Fly with us and you will earn points that can get free flights (of course with the restrictions on when you can use those points and on what flights, the only way to redeem them is on a one way flight to Butte, Montana ...read more

  • New Every Morning

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 13, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,829 views

    New Every Morning Yea, “new every morning,” though we may awake, Our hearts with old sorrow beginning to ache; With old work unfinished when night stayed our hand With new duties waiting, unknown and unplanned; With old care still pressing, to fret and to vex, With new problems rising, our minds ...read more

  • A Christmas Parable

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 2, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,148 views

    A Christmas Parable A man is climbing a mountain, at the top of which he hopes to find God. By ascending the heights, the seeker expects to leave all the cares and miseries of life behind in the valley. But while he climbs, God is coming down the mountain into the toil and grief. In the mists ...read more

  • The Great Problem With Trying To Earn Salvation ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Hill on Feb 10, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 1,867 views

    The great problem with trying to earn salvation is that no-one has ever done it! It is not that there was anything wrong with the Law. The problem is with human beings. In the movie the ‘Sound of Music’ a young woman by the name of Maria is sent from a convent to become governess to the five ...read more

  • A ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 16, 2009
     | 2,188 views

    Absence A strange silence I have never heard As I walk a path alone, An unfamiliar moment When I realize you are gone. As I look around to notice That the roads have all been changed For there’s one that now is fading At a place I called your name. So I must go on without you With the memories ...read more

  • Absence

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 18, 2009
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     | 2,658 views

    Absence A strange silence I have never heard As I walk a path alone, An unfamiliar moment When I realize you are gone. As I look around to notice That the roads have all been changed For there's one that now is fading At a place I called your name. So I must go on without you With the memories ...read more

  • I've Seen Lots Of Parents Who Instilled A Dream ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Oct 26, 2009
     | 1,261 views

    I’ve seen lots of parents who instilled a dream in their children. In fact, Wailam’s (my wife’s) mother gave her the dream of studying in America. But her mother died before she could see that Wailam finished her education at the American School. As a result, Wailam had to go through a long, ...read more

  • The Terrible Grip

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 8, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,103 views

    THE TERRIBLE GRIP Lucas Sibanda, a South African was walking along a remote path, was minding his own business when a python slithered out from behind some shrubs. Sibanda froze. Within a few seconds the snake had wrapped itself around him and began constricting. Pythons are large snakes that ...read more

  • Faith When Faced With Death?  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Sechler on Jan 25, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,157 views

    My son, Micah died in 2012 from kidney disease and complications. As he lay dying I wrote this in my journal: "Sitting at the bedside of my dying son at 3:48 in the morning. Weeping like crazy. Bertrand Russell once said that 'no one can sit at the bedside of dying child and believe in God.' Well ...read more

  • My First Major Wall That I Went Through Came When ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 9, 2009
     | 2,234 views

    My first major wall that I went through came when I got sober. But along the way, I ran into walls that now I know were just small ones. One of these had to do with my expectations of those that supposedly loved. Through the years of drinking and using, I had developed some very unhealthy ...read more

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