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  • Some Are Famous

    Contributed by Brian Black on Mar 20, 2007
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    Some are famous: Nathan Hale (1755-1776) – "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Romeo – “Here’s to my love! O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” Richard III – "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse." Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) – "You ...read more

  • A Few Years Back The Movie The Titanic Came Out. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 11, 2007
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     | 1,969 views

    A few years back the movie the Titanic came out. It was a box office smash. People seemed once again fascinated by this tragedy at sea. About 1,500 people lost their lives in this ship wreck tragedy. This great ship was said by the media to be: “Unsinkable” – even God himself could not sink her ...read more

  • Leighton Ford--Leighton Ford Is A Minister And A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,797 views

    LEIGHTON FORD--Leighton Ford is a minister and a brother-in-law to Billy Graham. Leighton’s son Sandy died an untimely death. Leighton wrote a book about his son. The following is taken from that publication. "When Sandy was alive, he sometimes made his friends a little uncomfortable by being ...read more

  • Leslie B. Flynn Told A Delightful Little Story ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Leslie B. Flynn told a delightful little story about how some children worked long and hard on their own little cardboard shack. It was to be a special spot - a clubhouse - where they could meet in solemn assembly or just laugh, play games, and fool around. As they thought long and hard about their ...read more

  • When I Was Working On My Undergraduate Degree I ...

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 3, 2007
     | 1,204 views

    When I was working on my undergraduate degree I took a couple of classes in geology. Most of the time I was asking myself the age-old question that many students ask as they go through some class that they don’t want to take, “Why do I have to take this class?” As the class went on we talked ...read more

  • Jim Rhodes: God's Complainer  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
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    Jim Rhodes: God’s Complainer Driving through Mineral Wells, Texas, one afternoon in 1994, Jim Rhodes noticed many buildings standing vacant due to the shutdown of a local military base. "I always complain to God about things that bother me," says Rhodes, "so I asked him, ’Why aren’t these buildings ...read more

  • I Read A Story Of A Woman On Vacation That Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kl Burrus on Nov 19, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,600 views

    I read a story of a woman on vacation that was shopping in the finest stores. One day she saw the most beautiful cup she had ever seen. She went in bought the cup and everyday she would take the cup out and admire it. She would even talk to the cup and say, ’’I’m glad that I found you. You’re one ...read more

  • Paul Harvey Told The Story Of A Family On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Jan 1, 2008
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    Paul Harvey told the story of a family on Christmas Eve. For several years this family had a tradition where the Mother and children would go to the Christmas Eve service, and the Father would stay home and read the paper. Then when they got back from church, they would open their gifts. The ...read more

  • Max Lucado, In His Book In The Eye Of The Storm, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Feb 18, 2008
    based on 16 ratings
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    Max Lucado, in his book In the Eye of the Storm, tells the story of Chippie the Parakeet. He writes: "Chippie the Parakeet never saw it coming. One second he was peacefully perched in his cage. The next he was sucked in, washed up, blown over. The problems began when Chippie’s owner ...read more

  • What Are You Looking For?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,894 views

    WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? A certain man went to Church one Sunday. He frowned when the organist missed a note during the opening hymn. He gave a mean stare at two teenagers talking to each other when the congregation was at prayer. During the Scripture readings, he kept looking impatiently at his ...read more

  • I'm No Moses!

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Sep 4, 2008
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    "I'm No Moses!" When I received my call to go into ministry, I was praying. Immediately, I rejected the call, telling God that I was a business person, not really minister material. I knew how to speak about marketing. I knew a bit about managing people. I could talk about that. On and on I ...read more

  • Fathers Protect Their Nests

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008
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    Fathers Protect Their Nests There was a hunter on a hunting expedition in the Amazon. It was the last day of the trip. He rose early in the morning to enjoy one more day in the jungle. As he was watching the sun rise, he noticed a family of large birds. The mother bird is tending to the baby ...read more

  • If Only I Could Sleep Again

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 1,840 views

    "If Only I Could Sleep Again" Bob Pierce, founder of World Vision had advanced leukemia, but he went to visit a colleague in Indonesia before he died. As they were walking through a small village, they came upon a young girl lying on a bamboo mat next to a river. She was dying of cancer and had ...read more

  • In His Book, Building A Contagious Church, Mark ...

    Contributed by Dr. George Calhoun on Oct 20, 2008
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    In his book, Building a Contagious Church, Mark Mittleberg asks us to join him in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. As you walk up to the large arena, you see a mass of young people in line for a concert. The headline act is shock-rockeer Marilyn Manson (named after Marilyn Monroe and mass murderer ...read more

  • Contract Vs. Covenant

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 23, 2008
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    CONTRACT VS. COVENANT In describing the nature of a Christ-Centered covenant, Bruce Shelley in Christian Theology in Plain Language, writes: In modern times we define a host of relations by contracts. These are usually for goods or services and for hard cash. The contract, formal or informal, ...read more

  • I Recall One Sunny Afternoon When I Was 13 Years ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Feb 5, 2009
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    I recall one sunny afternoon when I was 13 years old and had only recently moved to Butte, Montana where I lived for a couple of years during high school with my father and grandfather. One afternoon I was exploring a very old log cabin style garage on the back of the property where we lived. It ...read more

  • Death Makes People Angry

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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     | 2,313 views

    DEATH MAKES PEOPLE ANGRY Back in September of 2004, Casey Neistat of New York City discovered that the battery in his first-generation 5 GB iPod could no longer hold a charge for more than an hour. So he called Apple. Unfortunately for him, Apple basically advised him to buy a new iPod (their ...read more

  • Have You Ever Heard The Old Timers Talk About The ...

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Apr 21, 2009
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    Have you ever heard the old timers talk about the great blizzard of ’82 or ’85? When I was young they talked about the great blizzard of ’02 or ’04 – or whatever year it was. I heard and read about those great blizzards that would catch the ranchers unprepared and destroy many of them. Hundreds ...read more

  • Staying In Touch...in The Right Way

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 28, 2009
     | 1,732 views

    STAYING IN TOUCH...IN THE RIGHT WAY Evangelism issue #1: staying in touch with the world -- in a right way From InternetEvangelismDay.com: "There are two major reasons why we so often fail to touch many non-Christians with the Gospel. Firstly, we frequently present the good news in language and ...read more

  • ¿como Debo Hablar? (Translation Below)

    Contributed by Major Gerardo Balmori on Mar 22, 2010
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    ¿Como debo hablar? (Translation below) ¿Ha hablado alguna vez con alguien, teniendo el sentimiento en su corazón que realmente no le escuchaban? Este es un lamento común entre los cristianos que predicamos los consejos de la palabra de Dios a otros. Sabemos que hablamos verdad, que proclamamos ...read more