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  • Nice People  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Sep 7, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,359 views

    Listen to this quote from Ray Stedman – “….notice that a major point of this parable is to give us a clue to the way that the enemy works most successfully. It is by imitation, by counterfeit. How simple it would be if evil people would only look evil. Wouldn’t that help a lot? If hypocrites ...read more

  • Remember

    Contributed by Daniel Devilder on Oct 19, 2006
     | 3,582 views

    “remember” • this love on the cross • this love that reached out to you when you were HOSTILE to God • this love that reached out to you, though God had every right to be—and WAS—enemies of us Remembering the cross can have a profound effect on us: Why then, let your mind come to rest in ...read more

  • I Have Heard Stories From The Elders That Grew Up ...

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Oct 30, 2006
     | 1,443 views

    I have heard stories from the elders that grew up during the “Great Depression” of how they would work all day and never get a chance to play like most kids for the simple reason of survival for themselves and their family. You would ask them but elder when did you get a chance to be a child? They ...read more

  • I Have Heard Stories From The Elders That Grew Up ...

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Oct 30, 2006
     | 1,204 views

    I have heard stories from the elders that grew up during the “Great Depression” of how they would work all day and never get a chance to play like most kids for the simple reason of survival for themselves and their family. You would ask them but elder when did you get a chance to be a child? They ...read more

  • First Thing They Tell You In The Military. As You ...

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Oct 30, 2006
     | 1,432 views

    First thing they tell you in the military. As you stand at attention and they scream into your face the way they are going go change your life, the first thing they say is, “ It is time to separate the Men from the boys” Why? Because before you were just running around with your little cap gun in ...read more

  • A Man And His Wife Who Had Been Married For 45 ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Nov 6, 2006
     | 2,211 views

    A man and his wife who had been married for 45 years went on VACATION to Jerusalem. While they were there, the HUSBAND suddenly passed away with a HEART ATTACK. The FUNERAL DIRECTOR told the wife, “You can have your husband shipped HOME for $5,000, or you can BURY him here, in the Holy Land, for ...read more

  • People Can Be Very Forgetful About Important ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
     | 1,585 views

    People can be very forgetful about important things. The great British preacher Charles Spurgeon once wrote: A man goes into an inn, and as soon as he sits down he begins to order…his dinner, his bed…He stays at the inn for some time. By and by, the bill comes due, and it takes him by surprise. "I ...read more

  • City Slickers

    Contributed by Sam Peters on Mar 1, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,669 views

    (If available, use the clip illustrated here) In the movie City Slickers, Mitch (Billy Crystal) is on a Baby Boomer cattle drive in search of the real meaning of life. In one scene he is out riding with the gritty trail boss, Curly (Jack Palance). Curly realizes why Mitch is on the trip and ...read more

  • A Few Blocks Below My College Was A Restaurant ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on May 11, 2007
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    A few blocks below my college was a restaurant that served only breakfast – and it was a great breakfast, cheap. What made this breakfast unique was that, except for the manager, everything was handled by mentally handicapped folks. They were the cooks, the waiters and waitresses, the busboy, the ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About A Train Traveling Through ...

    Contributed by Randy Brooks on Jun 6, 2007
     | 1,653 views

    I heard a story about a train traveling through the night in a very violent rainstorm. The lightning flashes were almost blinding, the rain hitting the windows was deafening and the strong gust winds rocked the train from side to side. When the lightening flashed and lighted up the darkness, the ...read more

  • Calvin Coolidge

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,421 views

    Calvin Coolidge I was reading the other day. ‘Once, President Calvin Coolidge invited some folks from his hometown to dinner at the White house. Since none of them knew what proper etiquette should be on a state occasion, they thought the best policy would be to do whatever the President did. ...read more

  • Reader's Digest Told Of A Factory Worker Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,019 views

    Reader’s Digest told of a factory worker who refused to sign up for group insurance. The problem was no policy could be issued until all employees signed up. Yet he held out stubbornly. The foreman begged him to sign; the shop foreman pleaded with him; the plant superintendent and general manager ...read more

  • I Once Heard A Story Of An Elderly Man That Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,259 views

    I once heard a story of an elderly man that was living out his last days in a nursing home. Each day, as the nurses would tend to his needs, he insisted on having an empty chair sitting next to his bed. The man would look at that empty chair and talk for hours at a time each day. One day one of the ...read more

  • Tribulation – Followed By Crying Out – But Then ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Tribulation – followed by crying out – but then JOY Distress and grief, followed by crying out: Where are you? Or why didn’t you rescue us? Bible filled with similar stories (Exodus 15:1) “The horse and rider have been thrown into the sea.” Four stories that illsutraite this principle: A) Ray ...read more

  • Management, Boss

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration- Management, Boss A man entered a pet shop, wanting to buy a parrot. The shop owner pointed out three identical parrots on a perch and said, "The parrot to the left costs 500 dollars." "Why does that parrot cost so much?" the man wondered. The owner replied, "Well, it knows how to use ...read more

  • On December 2001, The "Leaning Tower Of Pisa" ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    On December 2001, the “Leaning Tower of Pisa” was finally reopened to the public, after having been closed for almost a dozen years. During that time, engineers completed a 25 million dollar renovation project designed to stabilize the tower. They removed 110 tons of dirt, and reduced its famous ...read more

  • I Heard About A Husband Who Really Enjoyed The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,778 views

    I heard about a husband who really enjoyed the meat his wife had served for dinner one night. He asked her, "What did you marinate this in?" Well, his wife immediately went into a long explanation about how much she loved him and how life wouldn’t be the same without him, and so on. Eventually, his ...read more

  • Let's Be Honest. In A Culture That Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    Let’s be honest. In a culture that is increasingly hostile to Christians and their faith, it’s not always easy to confess Jesus. April 20 will be the 8th anniversary of the day Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold gunned down a dozen students and one teacher at Columbine High School. Although it was not ...read more

  • Some People Found A Beautiful Log House In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,608 views

    Some people found a beautiful log house in Colorado that was high in the mountains. It had a beautiful view, and they had their heart set on buying it. They prayed about the house, but one thing after another went wrong. The timing was not right, their financing didn’t go through. They had prayed ...read more

  • My Wife Christina And I Came Here To Visit First ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Jun 23, 2007
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    My wife Christina and I came here to visit First Congregational Church in December of 2006 to candidate and interview for the position of Pastor. Some of you may recall what the church sign on the grass in front of the building had displayed on it that December… It said “What is missing in this ...read more