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  • Hang A White Handkerchief

    Contributed by Wes Richard on Oct 5, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,385 views

    HANG A WHITE HANDKERCHIEF I once read about a young man who had run away from home because he could not get along with his parents. Somehow, his parents were able to get a message to him, inviting him back home. He wrote back, saying that he was coming home and if they were sure he was welcome, ...read more

  • Authentic ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2009
     | 5,412 views

    Authentic Christianity A small child, sitting in church asked his father, “Dad, what is a Christian?” The father replied, “A Christian is a person who loves and obeys God. He loves his friends and neighbours, and even his enemies. He prays often, is kind, gentle, and holy, and is more interested ...read more

  • Paul Tournier On Persisting In Prayer

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2011
     | 4,042 views

    PAUL TOURNIER ON PERSISTING IN PRAYER Paul Tournier, the great psychiatrist and Christian counselor, tells in one his essays about the first time he tried to pray for a solid hour. He says that he set his watch on the table and began to pray, and after what he thought was a good while, checked the ...read more

  • Misunderstandings Can Be Hilarious

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 6, 2022
     | 1,602 views

    Misunderstandings happen all the time. Here are some: My toddler was about to hit her head on a bar at the playground, so I told her to duck. She quacked at me and then hit her head. A guy ran into a service station and said he needed some 710. They had no idea what he was talking about. So he ...read more

  • Focus On The Family Reports That Current Arbitron ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 1,352 views

    Focus On The Family reports that current Arbitron ratings indicate that the audience of all its radio and TV broadcasts combined is roughly 25.6 million people in the U.S. each week. This may make it the most listened to and watched organization in the country. When including its ...read more

  • The Neglected Heart Will Soon Be A Heart Overrun ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,603 views

    "The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos; the church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for ...read more

  • Opportunities Missed

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 4,566 views

    Opportunities Missed There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played; He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he one day passed away His insurance was denied; For since he never really lived, They claimed he ...read more

  • Game Boys In The Usa, Over 70% Of Males In The 18 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
     | 1,016 views

    Game Boys In the USA, over 70% of males in the 18 to 34 demographic play video games, according to NPD Group. Young men play 12.5 hours of video games a week, while they watch television 9.8 hours, and 75% of households with a male member age 8 ...read more

  • The Elevator  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 27, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,207 views

    The Elevator A man from the back mountains of Tennessee found himself one day in a large city, for the first time standing outside an elevator. He watched as an old, haggard woman hobbled on, and the doors closed. A few minutes later the doors opened and a young, attractive woman ...read more

  • One Of My Favorite Movies Was Apollo 13. The ...

    Contributed by Thomas Miller on Feb 21, 2008
     | 4,696 views

    One of my Favorite movies was Apollo 13. The mission control commander Gene Kranz never lost focus when one of the oxygen tanks exploded on the space craft and the astronauts lives were in danger. “Do what ever you have to do to get them home. We’ve never lost ...read more

  • Protect The Flag

    Contributed by Dr. Nicholas M. Muteti on Jun 23, 2011
     | 2,443 views

    PROTECT THE FLAG In Kenya, as elsewhere, the military buildings are very important. There are permanent teams that guard the buildings and all properties of the army that no enemy will come in and destroy or steal our secrets. But the most precious thing in a military building is the flag of that ...read more

  • The End?

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 28, 2008
     | 2,541 views

    The End? Death, through our eyes, is 'the end.' It is that image of watching an old movie which concludes when the words "THE END" comes up on the screen. We conclude that the movie is over, and we move on either in laughter or tears. Jesus presents a different picture. He doesn't call it ...read more

  • What Are You Going To Remember From This ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 28, 2002
    based on 48 ratings
     | 1,137 views

    What are you going to remember from this Christmas? Chances are that it won’t be one of several presents, or of how good the turkey was, or how nicely decorated the tree was. If I go back 2 yrs, what Joanne and I remember was going for a bike ride Christmas day; last year it was a funny snowman ...read more

  • Thinking On Hell- Communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
    based on 27 ratings
     | 4,960 views

    THINKING ON HELL- COMMUNION MEDITATION Maybe you’ve seen the famous sculpture "The Thinker." The statue was originally created in 1880 as part of Auguste Rodin’s larger work 'The Gates of Hell', an ornamental door for a proposed Palace of Decorative Arts. What is the thinker thinking ...read more

  • One Young Man Asked, "I Am In Earnest About ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 27, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,953 views

    One young man asked, "I am in earnest about forsaking ’the world’ and following Christ. But I am puzzled about worldly things. What is it I must forsake?” "Colored clothes, for one thing. Get rid of everything in your wardrobe that is not white. Stop sleeping on a soft pillow. Sell your musical ...read more

  • Fank Sat In The Prison And Pondered Over The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Kallan on Dec 5, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,150 views

    Fank sat in the prison and pondered over the moment in which he hit his colleague Donald in a fit of rage. Frank had worked in a furniture factory. He knew that his colleague Donald disliked him for the way he prospered in life. As he chiselled, dressed and shaped wood into beautiful furniture, he ...read more

  • Peter Senge, A Pioneer Of Applying Systems ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
     | 1,861 views

    Peter Senge, a pioneer of applying systems thinking to learning, defines learning as “a process that occurs over time and always integrates thinking and doing.” During a recent conference for Chief Learning Officers, he addressed how knowledge is generated and diffused. It is generated by teams, ...read more

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

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jun 25, 2006
    based on 44 ratings
     | 1,551 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

  • William Herbert Carruth's Poem, "Dreamer Of ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Jan 25, 2007
     | 3,465 views

    William Herbert Carruth’s poem, “Dreamer of Dreams,” shows how the rise and fall of dreams shapes our lives as well as creating congregational health. We are all of us dreamers of dreams, On visions our childhood is fed; And the heart of the child is unhaunted, it seems, By the ghosts of dreams ...read more

  • Getting The Air Out  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Jan 21, 2004
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,630 views

    GETTING THE AIR OUT In one of his meetings, D.L. Moody was explaining to his audience the truth that we cannot bring about spiritual changes in our lives by our own strength. He demonstrated the principal like this: “Tell me,” he said to his audience, “how can I get the air out of the tumbler I ...read more

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