THE LIBRARY

The following is a collection of fiction/non-fiction stories, analogies, parables, prayers and songs.
If you have a related item you would like added, please email to me.

Prayer Examples | Wonders & True Stories | Bad Doctrine | Parables | Analogies | Songs

PRAYERS

• A prayer - need an example or a jump-start? Try this--seriously
• A problem - Take your problem to prayer (web page)
• The Empty Chair - Understanding how to pray
• Prayer II - Another prayer idea
• Prayer III - A prayer that puts the environment in perspective
• The New School Prayer - The secular prayer of today's culture

WONDERS & TRUE STORIES

• Center of the Bible - The center of GOD's Word
• Church marquees - Profound phrases pastors paste in front of their church
• Did you know? - Proof of the 10 Commandments' tie to the U.S. Supreme Court and Constitution
• God speaks through billboards - Billboards seen on U.S. highways
• How could 50 States be wrong? - How the U.S. started out with a "anti-separation of church and state" policy
• How could God?! - explanation of why 9/11 happened by reverend Billy Graham's daughter
• How much does prayer weigh? - A grocery store story
• How People So Easily Forget the Price of Freedom - sermon passage by Pastor John Hagee
• "In God We Trust" - how the words made their way onto U.S. currency
• Iraq - Biblical history surrounded it and world events that happened in it--supported by scripture!
• Medical Evaluation of the Crucifixion - A SOBERING AND GRAPHIC medical description of what Jesus endured during his crucifixion on Calvary's Cross
• One Nation Under God - The lie of Separation of Church and State by Dee Wampler
• Party Invitation - you're invited to an out-of-this-world party
• Phone Numbers - Better numbers to call than 911
• Speck in the Universe - Our sun is not as big as you may think!
• Who is Jesus? - explained at a location about 70 miles from Amarillo, TX, outside a town called Groom

BAD DOCTRINE (ID'ing/defeating unsound practices)

• ISLAM
  allah or Jesus? - Purported by Rick Mathes that an Islamic man admits his faith requires killing non-conformists
  
  
• JEVOHAH'S WITNESSES
  Sermon from Sep 9th, 2001 - Read the introductory true story
  
  
• CATHOLICISM AND THEIR "SEVEN SACRAMENTS"
  Ephesians 2:8-10 and Galatians 2:16: Faith in Jesus Christ, alone, saves; works/tasks/jobs/sacraments/etc. do not save or justify you

  Isaiah 64:6: Everything we do in life--no matter how good or "perfect" or law-abiding--doesn't justify/save you
  
  
• HOMOSEXUALITY
  God defines homosexuality as "an abomination" (Leviticus 18:22)

  Solid proof of how homosexuality erodes a country--> "Death of marriage in Scandinavia" by Stanley Kurtz of the Boston Globe, 3/10/04

PARABLES (profound stories)

• A Christmas Story - How the letters "W" and "M" have the same meaning
• Atheist - parents orphan a child--or do they?
• The Attorney - Your advocate on your Judgment Day trial
• The Barber - Responding to someone who claims a loving God wouldn't allow bad things to happen
• The Birdcage - how Jesus and the world relate to three birds in a cage
• The Blood - Can a former female prostitute be good enough to marry the pastor's son?
• Cake - An explanation of how bad things turn out good in the end
• The Dart Test - The effect of throwing darts at a picture of someone you don't like
• Flock of Geese - Understanding why God came to earth in the form of man
• Homeless Man at Church - Who helped the homeless man lying at the church door Sunday morning?
• Little Boy and the Surgeon - What the surgeon found in the little boy's damaged heart
• I Chose You - God answers a man's prayers but the man doesn't notice
• Little Hut - How God uses disaster and what we believe is loss to be great gain
• Obedience - Effect of the church separating from God
• The Painting - The original work no one wanted
• People's Court - YOUR final trial
• PUSH - Does trying to push an immobile rock for years really result in failure?
• The Perfect Mistake - Example of what man things is wrong God planned as right
• Three Trees - How we can get what we want ... just not the way we imagine it
• The Room - imagine a room where the events of your life are organized in file cabinets
• To Save or Not to Save - dad must choose between his saved son and his son's unsaved friend
• Traveling Salesmen - Can others see Jesus in them?
• Two brothers - A carpenter is asked to build a fence to separate two brothers. The carpenters builds...
• Shipwrecked - Two on a barren island. Which one's prayers are answered and why?
• Speeding - receiving something more gut-twisting than a speeding ticket for speeding
• Why are we so busy? - Satan's keynote address
• Windshield - A child's interpretation of a car windshield as it relates to sin
• Word of the day - John 3:16 - learn the power of John 3:16
• You took my place! - Why is this church-goer taking everyone's place at church?
• Why go to church? - "I've heard 3,000 sermons and can't remember one! So why go!?"

ANALOGY (explanations)

• 50 Great Quotes - Super one-liners that are true
• 7-Ups of Life - The true 7-Up's of our life
• A.S.A.P. - What does it mean to you?
• A Pumpkin - How God carves and cleans you out
• Blessed - Putting in perspective how much more fortunate we are than others
• Blessing of being told "NO" - As Garth Brooks sang, "some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."
• Daily Survival Kit - What to pack and use daily
• The folded napkin - What it means
• Funny How - immoral garbage is OK but morality is not
• God Said No - Sometimes God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers
• God Won't Ask - What God won't ask you at Judgement Day
• Holy Alphabet - A clever rhyming alphabet of exhortation
• I am a Christian - A definition
• Job Opening - The Kingdom of God is hiring. Do you qualify? Find out!
• Kind Words - What God won't do for you
• The Lord's prayer - Interpretation of the words
• Master's Card - Don't Leave Your Soul Without It
• Noah's Ark - One-liners we can learn and apply today from Noah
• One-Liners - 26 of God's "One Liner's" (with sound)
• Parents - The way some times should be spent with children
• God is like - a lot of consumer products
• RECALL NOTICE - on human beings
• Strengthened Weakness - God has specific answers for your specific weakness
• The "U" in JesUs - How you are connected to His name
• Whose Hands - The difference between the value of an object in your hands and in another's
• Why can't God use you - There is no impossible person!
• Why did my son have to die for our country? - A question asked throughout this country's history of conflict
• What If - GOD didn't because you didn't?

SONG & RHYME

• 12 Days of Christmas - the Biblically accurate version.
• A Holy Alphabet - Alphabetically sorted and rhyming exhortation to stay faithful
• Too Busy - The mode we need to get out of
• TV's Prayer - As opposed to the Shepherd's Prayer...
• T'was the Month Before Christmas - The politically correct version of the 12 Days of Christmas
• T'was the Night Jesus Came - What Christmas is becoming more and more every year
• When Jesus Looks Upon My Life - What will he see??
  
  
  
  

  Prayer Examples | Wonders & True Stories | Bad Doctrine | Parables | Analogies | Songs