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  • So Much For Paradise

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Jul 26, 2011
     | 1,701 views

    SO MUCH FOR PARADISE Have you ever received a beautiful brochure of a vacation spot and it never felt that way when you go there? Years ago I went on a business trip to the Bahamas and the hotel and surrounding area looked beautiful. The first evening in the hotel as I was drifting off to sleep I ...read more

  • No Good Christians

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Jul 26, 2011
     | 2,083 views

    NO GOOD CHRISTIANS Have you ever been on a vacation and then felt like you need another vacation because you were so tired? That is this life. A lot of times we do things that we think will bring us peace and contentment but in the end they just make us more worn out. The more you TRY to be a ...read more

  • Journaling Experiment

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Jul 26, 2011
     | 1,538 views

    JOURNALING EXPERIMENT Please try this experiment. Take out a piece of paper and on the left side of the paper write down all the things that you are burdened with. On the right side of the paper write down all the things that God has either protected you from or trials that He has gotten you ...read more

  • Gift Of Pearls

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Jul 25, 2011
     | 3,435 views

    GIFT OF PEARLS A number of years ago, when our oldest was just a little tyke, a Chinese man we knew gave my wife a string of pearls as a gift. Anyway, the pearls he gave her were different from the ones we might find in a jewelry store; they were natural, not cultivated. Now, the most common ...read more

  • I Was Born On Christmas Day In 1948 And When I ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jul 25, 2011
     | 3,817 views

    I was born on Christmas day in 1948 and when I was around 10 years old my hero was Superman. I can remember watching it on our black and white TV. It was a very popular show back then and kids like me looked up to this man of steel that was as the advertisement says, "Faster than a speeding bullet, ...read more

  • I'm The Greatest!

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jul 25, 2011
     | 2,381 views

    I'M THE GREATEST! "I’m the greatest batter in the world!" Such was the cry of a self-confident little boy swinging his bat in the back yard. Once, twice, and three times he could not connect with the ball. Dejectedly, he set his bat down. But then his eyes ...read more

  • Muffet And The Yoke  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 25, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,066 views

    MUFFET AND THE YOKE Ron Hutchcraft comments, "Once upon a time, there was a heifer named Muffet. She lived on a little dairy farm in the Ozarks. So did my wife - who wasn't my wife then. She was the farmer's young daughter then, and she tells me that Muffet had a harder life than some of the other ...read more

  • Baseball Justice

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Jul 25, 2011
     | 4,431 views

    BASEBALL JUSTICE When I was 8 years old my parents took me to see the Pittsburgh Pirates play in Forbes Field. As you know with me nothing is normal. Well a foul ball came and hit me in the leg. I went down to pick it up and a big guy cam over and wrestled the ball from me. OK, there wasn’t much ...read more

  • Noah Legends

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 25, 2011
     | 2,793 views

    NOAH LEGENDS One website I visited examined different flood stories from such diverse nations as · East Africa · Argentina · Australia · Bolivia · Borneo · Burma · Cuba (original natives) · Fiji · Egypt (Book of the Dead) · Iceland · India · Mexico · New Zealand · Russia- Vogul · Vietnam- ...read more

  • Bold, Not Presumptuous

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Jul 25, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,532 views

    BOLD, NOT PRESUMPTUOUS The worst example I recall of praying presumptuously and acting like it was blessed boldness is the college student I mentioned in an earlier key. I don’t remember what we were praying about, but I remember his prayer. "Lord, in your word it says that if we ask anything ...read more

  • It Looked Like An Apple Store

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Jul 25, 2011
     | 1,090 views

    IT LOOKED LIKE AN APPLE STORE "They looked like Apple products. It looked like an Apple store. It had the classic Apple store winding staircase and weird upstairs sitting area. The employees were even wearing those blue t-shirts with the chunky Apple name tags around their necks," But upon closer ...read more

  • Losing The Boys

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 24, 2011
     | 1,603 views

    LOSING THE BOYS Dr. H Norman Wright tells this story: My wife and I had just arrived home from vacation, and the phone rang. It was our house painter. He said, "I remembered that your son died. My daughter just lost two of her little boys. Can you help her?" We agreed, so my wife and I made an ...read more

  • Blame And Self-Esteem

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Jul 24, 2011
     | 2,995 views

    BLAME AND SELF-ESTEEM When I was an Airline Pilot I was responsible for all flight operations, whether good or bad. If you are taxing into the gate and your wing clips a baggage cart, it is the Captain's fault. It doesn’t matter if the lineman steers you the wrong way or not. What the lineman ...read more

  • The Famous Preacher, Charles Swindoll Once Said, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 24, 2011
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,632 views

    The famous preacher, Charles Swindoll once said, "Kindness is a language that deaf people can ...read more

  • Melt It, Don't Hammer It

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 24, 2011
     | 3,432 views

    MELT IT, DON'T HAMMER IT Alexander Maclaren once said, "Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it." The writer from the 1930’s, Somerset Maugham, had a mother who was an extraordinarily beautiful woman his father was an extraordinarily ugly man. ...read more

  • Lincoln Writes A Letter

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 24, 2011
     | 2,356 views

    LINCOLN WRITES A LETTER Despite his busy schedule during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln often visited the hospitals to cheer the wounded. On one occasion he saw a young fellow who was near death. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the compassionate President. "Please write a letter to ...read more

  • A Cure For Fear

    Contributed by Michael Buckingham on Jul 23, 2011
     | 6,823 views

    A CURE FOR FEAR The story starts with a boy of 12 whose name was Jim. Jim was a pleasant young lad, but one day his mother became very ill, the doctor came and saw her, and he explained to Jim and his father that in all probability Jim's mother will die. Sad right? Well, the day came for Jim's ...read more

  • Prayer Is A Gauge

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 23, 2011
     | 3,040 views

    PRAYER IS A GAUGE Spurgeon: The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the ...read more

  • What Not To Believe

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 22, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,434 views

    WHAT NOT TO BELIEVE Ben Patterson, campus pastor of Westmont College, tells the story of a retired pastor who began noticing that his former congregation was sliding away from orthodoxy. The pastor saw this as his fault and stated, in two sentences, his great failure as a pastor: "I always told ...read more

  • The More Excellent Way

    Contributed by Christopher Lanham on Jul 22, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,452 views

    THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY I remember a sermon – years ago, in fact I think I may have preached it during my time here as an intern – where my opening illustration was the difference between the way my father chopped wood and the way I chopped it. You may remember the scene – me as a skinny 18 ...read more

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