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  • Saving Grizzly Adams  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Mar 15, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,233 views

    SAVING GRIZZLY ADAMS Rick Stacy, Pastor in Okemos, Michigan tells a story about Ken Bailey. Ken was a laborer on the Alaska Pipeline back in the mid 70’s. He worked up in the icy cold for a year and came back with $30,000. That was a lot of money 30 years ago! He blew it all in a month. He ...read more

  • A Life Of Resolutions  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 6,077 views

    A LIFE OF RESOLUTIONS Jonathan Edwards, the 18th-century revivalist, sat down at age 17 and penned 21 resolutions by which he would live his life. Throughout his lifetime he would add to this list until, by his death, he had 70 resolutions. He put at the top of his list: "Being sensible that I am ...read more

  • Moral Decision

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,314 views

    What would be your moral decision on this? Updated 6:33 AM ET May 29, 2003 - Sometimes crime can pay, even on death row, if you’re in need of a new kidney. Thanks to the state of Oregon, a law-abiding citizen in need of a kidney transplant may have to die so that death-row prisoner Horacio ...read more

  • Ichthys — The Christian Fish Symbol  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Aug 26, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,892 views

    ICHTHYS - THE CHRISTIAN FISH SYMBOL I’ve got a picture here. Do you know what it is? <>< (www.epworthsteeple.org/symbols.htm). Yes, it’s a symbol of a fish. But it’s more than that, it’s a Christian symbol going back to the time of the first years of the Christian church. In the first century ...read more

  • The Blood Of Christ—communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 8, 2004
    based on 21 ratings
     | 6,647 views

    THE BLOOD OF CHRIST- COMMUNION MEDITATION If you’ve seen Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” you probably remember the scene of Jesus’ scourging. It’s rather hard to forget the whip with steel and bone and glass knotted in its leather striking Jesus over and over again. There is a part ...read more

  • One Of The Chores That I Enjoy Doing Is Washing ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jon Daniels on Jun 15, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 12,114 views

    One of the chores that I enjoy doing is washing my car. Like to see that dirt disappear. Like to see the shine of a freshly washed car. Like to shine up the tires, make the chrome sparkle, clean all the fingerprints and dog nose prints off the windows. Finish washing it. Park in front of ...read more

  • God Is Seeking Me Out  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 12, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 5,862 views

    GOD IS SEEKING ME OUT Nikki was a Jewess. Born of Jewish parents and raised in the Temple, she had never wanted anything to do with the church. But just because her friend Dana had invited her, she agreed to attend go - just this once. The next week she came back. And the next week, and the next. ...read more

  • Jim Cymbala Discusses The Importance Of Prayer In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 16, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,665 views

    Jim Cymbala discusses the importance of prayer in his new book Break Through Prayer: He states, "Everywhere I travel, I keep hearing the defensive teaching that fervent prayer, heartfelt prayer is really overrated and not necessary today. Since God is love, some people reason, we just have to ...read more

  • It Reminds Me Of The True Story Of A 37 Year-Old ...

    Contributed by David Flowers on May 17, 2005
     | 2,883 views

    It reminds me of the true story of a 37 year-old man in the Soviet Union who astonished friends and neighbors one day. He had been thought dead for eighteen years, when one day he emerged from under a pile of goat poop shrieking, “I want to work! I want to live!” His neighbors were astonished ...read more

  • On 13th September 1759, One Of The Most ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Nov 26, 2005
     | 1,127 views

    On 13th September 1759, one of the most significant battles of the 18th Century was fought – the Battle of the Heights of Abraham. The Heights of Abraham were (and still are) the cliffs above the St. Lawrence river in front of the strategic city of Quebec. Louis, the Marquis de Montcalm - who ...read more

  • The Man I Ate Dinner With Tonight Killed My ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Shearhart on May 19, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 1,429 views

    "The man I ate dinner with tonight killed my brother." The words, spoken by a stylish woman at a PF banquet in Seattle, amazed me. She told how John H. had murdered her brother during a robbery, served 18 years at Walla Walla, then settled into life on a dairy farm, where she had met him in 1983, ...read more

  • Kingdom In My Heart

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,774 views

    KINGDOM IN MY HEART Alistair MacLean quotes a story from Tauler, the German mystic: One day Tauler met a beggar. "God give you a good day, my friend." he said. The beggar answered, "I thank God I never had a bad one." Then Tauler said, "God give you a happy life, my friend." "I thank God," said ...read more

  • Talk To Jesus Like Your Daughter

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
     | 3,833 views

    TALK TO JESUS LIKE YOUR DAUGHTER I was reading about a grieving woman. She went to the Rev. F. B. Meyer looking for help. She said, "Pastor, my daughter died last year. I miss her so much. I made breakfast for her every morning. And even when I had to go to work, I knew that she would be there ...read more

  • Lifebelt Inspected By Mother Saves ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
     | 4,761 views

    Lifebelt Inspected by Mother Saves Son During World War II, Signalman 3rd Class Elgin Staples, was swept overboard in the wee hours of the morning when the Astoria’s gun turret exploded. Fortunately, he had been able to activate the narrow lifebelt. He was pulled from the ocean four hours later, ...read more

  • Only A Full View Will Do  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,192 views

    Only a Full View Will Do But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord [2Cor. 3:18]. I wish I had spent more time looking in the "mirror," beholding Him more. In the Word of God we ...read more

  • Suburban Outreach

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,360 views

    SUBURBAN OUTREACH Calvin Miller teaches in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Beeson Divinity School. He recently wrote a provocative article entitled, "Rethinking Suburban Evangelism," on the challenge taking the gospel to people who sense no need: "Suburbia: the push-button Zion of those who have made ...read more

  • Do Whatever The Champion Does

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 24, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,644 views

    DO WHATEVER THE CHAMPION DOES In 1976, Finland’s Lasse Viren made Olympic history when he became the first man to win both the 5,000 and 10,000 meter races in successive Olympiads. After his victory, his coach decided to take on the record of the legendary Emil Zatopek. Earlier in the century at ...read more

  • Go Back! You're Too Young

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,653 views

    GO BACK! YOU'RE TOO YOUNG Wilbur E. Nelson told the story of his father who was the senior elder in his church for many years. He said: "When I was a boy, eleven years of age, an evangelist held a series of meetings in our church. One night he asked every Christian to come forward and also asked ...read more

  • Faith Connection  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,131 views

    FAITH CONNECTION Spurgeon use to tell a story about two men in a boat. They were caught in a very, very severe rapids and they were going to a place where there was a waterfall and even worse rapids and there was really no way, if they ever hit those rapids, that they would ever live. And they ...read more

  • House ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,176 views

    HOUSE FIRE A story is told of a family awakened by their smoke detector in the middle of the night to discover that their house was on fire. The father ran into the upstairs bedroom of his children and carried his 18 month old baby in his arms while dragging his 4 year old son by the hand. They ...read more