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  • This Great Nation Will Endure As It Has Endured, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gary Harrison on Oct 27, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,079 views

    This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself——nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark ...read more

  • My Son, Dan, Was Pulling Out Of His Apartment ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 17, 2009
     | 2,910 views

    My son, Dan, was pulling out of his apartment complex on his way to school, when suddenly wham, a car hits him going 40 miles an hour about a foot in front of where he was sitting in our Mini-van. The next 15 to 20 minutes he was out. He awoke up confused wondering “Where am I?” and “What is ...read more

  • Life Without Easter  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,217 views

    LIFE WITHOUT EASTER The story is told of a young mother who found herself on the last train out of Poland during Hitler’s regime. She had her first-born toddler and her newborn nursing infant with her. The bombing was fierce, and the train had to stop many times for the passengers to take cover. A ...read more

  • History Of The Ship Mv ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010
     | 5,073 views

    History of the ship MV Doulos When built for the White Star Line in 1912 the Titanic was the marvel of her age. At nearly 883 feet in length, Titanic was longer than the tallest structures on Earth at the time. Over 1800 people left England on the “unsinkable ship”, but only 675 arrived. After ...read more

  • Bible: Life Support

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Oct 29, 2010
     | 2,021 views

    BIBLE: LIFE SUPPORT I didn’t always go to church; in fact, I didn’t start attending anywhere regularly until I was in the ninth grade. But I wasn’t exactly a stranger to church. Occasionally, this friend or that one would invite me to go to Sunday School. I remember one time -- I must have been ...read more

  • The Prayer And The Chair

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 22, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,257 views

    THE PRAYER AND THE CHAIR A woman called a pastor to come to the house to see her father. He goes to the house not knowing whether the man is Christian or not but he notices as he talks to him and the man answers back that he must be a Christian and there is a chair sitting close by. An empty ...read more

  • Leaders Are Born And Made

    Contributed by Tim White on May 7, 2011
     | 2,524 views

    LEADERS ARE BORN AND MADE J. Oswald Sanders in his classic “Spiritual Leadership” believes that leaders are both born and made. “While conversion does not normally make leaders of people who would never become such otherwise, Church history teaches that in the hour of full surrender the Holy ...read more

  • Husband Doesn't Get It

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Jun 19, 2013
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,961 views

    TWICE A WEEK After just a few years of marriage filled with disagreements and arguments, a young man and his wife decided the only way to save their marriage was to try counseling. Things had slipped from bad to worse as the months passed, turning their marriage into a marathon of misery. They had ...read more

  • Dont Be A Cookie Thief

    Contributed by Flor Beloria on Dec 12, 2017
     | 3,832 views

    The Cookie Thief by Valerie Cox A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was engrossed in her book but happened to see, that the man sitting beside her, ...read more

  • Sins Will Find You ( Billy Bob)

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 18, 2019
     | 2,725 views

    Billy Bob –South Pittsburg My friend Billy Bob Johnson lived in South Pittsburg, Tennessee when he was a young whipper snapper. By our standards South Pittsburg Would be considered out in the sticks at that time, but they had a soda shop at the local drug store. That is where all the young ...read more

  • Unheeded Warnings

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 10, 2021
     | 2,373 views

    WHAT CAN POOR PLANNING DO? UNHEEDED WARNINGS… NOT READY? UNEXPECTED? THE GREAT MOLASSES TSUNAMI? What are you expecting at 12:40 PM in the afternoon? Children were playing. Those that worked the night shift were sleeping. Let us understand what SORGHUM MOLASSES really is… Molasses is something ...read more

  • Rejoice, We Conquer!

    Contributed by Roger Byrd on Jul 18, 2021
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,425 views

    In the year 490 B.C., the Persian Army, seeking to invade Greece, landed a large force 26 miles outside of Athens. The huge army disembarked from their warships and gathered on the plains of a place called Marathon. There they prepared to attack the Greek Army and establish their presence in ...read more

  • There Are Many Mysteries

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Aug 25, 2021
     | 2,224 views

    There are 12 or 13 diseases that Doctors know nothing about or very little. They are Mystery's. One such mystery disease is “the sleeping sickness”. From 1917 to 1928, half a million people were afflicted with a ghastly condition that could be part of the plot-line of a horror film. The ...read more

  • Mountain Stream

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 30, 2021
     | 1,888 views

    Where I was Pastoring at the time I got 5th Sunday off. I had a favorite fishing hole. The water wasn’t very deep so I could wade in the water. That was fun for me. It had big trees that hung over the water and the sun would shine through them and made it look beautiful. It was great, this river ...read more

  • Delivering Papers In The Rain

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 23, 2009
     | 2,013 views

    DELIVERING PAPERS IN THE RAIN When I was ten, my mother and I somehow had gotten involved in a bible memory course. It was all through the mail, and we didn’t go to a church anywhere, even occasionally, but we would memorize ten verses a week. During the time, the materials gave some Scriptures ...read more

  • View Everyone As God's Creation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,826 views

    VIEW EVERYONE AS GOD’S CREATION Presbyterian biblical scholar/ minister/author Carl Howie tells about an incident that took place in a New York subway. It was winter, and an especially cold and bitter night. Very few people were on the subway at that hour. At each station, the train would screech ...read more

  • Mistaken For Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,674 views

    MISTAKEN FOR JESUS Carolyn Gillette told the story of a hospice chaplain named Larry, and how he became friends with an 80-year-old lady named Mary. Mary was a hospice patient. Larry visited with her many times, and was greatly impressed by her faith. One day, he got a call that Mary had taken a ...read more

  • Pull For The Shore, Sailor

    Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
     | 2,388 views

    PULL FOR THE SHORE, SAILOR A vessel was wrecked off the shore. Eager eyes were watching and strong arms manned the life-boat. For hours they tried to reach that vessel through the great breakers that raged and foamed on the sand-bank, but it seemed impossible. The boat appeared to be leaving the ...read more

  • Sometimes The People We Know The Best Are The ...

    Contributed by Larry Moyer on Aug 5, 2009
     | 3,700 views

    Sometimes the people we know the best are the ones we treat the worst. One time a lifeguard was asked, "How do you teach a girl how to swim?" He said, "The first thing I would do is to take her to the edge of the pool and have her watch the water as it goes back and forth, back and forth, back and ...read more

  • Revenge Vs. Forgiveness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,215 views

    REVENGE VS. FORGIVENESS There was once a man who was bitten by a dog, which was later discovered to be rabid. The man was rushed to the hospital where tests revealed that he had, in fact, contracted rabies. At the time, medical science had no cure for this disease and so his doctor faced the ...read more