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  • A Man Came Back From A Weekend Retreat Experience ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 28, 2010
     | 1,192 views

    A man came back from a weekend retreat experience and, when a friend asked him how it was, he said, "I died!" The friend asked him what he meant. "You see," the man answered, "I went to this thing not knowing what to expect. But in the process of that long weekend, I discovered that I had spent ...read more

  • Humorous ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 12,894 views

    Humorous Quotes Here are some final words of wisdom: Anybody who sleeps like a baby doesn’t have one. At my age, I’ve seen it all, heard it all, and done it all, but now, I just can’t seem to remember it all. He who laughs last ... thinks the slowest. The early bird gets the worm, but the ...read more

  • The Love Me Not

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2011
     | 3,997 views

    THE LOVE ME NOT Dostoevsky tells the story of a woman who found herself in hell and felt she did not belong there. She could not bear the suffering and cried out in agony for the mercy of God. God listened and was moved with pity and so He said to her: "If you can remember one good deed that you ...read more

  • Now, Of The Seven Churches, Smyrna And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,489 views

    NOW, OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES, SMYRNA AND PHILADELPHIA ARE THE ONLY TWO, THAT JESUS DOESN’T SAY ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT. IN THOSE DAYS, PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN ASIA MINOR, HAD TO BELONG TO A LABOR UNION, TO GET WORK, AND TO BELONG TO A LABOR UNION, YOU HAD TO BURN INCENSE AND BOW BEFORE THE GOD OF THAT ...read more

  • Those Apron Strings  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,206 views

    THOSE APRON STRINGS To “let go” does not mean to stop caring, it means that I can’t do it for someone else. To “let go” is not to cut myself off, it is the realization that I can’t control another. To “let go” is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. To “let go” is to ...read more

  • I Read Of A Young Man Who Worked For A Bank And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Jan 25, 2003
    based on 36 ratings
     | 2,115 views

    I read of a young man who worked for a bank and one day was called upon to deliver $25,000 in quarters in his bosses 49 Ford pickup to Bank of America in downtown San Bernardino. He said, “We hopped in the truck. I’m in my T-shirt and blue jeans. We drove up to the front of the Bank of America, ...read more

  • Embarrassed To Witness, Citation: Eastman ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Apr 3, 2003
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,733 views

    [Embarrassed to Witness, Citation: Eastman Curtis, Raising Heaven-Bound Kids in a Hell-Bent World (Nelson, 2000); quoted in Men of Integrity (July/August 2001)] As a youth pastor, I’d just entered a convenience store with "Jeff" to pay for the gas I’d put in the church van. It was apparent that the ...read more

  • Jack Was Out Jogging One Day And As He Passed A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Keith Davis on May 5, 2003
    based on 18 ratings
     | 3,049 views

    Jack was out jogging one day and as he passed a cliff, he got too close and fell. Grabbing hold of a branch he was stranded. No way up and certainly no way down. He began to scream, “Hello up there can anyone hear me.” He yelled for hours and was about to give up when he heard a voice. ...read more

  • You Don't Know What You're Talking About!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 23, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,435 views

    YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT! Rejection comes in all forms. Steven was a young man that felt the call of God on his life. He came from a really close family. He finished his college and then went off to seminary. After finishing seminary he came back before going to his first church. ...read more

  • I Happened On An Interview With Dr. Adrian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on Jan 26, 2001
    based on 90 ratings
     | 2,690 views

    *I happened on an interview with Dr. Adrian Roger’s long time Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis Tennessee. Dr. Rogers is summing up what made his years of ministry there possible: “If you were to put Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, anybody else out there and let them speak to the same people ...read more

  • Frog Prince

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 10, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,407 views

    FROG PRINCE An 80 year-old woman was walking down the main street in her hometown one evening when she heard a low voice say, "Hey lady." She looked around to see who was talking but upon seeing nobody there she shrugged it all off and continued walking. Before she got another five feet, she ...read more

  • On The Way To The Fair

    Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Aug 28, 2011
     | 4,909 views

    ON THE WAY TO THE FAIR A man was going to the county fair one day with a pig under one arm and a chicken under one arm, and a basket on his head. He came to a crossroads and didn’t know which way to turn. While he stood there deciding, an attractive young woman approached him, heading the same ...read more

  • The Inner Need For Excellence

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Apr 3, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,794 views

    THE INNER NEED FOR EXCELLENCE Years ago during a speaking engagement, I stayed in a hotel in Dallas. It was late at night, and after flipping channels for a while, I landed on ESPN, which is how I learned that tennis legend Martina Navratilova had just won a grueling match in Florida earlier that ...read more

  • Donald Trump's Thoughts About Death

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 4, 2012
     | 3,679 views

    DONALD TRUMP'S THOUGHTS ABOUT DEATH Billionaire Donald Trump was asked one time, "What about death?" the writer asked. "Don't you worry about dying?" Trump said, "No. I'm fatalistic and I protect myself as well as anybody can. I prepare for things." This time, however, as Trump started walking up ...read more

  • Encouragement

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Mar 1, 2016
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,088 views

    In August 1995, the church I pastored made the decision to do a major renovation on our thirty-five-year-old sanctuary. The first step was to put together a crew of people to do internal demolition. Around forty people showed up to take care of this task. Dust was everywhere as we ripped up ...read more

  • Sin Sickens The ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
     | 3,013 views

    Sin sickens the body An illustration of this Mother calls that dinner is ready Mom ,dad, brother and sister sit down to this wonderful meal that mom has fixed Everything is fine until brother asks Dad can I use the car tonight? And sister says, no you can’t use the car tonight You used the car last ...read more

  • Not Any ...

    Contributed by Alan Kraft on Jan 8, 2009
     | 1,366 views

    NOT ANY EXPERIENCE Doug Roberts, a contributor to Glamour magazine, once wrote: "One of the things I love about [porn] is that it’s sex with anybody I want: Halle Berry, the weather woman, the blond who brushed against me on the subway...I can summon any one or two of these ladies for a romp ...read more

  • Benjamin Franklin, Who Never Professed To Be A ...

    Contributed by Dean O'bryan on Jul 2, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,898 views

    Benjamin Franklin, who never professed to be a Christian, still understood how excellent and valuable the Bible is. According to one story, he was in Paris, representing the new American Republic. Franklin was dismayed to hear supposedly educated Frenchmen ridiculing the Bible. Some even ...read more

  • Obedience

    Contributed by Anitha Jabastion on Jan 2, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,447 views

    There was a boy who went trekking on the mountain. He reached a great height when he realized that it was getting dark and he had to reach the bottom soon. He began climbing down. It was getting darker and darker, so dark that he could barely see. He was somehow managing to get down the mountain ...read more

  • Consider Some Of The Dumb Things People Have Said ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Feb 24, 2003
    based on 65 ratings
     | 2,284 views

    Consider some of the dumb things people have said through the years: 1859 – "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to find oil? You’re crazy!" - the employees to Edwin L. Drake before his first successful oil well near Titusville, Penn 1899 – "Everything that can be invented has been ...read more

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