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  • Tom And Eleanor  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 19, 2001
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,574 views

    Illus.: Tom & Eleanor I’d like to tell you the story of two children. The parents of the first child were somewhat mismatched. His father was unemployed with no formal schooling. His mother was a teacher. This child, born in Port Huron, Michigan, was estimated to have an IQ of 81. He was ...read more

  • An Overwhelming Thirst  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Jan 28, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 5,557 views

    AN OVERWHELMING THIRST During the liberation of Palestine in WWI, a combined force of British, Australian, and New Zealand soldiers was closely pursuing the Turks as they retreated from the desert. As the allied troops moved northward past Beersheba they began to outdistance their water-carrying ...read more

  • A Safe Place  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 25, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,813 views

    A SAFE PLACE Henri Nouwen, the widely read Christian author, was a professor at Yale University Divinity School and later at Harvard. He had a prestigious life filled with honor. But in 1986 he resigned from his job of teaching to become pastor for the Daybreak community of people with ...read more

  • What Are Whales Worth?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 1,998 views

    WHAT ARE WHALES WORTH? During the 1988 presidential election, an unexpected shift of attention occurred. Instead of the evening news focusing on the candidates, all eyes were on three gray whales that were cut off from their migratory route by a frozen sea of ice. At first, only a few Eskimos ...read more

  • Celebrities Tend To Misbehave In Tiresome And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,357 views

    Celebrities tend to misbehave in tiresome and predictable ways--tantrums, affairs, addictions--and we tend to think they’re spoiled. But one psychiatrist, Cornell’s Robert B. Millman, says they’re not spoiled, they’re sick. The affliction is Acquired Situational Narcissism. ASN develops when ...read more

  • Name That Christmas Carol  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Nov 25, 2002
    based on 19 ratings
     | 3,855 views

    NAME THAT CHRISTMAS CAROL 1. Bleached Yule 2. Castaneous-colored Seed Vesicated in a Conflagration 3. Singular Yearning for the Twin Anterior Incisors 4. Righteous Darkness 5. Arrival Time 2400 hrs - Weather Cloudless 6. Loyal Followers Advance 7. Far Off in a ...read more

  • What Do You Want To See?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2002
    based on 26 ratings
     | 3,914 views

    WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE? Behavioral scientists have discovered that we usually see things that we are prepared to see. This is all centered in a network of nerve cells called the "Reticular Activating System." Everybody has this system. The "Reticular Activating System." works like this: Once ...read more

  • Sign For The Bathroom Door  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 17, 2003
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,840 views

    SIGN FOR THE BATHROOM DOOR Attention Everyone: The Bathroom Door is Closed! Please do not stand there and talk, whine or ask questions. Wait until I get out. Yes, it is locked. I want it that way. No, it is not broken; I am not trapped. I know I have left it unlocked, and even open at times, since ...read more

  • The Cat With Limited Vision  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 3, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,885 views

    THE CAT WITH LIMITED VISION. There was a beautiful pedigreed cat that lived in a hugh mansion on a hill. The cat had everything. The cat was warm in the cold winter, cool in the hot summer. The cat had a choice of food: fresh tuna, beef, or pork. The cat ate out of silver dishes. The cat drank ...read more

  • In A Recent Column In Leadership Weekly, Gordon ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Aug 7, 2004
    based on 16 ratings
     | 2,517 views

    In a recent column in Leadership Weekly, Gordon MacDonald, a retired pastor and editor at large for Leadership, a journal for pastors, reflected on a comment from Louis Berkhof who said, "God does not want us as objects but as covenant partners, partners who can converse. He desires our ...read more

  • Heart Of Worship  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Garrett on Apr 11, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,434 views

    “HEART OF WORSHIP” There’s a recent song that was written by a young man who lead the worship at church. He was an extremely talented singer, but the preacher there took him aside and told him that he could not lead the singing at church until things changed because he saw that he was more ...read more

  • There Was An Story Of A Woman Who Was Sranded In ...

    Contributed by Ronito Nartea on Sep 13, 2005
     | 2,635 views

    There was an story of a woman who was sranded in a remote area because her car failed . She decide to walk about to find out if there are people around the vicinity who could help her. In that area bad elements roams around suddenly a npoise from the woods caught her attention and she saw a group ...read more

  • Joy Does Not Become Elusive To People. People ...  PRO

    Contributed by Denise Raterta on Nov 30, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,880 views

    Joy does not become elusive to people. People choose to elude joy and God, for that matter. I remember how Jennifer Aniston’s character in the movie “The Good Girl” resented her lady friend’s consistent cheerfulness by saying: “I wonder what the h--- that woman is so d--- happy about.” It’s ...read more

  • Generation Gap Many Of Today's Young People, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,361 views

    Generation Gap Many of today’s young people, unlike their parents, have never known anything but a world dominated by technology. Even their social lives revolve around the Web, iPods, and cellphones. So they dress down, talk loose, and reveal their innermost thoughts online. The result is a ...read more

  • What Are The "Priorities" At Your House?  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,466 views

    WHAT ARE THE "PRIORITIES" AT YOUR HOUSE? WHAT PRIORITIES WILL BE ESTABLISHED IN OUR CHILDREN WHEN THE FOLLOWING HAPPEN? 1. We are early for the game but late to the worship. 2. We see to it that our children do their homework but never check to seek if Bible lessons are completed, 3. They are not ...read more

  • I Will Never Forget In 1945, As A Student In ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Nov 12, 2006
     | 1,476 views

    I will never forget in 1945, as a student in Baylor University, I took a course in “The Life and Writings of the Apostle Paul”. When the professor came to the Romans 7:14-25 passage, he paused and asked “How many of you, starting from the time you were saved, can live without ever sinning against ...read more

  • Generation Gap Many Of Today's Young People, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,735 views

    Generation Gap Many of today’s young people, unlike their parents, have never known anything but a world dominated by technology. Even their social lives revolve around the Web, iPods, and cellphones. So they dress down, talk loose, and reveal their innermost thoughts online. The result is a ...read more

  • This Is Just A Commercial Brake: I Remember The ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Apr 3, 2007
     | 1,195 views

    This is just a commercial brake: I remember the church where I was youth leader. None of the 12 members of the board but me were under 60. And I came before them with a proposal. "Give me the permission and several Bibles to go door to door around the tires factory where I worked for a while. I’ll ...read more

  • Asking For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
     | 5,764 views

    ASKING FOR GUIDANCE I heard a great joke this week about a man who himself had a great joke to share. He was in a dimly lit restaurant and he leaned over to the lady at the table next to him and said, "Hey, would you like to hear a very funny blond joke." The lady replied, "I’m 6’3" blonde and am ...read more

  • Gui—dance

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 9, 2010
     | 3,566 views

    GUI--DANCE Robert Smith wrote in "Doctrine That Dances": "When I meditated on the word 'Guidance,' I kept seeing 'dance' at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right. The movement doesn't flow with the ...read more