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  • A Story Of Friendship

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,139 views

    Let me read to you; A Story of friendship Out of the furnaces of war come many true stories of sacrificial friendship. One such story tells of two friends in World War I, who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together and fought side-by-side in ...read more

  • World War I Friends

    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 19, 2008
     | 1,472 views

    WORLD WAR 1 FRIENDS – Powerful Illustration Out of the furnaces of war come many true stories of sacrificial friendship. One such story tells of two friends in World War I, who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together and fought side-by-side in ...read more

  • Prayer Skit Adapted From Something I Heard On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jerry Smith on Apr 14, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,790 views

    Prayer skit adapted from something I heard on Christian radio Jennifer says --- Ryan, I am going to spend some time in prayer. Please don’t disturb me. (goes across the room and kneels in prayer) “Oh Lord, I am your servant. I want to do your will no matter what it is.” (Ryan pokes his head in ...read more

  • You Call This A Gas ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Aug 13, 2008
     | 1,764 views

    YOU CALL THIS A GAS STATION! One day a lady pulled into a self serve gas station to fill up her car. She got out of her car, hurried over to the pump, lifted the nozzle to her gas tank, and tried to pump the gas. Nothing happened. Belatedly she realized that this was one of those gas stations ...read more

  • The Boy Scout Was Really Excited About Going On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,530 views

    The boy scout was really excited about going on the annual winter camperee. With a couple feet of snow on the ground, the setting was perfect for a great weekend. His was one of the first troops to hike in and set up camp. The boy scout, along with his troop, forged into the wilderness. Upon ...read more

  • As A Father One Of My Goals Is To Help My ...

    Contributed by Dennis Harbach on Oct 1, 2002
     | 1,964 views

    As a father one of my goals is to help my children grow to be independent of my help. So when we are in the store or the library from time to time I will encourage them to ask their own questions, check out their own books, even pay for the groceries themselves. Yes, that’s with my money. Not ...read more

  • My Saint Bernard Dog Happy Is Such A Baby! ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 25, 2007
     | 752 views

    My Saint Bernard dog Happy is such a baby! Besides being deathly afraid of Sebastian’s new ball, she is also afraid of the back stair case in the parsonage! For those of you may not have every noticed the back stair case, it is attached to kitchen and brings you up to the back end of the hallways ...read more

  • I've Been Good, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
     | 2,205 views

    "I’VE BEEN GOOD, BUT..." Grandma was rushing her two grandkids ages five and three out to the car from shopping when five year old Jason spoke up. "Grams, Susie put something in her pocket in the store." After a quick investigation, Grams discovered that Susie had picked up some pretty red ...read more

  • No Record Anywhere

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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     | 3,470 views

    NO RECORD ANYWHERE My friend Dr. Roy Gustafson has the finest illustration of justification I have ever heard. It seems that there was a man in England who put his Rolls-Royce on a boat and went across to the continent to go on a holiday. While he was driving around Europe, something happened to ...read more

  • The Town Gossip

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2011
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    THE TOWN GOSSIP Many years ago the Moody Church News carried a humorous story about a woman in a small town who was known for being a gossip. One day on vacation she visited the offices of The Chicago Daily News. She was wearing a white dress and inadvertently leaned against a wall where a freshly ...read more

  • During The Days When Mohammed Ali Was A Great ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hodges on Jun 16, 2001
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    During the days when Mohammed Ali was a great boxer, he would go around in his arrogance and say that, "He was the greatest." Humility was never his strong suit. One day, back in his prime, he was on an airplane and the plane was ready to take off and the flight attendant had repeatedly told him ...read more

  • Some Of Us Fear Conflict, Like The Grass In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 3, 2002
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     | 2,738 views

    Some of us fear conflict, like the grass in the African proverb, “when bull elephants fight, the grass always loses.” Others of us dread conflict much like opening the proverbial can of worms without knowing how to get them back in. Others of us, however, seem to deal with it quite well like the ...read more

  • Paul Harvey Tells The True Story Of A Lady Who ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 15, 2005
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    Paul Harvey tells the true story of a lady who went to a newspaper to report the death of her husband. She took a glowing four page report to the obituary counter. Upon seeing it, the news clerk said, "Ma’am, you should know that it costs $.50 a word to put that in the paper." Stunned, the wife ...read more

  • A Wealthy Deacon Was Opposed To The Renovation ...  PRO

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Sep 10, 2006
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     | 3,198 views

    A wealthy deacon was opposed to the renovation of the church building. One day, at a deacons’ meeting, he spoke out firmly against it. No sooner had he spoken, than a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling and hit him on the shoulder. “I take that back!” he said. “I’ll give a hundred dollars!” As ...read more

  • Paying The Bully

    Contributed by Corey Laughary on Jan 8, 2007
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    In his book Fuzzy Memories, Jack Handey writes: “There used to be this bully who would demand my lunch money every day. Since I was smaller, I would give it to him. Then I decided to fight back. I started taking karate lessons. But then the karate lesson guy said I had to start paying him five ...read more

  • A Young Woman's Car Stalled At A Light. The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Dec 10, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,915 views

    A young woman’s car stalled at a light. The light turned green. The car behind her actually had room to go around but didn’t. Instead the person in the car kept on honking the horn. After attempting to start the car, the young woman got out and went back to the honker’s car, and said, “Tell you ...read more

  • The Salvation Army Was Holding A Convention. ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 14, 2009
     | 3,443 views

    The Salvation Army was holding a convention. Morale was at an all-time low. The organization had hit rock bottom. They did not know what to do. They sent a telegram to their founding father, William Booth, asking for any advice he could give on how they could get back on their feet. William Booth ...read more

  • The Job's Too Small

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Mar 4, 2011
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    THE JOB'S TOO SMALL There was a missionary in China whose talents and abilities were so outstanding that one of the American companies tried to hire him. They offered him an attractive job with a salary to match, but he turned it down. He told them that God had sent him to China as a missionary. ...read more

  • Tweeners

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 23, 2023
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     | 963 views

    "Too many Christians are “’tweeners”: they live between Egypt and Canaan, saved but never satisfied; they live between Good Friday and Easter, believing in the Cross but not entering into the power and glory of the Resurrection. It is clear, then, that the believer cannot deliberately be ...read more

  • All Morning I Worked On The Proof Of One Of My ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 867 views

    "All morning I worked on the proof of one of my poems, and I took out a comma; in ...read more