Contributed by Bruce Landry on Jan 15, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 3,026 views
Seoul -- At his father’s funeral, American Carl Lewis placed his 100-meter gold medal from the 1984 Olympics in his father’s hands. "Don’t worry," he told his surprised mother. "I’ll get another one."
A year later, in the 100-meter final at the 1988 games, Lewis was competing against Canadian
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 26, 2001
based on 85 ratings
| 2,598 views
Skip Gray in his book, The Way of The Cross says,
Tradition tells us that around the time when Jesus was a teenager, there was a rebellion near where he lived. The Roman army crushed the rebellion but they didn’t want it to happen again, so they crucified an Israelite every 10 meters along the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 10, 2006
based on 3 ratings
| 1,541 views
It is said that Mr. Moody, in his early days in Chicago, was a regular attendant on the noonday prayer meeting. At one of these meetings a rich brother rose and told those present of an opportunity to do a certain good thing if only three or four hundred dollars could be raised for the purpose, and
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
(Illustration) In his book One Crowded Hour, Tim Bowden describes an incident in Borneo in 1964. Nepalese fighters known as Gurkhas were asked if they would be willing to jump from airplanes into combat against the Indonesians. The Gurkhas did not clearly understand what was involved, but they
...read more
Contributed by Debra Klein on Jun 5, 2006
Billy who was given 2 quarters by his grandma on Sunday. One was for the Sunday school offering and the other for an ice cream cone on the way home from church. Billy was flipping both quarters in the air on his way to church when one of them slipped from his hand and fell into
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Church Of God
Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 31, 2000
based on 158 ratings
| 2,204 views
Do you remember the story of Samuel Upham on his deathbed? Samuel Upham had been a professor at Drew Theological Seminary for years and as he lay dying, friends gathered about. The question arose as to whether he was still living or not. Someone
advised, "Feel his
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
based on 1 rating
| 702 views
Barna notes this about parents in his book Revolutionary Parenting that the most influential person in a child’s life is their parents.
i. “The fact that neither government nor schools are the solution to the problem is not a big deal. That’s because they are not the ones responsible for fixing
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
a father told his son when he reached his l2th birthday that from now on he would only shake hands with him. Some years later the son, now grown, said to his father, "Dad, can I hug you?"
...read more
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Bill Hybels states this about prayer from his book Too Busy Not To Pray: “From birth we have been learning the rules of self-reliance as we strain and struggle to achieve self-sufficiency. Prayer flies in the face of those deep-seated values. It is an assault on human autonomy, an indictment of
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Butch Vernon on Nov 6, 2005
based on 3 ratings
| 2,308 views
Irwin McManus in his awesome book ‘The Barbarian Way’ speaks of rhinos and their limitations. ‘But my favorite of all is the group designation for rhinos. You see, rhinos can run thirty miles an hour, which is pretty fast when you consider how much weight they’re pulling. They’re actually faster
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Nov 5, 2006
A little boy climbed up on his father’s knee, and looking up into his face, asked, “Papa, is your soul insured?” “Why do you ask that question, Sonny?” “Why, Papa, I heard Uncle George say that you had your house insured and that you had insured your barn and your life, but he was afraid you had
...read more
Denomination:
Christian Church
Contributed by Dana Visneskie on Feb 9, 2004
based on 5 ratings
| 2,471 views
A Native American and his friend were in downtown New York City, walking near Times Square in Manhattan. It was during the noon lunch hour and the streets were filled with people. Cars were honking their horns, taxicabs were squealing around corners, sirens were wailing, and the sounds of the city
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
based on 7 ratings
| 6,343 views
It was May 7, and Roger Simms was hitchhiking his way home, having been discharged from the Army. He flashed his hitchhiking sign at a car, but almost lost hope for a ride when he noticed it was a black, sleek, new Cadillac. To his amazement the car stopped. As Roger entered the car from the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
based on 110 ratings
| 2,480 views
In forty years of involvement in his church’s visitation program, Wilt Durant had led one person to Christ. You know what they say, if only one person comes to Christ its worth all the effort, right?
When he retired in 1992, he moved to Rogers, AR and joined Immanuel Baptist Church. One Sunday,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 28, 2001
based on 121 ratings
| 2,425 views
Illus.: “How the Word Was Cut Into His Heart”
When the Christians in Lahore, India, wanted to stamp Matthew 11:28 on the back of Gospels they had printed, they found they could not obtain a rubber stamp with which to do it. The only way was to get a clever Moslem to cut the words in rubber for
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Sermon Central