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  • I Don't Need A Job  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 5, 2003
    based on 12 ratings
     | 2,972 views

    I believe I got this story from Bob George… Mac was a hard driving, though businessman in his 70’s. He had been a church member for many years. But one Wednesday night as he heard the associate share his testimony, he realized that he had never personally trusted Jesus Christ as his Savior. Though ...read more

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

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Feb 24, 2003
    based on 65 ratings
     | 2,636 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

  • It's Time For Supper—communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,410 views

    IT’S TIME FOR SUPPER--COMMUNION MEDITATION Brian Bill tells this story: This past week, I was grazing through the channels and came across a so-called “Reality Show” called, “Fear Factor.” I couldn’t believe my eyes. As part of the competition, the contestants had to eat moldy cheese covered ...read more

  • A Young Girl Who Was Writing A Paper For School ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wayne Major on Aug 9, 2003
    based on 17 ratings
     | 2,791 views

    A young girl who was writing a paper for school came to her father and asked, "Dad, what is the difference between anger and exasperation?" The father replied, "It is mostly a matter of degree. Let me show you what I mean." With that the father went to the telephone and dialed a number at random. ...read more

  • Relatively Blessed, Deeply Responsible  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,921 views

    RELATIVELY BLESSED, DEEPLY RESPONSIBLE An assistant professor of theological ethics at Duke Divinity School, Amy Laura Hall, makes the following observation about Thanksgiving: "Saying grace before the Thanksgiving meal is a tradition for many Americans, but too few remember to be ...read more

  • I Stood By The Grave Of Irene Picket. Irene Was ...

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Dec 12, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,108 views

    I stood by the grave of Irene Picket. Irene was 91 years old and had out lived her husband and children. She had an abrasive personality and a sharp tongue. That meant she had few friends. As her pastor I had visited her and had learned to love Irene. She was terribly interesting. She had been ...read more

  • I Learned A Great Life Lesson Once From Some ...

    Contributed by Timothy Archer on Feb 27, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,018 views

    I learned a great life lesson once from some scraggly college kid whose name I don’t even know. I was 8 or 9 years old and was taking swimming lessons from the Red Cross. The day came for our swim test to pass from Advanced Beginners to Intermediate, and we each took our turn trying to do the ...read more

  • When My Grandmother Got Arthritis, She Couldn't ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 23, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,223 views

    "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love." "When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their ...read more

  • I Am Sure That Many Of You Will Be Familiar With ...  PRO

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Oct 21, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,017 views

    I am sure that many of you will be familiar with C.S. Lewis, author of ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. Lewis was good friends with J.R.R. Tolkien, author of ‘Lord of the Rings’, and he was a Christian; a follower of Jesus Christ. What you may not know is that after the death of his wife he ...read more

  • If It Moves, Sin!

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Dec 4, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,054 views

    Chuck Swindoll writes: “One of my favorite stories comes from a man who used to be in our church. He and his wife were close friends of our family, but they have now moved to another part of the country. We really miss their joyful presence. When he was a youth worker many years ago in an ethnic ...read more

  • You Know, If You Want To Dabble In Fiction, You ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Smith on Dec 5, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,130 views

    You know, if you want to dabble in fiction, you can do some great things with a door. When I was a high school missionary kid living in Singapore, we all got to take a tour once on the U.S.S. Nimitz. And I now have a sci-fi film in my collection, about a time-travel portal that opens up and ...read more

  • The Young Woman Was Married And Had 2 Beautiful ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 14, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,690 views

    The young woman was married and had 2 beautiful children, but one day as she was standing over the sink, washing dishes, she thought, ‘There must be more to life than this.’ When her husband came home, he found a note she’d written and began to weep. She would call him once every week to check on ...read more

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

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,459 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

  • The Old Testament (Which Was Finished Over 400 ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jan 16, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,786 views

    The Old Testament (which was finished over 400 years before the birth of Jesus) contains at least 450 prophecies about the birth, life, and death of the Messiah. Peter Stoner (a professor of Science at Westmont College) decided to calculate the probability that one person could fulfill just EIGHT ...read more

  • Pilgrims Progress...

    Contributed by Mark Ferrante on Jan 20, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,638 views

    Pilgrims Progress... Well, on Saturday, about midnight they began to pray, and continued in prayer till almost break of day. Now, a little before it was day, good Christian, as one half amazed, brake out into this passionate speech: What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, ...read more

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

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,814 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

  • Decision Without Procrastination  PRO

    Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Apr 2, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,957 views

    “Decision Without Procrastination" "During the early days of the ministry of Dwight L. Moody, the great evangelist launched a series of meetings in Chicago with promise of the largest crowds that he had ever addressed up to that time. He was speaking of the life of Christ, and on the first Sunday ...read more

  • If You Ask Anyone In My Family If They Have Ever ...

    Contributed by Doris Sparks on Apr 5, 2007
     | 1,501 views

    If you ask anyone in my family if they have ever seen an angel; they would tell you the story that occurred on winter Sunday. We were driving up a very steep hill in town in a van. This was before mini-vans and this big 9-passenger van was not good on slippery roads. The road was snow packed and ...read more

  • A Pilot Was Taking His Family In A Light ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 12, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,512 views

    A pilot was taking his family in a light seaplane into British Columbia. When he attempted to land offshore in the ocean, the plane’s pontoons caught and flipped the plane into the icy waters. The pilot and his family managed to get out of the plane, but it quickly sank, and they had to swim a ...read more

  • We Know We Have A Healthy Body When Each And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Warren Curry on Sep 21, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,959 views

    We know we have a healthy body when each and every member is working together and looking out for one another. Paul uses a lot of analogies comparing the human body and the church. There is not one part of our body that is not dependent on another part. Behold, a team went forth to play a game ...read more