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  • How Big Is Jesus??????

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 16, 2014
     | 4,703 views

    HOW BIG IS JESUS???????? At the end of a worship service, a little girl came up to her Pastor and asked, "How big is Jesus?" The puzzled pastor pondered and said, "I don’t know, sweetheart. The Bible doesn’t say. He was a carpenter, so I am sure he had big hands and strong shoulders. Maybe ...read more

  • Daddy Has All Of Me

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 29, 2014
     | 6,077 views

    DADDY HAS ALL OF ME! Alan Redpath had two daughters who loved to swarm him as soon as he came home at night. As he came in the door one evening, his little girls ran to be the first to hug Daddy. One grabbed his leg and hugged him with all of her might. He snatched the other daughter up in his ...read more

  • Grandpa Croaked!  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 1, 2014
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,918 views

    GRANDPA CROAKED! A little girl crawled up in the lap of her Grandpa and cuddled close. Then she looked into Grandpa’s face with those big blue eyes of hers and said, "Grandpa, can you please make a sound like a frog?" Grandpa thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "Ribbit. Ribbit." ...read more

  • Broken Heart

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 11, 2015
     | 7,144 views

    In Fox’s Book of Martyrs, there is the story of a 26 year old mother named Perpetua. The early church was growing dramatically and she came to faith in Jesus. The Roman government was trying to get her to renounce her faith but she refused. They threw her in prison. Her father came and begged her ...read more

  • A Light For My Path

    Contributed by Casey Sabella on Jan 28, 2016
     | 5,549 views

    Psalm 118:105: Your Word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path. (NLT) While in India on a brief missions trip, I was summoned to a the home of an official who was sick. He wanted me to agree with him in prayer. On the way, we traveled along a river in the dead of night. We carried ...read more

  • Conformity

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Feb 29, 2016
     | 6,387 views

    I first noticed this in leading people to Christ. They were beautiful before they were “church broke.” Great young converts often start out as radiant Christians and end up only as carbon-copy Baptists. Great young ministers start out as adorable mavericks, but after a business meeting or two and a ...read more

  • Hope

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Mar 1, 2016
     | 15,761 views

    In September 1988, Hurricane Gilbert hit the Louisiana coast. At that time it was considered the “Storm of the century.” It battered the shoreline, severely disrupting the shrimping business. Many shrimp boats were lost, causing great concern for several families dependent on shrimping for their ...read more

  • Where Adam Used To Live

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 18, 2017
     | 6,252 views

    Adam and his two sons, Cain and Abel, were out hunting one day when Adam turned and started staring at something beautiful afar off. It was the Garden of Eden. Then Adam broke down and starting weeping. The boys didn’t understand. Finally, Abel asked his father, "Dad, why are you crying over ...read more

  • Pure Love Brings Joy

    Contributed by Christopher Sweeney on May 19, 2017
     | 4,025 views

    Many of you may have experienced this but I have from my two nephews and my time in youth ministry that there are times when you are having the worst days and then a child will run up to you and give you a hug or say I love you and everything goes away. Why, why is it that a hug can help erase the ...read more

  • Old Nature

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 15, 2019
     | 4,602 views

    OLD MAN Some time ago, a person I worked with came up to me and said, “if I didn’t know you, I would be terrified to meet you on the street”. If my coworker only knew half of what I’d been, He would never even talk to me. God took the most vile, evil, misguided person in the world and ...read more

  • Oem: G. K. Chesterton

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 23, 2007
     | 1,376 views

    OEM: G. K. Chesterton said: O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die, The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not Thy thunder from us, But take away our pride. From all that terror teaches, From lies of tongue and ...read more

  • Poem: G. K. Chesterton

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 28, 2007
     | 1,219 views

    POEM: G. K. Chesterton said: O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die, The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not Thy thunder from us, But take away our pride. From all that terror teaches, From lies of tongue ...read more

  • A Preacher Was In His Study, Preparing His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,720 views

    A PREACHER WAS IN HIS STUDY, PREPARING HIS SUNDAY SERMON, WHEN HIS LITTLE BOY TODDLED INTO THE ROOM, AND HOLDING UP HIS PINCHED FINGER, THE LITTLE FELLOW SAID, WITH AN EXPRESSION OF SUFFERING, "LOOK, DADDY, IT HURTS REALLY BAD" G. THAT PREACHER/FATHER GLANCED AT HIM AND WITH A TONE OF IMPATIENCE, ...read more

  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Once Suggested That There ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,995 views

    Harry Emerson Fosdick once suggested that there are three kinds of people in the world. First are the proud and self-satisfied, the impenitent (feeling no sorrow or regret) who do not even realize the mess they are in. Second, there are the penitint who are so crushed by their contrite ...read more

  • The Times-Reporter Of New Philadelphia, Ohio, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,046 views

    The Times-Reporter of New Philadelphia, Ohio, reported in September, 1985 a celebration of a New Orleans municipal pool. The party around the pool was held to celebrate the first summer in memory without a drowning at the New Orleans city pool. In honor of the occasion, 200 people gathered, ...read more

  • Poem By Larry Bryant

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 4,981 views

    Poem: When the Model T first hit the street, It didn’t bring all heaven to its feet. And when the first computer was born, They didn’t blow Old Gabriel’s horn. There’s only one thing that we’re sure about That can make those angels jump and shout: It’s when a sinner makes the Lord his ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis Observed, "If You Read History, You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,646 views

    C.S. Lewis observed, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English ...read more

  • Prayer Is The Rope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 7,011 views

    Billy Graham once noted: “Prayer is not about using God it is more often about getting us in a position where God can use us. I watched the deck hands on the great liner United States as they docked that ship in NY Harbor. First they threw out a rope to the men on the dock. Then, inside the boat ...read more

  • Total Sacrifice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 19 ratings
     | 12,485 views

    Total Sacrifice Bryan Chapell tells this story that happened in his hometown: Two brothers were playing on the sandbanks by the river. One ran after another up a large mound of sand. Unfortunately, the mound was not solid, and their weight caused them to sink in quickly. When the boys did not ...read more

  • The Roof Of The Church Hall Of A Little Church ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 6,093 views

    The roof of the church hall of a little church was falling down. So the members of the church held regular prayer meetings in the hall after the service to pray for funds to repair the roof. There was a rich old man, known to be very tight with his money, who used to attend and sit near the back of ...read more