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  • Missing Out  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,046 views

    MISSING OUT Leith Anderson, a pastor, shares an experience of disappointment. As a boy, he grew up outside of New York City and was an avid fan of the old Brooklyn Dodgers. One day his father took him to a World Series game between the Dodgers and the Yankees. He was so excited, and he just knew ...read more

  • In A Recent Issue Of Focus On The Family ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 19, 2000
    based on 14 ratings
     | 2,817 views

    In a recent issue of Focus On The Family Magazine, Dianne Matthews remembered when she was a young girl in 1st grade the little girl behind her had brought a beautiful tiny Christmas gift to school and placed it on her desk. It was wrapped in white glossy paper and tied up with a sliver of red ...read more

  • Daniel Meyers Speaks About A Book Written By A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Corey Arnold on Nov 17, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,693 views

    Daniel Meyers speaks about a book written by a cardiologist at the University of Tennessee that corroborates an important aspect of the biblical message. In the course of their emergency room work, Dr. Maurice Rawlings and his colleagues interviewed more than 300 people who claimed near-death ...read more

  • Funeral Home Visiting Hours  PRO

    Contributed by Erick Riddle on Sep 3, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,620 views

    2 Corinthians 1:1-11 One of the ways to share the comfort you have received from God is to go to the visiting hours and the funeral. In the late ‘80’s I was preaching full time for a small church in Michigan and worked part time in the local funeral home. I frequently saw people from the church ...read more

  • I Have A Friend Who Took His Little Six-Year-Old ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 13, 2004
    based on 32 ratings
     | 1,583 views

    I have a friend who took his little six-year-old boy fishing with him one day. They put out the line and then went up to the cabin. After an hour, they went back down to the river to see if they had caught anything. Sure enough, there were several fish on the line. The boy said, "I knew there would ...read more

  • Ron Mehl: Love Found A Way

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Dec 7, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,059 views

    QUOTE: By Ron Mehl (Love Found a Way). “Some people think I get a little carried away with Christmas. No, they don’t actually say anything (who wants to offend the pastor?). But I can tell. I’ve caught them rolling their eyes or changing the subject. I know that they’re thinking. They think I’m too ...read more

  • Cast In A Line For Yourself

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Dec 30, 2007
     | 1,419 views

    Cast In A Line For Yourself A poor, hungry man stood idly on a bridge watching some fishermen. Seeing one of them with a basket full of fish by his side, he said, "if I had a catch like that, I’d be happy. I’d sell it and buy some food and clothes." "I’ll give you that many fish if you do a ...read more

  • As A Boy, Larry Crabb Stuttered But Now He Is A ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 19, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,345 views

    As a boy, Larry Crabb stuttered but now he is a popular speaker and psychologist. He recalls one time as a young man when felt pressure by expectation to pray out loud because that was the tradition of his church. In a terribly confused prayer, he recalled “thanking the Father for hanging on the ...read more

  • Ill - In 2006 Elizabeth Shoaf Was Abducted While ...

    Contributed by Michael Wiley on Mar 20, 2008
     | 2,605 views

    ILL - In 2006 Elizabeth Shoaf was abducted while walking home from school. The predator was a local man – weird past… He put Elizabeth in a bunker he had dug in the woods, and there molested her for 14 days! How do you survive that? Elizabeth used several techniques to shut her mind down and keep ...read more

  • John Suk Writes, "Soldiers Of The Symbionese ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 26, 2008
     | 1,025 views

    John Suk writes, “Soldiers of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst from her Berkeley, California, apartment on February 4, 1974. In return for her release, Patty’s kidnappers demanded that her father, Randolph Hearst, give millions of dollars to the poor. “On ...read more

  • Chuck Colson Tells This Amazing Story: "Nbc Has ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,265 views

    Chuck Colson tells this amazing story: “NBC has been running a gripping series on the emergency military triage facilities in Iraq. Last Thursday, NBC showed wounded Iraqi insurgents [terrorists] being brought to Camp Speicher near Tikrit. Two of them had been caught placing an explosive device on ...read more

  • Dr. Rod Cooper, A Professor At Denver Seminary ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,133 views

    Dr. Rod Cooper, a Professor at Denver Seminary grew up on a pig farm. In one field there were 200 or 300 little pigs running around. Every day at 4:00 a.m. he went out to feed them, and when he walked in they would all scatter except for one little pig that would come up and chew on his shoe. He ...read more

  • David: Brokenness Leads To Loyalty

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 19, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,939 views

    DAVID: BROKENNESS LEADS TO LOYALTY Psalm 51 Our text was written by King David about a year after he had an adulterous affair. While his men were off to war he was home relaxing. The story results in a series of events that went from adultery to deception and finally murder to cover his tracks and ...read more

  • A Father Insures The Safety Of His Son In A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,598 views

    A Father Insures the Safety of His Son in a Blizzard A little boy was eagerly looking forward to the birthday party of a friend who lived only a few blocks away. When the day finally arrived, a blizzard made the sidewalks and roads nearly impassable. The lad’s father, sensing the danger, hesitated ...read more

  • Cast A Line For Yourself

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 23, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,554 views

    CAST A LINE FOR YOURSELF A poor, hungry man stood idly on a bridge watching some fishermen. Seeing one of them with a basket full of fish by his side, he said, "If I had a catch like that, I'd be happy. I'd sell it and buy some food and clothes." "I'll give you that many fish if you do a small ...read more

  • My Daddy Is Here!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,983 views

    MY DADDY IS HERE! David Elkind, a psychologist, tells the story of visiting his middle son's nursery school class, at the request of his teacher. She wanted him to observe a "problem child" in the class. While he was there, he caught a conversation between his son and some other boys. There ...read more

  • Something Beautiful

    Contributed by Barry Edmondson on Feb 5, 2011
     | 2,538 views

    SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL In 1502, in Florence, Italy there was a large block of marble given to a church in Santa Maria, the church immediately hired who they thought was a professional to sculpt this enormously huge piece of rock. The man was a professional and soon after commencing this great task ...read more

  • Get Busy And Cast A Line

    Contributed by Keith Peters on Jul 5, 2011
     | 2,008 views

    GET BUSY AND CAST A LINE A poor, hungry man stood idly on a bridge watching some fishermen. Seeing one of them with a basket full of fish by his side, he said, "If I had a catch like that, I'd be happy. I'd sell it and buy some food and clothes." "I'll give you that many fish if you do a small ...read more

  • A Lesson In Hope

    Contributed by Thomas Clawser on Apr 1, 2017
     | 9,384 views

    They still tell the story at William and Mary College of daffy, magnificent President Ewell. For a century and a half, this prestigious Virginia school had been a leader among American universities. Then came the Civil War. In the hard days of reconstruction that followed, William and Mary went ...read more

  • It's In Your Hands

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 18, 2017
     | 9,628 views

    A young student in China decided to play a trick on his elderly teacher one day. He caught a small bird and cupped it in his hands behind his back. He then approached the sage with this plan in mind. He would ask the old man what he had in his hand. If he answered correctly, he would then ask ...read more

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