Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 3, 2005
based on 1 rating
| 2,310 views
A number of years ago a woman living in a nursing home in Scotland wrote the following little piece that wasn’t found until after her death. However, it demonstrated the reality that life flies by even if you live to a ripe old age. I think you will be touched as I was. It’s entitled, "Crabby Old
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Gary Maskell on Aug 18, 2006
based on 2 ratings
| 2,287 views
A short while ago, comic-book creator, Stan Lee and company created a 6-week reality-based television series entitled, "Who Wants to be a Superhero?"
As a part of their initial search, they sent out nationwide notices stating that they were looking for folks who have never lost that inner drive to
...read more
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 8, 2006
based on 2 ratings
| 1,997 views
Ikuko Toguri was born in Los Angeles on July 4, 1916 the daughter of Japanese immigrants. She went by the name Iva. Iva was a Girl Scout as a child, and she was raised as a Methodist. Iva graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in Zoology. She then worked in her
...read more
Contributed by John Young on Nov 23, 2004
based on 4 ratings
| 2,019 views
One winter morning in San Diego, after Paul had wandered many miles along the waterfront, in a daze, he turned wearily toward his hotel room. He had been drinking heavily for weeks. His mind was tortured by the thoughts of the wife and four children whom he had deserted. Only the day before, it
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 2, 2004
based on 3 ratings
| 3,462 views
Notice what Malachi says;
“…A child HONORS his father, and a servant HONORS his master. I am a father, so why don’t you respect me? I am a master, so why don’t you respect me? You priests do not respect me?
But you ask, ‘How have we shown you disrespect?’ You have shown it by
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
based on 1 rating
| 3,836 views
DAD-ISMS
Here are a few dad-isms from a recent website I visited -
"Get in and get out."
This applied to an open back door or refrigerator. Just because you don’t pay the gas and electric bills, that doesn’t mean you should waste energy, he’d tell us as we alternately let the cold air into the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Benjamin Karner on Sep 18, 2009
based on 3 ratings
| 4,157 views
40 MEN DIE FOR CHRIST
One such story took place in 328 B.C. in a city high in the icy mountains of Armenia.
It was a bitterly cold winter and in the middle of that winter an order came from the Roman emperor that every man, woman, and child under the rule of his empire must bow down to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
MISS BETTYE AND THE POWER OF PRAYER
A 2009 article in the Chicago Tribune told the story of Bettye Tucker, a Christian cook who works the night shift at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She has been doing her job for 43 years--28 of them on the night shift. She sees a steady
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Chris Surber on Jul 7, 2008
based on 2 ratings
| 3,589 views
At the heart of judgment is blame and at the heart of blame is a denial of grace. The heart which is filled with judgment says, “I am not worthy of grace and neither are you!” Our ability to forgive others is closely linked to our ability to forgive ourselves because both stem from our
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian Church
Sermon Central