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  • You Never Get To The Point Where Everybody ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,435 views

    "You never get to the point where everybody knows your story, where there is no more criticism. Remember, you are talking not to a crowd, but to a parade that is changing all the time. You must communicate with all the marchersyoung people are growing up, new people are assuming the burdens of ...read more

  • Darwin's Start

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
     | 2,778 views

    DARWIN'S START It was because of the death of his daughter that Charles Darwin couldn't make sense of a loving God. This seemed to put him on his path to finding a way to take God out of the creation story. (Source: ...read more

  • Curing Nail-Biting

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Oct 20, 2012
     | 2,462 views

    CURING NAIL-BITING Talking of bad habits I did hear the story of an elderly couple. The wife proudly boasted that "she had cured her husband of biting his nails." When someone asked her, "How did you manage ...read more

  • My Husband, Michael, And I Were At A Restaurant ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 2, 2002
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     | 3,084 views

    My husband, Michael, and I were at a restaurant with his boss, a rather stern older man. When Michael began a tale, which I was sure he had told before, I gave him a kick under the table. There was no response, so I gave him another poke. Still the story went on. Suddenly he stopped, grinned ...read more

  • Pray Continually

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
     | 5,244 views

    PRAY CONTINUALLY I read an incredible story this past week on one of the Internet forums of which I am a member. The story was told of a man whom was not even identified because he was unknown. Missionaries Bill and Molly Thompson told of a man who went to a large city in Columbia many years ...read more

  • Identify With The Lost

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 3,550 views

    IDENTIFY WITH THE LOST In her famous book and film, "The Hiding Place" Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family, her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people. Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the ...read more

  • We Are ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 29, 2008
     | 1,410 views

    We Are Accountable Three men who, police say, stole a car in San Jose, California, and drove it to Chico, California, were arrested in Chico when police caught them trying to break into the same car because they had locked the keys inside, or at least thought they had. Chico officer Jose Lara said ...read more

  • God Forgives Without Conditions

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 26, 2009
     | 5,178 views

    GOD FORGIVES WITHOUT CONDITIONS I once heard a story about Camelot when King Arthur was away. Guinevere, his wife, was unfaithful with Sir Lancelot. When King Arthur returned, he found out about the affair and had his wife placed in a convent for life. Towards the end of the story in a beautiful ...read more

  • Our Topic Today Is Worship And Service. I'd Like ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 29, 2009
     | 2,537 views

    Our topic today is worship and service. I’d like to begin by telling a true story that happened to Reverend Forrest I. Sears. He writes: Wilma had been a member of our church for many, many years. In her later years she needed the assistance of a cane to help in walking. As she was talking ...read more

  • It Is A Terrible Thing For One¡¦s Destiny To Be ...

    Contributed by Akinsanya Adubi on Sep 21, 2009
     | 3,155 views

    It is a terrible thing for one¡¦s destiny to be truncated. This is a true story. There were two pastors driving on one of the roads in Lagos, Nigeria. One is a Nigerian, the other a foreigner. They got to a point under a bridge, where the people that we called "area boys" were begging for money ...read more

  • Behind A Church In The Small Town Of Flint Hill, ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 8, 2009
     | 2,400 views

    Behind a church in the small town of Flint Hill, Virginia, you will find the grave of a young seminary student named Albert Gallatin Willis, who died on October 14, 1864. Albert Willis’ story is unusual. Albert Willis served with the famed command of Mosby’s Raiders during the Civil War. Because ...read more

  • Don't Waste Your Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
    based on 1 rating
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    DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE In his book Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper recounts a story his father often told of his days as a fiery Baptist evangelist. It is the story of a man who came to saving faith in Jesus Christ near the end of his earthly existence. Piper writes: "The church had prayed for ...read more

  • Faith In The Colombian Jungle

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Aug 10, 2011
     | 2,397 views

    FAITH IN THE COLOMBIAN JUNGLE A man named Bruce Olson went to Colombia many years ago as a missionary to the headhunters in the far southern jungle, near the border with Brazil. The book that tells his story is Bruchko, the name the Indians called him since they couldn't wrap their tongues around ...read more

  • Taste Is All Wrong

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Nov 29, 2011
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     | 2,569 views

    TASTE IS ALL WRONG I remember one of the stories from the Chronicles of Narnia from the book "The Last Battle." It was the story of a number of dwarfs who just didn't believe in Aslan (who represented Jesus Christ in all the books). They were blind to reality refusing to be "taken in" by those ...read more

  • Pope Francis: Fulfilling His Role

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Apr 4, 2013
     | 3,105 views

    POPE FRANCIS: FULFILLING HIS ROLE A wonderful story of a religious leader who really does "get it" is the new Pontiff of Rome, Pope Francis. It is the story of role fulfillment. One reporter wrote: "Last night, in a break from tradition the Pope, Pope Francis, did not celebrate what is called ...read more

  • Leadership

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Mar 1, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,557 views

    I remember hearing a story about a famous film producer. As a child, he had a fight with another boy and lost. While his mother was bathing his black eye, he told her how it was entirely the fault of the other boy. It was the other boy who had started the fight, he claimed. His mother said ...read more

  • Bevere States, "If You Are Offended And In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 26, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,553 views

    Bevere states, “If you are offended and in unforgiveness and refuse to repent of this sin, you have not come to the knowledge of the truth. You are deceived, and you confuse others with your hypocritical lifestyle. No matter what the revelation, your fruit tells a different story. You’ll ...read more

  • The Temptation Of Pride Affects All Kinds Of ...

    Contributed by Wes Richard on Sep 16, 2004
     | 7,095 views

    The temptation of pride affects all kinds of people. I read of a preacher, Reverend Obadiah Franklin, pastor at Zion United Brethren Church, who prepared a sermon on "humility," and then filed it away. According to the story, he wanted to save it for a special ...read more

  • The Shepherd In His Search For The Sheep, And ...

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Jul 27, 2007
     | 2,398 views

    “The shepherd in his search for the sheep, and the woman in her search for the coin do not do anything out of the ordinary beyond what anyone in their place would do. But the actions the father takes in the third story are unique, marvelous, divine actions which have not been ...read more

  • Best 2006 Films For Families: 1-Charlotte's Web, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,015 views

    Best 2006 Films for Families: 1-Charlotte’s Web, 2-Cars, 3-The Nativity Story, 4-Eight Below, 5-Akeelah And The Bee, 6-Ice Age: The Meltdown, 7-Invincible, 8-Glory Road, 9-The Pursuit Of Happyness, ...read more