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  • Everyone Must Have The Same Life ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 19, 2008
     | 720 views

    Everyone Must Have The Same Life Preserver Bruce Revel tells about taking a cruise on a large ocean liner. Soon after boarding the craft, he found out that everyone would be required to participate in a lifeboat drill. “One requirement was that everyone had to wear a life jacket. When the alarm ...read more

  • Love Is Not Self-Seeking

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
     | 6,205 views

    LOVE IS NOT SELF-SEEKING I read a beautiful story that illustrates this truth. In December of 1971 the Daily News of Maryville, Tennessee, ran a brief story about a nine-year-old boy who did an inspiring and self-giving act. He loved his mother, who had been widowed, and wanted to buy her a ...read more

  • God Still Surprises Us

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 30, 2009
     | 3,460 views

    GOD STILL SURPRISES US Often God surprises us to our shame. I remember a couple that shared how they tried to witness and help their neighbor who was a raging alcoholic. They prayed for her and took her under their wing but she seemed hopeless. She might get clean for a little while, but then she ...read more

  • Gene Perrett Gave This List Of Eight Things To Be ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 27, 2009
     | 1,375 views

    Gene Perrett gave this list of eight things to be thankful for: 1 - for automatic dishwashers. They make it possible to get out of the kitchen before the family come in for their after-dinner snacks. 2 - for husbands who attack small repair jobs around the house. They usually make them big ...read more

  • Created To Be Used  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 23, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,410 views

    CREATED TO BE USED In his book The Pursuit of Excellence, Ted Engstrom wrote these words: "I was cleaning out a desk drawer when I found a flashlight I hadn't used in over a year. I flipped the switch, but wasn't surprised when it gave no light. I unscrewed it and shoot it to get the batteries ...read more

  • Love In The Home

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 3, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,048 views

    LOVE IN THE HOME If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place, but have not love, I am a housekeeper--not a homemaker. If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements, but have not love, my children learn cleanliness--not godliness. Love leaves the ...read more

  • Don't Find Us Lacking!

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 24, 2011
     | 4,333 views

    DON'T FIND US LACKING! Mexican jails are not known for their tidiness or orderliness. Shortly after having taken office, the then President of Mexico, Luis Echeverria, decided to do something about this. Without giving any advance notice, he chose to visit the jails at midnight. He found guards ...read more

  • We Humans Tend To Come To Blockages And Stop. ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Dec 28, 2012
     | 2,879 views

    We humans tend to come to blockages and stop. The other day I was using a vacuum cleaner, the nice new yellow one here at the hall, I turned it on and it worked (tuned it on made all the right noises). But it had no suck. It had become blocked and jammed with hay where the hose met its body, thanks ...read more

  • Through The Eyes Of A 3-Year-Old

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Jul 18, 2017
     | 6,753 views

    Rena was 3 years old when she went to her first baptismal service. It was new for her and a bit mystifying. As events transpired, she looked up at her father with surprise in her eyes, “Daddy, he pushed that guy under the water? Why did he do that?” The father tried to quietly answer her question ...read more

  • The Two Brothers

    Contributed by Daniel King, D. Min. on Jul 25, 2018
     | 3,015 views

    Main Idea: Jesus took our place of punishment. Verse: “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Illustration: One time there were two brothers. One brother murdered a man and came home with blood all over his clothes. The ...read more

  • It’s Only A White Collar Crime?

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Oct 16, 2018
     | 3,357 views

    C.S. Lewis died in 1963, but a comment in one of his writings speaks directly to the current opioid crisis. Lewis wrote: “The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its ...read more

  • Sexual Sins

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Oct 15, 2019
     | 2,270 views

    Greek & Roman religions taught very little about personal holiness. A person could bring sacrifices to an idol, say a few prayers & go away from the altar and commit sin freely. No one would ever think he was inconsistent in his faith. This is not so with the life of a follower of ...read more

  • Are We Hypocrites?

    Contributed by John Bright on Feb 13, 2025
     | 448 views

    I once saw a video of a pastor who had figures, covered with sheets, up in the front of the church. As he started to preach, they were uncovered and you could see monsters and scary characters related to Halloween. The preacher kept asking, “Should these be in the House of God?” The congregation ...read more

  • No Jacket Required  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 27, 2004
    based on 15 ratings
     | 6,693 views

    NO JACKET REQUIRED I shook my head in disbelief. This couldn’t be the right place. After all, I couldn’t possibly be welcome here. I had been given an invitation several times, by several different people, and had finally decided to see what this place was all about. But, this just couldn’t be ...read more

  • Soap Isn’t Always Soap

    Contributed by James Snyder on May 16, 2026
     | 73 views

    After several months of mayhem in our house, things began to quiet down. It was beginning to get back to our normal way of life. Of course, because of the mayhem, many things that needed to be done did not get done. That made The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage jump in line to try to catch up ...read more

  • Marriage And Guns: Protect Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2009
     | 3,905 views

    MARRIAGE AND GUNS: PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT Charlie Shedd wrote his son a series of letters to give some practical advice about marriage. They were published in a book called Letters to Phillip. Here is one of the most moving chapters: Dear Phil, I used to hunt ducks with a man who had a "thing" ...read more

  • Meet Me At The Men's Store

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 29, 2011
     | 2,078 views

    MEET ME AT THE MEN'S STORE Paying my way through Ohio State University was demanding, but the benefit was worth the struggle. My father had died during my senior year in high school, and my mother had become blind. With her encouragement, however, I enrolled in the University on the eve of the ...read more

  • The Lewis Awakening 1949-53  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Malone on Mar 1, 2005
    based on 31 ratings
     | 5,187 views

    THE LEWIS AWAKENING 1949-53 1. In 1949, on Lewis, one of the Hebrides Islands off the coast of Scotland, two sisters became burdened with the spiritual coldness of their land. One sister was 82. The other was 84 and blind. 2. They devoted themselves to prayer and “waiting on God”. One ...read more

  • After Church…  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 20, 2001
    based on 152 ratings
     | 7,070 views

    AFTER CHURCH... There he stood, in the midst of the Golden Corral restaurant, with Thousand Island dressing dripping from his hair, over his glasses, down his face, all over his jacket, pants, & shoes. And I’m not talking about a little bit of Thousand Island dressing, I’m talking about 2 gallons ...read more

  • My Three Year Old Sebastian Is Often A Little ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on May 6, 2009
     | 2,125 views

    My three year old Sebastian is often a little mimic. Christina and I have to be careful what we say to or in front of him because he will quickly adopt it as his own. Of late I have been trying, with marginal success, to teach Sebastian a little bit of Marine Corps Discipline. I have been ...read more