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  • In William Steig's Yellow And Pink, A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2004
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    In William Steig's Yellow and Pink, a delightfully whimsical picture book for children, two wooden figures wake up to find themselves lying on an old newspaper in the hot sun. One figure is painted yellow, the other pink. Suddenly, Yellow sits up and asks, "Do you know what we're doing ...read more

  • Making A Difference  PRO

    Contributed by Al Schifano on Mar 25, 2004
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    Making A Difference Don’t Look Back As you travel through life there are always those times when decisions just have to be made, when the choices are hard and solutions seem scarce and the rain seems to soak your parade! There are some situations where all you can do is to simply let go and ...read more

  • Sowing The Seed: A Comparison  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 11, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
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    SOWING THE SEED: A COMPARISON In the 13th Century, Nicolo Polo (father of Marco Polo) was visiting the court of the grandson of Ghengis Khan - Kublai Khan. Kublai Khan was the Emperor of China and he had never met Europeans before. He was delighted to meet this visitor from Venice AND he was ...read more

  • Charles Swindoll In His Book "Three Steps ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Jones on Nov 1, 2000
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    Charles Swindoll in his book “Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back” tells the story of a farmer who wanted to impress his hunting buddies. To impress them, he bought the smartest, most expensive hunting dog he could find. He trained this dog to do things no other dog on earth could do---impossible ...read more

  • Shake It Off And Step Up  PRO

    Contributed by Travis Moore on Feb 12, 2001
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    SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule "braying", or whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that ...read more

  • Will Rogers Was Known For His Laughter, But He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Will Rogers was known for his laughter, but he also knew how to weep. One day he was entertaining at the Milton H. Berry Institute in Los Angeles, a hospital that specialized in rehabilitating polio victims and people with broken backs and other extreme physical handicaps. Of course, Rogers had ...read more

  • A Visiting Preacher Once Stayed In A House Of A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Sep 27, 2006
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    A visiting preacher once stayed in a house of a widow. He’d arrived on the Saturday before he was to preach on the Sunday, and the lady of the house, being that sort of person, had given up her bedroom for the guest. When he got up in the morning he threw back the curtains and looked out on a ...read more

  • Antonio The Garbage Man

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
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    Antonio The Garbage Man. Antonio’s huge truck would arrive, backing up with that horrific big truck back up sound. He would jump out and start pounding on the door, Shouting over the unbelievably loud truck, "Garbage Man, Garbage man, Garbage man is here!" Well, no kidding, a side from the ...read more

  • John Was A Very Lonely, Wealthy Old Man. He Had ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Jun 20, 2005
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    John was a very lonely, wealthy old man. He had worked hard all his life and built a great business and made loads of money. But, he was all alone. One Sunday evening as he was talking a walk to clear his head, he was drawn to a church where he heard wonderful, joyous music. It was a spiritual ...read more

  • While Attending Ministerial School (Seminary) In ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on May 22, 2007
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    While attending MINISTERIAL SCHOOL (SEMINARY) in Lubbock, Texas, I had a CLASS MATE, Lloyd, who shared a STORY about an incident that HAPPENED to him while in Vietnam. I can’t remember all the DETAILS, but this is what I recall. Lloyd was a HELICOPTER MACHINE GUNNER. While on a MISSION flying ...read more

  • A Young American Engineer Was Sent To Ireland By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A young American engineer was sent to Ireland by his company to work in a new electronics plant. It was a two-year assignment that he had accepted because it would enable him to earn enough to marry his long-time girlfriend. She had a job near her home in Tennessee, and their plan was to pool their ...read more

  • Who Has Ever Heard The Name, Edward D. Kimball? ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Who has ever heard the name, Edward D. Kimball? Doesn’t ring a bell? Well, let me tell you about him. Many years ago, Mr. Kimball was a Sunday School teacher at Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Chicago. It was a tiny little church, and Mr. Kimball’s class consisted of just a handful of teenage ...read more

  • A Little Boy Visiting His Grandparents Was Given ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A little boy visiting his grandparents was given his first slingshot. He practiced in the woods, but he could never hit his target. As he came back to Grandma’s back yard, he spied her pet duck. On an impulse he took aim and let fly. The stone hit, and the duck fell . The boy panicked. Desperately ...read more

  • Church Unity?  PRO

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 17, 2007
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    Church Unity? I read about a church that split, and that split began over an argument at a potluck supper when a lady brought a congealed salad she made with Cool Whip instead of real whipping cream. There’s a book entitled War In The Pews that talks about real-life instances which are absolutely ...read more

  • What Keeps You From Church?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    WHAT KEEPS YOU FROM CHURCH? A young woman in China had been invited to a church and had gone just to please her friend. While she was there, she received Jesus Christ and began attending regularly. She did that because she found pure joy in her soul while she was at church. That was the one place ...read more

  • Receiving Signal  PRO

    Contributed by Tylor Cates on Jan 24, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
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    Receiving Signal Prop: A cell phone In our church we have a 5-minute kid story in the big church before we take the kids over to the Junior Church so I’ll tell you how I did it and you can adapt it to your needs. Good morning boys and girls today I’m going to teach you an important lesson. (I ...read more

  • I'll Never Forget Reading The Economist Robert ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 20, 2002
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    I’ll never forget reading the economist Robert Heilbroner’s walk-through of what it would take to transform the average American home into the typical dwelling of the majority of the world’s inhabitants. We would have to begin by invading the house of our imaginary American family to strip it of ...read more

  • The Man Who Made A Pet Out Of A Rattlesnake

    Contributed by David Goering on Nov 1, 2019
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    ILLUSTRATION: the story of the man who made a pet out of a rattlesnake. The "Memphis Commercial-Appeal" tells of a man across the river in Arkansas who had a pet rattlesnake. He had found it as a baby snake, taking it, fed it, and made a pet of it. The reptile would come when he ...read more

  • Redemptive Love Changes People

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 9, 2009
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    REDEMPTIVE LOVE CHANGES PEOPLE John Ed Mathison, former pastor of Frazier Memorial UMC, tells the story of Tommy Waite, an African-American man serving time in jail and converted through Frazier’s Prison Ministry. They didn’t stop there though. They discipled him and even helped him to get his ...read more

  • There Are Signs That Encourages People To Wear ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 21, 2008
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    There are signs that encourages people to wear seatbelts by asking the question, “What’s holding you back?” It implies that seatbelts are good things to hold you back during an accident. What is holding you back? God and God alone. Anything else will keep you from ...read more