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  • My Sister And Her Husband Pete Are On A Holiday ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 4, 2010
     | 3,002 views

    My sister and her husband Pete are on a holiday working their way through OUTBACK PLACES in Australia. Unfortunately they can't travel on the dirt roads at the moment because of an unexpected rainy season. They have to stick to the highways because if they get off the track they will sink in the ...read more

  • Would You Hire Him?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2011
     | 3,111 views

    WOULD YOU HIRE HIM? A certain church found itself suddenly without a pastor, and a search committee was formed. In due course it received a letter from a man applying for the vacant position. The committee chairman read: "I am considered to be a good preacher, and I have been a leader in most of ...read more

  • Poor Man's Philanthropist  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,497 views

    POOR MAN'S PHILANTHROPIST In 2005, when Thomas Cannon died of colon cancer in a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, he was 79. Thomas described himself a "poor man's philanthropist." When Thomas was three years old, his father died. Once Thomas' mother remarried, the family of six lived in a ...read more

  • Making Service A Joy

    Contributed by David Parks on Sep 2, 2011
     | 4,956 views

    MAKING SERVICE A JOY An amusing story was told to me by the manager of a New York hotel. The great Paderewski occupied a suite there a number of years ago during one of his seasons at Carnegie Hall. It was the master’s custom to practice for a couple of hours every morning on the magnificent ...read more

  • Are You Doing What You Are Called To Do?  PRO

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 19, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,856 views

    ARE YOU DOING WHAT YOU ARE CALLED TO DO? Last week was a very interesting week. About a year ago, when our finances started to dwindle, I sent my resume out to an Executive Search Group (Headhunter). Now that’s a unique name! Last week, I got a call that there was a possibility of an awesome ...read more

  • Not Allowed To Die  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 22, 2012
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,974 views

    NOT ALLOWED TO DIE Back in March of 2008, the mayor of a city in SW France had a problem. It seems his village was running out of space. Not in housing, nor in the retail district, nor even at City Hall. It seems they were running out of space... in the cemetery. There was no room for any more ...read more

  • Blind Against The Blind  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 8, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,204 views

    BLIND AGAINST THE BLIND Today we're going to examine a miracle in which Jesus gives sight to two blind men. I've known several people who are physically blind and I'm always amazed by what they can do without sight. Growing up in Alabama, one of the most celebrated sports heroes in our state was ...read more

  • Stubbornness In Marriage

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Oct 13, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,834 views

    If you were asked to name three areas where you and your spouse disagree, you'd likely be able to do it without thinking very hard. Might even be able to produce a top 10 list if given a few more minutes. And sadly, unless someone at your house starts doing some giving in, the same issues are going ...read more

  • One Child Can Change The World

    Contributed by Matt Neace on Jun 21, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,989 views

    When we think of children we don't always think that there may be a person who is going to change the course of history. We don't see their potential or we brush it off as he or she is just a child. But every person who has had an impact on the world started as a child. Jared A. Brock wrote a ...read more

  • Which Reminds Me Of Something I Heard About A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,769 views

    Which reminds me of something I heard about a famous preacher by the name of Peter Cartwright, who by the way, was converted during a camp meeting in Logan County in 1801. He surrendered to the ministry in 1802 and became one of the leaders of what we now refer to as the 2nd Great Awakening. ...read more

  • The Sower

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,091 views

    The sower The story is told of a young man who had just started his new job in the produce department of a grocery store, when a woman came up to him asking to buy a half head of lettuce. As politely as he could, the young man said that “In this store, we don’t sell half heads of lettuce, we ...read more

  • Can You Imagine What The World Will Be Like 100 ...

    Contributed by Daniel Owens on Jan 6, 2008
     | 1,288 views

    Can you imagine what the world will be like 100 years from now if the Lord tarries His return? All you have to do is to have some idea what the world will be like is to just look back 100 years and consider what the world was like then… and consider the incredible rate of change that we’ve ...read more

  • Here At Our Congregation, Larry Pierce Has Often ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,062 views

    Here at our congregation, Larry Pierce has often shared about his auto accident that brought him back to Jesus. He had been a Christian years ago but had wandered away and lived his life without God. Then one day, he was driving a pick up truck down a road in Kentucky. He was towing another truck ...read more

  • Here At Our Congregation, Larry Pierce Has Often ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
     | 933 views

    Here at our congregation, Larry Pierce has often shared about his auto accident that brought him back to Jesus. He had been a Christian years ago but had wandered away and lived his life without God. Then one day, he was driving a pick up truck down a road in Kentucky. He was towing another truck ...read more

  • Last Night At Youth We Watched Pay It ...

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on May 20, 2008
     | 1,638 views

    Last night at youth we watched Pay it Forward. Anyone watched Pay it Forward? I won’t tell you the entire story but the concept of the story is centred around a young boy who begins High School and his teacher gives him a project. The project is that he is to do something to change the world. The ...read more

  • The Concept Of Grace

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022
     | 1,248 views

    There is a great article that illustrates the concept of grace written by Charles Stanley. It reads: One of my more memorable seminary professors had a practical way of illustrating to his students the concept of grace. At the end of his evangelism course, he would distribute the exam with the ...read more

  • Alex Navalny - Russian Dissident

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Feb 19, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 315 views

    Russian opposition leader and outspoken Christian, Alexei Navalny. Navalny voluntarily returned to Russia - knowing he would be arrested and imprisoned. Navalny, 47, dies while serving a 19-year sentence in a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle. In Navalny’s closing statement during his 2021 ...read more

  • Yes, Virginia, There Is A Jesus  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 2,507 views

    "YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A JESUS." It is truly heartwarming to know that millions of people around the world believe in Santa. Sure, most are under four feet tall, but still it’s amazing that so many believe in the big guy in the red suit. Consider the following: Around the globe, today, live ...read more

  • The Value Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
     | 3,747 views

    The Value of Water Colonel Nick Rowe is not a name most of you have probably heard of before. He was a war hero, in a war that had so few heroes. He was killed in the Philippines by an assassin. His funeral was one to be remembered. He is buried in Arlington national Cemetery. In all the history of ...read more

  • Tommy Finding God  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Skinner on Dec 4, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,820 views

    Illustration:Tommy finding God John Powell a professor at Loyola University in Chicago writes about a student in his Theology of Faith class named Tommy: Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university students file into the classroom for our first session in the Theology of Faith. That ...read more

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