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  • A Minor Detail, A Major Distraction

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 26, 2011
     | 5,429 views

    A MINOR DETAIL, A MAJOR DISTRACTION Anything that hinders the worship of God incites the anger of God, and should be abandoned immediately. "It was a majestic evening. On Friday, October 18th, 1991, the world-class Chicago Symphony presented the final concert in its year-long celebration of the ...read more

  • The First Thanksgiving

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Nov 19, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,754 views

    THE FIRST THANKSGIVING Let's consider the first Thanksgiving in America. It was in the fall of 1621, one year after the Pilgrim’s landed. There was great affliction in their voyage. 102 Pilgrims the left Holland, stopped briefly in England before sailing to America. They were at sea for 66 ...read more

  • Never Give Up  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,132 views

    NEVER GIVE UP Haddon Robinson tells the following story. I hope you appreciate it as I did. It was New Year’s Day, 1929, and Georgia Tech. and UCLA were battling it out in the Rose Bowl. Georgia Tech. fumbled the football late in the first half. Roy Riggles recovered for California. Picking up the ...read more

  • Miss Bettye And Her All-Night Prayer Kitchen  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,753 views

    MISS BETTYE AND HER ALL-NIGHT PRAYER KITCHEN Just this last September (2009), the Chicago Tribune ran a story about Bettye Tucker, a Christian cook who works the night shift at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She has been doing her job for 43 years -- 28 of them on the night shift. On ...read more

  • I Want To Buy An Hour

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Jun 17, 2005
     | 991 views

    I WANT TO BUY AN HOUR A man came home from work late again, tired and irritated. He found his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door. "Daddy, may I ask you a question?" The dad replied: "Yeah, sure, what is it?" "Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?" The dad got mad and said, ...read more

  • The Price Has Been Paid For You

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Aug 28, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 211 views

    The story is told of a young man who left the old country and sailed to America to make a new life in the new world. Before he left, his father pressed some money in his hand. It wasn't much, but it was all he had. He hoped it would tide the boy over until he found a job. His mother handed him ...read more

  • Finding Perspective  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2001
    based on 167 ratings
     | 3,715 views

    FINDING PERSPECTIVE It’s something like what Coach John McKay of USC said to his team after they had been humiliated 51-0 by Notre Dame. McKay came into the locker room and saw a group of beaten worn-out and thoroughly depressed young football players who were not accustomed to losing. He stood up ...read more

  • I Remember A Young Man By The Name Mathew Who ...

    Contributed by Paul Kallan on Feb 15, 2003
     | 2,058 views

    I remember a young man by the name Mathew who was infected with Aids. He came back home, because he needed understanding, care and concern from the only ones who would dare to do so in such an extremely hopeless situation. To his horror, he found that his family was afraid and felt threatened by ...read more

  • As A Kid In A Baptist Church, Once A Month After ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Dec 1, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,836 views

    As a kid in a Baptist church, once a month after the morning service we had a fellowship hour. The congregation would immediately retire to the basement fellowship hall (there’s that word again), a room used for talking and eating for cookies and conversation. When you are twelve, you are most ...read more

  • Was That A No?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 22, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,315 views

    WAS THAT A NO? A Proud young man walked into a room looking for his friend. He passed two blond young women near the door who looked him over then looked at each other and said and the same time ‘NINE’. The prideful young man puffed out his chest and drew a big smile on his face then walked over ...read more

  • Paul Wisely Instructed Us To Allow Pure, True ...  PRO

    Contributed by Denise Raterta on Oct 31, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,495 views

    Paul wisely instructed us to allow pure, true and good things to permeate our thinking and lifestyle (Php 4:8). In congruence to achieving a positive state of mind such as thankfulness, contentment and joyfulness, this practice would be necessary. When we accustom ourselves to finding and ...read more

  • A Preacher Told About His Nine-Year-Old Daughter ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Feb 13, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,226 views

    A PREACHER told about his nine-year-old daughter who one day JUMPED off the SCHOOL BUS as it stopped in front of her house and SLAMMED her way through the front door. She MARCHED up the stairs into her ROOM and again SLAMMED the DOOR. All the time she was muttering under her breath: ...read more

  • Take A Clear Glass Or Cup And Fill It With Dirty ...  PRO

    Contributed by Weston Blankenship on Jul 29, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,150 views

    Take a clear glass or cup and fill it with dirty water. Say this is a type of our sinfull soul before God’s forgiveness. Then dump it out in a bucket and say this is Christ forgivness, He cleans out all the sin. Then wash in the cup in a clean bucket. This is a type of baptism in Jesus name. Then ...read more

  • There Was Another Man Who Earnestly Tried To Make ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Dec 12, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,745 views

    There was another man who earnestly tried to make the scriptures come to life. No, I am not talking about a nativity scene with live animals like my friends church. He chose a passage that many in this room know from the book of Isaiah. It says in 11:6, The wolf will live with the lamb, the ...read more

  • Did You Hear About The Lady That Was Bitten By A ...

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 5, 2008
     | 2,210 views

    Did you hear about the lady that was bitten by a skunk with rabies? The doctor came into her room and informed her: "Yes, the skunk had a bad case of rabies, and rabies is a highly contagious disease. You are now infected with rabies." The doctor told her that rabies was deadly, and there was no ...read more

  • A Sunday School Teacher Gave His Class An ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 1, 2009
     | 1,967 views

    A Sunday school teacher gave his class an assignment to learn the 23rd Psalm by next Sunday because each was going to recite it to the whole church. A little boy named Bobby, just couldn’t get it all in his head, he struggled all week long. Finally Sunday comes and the church is packed out, ...read more

  • Moreover, Benedict Tells Us What Decent Work Is. ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 2, 2010
     | 896 views

    Moreover, Benedict tells us what decent work is. It expresses the “essential dignity of every man and woman in the context of their particular society: work that is freely chosen, effectively associating workers, both men and women, with the development of their community; work that enables the ...read more

  • Is There Grass On Your Path?  PRO

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,750 views

    IS THERE GRASS ON YOUR PATH? In one region of Africa, the first converts to Christianity were very diligent about praying. In fact, the believers each had their own special place outside the village where they went to pray in solitude. The villagers reached these "prayer rooms" by using their own ...read more

  • The First Sentence  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,309 views

    THE FIRST SENTENCE Paul Harvey once told about a group of scientists who were determined to teach a chimpanzee to write. For fourteen years, the scientists labored diligently and patiently with this chimpanzee, providing things in its cage to enable it to form certain syllables. Finally the day ...read more

  • Where's The Baby?

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 24, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,970 views

    WHERE'S THE BABY? Luis Palau tells of a wealthy European family that decided to have their newborn baby baptized in their enormous mansion. Many people were invited, it was an elegant and elaborate affair. They took off their coats and laid them on the bed in a designated room and soon the time ...read more

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