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  • There Is A Silly Story About An Elderly Scottish ...  PRO

    Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 9, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,124 views

    There is a silly story about an elderly Scottish couple who had never flown before, but who decided they were going to visit their children in New York and see their grandchildren for the first time. They were on a charter flight in a Lockheed TriStar (3 engines). They were about half-way out over ...read more

  • There Was A Man Marooned On An Island Who Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 7, 2002
    based on 81 ratings
     | 1,208 views

    There was a man marooned on an island who was desperately looking for a boat to come by and rescue him. After many days praying and asking God to send a boat to rescue him, he sighted a boat and his hopes were lifted. He ran out on the beach took some shirts and waved them to get the attention of ...read more

  • Way Back In The 80's, Apple Corporation, Or Apple ...

    Contributed by Jordan Lumbard on Jun 5, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,715 views

    Way back in the 80’s, Apple Corporation, or Apple Computers really took off and grew as a company. - Yes even before the iPod. Steve Jobs was the founder and President of Apple, and he realized that he didn’t know how to run such a big company. - So he recruited one of the most famous CEO’s at that ...read more

  • Long Ago A Story Was Told About A Proud Fishing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,721 views

    Long ago a story was told about a proud fishing pond and a fish. Across the land, fishermen would come and exclaim how clear the water was in this pond. Upon hearing yet another positive accolade, the pond’s level of pride began to reach flood stage. "I must be the best and clearest pond in the ...read more

  • Judge Robert Bork, Who Was Nominated For The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,871 views

    Judge Robert Bork, who was nominated for the Supreme by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 wrote a book a few years ago entitled: Slouching towards Gomorrah. In that book Bork says, that the forces of evil are so deeply entrenched that any cultural shifts will only be superficial unless they are ...read more

  • One Summer Morning As Ray Blankenship Was ...

    Contributed by Patrick Mccosh on Jul 23, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,694 views

    One summer morning as Ray Blankenship was preparing his breakfast, he gazed out the window, and saw a small girl being swept along in the rain-flooded drainage ditch beside his Anover, OH home. He knew that downstream the ditch disappeared with a roar underneath a road and then emptied into the ...read more

  • Anyone See "Oprah" This Past Week?...i Believe It ...  PRO

    Contributed by Daniel Owens on Feb 12, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,590 views

    Anyone see “Oprah” this past week?...I believe it was on Friday, Feb. 8. The test tube babies of the 80’s have come of age...and Oprah had some of those young people on her show. These children had no identity apart from a mother and were in a constant search for, not only there father, but for ...read more

  • Business Is Always Good

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 29, 2008
     | 1,967 views

    BUSINESS IS ALWAYS GOOD I had a man in my last congregation who was in the snack business. He was part of a small company which supplied chips and pretzels and the like to mini markets and various retail outlets. One afternoon I asked Albert how business was, good or bad, up or down. He looked at ...read more

  • Pickup In The Rain

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 16, 2008
     | 2,761 views

    PICKUP IN THE RAIN One night in the 1960s, at 11:30 p.m., an older African-American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a windy rain storm which was accompanied by lightning. Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she decided to ...read more

  • I Was A Senior In High School When One Of My ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Jun 18, 2009
     | 2,777 views

    I was a senior in high school when one of my neighbors, George, committed suicide. He was 19 the only son his mother, a poor widow, Mrs. Maria. He hung himself because some friends made fun of him… Mrs. Maria mourned over the terrible loss of her only son was not her only pain. She felt the ...read more

  • Intercession: Pyramid Prayer?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
     | 6,294 views

    INTERCESSION: PYRAMID PRAYER? Philip Yancey in his book on prayer tells of a young American soldier in Iraq who learns that his wife back home has advanced cervical cancer. Doctors gave a bleak prognosis. In desperation, he sent an urgent email to his church with the request that everyone in turn ...read more

  • Sin And Bullet Wounds

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
     | 2,359 views

    SIN AND BULLET WOUNDS James Garfield was a lay preacher and principal of his denominational college. They say he was ambidextrous and could simultaneously write Greek, with one hand and Latin with the other. In l880, he was elected president of the United States, but after only six months in ...read more

  • Gold, Common Sense, And Fur

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 24, 2012
     | 2,410 views

    There was a couple who desperately wanted children. They prayed to the Lord and he gave them 4 children in 4 years. When the children were still 5 years old and younger, they were the stars of the Christmas pageant. Here are the mothers words to describe the production: “My daughter was playing ...read more

  • Is There Anyone Up There?

    Contributed by Darrin Fish on May 15, 2013
     | 5,320 views

    IS THERE ANYONE UP THERE? There once was a tourist who came too close to the edge of the Grand Canyon, lost his footing and plunged over the side, clawing and scratching to save himself. After he disappeared out of sight; and, just before he fell into open space, he stumbled upon a scrubby bush ...read more

  • Where The Pharisees Went Wrong

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 9, 2013
    based on 1 rating
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    WHERE THE PHARISEES WENT WRONG Robert Coleman talks about where the Pharisees went wrong: "The Pharisees had so much respect for the original set of scriptures and wanted to protect them so desperately that they started adding to them. Then, after a while, it not only seemed helpful to make ...read more

  • No One Thanked Him.

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Dec 2, 2020
     | 2,153 views

    Back in 1860, an excursion boat on Lake Michigan collided with a freighter and began to sink less than a mile from the shore. Hundreds of passengers began screaming as they leaped into the icy water. Edward Spencer was a student at a nearby seminary, and he ran down to the beach to see what he ...read more

  • The Witness Barber

    Contributed by John Bright on Jan 17, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,636 views

    There was a barber that thought that he should share his faith with his customers more than he had been doing lately. So the next morning when the sun came up and the barber got up out of bed he said, "Today I am going to witness to the first man that walks through my door." Soon after ...read more

  • A Great Thanksgiving Illustration

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 14, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,529 views

    Back in 1860, an excursion boat on Lake Michigan collided with a freighter and began to sink less than a mile from the shore. Hundreds of passengers began screaming as they leaped into the icy water. Edward Spencer was a student at a nearby seminary, and he ran down to the beach to see what he ...read more

  • During Cold War A Jewish Rabbi In Russia Became ...

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
     | 2,250 views

    During Cold War a Jewish Rabbi in Russia became very discouraged & disillusioned. In his despair one evening he took a long walk in the night. He was so engrossed in his thoughts as he walked that he did not notice that he was walking in to an area secured by the Russian authority. As he walked ...read more

  • I Am Sure That Many Of You Will Be Familiar With ...  PRO

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Oct 21, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,920 views

    I am sure that many of you will be familiar with C.S. Lewis, author of ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. Lewis was good friends with J.R.R. Tolkien, author of ‘Lord of the Rings’, and he was a Christian; a follower of Jesus Christ. What you may not know is that after the death of his wife he ...read more