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  • Caterpillar Ugly, Butterfly Beautiful  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 15 ratings
     | 8,518 views

    Caterpillar Ugly, Butterfly Beautiful It is a well-known fact that a caterpillar changes into a butterfly. The butterfly can truthfully say as he looks at the caterpillar, "Such was I, but now I am changed." Every Christian has once been a sinner, living for self and the momentary pleasures ...read more

  • Jay Fondren Is A Recent Hero. When My Wife ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chris Surber on May 24, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,514 views

    Jay Fondren is a recent hero. When my wife Christina was an auditor for the Department of Veterans she met Jay in a Veteran’s Regional Office in Waco, Texas. She was conducting interviews to determine the timeliness of transition between the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans ...read more

  • Football Player Given Second Chance By Coach ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
     | 6,752 views

    Football Player Given Second Chance by Coach After Running the Wrong Way “Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time….” The words “the second time” underscore God’s determination to get his message to the Ninevites and to use Jonah in the process. In other words, Jonah quickly found out ...read more

  • Cinderella (From Max ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 19, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,369 views

    Cinderella (From Max Lucado) Now I want to turn things to an illustration as we transition to our final point. It is a true story that takes place at Disney World. Cinderella’s castle. It was packed with kids and parents. Suddenly all the children rushed to one side. Had it been a boat, the castle ...read more

  • Cinderella Grace

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 2, 2010
     | 4,232 views

    CINDERELLA GRACE Cinderella’s castle at Disneyland was packed with kids and parents. Suddenly - all the children rushed to one side. It’s a good thing it was a castle and not a boat, or it would have tipped over. The pristine princess had entered the room. Cinderella. A gorgeous young girl with ...read more

  • The Voice Of The Shepherd  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2011
    based on 12 ratings
     | 8,504 views

    THE VOICE OF THE SHEPHERD There once was a shepherd that lived in the Scottish highlands. This shepherd had a daughter and he would take her with him when he went out on the moors to take care of the sheep. The thing that the little girl liked best was to hear the call of shepherd. His voice ...read more

  • The Disease Of "Me"

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,044 views

    THE DISEASE OF "ME" Basketball coach Pat Riley in his book The Winner Within tells about the 1980 World Championship Los Angeles Lakers. They won the NBA Championship that year, and they were recognized as the best basketball team in the world. They began their 1980-1981 season considered likely ...read more

  • The Brother's Song

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Apr 13, 2012
     | 3,294 views

    THE BROTHER'S SONG Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son, Michael, prepare for his sister. Day after day and night after night, Michael sang to his sister in Mommy's tummy. He was building a bond of love ...read more

  • Encouragement From A Friend

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,043 views

    ENCOURAGEMENT FROM A FRIEND There are times when you will be pushed out or pushed aside. You can be on the right road and still find yourself in a situation that is so severe that you cannot survive it on your own. Mark it down: You are not exempt from times of suffering, rejection, or ...read more

  • Bible Readers Change The World  PRO

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
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    BIBLE READERS CHANGE THE WORLD If you’ve read anything by Charles Dickens, you know how terrible conditions were in 18th century England. There were no child labor laws, so children as young as age four were put to work up to 12 hours a day in dangerous factories and sent into the corners of coal ...read more

  • The Story Of Bertha Smith

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 27, 2013
     | 2,874 views

    Bertha Smith is a name that we are not familiar with. Bertha Smith was a missionary many years ago in China. There was an uprising throughout China at that time and the Christian missionaries were forced to leave their congregations and flee to coastal cities for safety. Many of them, while ...read more

  • Drifting

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 7, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,475 views

    Drifting Along (Philippians 3:12-21) Intro: The two trappers In the mid 1800’s their were two trappers that had been trapping muskrat and beaver all summer and fall. They had been working their traps in the Cumberland Plateau area of Tennessee. With their packs full of furs ...read more

  • A Lesson From A Damaged Lock

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Nov 20, 2019
     | 2,039 views

    Moving from one place to another is always a challenge, no matter how many times you’ve gone through this “process”! My wife and I recently made a move and learned a strange, but interesting lesson—one that was valuable for us, too. As sometimes happens, there is too much stuff and not enough ...read more

  • The Parable Of The Good Muslims  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,767 views

    THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD MUSLIMS It is difficult to imagine more bleak circumstances; the young mother and her small children, truck packed full of all of their belongings, were in process of moving from rural North Carolina to the mother’s childhood home in Connecticut. Life had taken a tragic ...read more

  • Edward Kimball, Sunday School Teacher, Was Not ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Jones on Jan 21, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 10,548 views

    Edward Kimball, Sunday school teacher, was not one of the ordinary type. Mere literal instruction on Sunday did not satisfy his ideal of the teacher’s duty. He knew his boys, and, if he knew them, it was because be studied them, because he became acquainted with their occupations and aims, ...read more

  • How Many Of You Have Seen The Modern-Day ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Miano on Apr 30, 2001
    based on 70 ratings
     | 3,030 views

    How many of you have seen the modern-day Christmas classic, “A Christmas Story?” It’s a great movie about one family’s Christmas season and a little boy’s mission to receive the Cadillac of BB guns as a present. The Miano family watches this movie every year. Whenever I see the scene of Ralphie ...read more

  • Thief Gets The Bird  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,771 views

    THIEF GETS THE BIRD A man in Ontario, Canada returned home one evening to find his more valuable and easily-fenced goodies stacked neatly beside the door. When the homeowner saw the living room was also spattered with blood, he feared the worst for his beloved house pet, a large African parrot. The ...read more

  • During Telemachus' Life The Gladiatorial Games ...  PRO

    Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Nov 13, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,888 views

    During Telemachus’ life the gladiatorial games were very popular. People were fascinated by the sight of blood and gore upon the arena floor. And that alone was enough to bring the criticism of bishops and priests from within the church. But worse than all of this was the fact that most of the ...read more

  • You Are My Sunshine  PRO

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Dec 20, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,389 views

    You Are My Sunshine Karen was expecting another child and so she worked to prepare little three year old Michael for the birth of his baby sister. Every night Michael saying to his sister in his mother’s tummy. During the delivery of the baby serious complications developed. After many hours of ...read more

  • The Blood Of Jesus Christ Cleanses All Sin

    Contributed by Raymond Petzholt on Oct 17, 2005
     | 1,278 views

    How is it possible that the blood of Jesus Christ has such power to redeem and cleanse us from all sin? This is possible because of who Jesus is and what He did when He died on the Cross. First, Jesus was, is and always will be, absolutely sinless in thought word and deed. Secondly, Jesus ...read more