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  • A Few Minutes Before The Services Started, The ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 12, 2009
     | 1,969 views

    A few minutes before the services started, the church people were sitting in their pews and talking. Suddenly, Satan appeared at the front of the church. Everyone started screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in a frantic effort to get away from the evil one. Soon ...read more

  • I Just Want The Site

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 28, 2010
     | 1,555 views

    "I JUST WANT THE SITE" London businessman Lindsay Clegg told the story of a warehouse property he was selling. The building had been empty for months and needed repairs. Vandals had damaged the doors, smashed the windows, and strewn trash all over the place. As he showed a prospective buyer ...read more

  • The Croquet Lesson

    Contributed by Scott Spencer on Oct 16, 2011
     | 2,630 views

    THE CROQUET LESSON Some missionaries in the Philippines set up a croquet game in their front yard. Several of their Agta Negrito neighbors became interested and wanted to join the fun. The missionaries explained the game and started them out, each with a mallet and ball. As the game progressed, ...read more

  • Smelly Collections

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 28, 2011
     | 1,076 views

    SMELLY COLLECTIONS He may dress like a skid-row bum and smell like a dead rat, but Andy Smulian is a hit among London businessmen plagued by those who won't pay their bills. Employed by the London-Manhattan Debt Collection Agency, the 20-years-old youth will stumble into a deadbeat's office for ...read more

  • Man Overboard  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2013
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,593 views

    MAN OVERBOARD One day Hudson Taylor was traveling on a Chinese junk from Shanghai to Ningpo. He had been witnessing to a man named Peter who rejected the gospel but was under deep conviction. In the course of events, Peter fell overboard, but no one made any effort to save him. Taylor sprang to ...read more

  • Service

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Nov 21, 2022
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,014 views

    Laurent Duvernay-Tardif - NFL Lineman And Medical Student Laurent Duvernay-Tardif (31) is a Canadian born professional football player for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He is 6’ 5” and 321 pounds. He played university football and attended medical school at McGill University ...read more

  • : "The Human Fly” (Pp.18,19, A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jun 19, 2001
    based on 80 ratings
     | 3,041 views

    Illus.: “The Human Fly” (pp.18,19, A Treasury of Inspirational Illustrations, Earl C. Willer) Some years ago, a so-called “human fly” went to Los Angeles. It was announced that on a certain day he would climb up the face of one of the large department store buildings. Thousands gathered to ...read more

  • How About My Son Joshua's Hero. Chicago Bear, # ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jun 18, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 2,195 views

    How about my son Joshua’s hero. Chicago Bear, # 34, Walter (Jerry) Payton. As a whole Walter Payton played with a loosing record. The Bears were not very successful. Walter was told he was too little and came from a little place, Columbia, Miss. Many people told Walter what he could not do. ...read more

  • 65279;i Recall A Story About How The Wind And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joanna Loucky-Ramsey on Mar 3, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,262 views

    I recall a story about how the wind and the sun were arguing about which of them was strongest. “Look,” said the Wind, “I’ll prove to you that I am more powerful. See that man down on the earth? Let’s each exercise our power, and whoever can make the man shed his coat fastest will be ...read more

  • In 1912, 39 Year Old, Rev. John Harper A Scottish ...  PRO

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Apr 7, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,839 views

    In 1912, 39 year old, Rev. John Harper a Scottish preacher was making a transatlantic trip to preach at the Moody Church in Chicago. As fate would have it the vessel he choice was the Titanic. We all know the story about the disaster but do you know the story of John Harper? Harper like many ...read more

  • Dec 1, ...

    Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Dec 1, 2004
     | 2,614 views

    Dec 1, 2004 By Erin Curry NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--VIACOM AGREES TO PAY FCC FINES -- Viacom, which owns CBS and MTV, has agreed to pay a record fine of $3.5 million to settle numerous federal investigations into alleged indecency on TV and the radio dating back to 2001, according to the Associated ...read more

  • In The Spring Of 1982 Kenneth Nordvall Was The ...

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 4, 2007
     | 1,298 views

    In the spring of 1982 Kenneth Nordvall was the speaker at a Morning Prayer group that meets in a town near Springfield Illinois. Before he spoke, a neighboring pastor shared about a recent mission trip to Mexico. While his group was returning, their van developed mechanical problems. After ...read more

  • Don't Expect The Kingdom Of This World To Respect ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Oct 11, 2007
     | 1,619 views

    Don’t expect the Kingdom of this World to respect the Kingdom of God. Far from it, citizens of God’s Kingdom have always been --- and will always be criticized and misunderstood and (as we see in this case) even DEMONIZED. I think of a man like Jerry Falwell --- who died recently. He was most ...read more

  • When Jesus Was Tortured, It Was The Torture That ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Oct 23, 2008
     | 2,034 views

    When Jesus was tortured, it was the torture that should have been ours. On a very small scale, we all understand this principle. Imagine a young boy at the store counter. He is buying a small piece of candy. The clerk rings it up and it comes to 20¢. He reaches in his pocket and pulls out a pile ...read more

  • His Never Failing Help

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 31, 2008
     | 4,940 views

    HIS NEVER FAILING HELP While walking along the shores of the Dead Sea one day, a man lost his balance and fell into the water at a point where it was rather deep. Never having learned to swim, he was panic-stricken. In desperation he began to thrash about with his arms and legs, fearing he would ...read more

  • The Great Philanthropist Stanley S. Kresge Was ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 26, 2007
     | 989 views

    The great philanthropist Stanley S. Kresge was often in the company of college presidents or other fund-raisers asking for endowment or financial aid. During the course of discussion, Mr. Kresge would always ask one question, "Do you think the world is better today than it was 2,000 years ago?" I’d ...read more

  • William Tanner, Former President Of The North ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,728 views

    William Tanner, former president of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, tells the story from his boyhood in a small town in Texas. There, he would sneak off every week to see a display which an insurance salesman would put in his store window. This was during World ...read more

  • Now, During My Sermon Preparation Time, I Came ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,104 views

    Now, during my sermon preparation time, I came across a humorous story entitled, “Helping Hand”: a. According to the story, a pastor is walking down the street one day when he notices a very small boy … trying to press a doorbell on a house across the street. b. However, the boy is very small ...read more

  • Did You Know That The Idea For Mothers Day Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 4,736 views

    Did you know that the idea for Mothers Day was born in a small Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia? It was 1876 and the nation still mourned the Civil War dead. While teaching a Memorial Day lesson, Mrs. Anna Reeves Jarvis thought of mothers who had lost their sons. She prayed that one day ...read more

  • God's Provision: The Holy Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 10,934 views

    GOD'S PROVISION: THE HOLY SPIRIT Without the Holy Spirit the church could not exist. It is He who inspired the writers of Scripture, and He who dwells in every Christian, giving us life in Christ. All our efforts are dust and ashes apart from Him. A young man asked an old rich man how he made his ...read more