Contributed by Joel Vicente on May 27, 2004
based on 5 ratings
| 8,780 views
Susanna Petroysan heard her daughter’s pleas, but there was nothing she could do. She and four-year-old Gayaney were trapped beneath tons of collapsed concrete and steel. Beside them in the darkness lay the body of Susanna’s sister-in-law, Karine, one of the fifty-five thousand victims of the worst
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2005
based on 5 ratings
| 2,340 views
Ernest Hemingway, the literary genius, said of his life: “I live in a vacuum that is as lonely as a radio tube when the batteries are dead, and there is no current to plug into.”
This is a startling statement, given the fact that Hemingway’s life would be the envy of anyone who had bought the
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 27, 2005
based on 2 ratings
| 8,353 views
American Tourists Mistreated, Pastors Tortured & Church Ordered to Close
· August 8, 2005
CHINA: House Church Pastors Tortured in Prison & Shanghai House Church Faces Forced Closure
China Aid learned that more than 210 Chinese house church pastors and believers have been arrested in Hubei, Hebei
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 30, 2001
based on 80 ratings
| 3,850 views
Thomas Carlyle, the noted historian, had just spent two years writing a book on the French Revolution. On the day he finished his manuscript he gave his only copy to a colleague, John Stuart Mill, to read and critique.
But, then the unthinkable occurred. Mill’s servant used Carlyle’s
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2001
based on 112 ratings
| 2,748 views
"I prefer to remain forever damned"
During a Billy Graham crusade in Australia, a Melbourne daily paper received this letter:
"I have heard Dr. Billy Graham on the air, viewed him on television, and seen reports and letters concerning his mission. I am heartily sick of the type of religion that
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 30, 2001
based on 36 ratings
| 2,653 views
MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO, TWO SPORTSMEN WERE SAILING along the coasts of Scotland. They anchored their yacht in the harbor at Iverness and went ashore to roam the beautiful countryside. Soon they became lost. Darkness was approaching and they couldn¡¦t find their way back to the harbor. They
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Ian Biss on Oct 1, 2001
based on 9 ratings
| 3,658 views
EVANGELISTIC ZEAL
Mordecai Ham emerged as an evangelist from Kentucky at the turn of the century. He had a background in business and the study of law. From the very beginning his approach was zealous and blunt. Rather than sit and talk with Christians at revival sites, Ham insisted on being taken
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Grace Brethren
Contributed by Russ Sharrock on Jan 3, 2002
based on 6 ratings
| 3,706 views
In a book called "Directions", James Hamilton writes: Before refrigerators, people used ice houses to preserve their food. Ice houses had thick walls, no windows, and a tightly fitting door. In winter, when streams and lakes were frozen, large blocks of ice were cut, hauled to the ice houses, and
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 20, 2002
based on 12 ratings
| 2,049 views
There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his
...read more
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
based on 2 ratings
| 1,362 views
A famous evangelist told the following incident: I have a friend who in a time of business recession lost his job, a sizable fortune, and his beautiful home. To add to his sorrow, his precious wife died; yet he tenaciously held to his faith -- the only thing he had left. One day when he was out
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jim Dillinger on Jun 5, 2003
based on 2 ratings
| 1,926 views
Muynak was once a thriving port on the Aral Sea, but today it sits on the edge of a bitter, salty desert. Sand dunes are strewn with the rusted, hollow hulls of a fishing fleet that once sailed high above on the surface of Central Asia’s fountain of life.
Things began changing 30 years ago when
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
based on 6 ratings
| 4,424 views
This is what happened to a Texas minister who was scheduled to speak at an all-day conference. He was running late because his alarm had failed to ring. In his haste to make up for lost time, he cut himself while shaving. Then he found his shirt was not ironed. To make matters worse, running to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
based on 3 ratings
| 2,754 views
Jean Frederick Oberlin, a minister in 18th century Germany, was traveling by foot in winter when he was caught in a severe snowstorm. He soon lost his way in the blowing snow and feared he would freeze to death. In despair he sat down, not knowing which way to turn. Just then, a man came along in a
...read more
Tags: