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  • The Unthankful Pig

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 6, 2022
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    HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE LESSON OF THE PIG? Seems a big fat pig is roaming around the forest and finds all likes of delicious juicy acorns on the ground. The acorns are strewn on the ground. The pig eats and eats the acorns until the acorns are gone. The pig takes a long nap. When the pig wakes up ...read more

  • The Anchor That Holds

    Contributed by Samuel Shamaun on Jan 20, 2026
     | 250 views

    A pastor once visited a small fishing village and noticed many boats tied securely at the shore. During a storm, the waves were strong, and the wind was fierce. Some boats drifted dangerously, but others remained steady and unmoved. Curious, the pastor asked a fisherman why some boats stayed safe ...read more

  • [046]. A Message From A Poem – Christians In Response

    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 6, 2025
     | 303 views

    [046]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – CHRISTIANS IN RESPONSE This is another poem where I make use of rhyming patterns. Each line has an internal rhyme separated by one syllable. Here it is explained – “My life was SPENT, and WENT its way, with worldly discord gained.” The rhyming scheme for the ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of A Man That Was Walking ...  PRO

    Contributed by A.c. Caincross on Jul 17, 2001
    based on 100 ratings
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    The story is told of a man that was walking through a field one day when he came across an eagle egg lying on the path. He picked up the egg and placed it in the nest of a prairie chicken. As time passed the eggs in the nest all hatched, the chickens and the eaglet. The eaglet looked around at ...read more

  • Abortion, Child Sacrifice, And Other Forms Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,430 views

    Abortion, child sacrifice, and other forms of infanticide were both legal and acceptable in pagan societies from the earliest times. One of the major signs of depravity in ancient Rome was that its unwanted babies were abandoned outside the city walls to die from exposure to the elements of from ...read more

  • Wayne Was Quite Bright And Very Interested In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 19, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,840 views

    Wayne was quite bright and very interested in theology and spiritual matters. But there was a vacuum in the “inner parts” of our relationship. When I’d bring up a problem in my life, or express sadness or fear, Wayne would simply go away. It was a little eerie. I’d be sharing something very ...read more

  • In A Sermon By Ken Hemphill, Former President Of ...

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Sep 27, 2004
     | 1,883 views

    In a sermon by Ken Hemphill, former President of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary he tells of a Sunday evening after church. He stopped by a pizza parlor on the way home from church. While waiting for the pizza, he went next store to a grocery store and there got a carton of milk. ...read more

  • A Man Rises To Face His Day Like Usual. This ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 30, 2006
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    A man rises to face his day like usual. This day, however, he has a doctor appointment. He’s had to work really hard to fit it into his busy schedule. He expected the dr. to be a long wait and to have to allow for that extra time. What he didn’t expect, though, was to hear that he might have a ...read more

  • There's A Poem By Joseph Addison Alexander That I ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Jan 1, 2007
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    There’s a poem by Joseph Addison Alexander that I believe drives home the urgency for someone here today. It’s untitled to my knowledge and goes like this: There is a time, we know not when, A place, we know not where; Which marks the destiny of men To glory or despair. There is a line, by us ...read more

  • You See, Were A Lot Like The Carnival Bear. There ...

    Contributed by D D on Jan 27, 2007
     | 927 views

    You see, were a lot like the carnival bear. There was this bear out in the street in a carnival, it was doing tricks and flipping around. The owner had this tambourine and he would play it and make music and this bear would roll and flip and do all kinds of tricks. They would bring entertainment to ...read more

  • Many People Find Doing God's Will Hard. Rosa ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 18, 2007
     | 1,407 views

    Many people find doing God’s will hard. Rosa Parks found it hard when she was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man. It is difficult to imagine such an arrest taking place today, just a little over 50 years later. But that is because her simple act of ...read more

  • No Wonder You Feel Tired!

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Mar 7, 2007
     | 2,867 views

    Your heart beats 103,689 times every 24 hours. 2. Your blood travels 168,000,000 miles every 24 hours. 3. You breathe 23,040 times every 24 hours. 4. You inhale 438 cubic feet of air every 24 hours. 5. You eat about 3 1/2 pounds of food every 24 hours. 6. You drink about 2.9 quarts of liquid every ...read more

  • He Keeps Me ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
     | 5,408 views

    HE KEEPS ME SINGING A Methodist preacher by the name of Luther Bridges, was born in 1884, he married Sarah Veatch and three lovely sons were born. Pastor Bridges accepted an invitation to minister at a conference in Kentucky in the year 1910, so he left his family in the care of his father-in-law ...read more

  • G. Campbell Morgan Personalizes Jesus' Word To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2010
     | 3,526 views

    G. Campbell Morgan Personalizes Jesus’ Word to Jairus Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, that great preacher of 19th century spoke powerfully on this passage from his own experience. He said, “I can hardly speak of this matter without becoming personal and reminiscent, remembering a time forty years ago when ...read more

  • In The Story Of Pollyanna, There Is A Woman Who ...

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Sep 23, 2010
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    In the story of Pollyanna, there is a woman who runs the town. She’s not the mayor and doesn’t even sit on the city council. It’s just that she has inherited a tremendous amount of money from her father, and she has a controlling interest in all the major businesses in town. As a result, no one ...read more

  • Boss: Mark Dever On The Four Aspects Of ...

    Contributed by Tim White on May 7, 2011
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    BOSS: MARK DEVER ON THE FOUR ASPECTS OF LEADERSHIP B=Boss. The leader "reproves, rebukes, and exhorts with all longsuffering and doctrine." There is a delicate balance in local churches between pastoral authority (Hebrews 13) and congregational authority (Matthew 18). The pastors must exercise ...read more

  • Death As Reward

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 15, 2011
     | 4,368 views

    DEATH AS REWARD I am reading a book that has changed a lot of the ways I think about things of God. One statement really got me. "Your life is free to be radical when you see death as your reward." The book “Radical” by David Platt. That’s it isn’t it? That is why we worry. Because we don’t see ...read more

  • Bryon's Story

    Contributed by Arron Chambers on Dec 21, 2011
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     | 2,164 views

    BRYON'S STORY Do you know that Jesus is still in the life-changing business? Bryon Widner does. Bryon used to be one of the leaders of the white power movement as the found of the Vinlanders gang of skinheads. He’d covered his body and face with tattoos that were designed to communicate hate and ...read more

  • Christlikeness: A Painful Process  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on May 9, 2012
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,045 views

    CHRISTLIKENESS: A PAINFUL PROCESS The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn’t normally want or choose to do. The Spirit will lead you to the way of the cross, as He led Jesus to the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or ...read more

  • Standing Up For Persecuted Christians

    Contributed by John Crowe on Oct 29, 2015
     | 4,376 views

    Michael Horowitz is a Jewish attorney in Washington, D.C. who has done more for persecuted Christians than almost any Christian I know. He recently wrote to me that from his long experience with efforts to help rescue persecuted Christians, his sad experience is that U. S. Christian leaders are ...read more