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  • John Todd Was A Preacher Back In The Late ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Aug 14, 2001
    based on 161 ratings
     | 2,365 views

    ILL. John Todd was a preacher back in the late 1800’s. When he was 6 years old, both of his parents died. So a kind-hearted aunt raised him until he left home to study for the ministry. Years later, this aunt became seriously ill, & even though she was a Christian, she wrote him a letter ...read more

  • And We Were Afraid  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,355 views

    AND WE WERE AFRAID Writer and naturalist Anne Dillard tells of a cold Christmas Eve when she, then a young girl, and her family had come home from a late dinner out. Ginger ale and a plate of cookies sat on a special table. Dillard had taken off her winter coat and was warming herself on the ...read more

  • Sometimes Sharing Christ Takes Interesting ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 3, 2003
    based on 22 ratings
     | 3,471 views

    Sometimes sharing Christ takes interesting forms. For months I left the church well into the late night hours. Periodically I would see a man huddled on the corner of our property. At first I feared the man. You see our neighborhood is rough and we have many homeless individuals that roam the ...read more

  • Here Is A Story By A Guy Named Cliff Davis, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,745 views

    Here is a story by a guy named Cliff Davis, which portrays in a beautiful way what childlike faith is all about. One afternoon in early autumn, Ric (the husband/father in the other family) and I were setting out on our tractor to pick up a wagon, which we had a few days earlier lent to a neighbor. ...read more

  • Who Has Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 4, 2010
     | 4,786 views

    Who Has Your Back? Pastor and author John Ortberg tells the story of an evening when he was walking with some friends in Newport Beach, California. As they walked they passed one of the local bars just as a fight spilled out onto the street, like a scene from the old west. As they watched, three ...read more

  • God Wants To Pull The Stickers Out  PRO

    Contributed by Tim White on Jun 6, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,396 views

    GOD WANTS TO PULL THE STICKERS OUT The little girl hopped away screaming. Obviously, the fear of living forever with a sticker in her foot was not as terrifying as the thought of me pulling it out. But a five-year-old could not out-run the preacher. Not hopping on one foot, anyway. After I ...read more

  • War

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 15, 2019
     | 3,846 views

    WAR My life fell apart in the summer of ‘68. One minute I was the happiest man in the world then wham! It was all over. My countenance changed from a look of total contentment into one filled with agony and anguish. Here I was living in total rapture, married to the woman of my dreams. It’s hard ...read more

  • Solar Powered

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Apr 27, 2021
     | 2,080 views

    The other day I was sitting on my back porch. On my porch is a bird bath with a small solar-powered fountain. The fountain only works when the sun is directly on it and, since that day was a clear day, the fountain was operating at full steam. As I was sitting enjoying the day a brief passing ...read more

  • Public Opinion

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
     | 2,541 views

    PUBLIC OPINION Some of you may have seen the joke that circulated this week on e-mail that tries to explain why Moses and the Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years. The punch line of the e-mail read, "Even then, men would not stop for directions." While this may not really explain ...read more

  • Let The Lower Lights Be Burning  PRO

    Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,059 views

    LET THE LOWER LIGHTS BE BURNING A few years ago, at the mouth of Cleveland harbor, there were two lights, one at each side of the bay, called the upper and lower lights; and to enter the harbor safely by night, vessels must sight both of the lights. These western lakes are more dangerous ...read more

  • God Just Needs A Voice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,437 views

    GOD JUST NEEDS A VOICE John Stott, a well-known British pastor and theologian, was invited to preach at the University of Sydney in Australia; but after he got there, he lost his voice. He describes his experience as follows: "What can you do with a missionary who has no voice? We had come to ...read more

  • Ferris Beaulers Day Off. His Best Friend Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 27, 2003
    based on 39 ratings
     | 2,146 views

    Ferris Beaulers Day Off. His best friend is Cameron Frye. Cameron hates his father because his father places everything before him. Ferris and Cameron and Ferris’s girlfriend ride around Chicago in Cameron’s dad’s favorite car all day playing hooky from school. In one of the final scenes ...read more

  • In July Of 1976, I Had Returned From Attending ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gary Huckaby on May 22, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,078 views

    In July of 1976, I had returned from attending the National Sword of The Lord soul winning and revival conference in Atlanta, Georgia. It was on a Thursday night and around eleven thirty at night when I arrived at my home in Woodbury. My brother-in-law had called and told me he wanted to get right ...read more

  • The Way Indicated  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 26, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,530 views

    THE WAY INDICATED An open door which no man can shut, and a closed door which no man can open, are indications of God’s way. Rev. 3:8. One morning at a hotel at Denver I inquired of the Lord what I should do that day. The answer came to my heart: "Write to Marion, and to Mrs. Reynolds, and ...read more

  • 65279;a Young Man Grew Up In A Rough Boston ...

    Contributed by Craige Lebreton on Dec 5, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,290 views

    A young man grew up in a rough Boston housing project called Columbia Point in a family of nine children. Although he’d been a hardworking student, paying for college seemed impossible. But his mother’s favorite expression was. "Pray, and the Lord will make a way somehow." He viewed that as ...read more

  • Philippine Missionary Fellowship, Inc. Is A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Santos on Sep 23, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,468 views

    Philippine Missionary Fellowship, Inc. is a mission-organization founded in 1957. It is now 46 years old. Members, workers, leaders and sponsors have come and go but the mission of the Lord is continuously growing and doing mightily in the sight of God. At present, there are 260 workers in the ...read more

  • Jesus] Said To Them, "Come Aside By Yourselves To ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
     | 3,653 views

    Jesus] said to them, "Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.. --Mark 6:31 Philip Melancthon, the great Reformation theologian, once said to his friend Martin Luther, "This day you and I will discuss the governance of the universe." What Luther said in response was ...read more

  • What Does God Promise Us? He Will Watch Over ...

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Feb 18, 2005
     | 3,625 views

    What does God promise us? He will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. It goes back to the same theme throughout. The LORD is watching, no matter whether you’re coming or going - He’s watching. I’d compare it to walking through a mall ...read more

  • Fontella Bass Grew Up In The Church Singing ...

    Contributed by George Rennau on Sep 9, 2006
     | 2,384 views

    Fontella Bass grew up in the church singing gospel music, and serving the Lord. Eventually her marvelous voice led her into a singing career. In 1965 her No. 1 R&B single "Rescue Me" placed her among the greatest. But she was a one hit wonder. Twenty-five years later Fontella was facing the ...read more

  • In One Of Our Celebrated Greek Tragedies, ...

    Contributed by Gene Edwards on Jan 12, 2007
     | 2,709 views

    IN ONE OF OUR CELEBRATED GREEK TRAGEDIES, ORESTES, WHO HAD SLAIN HIS MOTHER AS A JUDICIOUS ACT BECAUSE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH HER PARAMOUR, SHE HAD MURDERED HIS FATHER, AGAMEMNON, 1. ON HIS RETURN FROM TROY, IS REPRESENTED AS PURSUED BY THE FURIES. M. IN HIS DISTRESS, APOLLO ADVISES HIM TO GO ...read more