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  • Dead Man Bleeding  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Feb 5, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,850 views

    DEAD MAN BLEEDING The question about impossibilities applied to God's sovereignty is a display of foolish unbelief. A lady brought her husband to the psychiatrist as a last ditch effort; the man thought he was dead. The shrink did everything he could to convince the man otherwise, but the crazy ...read more

  • It Is The Story Of A Blind Boy With His Father ...

    Contributed by Colin Bain on May 1, 2009
     | 3,590 views

    . It is the story of a blind boy with his father on a hill flying a kite. The young lad had the kite string in his hand and a smile on his face which was pointing to the skies. Eventually someone came and asked the unspoken question “What can you possibly get out of flying the kite?” The boy ...read more

  • Mother, Is The Moon God's ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 28, 2009
     | 4,048 views

    “Mother, Is the Moon God’s Light?” A mother and her little four-year-old daughter were preparing to retire for the night. The child was afraid of the night. The child was afraid of the dark, and the mother, alone with the child, felt fearful also. When the light was out, the child caught a ...read more

  • God Did His Part, I Did My Part

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 23, 2010
     | 1,852 views

    GOD DID HIS PART, I DID MY PART The little boy wanted to join a church. So the deacons were examining him. They asked, "How did you get saved?" His answer was, "God did His part, and I did my part." They thought there was something wrong with his doctrine, so they questioned further. He ...read more

  • What Are You Prepared To Do?

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Apr 24, 2010
     | 2,072 views

    WHAT ARE YOU PREPARED TO DO? In the movie The Untouchables, Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner, is frustrated because he cannot bring down Al Capone. So he asks for a street wise Irish beat cop, played by Sean Connery, for his help. The Irish cop agrees under one condition. He said always be ...read more

  • Old-School Church Discipline

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
     | 4,449 views

    OLD-SCHOOL CHURCH DISCIPLINE The Amish practice shunning – ignoring, turning away from, avoiding. When a person is disciplined by the community, relationships are severed between parents and children, or brother and sister, or even husbands and wives. Because the Amish are so isolated from those ...read more

  • A Special Visitor

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 29, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,736 views

    A SPECIAL VISITOR This past Tuesday, it was difficult to drive in and out of our church parking lot because of a barrage of traffic down Webster Street. Where did this traffic come from? Downtown was blocked off because President Obama and Vice-President Biden were speaking at a closed meeting a ...read more

  • Only Name In Heaven Is "Christian"

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
     | 1,803 views

    ONLY NAME IN HEAVEN IS "CHRISTIAN" John Wesley once dreamed that he was at the gates of hell. He knocked and asked, "Are there any Roman Catholics here?" "Yes, many," was the reply. "Any Church of England men?" "Yes, many." "Any Presbyterians?" "Yes, many." "Any Wesleyans here?" ...read more

  • He Didn't Ask

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jul 21, 2011
     | 2,066 views

    HE DIDN'T ASK A man works as a signalman by the sea, giving important signals to the ships as they move into the narrow harbour. On one stormy night, a ship crashed because they couldn't see his signals. He was taken to court because they wanted how the accident happened. The judge asked, "Were ...read more

  • A Few Weeks Ago, During Our Friday Night ...

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 4, 2007
     | 1,213 views

    A few weeks ago, during our Friday night devotional, I asked my teens how many of them had seen "Schindler’s List", Steven Spielberg’s recent movie about the Holocaust. I asked them: was the Holocaust right or was it wrong? They said it was wrong, and so I asked them this question: why was it ...read more

  • A Black American Baptist Preacher From Richmond ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 4,576 views

    A black American Baptist preacher from Richmond was attending a Baptist convention in Mississippi. A Mississippi preacher, reading the Scripture lesson for a morning session, read: “Now the Kingdom of Heaven was likened unto ten Virginians which took their lamps and went forth to meet the ...read more

  • Aging: One Plus One  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 29, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,074 views

    AGING: ONE PLUS ONE Three old men went to the doctor for a memory test. The doctor asked the first old man, "What is one plus one?" "Two hundred seventy-four," he said. The doctor asked the same question of the second man, "What is one plus one?" "Tuesday," he said. The doctor tried the third ...read more

  • Baptism Long Ago

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 23, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,291 views

    BAPTISM LONG AGO Centuries ago the circumstances of one's baptism would come on Easter eve at midnight. In the semidarkness, he or she would disrobe and descend into the waters to be immersed three times, in the name of the Father, then the Son, and finally the Holy Spirit. The newly baptized ...read more

  • Silent Cal

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 7, 2012
     | 4,260 views

    "SILENT CAL" President Calvin Coolidge was a man of few words, and the words he spoke were often blunt. A female journalist once told him, "Mr. President I made a $100 bet with another journalist that I could get you to say more than three words. Would you care to comment?" Calvin Coolidge smiled ...read more

  • Steering Your Ship In A Storm

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 7, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,910 views

    STEERING YOUR SHIP IN A STORM An old seaman once said, "During the fiercest storms the only way a ship can survive is to keep its nose pointed straight into the wind. If you try to turn to the left or the right, the ship may capsize. If you try to run from the wind, the waves can surge over the ...read more

  • When To Let Your Light ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2012
     | 7,239 views

    WHEN TO LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE A young man who had heard the Gospel accepted Christ. A little while after this, a Christian teacher asked him: "What have you done for Christ since you believed?" He replied: "Oh, I’m a learner." "Well," said the questioner, "when you light a candle do you light it ...read more

  • Lucille Ball On What's Wrong With Families

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2012
     | 4,672 views

    LUCILLE BALL ON WHAT’S WRONG WITH FAMILIES Lucille Ball, shortly before her death, did a remarkable TV interview with Merv Griffin. He asked her a very serious and pointed question: "Lucille, you’ve lived a long time on this earth and you are a wise person. What’s happened to our country? What’s ...read more

  • Why Say No When Everybody Else Is Saying ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2012
     | 4,400 views

    WHY SAY NO WHEN EVERYBODY ELSE IS SAYING YES? Writing in the aftermath of World War II, Elton Trueblood looked back to those few brave German Christians who had the courage to oppose Adolph Hitler. When so many others went along or simply kept silent, a few, a courageous handful, would not go along ...read more

  • How Big Is Jesus??????

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 16, 2014
     | 4,633 views

    HOW BIG IS JESUS???????? At the end of a worship service, a little girl came up to her Pastor and asked, "How big is Jesus?" The puzzled pastor pondered and said, "I don’t know, sweetheart. The Bible doesn’t say. He was a carpenter, so I am sure he had big hands and strong shoulders. Maybe ...read more

  • The Real Story Of Unequally Yoked.  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 31, 2015
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,518 views

    David Slagle, a minister at a small church in Atlanta, tells the story of a woman in her late 20’s. The woman had befriended a man living in her apartment complex. Slagle and his wife asked whether the two were dating. The man in question was a known atheist. The young woman answered, “No, I’m ...read more