Contributed by Arliss Beavers on Jan 31, 2008
based on 2 ratings
| 2,267 views
If you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch. Our forefathers taught us how to discipline and run our homes as the priest of the home. If we cannot immitate them, we will have to go hide in
...read more
Denomination:
Church Of God
based on 1 rating
| 2,388 views
Here are some more Mom -ism’s you could have heard your own mom teach you: From http://www.mothersdaycentral.com/mothers-day-fun/mother-isms/
Rules
• “If everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you do it to?”
• “I don’t care what [name of best friend]’s parents do, when you’re living in my house
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Oct 10, 2004
based on 5 ratings
| 2,156 views
"Our Dungeons"
(by Rev. Terry L. Barnhill)
A story tells of a man who was imprisoned within an ancient stone dungeon. A grey shadowy jailor shook the iron lock on his daily rounds. It was the only sound that reminded the prisoner he was not alone in all the hopeless, dim and dying world of his
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
based on 3 ratings
| 5,554 views
Max Lucado (Angels were Silent)
Describes how in a similar way we cry out for something to cut through the clutter of life, turning to faith and religion to give us simplicity, instead finding things just as complicated:
Enter, religion. We Christians have a solution for the confusion don’t we?
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 7 ratings
| 2,537 views
What happens when we learn about a really bad guy repenting? It happens all the time in prison ministry, yet many of us think those people aren’t worth saving. They had more chances than most of us are willing to give them, yet God hasn’t given up on them.
Jeffrey Dahmer was a convicted murderer
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Mark Winter on Jan 17, 2003
based on 36 ratings
| 2,960 views
Superman fought a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American way. Christians fight a battle for truth, justice and God’s way. The ancient words of Amos will never go out of date: “But let
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by John Shearhart on Jul 21, 2006
based on 1 rating
| 9,818 views
“Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come;
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 2, 2007
E. Cotton Mather, a preacher in New England, offered this advice to the young Benjamin Franklin as Franklin approached a low-hanging beam in Mather’s parsonage: You are young and have the world
...read more
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Guy Glass on Aug 22, 2003
based on 2 ratings
| 4,931 views
When Sherry and I lived in Pottstown, we shopped at the ShopRite Supermarket I town. In fact I would say that at that time it was probably the most popular of the Super Markets. Well there was really only one easy way to get to ShopRite, and that was to cross a small bridge. Well, the time came
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 14 ratings
| 2,645 views
During the preparations for an evangelistic crusade in Latin America, a very poor, unshaven man came to one of the week-long biblical counseling courses. It was unusual to see a man of this condition attending an in-depth training session. Most often, those with a better education and social
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
based on 5 ratings
| 2,132 views
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:3
Babies arrive at their own schedule. I learned that when our firstborn (Jennifer) came. Elizabeth had gone into labor and I
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
United Methodist
based on 20 ratings
| 13,972 views
Four men used to meet together each week in Memphis. One man was a service station owner, one man was a salesman for a wholesale appliance company, one man was assistant treasurer of a large corporation, and one man was a teacher. These men shared with each other their longings, desires, and
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Juan Lane on Apr 21, 2005
based on 2 ratings
| 3,335 views
(Illustration)
I was talking to one of my friends from the islands and he was explaining how the people on his island loved mangos. He went ahead to explain how mangos were also the leading fruit import to the island and how they would raise the prices on mangos at will. The second part to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 31, 2009
DADDY RESTRAINED
I’ll never forget an experience I had with my son Ethan.
When Ethan was about 2 years old, he had been playing and had fallen and cut open his chin. It was bad enough for Nicole and I to take him to A.I. DuPont Hospital for children. After the doctors examined his cut they told
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Sermon Central