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  • A Pastor Told Me His Testimony One Day When We ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Nov 6, 2006
     | 933 views

    A pastor told me his testimony one day when we both had some time to share. He told me that coming to Christ was absolutely wonderful. The weight of the world was lifted off his shoulders. The worry that had consumed him was gone. He was definitely a changed man on the inside. He and his 4 ...read more

  • In All Of Sports, There Is Perhaps No Basketball ...

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Apr 8, 2007
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    In all of sports, there is perhaps no basketball rivalry quite as intense as that between the Universities of Duke and North Carolina. The campuses are only eight miles apart. Both teams have different shades of blue for their primary color, so North Carolinians are told, "Choose Your Blue!" Duke ...read more

  • Praying In The Hay

    Contributed by Guy Caley on May 5, 2003
     | 2,909 views

    PRAYING IN THE HAY Armin Gesswein learned about praying God’s promises in a hayloft. Armin was a longtime Pastor, interdenominational prayer organizer and founder of the "Revival Prayer fellowship." When he began as a young Lutheran pastor trying to establish a church on Long Island and having ...read more

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

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Sep 27, 2004
     | 1,815 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

  • Just Off The Shore Of North Carolina On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Just off the shore of North Carolina on the island of Cape Hatteras is a village known as Nag’s Head, a small shoreline town where, back in the 1800’s, the “wreckers” lived. These “wreckers” made their living gathering up parts and cargo from ships that had run aground in the night. But these ships ...read more

  • Just Off The Shore Of North Carolina On The ...

    Contributed by Neil Partington on Jul 23, 2007
     | 1,535 views

    Just off the shore of North Carolina on the island of Cape Hatteras is a village known as Nag’s Head, a small shoreline town where, back in the 1800’s, the “wreckers” lived. These “wreckers” made their living gathering up parts and cargo from ships that had run aground in the night. But these ships ...read more

  • The Carpet

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 28, 2007
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    The Carpet True story, hard to believe, but true. We had friends at seminary who got a house sitting job back home in Ontario, Canada. It was a great gig, free housing for a whole summer. It was just like any other house sitting job except for one detail – the carpeting. They were instructed that, ...read more

  • Several Years Ago My Wife And I Bought Our 2 ...

    Contributed by Virgil Gibson on Oct 17, 2007
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    Several years ago my wife and I bought our 2 small grandsons new bicycles for their birthdays. We did not have a truck available at the time, so we bought the bikes unassembled. My son and I realized that it would not be a big task to assemble the bikes. We began the process without reading the ...read more

  • I Watched Another Movie Where A ...

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on May 20, 2008
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    Illustration: I watched another movie where a teenage delinquent let his life spiral out of control because of drugs and bad friends. It tore his family apart. His parents were on the verge of divorce, his younger brother was experimenting with drugs, his sister had gone from honor role to ...read more

  • Jonathan Edwards' ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 2, 2008
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    Jonathan Edwards’ Conversion One day when Jonathan Edwards was at home in his father’s house; some hindrances kept him from going to church one Sunday with the family. A couple of hours with nothing to do sent him listlessly into the library; the sight of a dull volume with no title on the leather ...read more

  • What Is Your Money Doing To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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    WHAT IS YOUR MONEY DOING TO YOU? On their way to church on Sunday, a mother gave her child a one-dollar bill and a quarter. "Sweetheart," the mother said, "you can place either one in the offering plate. It’s entirely up to you." As they were driving home, the mother asked the daughter what she ...read more

  • Afraid

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Dec 23, 2011
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    AFRAID I was all alone. I lived with four other guys in a huge, old house just off the campus of Baylor University, but I was the only one home. I must have been twenty-one or twenty-two – a grown man, practically a college graduate – but I was afraid. There was usually a surplus of noise in the ...read more

  • Longing

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 15, 2012
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    LONGING In his book The Spiritual Life of Children, the famous Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles tells the story of Alice, a ten-year-old girl who came from a family that did not believe in God. She expressed her doubts to him with these words: "I remember... I saw the people next door coming ...read more

  • How Do You ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 1, 2012
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    HOW DO YOU KNOW There is a Chinese parable about a Chinaman who had one horse and one son. One day the horse, out of control, wandered away with the boy on its back and they were both lost. The man’s neighbors came to console him the next day and they said, “We are so sorry you lost your horse and ...read more

  • The Security Of A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2012
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    THE SECURITY OF A FORTRESS Deep in the Arabian desert is a small fortress. It stands on the edge of the desert. It was at this place that Thomas Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia”, used to seek shelter. Though it wasn’t a beautiful place, it was a great place because of its security. It ...read more

  • His Yoke Is Light

    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Jan 14, 2013
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    HIS YOKE IS LIGHT Mark Guy Pearse preached a sermon on Christ's invitation to the weary and heavy-laden. I had finished my sermon when a good man came to me and said "I wish I had known what you were going to preach about. I could have told you something." "Well, my friend," I said, "may I have ...read more

  • A Contentious Spirit - Speaking Strife

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Feb 11, 2025
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     | 250 views

    Here’s a fun fact: You don’t actually have to correct someone when they’re wrong. Shocking, I know! There’s no official appointment letter naming you Earth’s Guardian of Truth and Accuracy. (If there is, it probably got lost in the mail.) Sometimes, it’s okay to just let it go—yes, even if they ...read more

  • Work Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    Work of Love Aleida Huissen, 78, of Rotterdam, Netherlands, has been smoking for 50 years. And for 50 years she has been trying to give up her harmful habit. But she has not been successful—that is, until recently. She has now given up cigarettes, cigars, and pipes. GOODNESS GRACIOUS! The secret? ...read more

  • When I Think Of Stewardship (Humor)  PRO

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Dec 29, 2008
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    When I think of stewardship it brings to mind a story about a small Church located in a farming community. The pastor of the church would call on every member of the congregation as part of the annual pledge campaign. The next home he was going to visit was Farmer Brown’s. Now Mr. Brown was ...read more

  • Shaping The Stone Down Here

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
     | 2,788 views

    SHAPING THE STONE DOWN HERE 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 ...read more