Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2001
based on 112 ratings
| 2,626 views
"I prefer to remain forever damned"
During a Billy Graham crusade in Australia, a Melbourne daily paper received this letter:
"I have heard Dr. Billy Graham on the air, viewed him on television, and seen reports and letters concerning his mission. I am heartily sick of the type of religion that
...read more
Tags:
based on 144 ratings
| 2,655 views
I don’t think its any mistake that John Eldridge writes in his book the Sacred Romance: “It is a rare soul indeed who has been sought after for who she is - not because of what she can do, or what others gain from her, but simply for herself. Can you recall a time when a significant someone in
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Melvin Newland on Mar 13, 2001
based on 102 ratings
| 2,819 views
Dr. John Trent tells the story of a couple in West Texas. The wife, Betty, was very athletic, & had been a cheerleader & very popular in high school. Now she is 55 & has come to Dr. Trent for medical help. She hurts a lot & her joints are beginning to swell.
After examining her, he tells her
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Don Haselhuhn on Mar 20, 2001
based on 103 ratings
| 2,345 views
What makes a hero? Webster’s defines a hero as a person “of distinguished courage, moral or physical; chief character in a play, novel, poem, etc.” One of my wife and my favorite movies is “The Princess Bride.” One character of the movie, Inigo Montoya, fits the definition of hero found in the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Darren Ethier on Apr 11, 2001
based on 208 ratings
| 3,870 views
There was a couple who were sitting with a marriage counselor for their first session and the good doctor asked them to identify what seemed to be the root of their problems. The wife responded, "It all started when we thought it would be cute to think up each other’s New Year’s
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2001
based on 404 ratings
| 12,932 views
Eph.2:4,5.
A young lady who occasionally walked through the park after work, stopped to have her picture taken by a photographer on this particular day. She was very excited about her picture being taken. As she walked out of the park, she looked at the polaroid picture in total amazement. She
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 8, 2001
based on 125 ratings
| 2,185 views
A young American engineer was sent to Ireland for a year. When he left, his fiancé gave him a harmonica. She said, "I want you to learn to play this: it will help to keep your mind off those Irish girls."
He wrote to her often and told he her that he was practicing his harmonica every night.
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 10, 2001
based on 88 ratings
| 1,762 views
At about 3:20 a.m. on March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old manager of a bar in Queens, New York, returned to her quiet residential neighborhood, parked her car in a lot adjacent to her apartment building, and began to walk the 30 yards through the lot to her door. Noticing a man at the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Melvin Newland on May 15, 2001
based on 193 ratings
| 3,463 views
While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport I had one of those life-changing experiences that you hear other people talk about. This one occurred a mere 2 feet away from me.
Straining to locate my friend among the passengers deplaning through the jet way, I noticed a man coming toward me
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Hensley on May 17, 2001
based on 137 ratings
| 2,564 views
In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote, "Do not waste your time bothering whether you ’love’ your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this, we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Howard Flynn on May 17, 2001
based on 135 ratings
| 3,859 views
"At a certain moment, a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped. When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. And don’t call this my "deathbed." Call it my "bed of
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Adventist
Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 22, 2001
based on 98 ratings
| 1,769 views
A successful beauty product company asked the people in a large city to send pictures along with brief letters about the most beautiful women they knew. Within a few weeks thousands of letters were delivered to the company.
One letter in particular caught the attention of the employees and soon it
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical Free
Sermon Central