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  • This Guy Is Waiting For A Flight That Is Delayed. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Weber on Mar 23, 2001
    based on 113 ratings
     | 5,156 views

    This guy is waiting for a flight that is delayed. So he’s wandering around the airport and notices this ATM like machine. It’s a flight insurance machine. For a small price, it offers insurance against a canceled flight as well as a sizeable policy if the plane were to wreck and he were to die. ...read more

  • It Reminds Me Of A Poem Sent Me Over Five Years ...  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Buchner on Mar 28, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,346 views

    It reminds me of a poem sent me over five years ago. Written by a poet named Joann VanDomelen, etntitled "Birth to Rebirth"... This is a story about a boy who was born on Christmas Day, A story of love, pain, sacrifice and what he gave away. As a child he laughed, he played, As all we children ...read more

  • By The Age Of 5, Beethoven Was Playing The Violin ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,673 views

    By the age of 5, Beethoven was playing the violin under the tutelage of his father--also an accomplished musician. By the time he was 13, Beethoven was a concert organist. In his 20s he was already studying under the very watchful eyes of Haydn and Mozart. In fact, Mozart spoke prophetic words when ...read more

  • World Class Failures  PRO

    Contributed by Kay Kurtz on Oct 26, 2006
    based on 31 ratings
     | 4,771 views

    World class failures: * There was a guy, a general, who lost two-thirds of all the battles he fought in the American Revolution. George Washington. He won the war. * There was another guy who graduated 42nd out of a class of 43. Then he went out and conquered Europe. Napoleon. * There’s a guy ...read more

  • Jerry Falwell Died This Past Week. I Was Driving ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
     | 1,055 views

    Jerry Falwell died this past week. I was driving home and heard Michael Savage on the radio. He was playing an interview he had done with Jerry Falwell some time in the past. Savage was going through some questions, and Falwell was basically stating what he believed to be true about ...read more

  • Soren Kierkegaard, The Great Danish Theologian Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,233 views

    Soren Kierkegaard, the great Danish theologian of another century, tells the story of a prince who was running an errand for his father one day in the local village. As he did so, he passed through a very poor section of the town. Looking through the window of his carriage, he saw a beautiful young ...read more

  • Kurt Cobain Ended His Life About 13 Years Ago ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 16, 2009
     | 1,351 views

    Kurt Cobain ended his life about 13 years ago (4/1994); filled with bitterness and anger. He was the founder and lead singer of the group "Nirvana." His violent suicide prompted a lot of questions. "Why? He had it all a great career, dedicated fans, plenty of money, a beautiful wife and a 19 month ...read more

  • Salvation: The Three Envelopes

    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 2, 2012
     | 5,851 views

    SALVATION: THE THREE ENVELOPES When a pastor was trying at assure a teen of her salvation during times she didn't feel it, the pastor asked her if she had ever trusted and called upon Jesus. She said, "Yes, I did that." The pastor asked, "Did God do His part and save you?" She said, "Oh yes, ...read more

  • Chuck Had Been Perhaps The Most Hard-Working ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 17, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,335 views

    Chuck had been perhaps the most hard-working salesman in his company’s history – at least in recent memory. He usually spent sixty-five to seventy-five hours a week at the office when he wasn’t traveling. And when he was on the road, his weekly work hours could run as high as ninety. Of course, ...read more

  • Jesus Met The Man In The Tombs, Healed Him, Cast ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Nov 18, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,105 views

    Jesus met the man in the tombs, healed him, cast the demons out. Now he is a sane man. Now he can take his place in society. I can imagine him coming home that evening after he met Jesus. His children look out the window and the cry out, "Mother, father is coming." She runs and locks the door. She ...read more

  • Bad Day

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,494 views

    BAD DAY Brian Hise has had his share of bad stuff happen to him. In just a short time -- one day in July -- his apartment in Provo, Utah apartment became flooded because of an upstairs neighbor’s broken pipe. The manager instructed him to go out and rent a wet/dry vacuum. When he went out to his ...read more

  • God Made Himself Understandable  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
    based on 36 ratings
     | 6,401 views

    GOD MADE HIMSELF UNDERSTANDABLE I read of a story from the famous Danish philosopher from the mid 1800s, a Christian theologian named Soren Kierkegaard. It is a familiar story, a story rewritten by many over the ages in many different forms, yet it is still relevant today. Here’s what he wrote: A ...read more

  • A Dog Like Me

    Contributed by Paul Steen on Dec 9, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,388 views

    A little boy in Texas wanted to buy a special dog. He went to the pet store to look at all the dogs. He held each one. “How much are your dogs?” asked the boy. “All those dogs are $10.00,” said the storeowner. The boy petted each dog again and then cuddled one of the dogs. He held him up to his ...read more

  • In Forty Years Of Involvement In His Church, Wilt ...  PRO

    Contributed by Everette Pafford on Apr 9, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 2,233 views

    In forty years of involvement in his church, Wilt Durant had led one person to Christ. You know what they say, if only one person comes to Christ its worth all the effort, right? When he retired in 1992, he moved to Rogers, AR and joined Immanuel Baptist Church. One Sunday, his pastor preached on ...read more

  • Just A Mite Confused  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 12, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,287 views

    JUST A MITE CONFUSED Daniel Boone explored the great wilderness of Tennessee and Kentucky. It was Boone who marked the wilderness road that brought settlers into the new land. He often wandered over vast areas of forest, living off the land and dodging arrows. Once he was asked if he had ever bee ...read more

  • A Pilot Was Flying His Small Plane One Day, When ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
     | 1,166 views

    A pilot was flying his small plane one day, when he heard a noise which he recognized as the gnawing of a rat. Wondering what its sharp teeth were cutting through, he suddenly realized with horror that it might be an electric wire. Then he remembered that rodents can’t survive at high ...read more

  • A Pilot Was Flying His Small Plane One Day, When ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,377 views

    A pilot was flying his small plane one day, when he heard a noise which he recognized as the gnawing of a rat. Wondering what its sharp teeth were cutting through, he suddenly realized with horror that it might be an electric wire. Then he remembered that rodents can’t survive at high altitudes. ...read more

  • After Pilate Realized Jesus Was Innocent Of The ...

    Contributed by J. Allen Lucas on Mar 17, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,484 views

    After Pilate realized Jesus was innocent of the charges brought before him, he wanted to let Jesus go, but when he told the people what he wanted to do, they got upset. They didn’t want justice, they wanted death! They wanted blood! They wanted the blood of Jesus and they got it! If you want the ...read more

  • Misdirection In A Football Game Is Fun. ...

    Contributed by David Nuhfer on Jul 16, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,536 views

    Misdirection in a football game is fun. Misdirection from Satan is deadly. He has been doing it for thousands of years, from the time in the Garden of Eden when he got Eve to believe that God was holding out on her and Adam, to Exodus when he got the Israelites focused on hating Moses, to the time ...read more

  • Bread Tree

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Aug 14, 2009
     | 3,620 views

    BREAD TREE Some might ask, 'If God intended man to live on bread, why didn’t he create a bread tree?' And the answer, in effect, is that God could have created a tree that produced crusty loaves of bread, but he prefers to offer us a grain and invite us to buy a field and plant the seed. He ...read more

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