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  • A Woman Was One Day Walking Along A Riverbank ...

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 22, 2006
     | 2,899 views

    A woman was one day walking along a riverbank with her little boy. Suddenly, the child slipped into the river. The mother screamed in terror. She couldn’t swim, and was in the late stages of another pregnancy. Somebody finally heard her screaming and rushed down and into the river. The rescue ...read more

  • The Two Main Excuses Most People Give For Not ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kent Lenard on Dec 28, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,114 views

    The two main excuses most people give for not praying is that they don t have time and they don t have a place to go. Susanna Wesley, who was the mother of John and Charles Wesley back in the 1700 s had 19 children. If anybody had an excuse for not praying but a need to pray it was her. Susanna ...read more

  • Consider This Example. My Father Just Passed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
     | 1,034 views

    Consider this example. My father just passed away. He owned a fishing boat. My mother wants to give me my father’s fishing boat. She has promised me the boat. Let’s suppose I go over in a couple of months to get the boat. After I get there she laughs and says, “Oh, I was just kidding, you cannot ...read more

  • He Had A Hat

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Oct 4, 2019
     | 3,714 views

    During a tornado a mother was crying for help. It seems that her son was taken up into the tornado and blown away. The mother turned to heaven and shouted a prayer: “Please, Lord, bring back my son! He’s all I have. I’ll do anything to get him back.”--- Suddenly, her son fell from the sky right at ...read more

  • Black And White

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jan 21, 2012
     | 3,045 views

    BLACK AND WHITE A little girl was attending a wedding for the first time. She whispered to her mother, "Why is the bride dressed in white?" Her mother replied: "Because white is the colour of happiness, and today is the happiest day of her life." The ...read more

  • A One Way Street With No Turns!" Luke 9: 49-50 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 8, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,722 views

    “A One Way Street With No Turns!” Luke 9: 49-50 Key verse(s): 49: “‘Master,’ said John, ‘we say a man driving out demons in your name and we tried to stop him, because his is not one of us.’” “For many years Sir Walter Scott was the leading literary figure in the British Empire. No one ...read more

  • First Class Upgrade

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 8, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,810 views

    FIRST CLASS UPGRADE Why is it, by the way, that First Class passengers board the plane first? Sure it is great to get off the plane first, but is it so great to board the plane first? Shouldn’t First Class Passengers be the last ones on the plane and the first ones off the plane? For me the idea ...read more

  • Soldier Lies To Napoleon About Heroism, Israeli ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 8, 2009
     | 2,235 views

    Soldier Lies to Napoleon About Heroism, Israeli Woman Lies About Age Napoleon often told this story: Once, while visiting a province he came on an old soldier with one arm severed, dressed in full uniform. On his uniform the proud fighter displayed the coveted Legion of Honor. “Where did you lose ...read more

  • C. Everett Koop, M.d., Formerly The Surgeon ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    C. Everett Koop, M.D., formerly the Surgeon General, states that during his 35-plus years of practicing medicine, “Never once did a case come across my practice where abortion was necessary to save a ...read more

  • C. Everett Koop, M.d., Formerly The Surgeon ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,213 views

    C. Everett Koop, M.D., formerly the Surgeon General, states that during his 35-plus years of practicing medicine, "Never once did a case come across my practice where abortion was necessary to save a ...read more

  • A Child Was Sitting At A Table In Her Room ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Feb 18, 2003
    based on 56 ratings
     | 2,211 views

    A child was sitting at a table in her room feverishly working on a project. Her mother came in and asked, “Honey, what are you doing?” “I’m drawing a picture of God,” she said. “But nobody knows what God looks ...read more

  • God's Other Names  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2001
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,713 views

    GOD'S OTHER NAMES A mother walked by her young son’s room one night and heard him praying, "Andy, please forgive me for my sins". This worried the mother; so she asked her son why was he praying to "Andy", not God. The son responded, "I was praying to God, Andy is his nickname." This really ...read more

  • A Pencil In The Hand Of The Lord  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 2, 2002
    based on 44 ratings
     | 1,953 views

    "A PENCIL IN THE HAND OF THE LORD." The interview was with Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India. Mother Teresa gave her life to feed starving people and later to minister to the dying. In this article the writer asked Mother Teresa about her feelings of being used of God to minister to the poor, ...read more

  • Sacrificial Love:  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Jan 4, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,824 views

    SACRIFICIAL LOVE: (Poem by Ruth Bell Graham) Had I been Joseph’s mother I’d have prayed protection from his brothers "God, keep him safe. He is so young, so different from the others." Mercifully, she never knew there would be slavery and prison too. Had I been Moses’ mother I’d have ...read more

  • Does He Show?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,824 views

    DOES HE SHOW? One Sunday as they drove home from church, a little girl turned to her mother and said, "Mommy, there’s something about the preacher’s message this morning that I don’t understand." The mother said, "Oh? What is it?" The little girl replied, "Well, he said that God is bigger than ...read more

  • Called To Be Faithful  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 5, 2001
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,123 views

    CALLED TO BE FAITHFUL Mark Hatfield tells of touring Calcutta with Mother Teresa and visiting the so-called "House of Dying," where sick children are cared for in their last days, and the dispensary, where the poor line up by the hundreds to receive medical attention. Watching Mother Teresa ...read more

  • Preparing For Large Christmas Eve Family ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 18, 2002
    based on 75 ratings
     | 4,896 views

    Preparing for large Christmas Eve family gathering, a mother had been giving out orders like a drill sergeant: "Pick up your things! Don’t get your clothes dirty! Put away those toys." Well, her 4-year-old daughter had been underfoot all day, so she sent her to the next room to play with their ...read more

  • From Reader's ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 18, 2008
     | 1,951 views

    From Reader’s Digest: After booking my 90-year-old mother on a flight from Florida to Nevada, I called the airline to go over her needs. The woman representative listened patiently as I requested a wheelchair and an attendant for my mother because of her arthritis and impaired vision. I also ...read more

  • When God Forgives, He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
     | 4,883 views

    “When God Forgives, He Forgets” How different God’s pardon is from ours! So often we forgive as did the mother of the little girl who had been good a whole week, and asked mother for a favor. “I know” was the answer, “that you have been good all this week, but you know your were bad last week.” In ...read more

  • Sibling Revenge  PRO

    Contributed by William Hooper on May 3, 2011
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,394 views

    SIBLING REVENGE The desire to "get even" seems to be a part of the human psyche. It is like the story of a mother who heard her seven-year-old son screaming. She runs into the next room to see what is wrong, and discovers her two-year-old daughter is pulling the hair of her brother. The ...read more