Contributed by Tom Dooley on May 11, 2001
based on 121 ratings
| 3,037 views
James Montgomery Boice tells of Lawrence of Arabia visiting Paris after World War I with some Arab friends. He showed them around Paris, but what fascinated them most was the faucet in their hotel room. They spent hours turning it on and off; they thought it was wonderful. All they had to do was
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 208 ratings
| 4,084 views
Did you hear about the two guys who were marooned on a desert island? After a year they couldn’t stand each other. One day Rufus found an old green bottle washed up on the shore. He rubbed it, and, voila! – a genie appeared. George saw what was happening, and grabbed the bottle – Gimmie a wish,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 18, 2001
based on 103 ratings
| 2,653 views
While pastoring in West Texas, I learned to true meaning of Matthew 7:1, "Judge not..." I consider myself a friendly person. Our new neighbors were two truck drivers. One morning I spoke, and there was no response from the neighbor. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and tried again on another
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Byron Sherman on Aug 16, 2001
based on 135 ratings
| 2,249 views
A busload of politicians were driving down a country road when, all of a sudden, the bus ran off the road & crashed into a tree in an old farmer’s field.
The old farmer, after seeing what happened, went over to investigate. He then proceeded to dig a hole & bury the politicians. A few days later,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 2, 2001
based on 198 ratings
| 3,067 views
Someone told of a church that believed in sinless perfection once you trusted Jesus Christ into your life and were baptized. A visitor to that church heard this teaching and asked to be baptized. He was tired of dealing with his habitual sin without any success. Unfortunately, it was in the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
*other
based on 32 ratings
| 1,872 views
A recent news release told of a Charlotte, North Carolina, woman who set a world record while playing a convenience store video game. After standing in front of the game for fourteen hours and scoring an unprecedented seven and a half million points on the game called "Tapper," the woman was
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Troy Mason on Nov 26, 2001
based on 2 ratings
| 1,857 views
I visited my brother in Manhattan two months after the World Trade Centers were destroyed on Sept 11. We visited the site and the devasation and destruction were breathtaking. Words cannot possibly describe the damage that was done there. The giant hole in the ground where the WTC used to be was
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Mark Hensley on Dec 9, 2001
based on 9 ratings
| 3,201 views
There is a tale told of that great English actor Macready. An eminent preacher once said to him: "I wish you would explain to me something." "Well, what is it? I don’t know that I can explain anything to a preacher."
"What is the reason for the difference between you and me? You are appearing
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Feb 25, 2002
based on 49 ratings
| 1,611 views
Richard Foster, in his book “Celebration of Discipline” says “To pray is to change. Prayer in the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The closer we come to the heartbeat of God the more we see
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
*other
based on 4 ratings
| 1,721 views
It has been said that “there are none so blind as those who refuse to see”. The Morning of the day of the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was conferring with his general, planning the tactics of the day. After telling him what the infantry should do, he said, “And by tonight Wellington will be in our
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
United Methodist
Contributed by Rod Macarthur on Mar 26, 2002
based on 43 ratings
| 1,892 views
My seventh grade math teach, Miss Patten, had the class exchange homework papers so we could grade each others papers as she read the answers. After grading the papers and returning them to their authors, we were each required to read out our letter grade as she called our names. The score thus
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2002
based on 75 ratings
| 4,185 views
CHURCH NEVERS
6. Never ask an usher to break a $20.
5. Never do a cannonball in the baptismal tank.
4. Never hold a church business meeting on Super Bowl Sunday.
3. Never tell the pastor, "We love your church and we might even come back next Easter."
2. During youth group activities, never bungee
...read more
Tags:
based on 40 ratings
| 2,877 views
I am told that there was a rock on the North Sea,
just off the Firth of Tay, Scotland.
This rock proved very dangerous to many ships,
because when the high tide came in,
the rock was hidden just below the surface.
There was a warning bell attached to the rock
by the Abbot of Aberbrothok, so
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2002
based on 7 ratings
| 4,473 views
CURED
A woman went to her doctor’s office. She was seen by one of the new doctors, but after about 4 minutes in the examination room, she burst out screaming and ran down the hall.
An older doctor stopped her and asked what the problem was, and she explained. He had her sit down and relax in
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2002
based on 11 ratings
| 2,006 views
Before we are too harsh in judging those scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’ day, let’s stop and look at ourselves. All too many Christians today go to church to find fault, to gossip, and to criticize. Warren Wiersbe, in his book Angry People, wrote, "An incident in the life of Joseph Parker, the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Steven Dow on Jul 17, 2002
based on 61 ratings
| 1,870 views
Scientists studied a native tribe in South America whose people have been dying prematurely for generations. After thorough investigation, the cause of premature death was determined. The disease was transmitted by an insect that lived in the walls of their adobe homes. This new information
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
based on 10 ratings
| 4,253 views
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED!
China is enlisting armies of ducks to prevent a plague of locusts engulfing swathes of valuable cropland, but the birds will probably end up in restaurants, according to a June 11 Reuters dispatch.
The Manasi locust station in the northwest is about to unleash 4,000
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Aug 23, 2002
based on 2 ratings
| 2,611 views
Old John was a man of God and loved his village chapel. One day he was stopped by an acquaintance, who, by the way, was an ardent angler. "I say, John," said the angler, "I have often wondered what attraction there is up at the village chapel. You go week after week to the same old chapel, see the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by James Botts on Aug 29, 2002
based on 2 ratings
| 2,423 views
In a 1994 article, "Wars’ Lethal Leftovers Threaten Europeans," Associated Press reporter Christopher Burns writes: "The bombs of World War II are still killing in Europe. They turn up--and sometimes blow up--at construction sites, in fishing nets, or on beaches fifty years after the guns fell
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Sermon Central