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  • The Position Of Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 4,427 views

    THE POSITION OF PRAYER In Texas, when a cold air mass moves down from Canada, people sometimes refer to it as a "Blue Northern," and it makes its presence felt! You can feel the wind blow as the high pressure cold air rushes into the warmer area of lower pressure. The greater the difference in ...read more

  • The Story Is Told About President James A. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Emil Boniog on Dec 10, 2003
    based on 12 ratings
     | 3,654 views

    • The story is told about President James A. Garfield’s first Sunday in Washington after his inauguration. A member of the cabinet insisted that a cabinet meeting be called at 10 a.m. the following day, which was Sunday, to handle a matter of grave importance. President Garfield said that he had ...read more

  • D. L. Moody Has Expressed It So Well: ". . .joy ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Dec 12, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,168 views

    D. L. Moody has expressed it so well: “. . .Joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows on through the dark; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows all through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can’t see ...read more

  • A Pastor Was Going Through A Crisis. His Little ...  PRO

    Contributed by Arulselvam Rayappan on Mar 1, 2005
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,449 views

    A pastor was going through a crisis. His little daughter who was paralyzed was sitting in her chair as he entered the house with a package for his wife. Giving his daughter a big kiss he asked, "where is Mother?" "Upstairs," She replied. " Well, I have something for her" "Let me carry it to ...read more

  • It Is Like Finding A Friend Playing Marco Polo. ...

    Contributed by Chip Van Emmerik on Oct 19, 2006
     | 1,258 views

    It is like finding a friend playing Marco Polo. Explain invited to friend’s house, blindfolded in the pool. You would never find the person unless they responded. Only imagine you were in the pool looking but the other person was not even in the pool, or even on the planet. Without God’s help, we ...read more

  • A Young Man Who Had Been Invited To A Dinner ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 8, 2007
     | 1,116 views

    A young man who had been invited to a dinner given by the South African statesman John Cecil Rhodes arrived by train and had to go directly to Rhodes’s house in his travel-stained clothes. To the young guest’s horror, he found a room full of people in full evening dress. Soon Rhodes appeared, ...read more

  • The Creation  PRO

    Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Feb 16, 2003
    based on 83 ratings
     | 6,077 views

    The Creation God created the mule and told him: "You will be mule, working constantly from dusk to dawn, carrying heavy loads on your back. You will eat grass and you will lack intelligence. You will live for 50 years." The mule answered: "To live like this for 50 years is too much. Please, ...read more

  • True ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,000 views

    True Thanksgiving Psalm 100 “Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; Come before Him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; We are His people, the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts ...read more

  • Why Don't They Let Him In?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
     | 4,174 views

    WHY DON'T THEY LET HIM IN? A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son. Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen, and when the small boy came in from ...read more

  • No Titles And No Deeds?  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 29, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,597 views

    NO TITLES AND NO DEEDS? There was a terrible earthquake in California many years ago. Thousands of homes were destroyed and the state was in chaos. Many people were claiming the homes they lived in as their own. The courthouse and all the titles and deeds were destroyed completely. The gas lines ...read more

  • Education In The Red-Light District, Citation: ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jul 19, 2001
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,859 views

    [Education in the Red-Light District, Citation: Joseph Aldrich, "How to Be a Redemptive Person," Preaching Today, Tape No. 113.] When my wife and I went to Dallas Seminary, we decided we wouldn’t live in the "cemetery" housing. Instead, we lived in the high-class, red-light district. If you want ...read more

  • Eye Of The Needle  PRO

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Nov 23, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 2,172 views

    Ill. – Eye of the needle Jesus was not saying that it is impossible for the rich to be saved. In those days cities were walled and had huge gates, which were open in the day light hours but barred shut at night. If a trader arrived at the city after dark he would not be able to get into the city ...read more

  • Last Week Mitch Daniels, The Republican Candidate ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 4, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,751 views

    Last week Mitch Daniels, the Republican candidate for Governor here in Indiana wrote a tribute to Ronald Reagan a few days after his death earlier this month. He began, “arriving back late at the White House, I was observing my usual respectful silence when Ronald Reagan asked, "Going straight ...read more

  • There Was A Pastor Who Had A Parrot. All The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 4, 2005
    based on 21 ratings
     | 5,667 views

    There was a pastor who had a parrot. All the parrot would say was, “Let’s pray, let’s pray.” The pastor tried to teach him to say other things but to no avail. He learned that one of his deacons had a parrot. Thet parrot would only say, “Let’s kiss. Let’s kiss.” So the pastor decided to invite ...read more

  • Let's Kiss  PRO

    Contributed by Juan Lane on May 15, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 12,530 views

    “Let’s Kiss” There was a pastor who had a parrot. All the parrot would say was, “Let’s pray, let’s pray.” The pastor tried to teach him to say other things but to no avail. He learned that one of his deacons had a parrot. Thet parrot would only say, “Let’s kiss. Let’s kiss.” So the pastor decided ...read more

  • I Can Remember My First Fight. It Was In The 5th ...

    Contributed by James Chandler on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,235 views

    I can remember my first fight. It was in the 5th grade against Wesley. We agreed to meet in the cemetery that was between our houses and the school. It was to be just me and him. But when I showed up there was a circle of kids who had come to watch the big fight. Fear overtook me and I ran all ...read more

  • Mr. Goodness And Mr. Mercy

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 31, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,263 views

    MR. GOODNESS AND MR. MERCY A faithful Christian lady told the preacher on her death bed that she felt like two demons were always around her. She said that when she died she felt like those demons were going to escort her to hell. The preacher was disturbed and couldn't understand her terrors. ...read more

  • I Have Also Witnessed Another Neighbor Being ...

    Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 22, 2007
     | 1,516 views

    I have also witnessed another neighbor being attacked at night in a similar event, but in this case, the robbers couldn’t get into his house for the iron gates were too strong to be broken. And as they were struggling to break open, the police were alerted and came fully armed to shoot at the ...read more

  • William Gladstone, In Announcing The Death Of ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 9, 2009
     | 1,428 views

    WILLIAM GLADSTONE, IN ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF PRINCESS ALICE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, TOLD A TOUCHING STORY. THE LITTLE DAUGHTER OF THE PRINCESS WAS SERIOUSLY ILL WITH DIPHTHERIA. THE DOCTORS TOLD THE PRINCESS NOT TO KISS HER LITTLE DAUGHTER AND ENDANGER HER LIFE BY BREATHING THE CHILD’S BREATH. ...read more

  • When A Fellow Pastor Was A Child, His Family Sold ...  PRO

    Contributed by Eric Vertein on Dec 12, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,500 views

    When a fellow pastor was a child, his family sold evergreens for Christmas. Since they did the trimming throughout the year, they could tell which tree was the fullest, and they would tag it, so that no one else would take the tree that they wanted... Spiritually, we probably resemble Charlie ...read more

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