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  • Where's The Baby?

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 24, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,471 views

    WHERE'S THE BABY? Luis Palau tells of a wealthy European family that decided to have their newborn baby baptized in their enormous mansion. Many people were invited, it was an elegant and elaborate affair. They took off their coats and laid them on the bed in a designated room and soon the time ...read more

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

    Contributed by Chip Van Emmerik on Oct 19, 2006
     | 1,332 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

  • 1997------- From Time To Time We Hear Statistics ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,397 views

    1997------- From time to time we hear statistics about how people first came into church membership. These figures trace back to the Institute for American Church Growth, which asked 10,000 people about their pilgrimage. What led them in? Answers were: Special need, 2 percent; Walk-in, 3 percent; ...read more

  • There Is A Story (Perhaps Apocryphal) Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Mar 30, 2001
    based on 131 ratings
     | 1,555 views

    There is a story (perhaps apocryphal) of Boswell, the famous biographer of Samuel Johnson. In his advanced years, Boswell reflected on the most important day of his life. He said it occurred one day during his youth, when his father had invited him to go fishing. While most of his childhood days ...read more

  • One Night A Drunkard Sat At A Table In A Bar, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,299 views

    One night a drunkard sat at a table in a bar, drinking with his companions. Soon his wife came in and set a covered dish before him, saying, “Jack, you seem too busy to come home for supper, so I brought your supper to you.” As she left the saloon the man’s companions roared with laughter. Jack ...read more

  • Heaven And The Post Office

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 5, 2012
     | 5,712 views

    HEAVEN AND THE POST OFFICE When I was a teenager, we went to a meeting with Billy Graham in a high school football stadium. There were probably 20,000 people sitting in the bleachers in the cold of the morning to hear Billy Graham. And he related a story about how he arrived in a small village ...read more

  • Mary's Friends

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 9, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,238 views

    MARY'S FRIENDS Unsaved people in our society who accept Jesus as Savior have an average of 12 unsaved relatives and friends, all of whom are potential disciples. Let me tell you a story I heard in 1980, when I was in Fuller Seminary studying church growth. It happened in the First Baptist Church ...read more

  • Messiah Fed The Hungry  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,470 views

    "MESSIAH" FED THE HUNGRY When Handel wrote "Messiah" he had gone from riches to rags. For 30 years he had entertained Lords and Ladies with his operas. But those days seemed long past. Creditors were at his door. He was depressed. He could not sleep and he was plagued by rheumatism. He feared he ...read more

  • Bill Hybels: Difficult Forgiveness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,025 views

    BILL HYBELS: DIFFICULT FORGIVENESS Everything we have seen about how to deal with difficult people when put to action will bring glory to God. We find this in an illustration from Bill Hybels: "A couple of years ago, a member of my church’s vocal team and I were invited by a Christian leader ...read more

  • Let's Kiss  PRO

    Contributed by Juan Lane on May 15, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 12,665 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

  • Bowling

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 25, 2005
     | 2,416 views

    BOWLING I knew of a couple who, when they were first married, the husband wanted to still go out bowling with his guy friends every Thursday night. But he’d stay out late, and when he came home he smelling like smoke, and the wife hated it. “Why would he want to do that when he could be with ...read more

  • Dwight Morrow, The Father Of Anne Morrow ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
     | 2,056 views

    Dwight Morrow, the father of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, once held a dinner party to which Calvin Coolidge had been invited. After Coolidge left, Morrow told the remaining guests that Coolidge would make a good president. The others disagreed. They felt Coolidge was too quiet, that he lacked color and ...read more

  • Sending Churches: The Fund For Theological ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,789 views

    Sending Churches: The Fund for Theological Education has underwritten a study of congregations that consistently send people into ministry. In summary, the following are five characteristics of those congregations: · Lay people are in ministry. Through collaboration with their pastors, lay people ...read more

  • Millions Of People Upon This Planet This ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 28, 2006
     | 1,035 views

    Millions of people upon this planet this Christmas will celebrate with big celebration’s, but they will completly miss the point of the celebrations. Could you imagine returning home to find your house decortated top to bottom with lights and party decorations and when you get to the door you ...read more

  • Mom's Ten Commandments  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 4,381 views

    MOM’S TEN COMMANDMENTS Sick people belong in bed. Thank-you notes, thank-you notes, thank-you notes. Everyone needs a nap everyday. Get your hair off your face. Stand up staight. Look people in the eye when you meet them. Good table manners are important in case you get invited to a rich ...read more

  • If God Intended Man To Live On Bread, Why Didn't ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jul 31, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 9,087 views

    ‘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 prefers that we till the soil ...read more

  • William Pitt Was One England's Great Prime ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lanny Carpenter on Apr 18, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,973 views

    William Pitt was one England’s great prime ministers and a great intellect. He was a friend of William Wilberforce, who was a great proponent of abolition because of his Christian convictions. Pitt was a nominal Christian, as most were in his day, but Christianity did not mean much to him. ...read more

  • Recently Kgo Talk Radio In San Francisco ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Randy Croft on Jul 5, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,039 views

    Recently KGO talk radio in San Francisco conducted a call-in poll. Ronn Owens invited listeners to express their opinion. Thirty-five percent said yes, 33 percent said no and 32 percent were undecided. One listener, aghast at the large number of undecideds, protested, "It’s this sort of apathy ...read more

  • On Saturday, August 14th, 35,000 Pounds Of Food ...

    Contributed by Karl Kruse on Jul 31, 2004
     | 1,867 views

    On Saturday, August 14th, 35,000 pounds of food will be given away. But Elim’s involvement - your involvement - with Convoy of Hope is not simply about the food that will be taken home and eaten, because that food will all run out. Your involvement with Convoy of Hope is simply to share the love ...read more

  • Have You Ever Gone Shopping Across The Border In ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Sep 8, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,602 views

    Have you ever gone shopping across the border in Mexico? I remember one particular time. I was walking through the “tiendas” (shopping district) in Monterrey, Mexico. On every side “hawkers” were standing at the doors of the shops, trying to lure me away from a competitor and into their shop. ...read more