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  • Last Week's I Talked About The Need For The ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 21, 2008
     | 1,105 views

    Last week’s I talked about the need for the church to give up some of their rights for the sake of the weaker ones in Christ. Today no one wants to be held responsible for their actions. I looked up the word “Responsible” and discovered this: The state of being responsible, accountable, or ...read more

  • I See It But I Can't Get There

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
     | 2,179 views

    I SEE IT BUT I CAN'T GET THERE A man named Floyd Collins, in 1925, was exploring near Mammoth Cave in Kentucky and got stuck fifty-five feet from the surface. Icy water was dripping in his face. The rescuers came in and diverted the water, and they talked with him, they calmed him down, but they ...read more

  • Nizhizaka Hill Is The Place In Nagasaki, Japan ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 2,166 views

    Nizhizaka Hill is the place in Nagasaki, Japan where the 26 martyrs were executed on 15 February 1597, 400 years ago. They went to their deaths singing Psalm 113. Paul Miki was preaching. Contrary to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan’s expectation the Christians’ faith was strengthened. ...read more

  • Mourner's Bench

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jun 26, 2006
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     | 1,788 views

    MOURNER'S BENCH In the late 1700’s there was something called the “mourner’s bench.” An altar call would be given, and people who desired to become Christians would come down front to a bench at the front and pray until they “felt” saved. They would be seeking a “strange warming of the heart” as ...read more

  • Don't Quit

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 17, 2008
     | 3,696 views

    DON’T QUIT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low, and the debts are high, and you want to smile, but you have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is queer ...read more

  • There Was Once A Young Boy Who Went To Spend The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
     | 2,199 views

    There was once a young boy who went to spend the week with his grandfather on the farm. While walking around he noticed the chickens, they were scratching and playing around. The little lad said, "They ain't got it." Next he saw a colt in the field playing and kicking up its heels to which he ...read more

  • He Turned To Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
     | 1,983 views

    HE TURNED TO US Some years ago, the news service carried a story about a dramatic rescue. A California Highway Patrol officer received a call. It seems a woman was about to jump off a bridge. Immediately the officer, a woman herself, was confronted with a dilemma. This police officer had an ...read more

  • I've Been Good, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
     | 2,303 views

    "I’VE BEEN GOOD, BUT..." Grandma was rushing her two grandkids ages five and three out to the car from shopping when five year old Jason spoke up. "Grams, Susie put something in her pocket in the store." After a quick investigation, Grams discovered that Susie had picked up some pretty red ...read more

  • A Year Or So Ago, On The Cover Of The New York ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
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    A year or so ago, on the cover of the New York “Herald Tribune” Sunday magazine, I saw a picture of the Statue of Liberty taken from a helicopter. It showed the top of the statue’s head. I was amazed to see the detail there. The sculptor had done a painstaking job with the lady’s coiffure, yet he ...read more

  • Is God In Residence?

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 27, 2009
     | 2,108 views

    IS GOD IN RESIDENCE? I once saw a poster of a valentine-shaped heart with a castle on top of it. There was a flag with a slogan, oversized and coming out of the top of the castle. The slogan read: "Joy is the banner flown from the heart when the King is in residence." Well, stupid me, I didn’t ...read more

  • Phil Vischer's Fresh ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    PHIL VISCHER’S FRESH START Phil Vischer is the creator of Veggie Tales. He is the voice of Bob the Tomato and other various characters. In 2004, Phil was one of the guest speakers at my minister’s convention that I attend each year. Phil told about his dream coming to an end. He told about Big ...read more

  • It Started Like So Many Evenings. Mom And Dad At ...

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Apr 26, 2007
     | 1,324 views

    It started like so many evenings. Mom and Dad at home and Jimmy playing after dinner. When Mom glanced at the clock she said “Jimmy, it’s time to go to bed. Go up now and I’ll come and tuck you in later.” An hour or so later his mother came up to check, and to her astonishment found that her son ...read more

  • Misunderstandings Can Be Hilarious

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 6, 2022
     | 2,213 views

    Misunderstandings happen all the time. Here are some: My toddler was about to hit her head on a bar at the playground, so I told her to duck. She quacked at me and then hit her head. A guy ran into a service station and said he needed some 710. They had no idea what he was talking about. So he ...read more

  • Overwhelming Forgiveness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022
     | 1,060 views

    A wonderful example of how to practice the lifestyle of grace comes from an incident in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 2006, when a man entered an Amish schoolhouse and murdered 5 girls while wounding 5 others before killing himself. As horrific as this was, the greater story was the ...read more

  • Fight Like A Man

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jul 13, 2023
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,897 views

    A man came to his pastor who had attended church for 25 years and was a respected, leader in the church, said, "Pastor, I've got something to tell you. I've never told this to a soul, extremely difficult to tell you this now, but my wife and I have had a fight every day for the past 30 ...read more

  • President Andrew Jackson Is Going To Hell

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 25, 2025
     | 221 views

    There was a fiery old revival preacher named Peter Cartwright who was famous for telling it like it is. He was preaching near Washington D.C. And the people of the church heard that President Andrew Jackson was coming to visit them. So, they pulled Cartwright aside and said: "Listen Peter, ...read more

  • When Life Sucks You In

    Contributed by David Dunn on Nov 6, 2025
     | 232 views

    Chippie the parakeet never saw it coming. One moment, he was perched in his cage singing his little heart out. The next, his whole world collapsed. It started when his owner decided to clean his cage with a vacuum cleaner. She took the nozzle off, stuck the hose inside, and at that very moment the ...read more

  • The Bible Book

    Contributed by John Bright on Jul 12, 2026
     | 3 views

    We need to be guided by God’s Word: Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet, And a light to my path.” I remember learning that verse in VBS as a kid. So, can I just hold my Bible up at night to walk through a dark house? No way. This is just a book. It is ink on pages and cover, just ...read more

  • Did I Just Call Myself?

    Contributed by James Snyder on Feb 8, 2020
     | 2,632 views

    I am old enough to remember those days when there was nothing like cell phones. Oh, those quiet, golden silent days. At the time, I did not realize just how wonderful that time was. Every time you needed to make a phone call, you had to go to where a phone was. Those were the days of the telephone ...read more

  • Seeing Can Be Rather Expensive

    Contributed by James Snyder on Apr 3, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,286 views

    As I get older, and my goal is to get as old as I can, I begin to realize some of the things I haven't noticed in my life. You know how it is; things creep up little by little, and then all of a sudden, there it is. That happened to me recently with my eyes. Since I was in the ninth grade (I ...read more