based on 13 ratings
| 1,999 views
Right before the jetway door closed, I scrambled aboard the plane going from LA to Chicago, lugging my laptop and overstuffed briefcase. It was the first leg of an important business trip and I was running late. I had a ton of work to catch up on, half wishing, half praying I muttered, "Please God,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Kyle Meador on Jan 2, 2001
based on 325 ratings
| 6,408 views
Again, there’s a great deal of Internet research and revisionist thinking going on about these characters in the Christmas story. Some of have suggested that things would have been considerably different if these wise men had actually instead been wise women. And things sure would have been
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
based on 10 ratings
| 4,198 views
FOR THE PERSON WHO HAS EVERYTHING
Some gifts you can give this Christmas are beyond monetary value:
Mend a quarrel, dismiss suspicion, tell someone, “I love you.”
Give something away—anonymously.
Forgive someone who has treated you wrong.
Turn away wrath with a soft answer.
Visit someone
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Jul 15, 2015
May I Tell You a Story?
Mom and I sat on the rest home porch
As May’s sun gave a golden glow.
Rocking side by side in wooden chairs,
Like we had done so long ago.
My mind slipped back to childhood days,
When we would sit and rock for hours;
I thought of Mom’s little garden and smiled
When I
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Ervin Kimrey on Jun 29, 2005
based on 3 ratings
| 9,791 views
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SHEPHERD
With a spring in his step and an eye to the sky, at sunrise, he makes straight for the sheep fold. As soon as he rattles the gate, he gives his morning call, greets the sheep, often by name, every sheep is on its feet. They spring toward the gate, with expectancy
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 14, 2002
based on 9 ratings
| 3,664 views
Someone once asked Jay Kesler, former president of Youth for Christ International, if he believed that God could make a fish big enough to swallow a man.
As a college president and above average in intelligence, in a world in which we have learned to split the atom and go to the moon and send
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Michael Elmore on Nov 29, 2001
based on 10 ratings
| 3,238 views
Missionary Don Richardson who served for many years among the primitive tribes in Papua New Guinea wrote a book entitled “The Peace Child.” He writes how in translating the Scriptures into the native tribesmen language, he could find no words to express how Jesus Christ came to give His life that
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
based on 132 ratings
| 4,423 views
A cartoon has been found on a wall in the ruins of ancient Rome showing how crazy the Christian message seemed to the people of that time. It’s a caricature of Jesus’ crucifixion, showing a man’s body hanging on a cross - but the body has the head of a donkey. There’s also a figure of a young man
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 134 ratings
| 2,896 views
One Sunday, a monk was invited to speak about the ‘love of God.’ He waited until it is dark and proceeded in the altar with a lighted candle. He first illumined the crown of thorns then the two hands that are nailed after that he continued to light the spear wound in the side and lastly he put the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Mark Haines on Mar 8, 2001
based on 139 ratings
| 2,350 views
Do you remember the little girl from Canada that slipped into the backyard alone wearing only a diaper a couple of weeks ago?
It was –20 C. She ended up collapsing on the snow-covered lawn before being found by distraught family and friends.
The mother, who had been sleeping with the girl and a
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Sermon Central