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  • To Follow Christ Is To Walk With Him First Into ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 24, 2009
     | 1,717 views

    To follow Christ is to walk with Him first into the presence of His Father. If that is so, we had better know how to act in the divine presence now (in this present life) and then (in the life everlasting). ...read more

  • Give Him The Post And Let's Move On  PRO

    Contributed by Keith Maynard on Feb 17, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,032 views

    GIVE HIM THE POST AND LET'S MOVE ON The story’s told about a young preacher who was pastoring a very traditional and established church. The church was beginning to experience phenomenal growth. It got to the place where the sanctuary was no longer suitable for the congregation. They were going to ...read more

  • Currently Rudy Is Locked Up And Locked Up Is What ...

    Contributed by Sam Wrisley on Oct 24, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,441 views

    currently Rudy is locked up and locked up is what he deserves. I met Rudy 4 years ago. He was drunk at a bus station. He wanted a bus ticket and I bought it for him. It would not be the last ticket i would buy for Rudy. Rudy was arrested for robbery when he was 17. The judge sentanced him to ...read more

  • They Will Give You Up  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Mar 31, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,092 views

    THEY WILL GIVE YOU UP Donald Grey Barnhouse led the son of a prominent American family to the Lord. He was in the service, but he showed the reality of his conversion by immediately professing Christ before the soldiers of his military company. The war ended. The day came when one of the ...read more

  • Size Me Up

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jul 21, 2003
     | 2,740 views

    SIZE ME UP When Tom Haggai went off to college, his dad said to him: "Remember, son, God is more interested in you than anything you’ll do, but whatever you do, do it well, for you never know when ...read more

  • A Pastor Thought God Gave Him An Idea, And He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 25, 2006
    based on 24 ratings
     | 5,615 views

    A pastor thought God gave Him an idea, and he presented it in the monthly elders meeting. After giving his most impassioned plea and really “selling” the idea to the elder board, the board voted and voted down the pastors proposed changes 12-1. The head elder looked at the pastor and said, “Well ...read more

  • Stand Up To Bullies

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Feb 17, 2008
     | 2,353 views

    ILLUSTRATION Andy Griffith Show. Episode where a bully was taking Opie’s milk money. Andy told him, there will be a lot of bully’s in the world; you have got to stand up to them. He stood up to the bully, got a black eye, and lit into that bully like a ...read more

  • Which Way Is Up?

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,255 views

    Which Way Is Up? Some years ago I read about a speedboat driver who had recently survived a racing accident. He said that he had been at near top speeds when his boat veered slightly and hit a wave at a dangerous angle. The combined force of his speed and the size and angle of the wave sent the ...read more

  • Stirring Up A Mess!

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Feb 21, 2024
     | 546 views

    HOW EASY IS IT TO STIR UP A MESS? THERE IS A HIDDEN AGENDA AND MOTIVE WITHIN. There was a cowboy who road into town to visit a saloon on the edge of town. The cowboy tied his horse to the hitching post in front of the bar. He then went inside to drink. The devil came by and saw the cowboy ...read more

  • Let Him That Hath No Power Of Patience Retire ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,127 views

    "Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he ...read more

  • Filled Up Anew  PRO

    Contributed by Cameron Horsburgh on Mar 10, 2003
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,350 views

    FILLED UP ANEW Imagine a sponge that has been used to wash the dishes. It’s all full of dirt and food and old water. It needs to be filled with clean water! But how can you do that? Easy. You wring it out, rinse it off, and wring it out again. Only when you have done this can you fill it with ...read more

  • Stand Up And Be Counted

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 28, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,234 views

    Stand Up and Be Counted Some years ago Premier Khrushchev was speaking before the Supreme Soviet and was severely critical of the late Premier Stalin. While he was speaking someone from the audience sent up a note: "What were you doing when Stalin committed all these atrocities?" Khrushchev ...read more

  • Get Up Stronger

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 3, 2011
     | 1,533 views

    GET UP STRONGER By the beginning of the nineteenth century, about three million African slaves had been transported to the Americas on British ships. People being stolen from their homes, ripped from their families, robbed of their dignity, transported on ships 3 decks deep, squalid conditions, ...read more

  • Never Give Up  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Oct 27, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,856 views

    NEVER GIVE UP Have you seen that cartoon with the pelican having a frog for dinner? His dinner is not agreeing with him. The frog’s head, shoulders, and most of his body are in the pelican’s beak. His back legs are outside, kicking for all they’re worth. His front legs stick out from both sides ...read more

  • First Grader Learns That More Is Expected Of Him ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2009
     | 2,903 views

    First Grader Learns That More Is Expected of Him Than When He Was in Kindergarten When they came in the house, Jesus asked them, “What were you arguing about on the road?” But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest. Sitting down, Jesus said, “If anyone wants ...read more

  • Apollo 13 Lifted Off 2:13 Pm April 11, 1970 ...

    Contributed by Tom Doubt on May 17, 2004
     | 2,314 views

    Apollo 13 lifted off 2:13 PM April 11, 1970 [Apollo 13 web site]. James Lovell, John Swigert, Fred Haise read their instruments at 55:52:31 into the flight. The master caution light was triggered by low pressure in hydrogen tank #1. At 55:54:57 oxygen tank # 2 read off-scale; in plain language, ...read more

  • Worship Is Showing Up

    Contributed by Rob Roy on May 22, 2024
     | 354 views

    How does Jesus know we love him, what is the proof? By your witness, your gifts, your tithes, your prayers or presence. Did you know I joined twitter? I think the day I did I read several tweets, but never tweeted, and that was long before the 2020 election, and long before I came to Mt. ...read more

  • What's Up With Jesus?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,568 views

    WHAT’S UP WITH JESUS? Renowned theologian Karl Barth was lecturing to a group of students at Princeton when a student asked him, "Sir, don’t you think that God has revealed himself in other religions and not only in Christianity?" With a modest thunder he stunned the crowd, replying, "No, God has ...read more

  • I Give Up!

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022
     | 818 views

    Many years ago, executives of the Time-Life publishing organization discovered that the company’s profit margin had shrunk to an alarmingly low level. To cut costs, they decided to eliminate hundreds of works to be replaced with machines. The name of each subscriber was put on a separate little ...read more

  • Never Give Up

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 4, 2023
     | 1,253 views

    CONCLUSION: There was an old frog that gathered the little tadpoles around him to teach them a lesson about endurance and persistence. He told of the farmer and his wife that had milked all the cows and set the milk cans out by the road. He told how the frogs loved to jump up and sit on top of the ...read more

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