Titanic’s Last Hero
John Harper was born into a Christian family May 29, 1872. He became a Christian 13 years later and had already started preaching by age 17. He received training at the Baptist Pioneer Mission in London, and in 1896 he founded a church, now known as Harper Memorial Church, which
...read more
Denomination:
Adventist
Contributed by Joe La Rue on Feb 12, 2008
At a leadership conference several years ago I heard Pastor Wayne Cordeiro of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Hawaii tell the story about walking into a restaurant over the lunch hour and seeing one of his church members sitting at a table and talking quite excitedly with a man he didn’t
...read more
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
Many people fear the prospect of dying.
· Some fear the pain associated with dying. Although because of modern medicine most deaths are not that painful.
· Some fear the separation from loved ones that dying brings.
· Some fear the unknown. They don’t know what awaits them beyond the
...read more
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Dec 4, 2023
based on 1 rating
| 1,237 views
A guy sees a sign in front of a house: "Talking Dog for Sale." He rings the bell and the owner tells him the dog is in the backyard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees an old black mutt just sitting there. "You talk?" he asks.
"Yep," the mutt replies.
"So,
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Brian Mavis on Apr 4, 2001
based on 119 ratings
| 3,349 views
THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDE
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of Attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important: than facts, than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do, than appearances, than
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Steve Malone on May 15, 2001
based on 185 ratings
| 4,486 views
You, " said the doctor to his patient, "are in terrible shape
you’ve got to do something about it. First, tell your wife to cook more nutritious meals. Stop working like a dog. Also inform your wife you’re going to make a budget , and she has to stick to it. And have her keep the kids off your
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jun 19, 2001
based on 103 ratings
| 3,262 views
During the dark days of the American Revolution, when the Continental Army had experienced several setbacks, a farmer who lived near the battlefield approached Washington’s camp unheard. Suddenly his ears caught an earnest voice raised in agonizing prayer. On coming nearer he saw it was the great
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Brian Archer on Aug 16, 2001
based on 79 ratings
| 2,721 views
Two Ladies were sharing lunch together when one said to the other: "I don’t know many Christians, but somehow I can’t help regarding them as hypocrites."
Said the other, "But your sister-in-law, she lives in the same house with you; surely you must acknowledge that she is a devoted
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Kevin Taylor on Oct 28, 2001
based on 146 ratings
| 2,503 views
George Barna’s Research Group has conducted several nationwide surveys on this subject . This survey information, taken from telephone interviews with a nationwide random sample of 1002 adults, was conducted in February 2000.
(a) For instance, 9 out of 10 adults describe themselves as being
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 16, 2002
based on 53 ratings
| 1,712 views
G. Hastings- People for two millennia have been refuting and overthrowing this book, and yet it stands today as solid as a rock. Its circulation increases, and it is more loved and cherished and read today than ever before. People make about as much impression on this book as a man with a tack
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Robert Galasso on Apr 1, 2002
based on 31 ratings
| 1,744 views
Neil Strait shares the following illustration:
William Dixon lived in Brackenthwaite, England. he was a widower who had lost his only son. One day he saw that the house of one of his neighbors was on fire. Although the aged owner was rescued, her orphaned grandson was trapped in the blaze.
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 16, 2002
based on 4 ratings
| 1,490 views
MARRIED AND HAPPY WITH YOU-KNOW-WHAT
A new study commissioned by the Family Research Council of Washington, D.C., found that the people most likely to report a high degree of satisfaction with their current sex life are married people who strongly believe that sex outside of marriage is wrong.
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 15, 2002
based on 6 ratings
| 3,213 views
GIFTS FROM GOD
The first barrier to meekness arises whenever we claim as our own what is really a gift of God. To live in meekness, we must try to remember that all we are, have, and can do is a gift. It is an act of arrogance to place ourselves at the center of being and doing. Only God
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jul 2, 2002
based on 6 ratings
| 1,962 views
ILL. James Byrnes, who was secretary of state under FDR, said that the difference between successful people & average people can be summed up in three words. Here are the three words, "and then some." He said, "Average people do what is expected. Successful people do what is expected, & then
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Dana Chau on Jul 21, 2002
based on 2 ratings
| 1,714 views
Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s book, What on Earth Is an Atheist, asserts, "We atheists ... try to find some basis for rational thinking on which we can base our actions and our beliefs, and we have it ... We accept the technical philosophy of materialism ... Essentially, materialism’s philosophy holds
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
*other
Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 3, 2002
based on 9 ratings
| 1,574 views
I think that it safe to say that sometimes we have the same kind of feelings about the church like Goldilocks had about the bears’ home. On the one hand, we love the church and can’t live without her. On the other hand, we find sermons boring, the music either too old or too new, the people too
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Church Of God