Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 10, 2004
based on 6 ratings
| 2,204 views
ILLUSTRATION... “How to Smell Like God” by Steven James. Cincinnati: Standard, 2002. Pgs 4-5.
In his book for teens, “How to smell like God,” Steven James says, “When I first met Tanya, I knew she was different. Part of it was the way she acted. The way she smiled. The way she looked at you.
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Oct 20, 2004
based on 5 ratings
| 1,500 views
There is an old story told about a little girl who had been passed from one orphanage to another. She was very shy and felt rather unattractive. The other children would not play with her and her teachers considered her to be a problem child.
In this particular orphanage there was a rule that all
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 22, 2004
based on 4 ratings
| 2,456 views
B. We can be thankful even during the most difficult circumstances in life. We see an especially inspiring example of a brave and thankful heart in the story behind one of the church’s thanksgiving songs #788 in our hymnal, Now Thank WE All Our God. This hymn was written during the 30 years war
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 5,488 views
In the book Disappointment with God, Philip Yancey tells the story of a man he refers to as Douglas. Douglas was a sincere devout Christian whose wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. The breast was removed, but a couple years later the cancer was found in her lungs. So she had to go through the
...read more
Contributed by David Swanger on Aug 14, 2007
based on 13 ratings
| 2,081 views
The story is told of a man and woman who had been married for over 60 years. They had shared everything except there was one secret in their marriage. The wife had a shoe box in the top of her closet, and she had cautioned her husband never to open it and never to ask about it. He never did. But
...read more
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
EVEN LOST BOYS OVERCOME
Between 1983 and 2003, so many Christians were killed in the Sudanese Civil War that a whole community of orphaned children arose who have become known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. Lopez Lomong was one of those boys. At six years old, he was kidnapped from his parents at
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Mennonite
Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jan 13, 2010
On December 7, 1941, a Japanese war plane piloted by Mitsuo Fuchida took off from the aircraft carrier Akagi. Fuchida led the surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Through the war years to follow, Fuchida continued to fly—often narrowly escaping death. At war’s end, he
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
Gianni Poli of Italy won the 1986 New York Marathon in 2:11:06. On March 2, 2003, Mark Yatich of Kenya won the Los Angels Marathon in 2:09:52. To me, however, the real hero of both marathons was the man who finished dead last in both. He is fifty-seven year old Bob Wieland. In 1986 he finished the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 26, 2012
based on 3 ratings
| 5,203 views
GOD, SEND US BIGGER RATTLESNAKES
There was a farmer who had three sons: Jim, John, and Sam. No one in the family ever attended church or had time for God. The pastor and church members tried for years to interest the family in the things of God, but to no avail.
Then one day, a rattlesnake bit
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
based on 2 ratings
| 6,013 views
In the book, The Three Edwards, Thomas Costain described the life of Raynald III, a 14th century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald was commonly called by his Latin nickname, Crassus, which means "fat."
After a violent quarrel, Raynald's younger brother Edward led a
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Sermon Central