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  • Mike The Headless Chicken  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 2, 2008
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     | 4,456 views

    Mike the Headless Chicken On September 10, 1945, Mike’s short life was about to take a turn for the worse. On this day, Mike received a death sentence. His owners, Lloyd and Clara Olsen, decided that it was time to slaughter a group of birds, some to sell and to prepare others for themselves. Out ...read more

  • The Water ...

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Jun 2, 2008
     | 4,007 views

    The Water (Anonymous) It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The creeks and streams were long gone back into the earth. It was a dry season that would bankrupt several farmers before it was ...read more

  • The Ideal ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 2,937 views

    THE IDEAL PASTOR The ideal pastor is difficult to find. But if your church is fortunate, you may be able to secure his services. Since he is the ideal pastor, it won’t cost very much - he lives by faith. Yet he can be counted upon to tithe heavily and still be able to afford a large house in which ...read more

  • Attitude Is Everything" By Francie Baltazar ...

    Contributed by Shane Hargrave on Mar 31, 2009
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     | 3,174 views

    "Attitude Is Everything" by Francie Baltazar Schwartz Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a unique manager ...read more

  • Worthy To Suffer For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    WORTHY TO SUFFER FOR HIM John Balca was one of the early pioneer missionaries in Eastern Europe. He was particularly focused on the country of Yugoslavia in the 1930-1950’s. In his autobiography, he writes of the many difficulties that God helped him to overcome in the establishing of an Apostolic ...read more

  • Children's Perspective On Mom

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 4, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,582 views

    CHILDREN’S PERSPECTIVE ON MOM. The following are different answers given by school-age children to the stated questions: "Why were mothers created?" 1. She’s the only one who knows where the Scotch tape is. 2. Think about it; it was the best way to get more people. 3. Mostly to clean the ...read more

  • My Mother And My ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2009
     | 3,641 views

    MY MOTHER AND MY FRIENDS (Excerpted from Simple Treasures - Garnet Hunt White. Stories for a Woman’s Heart, p. 187.) The Prov. 31 woman has grateful children – “Her children stand and bless her” (Prov. 31:28 NLT). Mother accepted my friends as they were, and they loved her for it. They liked the ...read more

  • John Mentions Three Areas Of Sin Here. I Want To ...

    Contributed by Jasper Rains on Oct 18, 2009
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    John mentions three areas of sin here. I want to take a moment and dig a bit further to see what each of these sins really mean. I wan to try and help you see what John is telling us is of the world and will lead to death. • Lust of the flesh: Putting our desires first. – Sex, pleasures • Lust of ...read more

  • Compassion In An Inner-City ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
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     | 4,637 views

    Compassion in an Inner-City Church Feed the dogs. Touch the dumb, and find faith in places where you least expect it. This is what truly brings pleasure to our Lord, much more than any outward show of self-righteousness. There is church in the inner-city of Chicago that for me demonstrates this ...read more

  • The Cross At Ground Zero After ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2009
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    The Cross at Ground Zero After 9/11 A testimony from a worker at ground zero on 9-11 testifies of God’s transforming power. I’m an excavation laborer, and a member of union local 731. Pick-and-shovel work is my trade. I live in New Jersey, but I’m a New York City native, Brooklyn born and bred. ...read more

  • A Good Name: The Case Of Butch O'hare

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,212 views

    A GOOD NAME: THE CASE OF BUTCH O'HARE His name was Butch O'Hare, one of the heroes of World War II. He was a fighter pilot assigned to an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific. One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission. After he was airborne, he looked at his fuel gauge and realized that ...read more

  • Mistaken For Jesus

    Contributed by Grant Macdonald on Nov 14, 2011
     | 3,392 views

    MISTAKEN FOR JESUS Jeff Walling tells the story of Darrel. Darrel was a forty year-old youth worker. One service a month, the youth in his church went to Hokem Manor, which was an old age home. The old people would be wheeled in for the service. Some of them were aware, and others of them weren't. ...read more

  • God Is With The Righteous

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Feb 19, 2012
     | 3,552 views

    GOD IS WITH THE RIGHTEOUS Listen to a partially embellished STORY of the SERVANT who escaped to Abraham... The sun was just rising in the east. Abram's entourage had grown significantly since Lot departed. They had settled in the land of Mamre the Amorite, finding water and shade in the forest, ...read more

  • Jail-Time Repentance

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2012
     | 5,107 views

    JAIL-TIME REPENTANCE I want to share with you a small auto-biographical story that I believe illustrates the type of repentant heart needed to continue in getting rid of guilt. She had always been a good girl so finding herself in this place was unimaginable to her. How was she going to survive ...read more

  • Two Teenagers Asked Their Father If They Could Go ...

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Oct 16, 2012
     | 6,648 views

    Two teenagers asked their father if they could go the theater to watch a movie that all their friends had seen. After reading some reviews about the movie on the internet, he denied their request. "Aw dad, why not?" they complained. "It's rated PG-13, and we're both older than thirteen!" Dad ...read more

  • The Lost Art Of Saying Thank You

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
     | 6,250 views

    “Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy - because we will always want to have something else or something more.” - David Steindl-Rast Everyone likes to feel appreciated. I remember a ...read more

  • Joe Bloggs Dream - A New Zealand Poem About Salvation

    Contributed by John Gullick on Jul 28, 2016
     | 7,360 views

    This amazing poem about an imaginary conversion is powerful - it uses New Zealand rural terminology. You need to understand that if you are using it in New York It is called Joe Bloggs dream. It goes like this. Joe Bloggs was just an average bloke, He never went to church. He wasn’t the religious ...read more

  • Truly Amazing Grace

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,730 views

    Timothy Paul Jones in his book, Proof writes about his middle daughter who had been previously adopted by another family. He was sure this couple had the best of intentions, but they never quite integrated the adopted child into their family of biological children. For one reason or another, ...read more

  • Caterpillar And Butterfly

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Feb 8, 2019
     | 5,178 views

    Robert J. Morgan in PREACHER’S SOURCEBOOK OF CREATIVE SERMON ILLUSTRATIONS tells of the story… Seems there was an enemy that had a beautiful princess trapped in his palace tower. The strong, handsome knight loved his princess so much and he wanted to do a surprise attack and free his princess ...read more

  • The Choice Tjbts

    Contributed by Blake Henson on Jun 6, 2023
     | 1,751 views

    The choice shows two coaches recruiting a player to join their team. One seems like a good coach and is the obvious choice to play for. While the other seems not so great and the obvious choice not to play for. However they are really God and Satan recruiting you for their teams. So, whose team do ...read more