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  • Who Is He In Yonder Stall, At Whose Feet The ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 2, 2007
     | 1,878 views

    Who is He in yonder stall, at whose feet the shepherds fall? Who is He in deep distress, fasting in the wilderness? Tis the Lord! O wondrous story! Tis the Lord! The King of glory! At His feet we humbly fall, Crown Him! Crown Him, Lord of all! These are words to a popular Christmas hymn written ...read more

  • America Split Into Three Financial Camps Last ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
     | 1,891 views

    America split into three financial camps last year that came sharply into focus at Christmas. 1-The Hunker-Down crowd cut back their purchases, uneasy about dwindling dollars and rising debt. Traffic in non-discount retail stores was sluggish as a result. 2-The Full-Speed-Ahead crowd did business ...read more

  • Don't Have To Spank Me

    Contributed by Rev. Ryan Peters on Nov 3, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,021 views

    DON'T HAVE TO SPANK ME During the normal works of the day, Jenny the local Pastor’s wife is watching her three little boys while her husband is at the church. When all of a sudden she hears a large crash in the living room, and when she runs in to see what it was there was little 4-year-old Brian ...read more

  • A Light Of Hope  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
    based on 8 ratings
     | 9,774 views

    A Light of Hope There is a story about how the caverns north of Yellowstone National Park were discovered. As the story goes, one of the original explorers was walking along the top of that mountain and fell through a hole, and he dropped down several hundred feet into this cavern and was stuck in ...read more

  • Painting The Porch  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,429 views

    PAINTING THE PORCH There was a lady who was preparing her Christmas cookies. There was a knock at the door. She went to find a man, his clothes poor, obviously looking for some Christmas odd jobs. He asked her if there was anything he could do. She said, "Can you paint?" "Yes," he said. "I’m a ...read more

  • Don't Tape The Trees

    Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Mar 13, 2009
     | 1,992 views

    DON'T TAPE THE TREES I was talking to a man a few years back, and he told me how he used to have a farm and how he had tried to grow different things to make money. Well, one day he said he hired a young guy to mow his lawn ,but he explained to him that he had just planted about fifty Christmas ...read more

  • Lesson In Giving

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Dec 27, 2017
     | 4,490 views

    Many years ago I took my wife to Walmart Christmas shopping. I can’t keep up with her. It was a beautiful, warm day so I went outside and sat on a bench and waited. There was a large wooden box and it had TOYS for TOTS painted on the side. A brand new large Lincoln Continental pulled up and a boy ...read more

  • A Winning Streak Of One!" 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 1, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,110 views

    “A Winning Streak of One!” 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 Key verse(s) 16“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” It’s important to make sure that every day of our lives we practice gladness and condition ourselves to finding ...read more

  • During The Time I Was A Police Officer There Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jan 16, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,896 views

    During the time I was a police officer there was a dispatcher who was no more than a co-worker and casual friend to me. Near Christmas time one year, I walked into the dispatch center and she lifted a package from the table next to her and gave it to me. It was a Christmas gift, and it was ...read more

  • Paul Harvey Told The Story Of A Family On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Jan 1, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,693 views

    Paul Harvey told the story of a family on Christmas Eve. For several years this family had a tradition where the Mother and children would go to the Christmas Eve service, and the Father would stay home and read the paper. Then when they got back from church, they would open their gifts. The ...read more

  • America's Spiritual Bankruptcy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2011
     | 3,467 views

    AMERICA'S SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY America is incrementally and systematically rejecting God. America’s moral bankruptcy is symptomatic of its spiritual bankruptcy. For example: • In 1962 the Supreme Court ruled against prayer in our schools. In 1963, they outlawed Bible Readings. • In Alaska public ...read more

  • Healing House: "I Thought You Were Dead."  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Jan 6, 2013
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,874 views

    HEALING HOUSE: "I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD." Healing House is in Kansas City, Ks. It's a home for drug addicts started by a woman named Bobbie Jo. Bobbie Jo had been walking the streets for many years but then someone cared enough to share the Gospel with her and she was born again. At the same time, ...read more

  • He Who Has The Son Has It All

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Dec 31, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,031 views

    I wrote this at the end of 2014 Fourteen years from the Millennium seemed a long time and now we are into a new year – again!! I have spent much of last week preparing to lead a pilgrimage to Israel – a new experience for me. And with the new it is good to recall the old. Our Gospel reading is ...read more

  • One Sunday In A Midwest City, A Young Child Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,171 views

    One Sunday in a Midwest city, a young child was "acting up "during the morning worship hour. The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew but were losing the battle. Finally, the father picked the little fellow up and walked sternly up the aisle on his way out. Just before ...read more

  • Euro-Missions Down: As The Value Of The Euro ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,687 views

    Euro-Missions Down: As the value of the Euro increases while the U.S. dollar decreases, some mission organizations may be forced to call some missionaries home to raise more money. Many missionaries go to the field with just enough support and when they lose some of that support in an exchange rate ...read more

  • Two Shepherds Lean On Their Crooks At The End Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Claude White on Mar 5, 2007
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,031 views

    Two shepherds lean on their crooks at the end of a long day and the first asks the second, "So, how’s it going?" The second one sighed and shook his head, "Not good, I can’t pay my bills, my health isn’t good, my kids don’t respect me, and ...read more

  • Every Thinking Man, When He Thinks, Realizes ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 2,002 views

    "Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure ourselves what that life would be if these standards were removed. We would lose almost all the ...read more

  • Resolved, To Live With All My Might While I Do ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,554 views

    "Resolved, to live with all my might while I do live. Resolved, never to lose one moment of time, to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can. Resolved, never to do anything which I should despite or think meanly of in another. Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge. ...read more

  • Spurgeon Said It Like This, "With Out The ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 9, 2008
     | 3,002 views

    Spurgeon said it like this, “With out the shedding of blood there is no remission. Every drop of blood which flowed out of Jesus’ body is still in existence, and it is just as it was over 2,000 years ago wiping away the sins of mankind. The blood has been shed – the incorruptible, eternal, divine, ...read more

  • Why The Decline?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 4, 2019
     | 2,747 views

    ***ALEXANDRIAN SOLZHENITSYN asked a question in 1978 that is worthy to ponder. HOW DID THE WEST DECLINE FROM ITS TRIUMPHAL MARCH TO ITS PRESENT SICKNESS? He answered ANTHROPOCENTRIC- The elevation of man over God. OBSTACLES ARE WHAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOSE SIGHT OF THE GOAL! Stay focused on the ...read more