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  • Simply Put The Person Asking For Bread In The ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 3, 2009
     | 2,142 views

    Simply put the person asking for bread in the middle of the night is not admirable but is rude. He does not know or does not care about shame. By the way does everyone know what BFF is? It is part of the new lingo of texting, which is kind of like shorthand. BFF is “Best Friends Forever.” And now ...read more

  • Sheep Know Shepherd's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
     | 9,561 views

    Sheep Know Shepherd’s Voice The contrast with the shepherd is even greater for the shepherd knows each sheep by name and his sheep follow his voice alone. Lloyd Ogilvie, the former Chaplain of the Senate and Pastor of Hollywood Presbyterian Church tells of being in the Middle East and watching a ...read more

  • Working Late In The Cemetery  PRO

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Oct 29, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,868 views

    WORKING LATE IN THE CEMETERY Late one dark night, two men were walking home after a party. They were tired and desperate to get home, so they decided to take a shortcut through a cemetery. They got to about the middle of the graveyard, and they were startled and stopped moving. There was a ...read more

  • In Ad 753, Pope Stephen Was Driven From Rome By ...

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 14, 2011
     | 1,700 views

    In AD 753, Pope Stephen was driven from Rome by Adolphus, King of the Lombards. He fled to Pipen. While he was there, he was asked by the monks of Cressy, in Brittany, if, in the case of necessity, baptism poured on the head would be lawful, in place of immersion. This was 723 years after the ...read more

  • If You Obey

    Contributed by Dr. Nicholas M. Muteti on Jun 15, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,486 views

    IF YOU OBEY Nearly thirty years ago, I was a middle school teacher in Kenya. One day I took 20 students, and I told them: "I will do my best to teach you and train you. If you obey me, you will be the best students of this school." They were excited. In a short time, I realized that only some ...read more

  • Kirk Was Telling His Colleagues About A Strange ...

    Contributed by Samuel Fulkerson on Aug 23, 2012
     | 2,783 views

    Kirk was telling his colleagues about a strange dream he had the previous night. He dreamt he was in the middle of action in the old west riding a stagecoach. All of a sudden, a cowboy riding a horse appears on the right side of the stagecoach and a horse without a rider pulls up on the left. In a ...read more

  • Recently I Read About A Pastor Who Had A Thorn. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,332 views

    Recently I read about a Pastor who had a thorn. He had just started - getting involved in teaching and preaching and sensing that it might be some area of calling for him. It was on a Sunday morning at this church and five minutes into his message he started to get dizzy and woozy and the room ...read more

  • Horror Stories From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
     | 2,584 views

    Horror Stories from Refugees Hushidah Bagam is 20. For two years now, she has lived in a squalid bamboo and corrugated iron hut in a Bangladesh refugee camp. But what she left behind in neighbouring Myanmar (formerly called Burma) was worse. “The soldiers came to our village In the middle of the ...read more

  • The Agitator

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2022
     | 1,569 views

    Does anyone know what that piece in the middle of the washer is called? The part in the middle that moves back and forth and shakes the clothes back and forth? What is that called? I’m going to call it an Agitator. What is the purpose of the Agitator? As far as I can tell, its sole purpose is to ...read more

  • Dr. Glenn Olds, Former President Of Kent State ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ted Sutherland on Mar 26, 2001
    based on 77 ratings
     | 1,908 views

    Dr. Glenn Olds, former President of Kent State University, recalled the sight of Mt. Rushmore as he hitch-hiked cross-country in 1941 during his junior year. From 10 miles back, he recognized Washington and Lincoln. But in the middle was a figure that looked like Adolf Hitler. Once close, instead ...read more

  • When Looking Up Peacekeeper In An Encyclopedia ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard White on Oct 26, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,645 views

    When looking up Peacekeeper in an Encyclopedia one would find some of the following; various weapons like the Colt 45 called by Sam Colt “the peacekeeper” you would also find a missile system built during Ronald Reagan’s administration by the same name. You will find various soldiers, militia, and ...read more

  • Imagine For A Moment That You Live In An Old, ...

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Apr 10, 2003
     | 1,955 views

    Imagine for a moment that you live in an old, run down, dilapidated shack. One like one you see on World Vision pictures from 3rd world countries – rusty metal kind of thrown over top of a couple walls full of holes. No running water. No toilet. Dirt on the floor when it is dry, mud when it is ...read more

  • Arabian Horses Go Through Rigorous Training In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Visneskie on Feb 5, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,530 views

    Arabian horses go through rigorous training in the deserts of the Middle East. The trainers require absolute obedience from the horses, and test them to see if they are completely trained. The final test is almost beyond the endurance of any living thing. The trainers force the horses to do without ...read more

  • A Professional Carpet-Layer Stepped Back To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
     | 1,939 views

    A professional carpet-layer stepped back to survey a newly installed carpet. Reaching into his shirt pocket for a cigarette, he realized the pack was missing. At the same time he noticed a lump under the carpet in the middle of the room, about the size of the missing cigarette pack. There was no ...read more

  • I Am Going To Close With A Clip From The Movie, ...

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Apr 9, 2006
     | 1,734 views

    I am going to close with a clip from the movie, “Freaky Friday”. In this fantasy, comedy Jamie Curtis plays a middle aged widow named Tess Coleman. She has met someone she loves and is about to get married. However, there is lots of conflict going on between her and her 15 year old daughter, ...read more

  • June 11, 2001, Timothy Mcvey, The Home-Grown ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,967 views

    June 11, 2001, Timothy McVey, the home-grown terrorist who bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was executed. His final statement to the world was this poem. As he faced his executioner, he still wanted the same thing Adam and Eve wanted. To be master of his own fate—captain of his ...read more

  • Faith Is Knowing, Believing And Personally ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 14, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,701 views

    FAITH IS KNOWING, BELIEVING AND PERSONALLY TRUSTING • Imagine a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean it is filled with people and in the middle of the ocean there is an explosion. Many people lose their lives,, but a number are still alive. They begin to run to the lifeboats. • The 1st man though ...read more

  • There Were Six People Trapped In A Dark, Cold ...

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Jul 31, 2008
     | 1,682 views

    There were six people trapped in a dark, cold cave. They each had a stick of wood. The fire in the middle of the cave was starting to go out. The first woman refused to put her wood in the fire because there was someone she didn’t like in the circle. The next man held onto his stick of wood ...read more

  • M ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 2,153 views

    Marriage? Through a scheduling mix-up, a man and a woman who had never met before found themselves in the same sleeping-carriage of a train. It’s late, the train is full, and everyone else is already asleep. After the initial embarrassment, they both manage to get to sleep; the woman on the top ...read more

  • I Ride The ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Nov 25, 2008
     | 1,430 views

    "I ride the bus!" My wife works in a Middle School. The job can be … let’s say challenging … sometimes. But she got tired of complaining whenever people asked how school was going. (Maybe that scripture in Philippians 2 had something to do with it: Do everything without complaining or arguing.) ...read more