based on 2 ratings
| 2,359 views
A young fellow heard a preacher from the olden days, and was greatly moved, and the preacher said: "When you have a religious impression, the time to act upon it is right then. The time when you hear God’s call, in which you ought to respond is right then." And the young fellow walked down the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
In 1800 a man named William Miller predicted that Christ would return on or around April 3, 1843. All over the Northeast, half a million of his followers awaited the end of the world. Reportedly some of them made their way to the top of mountains, hoping for a head start to heaven. Others were in
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 9 ratings
| 2,952 views
Philip Yancey shared this in Rumours of Another World, pp.154-55:
Living in Colorado, I climb mountains. Colorado has 54 mountains rising above 14,000 ft and every summer I climb some of them. On a summer weekend in the mountains, I see casual hikers who have no idea what they are doing. In
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 19, 2007
"A Californian magazine ran a survey of over 600 ex-Muslims who now follow Jesus, and concludes: "Although dreams appear to play a minor role in the conversion of Westerners, over 25% of these ex-Muslims affirmed that dreams and visions played a vital role in their conversions…" [source:
...read more
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Lin Smalec on Dec 8, 2005
based on 4 ratings
| 1,723 views
I recently read a news story about a little village in Austria named Rattenberg. It is “the smallest town in Austria, and getting smaller each year. The town has lost 20 percent of its population in the past two decades, and as of 2005 had only 440 residents. The reason? Darkness. Rattenberg is
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
RIVER OF GOD
Ever since moving to the valley, my eyes have been drawn to the mountains and the river. There’s days in the summer months when I ride my bike to the river, and gaze at the its powerful flow. It’s fascinating for me to watch the river at different stages. Sometimes it looks
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 27, 2004
based on 5 ratings
| 6,856 views
The Elevator
A man from the back mountains of Tennessee found himself one day in a large city, for the first time standing outside an elevator. He watched as an old, haggard woman hobbled on, and the doors closed. A few minutes later the doors opened and a young, attractive woman
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 1, 2007
based on 5 ratings
| 1,853 views
If It Don’t Rain
I would climb the highest mountain
Swim the deepest ocean too
I would crawl the hottest desert
I’d do anything for you
I would leap the tallest building
I’d bear any trial or pain
There’s no
...read more
Denomination:
Other
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 29, 2008
based on 1 rating
| 2,892 views
The Day
The evidence in Scripture seems to indicate that God gave the Law to Moses on the Day of Pentecost, as the Jews believe. Many first century Jews believed that God made the Rainbow Covenant with Noah on this day as well. If so, we might think of Pentecost as "covenant initiation day."
God
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 11, 2003
based on 17 ratings
| 4,970 views
THAT ANOTHER MIGHT LIVE- COMMUNION MEDITATION
About 6:00 A.M. on a Wednesday morning James Lawson of Running Springs, California (in the San Bernardino mountains) left home to apply for a job. About an hour later his thirty-six-year-old wife, Patsy left for her fifth grade teaching job
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by James Mcgee on Feb 16, 2008
based on 3 ratings
| 1,450 views
There was a little railroad train with loads and loads of toys
All starting out to find a home for little girls and boys
And as that little railroad train began to chug along
The little train went racing on so fast it almost seemed to fly
Until it reached a mountain that
...read more
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Martin Wiles on Aug 23, 2010
WALKING IN A RUT
Have you ever felt as if you were in a rut? Some years ago, me, my brother and daughter went hiking on the Appalachian Trail on the North Carolina, Tennessee border. It is an area called the Bald Mountains because you actually walk over the tops of the mountains. It is grasslands
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 11, 2001
based on 214 ratings
| 2,404 views
Illus.: “The Furnace Keeper”
One of the ancient kings of Persia loved to mingle with his people in disguise. Once, dressed as a poor man, he descended the long flight of stairs, dark and damp to the tiny cellar where the fireman, seated on ashes, was tending the furnace.. The king sat down
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 22, 2010
In 1982 there was a letter to the editor which read, “Dear Editor, I would like to tell your readers how mad I was when I was forced to go out and pay $45 for an infant seat, and to top it off we couldn’t fit everybody in my pickup truck with that big bulky thing. On April 2, my wife was forced to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Sermon Central