Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Nov 29, 2012
English writer F.W. Boreham tells a story about an old gravedigger who had a terrible cough. A visitor to the cemetery expressed sympathy to the old man and his cough. The gravedigger motioned to the graves around him and said, “There’s plenty here who would be glad of my cough.” His point being
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Ed Wood on Feb 18, 2003
based on 94 ratings
| 1,880 views
A woman wanting to impress the pastor when he came to visit, said to her little girl, “Honey, go get the book that Mommy loves so much.” The little
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 1,987 views
Resurrection Only 36% of American adults believe that, after you die, your physical body will someday be resurrected. 54% do not believe so and 10%
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 2,587 views
Resurrection Only 36% of American adults believe that, after you die, your physical body will someday be resurrected. 54% do not believe so and 10%
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Apr 21, 2007
Rick Warren in “Purpose Driven Church” –“With every new generation the rules change a little. If we always do what we’ve always
...read more
Denomination:
Salvation Army
Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 28, 2008
The month of January is named after the Roman god Janus, who was pictured as a man with two faces, one looking backward and the other forward. New Years Day provides a
...read more
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Feb 19, 2009
“The root of sin is selfishness—‘I will’ and not ‘Thy will’” (Warren W. Wiersbe, Warren Wiersbe’s “Be” Series: Old & New Testaments, as found in
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
IMAGE IS EVERYTHING
In 1990 when Andre Agassi was at the start of a career that lifted tennis' popularity to new heights, advertising execs for Canon cameras invested millions in an ad campaign
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by William Norman on Nov 4, 2002
based on 1 rating
| 3,575 views
The story is told of W. H. Auden, who in the 1930’s believed there was no such thing as God or absolute truth. But in the aftermath of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Auden saw a documentary report. He then knew two things. One was that Hitler was an evil human being. And the second was that he needed
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 12, 2004
based on 14 ratings
| 1,489 views
The story is told of a South Sea Islander who proudly displayed his Bible to a G.I. during WW II. He had received it as a present from a missionary some time before. The soldier said, “O, we’ve outgrown that sort of thing.” The native smiled back and said, “Well, it’s a
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
based on 6 ratings
| 1,930 views
“The early Latin writer, Tertullian of Carthage, declared that the one thing that converted him to Christianity was not the arguments they gave him, because he could find a counterpoint for every argument they would present. “But they demonstrated something I didn’t have. The thing that
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
United Methodist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 9, 2008
There are three huge gates that lead into the Cathedral of Milan. Over one gate there is an inscription in marble (under a beautiful flower bouquet) that says, "The things that please are temporary." Over the second gate, there is a cross with this inscription: "The things that disturb us are
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Other
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2008
Corrie ten Boom, that saintly lady who endured such brutality from the Nazis in Ravensbruck during World War II, once said that she had learned to hold everything loosely in her hand. She said she discovered, in her years of walking with Him, that when she grasped things tightly, it
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 2, 2009
God reigns over all. He does as He pleases. Wayne Grudem writes, "God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he (1) keeps them existing and maintaining the properties with which he created them; (2) cooperates with created things in every action, directing their
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Sermon Central