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  • Three Men Applied For A Job Driving A Truck Over ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Jul 17, 2002
    based on 15 ratings
     | 2,748 views

    Three men applied for a job driving a truck over a mountain route. The first guy said, "I’m such a good driver, I can come within one foot of the edge without losing control." The second guy said, "Oh yah, well I can come within six inches of the edge and not lose control." The man doing the hiring ...read more

  • At A Presbyterian Church In Omaha. People ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Nov 15, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,159 views

    "...at a Presbyterian church in Omaha. People were given helium filled balloons and told to release them at some point in the service when they felt like expressing the joy in their hearts. Since they were Presbyterians, they weren’t free to say "Hallelujah, Praise the Lord." All through the ...read more

  • A Book That Has Changed My Life Is What's So ...  PRO

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Aug 26, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,296 views

    A book that has changed my life is What’s So Amazing About Grace? In it the author, Philip Yancey quotes Mark Twain. Apparently Twain used to say he put a dog and a cat in a cage together as an experiment, to see if they could get along. They did, so he put in a bird, pig and goat. They, too, got ...read more

  • To Accept People Is To Be For Them. It Is To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Oct 7, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,405 views

    “To accept people is to be for them. It is to recognize that it is a very good thing that these people are alive, and to long for the best for them. It does not, of course mean to approve of everything they do. It means to continue to want what is best for their souls no matter what they do.” AND – ...read more

  • One Of The Most Popular Aquarium Fish Is The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Santos on Jan 4, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,699 views

    One of the most popular aquarium fish is the shark. If you catch a small shark and confine it, it will stay a size proportionate to the aquarium. Sharks can be six inches long yet fully matured. But if you turn them loose in the ocean, they grow to their normal length of eight feet. That can also ...read more

  • Scaling Back: A Small But Growing Number Of Men ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 1,422 views

    Scaling Back: A small but growing number of men are scaling back their work in spite of the soft job market. 10% of human resource executives say they are seeing a growing number of high-potential men leave their companies or decline a promotion because of work-life demands. 40% of working fathers ...read more

  • A Group Of Educators And Scholars, Alarmed At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,952 views

    A group of educators and scholars, alarmed at soaring rates of teenage homicides, suicides and out-of-wedlock births, attacked what it called the "timidity" of schools in instilling good character traits in the young. The 27 academics warned that "schools in general are not doing enough to counter ...read more

  • As The Union Pacific Railroad Was Being ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,168 views

    As the Union Pacific Railroad was being constructed, an elaborate trestle bridge was built across a large canyon in the West. Wanting to test the bridge, the builder loaded a train with enough extra cars and equipment to double its normal payload. The train was then driven to the middle of the ...read more

  • Revivals Are Born After ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    REVIVALS ARE BORN AFTER MIDNIGHT A. W. Tozer: "There is considerable truth in the idea that revivals are born after midnight, for revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as ...read more

  • A ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 18, 2009
     | 1,419 views

    A SERMON I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day. I’d rather one should walk with me than merely show the way. The eye’s a better pupil, and more willing than the ear; Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear. So I’d rather get my lesson by observing what you do; It is not ...read more

  • As The Union Pacific Railroad Was Being ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 14, 2010
     | 2,022 views

    As the Union Pacific Railroad was being constructed, an elaborate trestle bridge was built across a large canyon in the West. Wanting to test the bridge, the builder loaded a train with enough extra cars and equipment to double its normal payload. The train was then driven to the middle of the ...read more

  • God's Wood And God's Iron

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 13, 2010
     | 4,407 views

    GOD'S WOOD AND GOD'S IRON Famed evangelist, Billy Kelly, received a donation of some Jack Daniel's aging barrels. He used them to make lemonade at his Greer Baptist Camp Meeting. He quipped that he didn't know if where from the Spirit or the spirits, but that they sure had enjoyed wonderful ...read more

  • So Hungry

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 16, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,859 views

    SO HUNGRY The silence of the congregation partaking of the Lord’s Supper was suddenly broken by a loud exclamation. A 5-year-old girl was watching that passing out of the bread and juice and asked her mother is she could take some. Her mother said that she was not old enough to take some. With ...read more

  • The Need For Evangelism

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 29, 2013
     | 4,663 views

    THE NEED FOR EVANGELISM A few years ago George Barna reported some amazing facts. Most Americans, including profession Christians, believe that people are inherently good and that there primary purpose is to enjoy life as much as possible. a). 38% believe that it doesn’t matter what religious ...read more

  • Yuri Gagarin Did Not See God.

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 9, 2020
     | 4,907 views

    Do you know the name of Yuri Gagarin?? The year was 1961 and this Russian cosmonaut was the first human to travel into space. After circling the earth, the atheistic astronaut came back and declared that he looked outside his capsule and didn’t see God anywhere. To which Dr. W. A. Criswell ...read more

  • As The Union Pacific Railroad Was Being ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 11, 2007
     | 1,059 views

    As the Union Pacific Railroad was being constructed, an elaborate trestle bridge was built across a large canyon in the West. Wanting to test the bridge, the builder loaded a train with enough extra cars and equipment to double its normal payload. The train was then driven to the middle of the ...read more

  • The Wrong Kind Of Faith

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,124 views

    Here’s an example of the wrong kind of faith. Are you familiar with the Broom Hilda comic strip? Anybody ever seen it? For an illustration of mindless faith I like the conversation that takes place between Irwin Troll and Gaylord Buzzard. Gaylord is reading the daily paper and observes, "First we ...read more

  • When The 'empress Of Ireland' Went Down With A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,062 views

    When the ’Empress of Ireland’ went down with a hundred and thirty Salvation Army officers on board [29th May 1914], one hundred and nine officers were drowned, and not one body that was picked up had on a life-belt. The few survivors told how the Salvationists, finding there were not enough ...read more

  • Two Men Were Once Discussing Why It Is That You ...

    Contributed by John Cuddeford on Feb 22, 2008
     | 1,405 views

    Two men were once discussing why it is that you cannot see the stars by day. The stars are still there. One man maintained that they could be seen if one went far enough down in a well. The other denied the proposition but permitted himself to be lowered into the well. After he had been lowered a ...read more

  • Famous Last Words  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,528 views

    FAMOUS LAST WORDS Karl Marx, died in 1883 with these last words: "Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven’t said enough." Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, d.1170 "I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace." The very last words ...read more