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  • A Flag Of Rags  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 6,952 views

    A FLAG OF RAGS In the final years of our imprisonment, the North Vietnamese moved us from small cells with one or two prisoners to large rooms with as many as 30-40 men to a room. We preferred this situation for the companionship and strength we could draw from our fellow prisoners. In addition ...read more

  • Keep It Between The Lines  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 29, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,415 views

    Keep It Between The Lines. He was a sitting beside me in the passenger seat. As I looked through the window at the quiet little street. He was a smiling so proud as he gave me the key. But inside I knew he was as nervous as me. I said “Daddy, oh Daddy are you sure I know how? Are you sure that I ...read more

  • Have You Noticed A Difference In The Salute ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Feb 15, 2003
    based on 21 ratings
     | 1,347 views

    Have you noticed a difference in the salute given by our military men and women as President Bush walks by? Most folks would not notice anything, but those who have served in the military see it right away. Next time just watch for this: as President Bush leaves his helicopter or Air Force One, ...read more

  • Twas The Night Before Jesus Came

    Contributed by Dean Morgan on Feb 18, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,678 views

    Twas The Night Before Jesus Came Twas the night before Jesus came and all through the house Not a creature was praying, not one in the house. Their Bibles were lain on the shelf without care In hopes that Jesus would not come there. The children were dressing to crawl into bed, Not once ever ...read more

  • Bill Wilson Is Founder And Senior Pastor Of ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 9, 2006
     | 1,945 views

    Bill Wilson is founder and Senior Pastor of Metro Ministries based out of New York City, ministering to the five boroughs of New York, with expanding ministry around the world. When Bill Wilson was a boy, he was walking with his mom one day and they sat on a culvert to rest. His mom then got up ...read more

  • C. S. Lewis, The Great British Christian Writer, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,158 views

    C. S. Lewis, the great British Christian writer, has another answer in his book The Problem of Pain. Some of you may have seen the Anthony Hopkins’ movie Shadowlands which tells the story of Lewis’s faith and grief at the death of new bride. Lewis married late in life to an American women after ...read more

  • --- ‘twas The Night Jesus ...

    Contributed by Dan Steadman on Dec 3, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,479 views

    ----- ‘Twas The Night Jesus Came ‘Twas the night Jesus came and all through the house, not a person was praying, not one in the house... The Bible was left on the shelf without care… for no one thought Jesus would ever come there... The children were dressing to crawl into bed, not once ever ...read more

  • The Day Daddy Came ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
     | 3,049 views

    THE DAY DADDY CAME HOME Some time ago, a mother was tucking her little girl into bed when the young daughter asked, "Mother, can you tell me the greatest day of your life?" The mother thought for just a second and then said, "Honey, I can tell you the greatest day in my life. As you know, my ...read more

  • We Sing When We Face ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 11, 2010
     | 2,926 views

    We sing when we face death. Lavena (Beanie) Peters was dying of liver cancer. I was at the hospital with her family, essentially on a deathwatch. Beanie’s pain was excruciating, and the pain medicine kept her in a nearly unconscious state. Others left the room for a moment; only Harriet her ...read more

  • If I Had My Life To Live Over- By Erma ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 3, 2010
     | 1,284 views

    IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER- by Erma Bombeck (written after she found out she was dying from cancer). I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day. I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose ...read more

  • He Cried For Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 14, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,456 views

    HE CRIED FOR ME Jan, who was a young mother in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 20 years ago, tells a remarkable story from that time in her life. In a note to her pastor, she wrote: It was the end. I knew it. I could no longer fight. I sat here emotionless. I was totally alone. Others had tried to ...read more

  • How To Eat A Cessna Airplane

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,196 views

    HOW TO EAT A CESSNA AIRPLANE Michel Lotito was an extraordinary man. This elegant Frenchman had a love for food and a fondness for eating unusual objects like bicycles, shopping carts and televisions. His odd appetite earned him the nickname Monsieur Mangetout (Mr Eat Everything). I first heard ...read more

  • Favorite Child

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on May 14, 2007
     | 6,578 views

    Erma Bombeck. She writes: "Every mother has a favorite child. She cannot help it. She is only human. I have mine--the child for whom I feel a special closeness, with whom I share a love that no one else could possibly understand. My favorite child is the one who was too sick to eat ice cream at ...read more

  • Story Of The Fireman

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,079 views

    Story of the Fireman A. Flames surrounded firefighters fighting a forest as they backed up a mountain trying to put out the fire. They had no where to go. There was fire behind them and only a home and more grass in front of them. The firefighter moved ahead into the grass in front of him struck a ...read more

  • Her God Was Able

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 22, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,631 views

    Her name will never be in the history books, but it is written in the Book of Life. She was never an item in the newspaper, but she was God’s reporter, telling His good news. She never had much formal education, but like her Lord she taught with authority from her own experience of God’s grace. ...read more

  • Here's How Several Elementary School Students ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,297 views

    Here’s how several elementary school students answered the following questions about moms: Why did God make mothers? • She’s the only one who knows where the Scotch tape is. • Mostly to clean the house. • To help us out of there when we were getting born. How did God make mothers? • He used ...read more

  • Tom Dooley Was A Young Doctor Who Organized ...

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Mar 20, 2008
     | 2,074 views

    Tom Dooley was a young doctor who organized hospitals, raised money, and literally poured out his life in the service of the afflicted peoples of Southeast Asia. Here was a man whose deep relationship with God motivated him to abandon a soft career in the United States for a desperately difficult ...read more

  • Qualifications For Ministry  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 15, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,494 views

    QUALIFICATIONS FOR MINISTRY What qualifies someone for a task? There is a story of the testing of a candidate for missions work: One snowy morning at 5:00 A.M., a missionary candidate rang the bell at a missionary examiner’s home. Ushered into the office, he sat three hours past his appointment ...read more

  • Heavenly Home

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 3, 2014
     | 4,982 views

    Daniel Overdorf- One Friday afternoon I struggled to prepare for the weekend. The week’s hectic pace, filled with activities, left me scrambling on Friday to finish my sermon. While I hunched over my desk, unable to develop anything that resembled a sermon, the office phone rang. From the ...read more

  • Dennis E. Mannering Was Teaching A Class For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Sep 27, 2002
    based on 133 ratings
     | 4,379 views

    Dennis E. Mannering was teaching a class for adults, when he did the "unpardonable." He gave the class homework! The assignment was to "go to someone you love within the next week and tell them you love them. It had to be someone you have never said those words to before or at least haven’t shared ...read more