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  • We'll Teach Him

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,284 views

    WE'LL TEACH HIM A twenty-five-year-old girl cancelled her engagement. She tearfully told her mother what had happened. She said, "I can't marry him. He's not really Christian. I've discovered that he really doesn't believe in hell." The ...read more

  • Who To Worry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2012
     | 6,266 views

    WHO TO WORRY ABOUT I remember an old Amish man sitting on the back of his produce wagon doing a little philosophizing as he sold his wares. He said, “Never worry about your enemy because if anything happens to you he will be the first one they will suspect. Worry about you friend ...read more

  • Ten Commandments, Children

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,240 views

    Ten Commandments, Children It’s like one little Sunday School boy who knew nothing of forgiveness… A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six-year-olds After explaining the commandment to "honor" your Father and Mother, she asked, "Is there a commandment ...read more

  • Can I Hug You?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,727 views

    I heard a story about a father who told his son when he reached 12 years old that he would only shake hands with him from now on. Finally, some 20 or 25 years later the son, now a grown man, said, “Dad can I hug you?” And the son and ...read more

  • Asking The Tough Questions Is Good Medicine! ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 11, 2007
     | 1,400 views

    Asking the tough questions is good medicine! James L. Mays, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Interpretation at Union Theological Seminar in Virginia talks about how “Christians who live in a world that constantly raises the question ‘Where is your God’ {shows} the real nature of our ...read more

  • Last Saturday, I Was Walking In Our ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
     | 805 views

    *Last Saturday, I was walking in our neighborhood, and I passed a house where a little girl about 3-years-old accidentally got Mom or older sister wet with the hose. The adult screamed her name and then screamed, “What’s the matter with you?” -I promise you that the scream did a ...read more

  • The American Bible Society And The Gospel Music ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 2,253 views

    The American Bible Society and the Gospel Music Association (GMA) have formed a partnership to create a new songwriting competition at GMA’s annual Music in the Rockies, held in Estes Park, CO. Songwriters are encouraged to adapt, derive or base music on Scripture from both the Old and New ...read more

  • An English Missionary Doctor Named Helen ...  PRO

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Oct 28, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,764 views

    An English missionary doctor named Helen Roseveare, tells this story about an incident she experienced during her time in Zaire, Africa. One night she had worked hard to help a mother in the labor ward; but in spite of all they could do the mother died, leaving them with a tiny premature baby and ...read more

  • There Have Been Some People, Who, The Minute They ...  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Schmidt on Nov 13, 2003
    based on 23 ratings
     | 2,309 views

    There have been some people, who, the minute they were born, everyone knew that they were destined for greatness. In 1500 A.D. a baby boy was born that all expected great things from. His name was Charles, and his father was Duke Philip, the Duke of Burgundy, and Charles’ mother was Joanna, the ...read more

  • We Sing When We Face ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 11, 2010
     | 2,514 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

  • And It Came To Pass...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
    based on 21 ratings
     | 15,911 views

    AND IT CAME TO PASS... "The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me." -- Martin Luther During a Sunday class the question was asked, "In your time of discouragement, what is your favourite Scripture?" A young man said, "The Lord is my ...read more

  • As A Part Of An Assignment For A Doctoral Thesis, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jan 24, 2001
    based on 136 ratings
     | 2,096 views

    As a part of an assignment for a doctoral thesis, a college student spent a year with a group of Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest. As part of his research he lived with one of the Navajo families, sleeping in their hut, eating their food, working with them, & generally living the ...read more

  • Professor William Muehl Once Visited A Fine ...  PRO

    Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Sep 19, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,862 views

    Professor William Muehl once visited a fine ancestral home in Virginia. He followed the aged owner, the last of a distinguished colonial family, as she proudly showed him through her home. An ancient rifle above the fireplace intrigued him, so he asked if he might take it down and examine it. ...read more

  • Kokomo Tribune Writer Scott Smith Wrote An ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 3, 2009
     | 1,345 views

    Kokomo Tribune writer Scott Smith wrote an article for the Kokomo Tribune headlined, "Dam destruction part of Wildcat Creek’s revival." It reads: "The water upstream from the old Continental Steel dam looks almost stagnant. The streambed is deep, and the surface untroubled. But the lack of rills ...read more

  • Sunday School Student And Far Side On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
     | 6,326 views

    Sunday School Student and Far Side on Jonah The story is told of a Sunday School teacher who was proud of her lesson for the day. She thought that she had presented the material quite nicely. Summing up, she asked her class, "And what do we learn from the story of Jonah and the great fish?" An ...read more

  • God's Provision: The Holy Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 10,276 views

    GOD'S PROVISION: THE HOLY SPIRIT Without the Holy Spirit the church could not exist. It is He who inspired the writers of Scripture, and He who dwells in every Christian, giving us life in Christ. All our efforts are dust and ashes apart from Him. A young man asked an old rich man how he made his ...read more

  • Picked From The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2010
     | 3,517 views

    Picked From the Fire John Wesley never forgot a terrible night of his childhood. He was only six years old at the time, and he had awakened in the family’s old rectory to find it ablaze from top to bottom. Everyone else had been dragged from the building, but by some extraordinary oversight he had ...read more

  • Limited Understanding

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 4, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,561 views

    LIMITED UNDERSTANDING Suppose I take my 2 year old to the doctor and he gets a shot in the arm and it really hurts. He doesn’t understand that the shot is to help him get better. All he knows is that shot hurt. And daddy just stood there. Doesn’t dad know how bad a shot hurts? Was he unable to ...read more

  • Russell Herman's Last Will And Testament

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 22, 2011
     | 6,975 views

    RUSSELL HERMAN'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT In 1994, a 67-year-old carpenter named Russell Herman died in Marion, Illinois. In his last will and testament he bequeathed the following: • $2.4 billion to the town of Cave-In-Rock • $2.4 billion to the city of East St. Louis • $1.5 billion for projects ...read more

  • Afraid

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Dec 23, 2011
     | 2,527 views

    AFRAID I was all alone. I lived with four other guys in a huge, old house just off the campus of Baylor University, but I was the only one home. I must have been twenty-one or twenty-two – a grown man, practically a college graduate – but I was afraid. There was usually a surplus of noise in the ...read more

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