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  • Drug Problem  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2003
    based on 215 ratings
     | 6,989 views

    DRUG PROBLEM A little old lady was amazed at how nice the young man was next door. Every day he would help her gather things from her car or help her in her yard. One day, the old lady finally ask the young man, "Son, how did you become such a fine young man?" The young man replied, "Well, when ...read more

  • Getting An Outside Line  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 24, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,605 views

    Getting an Outside Line A young woman came to the welfare office to apply for social help. The social worker told her that her husband would have to sign the papers as well. The social worker then noticed that the young lady was looking at the telephone as if she wanted to call her husband, so ...read more

  • My Father Smoked All Of My Life So I Grew Up ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,023 views

    My father smoked all of my life so I grew up breathing second hand smoke. I never saw it as a good thing until the day I was thrust into the smoking section of a run down nursing in a big city. The room was just thick with the smoke and my fellow ministry team members couldn’t even stand it, so ...read more

  • Chronic Tardiness

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 13, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,669 views

    CHRONIC TARDINESS by Mary Sullivan I marked upon my calendar with smug efficiency, the time to go and see the doc so he could study me. I knew I’d be expected at Two-Thirty on the dot. Precisely at Two-Thirty-Three I wheeled into the lot. I flew out of the car and made a beeline for ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About A Family Whose Twenty Year ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Sep 29, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,035 views

    I heard a story about a family whose twenty year old son had become rebellious. He spent his nights wasting away with drinking and parties, and he constantly spurred his parents love. One night in a drunken stupor he appeared at his parent’s home, stumbled through the door and passed out ...read more

  • A Fifth Grade Boy Who Had Heard A Sermon On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Garrett on Apr 11, 2005
    based on 54 ratings
     | 3,695 views

    A fifth grade boy who had heard a sermon on persistence in prayer was praying by himself in his room one night. As his dad passed his door, he heard the boy praying over and over again, "Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo." The next day, the dad asked his son what we was doing. The boy replied that he had ...read more

  • A Funny Thing Happened In Darlington, Maryland, ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Mar 12, 2006
     | 7,498 views

    A funny thing happened in Darlington, Maryland, several years ago. Edith, a mother of eight, was coming home from a neighbor’s house one Saturday afternoon. Things seemed too quiet as she walked across her front yard. Curious, she peered through the screen door and saw five of her youngest children ...read more

  • Rejection Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 2, 2006
     | 4,677 views

    Rejection is in the Eye of the Beholder A young salesman became discouraged because he had been rejected by so many customers he approached. He asked a more experienced salesman for some advice. “Why is it that every time I make a call on someone I get rejected?” “I just don’t understand that,” ...read more

  • For A Number Of Years, I Traveled To ...

    Contributed by Floyd Johnson on Nov 12, 2006
     | 1,206 views

    (Ill.) For a number of years, I traveled to Dayton, OH, for a continuing education experience for my Computer Science job at the college. One summer we were walking over to Arby’s for lunch – we had walked out the back door of the classroom building, across the parking lot. We ...read more

  • I Never Failed A Good Nap There

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,607 views

    I never failed a good nap there I was reading last week how, Hugh Latimer, the famous sixteenth century English Reformer and Preacher [11] was surprised to see a neighbor heading out the door early one Sunday morning. “My Lady, whither goest thou?” The neighbor replied, “I am going to Saint Thomas ...read more

  • Big John Coming To Town: New Man Made Bartender ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
     | 1,889 views

    BIG JOHN COMING TO TOWN: New man made bartender and warned by owner, ‘If you hear Big John is coming drop everything and run for your life’. Months later a white faced cowhand ran in yelling, ‘Big John is coming to town’. Before the bartender could run into the saloon can a huge man riding a ...read more

  • When The Gospel First Came To Africa, Some Of The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 10, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 819 views

    When the gospel first came to Africa, some of the early converts became so passionate about prayer that they built their own private prayer huts. Each hut was set aside for just one person, and a path used only by that person led up to its door. If someone neglected the loving discipline of ...read more

  • Helped Him ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
     | 3,411 views

    HELPED HIM CRY Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four-year-old child whose next-door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the ...read more

  • Be Warm And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
     | 3,908 views

    BE WARM AND FILLED! What does it mean that God has placed Christ’s church in our hands? One of the most stirring indictments on the church ever penned was made by Charles Schultz many years ago. Snoopy is shivering out in a snowstorm beside an empty food dish. He was looking longingly, ...read more

  • Don't Listen To Her

    Contributed by Doyle Hayes on Jul 7, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,545 views

    DON'T LISTEN TO HER A car tooling down the country road sputtered to a complete stop near a field filled with cows. The driver, getting out to see what was the matter, noticed a cow looking at him. "I believe it’s your radiator," said the cow. The startled man ran to the nearest farmhouse and ...read more

  • So When That Adversary Learned Of The New Guy On ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 20, 2010
     | 1,870 views

    So when that Adversary learned of the new guy on the Jordan, whom John had baptized amid some sort of theophany, he did his own research. All these human messiahs had come and gone with a few carefully- placed temptation. Even the great King David had succumbed to a foreign woman bathing next ...read more

  • Don't Try To Stop Me

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 28, 2011
     | 3,537 views

    "DON'T TRY TO STOP ME" A teenage boy told his parents he was going to run away from home. "Listen," he said, "I'm leaving home. There is nothing you can do to stop me. I want excitement, adventure, beautiful women, money, and fun. I'll never find it here, so I'm leaving. Just don't try to stop ...read more

  • On March 5, 1994, Deputy Sheriff Lloyd Prescott ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 3, 2009
     | 1,232 views

    On March 5, 1994, Deputy Sheriff Lloyd Prescott was teaching a class for police officers in the Salt Lake City Library. As he stepped into the hallway, he noticed a gunman herding eighteen hostages into the next room. Dressed in street clothes, Prescott joined the group as the nineteenth hostage, ...read more

  • What Else Did He Tell You?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,965 views

    WHAT ELSE DID HE TELL YOU? A police officer pulled a guy over for speeding and had the following exchange: Officer: May I see your driver’s license? Driver: I don’t have one. I had it suspended when I got my 5th DUI. (Driving Under the Influence) Officer: May I see the owner’s card for this ...read more

  • Swim Club

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 23, 2006
     | 1,286 views

    Swim Club There once was a swim club in a certain town. It was very popular because everyone in town wanted to be a good swimmer. The founders of the club had worked very hard to raise the money and do the work of building a beautiful swimming pool inside a very stylish building. They ...read more