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  • The Orange Blessing

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 2, 2013
     | 5,651 views

    THE ORANGE BLESSING In the late 1800’s while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean-liner, the English Baptist pastor and evangelist F.B. Meyer was asked to preach to the first class passengers. At the captain's request he spoke on "Answered Prayer." An agnostic who was present at the service was ...read more

  • Beauty

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Sep 25, 2016
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,048 views

    Pastor Randy Kanipe tells the story of a Sabbath time away from his church while he was struggling with failure. He happened to be walking by a cow pasture and stopped to gaze over the fence, pondering the ’green pastures’ that he imagined God leading him through - my attention was drawn down to a ...read more

  • Three Stages Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,833 views

    THREE STAGES OF LIFE John Claypool, at one time pastor of the Crescent Hill Baptist Church, had a little daughter who suffered with leukemia. When she went into remission, everybody thought that maybe God had healed her. But on an Easter Sunday morning, she went into a terrible relapse. In his ...read more

  • Subjective Truths

    Contributed by Charles Worth on Aug 7, 2009
     | 3,850 views

    SUBJECTIVE TRUTHS The following story actually happened to me in 2005 at a state wide meeting. We had a wonderful time of fellowship the first night, a time of worship and a great message. My spirit was soaring until breakfast on the second day. As I came into the hotel dining room several of my ...read more

  • Have You Ever Seen Those Frequent Flyer Programs ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 14, 2009
     | 2,298 views

    Have you ever seen those frequent flyer programs that the airlines have? Fly with us and you will earn points that can get free flights (of course with the restrictions on when you can use those points and on what flights, the only way to redeem them is on a one way flight to Butte, Montana ...read more

  • Stowell: How People Go Astray  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,136 views

    STOWELL: HOW PEOPLE GO ASTRAY Dr. Joseph M. Stowell, in his book, Following Christ, asks the question: HOW DO PEOPLE GO SO FAR ASTRAY SPIRITUALLY? The question was prompted when Dr. Stowell read an article given to him from the local paper the about Tom Wilson who died, gunned down as a member ...read more

  • His Last Word

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,281 views

    "His Last Word" After Being Shipwrecked--Being Justified by Faith We Have Peace with God Through Our Lord Jesus Christ A young man working on the Limehouse Docks once heard a clergyman named Henderson preach from the text: “Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus ...read more

  • Abraham's Upheaval

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Mar 9, 2010
     | 2,961 views

    ABRAHAM'S UPHEAVAL I understand the UPHEAVAL OF MOVING to a different city. Packing endless boxes of books, dismantling beds and throwing out all the junk we have accumulated over time - big job. Then watching a huge truck back into our driveway, and take it all away. We have done all that many ...read more

  • Perpetua's Story

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 30, 2010
     | 1,629 views

    PERPETUA'S STORY In A.D. 202, Emperor Septimius Severus disallowed conversions to Christianity. In the wake of that act, severe persecution broke out against Christians, particularly in North Africa. Living in Carthage at the time was a young woman of nobility named Perpetua, age 22. She had ...read more

  • Some Time Later

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 10, 2010
     | 1,731 views

    SOME TIME LATER Day after day the drudgery of books had began to depress me. Don't misunderstand. I love reading books. I was working in a warehouse at the time. Two of us would work in a large cubicle to pack books into boxes according to a computer order and convey them to be stacked onto ...read more

  • Proverbs Is Not A Book Of Promises

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jun 26, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,270 views

    A broken parent came to me and said, "Pastor Larry, I raised my kids in church. I raised my kids to follow Christ, know His Word and put Him first in their lives. They all made decisions for Christ in our church and were baptized. But, now that they have all graduated from high school, not ...read more

  • Giving

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Nov 22, 2023
     | 1,433 views

    I was raised in the church. My dad pastored 65 years. I graduated college and was married. We returned home for Christmas. We all gathered around the tree. I remembered my speedometer and God’s goodness. My wife and mom handed out the presents. Each family member had several gifts. In the ...read more

  • The Two Chairs

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Jul 29, 2025
    based on 1 rating
     | 167 views

    A youth pastor once stood before a group of students with two chairs. He placed one on the far left side of the stage and the other on the far right. He said, “Let’s imagine this chair represents loyalty to God — trusting Him, following His ways, surrendering your heart. And this chair over here ...read more

  • Laughter Resurrection  PRO

    Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 29, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,218 views

    Laughter Resurrection Bernard Martin, writes the following story in his book If God Does Not Die. One day a pastor was called from a children's party at the Sunday school to visit a young woman whose world had collapsed into an acute depression following the death of her husband in an auto ...read more

  • Giving: George Muller

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 11, 2009
     | 2,743 views

    GIVING: GEORGE MULLER George Muller pastored his first church at the age of 25 (1830) and was paid $275.00 a year. He learned through the next five years to trust God for His provision. George Muller began a ministry in 1835 for orphaned children based entirely upon God for support. April, 1836 ...read more

  • No-Cut Auditions

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 5, 2009
     | 1,657 views

    NO-CUT AUDITIONS Dick Sanderson is kind enough to give me a subscription to Leadership, Real Ministry in a Complex World. It is an exceptional magazine. This quarter there was an insert that carried a story called "A Cast of Thousands" by Lillian Daniel. She writes: "At my daughter’s ...read more

  • All The Credit Goes To Dr. Sam Luke For This ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rich Wyatt on Sep 27, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,988 views

    All the credit goes to Dr. Sam Luke for this illustration. Dr. Luke tells this story: I was taking the church through Evangelism Explosion in an effort to go out and witness for Christ. But there is an added dimension to witnessing, the Holy Spirit. I was going to teach everyone how to witness ...read more

  • Conversion Of A Communist

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Sep 25, 2016
     | 4,987 views

    Leonard Ravenhill tells the story of preaching an 8-day crusade in a large church in Glasgow, Scotland starting the first day of World War II. That shattered his meetings and no more than 50 people showed, so they started to meet in a side room instead. Despite this, he preached his heart out every ...read more

  • They Paid The Price  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
    based on 28 ratings
     | 9,503 views

    THEY PAID THE PRICE Americans, you know the 56 men who signed our Declaration of Independence that first 4th of July--you know they were risking everything, don’t you? Because if they won the war with the British, there would be years of hardship as a struggling nation. If they lost they would ...read more

  • Clark Cothern, Decision, Tells Of A Personal ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 6, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,815 views

    Clark Cothern, Decision, tells of a personal experience he had had. “I once invited a friend, Gavin, to help my pastor and me guide 30 lively teens through an all-night "lock-in" at church. Early in the evening Gavin challenged me to a game of table tennis in the fellowship hall. Our game quickly ...read more