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  • Sign Your Name Or Forget It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 8, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,614 views

    SIGN YOUR NAME OR FORGET IT J. Vernon McGee tells of an incident that happened in one of his pastorates. A man came to him and said, "I want to tell you about a certain situation." He told him about a certain man who was involved in a particular sin. The man wanted to do something about it. He ...read more

  • Could It Happen Every Day?

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Jul 1, 2012
     | 1,229 views

    COULD IT HAPPEN EVERY DAY? Jeff Ingle tells the story of spending four days with 75 other pastors in a Pastor's Prayer Summit in Wisconsin. He writes, "In my time I've been to many camps, conferences and retreats but never have I been to anything like this. For four days, we met together with no ...read more

  • The Donkey And The Complaining Wife

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on May 7, 2013
    based on 3 ratings
     | 8,269 views

    THE DONKEY AND THE COMPLAINING WIFE I once heard of a farmer who had a complaining wife. From morning till night she would complain about something or the other. The only time he got relief was when he went to the farm with his donkey. One day as he was plowing, his wife brought him lunch. He ...read more

  • The Heizer Creek Baptism

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
     | 3,353 views

    Note: this story happened to me - Jim Butcher of Madison WV. One of my favorite baptism stories comes from a friend of mine who owns a house on Heizer Creek. He had a nice spot on his property to do baptisms and told the nearby country churches they were welcome to use it anytime, which a few of ...read more

  • A Woman Was Diagnosed With A Terminal Illness And ...

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Dec 23, 2007
     | 2,326 views

    A woman was diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. As she was getting her things in order, she contacted her pastor and asked him to come to her house to discuss some of her final wishes. She told him which songs she wanted sung at her funeral service, what ...read more

  • After The Collapse Of The Berlin Wall In 1989, No ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 16, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,594 views

    After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, no person in all of East Germany was more despised than the former Communist dictator Erich Honecher. He had been stripped of all his offices. Even the Communist Party rejected him. Kicked out of his villa, the new government refused him and his wife ...read more

  • What God Can Do For Us  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 22, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,395 views

    WHAT GOD CAN DO FOR US A young pastor in another church told about an experience he had with a family who tended to be the "Easter and Christmas" variety of church attendees. A young woman in the family became critically ill. The prognosis was bad. In fact, doctors expected she might die within ...read more

  • Stranger Than Fiction: A True Story

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
     | 4,357 views

    STRANGER THAN FICTION: A TRUE STORY A young couple from another church came to one of our assistant pastors for counseling about marital problems they started having soon after their wedding. After just a few minutes of interviewing the two, he could see they were miles apart in tastes, ideas, and ...read more

  • Nuestro Trabajo En El Señor No Es En Vano  PRO

    Contributed by Rolando Delgado on Sep 21, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,845 views

    Nuestro trabajo en el Señor no es en vano Una vez predicando en una iglesia en la selva del Peten, en Guatemala, fui invitado por un pastor a que fuera a su iglesia, al cual yo accedí sin ninguna objeción. Pero al predicar me sentía muy incomodo por la forma que recibían el mensaje, no había un ...read more

  • An Estimated One Million Workers Are Absent On ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Sep 21, 2010
     | 1,295 views

    An estimated one million workers are absent on an average workday because of stress related complaints. Stress is said to be responsible for more than half of the 550,000,000 workdays lost annually because of absenteeism. Job stress is estimated to cost U.S. industry $300 billion dollars ...read more

  • Extremely Rigid And Elastic

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 13, 2020
     | 1,283 views

    FREEDOM The divine "scheme of things," as Christianity understands it, is at once extremely elastic and extremely rigid. It is elastic, in that it includes a large measure of liberty for the creature; it is rigid in that it includes the proviso that, however created beings choose to ...read more

  • Pharisees Want A Sign

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 15, 2009
     | 2,175 views

    PHARISEES WANT A SIGN The word peroushim, transliterated "Pharisees," means "separated ones." Their attitude is that external observance of the hundreds of prescriptions of the Law is the essential human response to the covenant of God. They seek a sign–-and remember that Jesus has just given ...read more

  • She Had Just Passed Her One Hundredth Birthday. ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
     | 1,298 views

    She had just passed her one hundredth birthday. She had a letter form the President of the U. S. congratulating her. Her pastor went to visit her in a nursing home. She was blind and could not see. She was lame and could not walk. In fact she could not leave her room except for emergencies. She ...read more

  • It's Interesting How We Share Faith. We All Have ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 24, 2008
     | 1,343 views

    It’s interesting how we share faith. We all have our own way based on our own abilities. I have always been impressed with those who can quote the appropriate scripture in times of crisis. My sister, Jean, can do that. My pastor in San Antonio, Texas, could do that. I just can’t do that. I’m ...read more

  • A Man By The Name Of Jim Dunn Was Serving As The ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Feb 12, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,611 views

    A man by the name of Jim Dunn was serving as the pastor of the First Baptist Church. His wife, Gladys, was a very friendly lady. She understood how important it is to make people feel welcome at church so she always made a point to talk to as many people as she could both before and after the ...read more

  • Keeping The Lights Burning

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 2,300 views

    KEEPING THE LIGHTS BURNING Robert Russell, pastor and author, tells a story of how about twenty years ago there was a house near the entrance of his subdivision that kept their Christmas lights burning long after the season was past. They burned through January. Even through the first of February ...read more

  • A Prerequisite To Forgiveness  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jun 25, 2002
    based on 46 ratings
     | 7,169 views

    A PREREQUISITE TO FORGIVENESS A pastor finished his message early one Sunday, (and that pastor was not me) and he wanted to check his congregation’s understanding. So he asked, "Can anyone tell me what you must do before you can obtain forgiveness of sin?" There was a short pause and then, from ...read more

  • Memorizing & Studying Bible Low Priorities George ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,790 views

    Memorizing & Studying Bible Low Priorities George Barna Research reports "Our most recent surveys indicate that about half of all adult Amerocans listen to preaching or Bible teaching in a typical week." Although 1 out of 3 read the Bible during the week, only 1 out of 10 claim to study the Bible ...read more

  • Troubling Moral Climate: Americans Are Troubled ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,571 views

    Troubling Moral Climate: Americans are troubled by our moral climate, according to the Gallup Poll’s “morality meter” 59% are somewhat (29%) or very (30%) dissatisfied with the U.S. moral and ethical climate — which includes a wide range of issues: sexual and violent content in television and ...read more

  • Dry Truth Or Dynamic Lies?

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 26, 2010
     | 1,977 views

    DRY TRUTH OR DYNAMIC LIES? During my first year of ministry here, I asked a hypothetical question: If you had the choice of attending a church where the pastor believed and taught the Bible but was dry and not a very good speaker, or a church where the pastor believed that the Bible contained many ...read more

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