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  • Too Big To Miss  PRO

    Contributed by Billy Kryger on Aug 14, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,991 views

    “Too Big To Miss” The story’s told in the Bible about a mighty king. And how when he was just a little boy he played around with a sling. Well he got up early one morning and before the sun had set that day, a nasty ol’ giant had lost his head and his body lay cold on the clay. When David went ...read more

  • Sooner Or Later Everyone Reads Or Hears About ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 5, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,349 views

    Sooner or later everyone reads or hears about Cervantes’ story of Don Quixote. Cervantes is thrown in prison in Seville. Finding himself in the middle of a band of cutthroats he tries to divert them by telling them his story of Don Quixote, the Man of La Mancha. In the story, Quixote pictures ...read more

  • That Reminds Me Of What Happened To A Tribe In ...

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Apr 8, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,407 views

    That reminds me of what happened to a tribe in the jungles of East Asia, when missionaries showed them the Jesus film. It was a big deal when I was in Seminary and one of my friends was a missionary telling me about all that was going on with the Jesus Film. The movie was being shown as an ...read more

  • On Books

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,092 views

    ILL.- TEACHER: Who is your favorite author? PUPIL: George Washington. TEACHER: But George Washington never wrote any books. PUPIL: You got it. TEACHER: How many books have you read in your lifetime? PUPIL: I don’t know. I’m not dead yet. TEACHER: What does your history book tell you about the ...read more

  • History Of Spam  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,158 views

    HISTORY OF SPAM In the 1930s, Jay Hormel noticed that there was some perfectly good, though not necessarily desirable, pork-shoulder meat going to waste in his meat-packing plant. So he, being the entrepreneur that he was, came up with the idea of processing that meat with a little ham and ...read more

  • Go Find Something To Do For God

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,151 views

    GO FIND SOMETHING TO DO FOR GOD Ruth Rettig tells the story of having gone through unsuccessful cancer surgery and following up with chemo in Houston, which meant 500-mile roundtrips from their home in central Texas. The trips were exhausting enough but the chemo made her feel sick to death. She ...read more

  • Dr. Frederic Loomis Faced The Most Difficult ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Jan 21, 2004
    based on 17 ratings
     | 2,649 views

    Dr. Frederic Loomis faced the most difficult decision a physician could ever make--whether to allow a deformed baby to live or die. He had only seconds to decide. Dr. Loomis had delivered hundreds of babies, but this one was different. The infant lay in a breech position, promising at best a ...read more

  • Reasons To Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 19, 2009
     | 4,456 views

    Reasons to be Thankful Let’s stop and think for just a moment. You are sitting in this service this morning listening to the Word of God being preached. How did you get here? Did the Father not give you the breath of life that brought you through the night and did He not give you the strength to ...read more

  • He Was Graduated From The Finest Four-Star ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,510 views

    He was graduated from the finest four-star Christian college. The product of a distinguished evangelical church, he had a good personal grasp of the Scriptures. From a strong Christian family, he was a personable and handsome green shoot -- the whole nine yards! Like many in his league, however, ...read more

  • It Was A Regular Work Day. There Were 6 Of Us In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Luthy on Aug 17, 2001
    based on 103 ratings
     | 2,768 views

    It was a regular work day. There were 6 of us in a room—myself, two other men, and three women. One of the guys was talking about his vacation when one of the women handed him a knife and he stabbed me, right in the lower abdomen. The last thing I remembered before I passed out was the ...read more

  • Till Death Do Us Part  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 16, 2002
    based on 30 ratings
     | 1,643 views

    TILL DEATH DO US PART In his address to the 1997 graduation class at East Stroudsburg University, U.S. Senator Rick Santorum told a story seemingly unrelated to the usual commencement speeches about success and happiness. This is the story: A Baptist preacher in South Carolina wanted nothing ...read more

  • One Little Problem  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,739 views

    ONE LITTLE PROBLEM In 1174 the Italian architect Bonnano Pisano began work on what would become his most famous project: A separately standing eight-story bell tower for the Cathedral of the city of Pisa. The tower was to be eight-stories and 185-foot tall. There was just one "little" problem: ...read more

  • A Hiker Was Charged W/ Eating An Endangered ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joseph Rodgers on Nov 28, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,570 views

    A hiker was charged w/ eating an endangered species while tracking the woods of California. After hearing the man had eaten a condor, the judge quickly passed a harsh sentence of 10 years behind bars. The man pleaded w/ the judge to hear his side of the story because he felt circumstances ...read more

  • A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,388 views

    Speaker, Jill Briscoe tells this story: Not too long ago I was babysitting one of our three, 3-year-old grandchildren. In our family, we had twins and a single birth all within 24 hours. We call them Search, Destroy, and Demolition. I was to baby-sit Demolition. As I waved good bye to his parents, ...read more

  • Captain Mitsuo Fuchida Was The Commander Of The ...

    Contributed by John Cuddeford on Nov 1, 2007
     | 2,847 views

    Captain Mitsuo Fuchida was the commander of the squadron that bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After the war he became a hero in Japan. Yet he felt his life was empty. Then he heard the amazing story of one of the American pilots, Jacob DeShazer, who had been captured and put in prison in ...read more

  • Don't Wait On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
     | 4,184 views

    DON’T WAIT ON THE DECISION I recently heard a terrible story about a young man who made a bad decision. The church of a pastor friend of mine had a drama about hell, and a mother brought her 26-year-old son who had been in rehab. When the pastor gave the invitation, the mother got up to go to the ...read more

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne's Great Stone ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
     | 4,469 views

    Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Great Stone Face Perhaps some of you remember Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story about the great stone face. A little lad lived in a village where there was a mountain with a rock formation which they called the great stone face. The people had a legend that someday someone would ...read more

  • When Love Reigns, God Reigns

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,126 views

    WHEN LOVE REIGNS, GOD REIGNS During the puritan OLIVER CROMWELL'S (1599-1658) reign as Lord Protector of England (1653-1658) a young soldier was sentenced to die. The girl to whom he was engaged pleaded with Cromwell to spare the life of her beloved, but to no avail. The young man was to be ...read more

  • Peace In The Storm

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
     | 9,392 views

    PEACE IN THE STORM Adam Hamilton tells the story of leading a team down to Bay St. Louis to help gut houses after Katrina. They were assigned to a woman who brick house was completely inundated and they were asked to gut a two-story garage. In the room above the garage were literally hundreds and ...read more

  • Crossing Hypocrisy

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on May 15, 2011
     | 4,901 views

    CROSSING HYPOCRISY I remember one holiday sitting in the living room chatting with my in-laws, when the subject of high school reunions and old classmates came up. In the course of our conversation, my brother-in-law started laughing when he proceeded to tell us a story about one of his ...read more