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  • A Farmer Went To His Banker And Announced That He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Dec 28, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 9,462 views

    A farmer went to his banker and announced that he had bad news and good news. “First, the bad news...” “Well,” said the farmer, “I can’t make my mortgage payments. And that crop loan I’ve taken out for the past 10 years—I can’t pay that off, either. Not only that, I won’t be able to pay you the ...read more

  • A Man Lost His Job And A Sizeable Fortune During ...

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Mar 13, 2005
     | 1,427 views

    A man lost his job and a sizeable fortune during a recession. To add to his sorrow, his precious wife died; yet he tenaciously held to his faith - the only thing he had left. One day when he was out searching for employment, he stopped to watch some men who were doing stonework on a large church ...read more

  • Putting Together A Bicycle

    Contributed by Keith Foskey on Apr 4, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,605 views

    “Putting together a bicycle” When my brother was three he got his first bicycle for Christmas. Being much older I stayed awake with his father to put it together on Christmas Eve. My mother held the instructions. He and I began putting together pieces that seemed to fit and after about an hour we ...read more

  • A Small Church In Virginia Needed To Have A New ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Aug 25, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,444 views

    A small church in Virginia needed to have a new roof in the worst of ways, but there was no money in their account. Most of the congregation was very poor except for the local banker. He was an ornery old cuss, and he would be the first in church so he could always sit in the back pew by the ...read more

  • The Next Time You Feel Yourself Feeling ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Feb 2, 2006
     | 2,182 views

    The next time you feel yourself feeling confident, challenge yourself to do the impossible. You just may. There are legions of people with unchallenged genius potential. Take the story of two Irish music hall players who, in 1912, were spending an afternoon in a pub at Stalybridge in Cheshire, ...read more

  • The Next Time You Feel Yourself Feeling ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,711 views

    The next time you feel yourself feeling confident, challenge yourself to do the impossible. You just may. There are legions of people with unchallenged genius potential. In 1912, two Irish music hall players were spending an afternoon in a pub at Stalybridge in Cheshire, England. They were ...read more

  • Celeste Sibley, One-Time Columnist For The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,645 views

    Celeste Sibley, one-time columnist for the Atlanta (GA) Constitution, took her three children to a diner for breakfast one morning. It was crowded and they had to take separate seats at the counter. Eight-year-old Mary was seated at the far end of the counter and when her food was served she called ...read more

  • The Roof Of The Church Hall Of A Little Swiss ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Santos on Jun 21, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,203 views

    The roof of the church hall of a little Swiss church, at the turn of the 20th century, was falling down. So the members of the church held regular prayer meetings in the hall after the service to pray for funds to repair the roof. There was an old man, known to be very tight with his money, who ...read more

  • The English Anglican Evangelist George Whitefield ...

    Contributed by Peter Bines on Sep 14, 2006
     | 1,273 views

    The English Anglican evangelist George Whitefield was preaching at Moorfields fair in 1742. As he did so stones, dirt, rotten eggs and pieces of dead cat were thrown at him from the crowd. He vividly describes a group who were intent on putting an end to his preaching: ‘…having got a large pole for ...read more

  • There Once Was An Ant That Felt Imposed Upon, ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Anthony on Dec 31, 2006
     | 3,104 views

    There once was an ant that felt imposed upon, overburdened, and overworked. You see, he was instructed to carry a piece of straw across an expanse of concrete. The straw was so long and heavy that he staggered beneath its weight and felt he would not survive. Finally, as the stress of his burden ...read more

  • Two Hundred Years Ago, On 25th March 1807, The ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Mar 27, 2007
     | 867 views

    Two hundred years ago, on 25th March 1807, the British parliament voted in favour of a law that would have consequences all around the known world. This new law was the abolition of human slavery. This act of 1807 was one of the most humanitarian pieces of legislation ever enacted in a British ...read more

  • A Few Words

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 2, 2009
     | 4,288 views

    A FEW WORDS Imagine going into a bank, innocently filling out a withdrawal slip, and within minutes being arrested by the police. When Ron Schatz filled out a withdrawal slip in an American bank, he had no idea that handcuffs would soon be placed upon him. It took a while to straighten out the ...read more

  • Can't Call Him A Liar

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2010
     | 4,536 views

    CAN'T CALL HIM A LIAR During quail season in Georgia, an Atlanta journalist met an old farmer hunting with an ancient pointer at his side. Twice the dog ran rheumatically ahead and pointed. Twice his master fired into the open air. When the journalist saw no birds rise, he asked the farmer for an ...read more

  • The Artist And The Gardener

    Contributed by Matthew Carpenter on Apr 1, 2011
     | 2,842 views

    THE ARTIST AND THE GARDENER Both the artist and the gardener begin with contemplation, paying close attention to what is already there. The gardner looks carefully at the landscape; the existing plants, both flowers and weeds; the way the sun falls on the land, and so on. The artist regards their ...read more

  • The Old Rugged Cross

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 4, 2011
     | 1,751 views

    THE OLD RUGGED CROSS About an hour away from where I used to live in Coventry (England), there is a little village called Bredwardine. It is in the county of Herefordshire. A lady who attended the Anglican Church in that village died, and in her will she left some money for the Church. As well as ...read more

  • Flotsam And Jetsam

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 19, 2012
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    FLOTSAM AND JETSAM Flotsam and jetsam are commonly used terms. They are used to describe the wreckage and debris that floats in the water after a shipwreck. What isn't so well known is that there is a difference between flotsam and jetsam. Flotsam is anything that ends up in the water resulting ...read more

  • Is The Bible Relevant?

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 19, 2013
     | 2,312 views

    IS THE BIBLE RELEVANT? "As far as reliability is concerned, it's only fair to note that the Bible contains the best documented text of any volume in human history. Perhaps the most amazing support comes from the Dead Sea scrolls which were discovered in 1947 after lying in the Qumran caves for ...read more

  • The Hallmark

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,362 views

    "The Hallmark" Many of us can t tell fourteen caret gold from eighteen carat. Sone of us can t even tell gold plate from solid gold. In old London town the jewelers of Goldsmith’s Hall took pride in doing good work, and they wanted each customer to know what he was buying. a So they devised a ...read more

  • Two Hundred Years Ago, On 25th March 1807, The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,880 views

    Two hundred years ago, on 25th March 1807, the British parliament voted in favour of a law that would have consequences all around the known world. This new law was the abolition of human slavery. This act of 1807 was one of the most humanitarian pieces of legislation ever enacted in a British ...read more

  • For Centuries People Believed That Aristotle Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,173 views

    For centuries people believed that Aristotle was right when he said that the heavier an object, the faster it would fall to earth. Aristotle was regarded as the greatest thinker of all time, and surely he would not be wrong. Anyone, of course, could have taken two objects, one heavy and one light, ...read more

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