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  • A Game To Rest  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 16, 2002
    based on 15 ratings
     | 5,422 views

    A GAME TO REST A father had three very active boys. One summer evening, he was playing cops and robbers in the back yard after dinner. One of the boys "shot" his father and yelled, "Bang! You’re dead!" He slumped to the ground and when he didn’t get up right away, a neighbor ran over to see if ...read more

  • Have You Been Good?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2002
    based on 60 ratings
     | 2,868 views

    My pastor friend, Danny Moss, recent- ly told about the time he ’played Santa’ in a mall in Meridian, MS. Danny said he had children come through with up to thirty things on their ’want list.’ But one small boy really got his attention. Danny said, "I asked him if he’d been a good boy?" It’s a ...read more

  • Honesty Does Not Come From Out Of Nowhere. It Is ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 25, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,808 views

    Honesty does not come from out of nowhere. It is a product of your moral convictions. But what do you do when your convictions are challenged? It is faith that gives you the strength to go on believing. Though I am a Christian, I respect the religions of others, and I think that they play a vital ...read more

  • Never Really Connected  PRO

    Contributed by Ervin Kimrey on May 21, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,428 views

    NEVER REALLY CONNECTED One night I saw my 7 year old daughter walking around with a cell phone. She was talking away. She would ask questions, wait for a reply, and give answers to apparent questions: "Yes...no...maybe...I’ll have to check on that..." and so on. Finally, worried about the bill ...read more

  • What If Porcupines Could Dance? They Are God's ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Aug 2, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,045 views

    What if porcupines could dance? They are God’s idea of the animal kingdom’s version of a cactus. Imagine a cactus gliding, twirling around the ballroom as the orchestra plays a waltz. Or look at that cactus in an embrace of the tango - striding, dipping, heads bobbing to the music. Cheek-to-cheek. ...read more

  • Growing Up Too Fast Youth Are Maturing At An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 2,433 views

    Growing Up Too Fast Youth are maturing at an accelerated pace. Preschoolers are playing with toys that would have been considered suitable for an 11-year-old a decade ago. A Sesame Street Parents survey finds moms with kids under 12 are more afraid of exposing kids to pop media-dictated pop-culture ...read more

  • Research Psychologists Have ...

    Contributed by Craige Lebreton on Feb 22, 2006
     | 1,845 views

    Illustration: Research psychologists have found there are at least three situations when we do not act like ourselves. First, the average person puts on airs when he visits the lobby of a fancy hotel. Next, the typical Jane Doe will try to hide her emotions and bamboozle the salesman when she ...read more

  • Some Of Us Are Like The Preacher Who Was On A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 3, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,819 views

    Some of us are like the preacher who was on a diet and prayed as he drove to work- "Now, Lord if it is your Will for me not to have any donuts this morning You make sure there are no parking places in front of the donut shop." And he later said, "I ate the donuts because there were two places right ...read more

  • I Am Reminder Here Of A Church Nursery, The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gary Huckaby on Mar 5, 2003
    based on 52 ratings
     | 1,700 views

    I am reminder here of a Church nursery, The Church had a speaker located in the nursery so the ladies could hear the preachers sermon, as they worked with the children. Often during the sermon, the preacher would raise his voice in a loud tone in order to get his message point across. In the ...read more

  • Dr. Pierce Harris, A Pastor From Atlanta, ...

    Contributed by Sharon Stonestreet on Dec 15, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,830 views

    Dr. Pierce Harris, a pastor from Atlanta, Georgia, preached to some prisoners. One of the prisoners got up and introduced him th the others with these words: “Several years ago, two boys lived in a town in north Georgia. They went to the same school, played together and attended the same Sunday ...read more

  • A New York Times Examination Of Lottery ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,716 views

    A New York Times examination of lottery documents, as well as interviews with lottery administrators and analysts, finds that lotteries accounted for less than 1% to 5% of the total revenue for K-12 education last year in the 23 states that use lottery money for schools. Most of the money raised by ...read more

  • Why Would The Angel Talk To You?

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 24, 2012
     | 2,334 views

    There's conversation in the Peanuts comic strip between Peppermint Patty and her friend Marcie. They are walking to school and Peppermint Patty says, "I'm going to ask the teacher if I can be Mary in the Christmas play this year." Marcie answers, "She already asked me, sir." Patty continues, ...read more

  • Jim Lopardo Tells This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 2,782 views

    Jim Lopardo tells this story: I was a percussion major when I was in college, and during a rehearsal of the student orchestra, my section kept making mistakes. "When you’re too dumb to play anything," the professor conducting us sneered, "they give you a couple of sticks, put you in the back and ...read more

  • If It Moves, Sin!

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Dec 4, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,989 views

    Chuck Swindoll writes: “One of my favorite stories comes from a man who used to be in our church. He and his wife were close friends of our family, but they have now moved to another part of the country. We really miss their joyful presence. When he was a youth worker many years ago in an ethnic ...read more

  • 2. Gary Thomas, A Friend Of Rick Warren, Noticed ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jan 6, 2004
    based on 23 ratings
     | 3,658 views

    2. Gary Thomas, a friend of Rick Warren, noticed that many Christians were stuck in a worship rut. He raised the question, “Since God has intentionally made us all different, why should everyone be expected to love (worship) God the same way?”(1) Gary has discovered that for 2,000 years Christians ...read more

  • A 2 A.m. Miracle – Joni Eareckson Tada

    Contributed by Greg Buchner on Oct 11, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 26,817 views

    “A 2 a.m. Miracle” – Joni Eareckson Tada It was 2 a.m. and Ken, my husband was snoring softly beside me, not aware that I was biting my lip to keep from waking him up. The combination of my paralysis with middle-of-the-night insomnia always makes me feel claustrophobic. But this was different. The ...read more

  • 9998; When Was The Last Time You Fed A Baby ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on May 8, 2003
    based on 29 ratings
     | 3,707 views

    ✎ When was the last time you fed a baby oatmeal? Peaches or applesauce? How about my all time favorite green beans or peas? Regardless of what you may be serving when your baby does not want to eat his or her entire body gets engaged in the struggle. The jaws become cast iron letting ...read more

  • Andrew Was A Grown Man, But Had Some Real Trouble ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,328 views

    Andrew was a grown man, but had some real trouble adjusting to the adult world. He had a pleasant simplicity that many mistakened for a slowness of mind. One day he came to me upset because his bike had been stolen for the second time. I told him about the time someone had stolen my favorite ...read more

  • There Is A Neat Feature On Windows Xp…it's Called ...  PRO

    Contributed by Art Good on Jun 8, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,413 views

    There is a neat feature on Windows XP…it’s called “System restore”. Here’s how it works… Suppose you suffer a system crash on Thursday, you downloaded a bad program or something…You’re not a computer expert and you aren’t sure how to recover the last 2 weeks of financial information you had saved ...read more

  • Birdy, Birdy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,334 views

    Birdy, Birdy One of my favorite memories of my time serving as a youth pastor, was in the mid 1980’s when I took a group of teenagers to a nursing home in Arkadelphia, AR. While there, we sang songs to the residents, we shared a testimony of how Christ touched our life, and then, a young man in ...read more

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