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  • Nothing But The Blood  PRO

    Contributed by Vernon Price on Apr 10, 2012
    based on 5 ratings
     | 8,644 views

    NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD One night in a church service a young woman felt the tug of God at her heart. She responded to God's call and accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior. The young woman had a very rough past, involving alcohol, drugs, and prostitution. But, the change in her was evident. As ...read more

  • Moody Loses His Temper  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 4, 2001
    based on 79 ratings
     | 2,515 views

    Illus.: “Moody Loses His Temper” One time D. L. Moody was lecturing and a theological student asked a question. Moody snapped back at him. At the end of his talk he paused and confessed, “Friends, I want to confess before you that I made a great mistake at the beginning of this meeting. I ...read more

  • Everybody Longs For Freedom. But For Many ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 29, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,880 views

    Everybody longs for freedom. But for many people its pursuit leads to bondage. The greatly loved Bible teacher Henrietta Mears knew the secret of true freedom, and she wanted her students to know it too. With young people in mind, she said, "A bird is free in the air. Place a bird in the water ...read more

  • Close With Story Of Old Man In Poor House Years ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Nov 2, 2006
     | 1,101 views

    Close with story of old man in poor house years ago with Baptist young preacher fresh out of Bible College. It was his first encounter with an old dying person. The man was lost, he confessed he was a great sinner and what could he do? The young preacher said his mind when blank, then the Lord ...read more

  • Living In Darkness  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Nov 5, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,726 views

    CHILREN’S SERMON I once heard about a confrontation between a young boy and his mother. The mother asked her son, "Young man, there were two cookies in the pantry this morning! May I ask how it happened that there’s only one now?" The boy didn’t flinch but said, "It must’ve been so dark I didn’t ...read more

  • According To The National Highway Traffic Safety ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Jan 5, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,241 views

    According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 6,390 young people ages 15-20 died in motor vehicle crashes in the year 2,000? Of them alcohol was involved in 2,339 deaths. And as related to drivers – 3,594 young drivers ages 15-20 died in motor vehicle crashes in 2,000 and of ...read more

  • Too Much Like Hell

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 22, 2011
     | 4,138 views

    TOO MUCH LIKE HELL A young American lawyer boasted that he was going West to find some place where there were no churches, no Sunday schools, no Bibles. Before the year was over, he wrote to a classmate, a young minister, begging him to come out where he was and start a Sunday school and preach, ...read more

  • Bag Of Candy

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 27, 2008
     | 2,448 views

    BAG OF CANDY A young boy was arrested and brought before the judge for taking a bag of candy from the shelf of a local store. The owner of the store pressed charges because he wanted the boy to learn a lesson. After a lecture from the judge, the judge asked the young boy if he had anything to ...read more

  • There Was A Man Who Was Born On August 19, 1843 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Sep 11, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,182 views

    There was a man who was born on August 19, 1843 near Clinton, Michigan. When he was 17 years old he moved to his sister’s home in Tennessee where he enlisted in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He got out of the army a year later in 1862 and he went to St. Louis to study law. On ...read more

  • Time Magazine's Cover Story This Month Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 24, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,052 views

    Time magazine’s cover story this month was entitled, “Does God Want You to Be Rich?” The header said, “A growing number of Protestant evangelicals raise a joyful Yes!” The article opens with the story of George Adams, a man from Ohio who had lost his factory job. His reaction to the job loss ...read more

  • Bible Readers Change The World  PRO

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,896 views

    BIBLE READERS CHANGE THE WORLD If you’ve read anything by Charles Dickens, you know how terrible conditions were in 18th century England. There were no child labor laws, so children as young as age four were put to work up to 12 hours a day in dangerous factories and sent into the corners of coal ...read more

  • What Do Little Girls Talk About? What Is Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,205 views

    "What do little girls talk about? What is their mystic theme? Those still too young for ...read more

  • The Best Thing About Growing Old Is That All ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,087 views

    The best thing about growing old is that all those things you couldn't have when you ...read more

  • Dl Moody Was A Great Evangelist From Chicago. He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Cox on Nov 4, 2000
    based on 120 ratings
     | 2,971 views

    DL Moody was a great evangelist from Chicago. He went to England once and met a young man there that wanted to preach in his church. Moody agreed thinking that he would never see him again. To his dismay he recieved a letter that said the young man would be in his town shorlty and wanted to take ...read more

  • How Much Knowledge  PRO

    Contributed by Martin Scarce on Nov 25, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 4,098 views

    How Much Knowledge A young university graduate crossed a large river on a barge. An elderly, worn, gentleman was driving the barge. The university student asked the old man three questions: 1) “Do you know anything about physics?” “Nope”, replied the old man. “Then 1/3 of your life has been ...read more

  • You And I Have Within Ourselves The Resources ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Nov 1, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,530 views

    You and I have within ourselves the resources for achieving amazing things if we do not allow our problems to overwhelm us. You may know the story of a young Hungarian athlete in the 1952 Olympics who won a gold medal with his ability to shoot a pistol. His right hand and eye coordination were so ...read more

  • Father Will Be Angry

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Jun 14, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,635 views

    FATHER WILL BE ANGRY The story is told of a young boy was driving a big hayrack down the road and it turned over right in front of a farmer's house. The farmer came out and saw the young boy crying and said, "Son, don't worry about this, we can fix it. Right now dinner's ready. Why don't you come ...read more

  • Forgive And Forget

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 15, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,802 views

    FORGIVE AND FORGET There's a wonderful story about the cardinal of the Philippines, named, oddly enough, Cardinal Sin. When Cardinal Sin was a bishop, a young woman in his parish claimed that she had visions of Jesus. Bishop Sin was given the task of determining if these visions were authentic. He ...read more

  • Timanthes And The Do-Over

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 5, 2013
     | 2,418 views

    TIMANTHES AND THE DO-OVER Over 2,000 years ago a young Greek artist named Timanthes (Tim-an-thes) painted this picture - The Sacrifice of Iphigenia. Before he painted this masterpiece when the artist Timanthes (Tim-an-thes) was a young man, he studied under a well-known and highly respected tutor. ...read more

  • An Undertaker Ask A Local New Minister To Preach ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 21, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,960 views

    An undertaker ask a local new minister to preach a funeral for a person of no friends, money, or known relatives. The funeral director felt so bad already at the cheap coffin. The new minister responded gladly. The directions were vague and 8 miles into a wooded area and set for 2pm. Panically, ...read more