Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2002
based on 5 ratings
| 2,415 views
UNSATISFIED
French author, Guy de Maupassant was one of the greatest writers of short stories the world has ever known. Within ten years he rose from relative obscurity to fame. Just what he thought he’d always wanted. His material possessions showed a life of affluence…a yacht in the
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Paul Stokes on Dec 20, 2005
based on 1 rating
| 1,840 views
It’s official. RoSPA - The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - has issued regular warnings about a whole range of hazards just waiting to happen... all of them arising from what you thought were innocent, Christmas-related activities or accessories. On Christmas Day in 2003 more than
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 22, 2006
based on 2 ratings
| 3,491 views
millionaire /giving is not a one time enrollment fee but daily we must belong to the Lord
I Dare You to Do It Again
A little church was having a homecoming service to which ex-members, who had moved away, were invited. One of the former members had become a millionaire. When asked to speak, the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Fred Parker on Dec 15, 2007
based on 2 ratings
| 2,049 views
Babe Ruth …The Great Bambino
One of the all-time greats in baseball was Babe Ruth. His bat had the power of a cannon, and his record of 714 home runs remained unbroken until Hank Aaron came along. The Babe was the idol of sports fans, but in time, age took its toll, and his popularity began to
...read more
Denomination:
Apostolic
PLAYING AT RELIGION
An elderly man visited a church during a business meeting. After a number of reports were presented, the chairman of the evangelism committee stood and solemnly stated that there were 200 homes in their county without a Bible.
There was a moment of silence, and then the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Chris Supper on Nov 3, 2010
FINISHING THE RACE
August 1992. Derrick Redmond from Great Britain was favored to win the 400-meter race during the summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, but as he powered around the backstretch, his hamstring snapped. Redmond tried desperately to finish the race, but he still had half the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 17, 2011
HELD UP BY OUR FATHER
3-year old Tyler felt secure in his dad's arms as Dad stood in the middle of the pool. But Dad, for fun, began walking slowly toward the deeper end, gently chanting, "Deeper and deeper and deeper," as the water rose higher and higher on Tyler.
Tyler's face registered
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Larry Turner on Jul 15, 2012
based on 3 ratings
| 2,758 views
DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE
Today I make this day my Dependence Day by making this declaration;
Declaration of Dependence
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for an individual to dissolve the sinful bond which has connected them to a sinful ruler; they should declare the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Foursquare
Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
MAKING THE WRONG RIGHT
Many years ago, Christian professor Stuart Blackie of the University of Edinburgh was listening to his students as they presented oral readings. When one young man rose to begin his recitation, he held his book in the wrong hand. The professor thundered, "Take your book in
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Jeeva Sam on Mar 20, 2001
based on 242 ratings
| 10,642 views
Late one summer evening in Broken Bow, Nebraska, a weary truck driver pulled his rig into an all-night truck stop. The waitress had just served him when three tough looking, leather jacketed motorcyclists - of the Hell’s Angels type - decided to give him a hard time. Not only did they verbally
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by James O. Davis on Dec 5, 2001
based on 13 ratings
| 3,784 views
Years ago, William Edward Perry, a famous English explorer, mapped out most of the Souther Polar Cap. Many of his maps are still being used today by those who travel to that desolate, sub-zero continent. On one particular expedition, he and his crew having completed mapping an uncharted region,
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2002
based on 4 ratings
| 1,713 views
Anne Sullivan was born at Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, in poverty, in affliction. She was half-blind. When her mother died she was sent to the poorhouse. As was common in those days when a person didn’t have any relatives that would take them into their home.
- Then, at the Perkins
...read more
based on 44 ratings
| 1,672 views
We need to look at storms and painful scenarios in a different light. Possibly God’s light? Wirt helps us to see through a difference lens in his book Jesus Man of Joy.Sherwood Wirt has this to say about the positive side of pain:
Pain does have this positive value. It will bring to halt our
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
based on 5 ratings
| 4,750 views
"TO JESUS ON HIS BIRTHDAY"
The American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote a biting, ironic poem called "To Jesus on His Birthday." Surely none of us can deny guilt in some of the areas it includes in its brief scope:
For this, your mother sweated in the cold,
For this you bled upon the
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 3 ratings
| 4,546 views
In England in 1649, Charles I was executed, and Lord John Culpepper was entrusted to protect Charles II. Forced into exile during twelve years of Oliver Cromwell’s reforms and bloodhsed. FInally, just before Culpepper’s own death Charles II was to return to reign over the Monarcy. When it was
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 19, 2007
Last summer when I was working at the seminary on grounds crew, I was put in charge of a special task. I was to oversee the labor of three other workers. We were suppose to clean up the yard for our new Dean of Student Life. There were a lot of different plants growing in a bed around the front of
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Sermon Central