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  • One Cold [winter] Day A Snail Started Climbing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,392 views

    "One cold [winter] day a snail started climbing an apple tree. As he inched slowly upward, a worm stuck its head from a crevice in the bark to offer some advice. You're wasting your energy. There isn't a single apple up ...read more

  • Elvis Soothed By Gospel Music

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Jan 13, 2012
     | 2,316 views

    ELVIS SOOTHED BY GOSPEL MUSIC Elvis used to stay up all night singing gospel songs. He once said, "We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We ...read more

  • The Picture Series Are Frozen Both In Time And In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Jan 12, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,628 views

    The picture series are frozen both in time and in memory. The scene unfolds from the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Two runners, one American, the other from South Africa, although of British descent. The starter’s pistol fires and around the track the runners race for the finishing line. ...read more

  • The Parable Of The Dragonfly

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 11,238 views

    THE PARABLE OF THE DRAGONFLY Down below the surface of a quiet pond lived a little colony of water bugs. They were a happy colony, living far away from the sun. For many months they were very busy, scurrying over the soft mud on the bottom of the pond. They did notice that every once in a while ...read more

  • There Was A Priest In Dublin Who Explained The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jane White on Dec 6, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,565 views

    There was a priest in Dublin who explained the difference between this life and the next life by talking about the life of the dragonfly. At the bottom of the pond little grubs were crawling around. They wonder what happens to their members who climb up the stem of the lily and never come back. ...read more

  • Attitude Is Everything  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 24, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
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    Attitude Is Everything. There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. "Well," she said, "I think I’ll braid my hair today." So she did and she had a wonderful day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that ...read more

  • Two Longstanding Church Members Were Out In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,143 views

    Two longstanding church members were out in their boat fishing and they had taken a new Christian with them that day. They were discussing their faith and their devotion to God. As they were talking, one man’s hat blew into the water. So he stood up, calmly stepped onto the water, walked over to ...read more

  • Attitude Is Everything  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 22 ratings
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    Attitude Is Everything. There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. "Well," she said, "I think I’ll braid my hair today." So she did and she had a wonderful day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that ...read more

  • The Unthankful Pig

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 6, 2022
     | 1,614 views

    HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE LESSON OF THE PIG? Seems a big fat pig is roaming around the forest and finds all likes of delicious juicy acorns on the ground. The acorns are strewn on the ground. The pig eats and eats the acorns until the acorns are gone. The pig takes a long nap. When the pig wakes up ...read more

  • The Story Of The Chair

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 22, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,098 views

    Those of you who have heard of Evangelism Explosion by D. James Kennedy know the illustration of the chair. You know, a person can say ‘Yes, I see that chair. That’s a chair. I acknowledge that’s a chair. I believe that’s a chair. And I think that chair could hold me up if I sat in it.’ But ...read more

  • A Little Boy Was Trying To Get To Sleep But Was ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Dec 2, 2007
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    A little boy was trying to get to sleep but was frightened. He shouted down from the bedroom, ‘Dad, it’s dark up here and I’m scared.’ His father shouted back, ‘Don’t be afraid. God is with you.’ After a few second’s pause, the boy yelled again: ‘Get ...read more

  • Ashamed Of Myself

    Contributed by Robert Drake on Feb 21, 2009
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    ASHAMED OF MYSELF A young man got up to give his testimony for Christ at a tent meeting. He was not very accustomed to speaking in public, and he stumbled over his words quite a bit. An atheist in the back of the crowd yelled, "You should be ashamed of yourself, standing up there and ...read more

  • All That Work For What?

    Contributed by Tim White on Jun 19, 2009
     | 1,353 views

    ALL THAT WORK FOR WHAT? In November 1975, 75 convicts started digging a secret tunnel designed to bring them up at the other side of the wall of Saltillo Prison in northern Mexico. On April 18, 1976, guided by pure genius, they tunneled up into the nearby courtroom in which many of them ...read more

  • Two Young Boys Were Out In A Large Field Playing ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 6, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
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    Two young boys were out in a large field playing hide and seek. As the first boy leaned against a tree covering his eyes and counting to 100, the other boy ran across the field and climbed up into another tree to hide. Just then the first boy reached 100 and he yelled out, “ready or not here I ...read more

  • One Evening Mother Was Busy Fixing Supper. Her ...  PRO

    Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 5, 2004
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    One evening mother was busy fixing supper. Her little boy came up to her and gave her a piece of paper. She dries her hands on her apron and reads. For cutting the grass: $5.00 For cleaning up my room this week: $1.00 For going to the store for you: $.50 Baby-sitting my kid brother while ...read more

  • The Pastor Of A Church That Didn't Have The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Feb 4, 2008
    based on 32 ratings
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    The pastor of a church that didn’t have the reputation for being very generous with their giving decided that it was time to do something drastic in order to teach the congregation the importance of giving. He contacted an electrician and had all of the pews wired. The next Sunday which was the ...read more

  • One Day A Farmer's Donkey Fell Down Into A Well. ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
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    One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to try and retrieve the donkey. So, he invited all his ...read more

  • Chutzpah– Obnoxious Aggressiveness

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 8, 2009
    based on 1 rating
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    CHUTZPAH– Obnoxious Aggressiveness Are you familiar with the Yiddish word "chutzpah"? It means "supreme self-confidence, boldness, nerve, audacity." Esther Schwartz was in front of a hotel in Miami with her three-year-old grandson, Jacob. She absolutely adores Jacob. She bought precious little ...read more

  • Faith Fights  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
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    FAITH FIGHTS Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. I heard a story about a midwestern farmer 50 years ago. The farmer went to the bank to borrow money to buy seed to plant his whole farm in corn. He fired up the old tractor ...read more

  • You're The Best  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,543 views

    YOU’RE THE BEST My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you’ll be a general; if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. SOURCE: Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist. Citation: Celebrating Mother: A Book ...read more