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  • I Don't Want To Test ...

    Contributed by Charles Jones on Oct 21, 2008
     | 2,002 views

    I don’t want to Test God I don’t want to reject God All I want is for Him to bring me into that place where I can hear his voice. We need to be real with God. Just like God called Adam from the midst of the Garden. And asked “ Where are you?” The Savior is calling today and saying Come unto ...read more

  • The Spirit Is Like The Wind

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 8, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,770 views

    THE SPIRIT IS LIKE THE WIND Dr. J. Henry Jowett, the well-known English preacher, was talking to an old salt about sailing a ship and he asked him, "Will you explain to me the phenomenon of the wind?" The seaman replied, "I don’t know what you mean, sir." Jowett persisted, "Well, how do you ...read more

  • Stones: Throw, Stumble Or Climb ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
     | 3,453 views

    STONES: THROW, STUMBLE OR CLIMB OVER This week, I read a common-sense statement by William Andrew Ward about the way we live together in our world: "We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them." The first three choices (throwing, stumbling and ...read more

  • Falling Asleep In Church

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 22, 2009
     | 3,604 views

    FALLING ASLEEP IN CHURCH Please don't think I'm complaining about folks who fall asleep in church. I understand some people can’t help it. I am convinced that some people fall asleep in church during the sermon because their have a physical ailment. Some folk must have a snooze button attached at ...read more

  • Don't Listen To Her

    Contributed by Doyle Hayes on Jul 7, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,742 views

    DON'T LISTEN TO HER A car tooling down the country road sputtered to a complete stop near a field filled with cows. The driver, getting out to see what was the matter, noticed a cow looking at him. "I believe it’s your radiator," said the cow. The startled man ran to the nearest farmhouse and ...read more

  • Discerning God's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
     | 5,443 views

    DISCERNING GOD’S WILL George Mueller’s recommended method for discerning God’s will: 1. Have no will of your own in the matter. (Mark 14:36) 2. Seek the will of God in direct connection with the Word of God (Psalm 119:33-35) 3. Circumstances will agree with the Word of God (Judges 6:36-40) 4. Ask ...read more

  • Two Friends Run Into Each Other While Walking ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009
     | 3,027 views

    Two friends run into each other while walking their dogs. One suggests lunch. The other says, "They won’t let us in a restaurant with pets." Undeterred, the first guy and his German shepherd head into the restaurant. The maître d’ stops them, saying, "Sir, you can’t bring your dog in here." "But ...read more

  • Richard Weaver Earned His Living In The Mines. ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 3, 2009
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    Richard Weaver earned his living in the mines. He was a Christian and wanted to lead his fellow workers to Christ. One co- worker began to hate Mr. Weaver. This man said, “I’m sick of your constant preaching. I’ve a good mind to smack you in the face!” “Go ahead if it will make you feel ...read more

  • A Shipwrecked Man Managed To Reach An Uninhabited ...

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
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    A shipwrecked man managed to reach an uninhabited island. There, to protect himself against the elements and to safeguard the few possessions he had salvaged, he painstakingly built a little hut from which he constantly and prayerfully scanned the horizon for the approach of a ship. Returning one ...read more

  • Life Begins At The Cross

    Contributed by James Mercer on Dec 8, 2009
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     | 5,406 views

    LIFE BEGINS AT THE CROSS We don’t begin to live until we believe on Jesus and receive this everlasting life. A popular book a generation ago was entitled, Life Begins at Forty, where the author sought to prove that a person just enters the prime of life at forty years of age. The new saying is ...read more

  • It Never Fails To Happen. You Are Just Sitting ...

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Dec 15, 2009
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    It never fails to happen. You are just sitting down to dinner, have just said the blessing and are ready to dive into your favorite meal and the phone rings. You answer to discover it is a telemarketer wanting to tell you that you have been chosen to receive a special opportunity. What really ...read more

  • My Older Sister Sue Is Panicked By Mice. She ...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 26, 2009
     | 2,466 views

    My older sister Sue is panicked by mice. She lives in an old farm house, next door to the house we grew up in. One night she went into her kitchen and saw a mouse scury underneath the pantry door. Wanted it eradicated, she called Dad who went over the house to take care of the problem. He was ...read more

  • How May We Be Forgiven? Some People May Think ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 11, 2010
     | 1,326 views

    How may we be forgiven? Some people may think they can outrun the judgment. A Spaniard committed a murder at a castle many years ago. He jumped upon a horse and rode wildly into the night. He rode for hours to escape. Finally, exhausted, he lay down to sleep for a couple of hours. When he awoke it ...read more

  • Start Of The Human Race  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Fa’atoia-Collins on May 13, 2010
    based on 7 ratings
     | 7,591 views

    START OF THE HUMAN RACE A little girl asked her mother, "How did the human race start?" The mother answered, "God made Adam and Eve and they had children, and so all mankind was made." Two days later, the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, "Many years ago, there were ...read more

  • A Professor At Cornell University Wrote This ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 22, 2010
     | 2,273 views

    A professor at Cornell University wrote this poem. I can’t decide if he were a disciple of Christ or an opponent. What was our trust, we trust not; What was our faith, we doubt. Whether we must or must not, We may debate about. The soul perhaps is a gust of gas, And wrong is a ...read more

  • The Importance Of Perspective  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,913 views

    THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSPECTIVE When I think of perspective I am often reminded of a conversation between me and my son in the summer he turned four. That spring, Mark had asked for a spot in the family garden to call his own. He turned the soil, broke the clumps, and planted his favorite ...read more

  • Starbucks Society

    Contributed by Erik Stadler on Jan 12, 2011
     | 1,718 views

    STARBUCKS SOCIETY Sometimes people describe today as the culture of "Starbucks" or the "iPod" society? We have been taught to look at ourselves as individuals, and the preferences of the individual are more important than the group. At Starbucks you can stand behind somebody and they can rattle I ...read more

  • Stoop As You Go Through The World  PRO

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jul 8, 2012
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    STOOP AS YOU GO THROUGH THE WORLD BENJAMIN FRANKLIN once described a visit he made as a young man to see the Puritan preacher Cotton Mather. Franklin recalled: "He was showing me out of the house, and there was a very low beam near the doorway. I was still talking when Mather began shouting, ...read more

  • Water! Water!  PRO

    Contributed by Clarence Clough on Oct 5, 2012
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     | 5,957 views

    "WATER! WATER!" After one of the great battles in the Civil War we were coming down the Tennessee River with a company of wounded men. It was in the spring of the year, and the water was not clear. You know that the cry of a wounded man is, "Water! Water!" especially in a hot country. I remember ...read more

  • Don't Be Impatient

    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 15, 2013
     | 4,658 views

    DON'T BE IMPATIENT When I was a teen-ager, my mom finally gave in to my dad. After mom and dad bought our Christmas, dad talked mom into allowing us to open the gifts days, sometimes weeks early. He couldn’t wait until we opened our gifts. The problem is that it took a lot of the joy out of ...read more