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  • Identity

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2011
     | 8,385 views

    IDENTITY Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France has proposed a decree that would ban anyone from wearing religious symbols of any kind. The decree is aimed particularly at forbidding Muslim women from wearing their traditional burqa with a full-faced veil. However the decree is broad enough that it ...read more

  • Driven By Hurt

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Feb 11, 2022
     | 1,739 views

    DRIVEN BY HURT! MIGHT I ADD A PREACHER’S PERSPECTIVE TO START THIS LESSON? BE KIND TO EVERY PERSON. PERHAPS YOU DO NOT KNOW THE PROBLEMS AND THE BATTLES OTHERS ARE FACING. A preacher friend of mine was having some self-doubts and fears he was facing. There was a rather large family that had ...read more

  • The Last Supper By Leonardo Da Vinci

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 21, 2025
     | 277 views

    Story: Leonardo da Vinci took seven years to paint his famous picture the "Last Supper". He used living people to depict the figures representing the Twelve Apostles and Christ. He started the fresco with Jesus Christ himself. It is reputed that he viewed hundreds and hundreds of ...read more

  • While On Vacation A Few Weeks Ago, I Was In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 16, 2001
    based on 86 ratings
     | 2,020 views

    While on vacation a few weeks ago, I was in the hotel room and, like the rest of the family, unwinding from the day’s travels and events. We had the TV on and a Promise Keepers commercial came on. Promise Keepers, I would remind us, is a wonderful organization, that reminds men of their God-given ...read more

  • Six Humans Trapped By Happenstance In Bleak And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 13, 2001
    based on 95 ratings
     | 2,138 views

    Six humans trapped by happenstance in bleak and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, or so the story goes. Their dying fire in need of logs, The first man held his back, For on the faces around the fire He noticed one was black. The next man looking across the way Saw one not of his ...read more

  • The Cold Within  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 24, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,848 views

    THE COLD WITHIN Six humans trapped by happenstance in bleak and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, or so the story goes. Their dying fire in need of logs, the first man held his back, for on the faces around the fire he noticed one was black. The next man looking across the way saw ...read more

  • I Will Save You  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,585 views

    I WILL SAVE YOU John Piper puts it this way: If we only knew it, every one of us is stranded on an ice face in Greenland, and the wind is blowing fiercely. Our position is so precarious that even if we inhale too deeply our weight will shift and we will plunge to our destruction. God comes to us ...read more

  • I Don't Know How I Feel About The Christmas Lexus ...  PRO

    Contributed by Fred Mueller on Dec 13, 2002
    based on 39 ratings
     | 2,763 views

    I don’t know how I feel about the Christmas Lexus commercials. Have you seen them? In a series of vignettes, a key to a new Lexus is given to a very surprised and very pleased wife or husband. IN one instance, the husband has the family dog take the ribbon holding the keys to his wife. In ...read more

  • One Of Us?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,123 views

    ONE OF US? One of 1995’s biggest singles was Joan Osborne’s “One of Us.” The song earned 7 Grammy Award nominations, and made a virtually unknown singer an overnight sensation. It’s a song of spiritual questioning and about conceiving of God in a modern age. These are some of the words of that ...read more

  • Many People Find Doing God's Will Hard. Rosa ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 18, 2007
     | 1,407 views

    Many people find doing God’s will hard. Rosa Parks found it hard when she was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man. It is difficult to imagine such an arrest taking place today, just a little over 50 years later. But that is because her simple act of ...read more

  • Grace: It Really Is Amazing! Series: Part 1: An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,633 views

    Grace: It Really Is Amazing! Series: Part 1: An Amazing 5 Letter Word. February 18, 2007 Castalia Baptist Church. Ephesians 2: 1-10 The story is told of a Queen who had a young daughter who was faced with a deadly illness. The doctors told the Queen that she needed to stay away from her daughter’s ...read more

  • We Need Forgiveness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
     | 2,215 views

    We need forgiveness -Others may remember all your faults but friends forgive A story tells that two friends were walking through a desert. During some point in the journey, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying ...read more

  • A Lady In The North Of England Said That Every ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 6, 2009
     | 1,622 views

    A lady in the north of England said that every time she got down before God to pray, five bottles of wine came up before her mind. She had taken them wrongfully one time when she was a housekeeper, and had not been able to pray since. She was advised to make restitution. "But the person is dead," ...read more

  • Bryon's Story

    Contributed by Arron Chambers on Dec 21, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,160 views

    BRYON'S STORY Do you know that Jesus is still in the life-changing business? Bryon Widner does. Bryon used to be one of the leaders of the white power movement as the found of the Vinlanders gang of skinheads. He’d covered his body and face with tattoos that were designed to communicate hate and ...read more

  • I Want To Be Pretty  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jan 24, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,433 views

    I WANT TO BE PRETTY "I want to be pretty." This is the title of a popular tv program that was airing when we lived in Poland. It was a reality tv show in which in every episode you follow the changes of two women who are the heroes of the program. Each of these women work with a team of ...read more

  • Wayne A. Lamb In 100 Meditations On Hope, Shares ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,174 views

    Wayne A. Lamb in 100 Meditations on Hope, shares this story: “In the midst of a storm, a little bird was clinging to the limb of a tree, seemingly calm and unafraid. As the wind tore at the limbs of the tree, the bird continued to look the storm in the face, as if to say, ‘Shake me off; I sill have ...read more

  • There Was A Little Boy Who Was Asked By His ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,496 views

    There was a little boy who was asked by his father if he would move a fairly large stone in the backyard. The boy said, "Yes, I’ll do it. I’ll try." He tried very hard, but he couldn’t budge the stone. The father said, "Son, give it all you’ve got." He tried again and strained very hard. The ...read more

  • Above It All

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Feb 6, 2008
     | 1,272 views

    When the problems in my life seem to get the best of me when the mountains that I face are all that I can see that’s when I call His name that’s when I look above to a place within His presence where I’m surrounded by His love He is above it all that’s where I long to be for when I’m at His ...read more

  • He Still Loves ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 21, 2008
     | 2,093 views

    “He Still Loves Us” It is said that one of the most distinguished statesmen of the times of the American Revolution was once a hopeless drunkard. He had been engaged to a beautiful girl, but his indulgence had compelled her to break the engagement and sever herself from his influence, which was ...read more

  • Calling Me Home

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Feb 13, 2023
     | 1,211 views

    I want you all to go back in time with me for a moment when you were a child. We didn’t have xbox, or playstation, or video games. We actually went outside and played face to face with our friends. If you were like me, you'd gather with your friends in the neighborhood and would be out most ...read more