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  • O Let Him ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Mar 19, 2009
     | 911 views

    “O Let Him In!” A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son. Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen and when the small boy came in from school, he ...read more

  • Jim Elliot And The Ecuadorian Indians

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 19, 2009
     | 4,781 views

    JIM ELLIOT AND THE ECUADORIAN INDIANS Jim Elliot was an American. He became a Christian at a young age and after university he became a missionary in Ecuador, South America. He, with a few other young missionaries wanted to reach a tribe of Indians who lived in a remote region beyond ...read more

  • Oh, Let Him In!

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Dec 25, 2010
     | 2,128 views

    OH, LET HIM IN! A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son. Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen, and when the small boy came in from school, ...read more

  • A Lesson From A Light Bulb  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 5, 2012
    based on 5 ratings
     | 9,339 views

    A LESSON FROM A LIGHT BULB A missionary in Africa lived in his central mission which had a small generator to supply current for his church and a small rectory. Some natives from an outlying mission came to visit the pastor. They noticed the electric light hanging from the ceiling of his living ...read more

  • Go Get Your Mother!

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 27, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,179 views

    GO GET YOUR MOTHER! One of my favorite stories of a door is the story of the Amish boy and his father who went to the big city for the very first time. They were amazed by everything they saw. Having grown up and lived all their lives on a rural farm everything was completely new to them. The ...read more

  • The People There Were A Labor Of Love For Paul, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,041 views

    The people there were a labor of love for Paul, and now, it looked like things might fall apart because of some insignificant argument or offense. Have you ever been there? You’ve put your heart and soul into some project or person, and something so small that it goes unnoticed or ignored gets in ...read more

  • Business Is Always Good

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 29, 2008
     | 2,086 views

    BUSINESS IS ALWAYS GOOD I had a man in my last congregation who was in the snack business. He was part of a small company which supplied chips and pretzels and the like to mini markets and various retail outlets. One afternoon I asked Albert how business was, good or bad, up or down. He looked at ...read more

  • I Got You

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Oct 2, 2021
     | 2,258 views

    I like to take my dogs places with me. They have their own seats in the back seat of my pickup. I have a small elderly dog named Bambi who has always had anxiety, I think from having to survive on her own when she lived in the streets as a tiny little thing with no one to feed or care for her. A ...read more

  • Bring A Bigger Basket!

    Contributed by Joshua Blackmon on Mar 12, 2022
     | 2,230 views

    "A missionary in Africa had a farm some miles from the mission station. The season had been very favorable, and he had a large crop of corn on the mission farm. When the crop was ready to harvest, he made a public appeal to the Africans, asking them to help him carry his corn from the farm to ...read more

  • A Light In The Dark

    Contributed by Carl Allen on Jul 8, 2022
     | 3,973 views

    While leaving in Germany, I had the fortune of going camping in the black forest. I found out quickly why they call it the black forest. When the sun goes down it is pitch black and you can barely see your hand in front of your face. We had just finished setting up camp and I had to run back out ...read more

  • Root Bound

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 27, 2026
     | 77 views

    CONCLUSION: Many years ago I was in Illinois and was in a discussion with my father-in-law. He told me about this huge apple orchard. There were 10,000 trees, 5,000 red, and 5,000 yellow apple trees. I asked to go visit it. When we got there the owner had a hand drill and was drilling several holes ...read more

  • Max Lucado, In No Wonder They Call Him The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 7,848 views

    Max Lucado, in No Wonder They Call Him the Savior, tells the story of Maria and her daughter Christina. Longing to leave her poor Brazilian neighborhood, Christina wanted to see the world. Discontent living at home having only a pallet on the floor, a washbasin, and a wood-burning stove, she ...read more

  • The Visited Planet,

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 14, 2009
     | 7,374 views

    “The Visited Planet,” by J.B. Phillips Once upon a time a very young angel was being shown round the splendours and glories of the universes by a senior and experienced angel. To tell the truth, the little angel was beginning to be tired and a little bored. He had been shown whirling galaxies and ...read more

  • Dr. Garl Restored My Sight!  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 17, 2001
    based on 31 ratings
     | 4,114 views

    “Dr. Garl Restored My Sight!” There was this soft-spoken man who was a commuter on the Long Island Railroad—on the five o’clock local. Every evening, after the train had left the subway, he would begin a journey through the car from front to back. At each seat he would stop and say, “Excuse me. ...read more

  • The Great Violinist, Nicolo ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 12, 2002
     | 1,293 views

    Illustration:The great violinist, Nicolo Paganini, willed his marvelous violin to Genoa -- the city of his birth -- but only on condition that the instrument never be played upon. It was an unfortunate condition, for it is a peculiarity of wood that as long as it is used and handled, it shows ...read more

  • A Well Known American Internist And A Growing ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Sep 26, 2002
    based on 56 ratings
     | 1,574 views

    A well known American internist and a growing body of medical specialist say, 90% of the chronic patients they treat illnesses started not with a cough or cold but with fear. Fear of losing a job, of old age, of money troubles, or of being exposed. Sometimes the fear is nothing more than a ...read more

  • Never Mourn Over Unbelief As If It Were Only A ...

    Contributed by Steve Lucas on Jul 30, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,071 views

    Never mourn over unbelief as if it were only a weakness which you cannot help. As God’s child, how ever weak you may be, you have the power to believe for the Spirit of God is in you. You have only to keep in mind this: No one apprehends anything before that he has the power to believe. He must ...read more

  • Teach Creationism: 64% Of Americans Say That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,570 views

    Teach Creationism: 64% of Americans say that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools according to a new Pew Forum on Religion poll. 38% favor replacing evolution with creationism. The poll found that 42% hold strict creationist views (living things have existed in their ...read more

  • The Noted Chinese Christian, Watchmen Nee, Had ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 14, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,170 views

    The noted Chinese Christian, Watchmen Nee, had this to say about knowing truth: “The normal Christian life must begin with a very definite ‘knowing,’ which is not just knowing something about the truth nor understanding some important doctrine. It’s not an intellectual knowledge at all, but an ...read more

  • When We Pray For Other People And Focus On Their ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,516 views

    When we pray for other people and focus on their needs and concerns we are involved in a significant form of volunteerism – we are investing our time in the lives of other people and when we do that, personal benefits are returned to us. We begin to feel a sense of value and purpose when we are ...read more