Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
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A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. "There is a mousetrap in the house! There
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A Mouse Story.
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. "There is a mousetrap in
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 1, 2004
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From Sermonillustrations.com
Someone once wrote and asked Emily Post, the etiquette expert of another generation, "What is the correct procedure when one is invited to the White House but has a previous engagement?"
Replied Post, "An invitation to
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Tony Miano on Feb 24, 2001
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In Preaching Today, Leith Anderson wrote the following.
“My family and I have lived in the same house for seventeen years. We’ve lived there more than twice as long as I have lived at any other address in my entire life. I’ll sometimes refer to it as ‘our house,’ but more often I refer to it as
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"One of the first things a physician says to his patient is, Let me see your tongue. A spiritual
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I once heard about two sisters who after inheriting their parents home, lived together. This arrangement worked out well until one of the sisters got her feelings hurt by the other one and they fought back and forth until they decided they had to divide the house in two and not speak to each other
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 16, 2009
Ministry Area Profile 2006 -- Compass Report 10/24/2006
Estimated 2006 households likely to be primarily concerned with:
The Basics: Maintaining personal health – 42.6%
Hopes and Dreams:
1) Achieving long-term financial security – 56.8%
2) Finding time for recreation/leisure – 31.7%
3) Other
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Baptist
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 23, 2002
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One good way to think of baptism is to consider it a “signing of a contract” between you and God. If you were to buy a house, you would be required to sit down with the sellers of the home and approve a contract. To show your approval, you would be required to sign your name at the bottom of the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
A door-to-door salesman is selling encyclopaedias. He knocks on the door of a house and when the man of the house answers, the salesman begins to expound the virtues of his product. He hasn’t got very far into his sales pitch when the prospective customer says, “It’s no good to me mate, I don’t
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Timothy Peck on Feb 1, 2001
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In 1849 a wagon train was traveling through Death Valley to follow the gold rush into California. As this particular wagon train trudged through Death Valley, the hottest place in California, they looked ahead and saw a sheet of water they all believed was Owen’s Lake. But it was just a mirage
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Jan 20, 2003
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Charles Swindoll lists what he calls the "four spiritual flaws":
Flaw #1: Because you are a Christian, all your problems are solved. (Please do tell non-Christian this.)
Flaw # 2: All the problems you will ever have are addressed in the Bible. (When your computer crashes, please don’t go to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Watermelon seed
In my first pastorate in Alabama, we had a Sunday night watermelon fellowship. We fellowshipped together eating watermelon. During our time, we began a watermelon seed-spitting contest. Unknown to us, a few seed made their way into the soil between a brick wall and the driveway. A
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Contributed by Fran Van Hoven on Aug 11, 2007
Charles Swindoll lists what he calls the "four spiritual flaws":
Flaw #1: Because you are a Christian, all your problems are solved. (Please do tell non-Christian this.)
Flaw # 2: All the problems you will ever have are addressed in the Bible. (When your computer crashes, please don’t go to the
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Assembly Of God