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  • One Morning At A Local Elementary School, All The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Jul 5, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,511 views

    One morning at a local elementary school, all the teachers were called into the teacher’s lounge for an unscheduled meeting. This meant they all had to leave their classrooms unsupervised. Mrs. Miles had the most unruly class in school, and being worried about them, she turned on the intercom ...read more

  • Maybe You Remember The End Of The Movie ...  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Schmidt on Nov 23, 2003
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,328 views

    Maybe you remember the end of the movie Braveheart. William Wallace, the Scottish hero, is being tortured. The king wants him and his people to give into his power and rule. But Wallace suffers through it. He won’t give in. And the very last word that he shouts as he marshals all his strength is he ...read more

  • Revenge: A Lazy Form Of Grief

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Mar 19, 2010
     | 3,641 views

    REVENGE: A LAZY FORM OF GRIEF In the 2005 film, The Interpreter, Nicole Kidman plays the role of Sylvia Broome, a United Nations translator who overhears an assassination plot. In one scene in the movie, Sylvia talks about revenge and mercy. She speaks of a primitive tribe and a tradition they ...read more

  • Paul Powell Wrote In His Book The Complete ...  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Dec 1, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,314 views

    Paul Powell wrote in his book The Complete Disciple: "Many churches today remind me of a laboring crew trying to gather in a harvest while they sit in the tool shed. They go to the tool shed every Sunday and they study bigger and better methods of agriculture, sharpen their hoes, grease their ...read more

  • A Naval Student Was Being Put Through The Paces ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 4, 2011
     | 2,299 views

    A naval student was being put through the paces by an old sea captain. "What would you do if a sudden storm sprang up on the starboard?" asked the captain. "Throw out an anchor, sir." replied the naval student. "What would you do if another storm sprang up aft?" asked the captain. "Throw out ...read more

  • Compromise

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on May 20, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,520 views

    COMPROMISE A hunter went out into the forest to shoot a bear. With winter fast approaching he planned to make a warm coat out of the bearskin. Soon he saw a bear coming toward him, he raised his gun and took aim. "Wait," said the bear, "why do you want to shoot me?" The hunter replied: ...read more

  • Clever But Mean

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 22, 2025
     | 347 views

    A Welshman, Scot and Englishman are walking when they come across a lantern and a genie pops out and grants them one wish each. The Scot says: “I am a sheep herder, like my dad before me. I want my country to be full of lovely sheep farms.”  Whoosh, and so it was. The Englishman was amazed and ...read more

  • When I Was In Kalkaska Mi, Working As A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bob Soulliere on Mar 10, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,427 views

    When I was in Kalkaska Mi, working as a volunteer fireman, we once went to help someone who had fallen through the ice. When we got there he had already been rescued by some bystanders. What happened was he wandered to far out on unsafe ice, not knowing that there was an underground spring feeding ...read more

  • Pilgrims Progress...

    Contributed by Mark Ferrante on Jan 20, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,456 views

    Pilgrims Progress... Well, on Saturday, about midnight they began to pray, and continued in prayer till almost break of day. Now, a little before it was day, good Christian, as one half amazed, brake out into this passionate speech: What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, ...read more

  • For Many Of Us, Our New Years Resolutions Seem To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Jan 10, 2008
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    For many of us, our New Years resolutions seem to resemble carbon dating – where we can establish the date of our resolution by how many “half lives” it has had. Here are some examples: 2003: I will read at least 10 books a year. 2004: I will read 5 books a year. 2005: I will finish Portals of ...read more

  • Authority Vs. Power  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2014
    based on 2 ratings
     | 9,515 views

    AUTHORITY VS. POWER There's a difference between power and authority. If you have authority, but no power, your authority is useless. A government man was taking geological readings for the Department of the Interior. He approached one farmer and said, "I've been authorized by the government to ...read more

  • Author And Pastor Leith Anderson Writes: Several ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 17, 2000
    based on 94 ratings
     | 4,100 views

    Author and pastor Leith Anderson writes: Several years ago I was visiting Manila and was taken, of all places, to the Manila garbage dump and saw something beyond belief. Tens of thousands of people make their homes on that dump site. They’ve constructed shacks out of the things other people have ...read more

  • I Heard About A Small Country Church That Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,161 views

    I heard about a small country church that was holding a revival in a packed building. It was so crowded that they had to put up chairs everywhere, right up to the pulpit. The evangelist was preaching about the second coming of Christ and had really warmed up to the subject. He was one of those fire ...read more

  • I Was Reading The Other Day. ‘soviet President ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,776 views

    I was reading the other day. ‘Soviet President Khrushchev used to tell a story of a time when a wave of thefts in the Soviet Union forced he authorities put guards at all their factories. One Friday evening in Leningrad, out comes Peter Petrovich pushing a wheelbarrow. And on top of the wheelbarrow ...read more

  • Only Three Parachutes

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Dec 16, 2007
     | 2,099 views

    ONLY THREE PARACHUTES An amusing story about the plane going over the Atlantic Ocean with the only people on board the pilot a scientist, a minister and a back packer. The plane has engine trouble and the pilot goes to the passengers to inform them of the situation. He explains that the plane is ...read more

  • One-And-A-Half Degrees Off

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,967 views

    ONE-AND-A-HALF DEGREES OFF On October 31, 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 departed from Anchorage, Alaska, for a direct flight to Seoul, Korea. Unknown to the crew, however, the computer engaging the flight navigation system contained a 1 1/2 degree routing error. At the point of departure, the ...read more

  • What Do You Do In Disaster?

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 31, 2011
     | 3,126 views

    WHAT DO YOU DO IN DISASTER? What do you do when you are faced with a disaster that strikes home at your heart? Do you respond or do you try to blame others? Do you ignore it? Pretend it’s just a story? Nehemiah finds out how bad the city of Jerusalem is from a recent news report. It perplexes ...read more

  • Rescue

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Oct 16, 2018
     | 5,771 views

    I am really struck by the lyrics of Lauren Daigle’s recent song “Rescue.” The singer is speaking from God’s perspective and says: “I hear the whisper underneath your breath I hear you whisper, you have nothing left I will send out an army to find you In the middle of the darkest night It’s true, ...read more

  • When Christians Fail To Trust God, Demanding ...

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Oct 31, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,248 views

    When Christians fail to trust God, demanding assurance when God, in fact, has already spoken, they lose out on the opportunity to be used by him to the fullest extent…We lose out on his good gifts. And worse, we may find ourselves expending all kinds of ...read more

  • For Centuries Educated And Literate Persons ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,256 views

    For centuries educated and literate persons considered it important to start the day by getting out of bed on the right side. The meaning of the verbal formula, which is now more familiar than the ceremony that produced it, is literal. To get out of bed on the left side was to invite ...read more