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  • One Day A Young Minister In West Virginia Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,637 views

    One day a young minister in West Virginia was being escorted through a coal mine. At the entrance to one of the dim passageways, he noticed a beautiful white flower growing out of all the black dust that invaded this flowers environment. Pointing at the flower “How can it blossom in such color and ...read more

  • Every Christian Ought To Be Ready To Stand Up ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 18 ratings
     | 5,405 views

    Every Christian ought to be ready to stand up courageously and unashamedly for the Lord. How inconsistent that a person redeemed by the blood of Christ experiencing saving power should cower before an unbelieving world On one occasion Frederick the Great invited some notable people to his royal ...read more

  • Robert Robinson Had Been Saved Out Of A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 5,838 views

    Robert Robinson had been saved out of a tempestuous life of sin through George Whitfield’s ministry in England. Shortly after that, at the age of twenty-three, Robinson wrote the hymn Come, Thou Fount. Come, Thou Fount of ev’ry blessing, Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest ...read more

  • Bill Bright, Founder And President, Campus ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,486 views

    Bill Bright, founder and president, Campus Crusade for Christ - I know two law partners who used to hate each other. When one became a Christian, he asked me, "Now that I’m a Christian, what should I do?" I said, "Why not ask him to forgive you and tell him you love him?" "I could never do that" he ...read more

  • In The Late 1800's Ira Sankey Was Very Famous ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,163 views

    In the late 1800’s Ira Sankey was very famous for being D.L. Moody’s song leader. On Christmas Eve of 1875, he was traveling up the Delaware River on a steamboat. Some of the passengers recognized him and asked him to sing for them. So, he sang the old hymn, “Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us.” One of ...read more

  • On The Morning Of October 2, 2006, A Troubled ...

    Contributed by Louis Bartet on Aug 29, 2007
     | 2,040 views

    On the morning of October 2, 2006, a troubled milkman named Charles Carl Roberts barricaded himself inside the West Nickel Mine Amish School, ultimately murdering five young girls and wounding six others. Roberts committed suicide when police arrived on the scene. It was a dark day for the Amish ...read more

  • John Wesley Did Not Have The Assurance The Jesus ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Dec 17, 2007
     | 2,336 views

    John Wesley did not have the assurance the Jesus had saved him from his sins until he was nearly 35 years old. He was a good moral person but not a Christian even though he was an Anglican priest and missionary to Georgia. Wesley shares his encounter with a Moravian Christian August Gottlieb ...read more

  • John Wesley Did Not Have The Assurance The Jesus ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Dec 17, 2007
     | 2,377 views

    John Wesley did not have the assurance the Jesus had saved him from his sins until he was nearly 35 years old. He was a good moral person but not a Christian even though he was an Anglican priest and missionary to Georgia. Wesley shares his encounter with a Moravian Christian August Gottlieb ...read more

  • The Story Is Told That John Wesley, A Founder Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Feb 12, 2008
    based on 9 ratings
     | 7,155 views

    The story is told that John Wesley, a founder of Methodism, changed his view about church division after a dream in which he was first transported to the gates of Hell. He asked, “Are there any Presbyterians here?” “Yes,” was the reply. “Any Roman Catholics?” “Yes.” “Any Congregationalists?” “Yes.” ...read more

  • I Can Face Anything

    Contributed by Bruce Montgomery on Apr 17, 2008
     | 1,923 views

    I CAN FACE ANYTHING In a gruesome Nazi prison camp in WWII, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie had just arrived at Ravensbruck, where new prisoners were being searched. Corrie was hiding a Bible under her dress. It did bulge out obviously through my dress; but I prayed, "Lord, cause now ...read more

  • Even Before You Pray, God ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
     | 1,625 views

    EVEN BEFORE YOU PRAY, GOD WORKS Dr. Helen Roseveare, missionary to Zaire, told the following story. "A mother at our mission station died after giving birth to a premature baby. We tried to improvise an incubator to keep the infant alive, but the only hot water bottle we had was beyond repair. So ...read more

  • Pickup In The Rain

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 16, 2008
     | 2,558 views

    PICKUP IN THE RAIN One night in the 1960s, at 11:30 p.m., an older African-American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a windy rain storm which was accompanied by lightning. Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she decided to ...read more

  • Some Problems Depend On Your Perspective. This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
     | 2,399 views

    Some problems depend on your perspective. This past week I read about a college student that sent a letter home to her parents from college. Dear Mom and Dad, I’m sorry to be so long in writing. Unfortunately, all my stationery was destroyed the night our dorm was set on fire by demonstrators. ...read more

  • Six-Word Memoirs  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jan 19, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,272 views

    Six-Word Memoirs One of the surprising best-selling books of 2008 is "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure." Notice that the main title is only six words: "Not Quite What I Was Planning." People were asked to succinctly sum up their life in six ...read more

  • Look At This: Three Times Balaam Beats His ...

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Jan 28, 2009
     | 2,576 views

    Look at this: three times Balaam beats his reliable donkey because he was too wrapped up in himself to see God’s road block in front of him. By the 3rd time he got his staff out he was going ballistic!!! Red-in-the-face and spitting mad! Then, right there in the middle of Balaam’s donkey-beatin’ ...read more

  • Liberals Give Less Than ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 1,461 views

    LIBERALS GIVE LESS THAN CONSERVATIVES A couple years ago, a Syracuse University professor named Arthur C. Brooks wrote a book called "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism". He was not particularly excited about the outcome of the study he’d done (he’d been raised ...read more

  • To Win Them, You Must Weep For Them  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,632 views

    TO WIN THEM, YOU MUST WEEP FOR THEM A woman went to her pastor and said, "I’ve been a Christian for 20 years. I’ve read books on how to win souls. I’ve memorized scripture. I’ve taken courses on how to win the lost. And yet I haven’t won one person to the Lord. Why?" The pastor’s answer ...read more

  • Strangers Have Devoured His Strength - From Hosea ...

    Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
     | 2,258 views

    Strangers have devoured his strength - from Hosea 7:9 What gives spiritual weakness like allowed sin? It was so with Israel, it will ever be so with us. Yielding to unhallowed association (with) strangers devour our strength. If you ever saw a cake not turned, baked only on one side, ...read more

  • Spiritual Fruit: "This Has Been Plastered"  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,238 views

    SPIRITUAL FRUIT: "THIS HAS BEEN PLASTERED" Benjamin Franklin learned that plaster sown in the fields would make things grow. He told his neighbors, but they did not believe him and they argued with him trying to prove that plaster could be of no use at all to grass or grain. After a little while, ...read more

  • Potato Piles

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Aug 21, 2009
     | 2,420 views

    POTATO PILES A young man came to a farm looking for work. So the farmer set him to the task immediately. He had a barn that needed painting. So the task was handed to the young man. The farmer said to himself that it would take at least three days to finish the task but in two days the young man ...read more

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