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  • I'm Told That An Angel Came To Adam Before Eve ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Sep 7, 2008
     | 2,487 views

    I’m told that an angel came to Adam before Eve was created and said, “I have a proposition for you Adam. We are going to create for you an individual like you, but a little different – a female!” So Adam said, “Well what will she be all about? What will she do?” The angel told Adam, “She will take ...read more

  • The Making Of Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,284 views

    THE MAKING OF ME Thomas Edison once said, “I did not have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence which has lasted all my life. The good effects of her early training I can never lose. If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I ...read more

  • One Day As I Was Picking The Toys Up Off The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,018 views

    One day as I was picking the toys up off the floor, I noticed a small hand print on the wall beside the door. I knew that it was something that I’d seen most every day, but this time when I saw it there, I wanted it to stay. Then tears welled up inside my eyes, I knew it wouldn’t last, for every ...read more

  • A Famous Violinist Once Ordered A Manufacturer To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Douglas Batchelor on Nov 27, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,731 views

    A famous violinist once ordered a manufacturer to make for him the very best instrument his skilled fingers could produce. But when the violin was delivered, its tone did not please the sensitive artist. In indignation he smashed it. The disheartened dealer tried to atone for his failure. ...read more

  • Someone Put It This Way: "A Preacher Teaches, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,860 views

    Someone put it this way: “A preacher teaches, though he must solicit his own class. He heals, though without pills or knife. He is sometimes a lawyer, often a social worker, something of an editor. He is a bit of a philosopher and entertainer. He is a salesman, a decorative piece for public ...read more

  • In The Highlands Of Scotland, Sheep Would Often ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,988 views

    In the Highlands of Scotland, sheep would often wander off into the rocks and get into places that they couldn’t get out of. The grass on these mountains is very sweet and the sheep like it, and they will jump down ten or twelve feet, and then they can’t jump back again, and the shepherd hears them ...read more

  • A Grapevine In England Is 1,000 Years ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
     | 4,971 views

    A Grapevine in England is 1,000 Years Old Jesus reminds them that apart from Him, they will not have life. In Hampton Court near London, there is a grapevine which is about 1,000 years old. This grapevine has one root which is at least 0.6m thick, and some of the branches are 60m long. Despite its ...read more

  • Chrysostom On Prayer--Without The Spirit Our ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 4, 2009
     | 3,408 views

    Chrysostom on Prayer--Without the Spirit Our Prayer Bouquets are Like Weeds Chrysostom, a 4th century preacher, used this analogy for prayer. A young boy wanted to give a gift to his father who had been away a long time. His mother sent him to the garden to pick a bouquet of flowers. The boy ...read more

  • In The Mid 1700's A Little Bit Before The Time ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 25, 2010
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    In the mid 1700's a little bit before the time Kunta Kinte was said to have lived, a certain Englishman served under slavers and became a captain of a slave ship. One night in 1748 in a storm as the ship took on water, he felt the weight of his guilt chained to him. Faced with death, he came to ...read more

  • The Importance Of The Fence

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 22, 2010
     | 1,745 views

    THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FENCE Pleasure, delight, sweets, is not the way Christianity is usually described. It is described by some as a restrictive life. Let’s think of it as a group of children who are playing on top of a monadnock (Pilot Mountain) and around the point where the rock drops off ...read more

  • Love Is The Greatest

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 7, 2011
     | 2,236 views

    LOVE IS THE GREATEST George Sweeting – Love is the Greatest - page 122: "God’s love is not cheap or sentimental. It is priceless and incomparable. The way of love is God’s way, and His way is the only way to abundant and victorious living. It is the best way. Life apart from God's love is ...read more

  • Sin And Dirty Water

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Jun 26, 2011
     | 3,643 views

    SIN AND DIRTY WATER A group of explorers in Africa came across some natives who for centuries had made their home on the banks of this one particular river. They showed the explorers the polluted stream that they drank from. It was filled with dirt and every contamination imaginable. The natives ...read more

  • My Family Owned An Apple Orchard With Over 20 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 27, 2007
     | 1,739 views

    My family owned an apple orchard with over 20 different varieties of apples. Early season apples, that came ripe in late summer, were very welcome from the store bought apples that had been kept in Controlled Atmosphere storage for months. However the later season apple varieties are far superior ...read more

  • Many Of Us Are Lost And We Don't Even Know ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 24, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 712 views

    Many of us are lost and we don’t even know it…George Orwell’s essays, offers a graphic image of human lostness. Orwell describes a wasp that “was sucking jam on my plate and I cut him in half. He paid no attention, merely went on with his meal, while a tiny stream of jam trickled out of his ...read more

  • Consider Francis Of Assisi, When He Gave His Life ...

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Feb 29, 2008
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    Consider Francis of Assisi, when he gave his life to Jesus he sensed God telling him “Francis, all those things that you have loved in the flesh you must now despise, and all those things that you formally loathed you will drink great sweetness and immeasurable delight”. On leaving the town were he ...read more

  • Soldiers In Your Cup

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,940 views

    Soldiers in Your Cup A sweet little boy surprised his grandmother one morning and brought her a cup of coffee. He made it himself and was so proud. He anxiously waited to hear the verdict on the quality of the coffee. The grandmother had never in her life had such a bad cup of coffee, and as she ...read more

  • Forgive Us Our Christmases

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
     | 2,037 views

    FORGIVE US OUR CHRISTMASES Have you ever stopped to watch the Christmas rush go by? Christmas struggles are humorous because they touch at the very center of where we live. A little girl was pushing the limits of her mother's very last nerve. Mom was nearing the end of a hectic season of ...read more

  • Song Above The Noise

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,318 views

    SONG ABOVE THE NOISE A man said: While walking along a busy street one day, I heard someone singing. His sweet voice was distinguishable even above the noise of the traffic. When I located him, I noticed that he had no legs and was pushing himself through the crowd in a wheelchair. Catching up ...read more

  • Mothers And May

    Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on May 9, 2023
     | 759 views

    Mothers and May There are many things I love about the magic month of May-- the beautiful budding flowers, the gorgeous life-giving weather, the celebration of Mother’s Day! There are many things I love about our having Mother’s Day-- a day of recognition, a time to offer commendation, to one ...read more

  • I Was A Guest At A Wedding A Couple Of Weeks Ago ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
     | 2,301 views

    I was a guest at a wedding a couple of weeks ago at the Botanical Gardens here in town. It was a little buggy, but a very sweet and well done ceremony. At the close of the service, the pastor prayed a very touching prayer for the couple and ended his prayer saying. “we ask all of this in the name ...read more

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