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  • Who Came Up With This?  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Dec 12, 2003
    based on 43 ratings
     | 3,232 views

    WHO CAME UP WITH THIS? A woman was in the mall doing her Christmas shopping. She was tired of walking through every aisle of every store to find just the right present. She was stressed out by the mounting debt on her credit card. She was tired of fighting the crowds and standing in lines for the ...read more

  • Learn When To Shut Up  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Sep 15, 2004
    based on 17 ratings
     | 1,863 views

    1) Learn when to Shut Up . It is commonly known in the world of advertising that the most successful ad campaigns don’t try to change people: they try to reflect how people are already feeling. Advertisers know that consumers won’t respond to an ad unless the ad is a response to them. This is why ...read more

  • God Restores Banged-Up ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
     | 8,451 views

    GOD RESTORES BANGED-UP PEOPLE Gary Inrig’s story in his book, Quality Friendships: Years ago, one family had a son who was in the Korean War. They had not heard from him for 10 months and were very concerned. Time went on and the war ended. Finally their son called home. The mother was excited. ...read more

  • There Are Always Reasons For Giving Up. There Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,537 views

    There are always reasons for giving up. There is no such thing as failure except to those ...read more

  • Church Cake Cover-Up  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 19, 2009
    based on 9 ratings
     | 5,880 views

    CHURCH CAKE COVER-UP It was time for the annual cake sale at a Presbyterian church not much different than our own. Ms. Billings always made the most beautiful cakes...she was expected to make another one this year. However, Ms. Billings was a very busy woman with the time she spent with her ...read more

  • It's Better Higher Up  PRO

    Contributed by Jesse Roncales on Apr 15, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,913 views

    IT'S BETTER HIGHER UP There was an old woman who was always bright, cheerful, and optimistic, even though she was confined to her room because of illness. She lived in an attic in the fifth floor of an old building. A friend decided to visit her one day and brought with her a wealthy woman. Since ...read more

  • Shaping To Fit "Up There"

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,215 views

    SHAPING TO FIT "UP THERE" A Christian man who in a time of business recession lost his job. He then also lost a sizable fortune, and his beautiful home. To add to his sorrow, his wife died, and having no children and very few relatives, he found himself very much alone. The man was a Christian and ...read more

  • Held Up By Our Father

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 17, 2011
     | 2,149 views

    HELD UP BY OUR FATHER 3-year old Tyler felt secure in his dad's arms as Dad stood in the middle of the pool. But Dad, for fun, began walking slowly toward the deeper end, gently chanting, "Deeper and deeper and deeper," as the water rose higher and higher on Tyler. Tyler's face registered ...read more

  • Standing Up For Persecuted Christians

    Contributed by John Crowe on Oct 29, 2015
     | 4,366 views

    Michael Horowitz is a Jewish attorney in Washington, D.C. who has done more for persecuted Christians than almost any Christian I know. He recently wrote to me that from his long experience with efforts to help rescue persecuted Christians, his sad experience is that U. S. Christian leaders are ...read more

  • When I Grow Up

    Contributed by Kelvin Mckisic on Jun 26, 2023
     | 2,080 views

    A photographer was snapping pictures of first graders at an elementary school, making small talk to put his subjects at ease. “What are you going to be when you ...read more

  • Little Things Add Up

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Mar 15, 2025
     | 566 views

    MY SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER TOLD A STORY OF A MAN THAT WORKED IN THE COAL MINES IN EAST TENNESSEE. The man drove a coal truck from the coal temple to the rail road loading dock. It was a short quick trip. Each time the driver drove by the house where he lived. He made a quick stop threw a very large ...read more

  • The Only Survivor Of A Shipwreck Was Washed Up On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Sep 19, 2001
    based on 156 ratings
     | 3,562 views

    The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. He eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and ...read more

  • In Your Pocket

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,205 views

    “Feel for others - in your pocket” ...read more

  • On Your Knees  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Jun 22, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,966 views

    In Touch and Live, George Vandeman wrote: "A young stranger to the Alps was making his first climb, accompanied by two stalwart guides. It was a steep, hazardous ascent. But he felt secure with one guide ahead and one following. For hours they climbed. And now, breathless, they reached for those ...read more

  • There Is Your Revival

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Jun 22, 2007
     | 4,949 views

    *ILLUSTRATION* When my father walked into church that Easter Sunday morning and sat down, God told the pastor of that church, there is your revival. The pastor and another gentleman from the church went over to our home the next week to visit my Dad and to invite him back. 5 weeks after that ...read more

  • Where Is Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 932 views

    Where Is Your Treasure Intro: Long ago, in a kingdom far, far away, a rich king hired a “fool” to entertain him and make him laugh when he was sad. He gave the fool a golden scepter and told him that when he met a greater fool than he, to pass the golden scepter to that person. Years passed ...read more

  • The Shadow Of Your ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 17, 2009
     | 1,675 views

    The shadow of your smile When you are gone Will color all my dreams And light the dawn… The year was 1965. The movie was The Sandpiper. The stars were Elizabeth Taylor as the seductress and the late Richard Burton as the Episcopal priest she seduced. The sentiment in the song is that our ...read more

  • What Is Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
     | 3,216 views

    WHAT IS YOUR NAME? The story is told of a soldier in the army of Alexander the Great, who was brought before the great world-conqueror for court martial. When the emperor had listened to the charges and the evidence, he turned to the soldier facing condemnation and said, "What is your name?" ...read more

  • Guard Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
     | 4,174 views

    GUARD YOUR CORE After a violent storm one night, a large tree, which over the years had become a stately giant, was found lying across the pathway in a park. Nothing but a splintered stump was left. Closer examination showed that it was rotten at the core, because thousands of tiny insects had ...read more

  • The Life Of Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
     | 4,550 views

    THE LIFE OF YOUR MIND "The French sculptor Auguste René Rodin, an innovative and sometimes controversial artist, created masterpieces such as The Man with the Broken Nose, St. John the Baptist, The Bronze Age, or the uncompleted Gates of Hell. But he is most likely known for his work entitled The ...read more