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  • A Few Minutes Before The Services Started, The ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 12, 2009
     | 2,054 views

    A few minutes before the services started, the church people were sitting in their pews and talking. Suddenly, Satan appeared at the front of the church. Everyone started screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in a frantic effort to get away from the evil one. Soon ...read more

  • Remember Jonah? He Fought The Will Of God. He ...

    Contributed by Tim Adams on Dec 1, 2009
     | 4,259 views

    Remember Jonah? He fought the will of God. He was miserable in his hometown when he heard the will of God. He ran away to Tarshish and was miserable on the whole trip. When you have to hide in a belly of a ship to get away from the storm you brought upon yourself by disobedience you’re always ...read more

  • I Tithe—he'll Find Me.  PRO

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on May 1, 2011
    based on 16 ratings
     | 8,362 views

    "I TITHE--HE'LL FIND ME." Two men have ended up marooned on an island in the South Pacific. You can fill in the blanks as to how they got there. So they are on the clichéic deserted island, one palm tree, nothing to see but the ocean. One guy is in a complete panic, pacing back and forth, ...read more

  • During One Of His Great Campaigns, D L Moody Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jonathan Campbell on May 20, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,817 views

    During one of his great campaigns, D L Moody was approached by a man who had been to a number of the services and who, although convicted of his need for Christ, had kept on postponing a decision. Now the last night had come. The appeal was over, the people were going home, the work crew was busy ...read more

  • Albert Einstein On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2012
     | 4,660 views

    ALBERT EINSTEIN ON CREATION In his book on Albert Einstein, author Walter Isaacson told of a dinner party in Berlin where everybody assumed Einstein was an atheist and he said, “No, I have a deep feeling of faith, a deep religiosity that comes from my appreciation of the way the Lord made the ...read more

  • 4 Spiritual Crises

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 19, 2014
     | 5,954 views

    FOUR SPIRITUAL CRISES The spiritual experience of Abraham was marked by four great crises, each of which involved a surrender of something dear. These were: (1) LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY AND FAMILY (Gen 12:1 Mt 10:34-39 2Cor 6:14-18) - Is God asking you to go somewhere away from home, family and ...read more

  • Weaknesses Among The Best

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2025
     | 415 views

    A British man named Steve Cleary was in his early 50's, retired from the Royal Navy, and had started a second career. However, he just couldn't seem to get to work on time. Every day he was 5, 10, 15 minutes late. However, he was a good worker, really clever, so the owner was in a quandary ...read more

  • I Need A Push

    Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 25, 2025
     | 184 views

    A man and his wife are awakened at 3 a.m. by a loud pounding on their door. The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger in the pouring rain is asking for a push. “Not a chance,” says the husband- “It’s three o’clock in the morning!” He slams the door and returns to bed. “Who ...read more

  • Some Will Be Saved. And We Must Keep Trying To ...

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 16, 2008
     | 1,439 views

    *Some will be saved. And we must keep trying to reach them, even though many will reject the message, just like they did here in Acts 28:24. *Wray Ivey was one of my mentors when we lived in Macon. He was our pastor at First Baptist Church in Macon, and a great guy. One Tuesday night Wray and I ...read more

  • Hardly Safe: The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 28, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,280 views

    HARDLY SAFE: THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE If you have ever been through a tornado. ... One personal encounter with a power that before was only theoretical can make all the difference. You live differently after that. You respect the power. You live in awe of its presence and tremble ...read more

  • Sure ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
     | 3,283 views

    SURE DESTINATION I heard about an 83-year-old man who had lived his entire life as a bachelor. One day this man gathered his four nephews and announced that he was planning to be married. His nephews were in shock. One spoke up and said, "Uncle are you getting married because this woman is ...read more

  • A Letter To Santa  PRO

    Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 21, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,374 views

    A LETTER TO SANTA: Dear Santa Claus: You’ll probably be surprised to receive this letter from an adult. You may be even more surprised as you read it to find that the writer is neither a maiden aunt nor a disgruntled bachelor. I’m a young mother. It isn’t my intention, Santa, to hurt your ...read more

  • Christmas Under Attack Fox News Conducted A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,321 views

    Christmas Under Attack Fox News conducted a survey 11/29 asking: •Do you consider Christmas a religious holiday or cultural holiday? Religious: 57% ... Cultural 14% ... Both: 12% •Do you agree there is a war on Christmas in the U.S.? Agree: 42% ... Disagree: 48% •Does it seem that the public ...read more

  • Take The Story Of Young William Wilberforce. He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 26, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,763 views

    Take the story of young William Wilberforce. He was discouraged one night in the early 1790s after another defeat in his ten year battle against the slave trade in England. Tired and frustrated, he opened his Bible and began to leaf through it. A small piece of paper fell out and fluttered to the ...read more

  • John Wesley Was So Concerned With Building A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,513 views

    John Wesley was so concerned with building a righteous fellowship that he devised a series of questions for his followers to ask each other every week. Some found this rigorous system of inquiry too demanding and left. Today, the very idea of such a procedure would horrify many churchgoers. Yet ...read more

  • Fear To Joy, Bondage To Freedom  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Apr 15, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,683 views

    FEAR TO JOY, BONDAGE TO FREEDOM A poor German girl announced that she was going to give a piano concert. In order to attract people to come, she mentioned in the advertisements that she was the student of the famous Hungarian professor, Franz Liszt. But it was a falsehood. To her dismay, she ...read more

  • Writer Amos Wells Reflected Our Need For Thorough ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 2,220 views

    Writer Amos Wells reflected our need for thorough Bible study in this verse: I supposed I knew my Bible, Reading peacemeal, hit or miss, Now a bit of John or Matthew, Now a snatch of Genesis, Certain chapters of Isaiah, Certain Psalms (the twenty-third), Twelfth of Romans, first of Proverbs ...read more

  • In The Summer Of 1960 The Great Musical Star ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Oct 16, 2006
     | 2,110 views

    . In the summer of 1960 the great musical star Mary Martin was playing the lead role of Maria von Trapp in Rogers and Hammerstein’s musical THE SOUND OF MUSIC on Broadway. Lyrist Oscar Hammerstein, II was on his death bed. “One evening just before Mary went on stage, a note was handed to her. ...read more

  • A Little Boy Climbed Up On His Father's Knee, And ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Nov 5, 2006
     | 1,454 views

    A little boy climbed up on his father’s knee, and looking up into his face, asked, “Papa, is your soul insured?” “Why do you ask that question, Sonny?” “Why, Papa, I heard Uncle George say that you had your house insured and that you had insured your barn and your life, but he was afraid you had ...read more

  • A Runner And His Daughter

    Contributed by David Rumley on Jan 4, 2007
     | 2,425 views

    A runner and his daughter: • A daughter asked her father, who ran on a consistent basis… After one cold morning like today… the daughter asked… • Dad, do you determine how far you will run each time, or do you go as far as you feel like it? • I find if I am running and think about how I am ...read more