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  • Take Up Your Cross

    Contributed by John Tung on Feb 12, 2009
     | 6,475 views

    TAKE UP YOUR CROSS Christiana Tsai was a Christian woman who developed an eye disease that made it impossible for her to see light directly and was virtually blind. She had to wear very dark glasses. Yet, she did not withdraw into her own room and say how tough she has it. No, she used her ...read more

  • What Other Gods?

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 2, 2009
     | 2,283 views

    WHAT OTHER GODS? What other gods could we have besides the Lord? Plenty. For Israel there were the Canaanite Baals, those jolly nature gods whose worship was a rampage of gluttony, drunkenness, and ritual prostitution. For us there are still the great gods Sex, Shekels, and Stomach (an unholy ...read more

  • You Do Not Know Wealth, You Do Not Understand ...

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Jun 8, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,588 views

    You do not know wealth, you do not understand prosperity, if you have not found Gods Word. It is the truth in the world of falsehood, and life in the midst of death. It reveals what is not seen clearly by the naked eye, and uncovers what men and their carnality has hidden. People have speculated ...read more

  • Center Field

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,353 views

    Center Field In Discipleship Journal, Don McCullough wrote: “John Killinger tells about the manager of a minor league baseball team who was so disgusted with his center fielder’s performance that he ordered him to the dugout and assumed the position himself. The first ball that came into center ...read more

  • Just As Afraid Of You...?

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 22, 2009
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    JUST AS AFRAID OF YOU...? The late great trumpet player Louis Armstrong tells a story about while growing up in Louisiana, having to go down to the pond and getting water for Allie May. He gets down there and is about to scoop the water out of the pond, and all of the sudden coming out of the ...read more

  • Where Else Could I Go?

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 9, 2009
     | 1,096 views

    WHERE ELSE COULD I GO? "My little boy gave me a great awakening," said an intelligent and spiritually-minded mother. "Jimmy is getting to an age when he often wants to try his own way instead of mine. Then he generally meets with a difficulty that hurts his feelings, and he comes at once to me ...read more

  • Paul Says:

    Contributed by John Akosile on Jun 1, 2009
     | 2,067 views

    Paul says: "Our sufficiency is of God, who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." The true ministry is God-touched, God-enabled, and God-made. The Spirit of God is on the preacher in anointing ...read more

  • Tourist Misses Beauty Of Alps By Looking At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
     | 3,616 views

    Tourist Misses Beauty of Alps by Looking at Herself in a Mirror [IN LOVE WITH A MIRROR] A group of TOURISTS WAS TRAVELING through the mountains in Switzerland. At one high point they could see magnificent snow-capped peaks and look into the deep blue of the Alpine lakes below. The view was ...read more

  • My Old Friend Tom Keller Was On Sentry Duty ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Jan 16, 2010
     | 1,840 views

    My old friend Tom Keller was on sentry duty during his time in the military and he fell asleep, standing on his feet. Something awakened him and as he opened his eyes, he saw spit-shined boots directly opposite his own. He wanted to curse, but instead, he said, “In Jesus’ name, Amen!” and looked up ...read more

  • What Other Gods?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 24, 2010
     | 1,983 views

    WHAT OTHER GODS? What other gods could we have besides the Lord? Plenty. For Israel there were the Canaanite Baals, those jolly nature gods whose worship was a rampage of gluttony, drunkenness, and ritual prostitution. For us there are still the great gods Sex, Shekels, and Stomach (an unholy ...read more

  • A Christmas Story: Tongue In Trouble

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
     | 3,894 views

    A CHRISTMAS STORY: TONGUE IN TROUBLE The classic movie, A Christmas Story, is a nostalgic look at growing up in Gary, Indiana, through the eyes of a boy named Ralphie. One scene depicts playtime in the middle of winter. Two boys surrounded by their classmates are arguing whether a person's tongue ...read more

  • Rejected On Earth, Accepted In Heaven

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
     | 4,083 views

    REJECTED ON EARTH, ACCEPTED IN HEAVEN In 1888 Campbell Morgan was one of 150 young men who sought entrance to the Wesleyan ministry. He passed the doctrinal examinations but then faced the trial sermon. In a cavernous auditorium that could seat more than 1,000 people sat three ministers and 75 ...read more

  • Dealing With Divisive People  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,666 views

    DEALING WITH DIVISIVE PEOPLE Ray Stedman said, "Some people for the sake of their point of view would destroy the unity of your church. How do you deal with them? Avoid them. We must keep our eye on them and turn away from them. In other words, we don’t listen to them. We’re never obligated to ...read more

  • Where Does God Fit In?

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 1, 2011
     | 2,685 views

    WHERE DOES GOD FIT IN? One Christmas season a schoolteacher in England supervised the construction of a manger scene in a corner of her classroom. Her pupils were delighted to set up the model barn and cover the floor with real straw and then arrange the clay figures of Mary, Joseph, the ...read more

  • He Knows About Me

    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 2, 2012
     | 1,468 views

    HE KNOWS ABOUT ME When I was talking with another counselor once, he asked if he could take me through an exercise that he uses to help people struggling with assurance or attaining victory, and/or were stalled in Christian growth. He had me close my eyes and imagine that Jesus Christ walks into ...read more

  • Unaware Of The King's Presence  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,855 views

    UNAWARE OF THE KING’S PRESENCE Steve Brown tells the frustrating story of some British social scientists. Following the end of British rule in India in the 1940s, a group of researchers wanted to study the impact of the end of British rule on the life of the nation. After six months, the British ...read more

  • Who Am I?  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Feb 26, 2013
    based on 15 ratings
     | 4,932 views

    WHO AM I? The German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, used to love to take long walks of a summer evening, meditating and thinking. On one occasion he was seated in a park when a suspicious policeman noticed that he had been there for several hours. The policeman came up to him and said, "What are you ...read more

  • Chapter 11

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 4, 2014
     | 5,977 views

    Two old friends met one day after many years. One graduated from a prestigious college and was very successful. The other had not attended college and was very poor. The poor friend said, "How has everything been going with you?" The successful friend said, "Well, one day I opened the Bible at ...read more

  • During The Great Depression A Good Man Lost H...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 9, 2015
     | 5,981 views

    During the Great Depression a good man lost his job, exhausted his savings, and forfeited his home. His grief was multiplied by the sudden death of his young wife. The only thing he had left was his faith. One day as he combed the neighborhood looking for work he stopped to watch as men did ...read more

  • A Trip To Hell

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 15, 2019
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     | 3,169 views

    TRIP TO HELL Can we take a trip, a trip so many will take; but a trip none must make. Let's take a trip that all the lost will take, a journey down the dark corridors of the doomed and the damned. As we fall over the edge, we enter a chasm that is filled with total darkness. We are overcome by ...read more

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