Contributed by Dana Chau on Oct 22, 2002
based on 4 ratings
| 4,943 views
Twelve years ago, I read a book titled, "You and Your Network" by Fred Smith, and there I learned to secure mentors for different areas of my life. My first mentor was a pastor, who welcomed me into his life 24 hours a day. I remember him saying, "Dana, you will learn a great deal from me.
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
*other
Contributed by James Chandler on Apr 4, 2003
based on 3 ratings
| 1,506 views
An image that has stuck with me for a long time took place in August of 1999. A group of us were in Jamaica on a mission trip. We were loading up in the bus to go back to the hotel. We would get up the next morning and fly back to the United States. We had spent only a week with the young
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
based on 8 ratings
| 2,154 views
From Stories for Preachers: The pastor of a local church decided to take drastic action on stewardship: he hired an electrician to wire the pews. The next Sunday he said, "Today is Stewardship Day. We will be making our pledges publicly, in church, this morning. Who will pledge $50 a week?" As he
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 1, 2005
based on 15 ratings
| 4,310 views
This is a true story that has come back to me on several occasions as a joke.
Wilma had been a member of our church for many,many years. In her later years she needed the assistance of a cane to help in walking. As she was talking with me, she would make points by lightly tapping me on the chest
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Richard Burkey on May 16, 2005
based on 10 ratings
| 1,512 views
Norman Cates tells the story of a Christian who prayed this prayer every morning: "Lord, if you want me to witness to someone today, please give me a sign to show me who it is." One day he found himself on a nearly empty bus when a big, burly man sat next to him.
The timid believer anxiously
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Bud Rose on Nov 26, 2005
based on 2 ratings
| 1,860 views
Gordon MacDonald,in an article called, “When Religion
Becomes Serious Business said, “Yesterday morning I was on the phone with our daughter who lives with her husband in North Carolina. We were having a great conversation. I was using a wireless phone, and suddenly the phone went dead, and her
...read more
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
based on 1 rating
| 2,211 views
During the Revolutionary War, a loyalist spy appeared at the headquarters of Hessian commander Colonel Johann Rall, carrying an urgent message. General George Washington and his Continental army had secretly crossed the Delaware River that morning and were advancing on Trenton, New Jersey where the
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
based on 7 ratings
| 2,314 views
Vernon Grounds writes, “A friend told me of an incident that happened while he was in seminary. Since the school had no gymnasium, he and his friends played basket ball in a nearby public school.
Nearby, an elderly janitor waited patiently until the finished playing. Invariably he sat there
...read more
Tags:
based on 3 ratings
| 1,831 views
If you honestly want to be a disciple of Jesus Christ in the twenty-first century, “Sunday Morning Is Not Enough”: "GENTLEMEN, THIS IS A FOOTBALL!" “This quote comes from a story about legendary football coach Vince Lombardi of the Green Bay Packers. Each year he would gather his players for
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
Some time ago a man was staying in a chalet in the Swiss Alps. Early one morning he heard what sounded like an earthquake. Hurriedly he got out of bed and ran to the front desk and asked if there was something wrong, if the mountains were breaking up? He was scared. The man at the front desk
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 3 ratings
| 3,093 views
Corrie Ten Boom in The Hiding Place relates an incident which taught her this principle. She and her sister, Betsy, had just been transferred to the worst German prison camp they had seen yet, Ravensbruck. Upon entering the barracks, they found them extremely overcrowded and flea-infested. Their
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 2 ratings
| 2,822 views
Someone shared with me a story this week of a young boy who witnessed a Baptism at his local Baptist Church. And he heard how the minister described it made that person part of the family of God. This got the young boy to thinking and so the next morning he decided to baptize the family cats. He
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 4,019 views
During Napoleon’s Austrian campaign his army advanced to within six miles of Feldkirch. It looked as though Bonaparte’s men would take Feldkirch without resistance. But as Napoleon’s army advanced toward their objective in the night, the Christians of Feldkirch gathered in a little church to pray.
...read more
Tags:
Sermon Central