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  • Allure Of Lust And Greed

    Contributed by David Baeder on Jun 10, 2009
     | 2,864 views

    ALLURE OF LUST AND GREED Last night they had another one of those Dateline stings. In the sting, an undercover agent poses as a 13-15 year old on the internet, in one of those on-line chat rooms. Almost every man who came to a house to meet an underage girl for immoral purposes had seen previous ...read more

  • The Setting Is The Front Of A Small Church. The ...

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Aug 3, 2009
     | 2,495 views

    The setting is the front of a small church. The pastor says from the pulpit, ‘I’ve misplaced my sermon notes, so I’m just going to read from this devotional—if I can find it here. While I look, maybe the choir can lead us in a hymn’. He glances at the choir which has one person. The choir ...read more

  • That No One Except God Is Perfect But We Don't ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 6, 2009
     | 1,632 views

    That no one except God is perfect but we don’t want people to think we are “that bad.” We pose. We pretend. We put on our plastic masks. We go to “church.” I saw a commercial recently about a new type of veneer for your teeth that is supposed to be the best yet. What I thought was incredibly ...read more

  • The Only One Pulling  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Nov 2, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,416 views

    THE ONLY ONE PULLING A guy drives into a ditch, but luckily, a farmer is there to help. He hitches his horse, Buddy, up to the car and yells, "Pull, Nellie, pull!" Buddy doesn’t move. "Pull, Buster, pull!" Buddy doesn’t budge. "Pull, Coco, pull!" Nothing. Then the farmer says, "Pull, Buddy, ...read more

  • Direction Signs

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Dec 15, 2009
     | 4,142 views

    DIRECTION SIGNS In my time with the children a few weeks ago I spoke with them about road signs. As I prepared this message, I thought about how we have become a nation of signs: Some of them are helpful and some are not. Some signs cause us to pause and ask, “What were they thinking?” Some ...read more

  • Process-Oriented God

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 26, 2010
     | 1,946 views

    The following thoughts are from Sy Rogers: God is event and process oriented – Most Christians are only event orientated. But the development of a baby is a process caused by one passionate event in the bedroom. Birth is an event but there is a process of growth and maturity. God will not zap a ...read more

  • Buddy Wasisname And The Other Fellers ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 16, 2010
     | 1,988 views

    Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers (Newfoundland comedy group) feature a song on one of their albums called “Only 19”. It is the story of a young man who married what he thought was his young bride until they got ready for their first night together. She removed her cork leg, make-up that’s ...read more

  • Is There Any Hope?

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,232 views

    IS THERE ANY HOPE? Years ago an S-4 submarine was rammed by a ship off the coast of Massachusetts. It sank immediately. The entire crew was trapped in a prison house of death. Every effort was made to rescue the crew, but all ultimately failed. Near the end of the ordeal, a deep sea diver, who ...read more

  • The Job's Too Small

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Mar 4, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,806 views

    THE JOB'S TOO SMALL There was a missionary in China whose talents and abilities were so outstanding that one of the American companies tried to hire him. They offered him an attractive job with a salary to match, but he turned it down. He told them that God had sent him to China as a missionary. ...read more

  • Select The Greatest Gift

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Dec 11, 2011
     | 4,924 views

    SELECT THE GREATEST GIFT Even people of this world know the value of a thoughtful gift. When Pastor John Bisagno was working as chaplain to the Houston Oilers, the players gave him an autographed football which every player had signed inscribed with a Scripture from the Bible. Whenever he looks ...read more

  • Counterfeit Christmas

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 12, 2011
     | 3,277 views

    COUNTERFEIT CHRISTMAS According to a British Paper (Romsey Advertiser): "Christmas shoppers looking for a bargain should be wary of counterfeit goods which flood the market in the run-up to the festive season," the UK Border Agency has warned. "Fake Ugg Boots, GHD hair straighteners, iPhones and ...read more

  • So Hungry

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 16, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,580 views

    SO HUNGRY The silence of the congregation partaking of the Lord’s Supper was suddenly broken by a loud exclamation. A 5-year-old girl was watching that passing out of the bread and juice and asked her mother is she could take some. Her mother said that she was not old enough to take some. With ...read more

  • The Gift Of Their Lives

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 21, 2012
     | 2,504 views

    THE GIFT OF THEIR LIVES A Dutch pastor was helping Jews escape the Nazis when he himself caught. He was loaded into a boxcar with several Jews and others to be sent to a concentration camp. It was a long, frightening journey through the night. Finally the train stopped, the doors opened, and ...read more

  • Quotations On Truth  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Mar 6, 2013
    based on 28 ratings
     | 5,720 views

    QUOTATIONS ON TRUTH Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself (Augustine). Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth. When a truth is unfolded by God it most ...read more

  • God's Tnt

    Contributed by Silas Eke on Mar 1, 2015
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,008 views

    Once the great Evangelist Billy Graham sent his New Testament to a book-binder and instructed him to write on the edge of the book “The New Testament”; the book-binder after binding the New Testament felt that the edge was too little to contain the full words “The New Testament” so he wrote “TNT”. ...read more

  • Success Is Often Earned On Hard Rough Roads

    Contributed by Tim Baker on Dec 21, 2017
     | 1,748 views

    I don't always agree with positive thinking ideals. I don't think a person has to believe in themselves, believe that they will be successful before attempting something. I think a person achieves more things then they ever thought they could simply because they attempted them. Sorry Yoda and Star ...read more

  • Why Doesn't God Answer?

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 13, 2022
     | 703 views

    The preacher's 5 year-old daughter noticed that her preacher father always paused and bowed his head for a moment before starting his sermon. One day she asked him why. The Pastor was so proud that his daughter was so observant of his mesages. He smiled and answered, "Well, honey, ...read more

  • Many Years Ago A Young Midwestern Lawyer ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,798 views

    Many years ago a young Midwestern lawyer suffered from such deep depression that his friends thought it best to keep all knives and razors out of his reach. He questioned his life’s calling and the prudence of even attempting to follow it through. During this time he wrote, "I am now the most ...read more

  • History Tells Us That When Crowfoot, The Chief ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,136 views

    History tells us that when Crowfoot, the chief of the Blackfoot nation in southern Alberta, gave the Canadian Pacific Railway permission to lay track from Medicine Hat to Calgary, he was given in exchange a lifetime railroad pass. Reportedly, Crowfoot put the pass into a leather pouch and wore it ...read more

  • Dorothy Sayers, In A Book Of Her Essays Entitled ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,854 views

    Dorothy Sayers, in a book of her essays entitled The Whimsical Christian, has one essay called “The Greatest Drama Ever Staged,” where she writes, “The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore — on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has ...read more

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