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  • Today I Am A Horse, Dear God, Did You Have To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 12, 2000
    based on 71 ratings
     | 5,377 views

    "Today I am a horse, Dear God, did you have to make my poor old horse lose his shoe just before the Sabbath? That wasn't nice. It's enough you pick on me, Tevye, bless me with 5 daughters, a life of poverty. What have You got against my horse? Sometimes I think when things are too quiet up there, ...read more

  • There Was A Farmer Who Had Three Sons: Ron, Don ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim George on Apr 29, 2001
    based on 177 ratings
     | 7,320 views

    There was a farmer who had three sons: Ron, Don and Little John. All had their names on the church roll but none ever attended church or had time for God. Then one day Don was bitten by a rattlesnake. The doctor was called and he did all he could to help Don, but the outlook for his recovery was ...read more

  • Hope  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 9, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 15,199 views

    Hope Carolyn Self tells how she and her husband Bill and son Bryan took advantage of a school holiday and went to a secluded spot in the North Georgia mountains. It started out as a beautiful weekend. Bill returned to Atlanta on Saturday night to preach in his church on Sunday. He would return on ...read more

  • God Communicates Through Dreams

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 28, 2015
     | 3,180 views

    God still speaks in dreams today. In the second year of serving at Gretna, I had a dream that the 2 acres next door where a pediatrician’s office was located was going to be sold and become townhouses. The owner Dr. Jerry Fortino attended the WestBank Rotary Club which met at the church every ...read more

  • Timanthes And The Do-Over

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 5, 2013
     | 2,185 views

    TIMANTHES AND THE DO-OVER Over 2,000 years ago a young Greek artist named Timanthes (Tim-an-thes) painted this picture - The Sacrifice of Iphigenia. Before he painted this masterpiece when the artist Timanthes (Tim-an-thes) was a young man, he studied under a well-known and highly respected tutor. ...read more

  • When The Immanuel Baptist Church First Called ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 2, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,602 views

    When the Immanuel Baptist Church first called Pastor Waite he quickly made his way to each home. Letting people know that he wanted to know anything about the people that would be helpful in his ministry. It wasn’t long before the new pastor knew most of the church secrets. When it came to getting ...read more

  • Small Things With Great Love

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
     | 2,857 views

    SMALL THINGS WITH GREAT LOVE Gary Morsch is the founder of Heart to Heart in Kansas City. As a physician, he has done magnificient work around the world taking medical supplies to low income people. Several years ago, he took a trip to Calcutta and Mother Teresa's House for the Destitute Dying. He ...read more

  • I Didn't Save You. God Did.

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
     | 1,717 views

    "I DIDN'T SAVE YOU. GOD DID." Fireman Edward Cushing tells the story of an old frame house burning on the southside of Chicago. He ordered the hoses to start fighting the fire and then dashed inside and pulled three people out. When the blaze was over, the Chief came over and told him he did a ...read more

  • Fred Smith, In His Book Learning To Lead Wrote ...  PRO

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 23, 2000
    based on 110 ratings
     | 2,562 views

    Fred Smith, in his book Learning to Lead wrote “The shepherd or pastor’s ultimate goal is not to please the sheep but to please God.” Cecil Paul the Author of Passages of a Pastor says that pastors need to free themselves from and I quote “The Tyranny of Evaluation.” Tim Hansel writing in his ...read more

  • Positively Wrong

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2003
     | 2,786 views

    *Positively Wrong* A linguistics professor was lecturing his class. "In English," he explained, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative." "However," the professor continued, "there is no language wherein a double positive ...read more

  • The Following Illustrates That Point. "In A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jan 1, 2001
    based on 140 ratings
     | 7,233 views

    The following illustrates that point. "In a stately church a noticeably untidy man visited the church for the first time. He was met by one of the smartly-dressed ushers who immediately ushered him to a back pew so that his unkept appearance and foul odor would not upset the decorum of the ...read more

  • Peace In The Storm

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
     | 8,246 views

    PEACE IN THE STORM Adam Hamilton tells the story of leading a team down to Bay St. Louis to help gut houses after Katrina. They were assigned to a woman who brick house was completely inundated and they were asked to gut a two-story garage. In the room above the garage were literally hundreds and ...read more

  • Knowing When We Don't! (11.03.05--Faith That ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 1, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,513 views

    Knowing When We Don’t! (11.03.05--Faith That Flies!--Job 1:1) I do much better when I know all the little details! When I can see the whole picture it is far easier to sit down and think through even the toughest of problems. Unfortunately there are those things in life that simply don’t lend ...read more

  • Too Late To Date  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2003
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,823 views

    *Too Late To Date* An elderly woman died last month. Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions for her memorial service, she wrote, "They wouldn’t take me out while I was alive, I don’t want them to ...read more

  • God And The Rabbit

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
     | 1,789 views

    GOD AND THE RABBIT When I was a 4th grader, I went on a spiritual retreat. We had worship one night and the counselor sent us to go find a private spot where we could pray individually. I went by a large tree away from everyone else. As I began to pray and pour my heart out to God, I heard a ...read more

  • Expectations And Reality

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Nov 29, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,352 views

    EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY I had arrived only a couple weeks before in the Czech Republic and was living with a retired Czech couple in a small village. Being the only American in the area I was somewhat a celebrity. One day a couple elders from a local church visited me to ask if I would preach in ...read more

  • Charles Colson Tells The Story Of Being On Th...

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 28, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,946 views

    Charles Colson tells the story of being on the Bill Buckley television program, talking about criminal justice reform. A few days later he got a call from Jack Eckerd, the founder of the Eckerd Drug chain, the second largest drug chain in America. He saw me on television and asked me to come to ...read more

  • Because You're My ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
     | 2,467 views

    "BECAUSE YOU’RE MY DAD!" Author Tim Hansel writes: One day, while my son Zac and I were out in the country, climbing around in some cliffs, I heard a voice from above me yell, "Hey Dad! Catch me!" I turned around to see Zac joyfully jumping off a rock straight at me. He had jumped and then yelled ...read more

  • Know-It-All Christians

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 3,368 views

    KNOW-IT-ALL CHRISTIANS Chuck Yeager, the famed test pilot, was flying an F-86 Sabre over a lake in the Sierras when he decided to buzz a friend’s house near the edge of the lake. During a slow roll, he suddenly felt his aileron lock. Says Yeager, "It was a hairy moment, flying about 150 feet off ...read more

  • Synergistic Effect Of Draft Horses Pulling In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 1, 2009
     | 4,681 views

    Synergistic Effect of Draft Horses Pulling in Pairs Compared to Corporate Prayer My friend, if you are negligent about prayer in this way you are letting your church down. I read this week about a horse-pull in Canada where they hitched this one draft horse and he pulled 9,000 pounds. They hitched ...read more

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