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  • Keep Your Eyes On Me

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,006 views

    KEEP YOUR EYES ON ME One day, a man hired an experienced guide to lead him on a hike into the Swiss Alps. After many hours, they came to a high and remote mountain pass. To the man’s dismay, he saw the path had almost been washed out. What could he do? To the left was a sheer rock cliff, to his ...read more

  • Holiness Is A Bit Like This: In Our Kitchen We ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chris Appleby on Jun 3, 2002
    based on 15 ratings
     | 2,236 views

    Holiness is a bit like this: in our kitchen we have a chopping board that’s holy. Well, actually we have a few chopping boards, but there’s one particular one that’s reserved for sweet things, for fruit and bread, and maybe mild cheese. But if you chop up an onion on it you’re in big trouble, ...read more

  • Has God Revealed Himself In Other Religions?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 2,377 views

    HAS GOD REVEALED HIMSELF IN OTHER RELIGIONS? Karl Barth was lecturing to a group of students at Princeton. One student asked the German theologian "Sir, don’t you think that God has revealed himself in other religions and not only in Christianity?" Barth’s answer stunned the crowd. With a ...read more

  • Poem: Praise The Lord  PRO

    Contributed by Billy Kryger on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,827 views

    Poem: Praise The Lord Praise Him when the sun is shining, When the winds of trouble blow, When you see no silver lining, On the clouds that hand so low. Praise illumines clouds of sorrow, Turns the gray skies into gold, Giving promise of a ‘morrow Bright with blessings manifold. Praise Him when ...read more

  • Unopened Gifts  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 16, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,007 views

    [illustration] Imagine how a parent would feel if on Christmas day when the gifts for their children were handed out, the children just took them, said “Thank you,” and laid them aside with no attempt to open the gifts not even to find out what they were! Imagine how the Lord must feel when he has ...read more

  • Too Many Christians Are Not Serving. When You ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Nov 1, 2004
    based on 12 ratings
     | 3,477 views

    Too many Christians are not serving. When you ask them to do something they say, "Well, uh, sorry, but that is not my spiritual gift." Trouble is they seem to think they have no spiritual gift because they say that about everything. Brethren, I tell you the truth in Christ that are no such gifts as ...read more

  • According To The Bureau Of Standards In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,380 views

    According to the Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., a dense fog covering seven city blocks to a height of 100 feet is composed of less that one glass of water. That amount of water is divided into about 60 billion tiny droplets. Yet when those minute particles settle over a city or the ...read more

  • It Was Written In 1929 But It Has Been Sung For ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 10, 2005
     | 1,055 views

    It was written in 1929 but it has been sung for over 6 decades by such performers as Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, The Carpenters, The Supremes, Willie Nelson and now, our own Robin Petrovich. The tune is entitled "Without a Song," the chorus goes: "Without a song the day would never end; Without a ...read more

  • Tough Teacher

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 27, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,235 views

    TOUGH TEACHER A school teacher injured his back and had to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body. It fit under his shirt and was not noticeable at all. On the first day of the term, still with the cast under his shirt, he found himself assigned to the toughest students in ...read more

  • A Painless Way To Give In Church

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 20, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,423 views

    Having a little trouble with giving at the church? Maybe we could all learn a little lesson from the old country preacher who told everyone to stand up at the beginning of the offering. He then instructed everyone to lean forward to the person standing in front of them and grab their purse or ...read more

  • Fact Or ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 1,823 views

    FACT OR FICTION? The London Daily Mail reports that one in four Britons don’t believe Prime Minister Winston Churchill actually existed. They suspect he is a mythical character rather than a historical one. Likewise, they think historical figures such as Florence Nightingale, Sir Walter Raleigh, ...read more

  • Why Do You Do That?  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 2, 2003
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,924 views

    WHY DO YOU DO THAT? I’m thinking of a small-town church in upstate New York. They’d had a rector in that church for over thirty-five years. He was loved by the church and the community. After he retired, he was replaced by a young priest. It was his first church; he had a great desire to do ...read more

  • Another Turkey In The Oven

    Contributed by James Snyder on Nov 25, 2023
     | 525 views

    What would Thanksgiving be without a turkey? I read somewhere that over 45 million turkeys are purchased during the Thanksgiving holiday. I’m unsure if that’s correct, but I believe it comes close to the mark. Thanksgiving is always my favorite time because the focus of Thanksgiving is food. ...read more

  • Fire Your Rockets  PRO

    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Mar 25, 2001
    based on 116 ratings
     | 2,071 views

    "Fire Your Rockets" I read with interest this past week about the Astronaut who dropped a 10 pound wrench into space, and they had to fire the rockets in the space shuttle to avoid this wrench hitting their cabin and taking all the pressure out, and killing them all in space. Imagine! A 10 pound ...read more

  • We Live In A Strange Community, Where It Is Not ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 1, 2001
    based on 164 ratings
     | 4,866 views

    We live in a strange community, where it is not uncommon to see bumper stickers that say things like, I am Light, or Due to circumstances within our control Armageddon has been cancelled. But the one that really gets me is the one that reads simply, I AM. Thank God, the I AM doesn’t drive a VW ...read more

  • In A "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip, Good Old Charlie ...  PRO

    Contributed by Danny Rogers on Oct 9, 2006
    based on 13 ratings
     | 3,978 views

    In a "Peanuts" cartoon strip, good old Charlie Brown says to Linus, "Life is just too much for me. I’ve been confused from the day I was born. I think the whole trouble is that we’re thrown into life too fast. We’re not really prepared." Linus asks, "What did you want . . . a chance to warm up ...read more

  • Hard Work Is Worth It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,298 views

    HARD WORK IS WORTH IT The story is told of a nursery worker about to plant a number of young saplings, some straight and some crooked, thus reasoned with himself – "These straight saplings will no doubt grow up to be fine trees without much attention on my part; but I will see if, by proper ...read more

  • The Pilot

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
     | 1,295 views

    Quote: Peter Marshall: • "You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. • You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. • You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. • But why not take the Pilot on boar; • Who knows the nature of your sealed ...read more

  • During The Siege Of Plevna, The Czar, While ...

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Oct 13, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,418 views

    During the siege of Plevna, the Czar, while going around the camp one evening, found a man who had fallen asleep while writing a letter to his wife. This officer had told of his hard work and exposure in the trenches, but said that these were nothing compared to his debts. "Who will pay my debts?" ...read more

  • After The Service Was Over, A Young Man Was ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Mar 9, 2008
     | 2,166 views

    After the service was over, a young man was sitting off to the side of a group. This young man had been in some trouble and was going the wrong direction, but was trying to turn around. The pastor went up to him and asked him about his commitment to God. The young man responded, "I have always ...read more

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