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  • Working For Food

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,824 views

    WORKING FOR FOOD I like the story of the rich executive who announced to his church one morning that he was going to give up all he owned so that he had to depend on his faith in God for everything he needed. He sold everything, gave it to the poor, and moved into a rented home down on the bad ...read more

  • I Like The Story About A Rather Legalistic ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 14, 2001
    based on 130 ratings
     | 2,588 views

    ILL. I like the story about a rather legalistic Seminary student who wanted to have a scriptural basis for everything he did. He felt he was on solid ground if he could quote Bible book, chapter & verse to okay his actions. He did all right with that until he began to fall in love with a ...read more

  • Do Unto Others

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,178 views

    DO UNTO OTHERS There is a story about a rather legalistic Seminary student who wanted to have a Scriptural basis for everything he did. He felt he was on solid ground if he could quote the Bible, book, chapter and verse to okay his actions. He did all right with that until he began to fall in ...read more

  • There Is A Story About A Rather Legalistic ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
     | 2,013 views

    There is a story about a rather legalistic Seminary student who wanted to have a scriptural basis for everything he did. He felt he was on solid ground if he could quote the Bible, book, chapter and verse to okay his actions. He did all right with that until he began to fall in love with a ...read more

  • I Want For You To Imagine With Me That We Are Out ...

    Contributed by Grant Van Boeschoten on Oct 2, 2009
     | 2,604 views

    I want for you to imagine with me that we are out in the middle of a huge storm on a state of the art fishing boat. We are in the middle of the ocean just trying to survive the rain and the wind and to make things work, it is the middle of night and it is almost impossible to see. Suddenly, in ...read more

  • Story Of Sheep  PRO

    Contributed by Michael King on Jul 20, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 8,669 views

    STORY OF SHEEP In the Highlands of Scotland, sheep would often wander off into the rocks and get into places that they couldn’t get out of. The grass on these mountains is very sweet and the sheep like it, and they will jump down ten or twelve feet, and then they can’t jump back again, and the ...read more

  • Philip Yancey Tells About An African Safari He ...

    Contributed by Brian Bolton on May 11, 2006
     | 1,929 views

    Philip Yancey tells about an African safari he was on where he saw an old momma giraffe taking care of her offspring. Shortly after he was born, she went over & kicked her offspring, and it looked like she was really hurting her baby. Then she did it again. Each time, the little giraffe would get ...read more

  • Wag Your Tail!

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 30, 2010
     | 2,932 views

    WAG YOUR TAIL! When missionaries in the northern part of Alaska, where the Eskimos live, they were trying to get the Bible translated, and they had some difficulty. When you go to translate the Bible in any culture, there’s a difficulty in translating some words, because cultures and languages ...read more

  • What Is Your Struggle

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Aug 25, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,242 views

    As a group of frogs was traveling through the woods, two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs crowded around the pit and saw how deep it was, they told the two frogs that there was no hope left for them. However, the two frogs decided to ignore what the others were saying and they ...read more

  • Cloudy Days

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Sep 18, 2021
     | 1,402 views

    My wife told me about a dream where she is looking up at a cloudy sky with two arms sticking through the clouds and says, I love you. The arms sign back to her, "I love you." I am cautious about dreams and interpretations because most are just our brains doing what we call in the IT ...read more

  • Gary Farmer Was Not Open To The Gospel. I Would ...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Apr 20, 2008
     | 1,450 views

    Gary Farmer was not open to the gospel. I would share little things with him, but most of all, Rick and I would just shower him with kindness and try to live Jesus to him. His mother got sick and passed away. She was a good Christian lady, and Gary knew that there was only one way he would ever ...read more

  • Leadership

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Dec 13, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,349 views

    Leadership Have you ever wondered why geese fly in a V formation? As with most animal behavior, God had a good reason for including that in their instincts. As each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird following. In a V formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% more flying ...read more

  • Fishing Story  PRO

    Contributed by Brent Williams on Jun 19, 2001
    based on 89 ratings
     | 6,266 views

    Fishing Story Story # 1: Jimmy an orphan from a foster home, is fishing by himself on the end of a pier. Full of curiosity like most ten year olds, he leans over the edge to look at an insect crawling next to him and falls into the water. Unable to swim, he frantically splashes and screams, ...read more

  • Have You Ever Seen, Read About Or Heard About ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,726 views

    Have you ever seen, read about or heard about how a baby giraffe is born and what happens to it? First of all, a giraffe is a pretty tall animal, isn’t it? When the baby giraffe starts its journey down the birth canal, the mother goes to a spot where there are no bushes, just flat dirt. As the ...read more

  • Sir Douglas Bader Was A Pilot Who Lost Both His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Mar 13, 2001
    based on 74 ratings
     | 2,089 views

    Sir Douglas Bader was a pilot who lost both his legs in a plane crash before WW2. He was fitted with artificial legs & resumed flying. In 1939, when Germany & England went to war, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force. Flying with two artificial legs, he shot down 22 enemy airplanes in the Battle ...read more

  • Some People When They Go On Vacation, They Get ...  PRO

    Contributed by Stephan Brown on Aug 26, 2002
    based on 93 ratings
     | 2,128 views

    Some people when they go on vacation, they get to the hotel room and they unpack everything. They take it all out of the suitcase and put it into those bureaus. I think I did that once when I was staying in the same place for three weeks. But if I’m only going to be around for a week or a few days, ...read more

  • Coffee Doesn't Trust Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 25, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,407 views

    My pet finch Coffee runs into a serious problem once in a while. Her claws grow so long she loses the ability to control them. They get stuck in the nest and she can’t get them out. Once we found her nearly dead, hanging for hours upside down with one claw ensnared in her wicker home. Carol rescued ...read more

  • Many Years Ago Now I Served A Small-Town Church ...

    Contributed by Bruce Emmert on Sep 22, 2008
     | 2,041 views

    Many years ago now I served a small-town church in north central Kansas. The first week I was there two elderly ladies—twins named Mamie and Edith—asked me to visit them. They wanted to talk about being baptized and joining the church. They went to church every Sunday. As faithful and sweet as ...read more

  • Broken Vessels Wanted  PRO

    Contributed by David Robb on Jun 1, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,055 views

    Broken Vessels Wanted (David Robb) My tears of weeping are pleasing to the Lord. My cries of emptiness are a song to His heart. He is pleased with me when I am broken, because, what He desires most of me is a broken spirit and a humble heart. He desires that of me because, with a broken ...read more

  • It Really Seems To Hurt  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jan 25, 2002
    based on 15 ratings
     | 2,672 views

    IT REALLY SEEMS TO HURT Philip Yancey tells about an African safari he was on where he saw an old momma giraffe taking care of her offspring. Shortly after he was born, she went over & kicked her offspring, & it looked like she was really hurting her baby. Then she did it again. Each time, ...read more

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