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  • You Know You're Getting Old When...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 15, 2011
     | 1,665 views

    YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLD WHEN... • You hear your favorite song on an elevator. • You watch the Weather Channel. • You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore. • You try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and discover you aren't wearing any. • When you say something to your ...read more

  • A Charlie Brown Christmas

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 28, 2012
     | 4,849 views

    Television executives tried to reject The Charlie Brown Christmas story because it has the true story of Christmas. Charlie Brown has picked out an ugly tree, everyone laughs at him including Snoopy, and he screams out for someone to tell him the real meaning of Christmas. Linus begins to recite ...read more

  • Just Like Marriage

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 9, 2013
     | 1,866 views

    JUST LIKE MARRIAGE My 7-year-old daughter wanted to take violin lessons, so I took her to a music store to rent an instrument. Hoping she would understand the importance of practicing, I explained that violin lessons were expensive so she would have to work hard. "There may be times when you ...read more

  • A Painless Way To Give In Church

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 20, 2019
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,855 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

  • Enthronement Of Jesus

    Contributed by John Bright on Jan 5, 2026
     | 62 views

    Enthronement is foreign to us in the United States. We have discussed all the Hallmark movies featuring a reluctant prince who does not want to be enthroned. In the past and in the present, if you live in a culture where there is great political intrigue and folks are trying to take the throne by ...read more

  • Will Gives Out First

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 1,985 views

    Will Gives Out First I can remember trying out for the cross country team at my high school. I could not understand how some of these guys did it. they could run and be fine at the finish line. I on the other hand was literally dying and giving up a mile short. The coach told me that the great ...read more

  • No Teeth  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,882 views

    NO TEETH Walking towards the United Nations Building in New York City, a street evangelist was observed who was trying to get the attention of passers-by. He urged those near him to flee from the wrath to come. "I warn you," he roared, "that there will be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of A Family Living In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Haun on Jan 8, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,582 views

    The story is told of a family living in the northern United States. As happens in many families, the wife was an active church member. She would take the children to church services. Her husband didn’t feel it necessary or important to go. It just wasn’t his thing. One Christmas eve, his ...read more

  • Imagine A Group Of People Coming To Your Home And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,879 views

    Imagine a group of people coming to your home and interrupting your Twinkie-eating, TV-watching routine with an urgent message: “Good News! We’re from the United States Olympic Committee. We have been looking for someone to run the marathon in the next Olympics. We have statistics on every person ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom Tells Of A Time When In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Jul 1, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 4,187 views

    : Corrie Ten Boom tells of a time when in the German death camp Ravensbruk during WWII. She had smuggled her Bible and a small bottle of liquid vitamins into her barracks. Her sister Betsie was sick and growing sicker but she demanded that Corrie first give a dose of vitamins to all the other ...read more

  • Gift From The Father  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,496 views

    GIFT FROM THE FATHER Corrie Ten Boom tells of a time in the German death camp Ravensbruk during WWII. She had smuggled her Bible and a small bottle of liquid vitamins into her barracks. Her sister Betsy was sick and growing sicker, but she demanded that Corrie first give a dose of vitamins to all ...read more

  • Several Years Ago Time Published Some Revealing ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2001
    based on 74 ratings
     | 1,133 views

    "Several years ago Time published some revealing statistics. It reported that every year 36 to 77 of every 100,000 physicians in our country commit suicide, three times the rate of the general population … Los Angeles psychiatrist Robert Litman offers his explanation: ’They believe themselves to ...read more

  • Redefining God Across The Country, Many Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 2,002 views

    Redefining God Across the country, many are redefining God. “Dissatisfaction with conventional images of an authoritarian or paternalistic deity, people are embracing quirky, individualistic conceptions of God to suit their own spiritual needs,” notes Lisa Miller in a 4/21/00 Wall Street Journal ...read more

  • Once When President Franklin D. Roosevelt Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,594 views

    Once when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was preparing a speech, he needed some economic statistics to back up a point he was trying to make. His advisers said it would take six months to get accurate figures. "In that case, I’ll just use these rough estimates," FDR said, and he wrote down some ...read more

  • When We Come To Talk About The Character Of God, ...

    Contributed by Dwayne Williams on Sep 1, 2006
     | 2,198 views

    When we come to talk about the character of God, we realize that we cannot say everything the bible teaches us about God’s Character at once. We need some way to decide which aspect of God’s character to discuss first, in the same since, do we line up the characteristics by important, by power, or ...read more

  • In The Early 60's, Vince Lombardi, Just After ...  PRO

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Jan 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,753 views

    In the early 60’s, Vince Lombardi, just after losing a Superbowl and on the eve of a new season, rallied his team in the locker room one day and mounted the bench for a speech. He reviewed last year’s loss, then began to talk about the plans for a return trip to he great game and how they would ...read more

  • There Was A Lady Who Died In 1916 Named Hetty ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
     | 958 views

    : There was a lady who died in 1916 named Hetty Green. She was called America’s greatest miser. When she died in 1916, she left an estate valued at $100 million. But she was so miserly that she ate cold oatmeal in order to save the expense of heating the water. When her son had a severe leg injury, ...read more

  • There Was A Lady Who Died In 1916 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
     | 1,024 views

    Illustration: There was a lady who died in 1916 named Hetty Green. She was called America’s greatest miser. When she died in 1916, she left an estate valued at $100 million. But she was so miserly that she ate cold oatmeal in order to save the expense of heating the water. When her son had a severe ...read more

  • Sales Motivational Speaker Zig Ziglar, In His ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jun 23, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,303 views

    Sales motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, in his book, Over the Top, points something out that I had never considered before reading it. He says that we work our hardest just before a vacation. We try super hard to get everything done so we can relax when we get on vacation. Ziglar says that if we ...read more

  • Amish Man  PRO

    Contributed by Darrell Stetler Ii on Feb 8, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 7,673 views

    <ILLUS> Amish man I once heard a story about an Amish farmer who bought a new pair of overalls. Of course, the Amish are famous for their simplicity, and trying to avoid pride. As he put on his new overalls and looked in the mirror, he said, “Oh, this will never do! I’ll be proud in these!” So ...read more