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  • Enoch Walking With God

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 31, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,996 views

    ENOCH WALKING WITH GOD Unity Baptist’s pastor shares from His sermon "Faith: Enoch-walking with God in faith" on sermoncentral.com shares: "Picture in your mind, if you will, Enoch, walking with God in the coolness of the evening, just as night and day are meeting and lengthened shadows begin to ...read more

  • Pet Beliefs

    Contributed by Robert Sickler on Nov 15, 2011
     | 3,678 views

    PET BELIEFS The two professors stood nose to nose as they shouted at one another. "The craters on the moon are the result of volcanism," cried one. "You are an idiot," screamed the other, "the craters on the moon are the result of meteor impact." This scene played itself out all across ...read more

  • Stepping In His Big Tracks

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Jan 4, 2012
     | 1,626 views

    STEPPING IN HIS BIG TRACKS I remember once when we had a two-foot snow in Smyrna, Tennessee— something rare even then. I’d gone out into the snow early that morning and it was really futile, because the snow was so deep and so soft that when I stepped down into the snow, the snow went so far up my ...read more

  • Confined Christians

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Jan 10, 2012
     | 3,092 views

    CONFINED CHRISTIANS I met a young man not long ago who dives for exotic fish for aquariums. He told me that one of the most popular aquarium fish is the shark. He explained that if you catch a small shark and confine it, it will stay a size proportionate to the aquarium you put it in. Sharks can ...read more

  • The Unfair Contest

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 6, 2012
     | 2,670 views

    THE UNFAIR CONTEST A Christian university student shared a room with a Muslim. As they became friends, their conversation turned to their beliefs. The believer asked the Muslim if he'd ever read the Bible. He answered no, but then asked if the Christian had ever read the Koran. The believer ...read more

  • Facing The Music

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 19, 2012
     | 3,091 views

    FACING THE MUSIC Many years ago a man wanted to play in the Imperial Orchestra, but could not play a note. Since he was, however, a person of great wealth and influence, he demanded to be allowed to join the orchestra so that he could perform in front of the king. The conductor agreed to let him ...read more

  • A Boy Waits For The Bus  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2012
    based on 33 ratings
     | 13,761 views

    A BOY WAITS FOR THE BUS There's an old story of the boy who stood on a sidewalk, waiting on a bus. A man walking by spotted the boy, and gave him some gentle instruction. "Son," he said, "if you're waiting on the bus, you need to move to the street corner. That's where the bus stops for ...read more

  • Know The Problem

    Contributed by Ronald Franklin on Dec 28, 2012
     | 2,689 views

    Dr. Herbert Jackson was a missionary to the Philippines. He tells a story about something that happened to him when he was just getting started on the mission field. He was given a car that wouldn't start without a push, so he quickly devised different ways of getting that car started without him ...read more

  • The Unreligion

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2013
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     | 4,971 views

    THE UNRELIGION When Jesus hung on the cross, He cried out, “It is finished!” Jesus did all the work. All that remains for us to do is depend on Him. You see, not only our salvation, but our success in this life is all up to Him. I like the way Dane Ortlund put it in his book, Defiant Grace. ...read more

  • Asking The Visitor To Leave

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
     | 2,523 views

    Note: This story is told from my perspective - Jim Butcher of Madison WV. I was visiting with one of our long-time members a few months ago and she related an interesting story about her visit to Madison Baptist decades ago. Rosemary was sitting along the aisle, waiting on the service to begin, ...read more

  • Mystery

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Jun 19, 2020
     | 2,613 views

    Paul talks about a Mystery hidden in God. Let me tell you about a great mystery story: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior, was a doctor. As such he was very interested in the use of ether. In order to know how his patients felt under its influence, he once had a dose administered to himself. As he was ...read more

  • Mystery

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 13, 2020
     | 1,404 views

    Paul talks about a Mystery hidden in God. Let me tell you about a great mystery story: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior, was a doctor. As such he was very interested in the use of ether. In order to know how his patients felt under its influence, he once had a dose administered to himself. As he was ...read more

  • Keeping The Main Thing The Main Thing!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 2, 2023
     | 1,940 views

    It was a 99-degree September day in San Antonio, Texas, when a woman accidentally locked her 10-month-old baby inside a parked car. Frantically the mother ran around the auto in near hysteria, while a neighbor attempted to unlock the car with a clothes hanger. Soon the infant was turning purple ...read more

  • God's Assurance

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Feb 13, 2023
     | 2,068 views

    Have you ever been in a store and see a child that has gotten separated from his parents? The fear is very evident on the child's face as well as the parents’ face. It's a horrible feeling when the child turns around and can't find his parents. They frantically look through every ...read more

  • The Sun And The Wind

    Contributed by Jung Lee on Jan 16, 2024
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,056 views

    One day, the Sun and the Wind argued over who was stronger. They see a man walking with a coat and decide to settle their dispute by seeing who can make him remove his coat. The Wind blows fiercely, but the harder it blows, the tighter the man clutches his coat. Then, the Sun gently shines its warm ...read more

  • Rose?

    Contributed by David Dunn on Dec 10, 2025
     | 63 views

    John had always been famously forgetful. Everyone knew it—birthdays, appointments, even his own anniversary once. So when he ran into his friend Bill at the grocery store, he could hardly wait to share the news. “Bill!” he said, grinning. “You’re not going to believe this. My memory problem? I ...read more

  • Christmas Is An Exciting Time And Little Sammy ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Nov 13, 2001
    based on 151 ratings
     | 3,590 views

    Christmas is an exciting time and little Sammy was excited. He was 15 years old and Christmas was still to him a time of wonder. He was a happy child despite his handicap. You see, Sammy was slightly retarded. He still went to school, though he was 2 years behind. And he did the things that ...read more

  • Christianstein  PRO

    Contributed by Ray Navarro on Dec 7, 2001
    based on 78 ratings
     | 8,356 views

    It was a dark and stormy night. You could hear the thunder in the distance. Bats flapped their wings in the darkness of the night. There the castle stood. The wolves were howling; the trees were swaying in the wind as it whistled. And inside the castle, a faint light shown…from a ...read more

  • There Was An Old Monastery That Had Fallen Upon ...

    Contributed by Scott Jensen on Sep 10, 2008
     | 1,455 views

    There was an old monastery that had fallen upon hard times. It was once a great order, but as a result of waves of persecution in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the rise of secularism in the nineteenth century, all its branch houses were lost and it had become decimated to the extent ...read more

  • Hypocrites Do Things For The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 3, 2009
     | 4,694 views

    Hypocrites Do Things for the Show During my childhood - as I was growing up - anything "modern" was considered good! Whatever the current fad was, it was something that I wanted to have - and, I was convinced, like everyone else, that the new item was better - even when it came to "modern food;" if ...read more