Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Sep 27, 2007
I heard a story recently about a boy who went on a date with a girl he loved deeply. He asked her, "Can I kiss you?" She was silent. He then asked, "May I kiss you?" Again, she was silent. He
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Jay Winters on Dec 30, 2007
based on 3 ratings
| 2,063 views
Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who helped Jews escape from the Nazis during World War II. Throughout her early life she helped hide people from the ugliness that is humanity at its worst. She was arrested and put into one concentration camp after another, one of which being a place named
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Brian Atwood on Jan 12, 2008
based on 20 ratings
| 5,319 views
For almost forty years, Margaret lived with the memory of one soul-scarring day in the one-room schoolhouse she attended. From the first day Margaret came to class, she and Ms. Garner, her bitter and harsh teacher, didn’t get along. Over the years, the animosity between them only worsened until
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 7, 2008
based on 3 ratings
| 2,417 views
Three sons left home, started careers and prospered.
Getting back together, they discussed the gifts that they were able to give their elderly mother for her 70th birthday.
The first said, “I built a huge house for Mom.”
The second said, “I sent her a Mercedes with a driver.”
The third smiled
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 31, 2023
based on 2 ratings
| 944 views
Well ... This short discourse is called ... "Kissing Frogs"
Ever feel like a Frog?
Frogs feel slow, ... low, ... ugly, ... puffy, ... drooped, pooped.
I know! ...... One told me.
The Frog feeling comes when:
You want to be bright... but you feel dull.
You want to share...but you are
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Anglican
Contributed by Mary Lewis on Feb 12, 2001
based on 173 ratings
| 8,686 views
C. S. Lewis once said: "it is easier to be enthusiastic about humanity with a capital "H" than it is to love individual men and women, especially those who are uninteresting, … exasperating, depraved, or otherwise unattractive.
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 27, 2002
based on 23 ratings
| 7,038 views
A HUNGRY ENEMY
A woman wrote to "Pulpit Helps" to explain a miraculous lesson her family experienced. During one of their family Bible readings as new Christians, they ran across the verse, "If your enemy is hungry, feed him" (Romans 12:20 RSV). She writes:
Ours sons, 7 and 10 at the time,
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
A number of years ago, my husband and I went to Applebees on our Anniversary for a quiet dinner together. It was, indeed, very quiet, because my husband had just been ordered to undergo an MRI, and we knew that the results might change our future forever. Still, we did what old married couples
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 29, 2000
based on 150 ratings
| 7,044 views
A SCHOOL TEACHER asked her first graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these children from poor neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for. She reasoned that most of them would no doubt draw pictures of turkeys on tables with lots of other
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by John Hamby on Jan 8, 2001
based on 144 ratings
| 7,583 views
“Joy in Christ requires a commitment to working at the Christian lifestyle. Salvation comes as a gif, but the joy of salvation demands disciplined action. Most Christians I know have just enough of the Gospel to make them miserable, but not enough to make them joyful. They know enough about the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist