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  • I Thought Of This As We Were ...  PRO

    Contributed by N A on Jan 26, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,466 views

    ILLUSTRATION: I thought of this as we were discussing living the eternity driven life… A man left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he sent his wife a quick ...read more

  • A Sinking Ship  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Britt on Jan 23, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 5,002 views

    A SINKING SHIP Back in the days of steam ships, only rich white people sailed at sea. One day while sailing, something suddenly happened to the ship and it was about to sink. Terrified, the white folks aboard didn’t know what to do. Someone suggested that they do what the black folks ...read more

  • What Does A Coach Look For Most In An Athlete? ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Nov 3, 2006
     | 1,878 views

    What does a coach look for most in an athlete? Shari Kuchenbecker and her team of research assistants from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles interviewed six hundred and fifty-eight coaches representing forty-three sports. The athletes they coached ranged in age from three to twenty-two. ...read more

  • Resentment: Swing At Everything  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,953 views

    RESENTMENT: SWING AT EVERYTHING One year Dave Hagler was working as an umpire in a rec-baseball league in Boulder, Colorado. Unfortunately, Dave got pulled over for speeding one day. He tried to talk the officer out of giving him a ticket. Dave asked for leniency since it could make his insurance ...read more

  • Hey Bob! Building Margin In Your Life

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
     | 2,706 views

    "HEY BOB!" BUILDING MARGIN IN YOUR LIFE In his book, The Short List: In A Life Full of Choices, There Are Only Four That Matter, Butterworth tells of the time when he came home to his family after another weekend speaking engagement when his then youngest son decided to start talking at the Monday ...read more

  • Biblical Fellowship  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 15, 2010
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,917 views

    BIBLICAL FELLOWSHIP If the local church is going to develop the kind of beauty that God says is possible, that which will attract others to Christ, we much commit to becoming together, the kind of church Christ calls us to be. A church that is a biblical fellowship. In his book, Rediscovering ...read more

  • Musalaha In Jerusalem

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 30, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,019 views

    MUSALAHA IN JERUSALEM Musalaha is a charity in the Holy Land working for reconciliation. It is an Arabic word that means "reconciliation" and I recently received this communication from the head of Musalaha - Salim Munayer, who writes: At the end of 2010, more than 150 people assembled, stood ...read more

  • Glynn Wolfe Lived 88 Years; He Was ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,935 views

    ILLUSTRATION: Glynn Wolfe lived 88 years; he was born July 25th 1908 and died June 10th 1997. He died alone in a nursing home in Redlands, California where no one visited him and no one came to claim the body. Wolfe died with $430 to his name which was used to give him a pauper’s funeral. What ...read more

  • You Didn't Get Him From Here

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
     | 2,263 views

    "YOU DIDN’T GET HIM FROM HERE" One Sunday morning a stranger wandered into a small country church in the middle of the sermon. The man was unkempt and dirty. The usher tried his best to seat him off in a far corner, but instead the man walked to the very first pew and sat directly in front of the ...read more

  • Going To The Movies With Penguins!

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 27, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,369 views

    A truck driver was hauling a load of 500 penguins to the zoo. Unfortunately, his truck broke down, so he waved down another truck and offered the driver $500 to take the penguins to the zoo. The next day, the first truck driver picked up his repaired truck. When he drove into town, he couldn’t ...read more

  • A Bruise Is Better Than A Bite!" 1 Samuel 1:1-8 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 13, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,530 views

    “A Bruise Is Better than A Bite!” 1 Samuel 1:1-8 Key verse(s): 8:“Elkanah here husband would say to her, ‘Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?’” “Constructive criticism is when I criticize you. Destructive criticism is ...read more

  • About 6am On A Wed Morning James Lawson Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeffrey Stewart on Oct 21, 2000
    based on 81 ratings
     | 3,224 views

    About 6am on a Wed morning James Lawson of Running Springs, CA left home to apply for a new job. An hour later his 36 yr old wife, Pasty left for her 5th grade teaching job down the mountain with her 2 children, 5 yr old Susan and 2 yr old Jerry. Unfortunately they never got that far. 81/2 hours ...read more

  • A Young Man Left His Employer, A Lumber ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 13, 2001
    based on 80 ratings
     | 1,797 views

    A young man left his employer, a lumber merchant, and began business in opposition to him. For a while he prospered greatly and got many orders that would have gone to the firm he had left. But just when his business seemed to be most flourishing, and he had more orders than he could supply, a ...read more

  • Before I Go On To The Third Way To Feed On The ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 15, 2004
     | 5,003 views

    Before I go on to the third way to feed on the Word of God, let me just share with you the story of a young girl named Mary Jones, who in the late 1790's wanted more than anything to own a Bible. Unfortunately, they were not as available as they are today, and they were very expensive. So she ...read more

  • Do You Remember The Story "The Little Engine That ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Dec 9, 2004
    based on 19 ratings
     | 2,557 views

    Do you remember the story “The Little Engine That Could?” A trainload of toys was being taken over the mountain to all the children in Sunshine Valley, but unfortunately the engine broke down. One by one different engines came by, but none were willing to take the trainload of toys over the ...read more

  • A Responsible Position

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jan 9, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,382 views

    A RESPONSIBLE POSITION A young man, a skilled mechanic, was driving a visiting pastor from his home town, 50 miles across the country, to another city. En route, they passed a huge factory consisting of perhaps 20 buildings scattered over several hundred acres. "Do you see that red brick ...read more

  • Many Of Us Live Our Lives Like Monopoly. You ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Nov 16, 2006
     | 1,490 views

    Many of us live our lives like MONOPOLY. You know how the game works. Players accumulate property, build houses and hotels, and then wait for the other players to land on their property so they have to pay up. Eventually you hope to bankrupt everyone else and have all the money and property. ...read more

  • There's Always Mountains

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 23, 2009
     | 4,129 views

    THERE'S ALWAYS MOUNTAINS In the Broadway musical, The Scarlet Pimpernel, the 18th century (fictional) hero encourages his followers by reminding them of David vs. Goliath. The song goes: "David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must ...read more

  • This Is Forgiveness

    Contributed by Dr. Mark Eckart on Jul 6, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 16,735 views

    THIS IS FORGIVENESS I once invited a guest lecturer to speak to a counseling class I was teaching and ask him to specifically discuss the topic forgiveness. He told a powerful story from his own life that day to illustrate his point that we should forgive. His brother had many struggles, and ...read more

  • Have You Ever Seen A Billy Mays Commercial? He ...

    Contributed by Sterling Franklin on Jul 2, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,221 views

    Have you ever seen a Billy Mays commercial? He has unfortunately passed away, but he was known for endorsing a lot of products, always keeping a loud voice volume, and enthusiastically selling some of the most ridiculous items on the market. One of the items he endorses is called the Awesome ...read more