Contributed by Mark Hiehle on Jul 20, 2001
based on 112 ratings
| 1,930 views
When I was first allowed to mow the lawn, my dad taught me how to mow between our yard and our neighbor’s yard. The goal was to mow in a straight line between our two yards. He told me that in order to mow a straight line, I was to first pick a point at the upper corner of our property. At that
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Nazarene
Contributed by Mark Hiehle on Jul 20, 2001
based on 76 ratings
| 1,786 views
When I was first allowed to mow the lawn, my dad taught me how to mow between our yard and our neighbor’s yard. The goal was to mow in a straight line between our two yards. He told me that in order to mow a straight line, I was to first pick a point at the upper corner of our property. At that
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Nazarene
Contributed by David Swanger on Jul 13, 2007
When Johnny was 6 years old he was with his father when they were stopped
for speeding. His father handed the officer a twenty dollar bill along with his
drivers license, turned to his son and said “It’s okay son, everybody does it.”
When he was 8 he was present at a family counsel lead by his
...read more
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Scott Maze on Feb 15, 2007
Richard M. Nixon served as the 37th president of the United States.
He was a polarizing figure who won the presidential office by a landslide and then later resigned in disgrace just 21 months later.
His disgrace culminated with the Democratic party getting their man, Jimmy Carter, into the White
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Timothy Enns on Oct 17, 2011
SHEPHERDS: THE LOWER CLASS
For many years I drove truck, hauling produce from California to Canada. I would often cut across the back roads of Idaho instead of staying on the busy interstate. The area I would travel trough on the back roads would take me through deserts and volcanoes, but it would
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Nazarene
Contributed by Kelly Benton on Feb 3, 2026
Before power steering, turning a car was basically CrossFit.
Two hands on the wheel.
Face red.
Whole body involved.
You didn’t turn—you wrestled that thing like it owed you money.
Then power steering came along. And suddenly a pinky finger could do what used to take a full upper-body workout.
Same
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Other
Contributed by Daniel Austin on Mar 28, 2007
In 1174 the Italian architect Bonnano Pisano began work on what would become his most famous project: A separately standing bell tower for the Cathedral of the city of Pisa. The tower was to be eight-stories and 185-foot-tall tall. There was just one "little" problem: builders quickly discovered
...read more
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Aug 20, 2007
Dan Huxley owns a world record in an unusual category: he pulls airplanes. The most remarkable happened on October 15, 1997 when he broke his own record. On that day at the Mascot Airport in Sydney, Australia he strapped a harness around his upper body, attached one end of a steel cable to it and
...read more
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 12, 2004
based on 5 ratings
| 1,864 views
It is not that you never entertain a question, for as Frederick Buechner exclaimed: “Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Richard Olson on Sep 26, 2004
based on 7 ratings
| 2,132 views
Anyone who has had a child knows that giving birth takes a lot of effort. For nine months this child is growing inside the womb. Then the day arrives. Suddenly there is agony. You ladies just don’t understand what suffering we guys have to go through. We have to be sensitive and attentive. We
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 23, 2004
based on 4 ratings
| 2,566 views
One contrast of heaven and hell tells of a man who had a dream that he was allowed to see both places. He was first taken to hell.
He was taken to a large room in the middle of which there was a large pot of stew.
The stew smelled delicious. But all around this point there were people who were
...read more
Tags:
Being baptised is a bit like having a tap put in your bath room. A tap is rather essential furniture. Putting a tap in makes it a bath room. But you still have to turn it on. Imagine a bath room which stayed there for 80 years before being knocked down, and during that time not one of the taps
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Anglican
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 21, 2001
based on 168 ratings
| 2,729 views
There’s a story about a child psychologist who wanted to observe how different children respond to negative circumstances.
They got a room and filled it with horse manure. Putting the pessimistic child in there, they observed how he responded.
Predictably, he whined and cried, and despaired that
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Sermon Central