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  • Do You Think You're The Only One That's Made ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 1, 2007
     | 860 views

    Do you think you’re the only one that’s made mistakes? Hardly. Imagine if you had been the president of a Michigan bank who advised Henry Ford’s lawyer not to invest in the new motor company, assuring him, "The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty." Or there was ...read more

  • Roger Rose Tells This Story: When He Was A Boy ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 27 ratings
     | 6,453 views

    Roger Rose tells this story: When he was a boy more than 60 years ago, his young brother was fatally injured in a tragic accident. A dirt road ran alongside their house, and only on rare occasions would there be a car on it. But one day as his brother was crossing on his bike, a car came roaring ...read more

  • There's A Story About A Local Fitness Center, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,632 views

    There’s a story about a local fitness center, which was offering $1,000 to anyone who could demonstrate that they were stronger than the owner of the place. Here’s how it worked. This muscle man would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran into a glass, and then hand the lemon to the next ...read more

  • Observations Of A Father

    Contributed by Chuck Musselwhite on Jun 21, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,737 views

    Observations of a Father • I am going to share with you all my wisdom of four years of parenting • Okay let’s look at what the Bible says • When I had my first child I lost half of my memory, when I had my second child I lost the other half, when I had my third I lost another half I didn’t know I ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of A Man Who Requested In His ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 27, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,534 views

    The story is told of a man who requested in his will to be buried in a very unusual way. When he died, he wanted everyone to look upon him as successful, so he asked that after his death his body be placed propped behind the wheel of a brand new pink Cadillac, and to have a smile on his face and an ...read more

  • God Can Be Trusted  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Bauer on Aug 1, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,833 views

    God can be trusted. Our prayers will not go unheeded. It’s like a little girl who crawled up into her father’s lap while was reading the newspaper. She told him how much she wanted him to build her a doll house. She didn’t climb down till her daddy had promised to do just that, although ...read more

  • These Hands

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 2, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,689 views

    “These Hands” A young man and a young woman became engaged and were looking forward to a near wedding day, when the young man was suddenly called into the service of his country. From the field of warfare letters regularly came and went, and love shined brightly in all of them. Then letters from ...read more

  • I Heard About A Man And His Four-Year-Old Son ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Nov 19, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 546 views

    I heard about a man and his four-year-old son traveling in the family car. As Dad turned the corner the door flew open and the son rolled out into the street. The dad looked back and noticed that another vehicle traveling at a fast rate and was nearly upon his son. All of a sudden the father ...read more

  • We Are Christ Ambassadors

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Feb 3, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,718 views

    “We are Christ ambassador’s…. By Pastor Donny Granberry Ambassador – (Webster’s) a diplomatic agent of the highest rank accredited to a foreign government or sovereign as the resident representative of his or her own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic ...read more

  • There Were Two Brothers That Had Had An Argument ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 17, 2008
     | 1,347 views

    There were two brothers that had had an argument and decided to never speak to the brother until the other one apologized. They went to the same church but never in several decades spoke more than three words to each other. However, God began working on their hearts. They each had always ignored ...read more

  • W. B. Hinson, A Great Preacher Of A Past ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,251 views

    W. B. Hinson, a great preacher of a past generation, spoke from his own experience just before he died, and he said, “I remember a year ago when a doctor told me, ‘You have an illness from which you won’t recover.’ I walked out to where I live 5 miles from Portland, Oregon, and I looked across at ...read more

  • China Has Too Many Men. Today, Roughly 120 Boys ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,283 views

    China has too many men. Today, roughly 120 boys are born in China for every 100 girls, perhaps the worst gender imbalance in modern human history. Within 15 years, the country may have 30 million men who cannot find wives. Households have preferred male children because men are viewed as better ...read more

  • A Pew Research Center Survey Reports 56% Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
     | 1,835 views

    A Pew Research Center survey reports 56% of Americans say mothers are doing a worse job today than they did 20 or 30 years ago. Full-time work outside the home has lost some of its appeal to mothers, for both those who have such jobs and those who don't. Among working mothers with children 17 and ...read more

  • Don't Quit

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 17, 2008
     | 3,119 views

    DON’T QUIT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low, and the debts are high, and you want to smile, but you have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is queer ...read more

  • None Like To Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
     | 3,498 views

    NONE LIKE TO JESUS Charles Spurgeon said, "Climb ye up to heaven, and behold the snow-white host, glittering like the sun in spotless purity. I ask them whence came they? The reply is that they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. It is most true that Jesus saves ...read more

  • There Were Two Brothers Named John And Charles. ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
     | 1,045 views

    There were two brothers named John and Charles. They grew up in a religious home. They believed there was a God. They had religious training. One even became a minister. But it was not until their 30’s or so, did they truly have their hearts, as one of them put it, ‘strangely warmed.’ That heart ...read more

  • Go Get Your Own

    Contributed by Louis Pantelis on May 21, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,244 views

    GO GET YOUR OWN One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come along way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God and said "God, we’ve decided that we no longer need you; We’re ...read more

  • Selling What You Believe In

    Contributed by Warren Whitaker on Feb 10, 2010
     | 1,931 views

    Selling What You Believe In My best friend in high school is now a teacher, but when we were in college, he tried his hand at selling things. He worked for Amway, Long Distance Telephone services, all sorts of those door to door, sign-you-up, pyramid-type business. I even remember him selling ...read more

  • I Have A Water Filter Attached To My Kitchen Sink ...

    Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Mar 5, 2010
     | 957 views

    I have a water filter attached to my kitchen sink at home. The water normally smells bad, tastes bad, because it has stuff in it. When the water comes into the filter, the filter holds on to all the bad stuff. It doesn’t allow the bad stuff to go on through. I think our brains have a “filter” too. ...read more

  • Burning The Cargo

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 29, 2011
     | 2,772 views

    BURNING THE CARGO There’s a story of two paddleboats that left Memphis about the same time, travelling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they travelled side by side, sailors from one vessel made a few remarks about the snail’s pace of the other. Words were exchanged. Challenges were ...read more

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