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  • Parental ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
     | 4,446 views

    PARENTAL GUIDANCE Did you hear about the young mother and her kindergarten aged son who were driving down the road and the inquisitive little boy turned to his mother and asked, "Mommy, why do the ’idiots’ only come out when ...read more

  • [240]. A Message From A Poem – Smothering Of Delusional Creep

    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Dec 20, 2025
    based on 1 rating
     | 81 views

    [240]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – SMOTHERING OF DELUSIONAL CREEP This is a very serious poem. It is about delusion that is now a feature of this world in many ways. What does the title mean? Well first of all we have delusion that creeps along like a snail, but creeps steadily. As it goes it ...read more

  • Even A Snake Has A Heart!  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 2, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,537 views

    “Even A Snake Has a Heart!” 1 John 1: 1-10 Key verse(s): 9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” We recently endured the effects of a fairly major windstorm here at Beech Springs. It happened as we were out of town ...read more

  • In The Name Of Jesus Stop!

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Sep 7, 2022
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,542 views

    Telemachus was a monk in the 4th century. One day in prayer, He felt called by God to leave immediately and head to Rome. So he put his possessions in a sack and headed out. Upon arriving in Rome, he was immediately caught up in the crowd. The crowd was immense and excited. Soon ...read more

  • For Many Years A Large Silver Star Adorned ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 6, 2001
    based on 60 ratings
     | 4,203 views

    ILL. For many years a large silver star adorned the top of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. One day back in the 1800’s, the Roman Catholic Church, which shares a part of the building with a Greek Orthodox Church, decided to take down the silver star & replace it with their own star. But ...read more

  • A Corrective Look At God—communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2002
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,567 views

    A CORRECTIVE LOOK AT GOD--COMMUNION MEDITATION "George Buttrick, former chaplain at Harvard, recalls that students would come into his office, plop down on a chair and declare, 'I don’t believe in God.' Buttrick would give this disarming reply: 'Sit down and tell me what kind of God you don’t ...read more

  • Busy Doctors  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,286 views

    *Busy Doctors* One fella walked into a doctor’s office and the receptionist asked him what he had. "Shingles," he said. So she took down his name, address and medical insurance number and told him to have a seat. Fifteen minutes later a nurse’s aid came out and asked him what he had. "Shingles," ...read more

  • More Incorrect  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,144 views

    *More Incorrect* Two young engineers applied for a single position at a computer company. They both had the same qualifications. In order to determine which individual to hire, the applicants were asked to take a test by the department manager. Upon completion of the test, both men missed only ...read more

  • Beyond The Sunset  PRO

    Contributed by Sean Smuts on Jul 17, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,651 views

    Beyond the Sunset Should you go first and I remain, To walk the road alone. I live in memories garden, dear, With happy days we’ve known. In spring I’ll wait for roses, red, When faded, the lilacs blue. In early fall when brown leaves fall, I’ll catch a glimpse of you. Should you go first ...read more

  • Years Ago, An Evangelist Was Holding A Meeting ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 27, 2004
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    Years ago, an evangelist was holding a meeting in South Carolina. Two men in the church a man and his son-in-law had not spoken to each other for many years. Each of them came to church every Sunday. The father-in-law sat on one side of the church and the son-in-law sat on the other side. The ...read more

  • A Builder Or A Wrecker

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    A Builder Or a Wrecker As I watched them tear a building down A gang of men in a busy town With a ho-heave-ho, and a lusty yell They swung a beam and the side wall fell I asked the foreman, "Are these men skilled, And the men you’d hire if you wanted to build?" He gave a laugh and said, ...read more

  • A Bit Of Knife Blade

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 23, 2006
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     | 2,321 views

    Rev. John McNeil told the following story: A ship once wrecked on the Irish coast. The captain was a careful one. Nor had the weather been of so severe a kind to explain the wide distance the ship had swerved from her course. The ship went down, but so much interest was attached to the disaster ...read more

  • My Mind Was On The Eels  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Aug 10, 2009
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    MY MIND WAS ON THE EELS Today in class we are going to be studying a book called Old Yella, a 1956 novel by Fred Gipson. OK my English teacher may have got my attention for that long, as long as it took to introduce the book. In fact I had to Google who wrote the book and when it was written, ...read more

  • Church On Fire

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Jun 15, 2011
     | 9,826 views

    CHURCH ON FIRE Here's an interesting article that goes well with Pentecost. The article’s title read, "Fireworks Blamed for Church Fire." The story begins, "Fireworks were blamed for a fire that tore through a church in Brush Prairie, on Monday... . The church's roof collapsed as the fire ...read more

  • A Lutheran Youth Fellowship '07 Poll Finds 28% ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
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    A Lutheran Youth Fellowship '07 poll finds 28% cite their personal faith as their top concern while 23.8% say the future; 23.3% family relationships; 23.1% college and 16.3% unbelievers. Others included terrorism 9.4% and war 7.9%. 58.4% of respondents said pre-marital sex is always wrong, down ...read more

  • Do You Know Where The Phrase "Buy The Farm" Comes ...

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Jul 22, 2008
     | 1,885 views

    Do you know where the phrase “buy the farm” comes from? It is actually rather recent in its usage. It started perhaps during WWI but certainly by WWII, having been recorded only in the 1950’s. Professor Jonathan Lighter has compiled the origin in the Random House Dictionary of American Slang. ...read more

  • The Father Of A Little Girl Sucked 150ft (46m) ...

    Contributed by Nigel Heath on Sep 16, 2008
     | 1,194 views

    The father of a little girl sucked 150ft (46m) along an underground drain has told how she had stopped breathing when he pulled her from the River Wear. Leona Baxter, three, was playing in a puddle when she disappeared. She had been washed into the uncovered drain, travelled 150 ft, and was ...read more

  • How Will You Ever Learn?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
     | 3,511 views

    HOW WILL YOU EVER LEARN? I heard the story of a nine-year-old girl who returned from Sunday School and as her father was sitting down with his newspaper after a delicious Sunday lunch, she asked him some questions. "Daddy, why did God make all the leaves green?" He thought a moment and replied, ...read more

  • In Germany, They First Came For The Communists ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,542 views

    In Germany, they first came for the Communists and I did not speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010
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    A.W. Tozer on Time A.W. Tozer wrote: “Time is a resource that is nonrenewable and nontransferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day–when it’s lost it’s unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember ...read more