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  • Ox And Mule

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jun 6, 2017
     | 6,919 views

    An old farmer plowed hard for many days with an ox and mule yoked together. The ox told the mule that they should play sick and rest. The mule declined saying, “No, we must get the work done for the season is short. But the ox played sick and the farmer brought him hay and corn and made him ...read more

  • It's The Boat

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Jan 2, 2008
     | 2,569 views

    It’s The Boat Imagine a ship filled with people crossing the Atlantic. In the middle of the ocean there is an explosion. The ship is severely damaged and slowly sinking. Most are dead, and the rest are rushing for the lifeboats. Now suppose one man doesn’t know about the lifeboat, so he does not ...read more

  • A Lady Was Walking Down The Street In Atlanta ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Mar 30, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,269 views

    A lady was walking down the street in Atlanta when a man grabbed her purse and ran away. She was terrified. She was from a small town in Alabama and had never even known anyone that had something like this happen to them. Much to her relief a police officer was heading her way. When he got ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis On The Law Of Nature

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
     | 5,223 views

    C.S. LEWIS ON THE LAW OF NATURE "Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining ‘It’s not fair’ before you can ...read more

  • An Ad On Tv Shows All The Junk In The Sea Being ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Apr 16, 2008
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    An ad on TV shows all the junk in the sea being taken out, until the water is pure, (Old spitfires, warships and wrecks etc.) Unfortunately it is an alcohol ad that portrays the product as "pure water"? Isn't that just like man, to make what is good evil and what is evil good? Alcohol is anything ...read more

  • Sometimes People Think God Does Not Know What ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 21, 2008
     | 2,759 views

    Sometimes people think God does not know what they are thinking. But He knows that some people are just "using" God, but they really detest Him. At a tea for officers and their wives, the commanding general of a base delivered a seemingly endless oration. A young lieutenant grumbled to the woman ...read more

  • Still Has It After All Those Years

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Apr 29, 2008
     | 1,284 views

    STILL HAS IT AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS Years ago, I had this wonderful man in my congregation who looked exactly like, no kidding, Marlon Brando. Mitch was this huge man who had a heart of gold. He had lost his wife to cancer years earlier, but had fallen in love with Louise, a sweet woman just a few ...read more

  • Waiting For The Shoe To Drop

    Contributed by Wes Richard on Sep 24, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,362 views

    Waiting for the Shoe to Drop A man living on the first-floor of an apartment got upset every night because the guy living above him dropped his shoes on the floor when he got ready for bed. Every night, the same thing happened. First, the noise from one shoe, then the noise from the other. ...read more

  • I Heard A Story From A Preacher Named Paris ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 25, 2008
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    I heard a story from a preacher named Paris Reidhead in an excellent sermon he preached called Ten Shekels and a Shirt. Reidhead tells about two young Moravian Christians who heard about an atheist British man who owned an island on which he owned 2,000- 3,000 slaves. The man decided that no ...read more

  • Charles Crabtree, Former Assistant General Sup. ...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Oct 21, 2008
     | 1,773 views

    Charles Crabtree, former Assistant General Sup. of the Assemblies of God told this story. I met a distinguished-looking gentleman in his mid-40s, who immediately began to impress upon me how educated he was. After a few minutes of a well-rehearsed oral résumé, I must confess I was impressed. He ...read more

  • Who Do You Rely On?  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 25, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,532 views

    WHO DO YOU RELY ON? In "Point Man", Steve Farrar tells about a photographer for a national magazine who was assigned to take pictures of a great forest fire. He was advised that a small plane would be waiting to fly him over the fire. The photographer arrived at the airstrip just an hour before ...read more

  • William Colgate

    Contributed by Willem Nel on Feb 4, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,248 views

    WILLIAM COLGATE His family was poor and at the age of 16 he left home to seek his fortune. The only thing he knew was how to make soap and candles. He met an old canal-boat captain, who gave him this advice: "Be a good man, give your heart to Christ, pay the Lord all that belongs to Him, make an ...read more

  • I Am One Of Them

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
     | 2,326 views

    I AM ONE OF THEM As a third-century man was anticipating death, he penned these last words to a friend: "It’s a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy, which is a thousand times ...read more

  • At Times Being A Christian Will Mean For Us A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,663 views

    At times being a Christian will mean for us a sacrifice, will involve a cost , it could involves once held friendships it could mean letting go of something in order for us to fulfil Gods purposes in our lives as Martin Luther once said, “The cross we bear always goes before the crown we ...read more

  • When The Infidel Robert G. Ingersoll Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    When the infidel Robert G. Ingersoll was delivering his lectures against Christ and the Bible, his speaking ability usually assured him of a large crowd. One night after an inflammatory speech in which he severely attacked man’s faith in the Savior, he dramatically took out his watch and said, ...read more

  • We Have A Tendency To See The Past As Being ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    We have a tendency to see the past as being better than what it was… The good old days really weren’t all that good. We forget about all the hardships: (The depression, no air conditioning, out houses, no running water). Back in the days before electricity, a tightfisted old farmer was taking his ...read more

  • Christian Marriage

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 6,596 views

    Christian Marriage Story: A young courting couple approached the gates of Paradise and knocked on the door. St Peter appeared and beckoned them in. As the young man approached St Peter he said: “Before we come in can we ask: Can you get married in paradise?” St Peter replied. “I don’t know off ...read more

  • Norman Cates Tells The Story Of A Christian Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,877 views

    Norman Cates tells the story of a Christian who prayed this prayer every morning: "Lord, if you want me to witness to someone today, please give me a sign to show me who it is." One day he found himself on a nearly empty bus when a big, burly man sat next to him. The timid believer anxiously ...read more

  • Oprah Winfrey Was Interviewing People On Her ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,581 views

    Oprah Winfrey was interviewing people on her program recently who were having affairs with married people (there’s a great subject) One woman who had a long-standing affair with a married man was saying how happy she was. But then someone raised the question of morality. "Wait a minute," the woman ...read more

  • The Heart Of Worship  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,606 views

    ILL: The Heart of Worship There’s a recent song that was written by a young man who lead the worship at church. He was an extremely talented singer, but the preacher there took him aside and told him that he could not lead the singing at church until things changed because he saw that he was more ...read more