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  • This Story Broke This Week From The United ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 14, 2009
     | 994 views

    This story broke this week from the United Kingdom: " LONDON (Reuters) – Gone are the days of shepherds in tea towels and tinsel-clad angels. Britain’s competitive parents are forking out on luxury pashmina shawls and velour dressing gowns to make their child the star of the annual nativity ...read more

  • The Wandering Sheep

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
     | 6,962 views

    THE WANDERING SHEEP Dr. Andrew Bonar tells of how in the Highlands of Scotland, a sheep would often wander off into the rocks and get into places that they can't get out of. The grass on these mountains is very sweet and the sheep like it, and they will jump down ten or twelve feet, and then ...read more

  • Stop Or Slow Down  PRO

    Contributed by Akinsanya Adubi on May 6, 2011
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,751 views

    STOP OR SLOW DOWN Pastor John Hagee told us a story of a driver that refused to stop at a STOP sign; he was then pulled over by a cop. The cop told him that the reason he pulled him over was because he refused to stop at a STOP sign. He replied that he slowed down, the cop then explain to him that ...read more

  • Responding To Opposition

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 25, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,016 views

    RESPONDING TO OPPOSITION Several months ago, a pastor sent some of his associate pastors into a village. They evangelized by knocking on doors and as God brought in healing and deliverance into these families, they would come to Christ. They once knocked on the door of a policeman, a very ...read more

  • Listening To God Compared To Listening To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,948 views

    LISTENING TO GOD COMPARED TO LISTENING TO THE DOCTOR We should treat prayer for what it is, a two way conversation with God, and learn to be quiet long enough for him to get a word in edge ways. Nicky Gumbel, in his book Questions of Life compares it to a visit to the doctor, he writes “Suppose I ...read more

  • Match Made In Heaven

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Oct 16, 2012
     | 2,590 views

    There is a story about a couple that went to heaven and in this life they loved each other, but from a distance. So when they got to heaven, they decided to get married. They said to Peter, "Pete, we want to get married." And Peter says, "You have got eternity, why don't you think of it for 50 ...read more

  • Getting Too Far From The Source  PRO

    Contributed by Choe Sergent on Apr 17, 2013
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,538 views

    GETTING TOO FAR FROM THE SOURCE The county hired a new person to paint fresh yellow lines down the middle of all the county roads. The first day this man painted an astonishing 10 miles of road with new double yellow lines down the middle. This was a record! No one had ever painted ten miles of ...read more

  • A Young Boy Came To Church One Cold Winter Day To ...

    Contributed by David Henderson on May 7, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,542 views

    A young boy came to church one cold winter day to get out of the blowing snow. He had been trying to sell newspapers but not a single customer had passed by because of the weather. He slipped into the back of the church, just hoping to get warm and catch up on his sleep. Though the Sunday crowd ...read more

  • Tom Mcdawley, A Correspondent For The Christian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,629 views

    Tom McDawley, a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor reported on a poll conducted in January 2006 by the Terror Free Tomorrow organization. The poll suggested that humanitarian aid delivered by real human beings is a very effective way to improve how Muslim countries view the United ...read more

  • During One Summer While I Was In Seminary, I ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,447 views

    During one summer while I was in seminary, I worked as a chaplain at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD. I discovered while I was there that there were one group of people who were really open to prayer and to hearing about the need for Christ in their lives. Who were they? Men in the cardiac ...read more

  • John Newton: Wrote Many Books, Sermons & Hymns. ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 24, 2008
     | 1,743 views

    JOHN NEWTON: Wrote many books, sermons & hymns. His most famous was ‘Amazing Grace’. Newton’s life proved the truth of that song. He lived a very troubled life: Had a very godly mother but a wicked father who was often off to sea and then came home to live a wicked life. Newton’s mother prayed ...read more

  • The Infallible Bible-Barometer

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Feb 17, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,571 views

    The Infallible Bible-Barometer In September, 1938, a man who lived on Long Island was able one day to satisfy a lifelong ambition by purchasing for himself a very fine barometer. When the instrument arrived at his home, he was extremely disappointed to find that the indicating needle appeared to ...read more

  • Distracted  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 10,296 views

    DISTRACTED One morning a farmer told his wife that he was going out to pluck the ripe fruits from his field. He got off to an early start so he could warm up the truck. He needed more petrol, so he went to the store to get it. On the way to the store he noticed the pigs weren’t fed. So he ...read more

  • Last Sunday During The Bridal Shower That Was ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 27, 2008
     | 2,907 views

    Last Sunday during the bridal shower that was held here after worship, I thought that it would be a very helpful thing to have several married men take the groom-to-be out to lunch and share with him some important advice we had learned from our marital experiences. So we did… four married men and ...read more

  • Distracted

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Dec 22, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,855 views

    DISTRACTED One morning a farmer told his wife that he was going out to pluck the ripen fruits from his field. He got off to an early start so he could warm up the truck. He needed more petrol, so he went to the store to get it. On the way to the store he noticed the pigs weren’t fed. So he ...read more

  • Soap And Salvation

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 2, 2022
     | 2,570 views

    A skeptic sneeringly said, "The gospel has lost its power. While thousands profess Christ, nothing much is happening as a result." But it's not the fault of the gospel. It's because people make a profession but have no possession. It's not enough to acknowledge the truth of ...read more

  • The Tin—untold Riches

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,615 views

    THE TIN--UNTOLD RICHES In the late nineteenth Century in South Africa, an old man was digging for gold in a river bed. He had been at it for many years. Every now and then he found a little bit of gold, not enough to make him rich – but just enough to maintain his interest. The part of river in ...read more

  • British Clergyman Repudiates The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2010
     | 4,416 views

    British Clergyman Repudiates the Church’s Traditional Understanding of the Cross The Very Reverend Dr. Jeffrey Philip Hywel John believes that the church’s traditional understanding of the cross of Christ is both “repulsive” and “insane.” His comments in the spring of 2007 about the cross ignited a ...read more

  • A Lesson From A Pair Of Mildewed Shoes

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Mar 22, 2020
     | 2,561 views

    A number of years ago I received a three-year assignment to Okinawa, Japan, as part of my Air Force experience. Hardly anybody I knew had much knowledge of that part of the world, so we really had no idea what to expect. We were in for a number of surprises! We lived in a motel, basically, for a ...read more

  • The Word "Fool" Doesn't Get As Much Use Now As It ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Jack on Jun 9, 2007
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,221 views

    The word “fool” doesn’t get as much use now as it once did. If one of my mates does something profoundly stupid I don’t usually cry out “you fool”. I might say “you are such an idiot” or “what a goose”. I’m sure many people you know would use much more colourful language than that. Fool is one of ...read more