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  • Some People When They Go On Vacation, They Get ...  PRO

    Contributed by Stephan Brown on Aug 26, 2002
    based on 93 ratings
     | 2,223 views

    Some people when they go on vacation, they get to the hotel room and they unpack everything. They take it all out of the suitcase and put it into those bureaus. I think I did that once when I was staying in the same place for three weeks. But if I’m only going to be around for a week or a few days, ...read more

  • During World War Ii, The Nazis Set Up A Camp ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2002
     | 848 views

    During World War II, the Nazis set up a camp factory in Hungary where hundreds of Jewish prisoners had survived in disease infested barracks on little food and gruesome backbreaking work. Each day the prisoners were marched to the compound¡¦s giant factory where tons of human waste and garbage were ...read more

  • Where's Your Faith?  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Oct 17, 2003
    based on 18 ratings
     | 5,655 views

    WHERE'S YOUR FAITH? Television interviewer and journalist Larry King describes three farmers who gather daily in a field during a horrible drought. The men are down on their knees, looking upward, and praying the skies will open and pour forth a much-needed rain. Unfortunately, the heavens are ...read more

  • Bill Hybels Tells About An Interesting ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 1, 2005
    based on 40 ratings
     | 6,638 views

    Bill Hybels tells about an interesting experience after a baptism service in their church. He writes: “I bumped into a woman in the stairwell who was crying. I thought this was a little odd, since the service was so joyful. I asked her if she was all right. She said, ‘No, I’m struggling.’ She ...read more

  • John 12:26...the Word (Diakoneo) Means To Wait ...

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Apr 3, 2006
     | 1,288 views

    John 12:26...The word (diakoneo) means to wait on. We get our English equivalent deacon, or servant from the word. The other word (servant) means literally union on the road. So Jesus is saying something like, Join me on the road of serving others. The world in which we live says, Grab on, ...read more

  • A Woman In West Palm Beach, Florida, Died Alone ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Perryman on May 10, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,178 views

    A woman in West Palm Beach, Florida, died alone at the age of 71. The coroner’s report was tragic. “Cause of death: Malnutrition.” The dear old lady wasted away to 50 pounds. Investigators who found her said the place where she lived was a veritable pigpen, the biggest mess you could imagine. ...read more

  • Some Of You Are Familiar With The Television ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 24, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,216 views

    Some of you are familiar with the television show Deal, or No Deal. It consists of 26 cases, each containing a different amount of money. The contestants don’t know the sum of money in each case, and they try to pick the one with the greatest amount of money. They open the cases, one by one, ...read more

  • A Story Of Friendship

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,888 views

    Let me read to you; A Story of friendship Out of the furnaces of war come many true stories of sacrificial friendship. One such story tells of two friends in World War I, who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together and fought side-by-side in ...read more

  • On The Middle Day Of A Three Day Fishing Trip To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2007
     | 1,509 views

    On the middle day of a three day fishing trip to Barkley Lake (Eddyville, KY) I would have done equally well had I taken no fishing gear with me. I went all day without a single bite. Rarely has that ever happened to me. I was skunked. As we were returning our boat to the dock that evening at ...read more

  • One Discovery That Has Affected Just About All Of ...

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Nov 10, 2007
     | 1,142 views

    One discovery that has affected just about all of us occurred in 1946. As Dr. Percy Spencer was testing a component of a military radar called the magnetron tube he reached into his pocket to grab a chocolate bar that he had stashed for those times he felt a little hungry. When he grabbed it he ...read more

  • World War I Friends

    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 19, 2008
     | 1,420 views

    WORLD WAR 1 FRIENDS – Powerful Illustration Out of the furnaces of war come many true stories of sacrificial friendship. One such story tells of two friends in World War I, who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together and fought side-by-side in ...read more

  • Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 1,952 views

    BE INTENTIONAL A guy stopped at a local gas station and, after filling his tank, he paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola and watched a couple of men working along the roadside. One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other man ...read more

  • Would You Look At That...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 10, 2009
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,325 views

    "WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT..." The story is told of an old man whose grandson rode a donkey while they were traveling from one city to another. The old man heard some people mumbling, "Would you look at that old man walking, suffering on his feet, while that strong young boy is totally capable of ...read more

  • Forgotten How To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 3,828 views

    FORGOTTEN HOW TO FISH? I read an interesting story about a group of pelicans in California. If you’ve ever seen pelicans in action, you know they’re great fishermen, or fisher-birds. These pelicans were hanging out near a fleet of fishing boats. The fishermen on the boats would pull into the ...read more

  • Planet Of The Year

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,441 views

    PLANET OF THE YEAR Time Magazine in 1989 celebrated not the Person of the Year but the Planet of Year. It was a wakeup call for me and convicted me and my faith. "Through most of his 2 million years or so of existence, man has thrived in earth's environment -- perhaps too well.... The reason is ...read more

  • Joy And Prayer In Suffering  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
    based on 18 ratings
     | 6,872 views

    JOY AND PRAYER IN SUFFERING The fact that God chooses to love the unworthy should move us to loud praise frequently. Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid-1950’s her father, British minister W.E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a dragging in his leg. When he ...read more

  • The Reason Behind An Unusual Hymn Singing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2009
     | 2,974 views

    The Reason Behind an Unusual Hymn Singing Practice is Discovered Sometime in the last decade of twentieth century, a young pastor who was a fresh graduate from a renowned seminary was assigned to shepherd an old church in a remote village. The church was founded and built sometime in the late ...read more

  • The Conversion Of George Whitefield

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 29, 2011
     | 4,784 views

    THE CONVERSION OF GEORGE WHITEFIELD In the 1730's in England, a young man named George Whitefield desperately wanted to be right before God. As a student at Oxford, he was part of the Holy Club, along with John and Charles Wesley. The members of that club rose early every day for lengthy ...read more

  • Alexander Maclaren On The Right Stimulus For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2011
     | 2,976 views

    ALEXANDER MACLAREN ON THE RIGHT STIMULUS FOR ACTION It is perfectly legitimate, although it is by no means the highest motive, to appeal to feeling as a stimulus to action. We have a right to base our urging of Christian men and women to missionary work either at home or abroad, upon the ground of ...read more

  • Ministry During Black Plague

    Contributed by Dr. Nicholas M. Muteti on Jun 20, 2011
     | 3,478 views

    MINISTRY DURING BLACK PLAGUE Many years ago, in Europe, there was a great plague that killed one third of the population. It was called the black plague. Tens of thousands were killed each and every month and the population was terrified by the thought of facing death in their families and homes, ...read more