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  • Call Home Often  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2004
    based on 24 ratings
     | 4,448 views

    CALL HOME OFTEN Max Lucado in his book "In the Eye of a Storm" talks about traveling from one speaking engagement to another. He had traveled from San Antonio to Boston and had spoken at a gathering in Boston. Then he was flying on to Edmonton, Canada to fulfill a speaking engagement there. When ...read more

  • How God Protected David Brainerd During ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 30, 2010
     | 6,650 views

    How God Protected David Brainerd During Missionary Work American history tells of missionary saints who interceded for those of this land too. In answer to the question, "What can be done to revive the work of God where it has decayed?" John Wesley once said, "Let every preacher read carefully ...read more

  • Counterfeit ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 27, 2012
     | 9,980 views

    COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIANITY Several years ago in Kentucky a man walked into a Dairy Queen, placed his order and then paid for it with a $200 bill. The cashier gave him $198 in change and he drove away. Some time later in the day I guess the manager noticed that something didn’t seem right about this ...read more

  • Grace: Jean Valjean From Les Miserables

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Feb 6, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,679 views

    GRACE: JEAN VALJEAN FROM LES MISERABLES The story of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables is a great example of grace. * I read the book many years ago. Liza and I just saw the movie adaptation of the musical. * "Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that ...read more

  • Rejection At The Vending Machine  PRO

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on May 27, 2015
    based on 5 ratings
     | 10,102 views

    Vending machines have come a long way since I was a kid. It used to be you slid in a couple of coins and pulled a lever and down would drop your snack or drink. Now there are lights, levers, cranes, codes, and chutes that make the purchase a production of its own. It’s almost worth the price of ...read more

  • John Todd--Heaven Is Very Real. Here Is One Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,058 views

    JOHN TODD--Heaven is very real. Here is one of the loveliest stories I have ever read: In October of 1800 a boy named John Todd was born in Rutland, Vermont. Shortly afterward, the family moved to the little village of Killingsworth. And there, when John was only six years old, both his parents ...read more

  • The Bamboo Servant  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,162 views

    THE BAMBOO SERVANT Once upon a time, in the heart of an ancient Kingdom, there was a beautiful garden. And there, in the cool of the day, the Master of the garden would walk. Of all the plants of the garden, the most beautiful and beloved was a gracious and noble bamboo. Year after year, Bamboo ...read more

  • Mother's Day Is Fast Approaching And My Mind Went ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2007
     | 2,707 views

    MOTHER’S DAY IS FAST APPROACHING and my mind went back many years ago to a TV program called, I Remember Moma (I guess I’m showing my age now). It was broadcast from 1949 to 1957 on CBS. It was a 30 minute show in black and white about a Norwegian-American family living in San Francisco in ...read more

  • The Echo  PRO

    Contributed by Anne Grant on Oct 22, 2001
    based on 63 ratings
     | 2,718 views

    I read a true story written by Louis Mayer from his childhood in New Brunswick, Canada. He had gotten into a fight at school when he was quite a small boy, And he was feeling bitter, filled with resentment And a desire for revenge. His body hurt, but his mind hurt more. And when he got home, ...read more

  • Thanksgiving Without Martha  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 6,032 views

    THANKSGIVING WITHOUT MARTHA Martha Stewart will not be dining with us this Thanksgiving. I’m telling you in advance, so don’t act surprised. Since Ms. Stewart won’t be coming, I’ve made a few small changes: Our sidewalk will not be lined with homemade, paper bag luminaries. After a trial run, it ...read more

  • The Daffodil Story.  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 18 ratings
     | 3,755 views

    The Daffodil Story. Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over." I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead. "I will come next Tuesday," I promised a little reluctantly on her third call. Next ...read more

  • Jason's Praying Pencils  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Sep 7, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,530 views

    Jason’s Praying Pencils How a student gave his teacher a special education by Hugh Chapman I was an hour-and-a-half into my new teaching career when I saw him at the other end of the hallway. He was the reason I almost didn’t take the job; before long, he became the reason I stayed. Though I had ...read more

  • Melody Is Standing At The Pulpit, With Her Head ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,778 views

    Melody is standing at the pulpit, with her head bowed as she is praying. (This script is in front of her.) The pastor is in the back of the sanctuary, with a microphone. - - - - - - - - BEGINNING OF SKIT - - - - - - - Melody: Our Father Who Art In Heaven. Pastor: Yes? Melody: (looking around ...read more

  • No Jacket Required  PRO

    Contributed by Johanna Radelfinger on May 26, 2003
    based on 55 ratings
     | 3,241 views

    NO JACKET REQUIRED I shook my head in disbelief. This couldn’t be the right place. After all, I couldn’t possibly be welcome here. I had been given an invitation several times, by several different people, and had finally decided to see what this place was all about. But, this just couldn’t be the ...read more

  • Steve Bouman Tells The Story We Began To Find ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 28, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,054 views

    Steve Bouman tells the story We began to find our power as a congregation in New Jersey as a matter of being a place where you can go when there’s no where else to go. When you invite the poor and the homeless, they do come such as Edgar. He is by anybody’s standards a strange character. He lives ...read more

  • I Have A Friend Who Works With A Church In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeremy Houck on Jul 26, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,951 views

    I have a friend who works with a church in Nashville. He was telling us a few weeks ago about a lady at his church who was really convicted by what she had been reading in the scriptures and hearing at church. She felt that she has no other choice but to take the love of God out to a dying world ...read more

  • Swim Club

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 23, 2006
     | 1,241 views

    Swim Club There once was a swim club in a certain town. It was very popular because everyone in town wanted to be a good swimmer. The founders of the club had worked very hard to raise the money and do the work of building a beautiful swimming pool inside a very stylish building. They ...read more

  • Lord Have Mercy Me

    Contributed by D. Marie Hamilton on May 21, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,196 views

    LORD HAVE MERCY ME I am a huge fan of the Christian band Mercy Me. They are my favorite band of all time! My favorite CD is Almost There. Those worship and praise songs inspire me to stay in the race even when I want to quit because working for the Lord can be overwhelming. I'm strengthen by ...read more

  • Illustration] Some Of You Are Aware That Robin ...

    Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jan 3, 2008
     | 1,540 views

    -[Illustration] Some of you are aware that Robin and I are in the middle of a house hunt. We would like to buy a house, and live there for quite awhile, if the Lord is willing. We have wanted to buy a home all along, but I just always assumed that we did not really have the buying power to purchase ...read more

  • Bamboo

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,639 views

    Once upon a time, in the heart of an ancient Kingdom, there was a beautiful garden. And there, in the cool of the day, the Master of the garden would walk. Of all the plants of the garden, the most beautiful and most beloved was gracious and noble bamboo. Year after year, bamboo grew yet more noble ...read more