Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
based on 2 ratings
| 5,943 views
SUBMARINE-STYLE PEACE
Several years ago a submarine was being tested and had to remain submerged for many hours. When it returned to the harbor, the captain was asked, "How did the terrible storm last night affect you?" The officer looked at him in surprise and exclaimed, "Storm? We didn't even
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 8, 2022
based on 1 rating
| 5,428 views
Johnny the painter, was big on cutting corners so he could make more of a profit. So when a church hired him to paint their wooden building, Johnny submitted the lowest bid, and was hired. As always, he thinned his latex paint with water to stretch it.
One day while he was up on the scaffolding
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Richard Goble on Mar 20, 2008
Tom Dooley was a young doctor who organized hospitals, raised money, and literally poured out his life in the service of the afflicted peoples of Southeast Asia. Here was a man whose deep relationship with God motivated him to abandon a soft career in the United States for a desperately difficult
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 3 ratings
| 3,659 views
Children often receive a confidence boost from their mothers when they are down. Wherever a child may have a sense of low self- esteem, a mother build that child’s confidence through her words of encouragement. Enrico Caruso is but one example. As a child his mother encouraged his talent for
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
United Methodist
Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jul 16, 2004
based on 5 ratings
| 1,960 views
We are told that in the prairies of South America there grows a flower that always inclines in the same direction. The traveler may lose his way while crossing one of those prairies, and he may have neither compass nor chart by which to steer his course; but, turning to this lovely flower, he will
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 9 ratings
| 2,870 views
HOW CAN YOU BE SO CALM?
Years ago a military officer and his wife were aboard a ship that was caught in a raging ocean storm. Seeing the frantic look in her eyes, the man tried unsuccessfully to remove her fears. Suddenly she grasped his sleeve and cried, "How can you be so calm?"
He stepped
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Mar 19, 2006
based on 1 rating
| 1,401 views
We cannot all be heroes,
And thrill a hemisphere
With some great daring venture,
Some deed that mocks at fear;
But we can fill a life time
With kindly acts and true;
There’s always noble service
For noble hearts to do.
We cannot all be preachers,
And sway with voice and pen,
As strong winds sway
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
United Methodist
Contributed by Harold White on Jan 5, 2001
based on 96 ratings
| 6,716 views
Travel has changed:
More than two hundred years ago George Washington traveled from Virginia to Washington D.C. by horseback. It could take him ten days traveling at a speed of twenty five miles per day.
Today astronauts can enter a space shuttle and travel at twenty five thousand miles per hour.
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Ted Sutherland on Mar 12, 2001
based on 110 ratings
| 2,184 views
In the Seoul Olympics, sailing competitions were under way at Pusan on September 24, 1988, with winds raging at 35 knots and playing havoc with the boats. Two sailors of the Singapore team, Joseph Chan and Shaw Her, were thrown overboard when their boat capsized.
Canada’s Lawrence Lemieux was
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Aug 16, 2001
based on 218 ratings
| 3,732 views
Assumptions can be quite dangerous. For example, the photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire. Smoke at the scene hampered him and he asked his home office to hire a plane. Arrangements were made and he was told to go at once to a nearby airport, where
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Shakespeare’s Henry the Fifth
In the Shakespearean play Henry the Fifth (which was also a movie a few years ago), King Henry comes against incredible odds on the battlefield.
In one scene you see hundreds of bowmen in the back lines sending a downpour of arrows arching over their own front
...read more
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Warren Lamb on Sep 16, 2006
On that fateful day in 1969, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, a group of people were preparing to have a “hurricane party” in the face of a storm named Camille. They were not ignorant of the dangers; they were overconfident. They let their egos and their pride influence their decisions. What else
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Robert Bravo on Jul 1, 2007
based on 8 ratings
| 2,201 views
Years ago, before the day when she was moth-balled and transformed into a floating museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, one of the largest, most powerful battleships that the world has ever known, the USS Missouri, was cruising off the coast of Nova Scotia in a gale wind blowing and whipping the waves into
...read more
Denomination:
Nazarene
Sermon Central