Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 20, 2001
based on 77 ratings
| 1,247 views
Well-known commentator and author Eric Sevarid said that the best lesson he ever learned was the principle of the "next mile." He recalled how he learned the principle:
During World War II, I and several others had to parachute from a crippled Army transport plane into the mountainous jungle on
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2001
based on 244 ratings
| 3,624 views
I read about a small Oklahoma town that had two churches and one distillery. Members of both churches complained that the distillery was giving the community a bad imagine. And to make matters worse the owner of the distillery was an out spoken atheist. He didn’t believe in God one bit. The church
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 12, 2001
based on 3 ratings
| 1,624 views
Well-known commentator and author Eric Sevarid said that the best lesson he ever learned was the principle of the "next mile." He recalled how he learned the principle:
During World War II, I and several others had to parachute from a crippled Army transport plane into the mountainous jungle on
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2002
based on 16 ratings
| 4,798 views
WORKING HARD AT COMPLAINING
There was a lady who lived alone in a suburban apartment complex. Upset at the noise from the adjacent apartment that she claimed was disturbing her, she immediately picked up the phone and called her landlord. “You need to get up here right away,” she told him. “There
...read more
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 14, 2001
based on 8 ratings
| 2,469 views
Jesus calls us to be people who
Live in present-tense.
An average person¡¦s anxiety is focused on :
40% -- things that will never happen
30% -- things about the past that can’t be changed
12% -- things about criticism by others, mostly untrue
10% -- about health, which gets worse with stress
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Apr 11, 2004
based on 13 ratings
| 1,804 views
I just read the story online of a guy who sold everything in order to place a bet in Los Vegas. The article explains: “A British man who has sold all his possessions, including his clothes, will stand in a rented tuxedo on Sunday and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel. If he
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 6, 2004
based on 1 rating
| 3,245 views
As C.S. Lewis describes…
“Men are reluctant to pass over from the notion of an abstract and negative deity to the living God. It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone. “Look out!” we cry, “it’s alive.” And therefore this is the very point at which so many draw back…I
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Thomas Black on Jan 28, 2005
Rosee was an elderly lady who always sat in front of our family in church. She was a kindly lady and I remember as a child one occasion in particular where she gave me a butterscotch candy just before church. My understanding was that any time I asked her for one, she would give me one, what
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
based on 2 ratings
| 5,509 views
C. S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity:
Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Bobby Stults on Sep 13, 2006
based on 1 rating
| 3,238 views
In 1988 William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery. When he was interviewed recently he said, "I wish it never happened. It was totally a nightmare,"
Obtained at www.google.com "Stories of Lotto winners gone broke"
A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a share of
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
RESEARCHERS FIND THAT MULTI-TASKERS PERFORM POORLY
So you think you can multitask? Texting while driving? No problem. Watching television and reading the Bible? No problem. Checking your email while listening to a spouse, a child, or a friend? No problem. In reality, however, according to a team
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
I WANT TO GO HOME
Fred Smith, an influential Christian businessman was seriously ill in the summer of 2004. He was hospitalized, semiconscious, and not expected to live.
Periodically he would mutter, "I want to go home, I want to go home." After an emotional family conference, the family
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 1 rating
| 6,658 views
A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE HURTS!
Several years ago, there was a song on Christian radio that said, "We bring a sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord." It had a happy, upbeat tune. Listening to it, I had the feeling that the singers were intrigued by the words but had not personally
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Sermon Central