Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 14, 2011
YOU DIDN'T WATCH
One time when Michigan State was playing UCLA in football, the score was tied at 14 with only seconds to play. Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State's coach, sent in place kicker Dave Kaiser who booted a field goal that won the game. When the kicker returned to the bench, Daugherty
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Apr 26, 2007
It started like so many evenings. Mom and Dad at home and Jimmy playing after dinner. When Mom glanced at the clock she said “Jimmy, it’s time to go to bed. Go up now and I’ll come and tuck you in later.” An hour or so later his mother came up to check, and to her astonishment found that her son
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Apr 26, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 905 views
Satan has three lines of attack. First, he tries to keep men from becoming Christians. Then, if stopped here, he tries to keep them from being active and useful as Christians. And finally, as a last resort, he
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Apr 26, 2007
based on 2 ratings
| 870 views
At an open-air Gospel meeting the preacher asked for testimonies. While this was going on a skeptic was passing by just when the testimony of a saved drunkard was being given. He stopped and listened. The former drunkard was telling how Jesus had wrought a miracle and saved his poor soul. The
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Apr 26, 2007
Some years ago, musicians noted that errand boys in a certain part of London all whistled out of tune as they went about their work. It was talked about and someone suggested that it was because the bells of Westminster were slightly out of tune. Something had gone wrong with the chimes and they
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Apr 26, 2007
Several years ago driving through the Ocala National Forest at night, I spotted a large brown object lying in the middle of the road. I thought it looked like it might be a bear cub that had been struck by a car. I got out and looked at it, and sure enough, that is what it was. About the time I
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Apr 22, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 791 views
I wonder what God would say to us today as He sees all of our so-called Christian organizations in constant activity but with little action or movement. The huge building program proclaiming astronomical figures in cost and “people reached” is indeed impressive. The mushroom growth of both churches
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 27, 2005
based on 3 ratings
| 808 views
In a recent survey it was found that 15 percent of the ladies tinted their hair, 38 percent wore rouge, 98 percent wore eye shadow, 22 percent wore false eyelashes, 93 percent wore nail polish. And 100 percent voted in favor of a resolution condemning any kind of
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 27, 2005
based on 1 rating
| 1,493 views
I read about a young man who was determined to win the affection of a lady who refused to even talk to him anymore. He decided that the way to her heart was through the mail, so he began writing her love letters. He wrote a love letter every day to this lady. Six, seven times a week she got a love
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 27, 2005
based on 4 ratings
| 1,343 views
I once talked with General Charles M. Duke, a former astronaut who went on the Apollo 16 mission to the moon. I asked, “Once you were there, weren’t you free to make your own decisions and carry out your own experiments. He smiled and said “Sure, if I didn’t want to return to earth!” He went on to
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 27, 2005
based on 2 ratings
| 932 views
Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. The misbehavior of students led to a riot in which professors who tried to restore order were attacked. The following day a meeting was held between the university’s board, of which Jefferson was a member, and defiant students. Jefferson began by
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 27, 2005
based on 3 ratings
| 4,498 views
I read a humorous story about a woman who fell out of a second-floor window and landed in a slow-moving garbage truck. Half-buried in the litter, she tried without success to get the truck-driver’s attention. A foreign diplomat standing on the sidewalk saw her and quipped, “another example of how
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 27, 2005
based on 1 rating
| 4,510 views
A large majority of men--married and single--say they wouldn’t have an affair, even if they were certain their loved one would never find out, says a Gallup poll commissioned by Self magazine, in the June (1992) issue. Of 500 men surveyed, 67% of married men and 60% of unmarried men say an affair
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 25, 2005
based on 2 ratings
| 1,129 views
John Wesley and a preacher-friend of plain habits were once invited to dinner where the host’s daughter, noted for her beauty, had been profoundly impressed by Wesley’s preaching. During a pause in the meal, Wesley’s friend took the young woman’s hand and called attention to the sparkling rings she
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 25, 2005
based on 2 ratings
| 1,225 views
H. L. Gee somewhere tells of a tramp who came begging to a good woman’s door. She went to get something to give him and found that she had no change in the house. She went to him and said, “I have not a penny of small change. I need a loaf of bread. Here is a pound note. Go and buy the loaf and
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 25, 2005
based on 10 ratings
| 1,033 views
In the church there is a bond of family, yet room for variety. The devil tries to disrupt unity. To chickens tied at the legs and thrown over a clothesline may be united, but they do not have unity. (Leslie
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 25, 2005
based on 2 ratings
| 1,374 views
A man had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. He could receive little company and was to avoid excitement. While in the hospital a rich uncle died and left him a million dollars. His family wondered how to break the news to him with the least amount of excitement. It was decided to ask
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Sermon Central