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  • Some Years Ago Donald Grey Barnhouse Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
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    Some years ago Donald Grey Barnhouse was counseling a young woman on the sidewalk in front of a church following an evening service. She said she was a Christian and that she wanted to follow Christ. But she wanted to be famous too. She wanted to pursue a stage career in New York. "After I have ...read more

  • I'm Not Much Of A Cook, And Even When I Do, It's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I’m not much of a cook, and even when I do, it’s just by means of the 4 basic food groups—frozen, canned, instant, and micro waved. So when my wife, who is a good cook, asked me to go to the store for ‘cream of tartar’, I proudly marched off stating I needed no help from her in locating it. Off I ...read more

  • A Teen Boy Was Trying To Sneak His Date Back ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    A teen boy was trying to sneak his date back into her home very late at night. He stood at the door as she headed up the stairs, but she was met at the top by her angry father. He told her to go to her room, then walked down to the young man. “Did I hear the clock strike four just a few moments ...read more

  • Eating The Wealth Of A Nation

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 12, 2012
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    EATING THE WEALTH OF A NATION Cleopatra made a bet with Mark Antony. She said, "I bet you, I can eat the wealth of an entire nation in one meal." And Mark Antony said, "Okay, I will take you up on the bet. Let me see you take the wealth of an entire nation in one meal." According to Plyne, he ...read more

  • The Parable Of Water  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Sep 21, 2012
    based on 7 ratings
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    The Parable of Water There are a lot of things I could compare when it comes to living in the world, sexual sin, the lust we have for objects that are shiny; but, I’ve decided that I’m not going to. I’ve decided to discuss two different liquids. One of them is water and the other is Coca Cola. ...read more

  • There Is An Old Legend Of A Benevelent King Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Miller on Nov 20, 2002
    based on 31 ratings
     | 2,224 views

    There is an old legend of a benevelent king who had his men place a great heavy stone on a certain roadway over which all his subjects would have to travel. He then hid himself to see who would try to remove the stone. No one stoopped to try to remove the stone but all worked their way around ...read more

  • How Much Would You Pay?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 4, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,947 views

    HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY? Several years ago, USA Today reported the results of a Roper Starch Worldwide survey of the wealthiest 1 percent of U.S. households or the 1 million households that have an annual income of at least $250,000 or a net worth at least $2.5 million. They were asked what they ...read more

  • Generation To Generation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2002
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    GENERATION TO GENERATION A little girl called out, "Mommy, you know that vase china cabinet, the one that’s been handed down from generation to generation?" Yes, dear, I know which one you mean, what about it? "Well, Mommy, I’m sorry, but this generation just dropped it!" Now some earthly ...read more

  • Philip Yancey Relates How A Professor Virginia ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Jan 7, 2002
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    Philip Yancey relates how a professor Virginia Stem Owens assigned the Sermon on the Mount to her composition class at Texas A&M University. She asked her students to write a short essay on this passage of Scripture. Here is what one student wrote: “The things asked in this sermon are absurd. To ...read more

  • It Was The End Of The Autumn Season, Past ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jan 24, 2005
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    It was the end of the autumn season, past bulb-planting time. The greenhouse operator had gathered all the unsold tulip bulbs and, finding that these leftovers were mostly in inferior anyway, was bagging them for the trash bin. The good ones had been sold, so he wasn’t concerned about the loss of ...read more

  • One Day I Was Seeking To Emphasize To A Christian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 23, 2001
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    One day I was seeking to emphasize to a Christian Brother the intimacy of this union. We happened to be drinking tea together, so I took a lump of sugar and stirred it into my tea. A couple of minutes later I asked, “Can you tell me where the sugar is now, and where’s the tea?” “No,” he said, ...read more

  • Now The Picture Jesus Paints Is Of An Enemy ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 2, 2009
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    Now the picture Jesus paints is of an enemy sowing some weeds. The plant most think is commonly called darnel or cockle earning the name “false wheat” as it looks so much like wheat especially in the early stages. It is common in Syria and Israel. The problem is that by the time it is developed ...read more

  • Just Before General Eisenhower Died, Billy ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Just before General Eisenhower died, Billy Graham was invited to visit him at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC He was told he could stay thirty minutes. When he went in, the general was wearing his usual big smile, even though he knew he didn’t have long to live. Later Billy Graham told what ...read more

  • Parable Story  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 22, 2010
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    PARABLE STORY Theological belief is sometimes a murky matter. A candidate for ordination as a minister was asked, "What part of the Bible do you like best?" He said: "I like the New Testament best." Then he was asked, "What Book in the New Testament is your favorite?" He answered, "The Book of the ...read more

  • A Christmas Parable

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 2, 2007
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    A Christmas Parable A man is climbing a mountain, at the top of which he hopes to find God. By ascending the heights, the seeker expects to leave all the cares and miseries of life behind in the valley. But while he climbs, God is coming down the mountain into the toil and grief. In the mists ...read more

  • A Hijacking Parable

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 8, 2011
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    A HIJACKING PARABLE Think of the human race aboard a hijacked jet-liner flying through time. God himself directed its takeoff from the divine control-tower. The initiator of all evil, whom we call the Devil, Managed to get a boarding pass. When the plane reached its cruising altitude, the Devil ...read more

  • The Parable Of The Dragonfly

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
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    THE PARABLE OF THE DRAGONFLY Down below the surface of a quiet pond lived a little colony of water bugs. They were a happy colony, living far away from the sun. For many months they were very busy, scurrying over the soft mud on the bottom of the pond. They did notice that every once in a while ...read more

  • A Parable On Tithing  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Apr 25, 2012
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    A PARABLE ON TITHING Over the last two years I was scanning in old files so that I didn’t have three file drawers full of sermons and documents. I had some old files of my dad and in them I discovered some great old stories. One was a parable on tithing. I found it humorous, I can only hope that ...read more

  • Peanut Parable

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 24, 2023
     | 487 views

    The kingdom of God is like a man who looked in a new way at a food grown and eaten only by poor folks, the peanut, and developed over three hundred by products from it: cereals, oils, dyes, soaps, and food substitutes. It turned out that the crop restored the ...read more

  • The Parable Of The Pearl

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 28, 2022
     | 806 views

    Once there was a man who collected and traded in pearls. He had a fine collection of his own. But one day, while he was away on business, he spotted a beautiful pearl in a Jeweler's window. It was a pearl such as he had never seen, perfect in shape, size, and color. He thought to himself, ...read more