Christianity is About a Person Jesus Christ Story

Story title: Christianity is About a Person Jesus Christ 
By: Jack McArdle

      There is an old church in Sweden that is historically important for several reasons, but the thing that strikes the visitor most is the life-size crucifix on the back wall of the church. It hangs directly opposite the pulpit, where the preacher can see it, but where the people cannot. When the guide is asked why the crucifix is hidden like this, he usually tells the following story.
     One Sunday, King Charles XII made an unexpected visit to the church. When the preacher saw the king come in, he threw away his prepared sermon and spent the time talking about the king's virtues and how much he was doing for his people.
    A few days later, the crucifix arrived at the church as a gift from the king. Along with it came a letter in which the king ordered that the crucifix be placed on the wall opposite the pulpit, so that from that time on, anyone who mounted that pulpit to preach, would be reminded of the one he was supposed to be talking about.

A Liturgical Reading Story

Song title: Liturgical Reading
By: London Universe

       The famous Irish television personality, Eamonn Andrews, tells this story on himself.
       His parish priest in Dublin asked him whether he would like to take one of the liturgical readings on Sundays, and Eamonn gladly agreed. So late one Saturday, the priest sent one of the altar boys to ask Eamonn if he would take the reading at next day's Mass.

Raising Money for the Church story

Story title: Raising Money For The Church
By: Tony Castle

      They tell the story of an Anglican pastor in England who wanted to build a new tower for the village church. He hit upon the Gospel idea of distributing money to his 100 villagers and telling them to invest and bring back the profits within six months. He did even better than the man in the Bible: he repead 13 times as much as he sowed.

STORY : Where Are You, Lord? by Brewer Mattocks

Story title : Where Are You, Lord?
By: Brewer Mattocks

     The parish priest in a town named Austerity climbed way up into the church's steeple to be nearer to the Lord. He wanted to hand down God's Word to his parishioners, like Moses of old. Then one day he thought he really heard God say something.
     So he cried aloud from the steeple, " Where are you, Lord? I can't seem to hear your voice clearly".
     And the Lord replied, "I'm down here among my people. Where are you?"

STORY: Approachableness by William Barclay

Story title: Approachableness 
by William Barclay

      The Gospel story about the mothers bringing their children to Jesus to be blessed, tells the kind of person he was. Children would go to him. That is no small compliment. Many big men scare children away.
      A famous preacher once said that no one could be a follower of Jesus some people nowadays would, "They're only kids; don't bother about them."
   

STORY: Preachers' Problems by Gems of Thought

Story title: Preachers' Problems
by Gems of Thought


    A famous clergyman was preaching one Sunday in the summertime and noticed that many of his audience were drowsing. Suddenly he paused, and then in a very loud voice, related an incident that had no connection whatever with his sermon.
   It went like this:" I was once riding along a country road and came to the house of a farmer. I stopped for a bit when I saw something stranger that I had ever seen in my life. There was a sow

What Is A Real Christian by Bruno Horst Bull

Story title: What is A Real Christian
by: Bruno Horst Bull

    The new pastor chose as the topic for his first sermon:"What is a real Christian?" He climaxed each point of the sermon with the same question. And sometimes he nailed it down by slamming his fist onto the pulpit. He kept asking the question without answering it, hoping that each of the  parishioners would do that personally.
    On that particular Sunday, there was a little boy attending church with his mother, and the more often he heard that unanswered question, the more unsettled and nervous he became about it. At one

STORY: Blacks And Whites by Dr. Fredrik Schlotz

Story title: Blacks And Whites
By: Dr. Fredrik Schlotz

    Some years ago a missionary revisited a congregation in Tanzania. After the service, the pastor called upon the oldest member of the congregation to present the gift they had for the visitor. Barefoot and dressed in tattered clothes, the man carried in his crippled hands a baton carved from ebony wood and wrapped in an old newspaper. Ebony is normally very black, but there may be light spots where branches have grown out of the tree's trunk. The baton had a sizeable light spot at one end.

STORY Why Burial Is Better After Death by Ken Wall

Story title:  Why Burial Is Better After Death
by: Ken Wall


    The Wilkinsons of Sussex, England, received what they thought was
a gift package of herbs from Austrilian relatives. So they stirred the
contents into a traditional Christmas cake, ate half of it, and put the
remainder in the refrigerator.

Story Of A Laugh At Hell by Tony Castle

    It was in the center of Africa and the pastor had just delivered himself of a fire and brimstone sermon on hell. In order a visual dimension to his words, he dug a poster card picture out of his collection and hung it on the church bulletin board. It was an ultra realistic painting of the pains of hell by that famous French Bible illustrator called Dore.

Story Of Chickens And Church Collection by William Barclay

  There was a lady farmer who had a special way of supporting her church. One day she came up to the parish priest and put two hundreddollar into his hands for the parish building fund.