The Power Of Words | Taming The Tongue

God Has Given Us Two Ears, But One Tongue, To ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be ...read more

Tags: Christian Love, Christian Disciplines

Sowing Seeds Of Peace  PRO

Contributed by David Yarbrough on Feb 11, 2002

SOWING SEEDS OF PEACE In Europe, 1934, Hitler’s plague of anti-Semitism was infecting a continent. Some would escape it. Some would die from it. But eleven-year-old Heinz would learn from it. He would learn the power of sowing seeds of peace. Heinz was a Jew. The Bavarian village of ...read more

Scripture: Luke 8:11-15

Tags: Peace, God Brings Hope

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Winning Words  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002

WINNING WORDS Hosting a TV show, I’ve interviewed my share of beauty contest winners; I once even had Miss America on my show. But when a friend asked if I would judge a beauty contest at a nursing home, I thought, Good heavens! What on earth would be the criteria for judging? When I ...read more

Tags: Family, Fulfillment, Giving Yourself

Small Words, Profound Effect  PRO

Contributed by Alan Perkins on Jan 12, 2003

SMALL WORDS, PROFOUND EFFECT "The tongue has the power of life and death . . . " That may sound a bit extreme to you; a bit exaggerated. How could mere words kill anyone? But consider this. You’re probably familiar with Karen Carpenter, the popular singer from the seventies who died in 1983 of ...read more

Tags: Christian Disciplines, Communication General

Denomination: Baptist

A Group Of Frogs Were Traveling Through The ...  PRO

Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Sep 21, 2003

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two fallen frogs that they were as good as dead. The two fallen frogs ignored their comments and tried to jump up ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

The Power That Is In The Gospel Does Not Lie In ...  PRO

Contributed by Clark Tanner on Aug 21, 2004

“The power that is in the Gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher, otherwise men would be the converters of souls, nor does it lie in the preacher’s learning, otherwise it would consist in the wisdom of men. We might preach until our tongues rotted, till we would exhaust our lungs and ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To, What Is Evangelism?

Denomination: Orthodox

The Reason A Dog Has So Many Friends Is That He ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail ...read more

Tags: Family

Words Are The Voice Of The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Words are the voice of ...read more

Tags: Words

Words, Just Words  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Words, just words I was reading the other day. The famous American author, Samuel Clement, Mark Twain, attended a Sunday service. He met the preacher at the door afterward to shake his hand. And he told him that he had a book at home with every word he had preached that morning. The minister ...read more

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 3:7

Tags: Evangelism How To

World Of Words

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009

WORLD OF WORDS We live in a world of words. Words are all about us, words on TV, words on the radio, spoken words by family and friends, words printed in newspapers, books, on computers, and words on the Internet. The world of words have turned us into a people who have been overwhelmed, ...read more

Tags: Communication General