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  • Better Faithful Than Famous. Honor Before ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 1,901 views

    Better faithful than famous. Honor ...read more

  • Radical Faith  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jan 24, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,719 views

    RADICAL FAITH I want to read to you the opening story from David Platt's book "The Radical Question" (Multnomah Press). Imagine a scene that took place in Asia not so long ago: A room in an ordinary house, dimly lit, all the blinds on the windows closed. Twenty leaders from churches in the ...read more

  • Feeling A Tug  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,092 views

    FEELING A TUG A small boy was flying a kite one April afternoon when a low drifting cloud encircled the kite and hid it from view. A man passing by asked the little boy what he was doing with that string in his hand. "I’m flying my kite," the child responded. The man, looking up and seeing ...read more

  • Better To Trust The Man Who Is Frequently In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 515 views

    Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one ...read more

  • It Is Better To Suffer Wrong Than To Do It, And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 1,663 views

    "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes ...read more

  • Better Opportunities

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Aug 18, 2009
     | 3,024 views

    BETTER OPPORTUNITIES Pastor Greg Laurie preaches to thousands at Harvest Crusades, but Greg started in ministry as a janitor at a church. Our purpose in life may not seem big, but if we are ...read more

  • What Kind?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 3, 2022
     | 939 views

    WHAT KIND OF CHURCH WOULD MY CHURCH BE, IF EVERY MEMBER ...read more

  • A Better Vow  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2003
    based on 22 ratings
     | 5,196 views

    A BETTER VOW Eric Snyder, Minister of the Farwell Church of Christ tells this story: I recently did a wedding. During the wedding rehearsal, the groom pulled me aside and made me an offer. He said "Look, I’ll give you $100 if you’ll change the wedding vows. When you get to me and the part ...read more

  • Bitter Or Better  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,115 views

    BITTER OR BETTER Dr. Jim Moore, pastor of St. Luke’s UMC in Houston wrote a book entitled "You Can Grow Bitter or You Can Grow Better". He writes that he got the idea for the title from a young woman who once came to him in a most tragic moment in her life. She had tears in her eyes and her ...read more

  • The Older, The Better  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Reeves on Aug 20, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,642 views

    THE OLDER, THE BETTER An older soman was overheard to say about her husband and their relationship together, "I’m married to an archaeologist, and I get the feeling that the older I get, the better he ...read more

  • The Bigger The Better  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 27, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,286 views

    The Bigger the Better It was absolutely amazing. I was in West Africa—Timbuktu to be exact—and the missionaries were telling me that in that culture the larger the women were the more beautiful they were thought to be. In fact, a young missionary who had a small, trim wife said that the nationals ...read more

  • The Bigger, The Better

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 25, 2007
     | 1,041 views

    The Bigger the Better Joseph Stowell recounted a story: I was in West Africa—Timbuktu to be exact—and the missionaries were telling me that in that culture the larger the women were the more beautiful they were thought to be. In fact, a young missionary who had a small, trim wife said that the ...read more

  • A Better Plan

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 8, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,285 views

    Illustration: A Better Plan When in college Robert J , Morgan came across a poem written by a teenage girl looking for a husband. It was written as a prayer, and this is what she said: Dear God, I pray all unafraid / As girls are wont to be I do not want a handsome man / But make him, Lord, like ...read more

  • The More The Better

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jul 8, 2009
     | 1,816 views

    THE MORE THE BETTER When it comes to exercise and fitness, the more you work out, the better it feels, and the more you want to work out. Sports teams practice for hours a day to prepare for a game. How much more should Christians do spiritual training for eternal matters? How many ...read more

  • A Better Life

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 8, 2010
     | 1,942 views

    A BETTER LIFE There was a time, and maybe still is, when you might hear a parent say something about wanting to provide a "better life" for their son or daughter. A better life than what they had growing up. And by better life, they mean - a bigger house, more and nicer cars, and more stuff. And ...read more

  • Better Deals

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
     | 1,803 views

    BETTER DEALS Back in 1931, Irving Thalberg of MGM decided he wanted to buy the film rights to Tarzan, written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. So Thalberg sent Sam Marx to negotiate with Burroughs, telling Marx not to spend more than $100,000, an extraordinarily large sum in those days. Marx ...read more

  • Better Influence

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 19, 2011
     | 4,691 views

    BETTER INFLUENCE A Peanuts cartoon showed Peppermint Patty talking to Charlie Brown in which she said, "Guess what, Chuck? The first day of school, and I got sent to the principal’s office. It was your fault, Chuck." Charlie Brown responds, "My fault? How could it be my fault? Why do you say ...read more

  • A Better Pitcher

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 28, 2011
     | 3,370 views

    A BETTER PITCHER "There's a story from the late 1800s of English evangelist Henry Moorhouse who made several trips to America to preach. On one of these occasions, he was taking a walk through a poor section of the city when he noticed a small boy coming out of a store with a pitcher of milk. Just ...read more

  • Mark Twain Said: "Speaking Honestly Is Better. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Biolsi on Nov 23, 2001
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,954 views

    Mark Twain said: “Speaking honestly is better. It takes a lot of stress out of our lives. If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything, but if you ...read more

  • Faithfulness In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 19,460 views

    Faithfulness in Battle John Wesley once said: "Give me a hundred men who love nothing but God and hate nothing but sin, and I will shake the whole world for Christ." It doesn’t take many… but it does take someone who decides to be faithful. In December 1944, the German army launched an unexpected ...read more

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