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  • You Cannot Choose Your Calling. Your Calling ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,676 views

    "You cannot choose your calling. Your calling chooses you. You have been blessed with special skills that are yours alone. Use them, whatever ...read more

  • Craig Von Buseck Tells Of Serving As An Assoc...

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 28, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,152 views

    Craig von Buseck tells of serving as an associate pastor in Pennsylvania. After more than five years on staff, he began sensing that the Lord wanted him to leave this church to complete his ministry training. Relations were beginning to become strained between himself and the senior pastor. While ...read more

  • Too Many Christians Are Not Serving. When You ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Nov 1, 2004
    based on 12 ratings
     | 3,370 views

    Too many Christians are not serving. When you ask them to do something they say, "Well, uh, sorry, but that is not my spiritual gift." Trouble is they seem to think they have no spiritual gift because they say that about everything. Brethren, I tell you the truth in Christ that are no such gifts as ...read more

  • Dr. Jay Vernon Mcgee Was Serving As Pastor In A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,139 views

    Dr. Jay Vernon McGee was serving as pastor in a church in Los Angeles. Across the street from the church was a swanky club that was attended by some very rich men. The people who belonged to that club spent thousands of dollars to be a part of that society and they usually owned chauffeur driven ...read more

  • As We Faithfully Serve The Lord Through The Power ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 21, 2007
     | 3,545 views

    As we faithfully serve the Lord through the power of His Spirit, the devil’s hosts will begin to attack us with all their might. As a result, we may be called upon to suffer for Christ’s sake. The veteran missionary Russell Ebersole was once greatly encouraged by the beloved Bible teacher William ...read more

  • Missionary Don Richardson Who Served For Many ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Elmore on Nov 29, 2001
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,843 views

    Missionary Don Richardson who served for many years among the primitive tribes in Papua New Guinea wrote a book entitled “The Peace Child.” He writes how in translating the Scriptures into the native tribesmen language, he could find no words to express how Jesus Christ came to give His life that ...read more

  • He Kept Calling  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 10, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 2,665 views

    HE KEPT CALLING In 1975, my aunt Marsha McCarthy divorced Ralph McCarthy. Marsha left Southern California and followed her parents to Joplin, Missouri. She was employed as the Secretary at College Heights Christian Church and raised three children on her own. The stress was ...read more

  • Calling Robert's Bluff  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,744 views

    CALLING ROBERT'S BLUFF James Dobson tells a story about a ten-year-old boy named Robert who was a patient of a California pediatrician. When Robert was scheduled for a visit to the doctor’s office, the news would spread like wildfire. Nurses would whisper to themselves, “Batten down the ...read more

  • Who Gave The Call?  PRO

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 24, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,575 views

    Illustration: I worked in a hog-slaughtering factory for a year when I first came to plant this church. The boss’s adult son used to walk around wearing a white hat and barking orders at everyone but none of the workers respected him the way they did his dad. They knew he was just a pretender. If ...read more

  • Call Home Often  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2004
    based on 24 ratings
     | 4,119 views

    CALL HOME OFTEN Max Lucado in his book "In the Eye of a Storm" talks about traveling from one speaking engagement to another. He had traveled from San Antonio to Boston and had spoken at a gathering in Boston. Then he was flying on to Edmonton, Canada to fulfill a speaking engagement there. When ...read more

  • Calling Evil Good

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 27, 2006
     | 2,534 views

    Article : Calling Evil Good by H. Wallace Goddard Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 Satan is the master of inversion. Where God offers Light, Satan provides darkness. ...read more

  • Calling Others To God

    Contributed by Dennis Jones on May 28, 2007
     | 2,005 views

    CALLING OTHERS TO GOD A few years ago a man began feeding the birds on a regular basis in our backyard. At first, some of the birds were greedy. They weren’t sure if there would be enough food to go around. The starlings were especially mean, which doesn’t surprise anyone familiar with birds. They ...read more

  • Calling Others To God

    Contributed by Dennis Jones on May 28, 2007
     | 1,521 views

    CALLING OTHERS TO GOD A few years ago a man began feeding the birds on a regular basis in our backyard. At first, some of the birds were greedy. They weren’t sure if there would be enough food to go around. The starlings were especially mean, which doesn’t surprise anyone familiar with birds. They ...read more

  • Poem Called Hope  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 26, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,155 views

    Poem called Hope It’s magic and it’s free. It’s not in a prescription. It’s not in an IV. It punctuates our laughter, it sparkles in our tears. It simmers under sorrows, and dissipates our fears. Do you know what Hope is? It’s reaching past today. It’s dreaming of tomorrow. It’s trying a ...read more

  • There Is An Advertisement For A Company Called ...

    Contributed by Stephen Robinson D on Feb 4, 2008
     | 2,110 views

    There is an advertisement for a company called Staples. There pitch is that they take hard office work that would normally be to hard to do in one day and they say If you will bring it to Staples they will fix it up and MAKE IT EASY for you. There logo is an EASY button that you press and when you ...read more

  • Father's Day Calls

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on May 21, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,892 views

    FATHER'S DAY CALLS THE ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY reported that the volume of long-distance calls made on Father’s Day is growing faster than the number on Mother’s Day. The company apologized for the delay in compiling the statistics, but explained that ...read more

  • The Spirit Makes The Call

    Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 18, 2008
     | 1,499 views

    THE SPIRIT MAKES THE CALL In Colossians 3:15 we're told to let the peace of God rule in our hearts. Incidentally, the Greek word for rule is the same one used in other writings for referee. In other words, it says to let Christ make the call. Now we know what a referee is and what he does. In ...read more

  • The Call To Revival Is Given Not To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,540 views

    The call to revival is given not to the unbelieving but ...read more

  • We Are Not Called To Be Successful In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,641 views

    "We are not called to be successful in accordance with ordinary standards, but in accordance with a corn of wheat falling into the ground and dying, becoming in ...read more

  • How God Calls It  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,316 views

    HOW GOD CALLS IT A major league baseball player hit the ball far out in left field. Bases were loaded. The one who was on 2nd base made it all the way to home plate and he collided with the catcher. Immediately, the one team yelled, "He's safe, he's safe, he's safe." The other team yelled, "He's ...read more