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  • Diversity In The Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,700 views

    DIVERSITY IN THE CHURCH Philip Yancey put it this way in an article in Christianity Today just this last November. He writes, "As I read accounts of the New Testament church, no characteristic stands out more sharply than [diversity]. Beginning with Pentecost, the Christian church dismantled the ...read more

  • Mistaken For Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,158 views

    MISTAKEN FOR JESUS Carolyn Gillette told the story of a hospice chaplain named Larry, and how he became friends with an 80-year-old lady named Mary. Mary was a hospice patient. Larry visited with her many times, and was greatly impressed by her faith. One day, he got a call that Mary had taken a ...read more

  • Take Time To By Holy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 4,233 views

    TAKE TIME TO BY HOLY Let me begin with what little I could glean concerning this hymn and its author: For many years, the only information known about this gospel song was what Ira D. Sankey wrote in his autobiography. Sankey (1840-1908) was the well-known gospel singer and hymn writer who ...read more

  • Integrity And Faithfulness In Work Yields Peace ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
     | 4,972 views

    Integrity and Faithfulness in Work Yields Peace of Mind The late great American Methodist clergyman and author, Rev. Charles Livingstone Allen (1913 - 2005), told this story in his sermon entitled "How To Sleep Well On A Windy Night:" "A boy went to a farmer and asked to be given a job as a hired ...read more

  • Laws Of Stewardship, Sowing And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,107 views

    Laws of Stewardship, Sowing and Reaping A few of the Laws of Stewardship and of Sowing and Reaping: THE LAW OF RIGHTFUL OWNERSHIP – Nothing truly belongs to us; everything actually belongs to God. THE LAW OF PURPOSEFUL POSSESSION – Wise stewards are guided by lordship, not “hoardship.” THE LAW ...read more

  • Answered Prayer Helps Persuade Agnostic While ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 28, 2010
     | 3,752 views

    Answered Prayer Helps Persuade Agnostic While F.B. Meyer on Oceanliner While crossing the Atlantic on an oceanliner, F.B. Meyer was asked to address the first class passengers. At the captain’s request he spoke on "Answered Prayer." An agnostic who was present at the service was asked by his ...read more

  • Bad Day

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,448 views

    BAD DAY Brian Hise has had his share of bad stuff happen to him. In just a short time -- one day in July -- his apartment in Provo, Utah apartment became flooded because of an upstairs neighbor’s broken pipe. The manager instructed him to go out and rent a wet/dry vacuum. When he went out to his ...read more

  • Rules. The World, Our Culture, Our Families... ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,010 views

    Rules. The world, our culture, our families... all have rules. Without rules, our world would be in anarchy, chaos. Some rules are called laws. We have civil laws and criminal laws. Break a civil law and it can cost you a lot of money or other material wealth. Break a criminal law, and you could ...read more

  • Deliverance

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
     | 6,240 views

    DELIVERANCE Stanley Praimnath, Vice President for Fuji Bank, was in his office in the South Tower at the World Trade Center when his phone rang. "Are you watching the news?' asked a woman in their Chicago office. "Are you alright?" "I'm fine" he said wondering why she had called. Just then he ...read more

  • H ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
     | 1,991 views

    HEALED Tony Campolo tells a story about being in a church in Oregon where he was asked to pray for a man who had cancer. Campolo prayed boldly for the man’s healing. That next week he got a telephone call from the man’s wife. She said, "You prayed for my husband. He had cancer." Campolo thought ...read more

  • Spit It Out!

    Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Mar 5, 2024
     | 601 views

    Use part one to open the sermon. Humor: Spit it Out! One Sunday morning after church as I was shaking hands with a young dad, suddenly he said, “Pastor, excuse me, please.” He had noticed his little 4-year-old with something in her mouth. Fearing what she may have in her mouth, he demanded her to ...read more

  • Chrysostom On Ecclesiastes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 21, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,571 views

    CHRYSOSTOM ON ECCLESIASTES Eutropius had fallen into disgrace. As the highest-ranking official in the Byzantine Empire (late fourth century), he served as the closest adviser to the emperor Arcadius, then ruling in Constantinople. But Eutropius abused his imperial power and aroused the anger of ...read more

  • Sarah's Vase  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 21, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,162 views

    SARAH'S VASE Just like life comes in the place of death, so honor comes in the place of service. Pediatrician David Cerqueira tells the story of a little girl in his wife's Sunday School class. His wife had prepared a lesson on being useful and told the children that everyone can be useful in ...read more

  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 2, 2021
     | 1,110 views

    Quit all the comparisons: IT IS ABOUT GOD’S GLORY. HAGGAI and ZECHARIAH LEARNED TO ENCOURAGE THOSE THAT WERE DOING A WORK THAT SEEMED SMALL IN THEIR OWN EYES. Get excited. Haggai 2:2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high ...read more

  • Nbc Labor Law Violations?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 1,865 views

    NBC LABOR LAW VIOLATIONS? NBC’s highly paid morning person, Katie Couric, is reportedly unhappy with her new "Today" show boss, and her job, says New York’s Daily News. Couric says, "I’m tired, the hours are brutal . . . It’s hard to make yourself go to bed at 7:30 or 8 to get up" in time for ...read more

  • The Parents Of A Young Soldier Killed In Action ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Feb 26, 2002
    based on 52 ratings
     | 1,818 views

    "The parents of a young soldier killed in action gave their church a gift of money as a memorial for their son. During the presentation service, the mother of another soldier overseas whispered to her husband, "Let’s give the same amount for our son." "What’s the matter with you?" he asked. "Our ...read more

  • The Word ‘christian' Means Different Things To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 26, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,014 views

    “The word ‘Christian’ means different things to different people. To one person, it means a stiff, uptight, inflexible way of life—colorless and unbending. To another, it means a risky, surprised-filled venture, lived on tiptoe at the edge of expectation. Either of these pictures can be ...read more

  • Overwhelming Influence  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,260 views

    OVERWHELMING INFLUENCE Historian Philip Schaff described the overwhelming influence which Jesus had on subsequent history and culture of the world: “This Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without science…he shed more ...read more

  • I Think That It Safe To Say That Sometimes We ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 3, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 1,427 views

    I think that it safe to say that sometimes we have the same kind of feelings about the church like Goldilocks had about the bears’ home. On the one hand, we love the church and can’t live without her. On the other hand, we find sermons boring, the music either too old or too new, the people too ...read more

  • Freed From Death—communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 1,786 views

    FREED FROM DEATH- COMMUNION MEDITATION Paul Lee Tan writes about a horrible Roman practice: "The Romans sometimes compelled a captive to be joined face-to-face with a dead body, and to bear it about until the horrible effluvia [vapors] destroyed the life of the living victim. Virgil describes ...read more

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