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  • Christian Author Neil Anderson Wrote A List He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Sep 17, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,284 views

    Christian author Neil Anderson wrote a list he called The Twenty Cans of Success. These are based on what the NT says is true of Christians. These are promises, claimed by believers through the centuries. Allow God to speak to you through these assurances. 1. Why should I say I can’t when the ...read more

  • Three Years And A Half Years Ago, An Incident ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Dec 28, 2006
     | 1,591 views

    Three years and a half years ago, an incident occurred that I filed back because I knew at some point that I would have a message to place it in. In fact, I heard Anthony Mangun use it in a message that he preached. I have some friends that incorporated it into some sermons that they preached. ...read more

  • Pastor Bob Schmidgall Said Of Super Bowl Sunday, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,998 views

    Pastor Bob Schmidgall said of Super Bowl Sunday, "That’s a pastor’s nightmare. What do you do on Super Bowl Sunday night? Go watch the game? I’m not worried about watching it. I’m worried about all those people don’t come to church." Then he quoted this, written by a minister: "As a minister ...read more

  • Admirer Or Follower?  PRO

    Contributed by Ty Tamasaka on Jul 19, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,811 views

    ADMIRER OR FOLLOWER? Recently I heard that in Scotland, a voluntary survey was given to law enforcement officers of their religious affiliations. That may not sound very interesting, but what caught my attention was that 8 of the officers claimed their religious affiliation to be "Jedi". I ...read more

  • Four Chaplains

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Dec 6, 2011
     | 3,035 views

    FOUR CHAPLAINS It was the evening of Feb. 2, 1943, and the U.S. Army Transport Ship Dorchester was crowded to capacity. Hans J. Danielsen, the ship's captain, was concerned and cautious. He knew they were in dangerous waters; German U-boats were constantly prowling these vital sea lanes, ...read more

  • [022] A Message From A Poem - At His Feet

    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 3, 2024
     | 169 views

    [022] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - AT HIS FEET This poem looks at certain events focussed on being at the Lord’s feet. Those feet that today bear the scars of Calvary, walked this earth in ministry and teaching as God among us. The best known story about the feet of Jesus is this one – {{Luke ...read more

  • Don't Ever Tell John "Tex" Teixeria That Prayer ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Visneskie on Feb 13, 2004
    based on 42 ratings
     | 2,093 views

    Don’t ever tell John “Tex” Teixeria that prayer doesn’t work. Tex spent his life as a fisherman in the channels of the Hawaiian Islands. On a deceptively calm night in 1967, Tex guided his 40-foot fishing boat toward the beach of an otherwise inaccessible canyon on the north side of Molokai. He had ...read more

  • Lord Have Mercy Me

    Contributed by D. Marie Hamilton on May 21, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,868 views

    LORD HAVE MERCY ME I am a huge fan of the Christian band Mercy Me. They are my favorite band of all time! My favorite CD is Almost There. Those worship and praise songs inspire me to stay in the race even when I want to quit because working for the Lord can be overwhelming. I'm strengthen by ...read more

  • I Recently Finished The Book, D-Day, By Stephen ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jun 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,562 views

    I recently finished the book, D-Day, by Stephen Ambrose. D-Day occurred on June 6, 1944 when allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy by ship and plane to defeat Hitler’s evil Nazi Germany. There are literally thousands of stories of bravery and heroism to tell from that day, but I want to ...read more

  • Years Ago, A Very Wealthy Man Shared With His ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Dec 20, 2007
     | 2,002 views

    Years ago, a very wealthy man shared with his devoted young son a passion for art collecting. Together they travelled the world, adding only the finest art treasures to their collection. Priceless works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and many others adorned the walls of the family estate. The ...read more

  • Tom White's Story

    Contributed by Deborah Westbrook on Aug 13, 2008
     | 2,138 views

    TOM WHITE'S STORY Sometimes there are great revelations that come out of our storms. Let me tell you about a man named Tom White. In the 1970’s when America was full of protest marches and flower power, stories began coming out of Castro’s Cuba of terrible torture and imprisonment of Christians ...read more

  • Unsung Heroes-Claudius Lysias

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Aug 22, 2023
     | 527 views

    Introduction: He was a high-ranking officer in the Roman army, mentioned only a couple of times in Scripture. We don’t know if he ever became a Christian, but we do know that he saved the life of Paul the apostle at least twice! Text: Acts 24:22-23, KJV: 22 And when Felix heard these things, ...read more

  • One Man's Life Provides A Dramatic Answer To The ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Dunn on Mar 12, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,244 views

    One man’s life provides a dramatic answer to the question, can God indeed bring positives out of troubled times? This young man’s name is David, and he is an awesome picture of God’s using difficulties for good. For years he viewed trials as something that affected only his external world, and any ...read more

  • You Shall Be Clean  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Scott on Dec 16, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,154 views

    YOU SHALL BE CLEAN 2 KINGS 5__1—14 There was a commander from the land of Aram by the name of Naaman. He was a great warrior, brave and strong against the country’s foes. A great warrior, Naaman. He had oniy one problem, but a huge one—he was a leper. He had contracted that terrible disease. ...read more

  • Michael Is The Kind Of Guy You Love To Hate. He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dennis Selfridge on Jan 16, 2003
    based on 35 ratings
     | 2,776 views

    Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was ...read more

  • Don Richardson, In His Book Eternity In Their ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 11, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,504 views

    Don Richardson, in his book Eternity in Their Hearts, tells an amazing story of spiritual harvest. In an area once called Burma, which is now modern Myanmar, lying between China and Thailand, and touching the border of Laos, there lived about a quarter-million tribal people called the Lahu. For ...read more

  • The Value Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
     | 3,747 views

    The Value of Water Colonel Nick Rowe is not a name most of you have probably heard of before. He was a war hero, in a war that had so few heroes. He was killed in the Philippines by an assassin. His funeral was one to be remembered. He is buried in Arlington national Cemetery. In all the history of ...read more

  • Serving Others

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 18,449 views

    “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever the cost”. - Arthur Ashe In a small, dusty town in western Oklahoma one November there lived a young single mother struggling to make ends meet. ...read more

  • Today Is Super Bowl Sunday, The Most Ballyhooed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,608 views

    Today is Super Bowl Sunday, the most ballyhooed and widely watched pro football game of all. Someone defined a football game as 75,000 people sitting in a stadium, although they desperately need exercise, watching twenty-two people on the field who desperately need rest. Pastor Bob Schmidgall said ...read more

  • I Surrender All – Judson W. Van Deventer, 1896

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Mar 19, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,232 views

    I Surrender All – Judson W. Van DeVenter, 1896 Van DeVenter beautifully describes the process of absolute surrender in his timeless hymn I Surrender All. If I may impose my perception of this hymn, I would suggest that He reveals the struggle involved in surrendering all that he is to the Lord. ...read more

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