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  • Elizabeth Elliot: "If The Only Thing You Have To ...

    Contributed by Scott Spencer on Aug 1, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,332 views

    Elizabeth Elliot: "If the only thing you have to offer is a broken heart, you offer a broken heart. Realizing that nothing I have, nothing I am will be refused on the part of Christ, I simply give it to Him as the little boy gave Jesus his five loaves and two small fishes--with the same feeling of ...read more

  • If God Intended Man To Live On Bread, Why Didn't ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jul 31, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 9,614 views

    ‘If God intended man to live on bread, why didn’t he create a bread tree?’ And the answer, in effect, is that God could have created a tree that produced crusty loaves of bread, but he prefers to offer us a grain and invite us to buy a field and plant the seed. He prefers that we till the soil ...read more

  • Bread Tree

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Aug 14, 2009
     | 3,997 views

    BREAD TREE Some might ask, 'If God intended man to live on bread, why didn’t he create a bread tree?' And the answer, in effect, is that God could have created a tree that produced crusty loaves of bread, but he prefers to offer us a grain and invite us to buy a field and plant the seed. He ...read more

  • Who Is Jesus?

    Contributed by Michael Brown on Mar 11, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 9,330 views

    Who is Jesus? In chemistry, He turned water to wine; In biology, He was born without the normal conception; In physics, He disproved the law of gravity when he ascended into heaven; In economics, He disproved the law of diminishing return by feeding 5000 men with two fish & five loaves of ...read more

  • Mothers

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Feb 29, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,340 views

    To Mama and Jesus, You and He, You gave me life and He extended it. You saved me from the cold and He from sin. You taught me hope and He defended it. From you I once was born . . . from Him again. You let me skip in fields that He had made. He bid me bless the loaves you baked for me. You ordered ...read more

  • Five Thousand Fishes And Two Thousand Loves?

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 6, 2022
     | 2,142 views

    • A young preacher graduated from Bible College and was invited back to his home congregation to preach a sermon. He wanted to make a good impression. He did his best to prepare to preach to his home church. He wrote his sermon word for word and memorized it. He had a very dramatic beginning to the ...read more

  • First Harvest  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 6,095 views

    FIRST HARVEST In 1621, Edward Winslow, one of the fifty or so members of the Plymouth colony, wrote these words, describing the first harvest festival: "Our harvest of corn came in well, and God be praised, we had a good increase of Indian Corn, and our Barley crop was also good, but our crop of ...read more

  • David Used What He Had - A Sling. For The Little ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,746 views

    David used what he had - a sling. For the little boy at the feeding of the 5,000 it was five loaves and two fish. For Samson it was the jawbone of a donkey. God can use anything. The major problem is workers in the Philippines nowadays have a personal slogan: "No support, no work." They live by ...read more

  • Bread In The Hand

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
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     | 4,704 views

    BREAD IN THE HAND David used what he had--a sling. For the little boy at the feeding of the 5,000 it was five loaves and two fish. For Samson it was the jawbone of a donkey. God can use anything. The major problem is workers in the Philippines nowadays have a personal slogan: "No support, no ...read more

  • A Grain Alone Or With Many ...

    Contributed by Mark Pierce on May 25, 2010
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     | 4,676 views

    A grain alone or with many others? STORY OF ONE GRAIN OF WHEAT: Farmer plows soil, digs shallow trenches, but must drop only one grain of seed at a time. Still true. Farmers pull a “grain drill.” Notched wheel drops seed through tube exactly one grain at a time. Single grain gathers moisture ...read more

  • Unsung Heroines-Rizpah

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Jun 3, 2022
     | 1,202 views

    Introduction: Rizpah is only mentioned in a couple of places in the Bible. We don’t know much about her aside from this tremendous act of love she demonstrated in this story. Text: 2 Samuel 21:8-11, KJV: 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, ...read more

  • Children's Message Used "Horton Hears A Who" By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
     | 1,254 views

    : Children’s message used "Horton Hears a Who" by Dr. Seuss The children’s message this morning gave us one literary vision of being “neighborly”. Horton, the elephant heard a cry for help and did all in his power (even amid the teasing of his friends) to protect the small people, affirming his ...read more

  • God Summons Us To Seek Our Best Creative Selves. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 2,070 views

    "God summons us to seek our best creative selves. He calls us to become artists of life, seers of truth, creators of new possibilities, and innovative problem solvers. Perhaps by looking at Jesus' life and seeing His creative spirit at work, we can begin to awaken to the creative possibilities of ...read more

  • Am I An Enabler?

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Feb 7, 2023
     | 529 views

    Text, Galatians 6:6, KIV: 6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Not long ago I had lunch with a pastor friend. We talked about several different things but when I mentioned something I had seen on Sermon Central, he was alarmed! He asked me, ...read more

  • Unsung Heroes—barzillai The Gileadite, Part 1

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Nov 2, 2020
     | 1,937 views

    Introduction: Barzillai is one of many in the Bible who is mentioned only a few times, but his deeds more than make up for any lack of coverage. When David fled for his life during Absalom’s revolt (2 Samuel 15-18), he eventually crossed the Jordan River. Barzillai and some other people met the ...read more

  • Robert Frost -- Mending Wall -- Something ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Sep 27, 2004
     | 2,265 views

    Robert Frost -- Mending Wall -- Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where ...read more

  • I Just Want Bread  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
    based on 6 ratings
     | 10,140 views

    "I Just Want Bread" There was a beggar who came and sat before a baker. "I want bread," he said. "How wise you are," the baker assured him. "Bread is what you need. And you have come to the right bakery." So he pulled his cookbook down from his shelf and began to tell the beggar all he knew about ...read more

  • Once Upon A Time, A Congregation Outgrew Their ...

    Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
     | 1,859 views

    Once upon a time, a congregation outgrew their church building. Everyone agreed that they needed to build a new church; but they couldn’t agree on a blueprint, a budget or a building site. In desperation, the pastor invited everyone to join him for an evening of special prayer. One woman came, ...read more

  • Something For Nothing?

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Jan 13, 2020
     | 3,607 views

    Several years ago, I had to make an urgent flight across the country. Because the only airport with those kinds of connections was a good ways away, I took advantage of a shuttle service. Considering the cost of fuel and parking alone, I figured I could get a ride from the northern terminal all ...read more

  • The Beggar And The Bread

    Contributed by Ryan Reed on May 30, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,155 views

    THE BEGGAR AND THE BREAD A beggar came and sat before me. "I want bread," he said. "How wise you are," I assured him. "Bread is what you need. And you have come to the right bakery." So I pulled my cookbook down from my shelf and began to tell him all I knew about bread. I spoke of flour and ...read more