Contributed by Greg Buchner on May 23, 2005
based on 4 ratings
| 4,651 views
[Illustration – Twinkies and Root Beer - unknown source]
A little boy wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with Twinkies and a six-pack of Root Beer and he started his journey.
When he had gone about three blocks, he met an elderly man. The
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Jun 23, 2005
based on 4 ratings
| 4,404 views
Erich Remarque’s book, All Quiet on the Western Front tells of a remarkable encounter between two enemy soldiers during the Second World War. During the confusion of an infantry attack a soldier plunged into an out of the way shell hole. There he found a wounded enemy. The sight of the man moved
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
based on 2 ratings
| 1,762 views
1. Mc Manus states, “Once survival has become our supreme goal, we have lost our way…, the church is not called to survive history but to serve humanity. As with each individual, there is a difference between living and existing for the church…The church exists to serve as the body of Christ, and
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 3, 2005
Hannah W. Smith wrote: "He goes before to open the way and we are to follow. It is never a sign of Divine leading when we insist on running rough shod over all opposing things." A.W. Tozer asked, “Is it forced? Or does it flow?” Now, this doesn’t mean we sit back and wait for God to show us the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian Church
based on 4 ratings
| 4,453 views
I was officiating at a wedding in the Niagara region on Friday, and an older man - a friend of the bride’s family - spoke to me about his spiritual journey. At one point he said, “I know the first thing that I’d like to ask God when I see him face to face”. I thought he might say that he wanted to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Oct 11, 2005
based on 6 ratings
| 3,299 views
Quoting the English preacher John Daniel Jones: He lived from 1865-1942, this is from his sermon The Sovereignty of God
In our absorption in the thought of God as Father, we have almost lost sight of the fact that He is the Holy Sovereign, ruling the world in righteousness. The result has been
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ian Johnson on Nov 3, 2005
Last year in India I prayed for a young woman who had known success. She was a university graduate, but grief had overtaken her when someone close had died. She was unable to release it to the Lord. Over time she became possessed by Demonic Spirits, when I first met her she could not talk but only
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 28, 2004
based on 4 ratings
| 2,737 views
Becky Pippert tells a wonderful story, an old legend really or three trees that make this very clear for me. “There were once 3 ambitious trees on a mountain who were small and were talking about what they wanted to be when they grew up. The 1st tree said, "When I look at the stars and see them
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian Church
Contributed by Charles Salmon on Sep 5, 2004
I was riding with a friend in Mexico and a police car signaled us to pull over. We weren’t doing anything wrong and instant hostility and fear filled our minds. As it turned out, a policeman wanted to tell us the licence plate was about to come off our truck. One police officer came to my side of
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Sermon Central