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A Christian Life Based On Feeling Is Headed For ...

Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Nov 17, 2009

"A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic ...read more

Tags: Emotions

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Listening Is So Important In Life And Crucial To ...

Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 2, 2010

Listening is so important in life and crucial to make relationships work. Let me give you a little brainteaser. If you have heard this before, please don’t ruin it for everyone else and just keep your thoughts to yourself. I’ll read the question and then you some time to think. You are driving a ...read more

Tags: Leadership Listening

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Purest Most Average Things In Life Are The ...

Contributed by Peter Loughman on Feb 9, 2010

PUREST MOST AVERAGE things in life are the best. In high school I had the opportunity to spend a week on a working dairy farm with a couple other high school kids from my church. Though it was a family operation it was a big dairy farm. The farm milked cows 24 hours a day. They had so many cows, ...read more

Tags: Purity

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

A Bug's Life: Small Steps Of Faith

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 15, 2010

A BUG'S LIFE: SMALL STEPS OF FAITH A Bug’s Life, Start time 6:30 Overview from Belknapp: Dot complains to Flik about her underdeveloped wings. She wants to fly now! Flik encourages her, showing her that a seed that starts out small eventually grows into a towering tree-it only takes time and ...read more

Tags: Faith

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

There Was A Life Insurance Salesman Who Claimed ...

Contributed by Bill Burress on Jan 12, 2011

There was a life insurance salesman who claimed his company paid their claim so quickly that their office, which is on the tenth floor of a eighty story building, that one day a man fell ...read more

Tags: Evangelism The Lost

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Don't Waste Your Life

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011

DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE In his book Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper recounts a story his father often told of his days as a fiery Baptist evangelist. It is the story of a man who came to saving faith in Jesus Christ near the end of his earthly existence. Piper writes: "The church had prayed for ...read more

Scripture: Acts 20:24

Tags: Conscience

One Life At A Time: Rudy's Story

Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011

ONE LIFE AT A TIME: RUDY'S STORY Rudy Rasmus learned the family business from his father when he was just five years old. His dad brought home a set of blueprints and unveiled his business plans. He said, "This a motel and other people's husbands are going to come and give us money to spend time ...read more

Scripture: Acts 9:1-31

Tags: Conversion, Testimonies About Jesus

Denomination: Methodist

I Owe My Life Twice

Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 17, 2011

I OWE MY LIFE TWICE A wealthy English family once invited friends to spend some time at their beautiful estate. The happy occasion was almost plunged into a terrible tragedy on the first day. Because the children went swimming, and one of them got into deep water and started drowning. ...read more

Tags: Salvation

Denomination: Brethren

Scott Peck: "Life Is Difficult. This Is A Great ...

Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Feb 13, 2012

Scott Peck: "Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

Denomination: Baptist

Edison Couldn't Make Life

Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 15, 2012

EDISON COULDN'T MAKE LIFE Are you extremely proud of your lifetime accomplishments? It was on November 21 of 1877 that Thomas Edison announced to the world that he had invented the phonograph. Edison's accomplishments are often forgotten. In his Menlo Park, New Jersey fix-it shop he designed the ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 9:23-24

Tags: Pride

Denomination: Baptist

Bertrund Russell's Thoughts On Life And Death

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2014

Many people fear death because they believe death is the end. Bertrand Russell was a 20th century philosopher and an atheist. As he approached his death in 1970, he wrote: "The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a ...read more

Scripture: John 11:25-26

Tags: Death, Atheism, Worldly Wisdom, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

Warren Wiersbe Is Credited For Saying, "Life Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Warren Wiersbe is credited for saying, "Life is a school in which God trains us for eternity. Trials are God’s ...read more

Tags: Faith

People Neglect Their Opportunities In Life. I ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

People neglect their opportunities in life. I received a pastor’s letter in the mail last week. In the 1940s, IBM considered commercializing the new computer operation they had with the US Government. But after due consideration, Thomas J Watson, chairman of IBM, issued this statement, ...read more

Tags: Giving General

A Pro-Choice Feminist And A Pro-Life ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

A pro-choice feminist and a pro-life conservative were debating the relative merits of the sanctity of life issue. Sensing victory in the debate, the feminist declared, "You don’t understand, we’ve won in the White House, and we’ve won in the courthouse. Face it, it’s over, the fat ...read more

Tags: Jesus Christ

Richard Evans: "The Tragedy Of Life Is Not That ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Richard Evans: “The tragedy of life is not that it ends too soon, but that we ...read more

Tags: God Brings Purpose

In 1879 The Greatest Annual Loss Of Life In The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

In 1879 The greatest annual loss of life in the New England fisheries occurred, with 29 vessels and 249 fishermen lost at sea. During that year many women found themselves on lonely widow walks with and eye on the horizon hoping for the return of their loved one. A widow’s walk (or roofwalk) is ...read more

Tags: Death

Tim Peck Is The Minister Of The Life Bible ...  PRO

Contributed by Thomas Cash on Aug 20, 2007

Tim Peck is the minister of the Life Bible Fellowship Church of Upland California. Listen to his thoughts about wasting opportunities: The older I get, the more I realize that there’s a lot of waste when you’re young. The young have so much idealism, but so little wisdom. They have boundless ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Impact Of A Person's Life Can Be For Good Or ...  PRO

Contributed by Ronald Thorington on Jan 1, 2008

The impact of a person’s life can be for good or bad. The following examples demonstrate the different impact a person can have on their descendents. 1. Max Jukes, was an atheist who lived a ungodly life and married an ungodly women. They had 540 descendents, 310 died paupers, 150 were criminals, ...read more

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Flashlights Are Powerful But Has Limited Life. ...

Contributed by Jose Imperial on Jan 4, 2008

Flashlights are powerful but has limited life. Independent light are powerful only at the beginning but fail in the long run. Most dangerous people in the church are ...read more

Tags: Arminianism

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Heaven Is The Living Kingdom Of Eternal Life ...

Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 26, 2008

Heaven is the living kingdom of eternal life that ...read more

Denomination: Church Of God