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  • Allow The Word To Disturb You  PRO

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Nov 4, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,252 views

    ALLOW THE WORD TO DISTURB YOU "We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never ...read more

  • Let The River Flow

    Contributed by William Akehurst on Nov 25, 2011
     | 2,608 views

    LET THE RIVER FLOW Maryland’s Conowingo Hydroelectric Dam on the Susquehanna River is a great architectural feat. We can drive across the Dam and see the high water on one side and the lower level rapids and flow of water on the other. This dam was not built to contain a raging river and dam up ...read more

  • One Tear To Another

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 14, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,130 views

    ONE TEAR TO ANOTHER Two little teardrops were floating down the river of life. One said to the other, "Who are you?" It replied, "I am a teardrop from a girl who loved a man and lost him. Who are you?" The first responded, "Well, I am a teardrop from the girl who got him!" Life is like that. We ...read more

  • Grandpa Croaked!  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 1, 2014
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,909 views

    GRANDPA CROAKED! A little girl crawled up in the lap of her Grandpa and cuddled close. Then she looked into Grandpa’s face with those big blue eyes of hers and said, "Grandpa, can you please make a sound like a frog?" Grandpa thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "Ribbit. Ribbit." ...read more

  • Pure Love Brings Joy

    Contributed by Christopher Sweeney on May 19, 2017
     | 4,012 views

    Many of you may have experienced this but I have from my two nephews and my time in youth ministry that there are times when you are having the worst days and then a child will run up to you and give you a hug or say I love you and everything goes away. Why, why is it that a hug can help erase the ...read more

  • Getting Fat

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 6, 2019
     | 3,239 views

    JUST GETTING FAT? By Juan Carlos Orte We have a phenomenon in the church today which I call “eternal babyhood of the believer.” We have members of our churches who after years of hearing messages are just the same as always. They continually need a minister to keep after them, changing their ...read more

  • Anxiety And Relationships

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Dec 27, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,888 views

    Anxiety can be the ruin or the salvation of our relationships. It is an alarm mechanism. It alerts us to potential danger. But sometimes it goes off too often or quickly. Sometimes we do not seem able to regulate it. Shocked, we lash out, hold our ground, or retreat. However, anxiety can be our ...read more

  • Brennan Manning Who Is One Of My Favorite ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,032 views

    Brennan Manning who is one of my favorite authors describes it like this. He is a recovering alcoholic and he said, no matter how long I am sober, no matter what I do I will always be a recovering alcoholic. I will always lay that card down on the table, my past does not change. He says, when we ...read more

  • I Once Read A Story About A Preacher's Son Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 5,732 views

    I once read a story about a preacher’s son who was engaged to marry a woman in the church. She had been a woman of poor reputation before coming into the church and accepting Christ as her Lord and Savior. Her reputation preceded her. The church raised a fit over the engagement. They wouldn’t have ...read more

  • Not All Quotations About Life Have Been ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,367 views

    Not all quotations about life have been negative, for example: Norman Thomas (1884-1968), “The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.” Oswald Spengler, a German historian and philosopher (1880-1936), “This is our purpose: to make as ...read more

  • I Heard About A Rabbit And A Snake Meeting In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,134 views

    I heard about a rabbit and a snake meeting in the forest. The rabbit said, "We don’t know how we look. Why don’t we describe each other to the other so we’ll know how we look?" The snake said, "Good idea. You’ve got a pink nose, long ears, and a fluffy little tail." The rabbit liked that, and he ...read more

  • Two Blondes Were Flying To Miami From Cleveland. ...

    Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Jan 24, 2008
     | 1,307 views

    Two blondes were flying to Miami from Cleveland. Fifteen minutes into the flight, the captain announced "One of the engines has failed and the flight will be an hour longer. But don’t worry we have three engines left". Thirty minutes later, the captain announced "One more engine has failed and the ...read more

  • Doug Goins, Pastor At Peninsula Bible Church In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,266 views

    Doug Goins, pastor at Peninsula Bible Church in California has written... There are also many temptations that can capture our attention, trying to seduce us with false promises. There are many books (in Christian book stores), video tapes, and seminars that will tell us what we can add to God to ...read more

  • From: "Living With Jesus Today" By Juan Carlos ...

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 4, 2008
     | 2,911 views

    FROM: "LIVING WITH JESUS TODAY" by Juan Carlos Ortiz We have a phenomenon in the church today which I call the "ETERNAL BABYHOOD OF THE BELIEVER." We have members of our churches who, after years of hearing messages are just the same. They continually need a minister to keep after them, changing ...read more

  • You May Have Heard About The Westboro Baptist ...

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Jul 10, 2008
     | 1,951 views

    You may have heard about the Westboro Baptist Church in Wichita, Kansas, whose members picket at the funerals of soldiers. They believe that God is punishing our Nation because we have accepted ungodly lifestyles as normal, and so while they have nothing against the brave men and women who have ...read more

  • Bill Hybels States This About Prayer From His ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 25, 2009
     | 1,770 views

    Bill Hybels states this about prayer from his book Too Busy Not To Pray: “From birth we have been learning the rules of self-reliance as we strain and struggle to achieve self-sufficiency. Prayer flies in the face of those deep-seated values. It is an assault on human autonomy, an indictment of ...read more

  • Why Stick With Milk?

    Contributed by Todd Leupold on Feb 10, 2009
     | 2,175 views

    WHY STICK WITH MILK? Why would someone continue with a staple diet of milk only? Simple. Milk is easily and quickly swallowed. Meat, on the other hand, is much more substantial. It needs to be chewed, savored and broken down before it can be swallowed. Usually, we have to wait for it to cook. ...read more

  • I Think It Was G. Campbell Morgan Who Said, "God ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 15, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,955 views

    I think it was G. Campbell Morgan who said, “God puts you in a FIX to FIX you; and if you get out of the FIX before you get FIXED, God has to FIX another FIX to FIX you.” I usually use that in my Jonah sermon with regard to the belly of the great fish. It means that God will put us in circumstances ...read more

  • Tenth Hours

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 1,539 views

    TENTH HOURS Napoleon said that in every battle there [is] a period of ten or fifteen minutes which decides the issue of the conflict. Certainly in the battle of life there are moments and hours which, so far as we can tell, determine our history: hours when the spirit in which we lived, the step ...read more

  • Tenth Hours

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,589 views

    TENTH HOURS Napoleon said that in every battle there [is] a period of ten or fifteen minutes which decides the issue of the conflict. Certainly in the battle of life there are moments and hours which, so far as we can tell, determine our history: hours when the spirit in which we lived, the step ...read more