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  • The Importance Of Really Living The Christian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jun 28, 2001
    based on 59 ratings
     | 2,706 views

    The importance of really living the Christian life is illustrated in the life of the famous author Mark Twain. Church leaders were largely to blame for his becoming hostile to the Bible and the Christian faith. As he grew up, he knew elders and deacons who owned slaves and abused them. He heard men ...read more

  • Prayer Of A Half-Hearted Christian

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 5,016 views

    Prayer of a Half-hearted Christian I love thy church, O God; Her walls before me stand; But please excuse my absence, Lord; This bed is simply grand A charge to keep I have; A God to glorify; But Lord, don’t ask for cash from me; The glory comes too high. Am I a soldier of the cross, A follower ...read more

  • There Are Three Great Enemies Of The Christian: ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 22, 2006
     | 1,931 views

    “There are three great enemies of the Christian: the world, the flesh, and the devil. The world is against us. Our flesh is an enemy. As if that were not enough, we have a powerful foe in Satan, who is described […] as a ‘roaring lion looking for someone to devour.’ There are many things against ...read more

  • There Was A Boy Who Was Adopted By A Christian ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 24, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,334 views

    There was a boy who was adopted by a Christian couple. When that boy became a teenager he started to hang around the wrong crowd. He got involved with drugs and the wrong kind of girls. He broke his curfew and was just rebellious. That couple went and talked to the preacher. They asked the ...read more

  • Ichthys — The Christian Fish Symbol  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Aug 26, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,721 views

    ICHTHYS - THE CHRISTIAN FISH SYMBOL I’ve got a picture here. Do you know what it is? <>< (www.epworthsteeple.org/symbols.htm). Yes, it’s a symbol of a fish. But it’s more than that, it’s a Christian symbol going back to the time of the first years of the Christian church. In the first century ...read more

  • Successful Author And Christian Psychologist, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Amanda Wilson on May 6, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,864 views

    Successful Author and Christian psychologist, Larry Crabb, begins his book Connecting with the story of his eldest son. Larry had two sons, and being a theologian, psychologist, and loving father, he wanted to do all that was right for his sons. So he gave his sons hugs, and spankings, detailed ...read more

  • God Blesses Christian Parents

    Contributed by Eric Hanson on Nov 17, 2008
     | 2,545 views

    GOD BLESSES CHRISTIAN PARENTS How wonderful for children to have parents who are truly "in the Lord." They will be able to honor such men and women, thus activating the promise mentioned in verse 3. Nancy’s Grandparents took her Grandfather’s mother into their home and cared for her when she ...read more

  • What Is A Christian? In The Letter To Diognetus, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,529 views

    What is a Christian? In the LETTER TO DIOGNETUS, which dates back to the second century A.D., an anonymous writer describes a strange people who are in the world but not of the world. “Christians are not differentiated from other people by country, language, or customs; you see, they do not live ...read more

  • Non-Christians Can Be Happy  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 23, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,946 views

    NON-CHRISTIANS CAN BE HAPPY I didn't say that non-Christians can't be happy or that they can't be content. Sure they can be happy...as long as life goes the way they want it to go. As long as our health is good, we enjoy our job, people love us and the sky is blue, anybody can be fairly content ...read more

  • Love Your Enemies  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 28, 2001
    based on 75 ratings
     | 6,908 views

    Illus.: “Love Your Enemies” We found ourselves on the same track with several carloads of Japanese wounded after we were freed from the Kwai prison camp. These unfortunates were on their own without medical care. No longer fit for action in Burma, they had been packed into railway cars which were ...read more

  • Fear, Love, Joy  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 7, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,863 views

    FEAR, LOVE, JOY In the movie First Knight, Lancelot (played by Richard Gere) is a wanderer and highly skilled swordsman who fights for whoever will pay him. Seeing a princess and her entourage under attack in the woods, he decides to save her. Attracted to the princess, Guinevere, he later visits ...read more

  • God So Loved  PRO

    Contributed by Johnny Small on Mar 12, 2003
    based on 101 ratings
     | 4,756 views

    God So Loved I want to paint a picture for you this morning. Picture yourself arguing with a friend and you really lose it. You pull out a gun and kill your friend. You are caught and arrested. You receive your day in court and found guilty of your sin of murder. You are sentenced to die by ...read more

  • Everyone Loves A Parade  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2003
    based on 18 ratings
     | 6,270 views

    EVERYONE LOVES A PARADE It was October 29, 1927 when Charles Lindbergh was given a ticker-tape parade in New York City in honor of his solo flight of the Atlantic Ocean. 750,000 lbs. of ticker tape poured onto the streets. But the biggest ticker-tape parade was on March 1, 1962, for astronaut ...read more

  • Faith In A Father's Love  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Nov 26, 2003
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,556 views

    FAITH IN A FATHER'S LOVE Here’s how the story of Finding Nemo develops in the movie: Nemo’s father loved him very much. He watched over Nemo and protected him from every evil. Nemo and his dad were best friends. There are reasons why so many people enjoy the blockbuster hit Finding Nemo. It is a ...read more

  • A Lesson Of Love At Christmas  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 12, 2003
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,623 views

    A LESSON OF LOVE AT CHRISTMAS There is a seldom noticed yet preciously tender lesson to be found in Mary’s actions immediately following the angel’s visit announcing her role as bearer of the Christ Child. She had been told that her cousin Elizabeth was also experiencing an unusual, though ...read more

  • The Love Of My Life  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 2, 2004
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,718 views

    THE LOVE OF MY LIFE Rick Warren’s wife Kay has cancer. [He wrote "The Purpose Driven Life] Rick sends out a letter every week through his web site, and this is what a recent one said: “So many of you have asked about Kay’s progress in her treatment for cancer, so we wanted to give you an update. ...read more

  • Self Love Is Ordinary

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Nov 11, 2004
     | 3,350 views

    Self Love Is Ordinary Self-love is so ordinary that Jesus used it as a reference point: Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” When I was in elementary school, the teacher sometimes solved the first problem on a sheet of homework to show us how the others were solved. Jesus used our love for ...read more

  • Unfailing Love/Commitment  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Feb 12, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,329 views

    UNFAILING LOVE/COMMITTMENT: The following letter appeared in the Ann Lander’s newspaper column a few years ago. It is a great image of what marital love is like. "Dear Ann Landers: I’m going to tell you about a love story that I witness every time I go to the nursing home to see my husband who ...read more

  • God's Loving Son  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Nov 15, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,498 views

    Illus.: “God’s Loving Son” A certain rich man died and left no heirs. When his household goods were auctioned off, an elderly lady dressed in shabby garments was the only one to bid on the picture of the dead man’s son. It had been greatly cherished by the wealthy father because his only child ...read more

  • Love Gives Itself

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,260 views

    Thomas Merton: “Without love, almsgiving is no more important an action than brushing your hair or washing your hands, and the Pharisees had just as elaborate a ritual for those things as they had for alms, too, because all these things were prescribed by law, and had to be done so. “But love ...read more