Contributed by James Dunn on Feb 11, 2002
based on 4 ratings
| 1,861 views
When the company founded by Andrew Carnegie was taken over by the U.S. Steel Corporation in 1901 it acquired as one of its obligations a contract to pay the top Carnegie executive, Charles M. Schwab, the then unheard of minimum sum of $1,000,000. J.P. Morgan of U.S. Steel was in a quandary about
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 2 ratings
| 1,784 views
All across the world there are people who clearly understand the message of Christianity but who have chosen to reject Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Just like in the days when Jesus was on earth, some people will do anything to silence His message. In our country, we have to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 22, 2023
Can you believe it? Another year is in the books. I don’t know about you, but as magical and wonderful this time of year is, it is exhausting. I’m tired!
And the fact is that it’s not just this time of year. I find myself getting weary and tired often. Life is like that. It can wear you down.
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
based on 19 ratings
| 3,007 views
CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas was not celebrated during the 1st 2 centuries after Christ’s life on earth. In AD 245, when a group of scholars attempted to pinpoint the exact date of Christ’s birth, a church council denounced the endeavor, declaring it wrong to celebrate the birthday of Christ "as
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Jeff Osborne on Oct 16, 2008
Man in the Iron Cage
In John Bunyan’s book The Pilgrim’s Progress, he tells us of a character, known only as a man in an Iron Cage. This man’s character comes from the verse in Lu 8:13 “They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jun 23, 2003
based on 1 rating
| 2,268 views
Sales motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, in his book, Over the Top, points something out that I had never considered before reading it.
He says that we work our hardest just before a vacation. We try super hard to get everything done so we can relax when we get on vacation.
Ziglar says that if we
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Jimmy Giffin on May 16, 2004
A young boy went to visit his Uncle who owned a farm. Bright and early the next day the boy was awakened by his Uncle and informed it was time to do the chores. The Uncle and the boy slopped the hogs, fed the chickens, milked the cow, and split the fire wood. After this they went inside to a hearty
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2001
based on 128 ratings
| 1,276 views
Elton Trueblood, the Quaker scholar, once compared evangelism to fire. Evangelism occurs, he said, when Christians are so ignited by their contact with Christ that they in turn set other fires. It is easy to determine when something is aflame. It ignites other material. Any fire that does not
...read more
Contributed by Tim George on Aug 20, 2001
based on 50 ratings
| 2,573 views
Adrian Rodgers, the well-known pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, tells the story of a young man who came up to him one Sunday morning after the message. “Man,” the young man remarked, “this Christian life is really hard!” Dr. Rodgers wisely replied, “No, son. It’s not hard, it’s
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Nov 21, 2001
based on 4 ratings
| 1,626 views
[Walking Advertisements, Citation: F. B. Meyer in Our Daily Walk. Christianity Today, Vol. 33, no. 10.]
We ought to be Christians in large type, so that it would not be necessary (for others) to be long in our society, or to regard us through spectacles, in order to detect our true discipleship.
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 11, 2002
based on 1 rating
| 2,023 views
According to a recent poll of American young adult men, 48% believe that most of the problems in the world today are a result of man himself. Only 41% indicated agreement that Jesus has provided the way to know God personally. Only 29% could correctly state how one becomes a Christian. But 67% were
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
based on 1 rating
| 2,526 views
The Graduate School of Ministry Management (GSMM) has launched a graduate program designed to support top level Christian ministry and marketplace executives. Modeled after Executive MBA programs established by major universities, GSMM’s mandate is to empower and equip Christian leaders with
...read more
Tags:
based on 2 ratings
| 1,990 views
ILLUSTRATION POINT:
(Hand each audience member a puzzle piece.) His specific plan involves you – look at your puzzle piece which was handed to you when you came in this morning! Here this word from the Lord, "You are an important piece to the vision and to the mission of Christian Hills." God’s
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Sermon Central