Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 17, 2001
based on 137 ratings
| 1,946 views
[Linked at the Roots, Citation: Blair F. Rorabaugh, Uniontown, Ohio. Leadership, Vol. 12, no. 2]
The article "What Good Is a Tree?" in Reader’s Digest explained that when the roots of trees touch, there is a substance present that reduces competition.
In fact, this unknown fungus helps link roots
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Curtis Kittrell on Sep 23, 2001
based on 89 ratings
| 2,098 views
My four-year-old granddaughter, Amanda, went to the doctor’s office with a fever. The doctor looked in her ears and said, "Who’s in there? Donald Duck?"
She said, "No." He looked in her nose and said, "Who’s in there? Mickey Mouse?"
Again she said, "No." He put his stethoscope on her heart and
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
based on 62 ratings
| 4,170 views
PARENTING
There is no better opportunity for any adult to impact this world, than to develop strong Christian relationships with and through their children.
A survey was taken among parents. The point was to record the negative and positive statements they made to their children in the course
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
United Methodist
Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 3, 2001
based on 6 ratings
| 2,206 views
In a book I just read this week – Every Man’s Battle; ‘Winning the war on Sexual Temptation…’ The authors make the following observation…
Sexual impurity has become rampant in the church because we’ve ignored the costly work of obedience to God’s standards as individuals, asking too often, “How
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2002
based on 3 ratings
| 1,169 views
“We emulate what we think about. Children pretend they are the heroes they dream about. Teenagers dress like the sports stars or popular musicians they devote so much attention to. But these tendencies don’t disappear when we become adults. Those who concentrate on “making it to the top” read
...read more
Contributed by Ryan Johnson on Feb 23, 2002
based on 48 ratings
| 1,785 views
The Greek poet, Hosaye wrote, “ If you tell me who you love, I can tell you who you are
Max Lucado a dynamic Christian author said it this way, ‘ The sign of the saved is their love for the least”
Bill Hybels, Pastor of one of the largest churches in America echoed the thought , When he said,’We
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
based on 9 ratings
| 3,910 views
In evangelical individualism people think of their personal relationship with God in isolation (“Just me and Jesus”) and forge their destiny apart from any church authority. While holding relatively low opinions of history, traditions, and the church, they turn to the experiences of self and
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
based on 4 ratings
| 3,769 views
DEFINE MIRACLE
A miracle is a divine intervention into, or interruption of, the regular course of the world that produces a purposeful but unusual event that would not have occurred otherwise(Geisler).
Scholar, William Lane Craig gives us an even more simple definition:
A miracle is an event
...read more
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
It is no wonder that in 15 years of asking high school students throughout America whether, in an emergency situation, they would save their dog or a stranger first, most students have answered that they would not save the stranger. "I love my dog, I don’t love the stranger," they always say. The
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
based on 25 ratings
| 4,214 views
WHAT CHILDREN HEAR
I was reading the story of Jesus’ birth to my day-care children one morning. As usual, I stopped to see if they understood.
"What do we call the three wise men?" I asked.
"The three maggots," replied a bright 5-year-old.
"What gift did the MAGI bring baby Jesus?"
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Dec 27, 2002
based on 5 ratings
| 1,760 views
We’ve got a guy name Mark Batelle that comes to our church. Mark is an excellent musician and a solid Christian. But Mark also has the “F” word tattooed on the back of his bald head. A few months ago the president of Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary came to visit our church. And I looked
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Darrell Jones on Mar 1, 2003
based on 90 ratings
| 6,101 views
Living Thief.
A minister tells the story of a preacher who asked a man why he did not join the church..The reply was that the dying thief did not join the church and he was saved. "Well," said the minister, "if you do not belong to a church, perhaps you help by supporting missions?" "No," said the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Dennis Rhoads on Sep 23, 2003
based on 1 rating
| 1,698 views
In closing, I want to share with you a little story that unfortunately describes too many of us Christians. There was a man standing at a bus stop carrying a heavy suitcase. When the bus came, he just barely got himself and the suitcase on the already overcrowded bus. Several blocks later, the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 18, 2003
based on 1 rating
| 1,330 views
What might we do in our families to celebrate Christmas as a holy day? Of course, we remember that its date was first set purposely to coincide with the Roman festival of the returning of the sun, so that it was indeed initially a pagan holiday. In order to celebrate it, however, the first
...read more
Contributed by Paul Redwine on Jan 5, 2004
based on 1 rating
| 3,238 views
As a third-century man was anticipating death, he penned these last words to a friend: "It’s a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy which is a thousand times better than any
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 23, 2004
based on 4 ratings
| 3,558 views
The article "What Good Is a Tree?" in Reader’s Digest explained that when the roots of trees touch, there is a substance present that reduces competition.
In fact, this unknown fungus helps link roots of different trees--even of dissimilar species.
A whole forest may be linked together.
If one
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Jeff Simms on Aug 2, 2004
based on 7 ratings
| 10,214 views
Max Lucado tells a story in a book called “It’s Not About Me” about a friend of his who had cancer. Some well intentioned Christians had told him ‘If you have faith, then you will be healed”. But, no healing came, only a crisis in faith in that man’s life. Max suggested another answer to him,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist