based on 3 ratings
| 1,688 views
The Effects of Divorce on America by Patrick F. Fagan and Robert Rector
Fagan: American society may have erased the stigma that once accompanied divorce, but it can no longer ignore its massive effects. As social scientists track successive generations of American children whose parents have ended
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
based on 15 ratings
| 4,036 views
We must develop creative use of conflict.
Conflict is neither good nor bad, Conflict is neutral,
it is how we handle conflict that will bring us together or we will
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 2,251 views
"Can the humble request of believing lips restrain, accelerate, change the settled order of events? Can prayer make things that are not to be as though they were? Yes, a thousand times yes
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Apr 3, 2008
"And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me."
Barak Obama
...read more
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 20, 2006
based on 1 rating
| 945 views
Lee Iacocca said, “No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to
...read more
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Dec 8, 2000
based on 116 ratings
| 9,461 views
I’ve been reading "The Journal of John Wesley". In the entry for 24th May 1738, he wrote a detailed account of his spiritual pilgrimage. As a young boy in the family of a clergyman he had been "carefully taught" that salvation could only be obtained by "keeping all the commandments of God." Over
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
based on 18 ratings
| 4,211 views
MOM OF THE MIRACLE
September 4, 1990, was the beginning of a new era for the Ellison Family of Long Island. It was mom Jean’s first day of a new teaching job, and daughter Brooke’s first day of seventh grade. But things didn’t unfold as planned.
Brook was hit by a car that day, and
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Mark Jones on Dec 14, 2002
based on 48 ratings
| 2,703 views
John Wesley preached his last sermon of Feb 17, 1791 on the text “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near” (Isa 55:6). The following day, a very sick man, he was put to bed in his home on City Road. During the days of his illness, he often repeated the words from
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 8, 2004
based on 21 ratings
| 6,118 views
THE BLOOD OF CHRIST- COMMUNION MEDITATION
If you’ve seen Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” you probably remember the scene of Jesus’ scourging. It’s rather hard to forget the whip with steel and bone and glass knotted in its leather striking Jesus over and over again.
There is a part
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Selwyn Robins on Apr 19, 2011
FAITH LIKE A POTATO: DON'T GIVE UP HOPE
There is a movie called 'Faith Like a Potato'. It takes place in South Africa. Long story short a farmer w/an anger management issue is converted to a believer (follower) of the word. Needing to bring in money for his family, he decides to plant a crop of
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Charismatic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
based on 3 ratings
| 6,905 views
Opening; Illustration:
Mama eagles are caring loving creatures. Somewhere along the line the mama eagle decides it’s time the baby eagles learn to fly. She takes the little eagle out of the next and flies up as high as she can go. At this point, she drops the fledgling, and he falls fast. The
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Troy Borst on Apr 10, 2008
ILLUSTRATION… Choice Contemporary Stories & Illustrations For Preachers, Teachers, & Writers
Craig Brian Larson, Baker Books, p. 166.
Ruth Ryan, wife of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, had one moment she looked forward to in every one of her husband’s games. In Covering Home, she writes:
It
...read more
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
based on 2 ratings
| 1,125 views
My first pastoral appointment was the Marissa and Zion United Methodist Charge in St. Clair County, Illinois, about forty miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Zion had only three members and no electricity or running water. In past decades light had been provided in the sanctuary by kerosene,
...read more
Denomination:
Methodist
Sermon Central