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  • A Chaplain's Prayer For Our Soldiers  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,915 views

    A CHAPLAIN’S PRAYER FOR OUR SOLDIERS "Lord our God, provide wisdom, insight and clear vision of Your will, for all our senior military and political leaders, the President, his Cabinet, the Secretary of Defense, the Service Secretaries and the flag and SES level personnel under their direction. ...read more

  • Children's Faith

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2025
     | 590 views

    "Children’s Letters to God" series, actual authentic letters written by kids to God: "Dear God, I read the Bible. What does ’begat’ mean? Nobody will tell me. Love, Alison." "Dear God, did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?" - ...read more

  • I Can Remember As A Young Boy Saying Prayer For ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Chandler on Dec 9, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,665 views

    I can remember as a young boy saying prayer for the family one Thanksgiving meal. In my prayer I included the phrase, "Dear God, I sure hope the Oakland Raiders make it to the Superbowl." I learned that wasn’t really appropriate. As I grew, I also learned that real hope is not the ...read more

  • I Talked About The Wealthy Ceo Who Is Wondering ...

    Contributed by Stan Rodda on Oct 13, 2004
     | 2,067 views

    I talked about the wealthy CEO who is wondering if there is more out there, the happy family that is actually falling apart because no one understands them, the successful entrepreneur who is unfulfilled in his job, and the popular student who even though everyone wants to be like them they are ...read more

  • Rates Of Serious Child Abuse Are Lowest In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 2,427 views

    Rates of serious child abuse are lowest in intact families; 6 times higher in step-families; 14 times higher in always-single-mother families; 20 times higher in cohabiting biological-parent families; and 33 times higher when the mother is ...read more

  • The Other Night My 2 Year Old Daughter And I ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 24, 2004
     | 1,630 views

    The other night my 2 year old daughter and I were saying "her" prayers. The much rehearsed, "now I lay me down to sleep." After she went through her long list of family & friends she wished for God to bless, out of the blue she said, "and thank you for ice cream." Immediately I was thinking to ...read more

  • This Last Week I Was Thinking About This ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Peck on Feb 1, 2001
    based on 127 ratings
     | 6,410 views

    This last week I was thinking about this priority of love and I saw an incredible example of it on Dateline NBC. It seems that two members of the same church participated in a 40 day prayer and fasting time to seek God’s will for their lives. One of the woman badly needed a kidney transplant, and ...read more

  • A Little Over 3 Months Ago, Little Matthew (Well, ...

    Contributed by Andy Anquoe on Feb 15, 2007
     | 1,612 views

    A little over 3 months ago, little Matthew (well, not exactly little) came into our family. My niece left him with my elderly parents to care for since she could not. When I heard what had happened, I traveled back to Oklahoma to assess the situation Seeing my 80 year old parents care for this BIG ...read more

  • Miraculous Protection Of Hutu ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,401 views

    Miraculous Protection of Hutu Preacher Psalm 91:5 goes on to say, “You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day.” And vs. 11 says, “He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.” ILL. Tribal wars are nothing new in Central Africa. In fact, a ...read more

  • A Light Named Al  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Sep 2, 2002
    based on 51 ratings
     | 10,024 views

    A LIGHT NAMED AL On the morning of September 11, Jeannie Braca switched on the television to check the weather report, only to hear that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. Jeannie’s husband, Al, worked as a corporate bond trader for Cantor Fitzgerald. His office was on the 105th ...read more

  • A Disease Left Helen Keller Blind And Deaf As A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,171 views

    A disease left Helen Keller blind and deaf as a very young girl. Her family hired Anne Sullivan to take care of Helen. Through Anne’s tireless and selfless efforts, Helen finally learned to communicate through touch and even learned to talk. When Anne first told Helen about God, the girl’s response ...read more

  • Serving Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,887 views

    Serving Jesus • A certain family in a Southern Baptist Church had been inactive for years. • The family simply never went to church any more and every effort to get them to attend had failed. • One day one of the sons, name John, was bitten by a rattlesnake. The father immediately sent for the ...read more

  • Parents, You Are Accountable For Disciplining ...

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 19, 2009
     | 3,384 views

    Parents, you are accountable for disciplining and teaching your children about God, salvation, and how to live and make godly decisions · How important is it? · A Spiritual Clinic, J. Oswald Sanders recorded observations about two Revolutionary War era families from New England, and the differing ...read more

  • Jill Briscoe On Submission

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
     | 5,896 views

    JILL BRISCOE ON SUBMISSION Jill Briscoe talks about the difference between her family and her husband, Stuart's, family and what that brought to their own marriage. She says, "My father, a quiet, gentle man, considered himself head of his home: protector, defender, and provider. My mom was a ...read more

  • Remember

    Contributed by Daniel Devilder on Oct 19, 2006
     | 3,134 views

    “remember” Because of what Christ has done for me, and as his disciple, God’s own child, I am to let the peace of Christ RULE in my heart. I was CALLED to PEACE. YOU were CALLED to PEACE. And we find that in Pennsylvania, these people, that many in the world would describe at best ...read more

  • While On Vacation A Few Weeks Ago, I Was In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 16, 2001
    based on 86 ratings
     | 2,052 views

    While on vacation a few weeks ago, I was in the hotel room and, like the rest of the family, unwinding from the day’s travels and events. We had the TV on and a Promise Keepers commercial came on. Promise Keepers, I would remind us, is a wonderful organization, that reminds men of their God-given ...read more

  • It Is Well With My Soul" Is One Of My Much Loved ...

    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 11, 2007
     | 2,448 views

    "It is Well with My Soul" is one of my much loved hymns. I don’t know if you might be familiar with the chronicle behind it or not, but the man who authored the lyrics of this beautiful hymn lost his whole family at sea. Horatio Spafford, a successful businessman, had dispatched his family ahead of ...read more

  • Picked From The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2010
     | 3,953 views

    Picked From the Fire John Wesley never forgot a terrible night of his childhood. He was only six years old at the time, and he had awakened in the family’s old rectory to find it ablaze from top to bottom. Everyone else had been dragged from the building, but by some extraordinary oversight he had ...read more

  • Joy In The Circumstances Of Life

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Dec 4, 2023
     | 1,939 views

    The ingredients of our life can lead to joy if we look at them from God’s viewpoint. I am reminded of the family that sat down to a meal with their grandpa and dad, an old farmer. The farmer was asked to ask the blessing on the breakfast of biscuits and gravy. They bowed their heads as the ...read more

  • Hurricane Victims' Suffering Lead Them To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,334 views

    Hurricane Victims’ Suffering Lead Them to Christ 38-year-old Carlotta Bennett was riding out Hurricane Katrina in her attic with her family. The winds had blown her house way off its foundation, and the rising water was threatening to flood the house to the roof and drown the five people in the ...read more