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  • Are You Serving Or Souring

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jun 13, 2022
     | 1,543 views

    If you are not serving where you are do not expect to be called to somewhere else to serve. Act 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. Saul/Paul and Barnabas were already serving in the church ...read more

  • The Eating Thing  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Hamilton on Sep 29, 2002
    based on 89 ratings
     | 4,019 views

    The Eating thing Let me share with you a fairly personal issue that I’m working through that has caused me to ask this question about loving God. Last year – in fact for a number of years now I have been aware that I have been struggling with an addiction. As soon as I say the word it arouses ...read more

  • It's Not A Good Picture. Sheep, Lost Out In The ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Apr 9, 2007
     | 948 views

    It’s not a good picture. Sheep, lost out in the wild, are goners. They aren’t very bright. They have no natural defenses. They can’t even run real fast. On their own they don’t do well at finding adequate food and water. Every time the word lost is used to describe a sheep, it’s a word in the ...read more

  • Involving Others

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 30, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,576 views

    INVOLVING OTHERS Ezra accepted the plan. He immediately swore in the leading priests and Levites as the committee to investigate the matter and see to it that the law was obeyed. But instead of participating immediately in the investigation, he withdrew into one of the rooms of the temple to fast ...read more

  • Holdfast

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 7, 2011
     | 907 views

    HOLDFAST In the plant world, there are plants who hold fast onto objects like rocks. Their root system is called a holdfast. Many people associate holdfasts with seaweed. If we have ever attempted to pull a piece of seaweed from a rock, we can understand the name of this plant structure; we ...read more

  • When My Eldest Brother Peter Was Caught In A ...

    Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 25, 2007
     | 1,692 views

    When my eldest brother Peter was caught in a riot at the university, he realized that at his age, he couldn’t confront the riot police as they engaged the students in the melee. He therefore thought very fast in order to save his skin. He took an African basket and bought some groceries - cabbages, ...read more

  • R. G. Letourneau Was For Many Years An ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
     | 901 views

    R. G. LeTourneau was for many years an outstanding Christian businessman—heading a company that manufactured large earthmoving equipment. He once remarked, “We used to make a scraper known as ‘Model G.’ One day somebody asked our salesman what the ‘G’ stood for. The man, who was pretty quick on the ...read more

  • An African Pastor Once Told Of A Construction ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2001
    based on 82 ratings
     | 2,731 views

    An African pastor once told of a construction worker that fell on a nail, and as a result, got tetanus. The people in his church fervently prayed and fasted, but the man died. When they had the funeral, however, it turned out to be a crusade! Many people came to a saving knowledge of Christ as a ...read more

  • You See These Guys Don't You Driving The Delivery ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 12, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,559 views

    You see these guys don’t you driving the delivery trucks with the sticker on the back which says How’s my driving telephone 0800 0999. – report if going too fast, driving too reckless – too slow etc . The driver is representing that particular company – it looks bad on them. The application is ...read more

  • Greed Of The Monkey

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Sep 27, 2010
     | 4,344 views

    GREED OF THE MONKEY When I was in Africa, a delicacy was Monkey. Monkeys are very fast, too smart to get in a trap but there is a unique way to catch them. They take a gourd and tie it to a stake. In the gourd they cut a small hole and drop some nuts inside. The monkeys come to get the nut but ...read more

  • A Chance To Warm Up?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,351 views

    Dr. Ted Engstrom said, “A man tends to overestimate what he can do in a year, and underestimate what he can do in five.” In a Peanuts cartoon strip, Charlie Brown says to Linus, "Life is just too much for me. I’ve been confused from the day I was born. I think the whole trouble is that we’re ...read more

  • Never Mourn Over Unbelief As If It Were Only A ...

    Contributed by Steve Lucas on Jul 30, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,739 views

    Never mourn over unbelief as if it were only a weakness which you cannot help. As God’s child, how ever weak you may be, you have the power to believe for the Spirit of God is in you. You have only to keep in mind this: No one apprehends anything before that he has the power to believe. He must ...read more

  • Taking Pit-Stops In ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Mar 30, 2010
     | 3,296 views

    TAKING PIT-STOPS IN LIFE The Formula One motor racing is the fastest sport in the world. Central to the strategy of winning a Formula One race is the pit-stop. No driver, no matter how fast they drive, can win a race without taking a pit-stop. In pit-stop the drivers take refreshment, ...read more

  • Isolation Society

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 14, 2011
     | 1,944 views

    ISOLATION SOCIETY Here is how Max Lucado rates us as a society: "Call us a fast society, an efficient society, but don't call us a personal society. Our society is set up for isolation. We wear ear buds when we exercise. We communicate via e-mail and text messages. We enter and exit our house with ...read more

  • From Stories For Preachers On The ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 2, 2008
     | 779 views

    Illustration from Stories for Preachers on the commitment of love of one to another from Mother Teresa:“My own mother used to be very busy the whole day, but as soon as evening came, she moved very fast to get ready to meet my father. At that time we didn’t understand; we used to laugh; we used to ...read more

  • A Self-Service World  PRO

    Contributed by James Chandler on Apr 15, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,567 views

    We live in a self-service world. Self service gas stations. Self service fast food. Now you can even check yourself out at the grocery store. We have totally lost the idea of service in our society today. Yet Jesus reminds us of the value of service as he humbly washed his disciples feet. And ...read more

  • A Woman Walking Down A Residential Street, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Oct 20, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,742 views

    A woman walking down a residential street, noticed a little old man rocking in a chair on his porch. She called out to him as she passed. "Hello there! I couldn’t help but notice how happy you look. What’s your secret for a long happy life?" "I smoke three packs of ciga­rettes a day," he replied. ...read more

  • Many Do Not Recognize The Fact As They Ought, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
     | 1,569 views

    "Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never ...read more

  • Michael Nelken], A Connecticut Psychiatrist And ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on May 23, 2006
     | 840 views

    [Michael Nelken], a Connecticut psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has written a book about Adolf Hitler contends that people are more in danger of doing evil than they realize…[He writes,] “temptations to do wanton things don’t just come now and then, but are ever present. Impulses to do evil fly ...read more

  • For Posterity

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 24, 2019
     | 2,137 views

    . In 1914, British World War I soldier Pvt. Thomas Hughes wrote a letter to his wife, sealed it in a ginger ale bottle, and tossed it into the English Channel. He died two days later fighting in France. Fast forward to 1999 when a fisherman found the bottle in the River Thames. It was too late to ...read more

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