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  • The World Is As Fresh As It Was At The First ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,378 views

    "...the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for ...read more

  • Your First Love

    Contributed by Charles Worth on May 16, 2009
     | 2,173 views

    YOUR FIRST LOVE Remember your first love? That innocent time in life when you had fallen "head over heels" for someone? Knowing it is the right thing to do you went to her/him and confessed your undying love; only to be told how much they "like" you as a friend. Jesus must feel that way at times. ...read more

  • Put Something In First

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Sep 11, 2009
     | 3,219 views

    PUT SOMETHING IN FIRST After we came here in US, I discovered that everybody around me were using something named "credit card" to buy things… We said, oh good, let’s go to a bank and asked them for tis wonder card… ziiip and pay for your gas, or for your church suit. I went with one coworker, I ...read more

  • The First And Last "All"

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,998 views

    THE FIRST AND LAST "ALL" After a mission service, the preacher of the evening was hurrying away to a late train. He had just three minutes to catch it when he saw a man running after him. "Oh, sir," he said breathlessly as he came up, "Can you help me? I am very anxious about my salvation." ...read more

  • Cast The First Stone  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,224 views

    CAST THE FIRST STONE A woman named Marilyn Helleberg told about being a teenager at church camp. She said an ugly rumor got started there about two of the counselors and it quickly became the talk of the camp. The next day, at Morning Prayer, the minister read the story of the adulterous woman. ...read more

  • Make The First Move

    Contributed by Dr. Zachary Sizemore on May 17, 2011
     | 2,584 views

    MAKE THE FIRST MOVE Many years ago I was preaching in a little mountain church in a close community. There was a division between two men in the church over a cow. Their families had been at odds, and they had brought the argument into the church. One of the men bought a cow and the other man ...read more

  • Help Yourself First

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Aug 16, 2011
     | 2,816 views

    HELP YOURSELF FIRST When an airliner loses cabin pressure the oxygen masks drop. You are told by the flight crew to put the mask on yourself before putting it on your child. You would think the child would be first. But if you pass out before you get the child’s mask on then both of you are ...read more

  • The First Radio Broadcast  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 7, 2011
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,322 views

    THE FIRST RADIO BROADCAST Allow me to start our time by reading you a nifty story. It is called, "The First Radio Broadcast." For their entire careers, wireless operators onboard US Navy and merchant ships had only heard Morse code coming through their headphones. However, a few days before ...read more

  • Your First Love

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Oct 28, 2011
     | 2,329 views

    YOUR FIRST LOVE Jesus' first remedy for the Church in Ephesus was too "REMEMBER." Rev. 2:5 says, "Remember therefore from where you are fallen..." Remember what it was like during the honeymoon stage? Go back in your mind to a time when passion prevailed in your spiritual life. Relive it and ...read more

  • Surrender Is The First Step

    Contributed by Tim White on Jan 23, 2012
     | 4,970 views

    SURRENDER IS THE FIRST STEP I have been told that there is a certain live animal trap that, if the trapped animal would simply back up a little, the trapping device would relax and he could escape. That is the shape of mankind. If we would just let go of control of our lives, we would find ...read more

  • Pray First In Community

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 30, 2012
     | 1,495 views

    PRAY FIRST IN COMMUNITY Daniel Henderson: "In our culture of rugged individualism we have come to the conclusion that it is better to pray alone than with others.  Unfortunately, most of us never learn to do either one very well.  Like most disciplines of ...read more

  • First-Century Fire

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on May 16, 2012
     | 5,436 views

    FIRST-CENTURY FIRE Billy Graham, that great and uncompromising preacher, once in a Revival meeting held at Los Angeles, shared a passionate message on the Early Church, outlining what needs to be done for the Churches of modern era to become more effective. While many were moved by it, some ...read more

  • Glory To God First

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jun 25, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,655 views

    GLORY TO GOD FIRST A man came to Pastor Chuck, the church that I went to for several years while in California, and he said to the pastor that he wanted to make a large donation - about one million dollar donation. The pastor said to that, "Wow -- that is a lot of money. Let me go first and pray ...read more

  • The Wedding Cake On The First ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2012
     | 5,403 views

    THE WEDDING CAKE ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY One of the many pieces of advice we received before our wedding was to save the top tier of your wedding cake and eat and eat it on your first anniversary. We had a tiny little freezer. For one full year, this box of wedding cake sat in our freezer, denying ...read more

  • First Gave Us

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 2, 2014
     | 12,214 views

    We can give to God only what he first gave us. We’re like the kid who wanted to give his dad a birthday gift, so he went to his father’s closet, took a tie off the rack, wrapped it up and presented it to him with a “Happy Birthday, Dad!” When we give to God, we take something wonderful that He ...read more

  • Putting God First

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Mar 18, 2022
     | 3,681 views

    I woke up this one morning recently around 7am which is fairly late for me, still very tired, and about 10 minutes into reading the Word trying to drink my coffee to wake up, I knew I would not be able to stay awake through all my prayers at that level of fatigue. But I was trying to make sure in ...read more

  • Cast The First Stone

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 6, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 480 views

    Marilyn Helleberg told about being a teenager at church camp. She said an ugly rumor got started there about two of the counselors and it quickly became the talk of the camp. The next day, at Morning Prayer, the minister read the story of the adulterous woman. He spoke of Jesus telling the crowd ...read more

  • Personal Letters Of All Sorts, Or "Household To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,760 views

    Personal Letters of all sorts, or “household to household” correspondence, account for less than 1% of the 100 billion pieces of first-class mail the USPS handles each year. Most of it mail consists of greeting cards, invitations, ...read more

  • I Kissed My First Woman And Smoked My First ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,236 views

    I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I have ...read more

  • A Sunday School Teacher Told Her Class Of 2nd ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 2, 2004
    based on 15 ratings
     | 6,318 views

    A Sunday School teacher told her class of 2nd graders the story found in Luke 16 of the Rich man and Lazarus. How that when they were here upon the earth the rich man had everything that money could buy and poor Lazarus had to beg for mere crumbs. But when they died, the rich man due to his ...read more

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