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  • Give Me Liberty!!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 26, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 1,505 views

    GIVE ME LIBERTY!! "If we wish to be free...we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us...It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next ...read more

  • What Will You Give?  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jun 14, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 2,453 views

    [illustration] The story is told of a prince and his family who were captured by an enemy king. When brought before the enemy king, the prisoner was asked, "What will you give me if I release you?" "Half of my wealth," was the prince’s reply. "And if I release your children?" "Everything I ...read more

  • Give Me Liberty  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Gibney on Aug 7, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,135 views

    GIVE ME LIBERTY March 23, 1775. A man with his eternal perspective addressed the House of representatives and said, “ No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same ...read more

  • Giving Away Goodness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,151 views

    GIVING AWAY GOODNESS Mark Tidd of Webster, New York, describes an experience from his college days: “An old man showed up at the back door of the house we were renting. Opening the door a few cautious inches, we saw his eyes were glassy and his furrowed face glistened with silver stubble. He ...read more

  • No Fool Who Gives  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2003
    based on 39 ratings
     | 1,934 views

    A man is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot ...read more

  • Give Honor To God  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Jun 22, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,981 views

    David Brainerd said to Jonathan Edwards once: "I do not go to heaven to be advanced but to give honor to God. It is no matter where I shall be stationed in heaven, whether I have a high or low seat there, but to live and please and glorify God.... My heaven is to ...read more

  • Life Giving Love  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 26, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,394 views

    LIFE GIVING LOVE Here is Ruth, a young widow, who chooses a life of singleness, not because she has no choice, but out of love for Naomi. She could have returned to her own people like Orpah, and would no doubt have been able to remarry and live a normal life, but she gave that up, for the time ...read more

  • Never Give Up  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,398 views

    NEVER GIVE UP Haddon Robinson tells the following story. I hope you appreciate it as I did. It was New Year’s Day, 1929, and Georgia Tech. and UCLA were battling it out in the Rose Bowl. Georgia Tech. fumbled the football late in the first half. Roy Riggles recovered for California. Picking up the ...read more

  • Give The Keys To Jesus

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 14, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,318 views

    1. Give the keys to Jesus. Letting anyone drive our vehicle is tough. I admit that at times I’m not the best passenger, especially when it’s my vehicle. Just ask my wife. And just for the record, I think my wife’s a great driver. If I didn’t think so, I wouldn’t let her take my kids ...read more

  • Love Gives Itself

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,216 views

    Thomas Merton: “Without love, almsgiving is no more important an action than brushing your hair or washing your hands, and the Pharisees had just as elaborate a ritual for those things as they had for alms, too, because all these things were prescribed by law, and had to be done so. “But love ...read more

  • It Is The Passion That Is In A Kiss That Gives ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,278 views

    It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the ...read more

  • Giving Up Cussing  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,794 views

    GIVING UP CUSSING A little boy was sitting sadly on the curb beside his lawn mower, when along came a minister riding a bicycle. The minister noticed that the boy appeared discouraged, so he thought he would try to help. "Hello there!" said the minister. "How would you like to trade your lawn ...read more

  • Love Gives To The Limit

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 3, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,362 views

    LOVE GIVES TO THE LIMIT The late great Scots Church of Scotland theologian, educator, author, and radio and television presenter, William Barclay (1907 - 1978), once said, "Love never calculates; love never thinks how little it can decently give; love’s one desire is to give to the uttermost ...read more

  • To Whom Are You Giving?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,503 views

    To Whom Are You Giving? An experience in the life of English preacher and theologian Andrew Fuller illustrates this truth. James Duff, in Flashes of Truth, told of a time when Fuller went back to his hometown to collect money for foreign missions. One of his contacts was an old friend. When ...read more

  • Two Kinds Of Giving

    Contributed by T D on Dec 28, 2010
     | 2,773 views

    TWO KINDS OF GIVING I have witnessed in my years of ministry people come to church and when they do not like a decision of the leadership or the minister, they decide to stop giving as a protest or decide to shift their giving to missions in order to inflict pain on the ministry of the church. ...read more

  • Giving Up The World

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2011
     | 4,033 views

    GIVING UP THE WORLD A man once said to D. L. Moody, "Now that I am converted, must I give up to the world?" "No," answered the evangelist, "you need not give up the world; if you give a ringing testimony for the Son of God the world will give you up pretty quick. They ...read more

  • Wanting To Give Up

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 1, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,877 views

    WANTING TO GIVE UP "In 1965 a divorced mother of two found a classified ad offering a restaurant for sale. She mortgaged her house to purchase the restaurant, the original Chris's steakhouse. In 1976 a fire forced her to relocate. Under the original purchase agreement, the name 'Chris Steak House' ...read more

  • Never Give Up  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Oct 27, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,078 views

    NEVER GIVE UP Have you seen that cartoon with the pelican having a frog for dinner? His dinner is not agreeing with him. The frog’s head, shoulders, and most of his body are in the pelican’s beak. His back legs are outside, kicking for all they’re worth. His front legs stick out from both sides ...read more

  • Giving Out Of Need

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
     | 3,870 views

    “Hunger also changes the world when eating can’t be a habit, then neither can seeing.” - Maxine Hong Kingston It had been a tough year and it didn’t appear to be getting any easier. She wasn’t working and he wasn’t working much. They had two teenage children to feed and bills to pay. The car ...read more

  • Christmas Giving To Others

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
     | 4,170 views

    Ann Voskamp writes, “It’s almost a dozen years now, nothing under the Christmas tree here. Strange, the way children teach adults. It started at bedtime one year, I do remember that. Smoothing back hair, kissing foreheads, pulling up the blankets over my kids. Tucking them in. Prayers said all in a ...read more