Jim Burns wrote in CHRISTIANITY TODAY, “Compassion is one of the most important character traits we can nurture in our children. Yet our culture encourages selfishness. If we want our children to develop servant hearts, we need to give them opportunities to serve. Fortunately, teenagers are usually
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
based on 4 ratings
| 2,114 views
"We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 2,679 views
"Light of the world so clear and bright, Enter our homes this Christmas night; Re-light our souls so
...read more
Tags:
"It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 13, 2026
[262]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE ELECTION WILL SPELL EVEN MORE WICKEDNESS
In democratic societies people elect their national rulers, but what do you do when these rulers are all corrupt? How can you vote for them?
I know some Christians have a battle with this. Some just refuse to vote.
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 12, 2025
[130]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – HOW CAN I GIVE YOU UP, O MY SON?
This is a serious poem because it is based on a serious verse, one that has strong application to the cross. Here is the passage – {{Hosea 11:7-8 “My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call them to the One on high,
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Clark Tanner on May 17, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 2,185 views
“Kenneth Wuest gives an accurate and graphic translation of these words: “In which the heavens with a rushing noise will be dissolved, and the elements being scorched will be dissolved, and the earth also and the works in it will be burned up” (2 Peter 3:10).
Many Bible students believe that Peter
...read more
Denomination:
Orthodox
Contributed by Blake Inscore on Sep 26, 2008
One of my favorite stories is about a young seminary student who was terrified of speaking in front of others. He waited until his last semester to taking his preaching class, knowing that he would have to get up and present a sermon. His professor tried to reassure him that God would give him the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Ian Johnson on Feb 22, 2008
Overwhelm us Lord in your love, a heart overwhelmed is transformed, a transformed heart loves, Love overwhelms our surroundings, Transformation
...read more
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
based on 6 ratings
| 1,661 views
"One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider our problem,
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Dec 18, 2004
based on 3 ratings
| 2,326 views
Is seeing believing? Or are there things that are very real that we cannot see? Our garage doors open by unseen forces at the touch of a button. We put our food in little boxes, not seeing a heating element yet believing the microwaves will make it hot. Our computers have sound boards where the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian Church
A Roman historian named Tertullian, who lived in the late second to early third centuries (AD 155-220), wrote that even those who opposed Christianity knew that the mutual love of those who followed Christ was unique.
“Our care for the derelict and our active love have become our distinctive sign
...read more
Denomination:
Episcopal/Anglican
Sermon Central