Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 30, 2025
[236]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - ROMANS 5 EXPLORATION
The book of Romans is considered to be The Gospel According to Paul, and is the most theological book in the New Testament. Chapter 5 is one some find difficult in the arguments the Holy Spirit makes through the Apostle.
I based my poem on
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 4, 2007
This morning, as you sit where you are, imagine with me that this platform is the front of the courtroom. Imagine with me that you sit in the seat of the defendant.
To your right in this courtroom, sits Satan, the Devil. His job is to get a guilty verdict and keep you from experiencing
...read more
Denomination:
Church Of God
Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 4, 2007
This morning, as you sit where you are, imagine with me that this platform is the front of the courtroom. Imagine with me that you sit in the seat of the defendant.
To your right in this courtroom, sits Satan, the Devil. His job is to get a guilty verdict and keep you from experiencing
...read more
Denomination:
Church Of God
Contributed by John Putty on Mar 19, 2011
Charles Finney, Abel Clary. Second Great Awakening.
It had been said about Rev. Charles Finney that his sermons were chain lightning, flashing conviction into the hearts of the stoutest skeptics. Simple as a child in his utterances, he sometimes startled his hearers by his unique prayers." He
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 12, 2011
A WHITE MAN WOULD COME
At 2006 when the National Missionary Convention was held in Indianapolis, IN, the invited guest for the Bible study was a man named Mont Cox, a professor at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. He told a story I think I will never forget.
As a young man growing up he
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Brian Mavis on Dec 15, 2003
based on 2 ratings
| 3,106 views
Allah or Jesus?
Last month I attended my annual training session that’s required for mai
ntaining my state prison security clearance. During the training session
there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic,
Protestant and Muslim faiths who explained their belief
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jun 5, 2001
based on 249 ratings
| 2,598 views
Some months ago I heard a touching story about a humble, consecrated pastor whose young son had become very ill. After the boy had undergone an exhaustive series of tests, the father was told the shocking news that his son had a terminal illness. The youngster had accepted Christ as his Savior, so
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Feb 26, 2006
based on 1 rating
| 2,503 views
ILLUSTRATION: After World War II, a group of German students volunteered to help rebuild an English cathedral that had been severely damaged by German bombs. As work progressed, they became concerned about a large statue of Jesus, whose arms were outstretched and beneath which was the inscription:
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
based on 2 ratings
| 1,271 views
In Chapter 5 Randy CLarks book Evangelism Unleashed he sites examples of “Power Evangelism” from the great American Revivals:
1. The Second Great Awakening and the Cane Ridge Revival:
a. He states, “As in the First Great Awakening, power encounters such as falling, shaking, groaning, shouting,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
based on 7 ratings
| 30,825 views
A wealthy businessman, who was well known for being ruthless and unethical, told Mark Twain that before he died, he wanted to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He said that when he got there he wanted to climb to the top of Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments, and there read
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Sep 8, 2005
based on 3 ratings
| 1,639 views
Gordon MacDonald shared about a time when he and his daughter, Kristy attended the New Year’s Eve celebration at the InterVarsity Urban Missionary Convention in 1976. The night closed with a Communion Service. After the benediction, 17,000 students began to head for the arena portals and their
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Betty Johnson on Sep 20, 2008
I couldn’t help but think about something that happened a couple of Sundays ago because it illustrates so beautifully the fullness of the message of this part of the text. It was after Sunday service and Anthon and Jamie and his family and I went out for lunch - Yes, we were eating out on Sunday
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Scott Nichols on Apr 17, 2009
based on 2 ratings
| 3,465 views
SAME OLD STORY...?
The little boy was not exactly happy about going to church on Easter Sunday morning. His new shoes were to tight, his tie pinched his neck and the weather outside was just too beautiful to be cooped up inside...so as he sulked in the pew his parents heard him mutter to no one in
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 20, 2009
CLEANING IS HARD WORK
When I was in Bible College. Fridays were not fun. Those were the nights we had "work sections." You heard me -- "work sections." We changed out of our holy threads to work-clothes and started cleaning the College, from scrubbing potatoes to scrubbing floors. And none of this
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Salvation Army
Sermon Central