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Suicide Attitudes: About Fifteen Million People ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Suicide Attitudes: About fifteen million people (7% of all adults) have attempted suicide at some point in their lives, according to a recent Harris Poll. The research also revealed that 21% of adults have thought seriously about taking their own lives, and 25% believe that ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

What Is The Value Of A Life? Business Week ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

What Is The Value Of A Life? Business Week magazine reports that economists estimate how many lives are saved by a particular government regulation, and then compare that with the cost of implementing the new rule. Here are some results: It costs $3,000 to save one life (with the regulation of ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

Shipwreck And Stranded

Contributed by Christian Cheong on Feb 6, 2006

SHIPWRECK AND STRANDED A man was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. He painstakingly built a little hut for protection and a place to keep the few items he had salvaged from the wreck. He prayed fervently for his rescue, scanning the horizon for a ship, but NOTHING. For weeks he lived under ...read more

Tags: God's Forgiveness

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Charles F. Kettering, Former Research Head Of ...  PRO

Contributed by Mark Brunner on Feb 6, 2006

Charles F. Kettering, former research head of General Motors, was fond of telling this story. When he called a research and development meeting on a particular problem of not an immediate probability of presenting a ready solution, and he wanted the problem solved, he’d take care to first find a ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 7:1-2

Tags: God's Omnipotence

Denomination: Lutheran

You See, We've All Heard Stories Of People Who ...  PRO

Contributed by Lynn Malone on Feb 6, 2006

You see, we’ve all heard stories of people who lucked up and found something hidden away in an attic that turned out to be really valuable, and we figure, if it could happen to them, it could happen to us. We hear stories like Ted and Virginia from Arizona. There story was found on Antiques ...read more

Tags: Kingdom Of God

Denomination: Methodist

All Things Bright And Beautiful

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell, How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well. Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–1895), Irish ...read more

Tags: God The Father

I Heard Bro. J. T. Pugh Tell A Story Of One Of ...

Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 8, 2006

I heard Bro. J. T. Pugh tell a story of one of the four men who made such a dramatic impact on his life. He mentioned that this man was an evangelist back in the 1940’s. The nation was still in the midst of great financial throes from the Great Depression and from the Second World War. He said ...read more

Tags: God In The Hardships

Denomination: Pentecostal

Nothing In Vain

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

God and nature do nothing in vain. Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Politics, bk. 1, ...read more

Tags: God The Father

Impossibilities

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"We have a God who delights in ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

I Want Deliberately To Encourage This Mighty ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

When You Are Arguing Against Him, You Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you ...read more

Tags: Promises Of God

I Have But One Passion - It Is He, It Is He ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

I Have Found That There Are Three Stages In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is ...read more

Tags: God The Father

We Cannot But Admit That Not Even The Least ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"We cannot but admit that not even the least thing takes place unless it is ordered by God. For who have ever been so concerned and curious as to find out how much hair he has on his head? There is no one. God, however, knows the number. Indeed, nothing is too small in us or in any other ...read more

Tags: God's Sovereign Will

Wherever You Are, Be All There. Live To The Hilt ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be ...read more

Tags: God's Sovereign Will

Therefore The Christian Heart, Since It Has Been ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Therefore the Christian heart, since it has been thoroughly persuaded that all things happen by God’s plan, and that nothing takes place by chance, will ever look to him as the principal causes of things, yet will ...read more

Tags: God The Father

Our Wisdom, In So Far As It Ought To Be Deemed ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"OUR wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the ...read more

Tags: God The Father

The Best Of It

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"The best of it is, God is with ...read more

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In Efficacious Grace We Are Not Merely Passive, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"In efficacious grace we are not merely passive, nor yet does God do some and we do the rest. But God does all, and we do all. God produces all, we act all. For that is what produces, viz. our own acts. God is the only proper author and fountain; we only are the proper ...read more

Tags: God The Father

Some People Do Not Like To Hear Much Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

“Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the ...read more

Tags: God's Provision