Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 20, 2008
Consistent Christians
I was getting ready to do some research for my weekly sermon so I entered my office and flipped the light switch to the "on" position. It seemed that as soon as I had touched the toggle there was an instantaneous burst of bright light from the light bulb for a millionth of a
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
*other
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2008
Count Your Blessings--No, Really!
It was a typical Indiana spring day. Outside the house, it was raining. Inside the house...it was raining. Water slowly dripped from the ceiling, reminding me that when you replace your own roof, there's nobody to get mad at when it leaks.
I should be a pretty
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 6, 2024
based on 1 rating
| 1,134 views
In James chapter 5, we see a comparison between the patient farmer in the field waiting for his crops and the waiting believer in Christ preparing to meet the Lord at His return. Paul Harvey did a masterful job of describing the life of the farmer years ago.
And on the 8th day, God looked down
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Stories of pivotal prayers: Story from Tim Elmore “Pivotal Praying” (Page 1):
His life’s dream was to be a missionary, and it looked as though it was finally coming true. As the nervous young man sat in the mission’s agency’s office, he assured the interviewer that he and his new bride were
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 1960's and 1970's!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they
carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Nov 25, 2025
based on 2 ratings
| 112 views
God the Father ... Loves His Children ... and He is also quick to .... encourage His children. (Long Pause)
And ... I learned that ... the hard way.
As a father ... you want the best for your children ... you want them to succeed.
To succeed ... at everything they do.
Kristin ... our first
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Anglican
Contributed by Paul Dietz on Aug 16, 2008
based on 2 ratings
| 2,755 views
METAMORPHOSIS
I can recall how taken back I was, in my fourth grade science class, when I first became aware of this almost magical phenomena of an ugly, old caterpillar becoming a beautiful butterfly. Of course at that age I had a very hard time understanding the whole biological time-clock thing
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
*other
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2001
based on 174 ratings
| 8,583 views
LOVE IS ACTION
In his book, Dad, The Family Coach, Dave Simmons tells of an act of sacrificial love that occurred in a shopping mall. One day he took his eight year old Helen and five year old Brandon to the Cloverdale Mall. He needed to buy some tools in Sears.
When they pulled into
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by Don Hawks on Oct 16, 2002
based on 7 ratings
| 3,181 views
1. Morrie: In His Own Words By Morrie Schwartz:
· Learn how to live, and you’ll know how to die. Once you know how to die, you know how to live.
· Death ends life, not a relationship.
· Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
· Everything that gets born
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Sep 26, 2003
based on 7 ratings
| 5,152 views
Many of us can remember when we were in grade school how whenever the teacher had to leave the classroom for some reason, she would always tell the class to, “Be quiet and study!” However we also remember that as soon as she left the room, the paper wads would begin to fly! Erasers would be flung
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 22, 2004
For example… let’s say that next week I get a chance to go to California. While I’m there, I rent a car and drive around the state capital. I’m stopped at a stoplight and I get rear-ended by a very expensive car. I’m not really hurt, but I’m a little upset. I get out of my car and the other driver
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
based on 1 rating
| 1,752 views
I wanted to tell you men about a story that some of you may be able to relate to. I used to love to squirrel hunt. As a matter of fact I preferred it over just about any other kind of hunting. Well one day when I was about 19 while attending Southwest a friend of mine said that he had found the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
based on 1 rating
| 1,828 views
The following excerpt was sent to Icon New Market Films:
"I realize you probably never have the occasion to see him, but if you do, could you tell Mel Gibson that a 74 year old woman named Hally Raisor saw the Passion and as a result she gave her life to Jesus Christ and was baptized.
The only
...read more
Tags:
Which reminds me of something I heard about a famous preacher by the name of Peter Cartwright, who by the way, was converted during a camp meeting in Logan County in 1801. He surrendered to the ministry in 1802 and became one of the leaders of what we now refer to as the 2nd Great Awakening.
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Sermon Central