Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Oct 4, 2002
based on 8 ratings
| 1,832 views
According to the most recent national statistics complied for the American Association of Suicidology:
▸ In 1999 across the United States 29,199 individuals ended their life through suicide; that’s an average of 80 per day, or one person killing themselves every 18 minutes.
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2002
based on 38 ratings
| 3,918 views
When my son was just 5 years old, he and I were standing in line at a card store during the Christmas season. He noticed on the counter a small statue for sale, depicting Santa kneeling at the manger of baby Jesus. Curiously he asked me, "Daddy, did that really happen?"
Knowing it had not
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2003
based on 12 ratings
| 4,699 views
HUNGRY FOR PEACE
Much, if not most, of the social turmoil of our culture is due to a hunger for peace, which is sought for in all the wrong places. According to Ronald Hutchcraft, the Director of Youth for Christ in New York and New Jersey, in the next thirty minutes-
57 kids will run away from
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2003
based on 9 ratings
| 2,554 views
THE BEST ESCAPE
Escapism is usually thought of as a bad thing, because it is a running away from reality. But we need to see there is much reality that we need to escape from. The stress and tension all around us is real, but we have no obligation to be in a state of constant reaction to it.
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2003
based on 3 ratings
| 1,578 views
A LASTING TREATY?
Since 1919, the nations of Europe have signed more than 200 treaties of peace. Each treaty, simply another scrap of paper, was broken more easily than consummated. From the year 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1860 more than 8,000 treaties of peace, meant to remain in force forever, were
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 7, 2003
based on 4 ratings
| 2,678 views
FEAR, LOVE, JOY
In the movie First Knight, Lancelot (played by Richard Gere) is a wanderer and highly skilled swordsman who fights for whoever will pay him. Seeing a princess and her entourage under attack in the woods, he decides to save her. Attracted to the princess, Guinevere, he later visits
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2003
based on 5 ratings
| 5,359 views
THE WINE OF JOY
To the Jewish people wine symbolized joy. The Jewish rabbis had a saying, ‘Without wine there is no joy.” At the wedding in Cana their joy had run out!
This statement by the mother of Jesus goes beyond liquid refreshment at a wedding. It is symbolic of our lives. It is a reminder
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2003
based on 3 ratings
| 2,540 views
WHEN THE WINE RUNS OUT
When the wine runs out, do whatever Jesus tells you to do. Have faith in his word. John 2 says the servants not only poured water in those pots, but they filled them to the brim. When Jesus told them to fill the pots with water, it was as if to say "I can work with that." If
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Troy Borst on Dec 11, 2003
based on 13 ratings
| 1,789 views
INTRODUCTION... A Duke University Study
A group at Duke University did a study on “peace of mind.” Factors found to contribute
greatly to emotional and mental stability are:
1. The absence of suspicion and resentment. Nursing a grudge was a major factor in unhappiness.
2. Not living in the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Paul Gabriel on Mar 18, 2004
based on 24 ratings
| 4,260 views
A certain man was troubled with dizzy spells. He went from one doctor to another and none could tell him what the problem was. He tried everything, it seemed. Finally, it was bothering him so much he started to lose weight, and he couldn’t sleep at night. He became a nervous wreck and his health
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Apr 30, 2010
based on 4 ratings
| 2,449 views
HE STILL LOVES US
There is a strange power in the consciousness of being loved.
It is said that one of the most distinguished statesmen of the times of the American Revolution was once a hopeless drunkard. He had been engaged to a beautiful girl, but his indulgence had compelled her to break the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian Church
Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 24, 2012
based on 2 ratings
| 7,380 views
IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH?
In Randy Alcorn’s book In Light of Eternity he imagines two twins having a conversation in their mother’s womb. “You know,” one says, “there’s a whole world out there--grassy meadows and snowy mountains, splashing streams and waterfalls, horses and dogs and cats and
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Elicia Roy on Mar 17, 2021
based on 2 ratings
| 2,143 views
LIGHT IN THE DARK
We have been jolted,
Tested and tried,
Our times have been dark,
With some comforts denied.
Things that we clung to,
And thought our security,
Were ripped from our hold,
Caused feelings of unsurety.
“What will tomorrow bring?”
“Is there hope for this dark time?”
“Is there any
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational