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On A Scale Of 1 To 10, How Optimistic Are You ...  PRO

Contributed by Bruce Emmert on May 7, 2001

On a scale of 1 to 10, how optimistic are you about your future? In that great mid-life crisis movie, City Slickers, Billy Crystal’s character Mitch attends career day at his son’s grade school. Mitch is anything but optimistic. His son had told everyone that his dad was a submarine captain, but ...read more

Tags: Faith, God Brings Hope

Denomination: United Methodist

Truths To Victorious Living Are:  PRO

Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008

Truths to victorious living are: One, recognize the need to be filled with the Holy Spirit so you can live a life that reflects being led of the Holy Ghost. The apostle exhorts you "...to be filled with the [Holy] Spirit." Two, begin mortifying the flesh by confessing sins and claim Christ's ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:8-9

Tags: Holiness

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

It All Happened On A Subway

Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on Mar 10, 2022

Marcel Sternberger was a methodical man of nearly 50, with bushy white hair, guileless brown eyes, and the bouncing enthusiasm of a czardas dancer of his native Hungary. He always took the 9:09 Long Island Railroad train from his suburban home to Woodside, N.Y.., where he caught a subway into the ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:10

Tags: Grace, Mercy, Salvation, Chance, Divine Appointments  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Brethren

Listen, Son: I Am Saying This As You Lie Asleep, ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001

Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone. Just a few minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I ...read more

Tags: Parenting, Children

The World Has No Room For Cowards. We Must All ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds ...read more

Tags: Fear And Worry

Everybody Can Do What I'm Talking About Today. ...

Contributed by Michael West on Apr 2, 2008

Everybody can do what I’m talking about today. God has put people in everybody’s life. Quit crying...what about my ministry….look around you, your ministry is right here, it’s over ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Shirley Maclaine On Self

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008

SHIRLEY MACLAINE ON SELF Actress Shirley MacLaine said one time, "The most pleasurable journey you take is through yourself...the only sustaining love involvement is with yourself... When you look back on your life and try to figure out where you've been and where you're going, when you look at ...read more

Tags: Self

The Game Of Life Is A Lot Like Football. You ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your ...read more

Tags: Learning

I Just Kissed Yesterday Goodbye

Contributed by James Snyder on Jan 15, 2022

Focus is an essential part of getting something done. Sometimes my focus is more on yesterday than it is today. I waste a lot of time looking backward. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage often rebukes me because I look in the past. I talk more about yesterday than I do today. On the other ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 118:24

Tags: Blessing, Focus

Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

We Weren’t Expecting That

Contributed by James Snyder on Jul 1, 2023

Sometimes things happen that you never expected. When those unexpected things happen, if they are good, that is a blessing, if they are bad, that’s a different story. I learned this expectation of good from my good old Uncle Ted. He was a truck driver, and boy, did he have the stories to ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 2:15

Tags: Expectation, Free Lunch

Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

A Prayer For Preachers

Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Jun 10, 2019

A Prayer for Preachers O God, our Father; you love all your children. Those at home and those away from home. As I proclaim the gospel, may your voice be heard, calling. May Christ our Lord be praised. Good news; hope for the hopeless Good news; love for the broken Good news; forgiveness at the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5

Tags: Preaching, Prayer

Denomination: Pentecostal

Guy In The Glass

Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 15, 2020

“The Guy in the Glass,” source unknown. When you get what you want in your struggle for self and the world makes you king for a day, Then go to the mirror and look at yourself and see what that guy has to say. For it isn’t your father, mother or wife whose judgement upon you must pass. The fellow ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:3

Tags: Clear Conscience, Pure Motives

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Today Our Prayer Could Be: Lord, You Were Neither ...

Contributed by Michael West on Sep 29, 2008

Today our prayer could be: Lord, You were neither disheartened nor crushed as You lived YOUR life. The Father upheld You in Your mission. We ask today to uphold us. Grant us new strength, restore our ...read more

Tags: Prayer Hardship

Denomination: Independent/Bible

10 Things God Won't Ask

Contributed by Tony Abram on Aug 20, 2009

10 THINGS GOD WON'T ASK 1. God won’t ask what kind of car you drove. He’ll ask how many people you drove who didn’t have transportation. 2. God won’t ask the square footage of your house. He’ll ask how many people you welcomed into your home. 3. God won’t ask about the clothes you had in your ...read more

Tags: Judgment

Remember That Praise Is More Valuable Than ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Remember that praise is more valuable than blame. Remember too that your primary mission as a leader is to see with your own eyes and be seen by ...read more

Tags: Friendship General

Be Still, And In The Quiet Moments, Listen To ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Be still, and in the quiet moments, listen to the voice of your heavenly Father. His words can renew your spirit. No ...read more

Tags: Disciplines Silence

Plan—then Implement: Small Business Computing, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Plan—Then Implement: Small Business Computing, 6/24, outlines the critical groundwork to tackle before you are ready to start speaking to your target market audience. Focus on the specifics of your business/ministry and your audience: Who are you? What are your objectives and strategic ...read more

Tags: Church General

Get In The Game

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jan 29, 2019

Hating color is so lame DNA is not the blame If you’re a punk Shooting junk Or a hunk Stayin’ drunk. What you do with what you got Is what makes you hot or snot A bright star or a messy blot. Quit hatin’ your perceived lot Like your nothin’ but a Bot. Don’t worry what you’re not Show the world what ...read more

Scripture: Acts 17:26-27

Tags: Humanity, Dna, Color, Race, Prejudice  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Baptist

Becoming All Things To All People Entails A ...

Contributed by Tony Klinedinst on Aug 29, 2002

"Becoming all things to all people entails a giving of oneself which falls just short of compromising our Christian faith. We need to ask ourselves what is nessecary and what is sacrificable. Imagine walking into the home of a Chinese family. If you step to the door and they ask you to remove ...read more

Tags: Sharing My Testimony

Denomination: Baptist

The Following Is Attributed To "Gentleman Jim" ...

Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 1, 2006

The following is attributed to “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, who held the heavyweight boxing title for five years at the end of the nineteenth century: “Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired that you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round. When your arms are ...read more

Denomination: Assembly Of God