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  • I Realize There Are Many Pastors Here This ...

    Contributed by Douglas Duvall on Nov 13, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,876 views

    I realize there are many pastors here this afternoon that are frustrated. How do I know? I hear your sermons. Let me share something with you that not even my wife knows about. Sometimes in the ministry I’m sure that as a pastor you feel that things come at you from all sides. ...read more

  • Sheep Wander, Shepherds Seek

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 4,475 views

    Sheep Wander, Shepherds Seek My friend, Rev. Tom Goode sent me a quote by Margaret Guenther: To be fully known is not possible in our human relationships, but it is the foundation of our relationship with Christ. To be known, fully known, is both painful and profoundly comforting. We accept the ...read more

  • Dr. William Evans, Who Pastored College Church ...

    Contributed by Dr. Thomas Norton on Jul 17, 2007
     | 4,291 views

    Dr. William Evans, who pastored College Church from 1906-1909, was an unusually accomplished man. He had the entire King James Version of the Bible memorized as well as the New Testament of the American Standard Version. Dr. Evans also authored over fifty books. His son, Louis, became one of the ...read more

  • The First

    Contributed by Robert Kelley on May 16, 2008
     | 3,273 views

    The first "customer" of the day came into heaven’s gates & St.Peter met him. "Where’s Jesus" I just want to praise Jesus!" Peter greeted him, " That’s great but first you must take a test." The newby proclaimed, "Anything, just to see Jesus." "Ok, said Pete, " Spell God". " g - o- d, no Capital G ...read more

  • Law Is Love

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,351 views

    LAW IS LOVE We have a little 10 lb. Sheltie-Poo at home, and we all love him. He thinks he’s so macho as he stands in our bay window, looking out at the street. A big German Shepherd walks his owner down our sidewalk every day, and our little Teddy goes nuts trying to get thru that window and take ...read more

  • Pilot's Directions

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 26, 2008
     | 3,598 views

    Pilot's Directions Henry Gardner was flying me to Asheville, North Carolina, in his Cessna 180. We'd taken off from Victoria, Texas, and stopped in Jackson, Mississippi, to fix a malfunctioning radio. Now we were nearing Asheville only to find that the fog was so thick that the controller wouldn't ...read more

  • Google: Thinking On A Grand ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 2,757 views

    GOOGLE: THINKING ON A GRAND SCALE If I were to ask you to pick a number, any number, what number would you choose? (Pause) How many picked a number between 1 and 100? How about 100 and 1,000? Or maybe you picked an even higher number. Anyone pick a number over one million? If you didn’t, why ...read more

  • D.l. Moody's Thoughts Before His Death Illustrate ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2009
     | 3,198 views

    D.L. Moody’s Thoughts Before His Death Illustrate an Important Habit--Begin with the End in Mind Steven Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, states that one of those habits is to “Begin with the end in mind”; for the final days and hours of a man are often some of the most ...read more

  • Good News: Finish The Race!

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 27, 2021
     | 4,098 views

    Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. WRONG WAY, ROY ...read more

  • I Think You've Seen Jesus.

    Contributed by D Marion Clark on Nov 15, 2010
     | 3,124 views

    "I THINK YOU'VE SEEN JESUS." The real putting off and putting on is not so much about our determination to make improvements but about giving ourselves over to our Lord to do the real work in our lives. In the children's book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, there is a particularly bad boy named ...read more

  • Quantum ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
     | 1,652 views

    Quantum Leaps The best discoveries are the discoveries made by accident, the things you did not set out to find, but found anyway. The five dollar bill tucked in between the pages of the book you picked up to read. The charming little boutique around the corner from where you really intended to ...read more

  • Unsung Heroes—barzillai The Gileadite, Part 2

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Nov 3, 2020
     | 1,309 views

    Introduction: the revolt was over, Absalom was dead, and David was ready to go back to Jerusalem. It seems David had come to regard Barzillai the Gileadite with much respect, maybe even admiration. David wanted him to go to Jerusalem but in a classic speech, Barzillai graciously said, “thanks but ...read more

  • Others

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Nov 11, 2006
     | 2,167 views

    Others Lord, let me live from day to day In such a self-forgetful way That even when I kneel to pray, My prayer shall be for others. Others, Lord, yes, others; Let this my ...read more

  • Do But Gain A Boys Trust; Convince Him By Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,383 views

    Do but gain a boys trust; convince him by your behaviour that you have his happiness at heart; let him discover that you are the wiser of the two; let him experience the wisdom of following your advice and the evils that ...read more

  • He Didn't Bring Us This Far To Leave ...

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 16, 2012
     | 2,293 views

    He didn't bring us this far to leave us; He didn't teach us to swim to let us drown. He didn't build his home in us to move away; He ...read more

  • Marriage And Guns: Protect Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2009
     | 3,779 views

    MARRIAGE AND GUNS: PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT Charlie Shedd wrote his son a series of letters to give some practical advice about marriage. They were published in a book called Letters to Phillip. Here is one of the most moving chapters: Dear Phil, I used to hunt ducks with a man who had a "thing" ...read more

  • Love Of God

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 16, 2010
     | 6,413 views

    LOVE OF GOD Let’s say you had a child who kept getting in trouble, you kept bailing him out as a child, and eventually as he grew up even you couldn’t bail him out anymore, you had to let him go live his life the way he was choosing because nothing you or anyone else did could stop ...read more

  • G. Campbell Morgan Said That At A Great Meeting ...  PRO

    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Aug 3, 2001
    based on 11 ratings
     | 1,351 views

    G. Campbell Morgan said that at a great meeting in Manchester, England, Holman Hunt’s beautiful picture of "Christ Knocking at the Door" was thrown upon the screen. "Why don’t they let Him in?" a twelve-year-old boy excitedly asked his father. "I suppose they don’t want to," his father answered. ...read more

  • Christian Fathers Need To Pray For Their ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Jun 9, 2003
    based on 15 ratings
     | 4,057 views

    Christian fathers need to pray for their children. When we pray for our children, we are asking God to help, guide and protect beyond our abilities to do so. All human fathers have limits. But, our Heavenly Father is not limited by any means! And when we pray to our Heavenly Father for wisdom ...read more

  • Jingle Bells  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 23, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,035 views

    JINGLE BELLS The two of them were best friends in seminary, studying together, helping each other financially when one or the other got in a pinch, they stood by each other through thick and thin. When they graduated from seminary both coincidentally received a church call within the same state: ...read more