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  • Pastor Vsevolod Lytkin From Siberia, Recently ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Frailey on Dec 19, 2000
    based on 119 ratings
     | 3,813 views

    Pastor Vsevolod Lytkin from Siberia, recently spoke at a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota during a US visit. He described his personal journey to faith in Jesus Christ. Listen to his struggle: His parents were atheistic university professors at a local university who raised their son to “think ...read more

  • When Charles Spurgeon Was Pastor At New Park ...

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Feb 25, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,051 views

    When Charles Spurgeon was pastor at New Park Street in London, God used his words to bring about amazing changes in the lives of people. A man who was on his way to get some gin saw the crowd at the church door and pushed his way in to see what was going on. At that moment, Spurgeon turned and ...read more

  • Speaking Of Getting The Log Out, A Wife Was ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 25, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,791 views

    Speaking of getting the log out, a wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband. Suddenly her husband burst into the kitchen. “Careful ... CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my GOODNESS! You’re cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. WHERE ...read more

  • How Can We Be A Friend To The Suffering?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
     | 1,188 views

    How Can We Be A Friend To The Suffering? 1. We can be there for them. 2. We can feel their pain. 3. We can encourage them. 4. We can listen more than we talk. 5. We can be honest: I don’t know… don’t try to explain everything. 6. We can look beyond their faults and look to their needs. 7. We can ...read more

  • I Can Imagine This Conversation In Heaven

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
     | 1,039 views

    I can imagine this conversation in Heaven It starts with me Lord, I have sinned, I have done this awful thing and I pray for you to forgive me As I pray God is listening and He says Look at that filth, he disgusts me His life is full of sin makes me want to puke How dare he approach my holy throne ...read more

  • How Can We Be A Friend To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 1,112 views

    How Can We Be A Friend To The Suffering? 1. We can be there for them. 2. We can feel their pain. 3. We can encourage them. 4. We can listen more than we talk. 5. We can be honest: I don’t know… don’t try to explain everything. 6. We can look beyond their faults and look to their needs. 7. We ...read more

  • We All Have Needs But Remember According To V.8, ...

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Apr 16, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,937 views

    We all have needs but remember according to v.8, God knows them before you even ask. Illustration: Life is like a great mountain, we are at the bottom of the mountain looking up, we see a great journey and have know idea what lies before us and how we will overcome it. God however is on top of the ...read more

  • Words, Just Words  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,233 views

    Words, just words I was reading the other day. The famous American author, Samuel Clement, Mark Twain, attended a Sunday service. He met the preacher at the door afterward to shake his hand. And he told him that he had a book at home with every word he had preached that morning. The minister ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About Christian Junior High ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,775 views

    I heard a story about Christian junior high camp. One of the campers, a boy with spastic paralysis, was the object of heartless ridicule. When he would ask a question, the boys would deliberately answer in a halting, mimicking way. One night his cabin group chose him to lead the devotions before ...read more

  • Robert Lewis, Founding Pastor Of Fellowship ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,544 views

    Robert Lewis, Founding Pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock, Arkansas said this, “…Our church along with several others, organized to renovate some of the public schools in our area. Teachers and school officials had not asked for our help and were clearly surprised when we offered it. ...read more

  • Easter Is To Our Faith What Water Is To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,885 views

    Easter is to our faith what water is to the ocean, what stone is to the mountain, what blood is to your body. It is the unique substance of redemptive reality. It is the first and final word in the dictionary of God. It says that Christ is the Author and Finisher of our faith. —Raymond I. ...read more

  • The Longest 24 Hours  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,787 views

    Author Zig Ziglar writes: The longest 24 hours of my life were those after my daughter’s death. When making the funeral arrangements with her husband and his parents, I had to listen to a salesman who was an incessant talker and who told us 30 times he wasn’t a salesman. Twice while we were making ...read more

  • Story: The Other Day I Heard Someone Complaining ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 25, 2007
     | 1,115 views

    Story: The other day I heard someone complaining about the church of today. She said the church should be the one taking care of the widows and the people in need!” She went on to say that the church does not give enough to help people out who are financially hurting or in crisis. She went on to ...read more

  • What Are Christians For?  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 2, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 609 views

    “What Are Christians For?” A Christian woman who was engaged in work for the poor and degraded was once spoken to by one who was well acquainted with both the worker and those whom she sought to reach. “It does seem wonderful to me that you can do such work,” her friend said. “You sit beside ...read more

  • Does Your God Bleed?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,717 views

    DOES YOUR GOD BLEED? A little boy went up to a missionary Sunday School leader in a pagan country. The boy said, "I like what you say about the God of the Bible but I can’t see him. But if I go to the temple I can see my God." The missionary said to the little boy, "Listen, does your God ...read more

  • Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Our Irrevocable Acts  PRO

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 30, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,962 views

    DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: OUR IRREVOCABLE ACTS Robert Louis Stevenson, in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," set forth the irrevocable nature of every act we perform. Mr. Jekyll discovered a drug that would transform him into a man devoid of any conscience and therefore able to enjoy any vice or sin. ...read more

  • Standing In Worship

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 9, 2011
     | 3,249 views

    STANDING IN WORSHIP Jesus stands in God’s presence--he stands, because he has trodden death and the power of the Evil One underfoot. At the end of this struggle, he is the one who stands upright, the one who remains standing. This standing is also an expression of readiness: Christ is standing ...read more

  • Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Noah  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,409 views

    EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM NOAH In 1988, Robert Fulghum published his best-selling book, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Recently, somebody suggested another book title: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Noah. For example... * Don't miss the boat. * Plan ...read more

  • Faith In Tragedy: Luther Bridges  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,474 views

    FAITH IN TRAGEDY: LUTHER BRIDGES A Methodist preacher by the name of Luther Bridges was born in 1884. He married and had 3 sons. Pastor Bridges accepted an invitation to minister at a conference in Kentucky in the year 1910, so he left his family in the care of his father-in-law & made the trip to ...read more

  • Intimacy: How Is Your Prayer Life?

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 18, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,952 views

    INTIMACY: HOW IS YOUR PRAYER LIFE? Eugene Peterson: "She came to see me at the recommendation of a friend. She had been troubled for years, seeing psychiatrists and not getting any better. The consultation had been arranged on the telephone so that when she walked into my study it was as a first ...read more

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