Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 17, 2007
based on 2 ratings
| 3,588 views
“A careless word may kindle strife,
A cruel word may wreck a life;
A bitter word may hate instill,
A brutal word may smite and kill;
A gracious word may smooth the way
A joyous word may light the
...read more
Denomination:
Christian Church
Contributed by Kenneth Trent on May 12, 2008
In speaking of mothers, one noted writer declared: “There is Monica, mother of Augustine, who when her son wandered far astray from her early teaching, never lost faith that God would bring him back,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 2, 2008
One of the greatest definitions of worship ever laid down was laid down by William Temple: “To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 3,280 views
Fanny Crosby, blinded by an illness at 6 weeks of age, would grow to write over 9,000 poems and hymns. One of her many hymns begin this way:
Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it,
Redeemed by the blood of the
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2002
based on 23 ratings
| 4,319 views
SQUANTO: A PICTURE OF FORGIVENESS--COMMUNION MEDITATION
In 1605, Squanto, a Native American from the village of Patuxet and a member of the Pokanokit Wampanoag nation traveled to England with an explorer named John Weymouth. He experienced high adventure and learned some English.
But on his
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Scott Chambers on Jan 29, 2003
based on 19 ratings
| 3,840 views
THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY HAS!!
The Lord spoke to Noah and said, “Noah in six months I am going to make it rain until the whole world is covered with water and all the evil things are destroyed. But, I want to save a few good people and two of every living thing on the planet. So I want you to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 21, 2005
based on 5 ratings
| 1,632 views
Imagine that you have a big house and lots of land. Imagine further that a refugee shows up at the door asking if he might camp out in your backyard for a while. You are moved with compassion and grant him permission. A little later he asks if some relatives, who are also homeless, might also
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 22, 2006
based on 92 ratings
| 5,013 views
In a Japanese seaside village over a hundred years ago, an earthquake startled the villagers late one autumn evening. Being so accustomed to earthquakes and not feeling another follow, they soon went back to their activities without giving it another thought.
An old farmer was watching from his
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Scott Bradford on Jan 11, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 3,834 views
"Do all the good you can", In other words, help thy neighbor.
I just got off the phone with our daughter in law to see how she’s feeling with the radiation treatments. She’s tired now and feels sore but her skin is not burned.
She told me about our grandson Patrick who is nine years old and what
...read more
Denomination:
United Methodist
based on 1 rating
| 2,100 views
BALLOONS
One Sunday afternoon in late February, my family and I went out to brunch after the morning’s worship services. Upon leaving, my girls asked the hosts if they could have a balloon. Certainly they said – what color? So, my two youngest were each given a balloon, a huge
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Brien Sims on Dec 13, 2007
Speaking of contaminants let me tell you about a house I once helped my landlord clean. It was back when we lived in Moberly, just a few blocks away from our house. I had helped my landlord, Dr. Stan McCreary, do many things and so he asked me if I wouldn’t mind helping him fix up a house he had
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 3,279 views
Why does sometimes the change seem so slow?
This happens more promptly in some folks than others. Because, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come Sometimes people ask, ‘why don’t we see a lot of change? Why don’t we see all these folks living but for
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 2,753 views
Here is a story by a guy named Cliff Davis, which portrays in a beautiful way what childlike faith is all about. One afternoon in early autumn, Ric (the husband/father in the other family) and I were setting out on our tractor to pick up a wagon, which we had a few days earlier lent to a neighbor.
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 26, 2003
based on 7 ratings
| 3,323 views
“Manna from Heaven--A Thanksgiving Story” Numbers 11: 4-9 Key verse(s): 9 “... When the dew settled upon the camp at night, the manna also came down.”
“Goodbye! Thanks for coming. Thanks for everything!” As the caravan of cars and trucks pulled out of the driveway waves were exchanged and a
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Sermon Central