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  • Healing, God's Way

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 26, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,218 views

    Healing, God's Way Healing takes time, patience and determination to persevere through the long process of healing. It’s not easy, but it is the reality of the healing process. Personal Illustration: My own experience with the healing process of my right knee. About two years ago I had a total ...read more

  • Be Someone's Consistent Help  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 20, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,300 views

    Be Someone's Consistent Help Paul, in his letter to the Hebraic Christians, makes this point: "…exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." [Hebrews 3:13] I will be the first to admit that when it comes to the inner-workings ...read more

  • Onward Christian Soldier  PRO

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Oct 11, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,559 views

    Onward Christian Soldier It was 1854. Pastor Dudley Tyng was voted as the new pastor of a Philadelphia church at only 29 years old. At first the work went well until he started to preach against the sin of slavery – at that point to church did not want to make anyone mad so they told him to shut ...read more

  • In The Context Of Eternity

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 16, 2008
     | 3,055 views

    In the Context of Eternity "There are numerous individuals in church unaware that they will give an account of what they've done in their short stay on earth. Many have the erroneous idea that all future judgment is eradicated by their salvation. Indeed, Jesus blood cleanses us from the sins that ...read more

  • The Gospel According To… Charlie Brown. Charlie ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 22, 2008
     | 3,233 views

    The Gospel According to… Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown cannot catch a break. He is the stereotypical American loser. Whenever he tries to kick the football that Lucy is holding, every time she pulls it away at the last second and he misses it, flying through the air to land flat on his back. His ...read more

  • John Newton: Infidel Restored  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 18, 2009
    based on 9 ratings
     | 6,012 views

    John Newton: Infidel Restored John Newton continued his ministry into his old age, turning a deaf ear to friends who urged him to accept retirement, as by the time he reached 80 he was almost blind and partially deaf. "I cannot stop" he replied. "What! Shall the old African blasphemer stop while ...read more

  • South Park: God's Authority

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 15, 2009
     | 2,934 views

    SOUTH PARK: GOD'S AUTHORITY The hostile atheists do not want to admit that God is Creator because such an admission would give God authority over their lives. They would rather serve chance so that all experience is relative and so that there are no absolutes-—except perhaps, their certainty that ...read more

  • Religion In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 2,338 views

    RELIGION IN CHINA 31% of Chinese citizens consider religion very or somewhat important vs. 11% who consider it unimportant, finds an ’06 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey. Yet only 14-18% of Chinese adults would classify themselves in a particular religion in ’05, ’06 and ’07. In contrast, more ...read more

  • Transparency And Real ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
     | 2,262 views

    TRANSPARENCY AND REAL LIFE I can right off the top of my head think of at least three falsehoods that many people still call the truth today: 1. "Every day in every way our world is getting better, better, better." I sure would like to meet the person who first wrote those words, wouldn’t you? ...read more

  • Ukraine & God's Masterplan

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Nov 28, 2022
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,018 views

    Closed Doors - Open Doors My first trip to Ukraine was in 2000. We visited Kiev and L'viv to connect with ministry training institutions. In 2002 I made my first teaching trip to L'viv to teach at L'viv Theological Seminary (LTS). It was so rewarding to contribute to God's work in ...read more

  • God's Love Expressed At Christmas

    Contributed by Richard L. Brown on Nov 23, 2024
     | 751 views

    When I was in the third grade (1963) the hot toy for boys that year was “The Riffleman’s Riffle”. It was a Loop-Lever-Winchester 44 caliber Rifle just like Lucas McCain’s rifle on the show….and every kid wanted one. I used to watch the show and fantasize that I was Marc McCane, Lucas McCain’s ...read more

  • Just Listen Please!

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2025
     | 354 views

    Could You Just Listen? When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings. When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do ...read more

  • No Coasting

    Contributed by John Bright on Jan 7, 2026
     | 105 views

    Whenever the price of gas goes up, people start thinking about saving gas by coasting their cars downhill. I have a vague memory of a news story from way back in the 1970s about a guy who was going downhill and decided to turn the car off to save gas. One little problem – that was when new cars ...read more

  • Follower Or A Fan? - Humor

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Feb 2, 2026
    based on 2 ratings
     | 270 views

    A man named Charlie Moore ... moved with his family ... into a new community. He wanted to make some new friends, ... so he decided ... to join the local softball league. For the opening game of the season ... Charlie brought along the whole family, ... so they all could meet some of the other ...read more

  • I Shook Every Gift Under The Tree

    Contributed by Austin W. Duncan on Apr 18, 2026
    based on 1 rating
     | 65 views

    Do you remember what it was like to be a kid at Christmas? For me it conjures up memories of pure excitement, seemingly always counting down to Christmas morning. Maybe you were staring at the tree, eyeing that one special gift, that one that was wrapped just right, the box the perfect size, and ...read more

  • The Martyrs Of The Ecuador Mission  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 5,773 views

    The Martyrs of the Ecuador Mission 8 January 1956 (modified by sermon author) In the dense rain-forests of Ecuador, on the Pacific side of the Andes Mountains, lives a tribe of Indians. -They simply call themselves the “people” but their neighbor’s call them “savages” -For many generations ...read more

  • Delusional Spiritual Myopithy!" John 15:26-John ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on May 12, 2005
     | 3,582 views

    “Delusional Spiritual Myopithy!” John 15:26-John 16:4 Key verse(s) 26:“When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.” Oh that dreaded sign! “Caution––Men Working!” Normally I am pretty good about ...read more

  • I Have A Friend Who Works With A Church In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeremy Houck on Jul 26, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,160 views

    I have a friend who works with a church in Nashville. He was telling us a few weeks ago about a lady at his church who was really convicted by what she had been reading in the scriptures and hearing at church. She felt that she has no other choice but to take the love of God out to a dying world ...read more

  • I'm Not A Christian, So...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 28, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,191 views

    "I'M NOT A CHRISTIAN, SO..." You need to know what is going on in the head of a non-saved or pre-saved person. * "I'm not a Christian, so ... I really don't understand this religious stuff. I did try and read bits of the Bible when I was at school, but found it hard to understand. I never went ...read more

  • Failing To Give Him The Key

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Feb 6, 2010
     | 2,339 views

    Failing to Give Him the Key The early years of the 19th century were troubled times in the German confederation. Rumors of revolution and rioting had the federated government in panic. Klemens von Metternich, the chief statesman of the confederation, ordered thousands of young men drafted into the ...read more