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  • God's Persistent Love  PRO

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 4, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,288 views

    GOD'S PERSISTENT LOVE For more than 40 years, each week a shy Welshman went to his neighbor’s door and slipped a love note underneath. Because of an argument years before, she refused to speak to the man. Finally, after writing 2184 love letters with no response of any kind, the 74-year-old man ...read more

  • Spoiled Child Of God

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 11, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,689 views

    SPOILED CHILD OF GOD Have you ever noticed a parent spoiling his child by allowing him to freely roam, disobey, be out late at night without accountability, talk back to him, etc? At times, parents are fearful of losing their child’s love if they restrict their activity or don’t give in to their ...read more

  • God Answers Prayers  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 26, 2001
    based on 168 ratings
     | 7,476 views

    GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS Have you ever heard of George Mueller? One day he looked down the streets of Bristol, England, & saw 100’s of homeless children. He was so moved with concern for them that he decided that something had to be done. He had only two pence in his pocket. That’s two cents. ...read more

  • God Showing Through  PRO

    Contributed by John Perry on Feb 9, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,989 views

    GOD SHOWING THROUGH One Sunday morning a little girl on her way home from Sunday school in the car said to her parents, "I don't understand." Her parents said "What don't you understand, sweetheart?" She said "Well, our Sunday school teacher today told us that God is inside of us!" "That's right ...read more

  • What Is Your God?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 6,372 views

    WHAT IS YOUR GOD? "Whatever you love most, serve most, seek out most, give to the most, worship the most, and care about the most is your god. Your “god” can be your career, your bank account, the way you look, a particular position or degree, influence, power, or physical pleasure. It ...read more

  • Higher Standard Of God

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 6, 2009
     | 2,256 views

    HIGHER STANDARD OF GOD Paul very much emphasized that we are responsible to others. Not responsible for them but to them. We are held to a high standard (at least we should be) by our own conscience, by others, and by God. Too often we make excuses such as not knowing that something was ...read more

  • Walking In The Confidence Of God  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,564 views

    Walking in the Confidence of God Self-existent Christians can walk in confidence because this God is self-existent: John 1:1-3 says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him ...read more

  • With God, There Is No P.s.

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jun 9, 2009
     | 1,978 views

    WITH GOD, THERE IS NO P.S. Nothing can stop the love of God. In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave on which was placed a huge slab of granite and then a slab of marble was cemented on top. The rocks were fastened with heavy steel clamps. It belonged to a woman who did not believe in the ...read more

  • God's Standard For Sin

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 30, 2010
     | 3,288 views

    GOD'S STANDARD FOR SIN At a former church, a youth leader came up to me one day and said, "I'm trying to figure out the way God judges sin. The best I can figure it, I assume he grades on the curve like they do at school. You know, 70% good is a passing grade." I had bad news for him. God has a ...read more

  • How God Calls It  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,986 views

    HOW GOD CALLS IT A major league baseball player hit the ball far out in left field. Bases were loaded. The one who was on 2nd base made it all the way to home plate and he collided with the catcher. Immediately, the one team yelled, "He's safe, he's safe, he's safe." The other team yelled, "He's ...read more

  • God As My Guard  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Nicholas M. Muteti on Jun 24, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,944 views

    GOD AS MY GUARD I remember one time driving on a completely unknown route. It was dark, early in the morning, just after midnight. I didn’t know the way and I thought I can drive ahead and somehow will find the town I was looking for. It was the time when all the routes in Kenya were very poor ...read more

  • Living By Gods Word.

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Jun 19, 2020
     | 3,580 views

    My Division Officer in the Navy was also a Naval aviator. On his way home from a mission over Afghanistan he got vertigo (a dizzy confused state of mind caused by the inner ear). His senses were confused. The biggest was his sense of flight. Which can be deadly when landing on an aircraft carrier ...read more

  • The Miracle Of God's Presence  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Sep 5, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 9,705 views

    THE MIRACLE OF GOD’S PRESENCE Lisa Beamer reflects on the loss of her dad in her book, "Let’s Roll." “Slowly I began to understand that the plans God has for us don’t just include ‘good things’, but the whole array of human events. The ‘prospering’ he talks about in the book of Jeremiah is often ...read more

  • God Came Near

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,561 views

    “For 51 years Bob Edens was blind. He couldn’t see a thing. His world was a black hall of sounds and smells. He felt his way through five decades of darkness. And then, he could see. A skilled surgeon performed a complicated operation and, for the first time, Bob Edens had sight. He found it ...read more

  • It Is Hard To Understand How God The Father ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 4,066 views

    It is hard to understand how God the Father could abandon his only begotten Son, but “the only solution of the mystery is this, Jesus Christ was forsaken of God ...read more

  • Deprived Of God's Light

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,697 views

    DEPRIVED OF GOD’S LIGHT I was reading in one of the CIA espionage or spy books I love to read, and the writer was discussing the strange effects we suffer when we are deprived of sunlight during the winter months. Drs. Michael Terman and Jamie Rifkin wrote: "During the cold war with Russia, B-52 ...read more

  • Trust God With The Splinter

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Apr 28, 2018
     | 8,917 views

    Trouble is inevitable. It has spawned the counseling ministry. Therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, support groups dedicate their lives to helping people deal with grief, addictions, abuse, and stress. There are many solutions offered. You can pop a pill or uncork a bottle or take a ...read more

  • God's Word Described  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 14, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,810 views

    GOD’S WORD DESCRIBED An unknown writer said, "This Book is the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners, and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding; its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it to be wise, ...read more

  • Louis Braille And The Will Of God

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Oct 15, 2019
     | 2,629 views

    I do not know if Louis Braille was a believer, but his life is an example of a sovereign God causing all things to work together for good - In the French Academy of Science there is a rather plain, old shoemaker's awl on display. The story behind the awl is quite extraordinary. To look at it, ...read more

  • The Touch Of God At Christmas  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Dec 8, 2003
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,696 views

    THE TOUCH OF GOD AT CHRISTMAS This is from a 60 Minutes broadcast from a few years ago. It’s an excerpt of what Harry Reasoner said around Christmas time that I want you to hear. Listen carefully – he said: Eleven years ago I did a little Christmas piece and it seemed like a good idea to repeat ...read more