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  • God Is Every Where  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 18, 2002
    based on 74 ratings
     | 2,176 views

    GOD IS EVERY WHERE A fifth grade teacher in a Christian school asked her class to look at TV commercials and see if they could use them in some way to communicate ideas about God. Here are some of the results: GOD is like a FORD ... He’s got a better idea. GOD is like COKE ... He’s the real ...read more

  • Hiding The Word Of God

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 10, 2012
     | 3,396 views

    HIDING THE WORD OF GOD During World War II, Jewish inmates of the Yanov labor camp in occupied Poland defied their Nazi guards, secretly conducting religious services inside their darkened barracks. To observe their ritual, the Jews had cut religious scrolls into sections, bound the parchment ...read more

  • God's Strategy Or Ours

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 26, 2008
     | 2,227 views

    GOD'S STRATEGY OR OURS Several years ago, I was visiting with two young men from Nagaland, a northeastern region of India. God had moved in a mighty way in the region sending revival to the area. Almost the entire population of the region had come to faith in Christ. The Holy Spirit blew through ...read more

  • The One True God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,939 views

    THE ONE TRUE GOD "Back in my Bible college days I struck up a friendship with a man from the Far East. Before his conversion to Christianity, the worship of man-made wooden images and human-like deities was a way of life. As a little boy, the question came to his mind one day, 'Why do I worship ...read more

  • The Person God Blesses

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
     | 4,364 views

    What do we notice about the person God blesses? The person God blesses has had a conversion to God’s ways. Where do I get this concept? I get it from Abram’s name change. When we first meet him he is known as "Abram." After an encounter with God (Gen. 17:5) he is known as "Abraham." In the Bible a ...read more

  • The Tiger, The Man And God  PRO

    Contributed by Danny Thomas on May 21, 2001
    based on 121 ratings
     | 3,932 views

    The Tiger, the Man and God A man was being chased by a tiger. He ran as hard as he could until he was at the edge of a cliff with the tiger in hot pursuit. The man looked over the edge of the cliff and saw a branch growing out of the side of the cliff a few feet down. He jumped down and grabbed ...read more

  • Stories Of God's Provision

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 14, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,303 views

    STORIES OF GOD'S PROVISION John Brentz, a friend of Luther, and one of the stalwarts of the Reformation, incurred the hatred of Charles V who made many attempts to kill the minister. Hearing that a troop of Spanish cavalry was on the way to arrest him, he cast himself upon God in prayer. At once ...read more

  • God's Glorious Creation

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Aug 28, 2011
    based on 1 rating
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    GOD'S GLORIOUS CREATION Sometimes it’s good for us to get out of our environment to see the glory of God, and to be even more thankful for all he’s done and given, for that which he is doing now, and forevermore will do for all of creation. Going on vacation last weekend t refreshed my soul. ...read more

  • Loyalty To God Or Ourselves?

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 19, 2009
     | 2,683 views

    LOYALTY TO GOD OR OURSELVES? When I was in seminary, I had some conversations with some fellow students, with a good mentor and friend Ron Mabry, with a Dr. Stafford and the credentialing team in Indiana. Through these interactions God was speaking to me and asking me where my loyalties to lie? Is ...read more

  • Work In God's Kingdom  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 23, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,579 views

    WORK IN GOD’S KINGDOM John Stott tells a joke against his vocation: a clefgyman is the last person in the world to write about work. For, as everybody knows, he has not done an honest day’s work in his life. As the old saying goes, he is ‘six days invisible and one day incomprehensible!’ The ...read more

  • Rubbing Shoulders With God

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 5, 2011
     | 2,469 views

    RUBBING SHOULDERS WITH GOD We visited Our Lady of Quebec, the Cathedral Basilica in old Quebec City. I had a plethora of emotions upon entering this bastion of structures, dating back 365 years, having been built in 1647. It continues its stately gaze as the oldest parish church in North America. ...read more

  • Judging God's Mirror

    Contributed by David Goering on Sep 1, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,370 views

    Suppose a young couple woke up in the morning after a good night sleep and the husband looked in the mirror on the dresser and became very angry at the reflection because of what he saw... his hair was disheveled and he had a sleep wrinkle that ran down the one side of his face, so he took his ...read more

  • Not Afraid To Offend God

    Contributed by Jw Worcester on Feb 8, 2021
     | 2,275 views

    The true “Lord’s Prayer” is John 17, also sometimes called the High Priestly Prayer. In verses 1 – 20 Jesus had already prayed for Himself and His mission. He also prayed for His disciples. Jesus prayed this prayer before Jesus and the disciples left for the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus was ...read more

  • Is God's Will Always Done? No, Because God Does ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 26, 2002
    based on 41 ratings
     | 1,841 views

    Is God’s will always done? No, because God does not will for us to sin. As a parent I want my children to be successful and to be a productive member of sciety. Doesn’t every parent want that? Then why are our prisons full to over flowing? Every coach wants every shot to go through the hoop, ...read more

  • James Boice Says, "God’s Self-Existence ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Goettsche on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 135 ratings
     | 3,703 views

    James Boice says, "God’s self-existence means that he is not answerable to us or to anybody. Although He sometimes explains things to us, he does not have to and often he does not. God does not have to ...read more

  • David Said He Was The Apple Of God’s Eye. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2001
    based on 113 ratings
     | 2,854 views

    David said he was the apple of God’s eye. I can always enthusiastically claim that I know who God’s favorite child is..."me". And so I am, and so are you, and you...He sees each of us as His favorite and there are no seconds, and thus He ...read more

  • Our God Is The God From Whom Cometh Salvation: ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
     | 2,065 views

    “Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by whom we escape death.” - Martin Luther “Live in Christ, live in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.” - John Knox “Thou, Lord, bruisest me; but I am abundantly satisfied, since it is from Thy hand.” - John Calvin “The best ...read more

  • God Is Too Wise To Be Mistaken. God Is Too Wise ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 4,103 views

    "God is too wise to be mistaken. God is too wise to be unkind. When you cant trace His hand, thats when ...read more

  • Two Choices: The Real God Or A False God, Richard ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,129 views

    Two Choices: The real God or a false god, Richard Lovelace on How Some Churches Want Ministers To Protect Them from the Real God Richard Lovelace wrote: "The whole church was...avoiding the biblical portrait of the sovereign and holy God who was angry with the wicked every day and whose anger ...read more

  • What God Will Do, Not What You Will Do For God  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 23, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,694 views

    WHAT GOD WILL DO, NOT WHAT YOU WILL DO FOR GOD Henry Blackaby said, "You never find God asking persons to dream up what they want to do for Him...Without doubt, the most important factor in each (Biblical) situation was not what the individual wanted to do for God. The most important factor was ...read more