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  • $3 Worth Of God

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
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    $3 WORTH OF GOD I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of God to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant, I want ecstasy, not ...read more

  • Barna: God's Truth

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 14, 2012
     | 1,753 views

    BARNA: GOD'S TRUTH George Barna from his book Turning Vision Into Action states, "Abraham was successful until God showed him that material wealth was poverty in eternity. Moses had it made as the adopted son of the Egyptian pharaoh, but he discovered that the finest clothing, the best education ...read more

  • God's Banana Stalk

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
     | 2,408 views

    GOD'S BANANA STALK One of my favorite stories in The Bible Questions is the story of the Motilone (Mow-til-oh-ee) Indians of Columbia, South America. In the 1960s, the Motilones were Stone Age headhunters feared by all their neighboring tribes. They had killed every white man who trespassed into ...read more

  • Show Us God  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Jan 9, 2013
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,670 views

    SHOW US GOD The Greek philosopher Socrates made this statement: "Oh that someone would arise, man or god, to show us God." In the minds of scholars, here's one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived; and yet he, himself, had beating in his own breast--and he admitted it--oh that god could ...read more

  • God Pursues You  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Jan 10, 2013
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    GOD PURSUES YOU God is constantly initiating and seeking man to come to him. Malcolm Muggeridge, socialist and philosophical author, wrote, "I had a notion that somehow, besides questing, I was being pursued." C.S. Lewis said he remembered, "...night after night, feeling whenever my mind ...read more

  • Spurgeon On Trusting God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 14,228 views

    SPURGEON ON TRUSTING GOD Charles Spurgeon writes: "There is One who cares for you. His eye is fixed on you, His heart beats with pity for your woe, and His omnipotent hand shall bring you the needed help. The darkest cloud shall scatter itself in showers of mercy. He, if you are one of His ...read more

  • Connected To God's Love

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Apr 10, 2009
     | 6,310 views

    CONNECTED TO GOD'S LOVE A water pipe was designed to carry water. I have learned that when you hook the pipe to the water, and turn on the water, the water flows through the pipe and out of the other end. When ...read more

  • Your God Is Too ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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    YOUR GOD IS TOO SAFE The words that Mark Buchanan wrote of his own experience in his book entitled "Your God Is Too Safe." He wrote that when he was saved, "I hit the ground running. Immediately, I volunteered for everything, anything, that I felt vaguely interested in and marginally qualified ...read more

  • Jesus: The Image Of God

    Contributed by Jim Blevins on May 2, 2009
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    JESUS: THE IMAGE OF GOD If you are old enough to remember, or watch the old series Dragnet on the Nickelodeon channel, you will see at the end a greasy hand come out with a hammer and a die. The hammer hits the die, and when the hammer and die leave, the mark ’VII’ is left in the stone. Although ...read more

  • God's Love Is With You

    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 10, 2009
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    GOD'S LOVE IS WITH YOU God’s promise is not that we will not suffer or have grief, pain and trouble; his promise is more amazing than that. It is that he will be with us in all of those moments, he will never leave us and forsake us. God loves us too much to leave us to face these moments alone. ...read more

  • Dad, Are You God?

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on May 20, 2009
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    DAD, ARE YOU GOD? One day after church, the pastor asked his little boy what he learned in Sunday school. The lad said, "I learned that God loves me more than anything else in the whole world." "What else did you learn?" asked his dad. "I learned that when I’m bad, He spanks real hard." "What ...read more

  • Good God Almighty

    Contributed by Louis Pantelis on May 21, 2009
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    GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY I am reminded of the story of the fellow that always fell asleep during the pastor’s sermon. The wife had decided to keep him awake - so she took a large hair pin with the intention of sticking him with it when he nodded off. Sure enough, right in the middle of the pastor’s ...read more

  • Song – God Bless ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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    SONG – GOD BLESS AMERICA. An eerie quiet fell over the battlefield near the French city of Verdun. It was Nov. 11, 1918, and the guns were abruptly silent. Some of the soldiers sank to the ground; others stared into space. Some began to shake. The Great War was finished, but the men could not ...read more

  • Made In God's Image

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 25, 2009
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    MADE IN GOD'S IMAGE This is what is meant by God’s image, in the words of Elmer Towns: a. Intellect. The ability to think, abstractly, i.e., put words to ideas, think in cause-effect relationships, remember, etc. Man has the ability to know the difference between right and wrong. b. Emotions. ...read more

  • The Sense Of God's Presence

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 17, 2009
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    THE SENSE OF GOD’S PRESENCE I also remember going to Milldale Bible Conference almost every summer during my teen years. I saw many demonstrations of God’s presence and power there. God’s presence was especially strong during the services one night. A young man was asked to come and sing. As he ...read more

  • God's Love Is Everything

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 18, 2009
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    GOD'S LOVE IS EVERYTHING The Pope tells us that "For the Church, instructed by the Gospel, charity is everything because, as Saint John teaches (cf. 1 Jn 4:8, 16) and as I recalled in my first Encyclical Letter, 'God is love'...: everything has its origin in God’s love, everything is shaped by it, ...read more

  • Fruitfulness As God's Work  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,587 views

    FRUITFULNESS AS GOD’S WORK A few years ago, the Associated Press released a study done by an agricultural school in Iowa. It reported that production of 100 bushels of corn from one acre of land, in addition to the many hours of the farmer’s labor, required 4,000,000 pounds of water, 6,800 pounds ...read more

  • Mother, Is The Moon God's ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 28, 2009
     | 3,901 views

    “Mother, Is the Moon God’s Light?” A mother and her little four-year-old daughter were preparing to retire for the night. The child was afraid of the night. The child was afraid of the dark, and the mother, alone with the child, felt fearful also. When the light was out, the child caught a ...read more

  • Speak And Spell God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2009
     | 2,844 views

    SPEAK AND SPELL GOD Mary Farwell of Green Castle, Missouri, told of the time she was listening to her 5-year-old son, Matthew, as he worked on his Speak and Spell™ computer. He was concentrating intensely, typing in words for the computer to say back to him. Matthew punched in the word "God." To ...read more

  • As Long As God Is Awake  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,657 views

    AS LONG AS GOD IS AWAKE A mother and her little four-year-old daughter were preparing to retire for the night. The child was afraid of the night. The child was afraid of the dark, and the mother, alone with the child, felt fearful also. When the light was out, the child caught a glimpse of the ...read more