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  • Treating God Like Amazon

    Contributed by Austin W. Duncan on Apr 17, 2026
    based on 1 rating
     | 31 views

    You’ve been up at 2 AM, scrolling, adding things to a cart you don’t need with money you don’t have for a version of yourself that doesn’t exist. And the next morning you wake up and think, “What was that?” That was your desires running the show while your judgment was asleep. And that’s not just a ...read more

  • Wait...god Did Come

    Contributed by Soon-Hock Lim on Dec 23, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,610 views

    WAIT...GOD DID COME Philip Yancey tells the story of a migrant farmhand in his book "Where is God When It Hurts": Last year we went to a little church in New Jersey.... We had all our children there, the baby included. The Reverend Jackson was there, I can't forget his name, and he told us to be ...read more

  • God's Grace Shown To Us  PRO

    Contributed by Frederick Baker Ii on Sep 3, 2007
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,131 views

    "God’s Grace Shown To Us" The Enemy of the world, Satan, was on the side of life’s road with a very large cage. The man coming towards him noticed that it was crammed full of people of every kind, young, old, from every race and nation." Where did you get these people?" the man asked. "Oh, ...read more

  • God's Grace Shown To Us  PRO

    Contributed by Frederick Baker Ii on Sep 24, 2007
    based on 21 ratings
     | 4,187 views

    "God’s Grace Shown To Us" The Enemy of the world, Satan, was on the side of life’s road with a very large cage. The man coming towards him noticed that it was crammed full of people of every kind, young, old, from every race and nation." Where did you get these people?" the man asked. "Oh, ...read more

  • God's Promises And Urban Legends  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Carson on Nov 20, 2011
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     | 3,491 views

    GOD'S PROMISES AND URBAN LEGENDS Do you really believe that being godly is great gain and not financial gain, but something that really matters and lasts? If you believed that, wouldn’t it change your life? Most people believe that if you smoke, you’ll get lung cancer. Many of you quit smoking ...read more

  • Hardships Further His Kingdom  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Feb 6, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,484 views

    HARDSHIPS FURTHER HIS KINGDOM Bill Hybels' The Power of a Whisper (p.110-111): "Don't ever buy into the idea that everything God prompts His followers to do will be uncomplicated or low-cost. Sometimes God asks His children to carry heavy loads, as He did with the apostle Paul. But even--and ...read more

  • Letters To God From Children  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Warren on Apr 19, 2001
    based on 201 ratings
     | 3,824 views

    LETTERS TO GOD FROM CHILDREN Dear God, Did you mean for the giraffe too look like that or was it an accident? - Norma Dear God, Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don’t you just keep the ones you have now? - Jane Dear God, Who draws the lines around the ...read more

  • God Will Often Allow Crises Into ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 29, 2008
     | 1,126 views

    Illustration: God will often allow crises into our lives to show us where we put our confidence. There was a farmer who one day went happily and with great joy in his heart to report to his wife and family that their best cow had given birth to twin calves, one red and one white. And he said, “You ...read more

  • Are You Prepared To Meet God?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 19, 2008
     | 3,207 views

    Are You Prepared To Meet God? What Christ Has Done A preacher was called to the bedside of a man who was seriously ill. After a few words of greeting, the minister asked, "My friend, are you prepared to meet God if you don't recover from this sickness?" "I think so," was the reply. "I've always ...read more

  • Judgment For Yawning: Is God Fair?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,114 views

    JUDGMENT FOR YAWNING: IS GOD FAIR? It’s a given that some judges in the American legal system are more severe than others. But Circuit Judge Daniel Rozak-—from Will County, Illinois—-may be the only federal judge who has sentenced a man to prison because of a yawn. That’s right. In August of ...read more

  • Live In A Way That Glorifies God  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Jul 19, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,336 views

    Live in a Way That Glorifies God Dan Blocker was my favorite character, Hoss, on the TV series Bonanza. When he died unexpectedly, Hoss died. The producers knew they could not replace him. The story was that woman was caught in a flood. Hoss held her above the water with one hand and held a ...read more

  • God Did Not Walk Away

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 3,130 views

    GOD DID NOT WALK AWAY Simon Wiesenthal wrote The Sunflower in 1969. It speaks of the pain he experienced at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. He describes being taken from a Nazi death-camp to a makeshift hospital. He was ushered by a nurse to the side of a Nazi soldier, who asked to have a ...read more

  • South Park: God's Authority

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 15, 2009
     | 2,930 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

  • View Everyone As God's Creation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,890 views

    VIEW EVERYONE AS GOD’S CREATION Presbyterian biblical scholar/ minister/author Carl Howie tells about an incident that took place in a New York subway. It was winter, and an especially cold and bitter night. Very few people were on the subway at that hour. At each station, the train would screech ...read more

  • Here Be Dragons. Here Is God.

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009
     | 4,580 views

    "HERE BE DRAGONS. HERE IS GOD." 2 Timothy 3:1-7 Matt. 8:23-26; 16:24-26 John 16:33 Psalm 107:23-30 We all remember Hurricane Katrina and the damage it inflicted on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. It’s only a memory now, but it left terrible devastation and painful memories that still remain. The ...read more

  • Free Gas: God Knew

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 6, 2011
     | 2,036 views

    FREE GAS: GOD KNEW Yesterday we had an "event" at church. We were told to come with comfortable clothes and that was all the direction we received. When we got to church, the pastor said, "OK folks, today we are going to the gas station up the street. We are going to give $25.00 of gas to 150 cars ...read more

  • When God Shows Up

    Contributed by Kerry Haynes on Feb 3, 2019
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,149 views

    I just finished reading a book called, “The Shack.” I read it about ten years ago, and something made me read it again, and I’m so glad I did. I commend it to you as a book that captures the very essence of a God who wants nothing more than to have a loving relationship with you. What an incredible ...read more

  • God Just Needs A Voice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,643 views

    GOD JUST NEEDS A VOICE John Stott, a well-known British pastor and theologian, was invited to preach at the University of Sydney in Australia; but after he got there, he lost his voice. He describes his experience as follows: "What can you do with a missionary who has no voice? We had come to ...read more

  • Power Of The Translated Word Of God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,911 views

    POWER OF THE TRANSLATED WORD OF GOD This is a strategy still used today, because it works and this is how it is still used today: A friend of mine, Bill, was a bible translator for Wycliff Bible Translators in some very remote mountains in Bolivia. Bill was on the second Wycliff team. The first ...read more

  • Consecrated To God From Youth

    Contributed by Samuel Reyes on Apr 9, 2012
     | 2,891 views

    CONSECRATED TO GOD FROM YOUTH “Los más grandes hombres de la iglesia cristiana fueron vidas consagradas a Dios desde su juventud. -Juan Wesley era un estudiante en Oxford cuando fundó el Club Santo. -Martin Lutero tenía 27 años cuando abrazo el pasaje y fue inspirado en todo su ministerio por el ...read more