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  • The Power Of Prayer

    Contributed by Larry Grant on Jan 12, 2025
     | 1,345 views

    Luke 18:1-8 “The Power of Prayer” January 5, 2025 All of us have prayed about serious problems that God has not or did not seem to give us an answer to. Every one of us has had an issue that we have brought before the Lord and it seems as if He did nothing. Most of us have suffered some type of ...read more

  • To Say The Least, I Was At First Shocked To Read ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2001
    based on 89 ratings
     | 4,674 views

    To say the least, I was at first shocked to read the headline, Baby Ate Cocaine Dad Left Nearby. According to the Associated Press a father from Ravenna, Ohio was sentenced to one year in prison for endangering his daughter, who was six-months-old at the time of the incident. He evidently stashed ...read more

  • A Letter To Santa  PRO

    Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 21, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,366 views

    A LETTER TO SANTA: Dear Santa Claus: You’ll probably be surprised to receive this letter from an adult. You may be even more surprised as you read it to find that the writer is neither a maiden aunt nor a disgruntled bachelor. I’m a young mother. It isn’t my intention, Santa, to hurt your ...read more

  • H. B. London On Mysteries That Stretch Our ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 24, 2003
    based on 64 ratings
     | 2,362 views

    [H. B. London on Mysteries That Stretch Our Faith, Citation: H. B. London, from They Call Me Pastor (Regal, 2000), pp. 23-30] Four doctors in surgical greens stood before Dave and Jana at the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. I stood by helplessly as one doctor spoke. "Your baby has died ...read more

  • I Served A Church That Had A Wonderful Young ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,479 views

    I served a Church that had a wonderful young married couple. He was 30, she was 26 and they had two beautiful children. The oldest would come up and set with me while I was preaching. The husband worked for the State and had a good job that he enjoyed. She worked for a large nationwide company ...read more

  • Carrots, Eggs Or Coffee  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Santos on May 9, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 5,023 views

    CARROTS, EGGS OR COFFEE A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as though just as one problem was solved, a new one ...read more

  • It's An Ongoing Battle At The Twitchell ...

    Contributed by Jonathan Twitchell on Dec 7, 2006
     | 2,214 views

    It’s an ongoing battle at the Twitchell household. We have a great number of beautiful songbirds that come to our birdfeeders in the front yard: goldfinches, house finches, red-winged blackbirds, orioles, and cardinals are accompanied by chickadees, mourning doves, blue jays. We tolerate the ...read more

  • An Ever-Rolling Stream!" Genesis 6: 1-3 Key ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Dec 30, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,707 views

    “An Ever-Rolling Stream!” Genesis 6: 1-3 Key verse(s): 3: “Then the Lord said, ‘My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for hie is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.’” “It can wait until tomorrow!” Despite that old adage, “Never put off to tomorrow the things that you can do ...read more

  • One Of The Most Influential Christians Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,053 views

    One of the most influential Christians who exhibited “Grace Living” and touches lives as powerfully today as he did in the late 1700 and early 1800’s is John Newton, the writer of “Amazing Grace.” His own evaluation of himself was, “a wretch who was once lost but then was found, saved by amazing ...read more

  • Heart Of ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 3,921 views

    Heart of Temptation “When tempted, no one should say, ‘God is tempting me.’ For God… does [not] tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives ...read more

  • One Of My Favorite Stories Is About A Young ...

    Contributed by Blake Inscore on Sep 26, 2008
     | 2,754 views

    One of my favorite stories is about a young seminary student who was terrified of speaking in front of others. He waited until his last semester to taking his preaching class, knowing that he would have to get up and present a sermon. His professor tried to reassure him that God would give him the ...read more

  • Christian Walk Compared To Learning How To Pitch ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2009
     | 4,608 views

    Christian Walk Compared to Learning How to Pitch Horseshoes When I married into Charlotte’s family I married into a really close family that liked to spend a lot of time together. Almost every Sunday was spent at Charlotte’s Mom and Dad’s house. There were football or baseball games to watch or ...read more

  • Covering Up A Hole

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Mar 18, 2010
     | 2,365 views

    COVERING UP A HOLE Katie and I had arrived in Oklahoma and were getting about the task of settling in. We were living in a cramped two-room apartment and desperately looking for a house to buy. We were looking to purchase our first house ever. As we looked at houses around town, there always ...read more

  • Many Years Ago Now, A True Story Is Told Of Two ...

    Contributed by Guy De Swardt on Apr 1, 2010
     | 3,337 views

    Many years ago now, a true story is told of two identical twins who were working for their father. They were so close they even dressed alike. When their father died they took over the family business as everybody expected them to do. Their relationship with each other was considered by the town ...read more

  • Fear And The Deceits Of The Heart  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,590 views

    FEAR AND THE DECEITS OF THE HEART I think Edward Welch chose brilliantly the title for his book on overcoming the fear of man: When People are Big and God is Small. Maybe you can relate to his personal awakening to this problem when he was a high-school senior: "I had always been shy and ...read more

  • Free Pizza — Ten Dollars

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 19, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,196 views

    FREE PIZZA - TEN DOLLARS Way back in the day when Katie and I were dating, I got this phone call from her. She was very excited. She had just purchased a discount coupon book for discounts on various restaurants in town, for only $25.00. If you are familiar with the Entertainment Coupon Book, ...read more

  • The Falsities Of Mormon Author Betty Eadie

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,986 views

    THE FALSITIES OF MORMON AUTHOR BETTY EADIE The idea of hell and judgment are nowhere to be found in Betty Eadie’s bestseller, Embraced By The Light, on the N.Y. Times bestseller list for more than 40 weeks, including 5 weeks as #1. In November 1973 Eadie allegedly died after undergoing a ...read more

  • The 2,000-Year-Old Seed

    Contributed by Roshelle Deas Roberson on Feb 6, 2012
     | 3,448 views

    THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD SEED This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick. A tree grows in Kibbutz Ketura in the Israeli desert, and what a tree it is, a tiny sapling actually 2,000 years old, or the seed that it comes from is 2,000 years old, making it the oldest seed ever germinated. Botanists never gave ...read more

  • Raising The Dead

    Contributed by Rick Boyne on Apr 12, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,863 views

    RAISING THE DEAD Easter Services are supposed to be focused on Jesus and the power of His resurrection. Yesterday, the members of Immanuel Southern Baptist Church in Wagoner, OK, got an object lesson to go along with the sermon. Just before the services were to begin, the Sunday School Director, ...read more

  • Running Past The Red Flags

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,721 views

    “Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.” - Doug Larson The house looked like a fairy tale come true. Though my friend had a nagging feeling about the owners, she ignored it and went to inspect the house. It was spacious and full of sunshine with a big ...read more