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  • God's Word Described  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 14, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,595 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

  • $3 Worth Of God

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,970 views

    $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
     | 1,666 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

  • The Body: The Image Of God

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
     | 2,706 views

    THE BODY: THE IMAGE OF GOD Paul Brand writing about what it means to be in the image of God in his book In His Image: "We will not explore the psychological and mental attributes in each one of us that might reflect the image of God. Instead, we will center on a community, that group of God’s ...read more

  • God's Banana Stalk

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
     | 2,241 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
     | 3,499 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
    based on 18 ratings
     | 4,059 views

    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

  • God Touches The Hearts

    Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on May 5, 2017
     | 5,681 views

    There was a Girl in India, who was doing her school final. She was born and brought in the Non-Christian Faith. She had severe problems about the existence of Life. She was raising so many questions within herself. She couldn't find a suitable answer to her life. She searched her religious books ...read more

  • Remembering God's Faithfulness

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
     | 11,856 views

    Michelle Johnson writes, “Sometimes we need to take a look at where we’ve been with God to really understand His faithfulness and love for us. She was staying with her son at the hospital following a serious surgery. On that particular morning, she was exhausted by their stay, and her steps were ...read more

  • Judging God's Mirror

    Contributed by David Goering on Sep 1, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,094 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

  • God's Relationship With Us.

    Contributed by Rob Roy on Nov 19, 2018
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,696 views

    My best memory of my Grandfather who died when I was four or five. I was four or five and we loaded up with my four older brothers and mom and dad in our sixty-four brown Chevy Bel Air and headed to my grandparents home. My mom announced to all of us that Grandfather was weak and we should NOT ...read more

  • God Wants To Trade

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 7, 2019
     | 2,596 views

    God wants to trade your dry barren ground for a fertile garden ; He wants to trade your weeds for beautiful flowers ; He wants to take our anxiety and give us assurance (everything is all right) ; He wants to give us faith instead of fear ; He wants to take your curses and give you blessings ; He ...read more

  • Is God Still Relevant?

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Feb 27, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,902 views

    “Is the Christ of the gospels, loved within the dimensions of the Mediterranean world, still capable of forming the center of our prodigiously expanded universe? Is not the world in the process of becoming more vast, more dazzling than (even) God? Will it not burst our faith asunder and eclipse ...read more

  • Gods That People Manufacture

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Oct 13, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,136 views

    THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME. In his book, Your God is Too Small, J. B. Phillips describes some of the common gods that people manufacture. One is the grand old man god, the grandfatherly, white-haired, indulgent god who smiles down on men and winks at their adultery, stealing, ...read more

  • Living By Gods Word.

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Jun 19, 2020
     | 3,306 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

  • Shemaiah, A Man Of God

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Jun 21, 2020
     | 1,693 views

    Text: 1 Kings 12:22, KJV: But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, 24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against ...read more

  • God-Centered Life

    Contributed by Ritchie Guerrero on Oct 15, 2020
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,957 views

    Illustration of life that is God-centered God is always in the center of your life. Your Priority. Our life must revolve only in Jesus Christ. Consider a small Object. ex. a small piece of wood Tie the object with a soft string, at least 1 ft in length, in such a way that you could hold the ...read more

  • The God Of Unmatched Shoes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,282 views

    A man who was commissioned to paint a picture of the Prodigal Son. He went into his work fervently, laboring to produce a picture worthy of telling the story. Finally, the day came when the picture was complete, and he unveiled the finished painting. The scene was set outside the father’s house, ...read more

  • Keeping Company With God  PRO

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jul 31, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,749 views

    Philip Yancey writes in his book, Prayer, that “… Keeping company with God also includes expressing the times of trial and frustration. In Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye keeps up a running dialogue with God, giving credit for the good things but also lamenting all that goes wrong. In one scene he ...read more

  • God Can Be Trusted  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Bauer on Aug 1, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,877 views

    God can be trusted. Our prayers will not go unheeded. It’s like a little girl who crawled up into her father’s lap while was reading the newspaper. She told him how much she wanted him to build her a doll house. She didn’t climb down till her daddy had promised to do just that, although ...read more

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