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  • In Awe Of God

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Dec 9, 2011
     | 4,826 views

    IN AWE OF GOD Pictures of the Grand Canyon are amazing. When we lived in Phoenix, Arizona we went to see the Grand Canyon in person. When I stood at the edge of the canyon and looked out words cannot express the beauty, enormity and creation of God's wonder. Pictures and words could never have ...read more

  • The Love Of God

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Nov 11, 2004
     | 7,100 views

    The Love Of God A certain medieval monk announced he would be preaching next Sunday evening on “The Love of God.” As the shadows fell and the light ceased to come in through the cathedral windows, the congregation gathered. In the darkness of the altar, the monk lighted a candle and carried it to ...read more

  • God With Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 11,440 views

    GOD WITH US Count Zinzendorf, the founder of the Moravians, was converted in an art gallery in Dusseldorf while contemplating a painting of Christ on the cross which had the inscription, "I did this for thee. What hast thou done for me?" This picture had been painted by an artist three hundred ...read more

  • The Vow To God

    Contributed by Larry Turner on Nov 12, 2014
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,464 views

    A businessman was traveling on a plane for the first time. He had always been terrified of flying but his next appointment required him to do so. The flight was going well when suddenly the plane shuddered. The pilot came over the intercom and announced that the engines on the right side had ...read more

  • God Is Missing!!!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 15, 2020
     | 6,978 views

    Two young boys in a Christian school had been continually mis-behaving and were sent to the principal’s office on several occasions. The principal knew what they really needed was to have God in their lives, so she brought the first boy in and set him down. “I want to ask you a question. Where is ...read more

  • When The First Ice Cream Cone Was Born

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Aug 12, 2019
     | 3,951 views

    A lot gets accomplished when people work together. In the summer of 1904, at the World’s Fair in St. Louis, it was hot and people were searching for something to help cool them off. A vendor named Arnold had just what they were looking for……something called ice cream. People lined up for what ...read more

  • Name Of God...?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,667 views

    NAME OF GOD...? If you’re in Lake City, Fla., one of these days and happen to run into a 50-something fellow with a sandy moustache, a receeding hairline, and aviator glasses, you may be in the presence of I Am Who I Am. Really. But that’s because Columbia County Court turned down his first ...read more

  • Christian Missionaries First Went To Africa 200 ...

    Contributed by W F on Mar 24, 2007
     | 1,071 views

    Christian missionaries first went to Africa 200 years ago. One of the groups they sought to "convert" there were these bushmen of the Kalahari desert. However, this article pointed out that the bushmen of the Denui village in particular, consistently refused to become Christians. Instead they have ...read more

  • God's Elect

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Aug 26, 2010
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    GOD'S ELECT There is no indication anywhere in Scripture that when a man or woman first believes in Jesus for salvation, God says something like, "Oh, look! We hooked another one! Get out the book and write his name down!" God is not taken by surprise, God is not waiting for people to ...read more

  • God's Tnt

    Contributed by Silas Eke on Mar 1, 2015
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     | 8,593 views

    Once the great Evangelist Billy Graham sent his New Testament to a book-binder and instructed him to write on the edge of the book “The New Testament”; the book-binder after binding the New Testament felt that the edge was too little to contain the full words “The New Testament” so he wrote “TNT”. ...read more

  • Questions For God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,316 views

    QUESTIONS FOR GOD I came across some post-it notes that contain brief notes that kids wrote to God. Here are a few funny ones… Dear God, I went to this wedding and they kissed in church. Is that OK? Dear God, I think about you sometimes even when I’m not praying. God, thank you for the baby ...read more

  • Created By God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,449 views

    CREATED BY GOD A little girl was visiting over at grandpa's house. She crawls up into his lap and says "Grandpa, did God make you?" He says "Oh, yes, my dear, God created me a long time ago." She says "Did God make me, too?" He says "Oh, yes, my dear, God created you a little while ago." She ...read more

  • Bob Evans Was Blind. For The First 51 Years Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 6, 2001
    based on 105 ratings
     | 2,821 views

    Bob Evans was blind. For the first 51 years of his life he lived in a dark world filled with sounds, but not sight. Then delicate surgery was performed, & for the first time in his life, he could see. He has written of his experience in seeing things for the very first time, He wrote, "I ...read more

  • Was God A God Of Love In The Old Testament?

    Contributed by Coz Von on Aug 27, 2017
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,741 views

    The Davinci code will tell you that Jesus was married Mary. is it so? NO, NO, AND - mil times NO – NOT! But I want to show you that God did get married. Blasphemy, you say, NOT SO, It’s irreverent, sacrilegious – and not true But He really did! Hear me out. Long, long ago in a land far far away ...read more

  • The Fleas Or God?  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on May 20, 2002
    based on 50 ratings
     | 2,531 views

    Title: The fleas or God? Corrie Ten Boom in The Hiding Place relates an incident which taught her this principle. She and her sister, Betsy, had just been transferred to the worst German prison camp they had seen yet, Ravensbruck. Upon entering the barracks, they found them extremely ...read more

  • God Is God. Because He Is God, He Is Worthy Of My ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
     | 2,529 views

    God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to. -Elisabeth Elliot Source: ...read more

  • God Will Provide

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 3, 2006
     | 4,256 views

    Story: “God Will Provide” Back in the depression days of the early 1930’s, my husband pastored a small country church. We then had three little children. Many times our weekly income was less than $10.00. One day, we found ourselves out of bread and with only some rancid bacon grease for ...read more

  • When Gerber First Started Selling Baby Food In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Sep 19, 2002
    based on 75 ratings
     | 2,407 views

    • When Gerber first started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as here in the USA--with the cute baby on the label. Later they found out that in Africa companies routinely put pictures on the label of what is inside since most people can not read. • When Coca-Cola first ...read more

  • The People Of God

    Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Sep 24, 2007
     | 1,764 views

    The people of God: Individuals, and in a state of distinctness from all the nations amongst which, in their calamitous dispersion, they are scattered; but they have no national existence -- no king, no country, no organization, no government, no political being. Just so the great community of ...read more

  • A First-Grader Wondered Why Her Father Brought ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,289 views

    A first-grader wondered why her father brought home a briefcase full of work every evening. Her mother explained, "Daddy has so much to do that he can’t finish it all at the office." "Well, then," asked the child innocently, ...read more