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The Next Time You Feel Yourself Feeling ...

Contributed by Mark Brunner on Feb 2, 2006

The next time you feel yourself feeling confident, challenge yourself to do the impossible. You just may. There are legions of people with unchallenged genius potential. Take the story of two Irish music hall players who, in 1912, were spending an afternoon in a pub at Stalybridge in Cheshire, ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 6:10-12

Tags: God's Omnipotence

Denomination: Lutheran

Suicide Attitudes: About Fifteen Million People ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Suicide Attitudes: About fifteen million people (7% of all adults) have attempted suicide at some point in their lives, according to a recent Harris Poll. The research also revealed that 21% of adults have thought seriously about taking their own lives, and 25% believe that ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

What Is The Value Of A Life? Business Week ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

What Is The Value Of A Life? Business Week magazine reports that economists estimate how many lives are saved by a particular government regulation, and then compare that with the cost of implementing the new rule. Here are some results: It costs $3,000 to save one life (with the regulation of ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

Shipwreck And Stranded

Contributed by Christian Cheong on Feb 6, 2006

SHIPWRECK AND STRANDED A man was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. He painstakingly built a little hut for protection and a place to keep the few items he had salvaged from the wreck. He prayed fervently for his rescue, scanning the horizon for a ship, but NOTHING. For weeks he lived under ...read more

Tags: God's Forgiveness

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Charles F. Kettering, Former Research Head Of ...  PRO

Contributed by Mark Brunner on Feb 6, 2006

Charles F. Kettering, former research head of General Motors, was fond of telling this story. When he called a research and development meeting on a particular problem of not an immediate probability of presenting a ready solution, and he wanted the problem solved, he’d take care to first find a ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 7:1-2

Tags: God's Omnipotence

Denomination: Lutheran

You See, We've All Heard Stories Of People Who ...  PRO

Contributed by Lynn Malone on Feb 6, 2006

You see, we’ve all heard stories of people who lucked up and found something hidden away in an attic that turned out to be really valuable, and we figure, if it could happen to them, it could happen to us. We hear stories like Ted and Virginia from Arizona. There story was found on Antiques ...read more

Tags: Kingdom Of God

Denomination: Methodist

All Things Bright And Beautiful

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell, How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well. Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–1895), Irish ...read more

Tags: God The Father

A Clear Sign

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. Woody Allen (b. 1935), U.S. filmmaker. article originally published in New Yorker (Nov. 5, ...read more

Tags: Apologetics God

John Balca Was One Of The Early Apostolic ...  PRO

Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 8, 2006

-John Balca was one of the early Apostolic pioneer missionaries in Eastern Europe. He was particularly focused in the country of Yugoslavia in the 1930-1950’s. In his autobiography, he writes of the many difficulties that God helped him to overcome in the establishing of an Apostolic church in ...read more

Tags: God In The Hardships

Denomination: Pentecostal

I Heard Bro. J. T. Pugh Tell A Story Of One Of ...

Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 8, 2006

I heard Bro. J. T. Pugh tell a story of one of the four men who made such a dramatic impact on his life. He mentioned that this man was an evangelist back in the 1940’s. The nation was still in the midst of great financial throes from the Great Depression and from the Second World War. He said ...read more

Tags: God In The Hardships

Denomination: Pentecostal

Spare Me Through Your Mercy, Do Not Punish Me ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109), British philosopher, ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

Love Must Precede Hatred, And Nothing Is Hated ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274), Italian ...read more

Tags: Love For God

Nothing In Vain

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

God and nature do nothing in vain. Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Politics, bk. 1, ...read more

Tags: God The Father

Impossibilities

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"We have a God who delights in ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

I Want Deliberately To Encourage This Mighty ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

When You Are Arguing Against Him, You Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you ...read more

Tags: Promises Of God

I Have But One Passion - It Is He, It Is He ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

Love Is Kindled In A Flame, And Ardency Is Its ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it ...read more

Tags: Love For God

I Have Found That There Are Three Stages In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is ...read more

Tags: God The Father

We Cannot But Admit That Not Even The Least ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"We cannot but admit that not even the least thing takes place unless it is ordered by God. For who have ever been so concerned and curious as to find out how much hair he has on his head? There is no one. God, however, knows the number. Indeed, nothing is too small in us or in any other ...read more

Tags: God's Sovereign Will