Contributed by Paul Barreca on Apr 8, 2012
based on 3 ratings
| 3,351 views
WAR HORSE: PERSEVERENCE
Last week, I watched "War Horse." It's a Steven Spielberg film about a young English boy and his horse.
The family is about to lose their farm because dad bought a horse for his son. The father bears a war injury and cannot tend the farm. He spends his last money
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Mar 31, 2003
based on 20 ratings
| 2,873 views
SHOUTING THE GOOD NEWS?
It’s amazing how many people try to share the good news with a sense of rage and hatred.
Example: ranting and raving about a particular social ill, polarizing people, and focusing more on judgment and God’s wrath than on the hope that Christ offers.
People rant about
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Feb 22, 2006
Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end;
Yet days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone,
And I never see my old friend’s face.
For life is a swift and terrible race.
He knows I like him just as well
As in the days when I rang his bell
And he
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
United Methodist
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2006
My family and I were watching America’s Funniest Videos Friday night. There’s clip of a bike race. A guy is approaching the finish line, way out in front. He pauses to raise his hands in victory, and as he does, he wipes out. As he gets back up, some 20 other bikes pass him and he creeps across
...read more
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jan 29, 2005
based on 6 ratings
| 1,650 views
Recently I heard an amazing story of human strength. Four soldiers in Afghanistan were riding in a jeep when suddenly they were ambushed. They were on a narrow mountain road and the only way out was to go in the opposite direction, but there wasn’t room to turn the jeep around without going over
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian Church
Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
There’s a bit of verse in the form of a prayer that I think is appropriate:
Slow me down, Lord.
Ease the pounding of my heart
by the quieting of my mind,
Steady my hurried pace
with the eternal reach of time,
Give me amid the confusion of the day
the calmness of the everlasting hills,
Break the
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 15, 2007
He had no cornfields or fisheries, but He could spread a table for five thousand and have bread and fish to spare. He walked on no beautiful carpets or velvet rugs, but He walked on the waters of the Sea of Galilee and they supported Him.
When He died, few men mourned. But a black crepe was hung
...read more
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 26, 2010
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote: “Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance, through which he wills to perpetuate the human race till the end of time. In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 22, 2010
“No Need to Mention the Name!”
One day, crossing a New York City street, a woman became confused, and stepped directly in front of an approaching streetcar. People on both curbs were sick with horror at her sure fate, when a powerful man rushed forward and not only rescued her from the streetcar,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian Church
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 3, 2024
The Arms Race was on; we no longer feared atomic bombs, but the H-bomb. Bomb shelters would not protect against that greater level of destruction.
At one point, we were a button away from a nuclear holocaust. According to wikipedia.com, “Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov…. was a lieutenant colonel of
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jan 17, 2005
But you don’t have to deliberately break the rules to be disqualified. It’s possible to unintentionally break the rules and still be disqualified. At the ’88 Summer Olympics there was an American boxer named Anthony Hembrick. He was disqualified from competition because he didn’t show up at the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
WE CRAVE THE LIGHT
A few years ago I was sitting in the doctor's office and picked up the Oct. 2001 edition of the National Geographic. It had an amazing article on the "Power of Light". The articles introduction caught my attention:
"Light reveals the world to us. Body and soul crave it. Light
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 29, 2002
based on 1 rating
| 4,166 views
“THREE MONKEYS”
Author unknown
“Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree, discussing things that are said to be.
Said one to the others, ‘Now listen, you two, there’s a certain rumor that can’t be true;
That man descended from our noble race.
Why, the very idea is a disgrace!
No monkey ever deserted
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Jun 19, 2003
based on 2 ratings
| 3,416 views
God’s revelation in Jesus Christ is infallible. This is not arrogant or narrow-minded. As C.S. Lewis wrote:
"If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Toby Powers on Dec 29, 2005
based on 4 ratings
| 2,548 views
The message has been about a couple of prophets who fell by the wayside, but I want to tell you of a man that finished the race:
Dave and Nikki McDonald were missionaries to Iraq. They were shot in pieces by mortar fire and AK-47’s while in Iraq working on a water-purification project and sharing
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Sermon Central