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  • Denying Oneself

    Contributed by Jon Lipka on Mar 4, 2012
     | 3,407 views

    DENYING ONESELF "To deny oneself is not to do without something or even many things. It is not asceticism, nor self-rejection or self-hatred, nor is it even the disowning of particular sins. It is to renounce the self as the dominant element in life. It is to replace the self with God-in-Christ as ...read more

  • The Conversion Of George Whitefield

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 29, 2011
     | 4,823 views

    THE CONVERSION OF GEORGE WHITEFIELD In the 1730's in England, a young man named George Whitefield desperately wanted to be right before God. As a student at Oxford, he was part of the Holy Club, along with John and Charles Wesley. The members of that club rose early every day for lengthy ...read more

  • If You Can't Run With The Big Dogs, Stay On The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Arliss Beavers on Jan 31, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,124 views

    If you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch. Our forefathers taught us how to discipline and run our homes as the priest of the home. If we cannot immitate them, we will have to go hide in ...read more

  • God May Allow His Servant To Succeed When He Has ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,651 views

    God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure ...read more

  • The Gentleman Cat

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jun 22, 2011
     | 1,971 views

    THE GENTLEMAN CAT Two men sought to prove to their king whether a man had to be "born a gentleman" or could become one by "discipline and training." The one told the other that he would prove his point regarding "training" by showing the king his cat, which he had trained to stand on its back ...read more

  • Love Your Children With All Your Hearts, Love ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 1,615 views

    "Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too latePraise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on ...read more

  • Cheap Grace Is The Preaching Of Forgiveness ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Dec 14, 2004
    based on 19 ratings
     | 4,355 views

    “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace ...read more

  • Successful Teachers...share Certain Traits That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,537 views

    "Successful teachers...share certain traits that have contributed greatly to their success. For one thing, they prize creativity. For another thing, they know how and when to maintain discipline. They can also judge and evaluate people accurately. They have a sense of ...read more

  • Made In God's Image

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 25, 2009
     | 2,635 views

    MADE IN GOD'S IMAGE This is what is meant by God’s image, in the words of Elmer Towns: a. Intellect. The ability to think, abstractly, i.e., put words to ideas, think in cause-effect relationships, remember, etc. Man has the ability to know the difference between right and wrong. b. Emotions. ...read more

  • It Is A Strange Fact That Christians And Even ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,535 views

    "It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. But it is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform a service and that ...read more

  • Little Bethany Was As Cute As A Bug's Ear. The ...

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jul 22, 2009
     | 1,491 views

    Little Bethany was as cute as a bug's ear. The only child and the only grandchild, she was the center of attention. Discipline was not the strong suit of these new parents. They would feed her in the middle of the night, even though she was old enough to sleep through the night, because they ...read more

  • Commitment: An Officer Stood Before The 1987 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,871 views

    Commitment: An officer stood before the 1987 graduating class of the Nebraska State Patrol Acadamey and said, "Gentlemen, commitment distinguishes the true Trooper. If you cannot commit to the duties and discipllines that distinguish the State Patrol, then don’t wear the badge." Likewise, you ...read more

  • Cheap Grace

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 15, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,565 views

    CHEAP GRACE (defined and adapted from Dietrich Bonhoeffer) a). Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace. b). Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God ...read more

  • Ethics Breeches Widespread: Kpmg Llp Research ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,233 views

    Ethics Breeches Widespread: KPMG LLP research reports 75% of employees say they have observed violations of the law or company standards in the previous 12 months, but 61% were unwilling to report them because they thought management wouldn’t administer ...read more

  • If We Don't Feel Strong Desires For… God, It Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
     | 1,485 views

    “If we don’t feel strong desires for… God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things and there is no room for the great.” (John Piper, ...read more

  • The Choice Before Us Is Plain: Christ Or Chaos, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,978 views

    "The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come it is now when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of ...read more

  • How You Spend The Time That Is Your Own Will ...

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 10, 2009
     | 1,667 views

    “How you spend the time that is your own will greatly determine what you think about. No doubt about it – Satan brings his greatest temptations to people when they have time on their hands. It takes discipline of character and proper goals to handle correctly the ...read more

  • Praying For Change  PRO

    Contributed by Rob Ross on Apr 9, 2003
    based on 12 ratings
     | 3,789 views

    PRAYING FOR CHANGE “To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The closer we come to the heartbeat of God the more we see our need and the more we ...read more

  • Why Do You Follow Jesus? Patrick Morley Has Some ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 12, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 11,845 views

    Why do you follow Jesus? Patrick Morley has some important things to say about our answer to this question. "The American gospel has evolved into a gospel of addition without subtraction. It is a belief that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in ...read more

  • Praying For Change  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Sunstrom on Mar 8, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,993 views

    PRAYING FOR CHANGE “To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The closer we come to the heartbeat of God the more we see our need and the more we ...read more