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  • What Is Your God?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 6,122 views

    WHAT IS YOUR GOD? "Whatever you love most, serve most, seek out most, give to the most, worship the most, and care about the most is your god. Your “god” can be your career, your bank account, the way you look, a particular position or degree, influence, power, or physical pleasure. It ...read more

  • You're The Best  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,435 views

    YOU’RE THE BEST My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you’ll be a general; if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. SOURCE: Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist. Citation: Celebrating Mother: A Book ...read more

  • Communion In Your ‘civvies'  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 5,094 views

    COMMUNION IN YOUR ‘CIVVIES’ Janet Daley writes in the UK Telegraph about a “movement among Church of England clergy in favour of going into civvies.” One of the things that the Church of England Synod is debating is the agitation some are having for dress-down Sundays, which would allow the vicar ...read more

  • Respect Your Elders  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 26, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,964 views

    RESPECT YOUR ELDERS At age twenty-six, Pat Moore performed an unbelievable experiment. An industrial designer, Moore wanted a better understanding of senior adults, so for three years she frequently disguised herself as an eighty-five-year-old woman. From 1979 to 1981, she utilized the skills of a ...read more

  • Ask Your Dad  PRO

    Contributed by James Chandler on Mar 31, 2003
    based on 46 ratings
     | 2,878 views

    ASK YOUR DAD A father watched out the kitchen window as his 7 year old son played in the backyard sand box. He watched him moving several large rocks out of the sandbox. There was one very big rock that was giving his little boy a great deal of trouble. He watched his son move the rock to the ...read more

  • What Is Your Colt?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2003
    based on 49 ratings
     | 6,087 views

    WHAT IS YOUR COLT? Bill Wilson pastors an inner city church in New York City. His mission field is a very violent place. He himself has been stabbed twice as he ministered to the people of the community surrounding the church. Once a Puerto Rican woman became involved in the church and was led to ...read more

  • What Is Your Colt?  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Apr 14, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,473 views

    What is Your Colt? Bill Wilson pastors an inner city church in New York City. His mission field is a very violent place. He himself has been stabbed twice as he ministered to the people of the community surrounding the church. Once a Puerto Rican woman became involved in the church and was led to ...read more

  • Where's Your Faith?  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Oct 17, 2003
    based on 18 ratings
     | 5,439 views

    WHERE'S YOUR FAITH? Television interviewer and journalist Larry King describes three farmers who gather daily in a field during a horrible drought. The men are down on their knees, looking upward, and praying the skies will open and pour forth a much-needed rain. Unfortunately, the heavens are ...read more

  • Remember Your Sword

    Contributed by Tylor Cates on Jan 24, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,407 views

    Remember Your Sword Prop: Butter Knife and large Sword First let me say I collect and sell swords for a living so it wasn’t hard for me to get a real sword you may have to make a prop sword. Be careful if you bring a real one and make sure no one gets near it. In our church we have a 5 minute ...read more

  • Where Your Heart Is  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Jan 21, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,555 views

    St Augustine wrote Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure. Where your treasure is, there is your heart. Where you heart is, there is your ...read more

  • Be Creative In Your Marriage

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 27, 2005
     | 1,828 views

    Be creative in your marriage. Refer to the letter Sullivan Ballou wrote to his wife on july 14, 1861, one week before he died in the first battle of Bull Run: "It is my prayer that I shall return to my loved ones unharmed. If I do not, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I loved you nor that when ...read more

  • How's Your Faith?  PRO

    Contributed by Clarence Clough on Jan 29, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,867 views

    "How’s Your Faith?" by Victor Knowles-- Paul was concerned about their faith. Five times in ten verses he mentions their faith. How is yours? Notice the different degrees of faith. Which is yours? I. Dead Faith (James 2:17,20,26), II. Little Faith (Matthew 6:30), III. Weak Faith (Rom. ...read more

  • In Praise Of Your Table  PRO

    Contributed by Glenn Robertson on Nov 16, 2005
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,828 views

    In Praise of Your Table Father, I praise you for the table you have prepared. Not for food for the body, As much as food for the soul. Drink that satisfies my inner thirst. Bread that nourishes the hungers of my life. Fruit of the Spirit that grows me upward. Father, You have adorned your ...read more

  • Forward On Your Knees

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
     | 2,311 views

    "You must GO forward on your knees." ...read more

  • Your Body Contains…

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 29, 2007
     | 1,417 views

    Your body contains about: 1. Enough iron to make a small nail, 2. Enough salt to fill an ordinary shaker 3. Enough sugar to fill a small bowl 4. Enough lime to whitewash a small chicken coop 5. Enough phosphorus to make a dozen matches 6. Enough fat to ...read more

  • Keep Your Fork

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,315 views

    KEEP YOUR FORK The sound of Martha’s voice on the other end of the telephone always brought a smile to Brother Jim’s face. She was not only one of the oldest members of the congregation, but one of the most faithful. Aunt Martie, as all the children called her, just seemed to ooze faith, hope, and ...read more

  • Fire Your Rockets  PRO

    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Mar 25, 2001
    based on 116 ratings
     | 2,071 views

    "Fire Your Rockets" I read with interest this past week about the Astronaut who dropped a 10 pound wrench into space, and they had to fire the rockets in the space shuttle to avoid this wrench hitting their cabin and taking all the pressure out, and killing them all in space. Imagine! A 10 pound ...read more

  • Keep Your Fork  PRO

    Contributed by Dennis Jones on Feb 15, 2005
    based on 72 ratings
     | 7,227 views

    KEEP YOUR FORK There was a young woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. So as she was getting her things "in order," she contacted her pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes. She told him which songs ...read more

  • The Meaning Of Your Name

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Oct 20, 2007
     | 3,011 views

    The meaning of your name can affect your future. I can see you want proof: • When Israel was defeated in battle by the men of Ai, and if you were of the family Judah, and you were of the household of Achan, your name meant you would die. • If you were of Israel, when David asked if there was ...read more

  • Guard Your Name

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 21, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,758 views

    Guard Your Name You got it from your father, it was all he had to give So it’s yours to use and cherish, for as long as you may live. If you lose the watch he gave you, it can always be replaced. But a black mark on your name, son, can never be erased. It was clean the day you took it, and a ...read more

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