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Compassion

Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson She was a nurse employed at a residential care home in Western Oklahoma. It was a muggy summer night and many of the residents seemed more restless than usual. One of the patients, an ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:1

Tags: Compassion, Acts Of Kindness, Kind To The Unkind, Showing God's Love

Denomination: Charismatic

Ten People Who Speak Make More Noise Than Ten ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten ...read more

Tags: Disciplines Silence

No Trumpets Sound When The Important Decisions ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. ...read more

Tags: Suffering Loneliness

Elie Wiesel Was A Fourteen Year Old Boy When The ...  PRO

Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 8, 2006

-Elie Wiesel was a fourteen year old boy when the Germans started loading the Jews on trains and sending them to the death camps authorized by Adolph Hitler. This excerpt picks up as he is traveling by in a cattle car on a train from Transylvania (which at the time was under the control of ...read more

Tags: Hell

Denomination: Pentecostal

Playing With Sin

Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jul 9, 2009

Two girlfriends went to Mexico for a holiday and smuggled in a giant mouse to the US assuming it to be a puppy. It wheezes throughout the night and they just pet and snuggle him to bring relief to his pain. In the morning they took him to the Vet who disclosed to them that it was a rat with rabies ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:15-23

Tags: Sin, Sinfulness, Sin Wages Of

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Consider Little Suzie. Little Suzie Was ...

Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Oct 24, 2009

Consider little Suzie. Little Suzie was finishing her prayer one night and said: Dear God, Please take care of mommy, take care of daddy, take care of my sister and my brother, and please, God, take care of yourself, because if you don’t, we’re all sunk. – Amen! Suzie ...read more

Tags: Enduring Trials, Trials And Difficulties

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Ignorance And Apathy

Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jun 28, 2011

IGNORANCE AND APATHY One fellow was talking to his next-door neighbor about a speaker he heard the night before. He told the neighbor, "That guy said something that has really stuck in my mind. He said that all of the worlds problems could be summed up in two words: ignorance and ...read more

Tags: Attitude General

Whole Days And Weeks Have I Spent Prostrate On ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Whole days and WEEKS have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal ...read more

Tags: Prayer Adoration

When The Oak Is Felled The Forest Echoes With ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown ...read more

Tags: Endurance

If The Freedom Of Speech Is Taken Away Then ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, ...read more

Tags: Political Freedom

Praying For The Lost

Contributed by Rick Crandall on Mar 15, 2010

PRAYING FOR THE LOST Lee Thomas is a great teacher on praying for the lost. Here’s part of a testimony from his book: When we begin to pray for someone’s salvation, God seems to draw a circle around that individual and then gets in the circle with him. That is what happened to Ricky Gresham when ...read more

Tags: Evangelism The Lost

Denomination: Baptist

Conversion Of A Communist

Contributed by Tim Smith on Sep 25, 2016

Leonard Ravenhill tells the story of preaching an 8-day crusade in a large church in Glasgow, Scotland starting the first day of World War II. That shattered his meetings and no more than 50 people showed, so they started to meet in a side room instead. Despite this, he preached his heart out every ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:1-10

Tags: Resurrection, Power

Denomination: Methodist

Books Are The Carriers Of Civilization. Without ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, ...read more

Tags: Books And Literature

Great Joy, Especially After A Sudden Change Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells ...read more

Tags: Joy

There Are More Instances Of The Abridgment Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in ...read more

Tags: Political Freedom

A Friend Will Joyfully Sing With You When You ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"A friend will joyfully sing with you when you are on the mountain top, and silently ...read more

Tags: Compassion

What To Do When There's No Fireworks

Contributed by John Herrmann on Jun 21, 2011

WHAT TO DO WHEN THERE'S NO FIREWORKS Around sunset one very hot summer’s eve when we (in the Army Chaplaincy) were in Iraq, about forty miles north of Baghdad, we saw the military police pull up in the building just next door. Out came two Iraqi Prisoners of War, their hands were shackled behind ...read more

Tags: Independence Day

Denomination: Lutheran

Max Lucado, In His Book, Applause From Heaven, ...

Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 20, 2006

Max Lucado, in his book, Applause From Heaven, tells the story of the time when his 3 year old daughter, Jenna, awoke him in the middle of the night. He said that he tried to stay asleep but her insistent, "Daddy" wouldn’t allow him to stay in slumber. He writes, "I opened one eye. Andrea was at ...read more

Denomination: Christian Church

If Only I Could Sleep Again

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008

"If Only I Could Sleep Again" Bob Pierce, founder of World Vision had advanced leukemia, but he went to visit a colleague in Indonesia before he died. As they were walking through a small village, they came upon a young girl lying on a bamboo mat next to a river. She was dying of cancer and had ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Nfl Quarterback's Pre-Game Generosity Impacts ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010

NFL Quarterback’s Pre-Game Generosity Impacts Family There was a time when the bread-winner of the family worked a night shift in a low paying job and relied on food stamps to feed their large family. But that all changed after the Saint Louis Rams won the Super Bowl in 2000. And because of those ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:1

Tags: Generosity, Giving General