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  • Surprise Gift

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
     | 6,462 views

    SURPRISE GIFT When Gabriel Hurles turned six a couple of years ago (January 2009), he was so focused on eating his birthday cake, that he hardly noticed the giant package in the corner of the room. When another child pointed out the large gift, Gabriel ran over and began to tear off the wrapping. ...read more

  • The Empty Gift

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,140 views

    THE EMPTY GIFT God offers us more than this world does, but most of us never take the time to see it. There was a 15-year old boy named Joey, whose mother died at birth. She was a severe alcoholic, and that had affected his pre-natal development. The result was that he was slightly ...read more

  • Gift Of Honor  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,108 views

    GIFT OF HONOR Football practice was over, and Denny was sore from head to toe. Slowly he climbed the graffiti-laden stairway of the aging apartment building. Suddenly, his mother’s chilling screams pierced the cold, still air. He had heard the sound many times before. Still, a sickening knot ...read more

  • Gift Of Pearls

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Jul 25, 2011
     | 3,474 views

    GIFT OF PEARLS A number of years ago, when our oldest was just a little tyke, a Chinese man we knew gave my wife a string of pearls as a gift. Anyway, the pearls he gave her were different from the ones we might find in a jewelry store; they were natural, not cultivated. Now, the most common ...read more

  • Ownership Of The Gift  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 27, 2012
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,680 views

    OWNERSHIP OF THE GIFT A humanitarian group in Africa, noticing the filthy water, sewage, and disease, built clean water and sewage system for a village. Months later, they visited the village, but it was back to square one with filthy water, sewage and disease. [from Pickthebrain.com] The chief ...read more

  • Ridiculous Gifts  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Sep 11, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,300 views

    RIDICULOUS GIFTS There is a program in the US called “Good Morning America.” This was about 10 years ago, there was a lady named Joan London, who did a segment on Christmas Gifts and made some suggestions about the list: “You may want to include these in your list: • Jaguar 220 – this is a ...read more

  • The Gift Of Their Lives

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 21, 2012
     | 2,505 views

    THE GIFT OF THEIR LIVES A Dutch pastor was helping Jews escape the Nazis when he himself caught. He was loaded into a boxcar with several Jews and others to be sent to a concentration camp. It was a long, frightening journey through the night. Finally the train stopped, the doors opened, and ...read more

  • Blood Gift  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 9 ratings
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    BLOOD GIFT In 1949, my father had just returned from the war. On every highway you could see soldiers in uniform hitchhiking home to their families. The thrill of the reunion with his family was soon overshadowed by my grandmother’s illness. There was a problem with her kidneys. The doctors told ...read more

  • The Gift Of Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,794 views

    The Gift of Us Marjorie Tallcott was married and had one child during the Great Depression. The family managed to scrape their way through, but as Christmas approached one year Marjorie and her husband were disappointed that they would not be able to buy any presents. A week before Christmas they ...read more

  • Good Gifts

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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     | 4,345 views

    GOOD GIFTS Go to God--he is the source of our goodness on this earth. Matthew 7:11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! This story about Hudson Taylor, a well-known ...read more

  • Perfect Gifts

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 4,537 views

    PERFECT GIFTS Everyone loves to receive gifts at Christmas time. And I am sure that as Christmas approaches, we are wondering what lies behind those wrapped presents. I remember as a child that these four weeks of advent were so difficult. I would go by that tree about 30 million times a day ...read more

  • Small Things

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Feb 1, 2019
     | 3,421 views

    LITTLE THINGS: THE BIBLE TEACHES US TO NOT DESPISE THE DAYS OF SMALL THINGS. Zech. 4:10. In October 10, 1871, it had been a season of dryness. Little rain in sometime. The little buildings were small little WOODEN buildings. A little couple named Patrick and Catherine O’Leary lived in their little ...read more

  • Don't Ignore Small Decisions, For In Small ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jerry Falwell on Mar 7, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,169 views

    Don’t ignore small decisions, for in small decisions you determine the ...read more

  • Small Groups Grow Participation In Small Groups ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 2,435 views

    Small Groups Grow Participation in small groups that meet during the week for prayer, Bible study or spiritual fellowship (excluding Sunday school or other church classes) increased from 12% in ’94 to 20% today. Men’s participation ...read more

  • Good Hope, Alabama Is A Small Town With Small ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 15, 2010
     | 1,821 views

    Good Hope, Alabama is a small town with small town values. In Cullman County you can’t legally buy beer. Daystar Church, which had grown dramatically under pastor Jerry Lawson, ran up against the sensibilities of this conservative north Alabama community by focusing a month-long series on sex. ...read more

  • The More Precious Gift

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2011
     | 4,561 views

    THE MORE PRECIOUS GIFT It is not easy always for people to understand the significance of a gift, or the sacrifices that went behind it. Two students shared a room in college. After returning from the Christmas' winter break, Andrew asked his roommate what presents he has received for ...read more

  • Gift From The Father  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,000 views

    GIFT FROM THE FATHER Corrie Ten Boom tells of a time in the German death camp Ravensbruk during WWII. She had smuggled her Bible and a small bottle of liquid vitamins into her barracks. Her sister Betsy was sick and growing sicker, but she demanded that Corrie first give a dose of vitamins to all ...read more

  • Mother's Day Gifts  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2002
    based on 25 ratings
     | 11,346 views

    MOTHER'S DAY GIFTS What NOT to Buy Your Wife: Although the only person a man usually shops for is his wife, the whole experience is a stressful one. Many a man has felt extreme frigid temperatures for a long period based on a poor present decision. As a veteran of these wars, I’m still not sure ...read more

  • Any Concern Too Small To Be A Prayer Is Too Small ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,240 views

    Any concern too small to be a prayer is too small to be a burden. ...read more

  • Life Is A Gift, Not A Right  PRO

    Contributed by Linda Hewett on May 14, 2001
    based on 82 ratings
     | 2,511 views

    LIFE IS A GIFT, NOT A RIGHT Lord, help me remember that it is only by your power and will that I am even alive; and I can do nothing without you. You breathed your breath of life in me and allowed this speck of ’dust in the wind’ to exist. You are the moving of ...read more

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