Leonard Ravenhill (From Revival Praying) -- Is it really a comfort to know that the recent converts will become just like us? What if they are as lazy and self-excusing in the matter of personal devotion to Jesus and active engagement in soul-winning as the rest
...read more
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 27, 2007
Matthew Henry wrote, “The ordinances of Christ, if they do not make us better, will be very apt to make us worse; if they do not do our souls good, they do us harm; if they do not melt and mend, they will harden.
...read more
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 14, 2025
[062C]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DOES SUFFERING CANCEL OUT A GOD OF LOVE?
THE POEM AS IT IS WILL NOT FIT IN THE ILLUSTRATION SPACE AVAILABLE. I HAVE HAD TO SPLIT IT INTO THREE PARTS. THIS IS THE THIRD PART.
THE INTRODUCTION FOR THE POEM IS IN PART 1.
PART 3
SECTION C - PART 1 (GOD
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2001
based on 112 ratings
| 2,622 views
"I prefer to remain forever damned"
During a Billy Graham crusade in Australia, a Melbourne daily paper received this letter:
"I have heard Dr. Billy Graham on the air, viewed him on television, and seen reports and letters concerning his mission. I am heartily sick of the type of religion that
...read more
Tags:
based on 65 ratings
| 2,623 views
In his book entitled "A Gentle Thunder" Max Lucado says, "Once there was a man who dared God to speak; Burn the bush like You did for Moses, God. And I will follow. Collapse the walls like you did for Joshua, God. And I will fight. Still the waves like you did on Galilee, God. And I will
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 3 ratings
| 8,297 views
Dorothea Day’s poem “My Captain” is the Christian response to Henley:
Out of the light that dazzles me,
Bright as the sun from pole to pole,
I thank the God I know to be
For Christ the conqueror of my Soul.
Since His, the way of circumstance
I would not wince nor cry aloud.
Under that rule,
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
Kahlil Gibran, writes the following poem On Children:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you,
You may give them your love but not your
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Mennonite
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 9, 2009
WHEN DWIGHT L. MOODY WAS IN LONDON DURING ONE OF HIS FAMOUS EVANGELISTIC TOURS, SEVERAL BRITISH CLERGYMEN VISITED HIM. THEY WANTED TO KNOW HOW AND WHY THIS POORLY EDUCATED AMERICAN WAS SO EFFECTIVE IN WINNING THRONGS OF PEOPLE TO CHRIST. MOODY TOOK THE THREE MEN TO THE WINDOW OF HIS HOTEL ROOM AND
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 3,548 views
Phillip Yancey said, "There is hope, much of which comes in the name of Christ. One telling statistic reveals the fruit of two centuries of faithful mission work: of India’s 700 million people, only 2.7 % call themselves Christian, and yet Christians are responsible for more than 18% of the
...read more
Tags:
The latest statistics reveal the following about how most Americans spend their money:
From table 7-13 Consumer Expenditures – Handbook U.S. labor Statistics 2003 edition - Reference person age 45-54
Average Income before Taxes: $59,351
Average expenditures $49,111
Food at home: $3,718
Food away
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2002
based on 7 ratings
| 2,514 views
MY NAME IS LEGION
"Within my earthly temple there’s a crowd; There’s one of us that’s humble, and one of us that’s proud.
There’s one that’s broken-hearted for his sins, There’s one that unrepentant sits and grins.
There’s one that loves his neighbor as himself, And one that cares for naught
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Greg Nance on Apr 28, 2008
CHARLOTTE'S WEB: TEMPLETON THE RAT
How many of you have seen or read Charlottes Web? Remember the rat? He was a very resourceful fellow, but do you remember what he always wanted to know whenever he was asked to contribute to saving the pig? "What’s in it for me?” He didn’t care about others
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Sermon Central