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  • There Is Nothing So Hardening As Delay. When ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jun 22, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,426 views

    “There is nothing so hardening as delay. When God speaks to us, He asks for a tender heart, open to the whispers of His voice of love. The believer who answers the ‘today’ of the Holy Ghost with the ‘tomorrow’ of some more convenient season, knows not how he is hardening his heart; the delay, ...read more

  • The Renowned Quaker Scholar Rufus Jones Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
     | 2,393 views

    The renowned Quaker scholar Rufus Jones was speaking of the importance of having a radiant countenance. After his address, a woman “with an almost unbelievably plain face” came up and asked him what he would do if he had a face like hers. He replied, “While I have troubles of my own of that kind, ...read more

  • Soft Time: James Kate, Professor Of Communication ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,747 views

    Soft Time: James Kate, Professor of Communication at Rutgers University, has concluded the cell phone has changed the way we think of time. Researchers now speak of the U.S. as living in “soft time.” This term describes the thinking of a cell phone user who calls at 8:20 to say he’ll be late for ...read more

  • The Renowned Quaker Scholar Rufus Jones Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,946 views

    The renowned Quaker scholar Rufus Jones was speaking of the importance of having a radiant countenance. After his address, a woman "with an almost unbelievably plain face" came up and asked him what he would do if he had a face like hers. He replied, "While I have troubles of my own of that kind, ...read more

  • Henry Ward Beecher Was One Of The Great ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dan Erickson on Nov 20, 2000
    based on 206 ratings
     | 9,386 views

    Henry Ward Beecher was one of the great preachers of the 19th Century. He was ill one Sunday, so a substitute pastor walked up to the pulpit as the worship service began. Seeing that Dr. Beecher would not be speaking that day, a number of people got up and headed for the door. The substitute ...read more

  • Richard Baxter, A Great Puritan Thinker And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 7, 2001
    based on 73 ratings
     | 3,168 views

    "Richard Baxter, a great Puritan thinker and writer, well understood the real truth. He used to write these words whenever he was asked to sign one of his books: "Lord, what Thou wilt, where Thou wilt, and when Thou wilt." In the old Puritan manner of speaking he was saying, "Lord, whatever you ...read more

  • Baptism Is A Lot Like A Wedding Ring. Baptism ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Feb 26, 2002
    based on 51 ratings
     | 7,581 views

    Baptism is a lot like a wedding ring. Baptism is symbolic of the washing away of our sins. It is also symbolic of a new way of life. It has been said that Baptism is to the Christian faith what the wedding ring is to a marriage. It is a symbol. "Like the wedding ring, baptism draws a mark on ...read more

  • Sweeping Across Germany At The End Of Word War ...

    Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 21, 2002
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    Sweeping across Germany at the end of Word War II, Allied forces searched farms and houses looking for snipers. At one abandoned house, almost a heap of rubble, searchers with flashlights found their way to the basement. There, on the crumbling wall, a victim of the Holocaust had scratched a Star ...read more

  • Can't Buy Me Love  PRO

    Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Feb 23, 2003
    based on 28 ratings
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    CAN'T BUY ME LOVE A minister was speaking to the Sunday school about the things money can’t buy. “It can’t buy laughter and it can’t buy love” he told them. Driving his point home he said, “What would you do if I offered you $1,000 not to love your mother and father?” Stunned ...read more

  • Christ With Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 7, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,951 views

    CHRIST WITH ME Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man who ...read more

  • The Christian Sees Through Kinder Eyes-Like ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Christian sees through kinder eyes-like Jesus. He gives from a bigger heart-like God. He speaks with a purer tongue-like Christ. He serves with more willing hands-like Jesus. He walks with a greater faith-like his Lord. He thinks with a spiritual mind-like Christ. He sees the needs of ...read more

  • Nuclear Energy Can Be A Great Asset To Man, But ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Nuclear energy can be a great asset to man, but it has already proven to be a destructive weapon and could be devastating to all of humankind. We need to channel this energy in the right direction. The same goes for our talents. There are persons who can use their speaking or writing abilities to ...read more

  • Years Ago, When Speaker Of The House Sam Rayburn ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Years ago, when speaker of the house Sam Rayburn heard he had terminal cancer, he shocked everyone when he announced he was going back to his small town in Bonham, Texas. People said to him: "They have the finest facilities in Washington, D. C. Why go back to that little town?" Rayburn’s response ...read more

  • Non-Verbal Communication

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on May 23, 2008
     | 2,935 views

    NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION I remember as a child that my mother could speak volumes without opening her mouth. I could tell if she was upset with me from a block away. Hands on hips, head tilted to the left, eyes staring a hole in me. Or I could be somewhere and catch her eyes across a room and she ...read more

  • The Word Is Alive - Let It Flow Through You Even Once

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Feb 28, 2026
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    A man told his pastor that he received no inspiration ... from reading trough the Bible. His response speaks volumes: "Let it flow through you once," replied the elderly pastor ... "Then you will tell a different story!" Beloved ... it is so alive that you must not look to ...read more

  • Chuck Swindoll Once Said, "I Once Accepted A ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Jun 23, 2008
     | 3,019 views

    Chuck Swindoll once said, “I once accepted a speaking engagement among Christians involved in Twelve Step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous. As I talked with the attendees and pondered what to say, I finally decided on the ironic title, "Why I Wish I Was an Alcoholic." “It occurred to me that ...read more

  • The Prophetic ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Sep 17, 2008
     | 2,815 views

    ‘THE PROPHETIC PERSPECTIVE’ When the prophets were speaking of what would happen as a result of what was taking place in Judah the message was very specific. But when they looked out into the future the great events foretold were compressed in a brief space of time. This is called ‘the prophetic ...read more

  • A Few Days Ago I Was Praying To God About A ...

    Contributed by Derrick Thompson, Sr. on Oct 12, 2008
     | 2,449 views

    A few days ago I was praying to God about a certain matter. I knew God was going to answer, but I was not sure how and when. On Tuesday as I was in the office working, I started to check things out, I found out that my prayer was already answered, and I did not even know. There in the office I ...read more

  • Churchhill's Father

    Contributed by Bill Purvis on Oct 20, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,458 views

    Churchhill’s Father Winston Churchhill’s father was jealous of Winston. He couldn’t speak a kind word of him. Curchhill, the greatest leader of the day, in the book, "The Last Lion" says, "I would rather had been an apprentice for a brick layer, or run errands as a messenger boy, or dressed the ...read more

  • We Are The Message, Christ Is The Goal

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
     | 3,804 views

    WE ARE THE MESSAGE, CHRIST IS THE GOAL James S. Stewart, A Faith to Proclaim: "Christian preaching begins only when faith in the message has reached such a pitch that the man or the community proclaiming it becomes part of the message proclaimed ... To be thus taken command of, so that our ...read more