Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
                
                
                
                    If God is to develop His plan in your life and you are to work at it with all your heart, then you must grow new spiritual muscle for the challenge.  As a runner begins to train, his or her entire being is transformed.  Within weeks of starting training the runner actually grows new capillaries. 
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Denomination: 
                    Pentecostal
                
             
        
            
            
                
                
                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
        based on  1 rating
                    
                         | 2,879 views
                    
                 
                
                    What Purpose Drives Americans? With over 20 million having read Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life, The Barna Group polled Americans on the question, “What do Americans perceive their purpose in life to be?” Priorities differed according to faith commitments. Evangelicals were the only segment
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Tags: 
                    
                
             
        
        
            
                
                
                    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 23, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
        based on  2 ratings
                    
                         | 7,866 views
                    
                 
                
                    25 years ago a baby was born in a hospital. He weighed only a few pounds. He had to be pampered and coddled to enable him to live. Now he is 6’2" tall and weighs 200 pounds. There is a vast difference in the baby and the man. Yet the life he now has is the same life he had 25 years ago.
Our
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Tags: 
                    
                
                
                    Denomination: 
                    Baptist
                
             
        
        
            
                
                
                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
        based on  1 rating
                    
                         | 1,667 views
                    
                 
                
                    Teens: Two of the most common life-changing situations reported among Christian teens are stress (64%) and sin (59%). 64% of Christian teens chose to remain sexually abstinent until marriage while 54% chose not to use alcohol or drugs (51%) in ‘02. Those who struggle with abuse or parental conflict
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Tags: 
                    
                
             
        
        
            
                
                
                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Dec 19, 2004
                
                
                
                    C S Lewis wrote, “God whispers to us in our health and prosperity, but, being hard of hearing, we fail to hear God’s voice in both.  It’s then that God turns up the amplifier by means of suffering.  Then his voice booms.”  We mustn’t be surprised at the means that God uses to teach us the lessons
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Tags: 
                    
                
                
                    Denomination: 
                    Baptist
                
             
        
        
            
                
                
                    Contributed by Jim Luthy on May 17, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
        based on  98 ratings
                    
                         | 1,704 views
                    
                 
                
                    Paul Stevens wrote, "In marriage, death and life interpenetrate, as crucifixion and resurrection are eternally joined.  Married persons are literally buried into each other, physically, emotionally and spiritually, losing themselves
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Tags: 
                    
                
                
                    Denomination: 
                    Evangelical/Non-Denominational
                
             
        
            
            
                
                
                    Contributed by Nathan Parker on Mar 10, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
        based on  1 rating
                    
                         | 5,364 views
                    
                 
                
                    Life Examples: Elijah: Responding to Stress (1 Kings 19:3) 
Stressful situations can drive us to inappropriate responses. The prophet Elijah illustrates the importance of viewing circumstances from God’s perspective. 
God sent the prophet to rescue Israel from its moral and spiritual decline.
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Scripture: 
                    
                
                
                    Denomination: 
                    Baptist
                
             
        
        
            
                
                
                    Contributed by John Petty on Aug 22, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
        based on  5 ratings
                    
                         | 2,459 views
                    
                 
                
                    "LIVING LIFE UPSIDE DOWN" by Russ Lee
John has a new way of looking at life
He’s tired of his job, his kids and his wife
He says the secret to his success
Was in leaving and finding himself
Now he’s someone to somebody else.
And you say we’ve risen to a new age of truth
You’re calling it a
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Tags: 
                    
                
                
                    Denomination: 
                    Church Of God
                
             
        
        
            
        
        
            
                
                
                    Contributed by Timothy Craver on Sep 27, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
        based on  59 ratings
                    
                         | 2,124 views
                    
                 
                
                    Earlier in his life, Gandhi was actually considering becoming a Christian.  He was attracted by the life and teachings of Jesus.  Gandhi attended the services of a church in Pretoria, South Africa.  He later wrote, "The congregation did not strike me as being particularly religious; they were not
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Tags: 
                    
                
                
                    Denomination: 
                    Brethren
                
             
        
        
            
                
                
                    Contributed by Daryl Bahn on Oct 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
        based on  56 ratings
                    
                         | 2,356 views
                    
                 
                
                    A life that is lived focused inward on ourselves and downward on material things is a self-defeating life. It can be compared to a black hole—the more you possess, the more you collapse under your own weight. There is another life, though: a
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Tags: 
                    
                
                
                    Denomination: 
                    Lutheran
                
             
        
            
            
        
        
            
        
        
            
        
        
            
        
        
            
        
            
            
        
        
            
                
                
                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
        based on  152 ratings
                    
                         | 2,279 views
                    
                 
                
                    Of the many things in life that are certain one of them is you always get found out in the end or, to use the old adage, ’Be sure your sins will find you out’.
This young couple were about to get married. The young man went to his Dad and said, "I’m a bit apprehensive about getting married, Dad". 
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Tags: 
                    
                
             
        
        
            
                
                
                    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Dec 28, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
        based on  2 ratings
                    
                         | 3,205 views
                    
                 
                
                    A Persian king was lifted out of a life of poverty and deposited into the luxury of the royal throne. After he became the king, he sent some servants to the old shack that he once lived in. The place of his birth and rearing. The servants were instructed to gather every relic of that part of his
                    
                        ...read more
                    
                
                
                    Tags: 
                    
                
                
                    Denomination: 
                    Pentecostal