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  • If We Would Stop And Look Around, As God Can Be ...

    Contributed by Michael West on Mar 8, 2008
     | 896 views

    If we would stop and look around, as God can be seen in nature, we would see that God was very happy with His creation. Think for a moment how everything lives and moves. Our planet moves at 66,000mph and the rotational speed of the Earth at the equator is about 1,038 miles per hour. The ...read more

  • Who Is Jesus?

    Contributed by Michael Brown on Mar 11, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 9,540 views

    Who is Jesus? In chemistry, He turned water to wine; In biology, He was born without the normal conception; In physics, He disproved the law of gravity when he ascended into heaven; In economics, He disproved the law of diminishing return by feeding 5000 men with two fish & five loaves of ...read more

  • When I Was 14 Months Old He Had A Medical ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 26, 2008
     | 1,061 views

    When I was 14 months old he had a medical ailment, which could have been fatal in the 1960s. The surgeons thought I had no hope and my parents gave him up for dead. They promised God that if I lived, I would minister unto the Lord all the days of his life. The churches all over Delhi prayed for my ...read more

  • I Believe That The Church In America Is Suffering ...

    Contributed by Charles Whitmire on Mar 30, 2008
     | 1,633 views

    I believe that the Church in America is suffering because too many of us are not growing. We are not allowing God to speak to our lives. We are holding onto sin and attitudes that are not biblical, and we go to church every week, we hear a good message and we go home!! Listen up church - I have ...read more

  • An Ad On Tv Shows All The Junk In The Sea Being ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Apr 16, 2008
     | 1,567 views

    An ad on TV shows all the junk in the sea being taken out, until the water is pure, (Old spitfires, warships and wrecks etc.) Unfortunately it is an alcohol ad that portrays the product as "pure water"? Isn't that just like man, to make what is good evil and what is evil good? Alcohol is anything ...read more

  • Gary Farmer Was Not Open To The Gospel. I Would ...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Apr 20, 2008
     | 1,645 views

    Gary Farmer was not open to the gospel. I would share little things with him, but most of all, Rick and I would just shower him with kindness and try to live Jesus to him. His mother got sick and passed away. She was a good Christian lady, and Gary knew that there was only one way he would ever ...read more

  • We Should Praise God

    Contributed by Tom Shepard on Dec 6, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,436 views

    WE SHOULD PRAISE GOD I heard someone say recently that if the only thing God has done in our lives is to save us – we should praise God from the rising of the sun through the darkness of the night. But He has done so much more for us than that. He has given you the sense of taste – so that you ...read more

  • Have You Ever Received A Gift That You Wanted For ...

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Jun 20, 2008
     | 2,231 views

    Have you ever received a gift that you wanted for a long that had great sentimental value to it? What did you do with this gift once you had it? You probably utilized it for whatever uses it was for, until it was unusable of course. God gives every believer the gift of the Holy Spirit the moment ...read more

  • There Are Seasons When Doubts And Fears Abound, ...

    Contributed by Allan Kircher on Jun 22, 2008
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    There are seasons when doubts and fears abound, and so suffocate us with their fumes that we cannot even raise a cry. Then the indwelling Spirit represents us, speaks for us, and makes intercession for us, crying in our name, and making intercession for us according to the will of God. The cry ...read more

  • Most Respected Name

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,339 views

    MOST RESPECTED NAME When Salvation Army founder William Booth was dying, there were some legal matters to tend to. The lawyer said to Mrs. Booth, "If you can get him to sign these papers the will will be executed much more smoothly." The problem was that he was drifting in and out of ...read more

  • The Mission Is Worth ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 3,481 views

    THE MISSION IS WORTH IT "If God gives me another life, may I give it to him as a missionary." –Samuel Kang, executive head of the Korean World Missions Association. “If I am a Christian, I am not set on saving my own skin, but on seeing that the salvation of God comes through me to others.” ...read more

  • Come In Or Stay ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
     | 3,189 views

    COME IN OR STAY OUT Little Billy was caught in the act of some mischief and his mother asked him, "How do you expect to get into heaven?" He thought for a moment and then said, "Well, I’ll just run in and out and keep slamming the door until they say, ’For heaven’s sake, either come in or stay ...read more

  • Kahlil Gibran, Writes The Following Poem On ...

    Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
     | 1,333 views

    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

  • Play For The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 2,903 views

    PLAY FOR THE MASTER The young man had waited for this moment for many months even years. He had practiced and practiced. It was his premiere appearance as a concert violinist. The audience heard much about his amazing talent, and they packed out the prestigious concert hall to hear him. They ...read more

  • Belief In The Resurrection  PRO

    Contributed by Todd Leupold on Nov 3, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,859 views

    J. Vernon McGee once pointed out: "Martha believed in a resurrection. But listen, it makes less demand upon faith to believe that in a future day we shall receive glorified bodies than it does to rest now on the assuracne that they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. It is ...read more

  • A Story Is Told Of A Native American Boy Who Is ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Nov 6, 2008
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    A story is told of a Native American boy who is being initiated into manhood. He is released into an unfamiliar forest to live for a time on his own wits. As he begins scouting the area, he sees a white wolf, and he imagines the status of the prize. To return not only successful, but with the pelt ...read more

  • Worldly Distraction  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Nov 13, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,667 views

    WORLDLY DISTRACTION A man bought a new hunting dog. Eager to see how he would perform, he took him out to track a bear. No sooner had they gotten into the woods than the dog picked up the trail. Suddenly he stopped, sniffed the ground, and headed in a new direction. He had caught the scent of a ...read more

  • Patchwork World

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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     | 2,558 views

    PATCHWORK WORLD Studdert Kennedy tells of an explorer who brought back a chameleon which his household affectionately named Billy the Lizard. The explorer left Billy in charge of his butler who showed him to his many friends and associates. When the explorer returned, he asked how Billy was. ...read more

  • Trudge

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 8, 2009
     | 1,246 views

    "TRUDGE" The word "trudge" gives us a definite picture. We trudge through snow. It is laborious walk. It is tiring. It takes work. It seems to me to be rather unmotivated. Sometimes doing what is right seems like trudging. Sometimes doing what we need to do is not glamorous and exciting. Sometimes ...read more

  • Thou Wast A Bond-Man

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 18, 2009
     | 2,583 views

    Thou Wast a Bond-Man John Newton, the former slave-ship captain, was so grateful for God’s gracious dealings with him that when the vicarage at Olney was refurbished he had two sentences from Isaiah 43:4 and Deuteronomy 15:15 painted over the fireplace of his study: ’Since thou wast precious in my ...read more