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  • Too Late

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 14, 2011
     | 1,942 views

    TOO LATE On his birthday, my husband was stuck driving our six rambunctious children around. As usual, they were yelling, punching, and annoying one another. Joel finally had had enough. "Kids," he said over the din, "if you would behave and be kind to each other, that would be a very nice ...read more

  • Too Important For ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on May 15, 2008
     | 1,782 views

    TOO IMPORTANT FOR MINISTRY Years ago the retired church janitor had passed away and the family had asked the Senior Pastor to do the funeral services. The Senior Pastor informed me that I was to do the funeral service and not he, because, (and I am not making this up) because, “as senior pastor, ...read more

  • Too Much ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 2,922 views

    TOO MUCH TROUBLE A site foreman had ten very lazy men working for him, so one day he decided to trick them into doing some work for a change. "I’ve got a really easy job today for the laziest one among you," he announced. "Will the laziest man please put his hand up." Nine hands went up. "Why ...read more

  • Nothing Too ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
     | 1,980 views

    Nothing Too Big Working in tandem is important and often means we receive far greater benefits than when we try to do things on our own. I came across a story of a horse-pulling contest. Where owners of horses entered a competition to see which horse could pull the most. The winning horse pulled ...read more

  • Every Journalist Who Is Not Too Stupid Or Too ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,096 views

    "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on peoples vanity, ignorance, ...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

  • God Is Too Wise To Be Mistaken. God Is Too Wise ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 3,947 views

    "God is too wise to be mistaken. God is too wise to be unkind. When you cant trace His hand, thats when ...read more

  • Too Little Time  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,952 views

    TOO LITTLE TIME In American families, time for household conversations has decreased by 100%, despite other studies showing that such conversations are the number one preventative of "at risk adolescent" behavior. Could this be true? In a national pole conducted in 2000, educational issues tied ...read more

  • Staying Too Busy  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,771 views

    STAYING TOO BUSY Why do we live such harried, rushed, frantic lives? Why do some of us secretly fear the fact that school is out? How will we ever keep the kids occupied until August? How did this Happen? Essayist Anna Quindlen suggests some possible reasons. Perhaps, she suggests, it ...read more

  • Too Big To Miss  PRO

    Contributed by Billy Kryger on Aug 14, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,573 views

    “Too Big To Miss” The story’s told in the Bible about a mighty king. And how when he was just a little boy he played around with a sling. Well he got up early one morning and before the sun had set that day, a nasty ol’ giant had lost his head and his body lay cold on the clay. When David went ...read more

  • Too Smart For Hell  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,678 views

    TOO SMART FOR HELL According to U.S. News & World Report, 78% believed in Heaven and believed they were going there. Only 60% believed in Hell, but only 4% believed they were going there. In the same article, the Rev. Mary Kraus observed "My congregation would be stunned to hear a sermon on ...read more

  • Too Late To Date  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2003
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,812 views

    *Too Late To Date* An elderly woman died last month. Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions for her memorial service, she wrote, "They wouldn’t take me out while I was alive, I don’t want them to ...read more

  • Too Afraid To Plant  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 12, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,683 views

    TOO AFRAID TO PLANT A Georgia farmer, ragged and barefooted, was standing on the steps of his tumbledown shack. A stranger stopped for a drink of water and just to pass the time of day he asked: "How is your cotton coming along?" he asked. "Ain’t got none," replied the farmer. "Did you plant ...read more

  • Too Afraid To Plant  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,554 views

    TOO AFRAID TO PLANT A Georgia farmer, ragged and barefooted, was standing on the steps of his tumbledown shack. A stranger stopped for a drink of water and just to pass the time of day he asked: "How is your cotton coming along?" he asked. "Ain’t got none," replied the farmer. "Did you plant ...read more

  • Too Big For God

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Jan 1, 2007
     | 1,860 views

    TO BIG FOR GOD Remember when you first came to God compelled by the Holy Ghost you were found in sin and conceived by grace and mercy. Remember your first breath of the life everything look so much brighter and you had hope and faith in nothing else but in Christ. I remember the feeling of the ...read more

  • Your God Is Too ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
     | 2,663 views

    YOUR GOD IS TOO SAFE The words that Mark Buchanan wrote of his own experience in his book entitled "Your God Is Too Safe." He wrote that when he was saved, "I hit the ground running. Immediately, I volunteered for everything, anything, that I felt vaguely interested in and marginally qualified ...read more

  • Too Soft On People?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,603 views

    TOO SOFT ON PEOPLE? A preacher named Ron Rose told a woman who came into his office complaining that his sermons always being about forgiveness and grace. She said he needed to come down harder on the sinners and in her words, "nail them." After her rant, Ron asked, "So, you’ve got forgiveness ...read more

  • Brits Are Emotional Too

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Feb 20, 2010
     | 1,662 views

    BRITS ARE EMOTIONAL TOO I remember hearing a discussion on Radio Humberside about 10 years ago about the Toronto blessing. The Toronto Blessing was a powerful move of God in a Vineyard Church at the end of the runway at Toronto International Airport. People were crying and laughing in the ...read more

  • Too Important Not To Share

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 14, 2010
     | 2,845 views

    TOO IMPORTANT NOT TO SHARE Mercedes Benz was the company who first produced a car body design that absorbed the force of a collision on impact. One Mercedes Benz TV commercial shows their car colliding with a cement wall during a safety test. Since then of course many other car companies have ...read more

  • The Job's Too Small

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Mar 4, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,807 views

    THE JOB'S TOO SMALL There was a missionary in China whose talents and abilities were so outstanding that one of the American companies tried to hire him. They offered him an attractive job with a salary to match, but he turned it down. He told them that God had sent him to China as a missionary. ...read more

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