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  • Jesus Christ Is…  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Steffens on Dec 11, 2007
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,900 views

    Jesus Christ is the "Door" not the door knob. Jesus Christ is the "Bread of Life" not the bread basket. Jesus Christ is the "Light of the world" not the light switch. Jesus Christ is the "Way" not the signpost. Jesus Christ is the "Truth" not just the messenger. Jesus Christ is the "Good Shepherd" ...read more

  • C. H. Spurgeon Claimed That 98% Of The People He ...

    Contributed by Scott Jensen on Dec 18, 2007
     | 913 views

    C. H. Spurgeon claimed that 98% of the people he met, including criminals he visited in England’s prisons, told him that they believed the Bible to be true. But, the vast majority had never made a personal, life-changing commitment to Jesus Christ. For them, “believe” was not an active ...read more

  • Have You Ever Heard The Term The Proof Is In The ...

    Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Mar 30, 2008
     | 1,103 views

    Have you ever heard the term the proof is in the pudding? It actually comes from the phrase "the proof of the pudding is in the eating." It means that the true value or quality of something can only be judged when it’s put to use. The meaning is often summed up as "results are what count." ...read more

  • Christian Hedonism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
     | 2,213 views

    Christian Hedonism Charles Hodge argued that true knowledge of Christ includes delight in Christ. He said this knowledge "is not the apprehension of what He is, simply by intellect, but also involves, not merely as a consequence but as one of its elements, the corresponding feeling of adoration, ...read more

  • About "Amen"

    Contributed by Greg Bond on Dec 28, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,352 views

    ABOUT "AMEN" Then, of course, there is the Amen. It signifies faithful and true. Some suppose it is taken from the initial letters of adoni melech neetnem: My Lord, the Faithful King. In the Greek, it means, "So be it," or "Let it be so." The main point is that Jesus says to end our prayer with ...read more

  • Gossip: Subtle Poison

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 18, 2009
     | 2,371 views

    GOSSIP: SUBTLE POISON Charles Bridges in his commentary on Proverbs explains it this way: "We may seem to make light of the tale brought to our ears, and wholly to despise it. But the subtle poison has worked. 'Suppose it should be true. Perhaps, though it may be exaggerated, there may be some ...read more

  • Two Boys Grew Up Together. They Were Close ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 29, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,483 views

    Two boys grew up together. They were close friends as children, but as they entered their teen years their paths began to diverge and they ended up in very different places. Ernie was always in trouble. He began by shoplifting small things from stores and worked his way up to stealing cars. ...read more

  • The Bounty's Bible  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Jan 25, 2007
    based on 16 ratings
     | 3,744 views

    The Bounty’s Bible The English ship Bounty, commanded by Lt. William Bligh, journeyed to the South Pacific in 1787. Many signed on considering the voyage a trip to paradise. Bligh appointed a young friend, Fletcher Christian, to the post of second in command. The Bounty stayed in Tahiti for 6 ...read more

  • God Did Not Walk Away

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 2,968 views

    GOD DID NOT WALK AWAY Simon Wiesenthal wrote The Sunflower in 1969. It speaks of the pain he experienced at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. He describes being taken from a Nazi death-camp to a makeshift hospital. He was ushered by a nurse to the side of a Nazi soldier, who asked to have a ...read more

  • There Were Two Boys Who Grew Up Together. They ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jan 26, 2009
     | 3,633 views

    There were two boys who grew up together. They were close friends as children, but as they entered their teen years their paths began to diverge and they ended up in very different places. Ernie was always in trouble. He began by shoplifting small things from stores and worked his way up to ...read more

  • One Rascal Among Honest Men

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,286 views

    ONE RASCAL AMONG HONEST MEN A king visited a slave ship, and there was a slave galley where they chain men to the oars and they row and a man beats the drum and another man has a lash to make them row. And they would take the prisoners of the state and put them to use, pulling on the oars. The ...read more

  • Works-Driven Rituals

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,783 views

    WORKS-DRIVEN RITUALS Every year a great throng of people make pilgrimage to the Shrine of Guadalupe in Mexico, a site where supposedly the Virgin Mary once stood...however unlikely that is. They go there hoping to get her attention, and to get her to intervene for them with her son Jesus. They ...read more

  • I Couldn't 'not' Forgive Him  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,863 views

    I COULDN’T ’NOT’ FORGIVE HIM Chris Carrier has one of the best testimonies of Christian forgiveness I have ever seen. Chris grew up in Coral Gables, Florida. He was abducted when he was just 10 years old. Chris’ kidnapper was angry with the boy’s family. He burned him with cigarettes, stabbed him ...read more

  • From Shackles To Statue

    Contributed by Lee Strawhun on Sep 17, 2014
     | 5,210 views

    It was 1985 when Tim Cole was picked out of a lineup for a rape he never committed but would be convicted of and sentenced to serve 25 years. He was near the Texas Tech campus when the rape occurred and as a result was sent to prison because the victim picked the wrong man and the courts sentenced ...read more

  • Daddy, Tell Me About The Facts Of Life.

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 18, 2017
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,323 views

    Corrie Ten Boom’s father was being pursued by German authorities for housing Jews, which was a punishable crime under Hitler. He had to hurry away from the home one evening after packing his bag for a long, unknown trip to hide away. At the train station and in the middle of a highly tense ...read more

  • Moved By Grace

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Apr 20, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,281 views

    The word itself... grace... has become trite and debased through misuse and overuse. It does not move us the way it moved our early Christian ancestors. In some European countries, certain high ecclesiastical officials are still called, Your Grace. Sportswriters spoke of Michael Jordan's easy ...read more

  • Our Dungeons  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Oct 10, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,065 views

    "Our Dungeons" (by Rev. Terry L. Barnhill) A story tells of a man who was imprisoned within an ancient stone dungeon. A grey shadowy jailor shook the iron lock on his daily rounds. It was the only sound that reminded the prisoner he was not alone in all the hopeless, dim and dying world of his ...read more

  • Christ Transforms A Prisoner

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 18, 2012
     | 9,029 views

    CHRIST TRANSFORMS A PRISONER Chuck Colson tells story after story of men in prison who had committed crimes, but who came to Christ and were thoroughly converted. No one would have guessed that some of these men would be devout followers of Christ one day. One such story was the account of a man ...read more

  • Walking Advertisements, Citation: F. B. Meyer In ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Nov 21, 2001
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,594 views

    [Walking Advertisements, Citation: F. B. Meyer in Our Daily Walk. Christianity Today, Vol. 33, no. 10.] We ought to be Christians in large type, so that it would not be necessary (for others) to be long in our society, or to regard us through spectacles, in order to detect our true discipleship. ...read more

  • Haggling Over The Price  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Braun on Mar 22, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,153 views

    HAGGLING OVER THE PRICE The author Rudyard Kipling wrote, “If you don’t get what you want, it is a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.” How badly do you want to reach your potential and fulfill your true purpose in life? Are you hungry ...read more