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  • Shema: Hear

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 19, 2009
     | 2,627 views

    SHEMA: HEAR "SHEMA (sshee’ mah) Transliteration of Hebrew imperative meaning, ’Hear,’ (Deuteronomy 6:4) and applied to Deuteronomy 6:4-9, as the basic statement of the Jewish law. The Shema became for the people of God a confession of faith by which they ...read more

  • A Short While Ago, Comic-Book Creator, Stan Lee ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gary Maskell on Aug 18, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,023 views

    A short while ago, comic-book creator, Stan Lee and company created a 6-week reality-based television series entitled, "Who Wants to be a Superhero?" As a part of their initial search, they sent out nationwide notices stating that they were looking for folks who have never lost that inner drive to ...read more

  • Blessed Are The Peacemakers

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,561 views

    Blessed Are The Peacemakers "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God." (Matthew 5:9) There is a commission from God that is available to every obedient Christian today and that is to be a peacemaker. Argument and discord is a great waste of energies better spent on ...read more

  • Perspective On Troubles

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Sep 26, 2005
     | 4,973 views

    PERSPECTIVE ON TROUBLES A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye, and it fills the whole world andputs everything out of focus. Hold it at proper viewing distance, and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet, ...read more

  • Most Christians Believe The Virgin Birth Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Wilson on Dec 17, 2000
    based on 137 ratings
     | 5,388 views

    Most Christians believe the Virgin Birth is true. According to George Barna, 85% of those surveyed believe that Jesus Christ was born to a virgin. He also found that even 75% of the people who do not embrace Jesus as their Savior believe that he was ...read more

  • Commitment: An Officer Stood Before The 1987 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,751 views

    Commitment: An officer stood before the 1987 graduating class of the Nebraska State Patrol Acadamey and said, "Gentlemen, commitment distinguishes the true Trooper. If you cannot commit to the duties and discipllines that distinguish the State Patrol, then don’t wear the badge." Likewise, you ...read more

  • C. H. Spurgeon, A Baptist Minister In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,005 views

    C. H. Spurgeon, a Baptist minister in the mid-eighteen hundreds, claimed that 98 percent of the people he met-- including the 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 ...read more

  • It Is Quite Wrong To Think Of Old Age As A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,987 views

    "It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards ...read more

  • The Weight Of The Cross

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 4, 2010
     | 3,678 views

    THE WEIGHT OF THE CROSS When a group of churches advertised their Easter celebration, no reference was made to the cross. The omission was deliberate. One church official explained, "The cross carries too much cultural baggage." The true weight of the cross is not in its ...read more

  • The Fallacy Of Misplaced Concreteness" Is A ...

    Contributed by John Tung on Mar 28, 2007
     | 4,475 views

    “The fallacy of misplaced concreteness” is a concept developed by Alfred North Whitehead, a philosopher who specialized in mathematics. And an example of what this says is that in a 2-dimensional world, giving the x and y axis location of a point is sufficient to precisely locate that point. But ...read more

  • John Betjeman Wrote Some Memorable Lines On The ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Dec 2, 2007
     | 1,869 views

    John Betjeman wrote some memorable lines on the Incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ: ‘And is it true this most tremendous tale of all, / The Maker of the stars and sea / Became a child on earth for me?’ It is true, we believe, but it isn’t the whole truth: for the whole truth is that the Maker ...read more

  • Prayer-Spiritual Defiance

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Apr 19, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,241 views

    Richard Foster in his book "Prayer: Finding the Hearts True Home" describes an aspect of radical prayer as spiritual defiance. He states, "We are subversives in a world of injustice, oppression, and violence. Like Amos of old, we demand that "Justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ...read more

  • The Tough Questions

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
     | 1,896 views

    The Tough Questions Sandy Perry wrote me on Aug. 15, 2008: Today's paper had an article about the decision of Hope Presybterian to host a tribute to Isaac Hayes. Christians were opposed to the idea of hosting a tribute to a prominent, active Scientologist. One of my coworkers mentioned that all ...read more

  • Let's Be Like God

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 30, 2008
     | 2,214 views

    LET'S BE LIKE GOD There’s a fable of a couple living in poor circumstances who were given the opportunity to make four wishes, guaranteed to come true. They could ask for whatever they wanted and they would have them! It seemed too good to be true. They were rather modest at first and asked for ...read more

  • The Best Way To Disciple Your Children Is To ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 15, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,058 views

    The best way to disciple your children is to disciple yourself! When you have children you have a tape recorder in your house. For the most part that is true, not everything your child says comes from your home. But we have to know that there are hungry ...read more

  • The Choices We Make

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,240 views

    The words of Eleanor Roosevelt ring true: One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words. It is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make ...read more

  • Origins: A Recent Gallup Survey Shows Most ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,089 views

    Origins: A recent Gallup survey shows most Americans have somewhat tentative views about evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. Few Americans are familiar with all three. Clear majorities believe creationism and evolution are at least probably true, but the public is ...read more

  • A New Belief System

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jul 13, 2006
     | 2,037 views

    A new belief system Richard Dawkins was recently asked “What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?” “I believe but I cannot prove, that all life, all intelligence, all creativity and all ‘design’ anywhere in the universe ...read more

  • From My Mother  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 1,965 views

    FROM MY MOTHER From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true. Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States. SOURCE: Celebrating Mothers, A book of ...read more

  • The Church Is Like Noah's Ark: The Stench Inside ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Jul 29, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 21,813 views

    “The church is like Noah’s ark: The stench inside would be unbearable if it weren’t for the storm outside. It’s true—sometimes we stink and the world is stormy. But as imperfect as we are on this side of heaven, the miracle is that God in fact chooses to ...read more

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