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There Once Was A Not So Bright Fellow Who Saw An ...  PRO

Contributed by David Yarbrough on Oct 22, 2001

There once was a not so bright fellow who saw an advertisement for a cruise. The sign in the travel agency window read “Cruise -- $100 Cash.” I’ve got a hundred dollars, he thought. And I’d like to go on a cruise. So he entered the door and announced his desires. The fellow at the desk asked for ...read more

Tags: Doing God's Will, God In The Hardships, God's Omniscience

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Be Assured, If You Walk With Him And Look To Him, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never ...read more

Tags: God's Provision, God's Omniscience, Promises Of God

Through Hardship  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

THROUGH HARDSHIP God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is ...read more

Tags: Promises Of God, God's Omniscience, God In The Hardships

You Will Never Find Jesus So Precious As When The ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock ...read more

Tags: Descriptions Of God, God's Provision, Promises Of God

The Learning Channel (You Know, The Other Tlc), ...  PRO

Contributed by Jim Luthy on Jan 29, 2002

The Learning Channel (you know, the other TLC), has a show that airs on Wednesday nights called "Junkyard Wars." Have you seen it? This is how they describe their show on their web site: "If you locked Tim Allen, Mad Max and Monty Python in a garage, you’d end up with Junkyard Wars — the ...read more

Tags: God's Provision, God's Forgiveness, Promises Of God

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

C.h. Spurgeon Told The Story Of The Preacher Who ...  PRO

Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jul 7, 2005

C.H. Spurgeon told the story of the preacher who was walking in the country side and stopped by a farm house for a drink of water. The old farmer who lived there went out to talk to the preacher. As they were talking the preacher noticed that the barn had a weather vane on it that was spinning ...read more

Tags: God's Provision, God's Love, Love For God

Denomination: Baptist

C.s. Lewis' Celebrated Children's Book, The Lion, ...

Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 14, 2004

C.S. Lewis’ celebrated children’s book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, tells of the adventures of four children in the magical kingdom of Narnia. The story is fun, but it’s also an allegory of Christ and salvation, with Christ represented by the lion Aslan. When in Narnia, the children meet ...read more

Tags: Promises Of God, God's Holiness, God's Omnipotence

Denomination: Baptist

The Tug On The Kite

Contributed by Daniel King, D. Min. on Jul 25, 2018

Main Idea: We cannot see God, but we know He is there because we can feel Him. Verse: “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10 NKJV). Illustration: A boy in Pakistan was flying his kite very high, so high it could not be seen. A man asked him, “How do you know your kite is up there?” The ...read more

Tags: Faith, Gods Presence, Is God There, Gods Existence

Denomination: Charismatic

Personal Property In The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009

PERSONAL PROPERTY IN THE BIBLE Larry Burkett, the founder of Christian Financial Concepts, points out that the bible--with more than 700 references to money--says more about economics than many other subjects. He writes: "Money is such an important subject that nearly two-thirds of the parables ...read more

Tags: Materialism

Fathers Protect Their Nests

Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008

Fathers Protect Their Nests There was a hunter on a hunting expedition in the Amazon. It was the last day of the trip. He rose early in the morning to enjoy one more day in the jungle. As he was watching the sun rise, he noticed a family of large birds. The mother bird is tending to the baby ...read more

Tags: God The Father

Denomination: Pentecostal

The More You ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009

THE MORE YOU KNOW Allen Rex Sandage, the greatest observational cosmologist in the world--who has deciphered the secrets of the stars, plumbed the mysteries of quasars, revealed the age of globular clusters, pinpointed the distances of remote galaxies, and quantified the universe’s expansion ...read more

Tags: Apologetics God

Value Of Life A Store Owner Was Tacking A Sign ...  PRO

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Apr 15, 2002

Value of Life A store owner was tacking a sign above his door that read ’Puppies for Sale.’ These signs had a weird way of attracting children. And sure enough, a little boy appeared at the sign. "How much are you gonna sell those puppies for?" he asked. The store owner replied" Anywhere from ...read more

Tags: God In The Hardships

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Steven Curtis Chapman: Still Blessing His Name

Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 19, 2011

STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN: STILL BLESSING HIS NAME On May 17, 2008, Christian recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman and his family suffered a devastating loss. Their five-year-old adopted daughter, Maria Sue, was struck and killed when Chapman's seventeen-year-old son was backing his SUV out of the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 5:10-11

Tags: God In The Hardships

Suffering & The Riches Of His Glory

Contributed by Michael Grant on Sep 3, 2016

What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,  even us whom He called, not ...read more

Scripture: Romans 9:22-24

Tags: God's Glory

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Most Tragic War In American History Was The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

The most tragic war in American History was the Civil war, sometimes referred to as the War Between the States. As you know it began in 1861 and lasted until 1865. More American’s lost their lives during the Civil War than in all of the other wars we have fought put together. And one of the real ...read more

Tags: God's Omnipotence

Knowledge Of Jesus

Contributed by Samuel M on May 16, 2024

The knowledge of you (Jesus) changes my understanding of who I am. The words I speak, the way I think, the life I live will radically change when I see you and get to know you Jesus. ‘I’ in me will alter (change or destroy) to become more like you (Jesus). Knowing and seeing you Jesus helps me to ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:8

Tags: Faith, Knowledge Of God

The Christian Just Keeps Right On Moving And ...  PRO

Contributed by Mel Shepherd on Feb 28, 2003

The Christian just keeps right on moving and triumphing over life and glorying within tribulation, enduring longsuffering within and attitude of joyfulness. Perhaps this has never been portrayed more graphically than in the movie “The Hiding Place.” The true story of Corrie Ten Boom while within a ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Dad Was Dying Of Something Similar To ...

Contributed by C. Scott Ghan on Aug 27, 2012

ILL. Dad was dying of something similar to Alzheimer’s. He was very violent, dangerous and in a great deal of trouble in his home town where he had been Fire Chief. The County didn't want to, but left with no other option committed him to a lock-down unit where he would remain for the rest of his ...read more

Tags: God's Forgiveness

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How Many Of You Have Heard About The Book And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

How many of you have heard about the book and movie called “The Secret”? 1. Here is some of the verbiage being used to advertise “The Secret”: “The Secret is released to the world This ground-breaking feature length movie presentation reveals The Great Secret of the universe. It has been passed ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

Did You Know You Can Now Send An Email To God? An ...  PRO

Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jul 6, 2002

Did you know you can now send an email to God? An Israeli internet company (www.virtual.co.il) has announced that they will take email prayers to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Customarily people write prayers and place them in cracks of the wall. I did so when I visited Israel some years ago. But ...read more

Tags: Prayer Adoration

Denomination: Congregational