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  • Misusing The Good

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 23, 2019
     | 1,490 views

    The Gospel does not alter God's promises for Israel. It is not meant for that, just as a laser light has specific purposes but can be misused. Laser pointers are not toys. [https://phys.org/newsstory below:] Concern is growing over the safe use of small, battery powered, hand held lasers. For ...read more

  • For Goodness' Sake  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,135 views

    FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE "Starting next year, high school and college students in Thailand will reportedly be graded not just on academics, but on ’goodness’ as well. Concerned that the competitive education system puts too much emphasis on materialism and not enough on morality, officials told the ...read more

  • Good Gossip

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,223 views

    “I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.” – Benjamin Franklin I knew a woman once who took a temporary job working for a large ...read more

  • The Fact That Our Good Deeds Are Not Good Enough ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Apr 14, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,778 views

    The fact that our good deeds are not good enough to get us into heaven is no more cruel than it’s cruel for you to tell the fish in the water (I hope your not talking to the fish in the water) “I just can’t breath in your environment.” To say that, is not a cruel statement it is just a statement ...read more

  • A Good Race

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Mar 7, 2021
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     | 2,234 views

    Many years ago, I coached the High School Swimming team. I had several athletes that went to College on scholarships; but the athlete I was thinking about while I was preparing this sermon, went on to compete in Triathlons. A Triathlon is a 1 mile swim, 25 mile bike ride, and a 6 mile run. ...read more

  • Good Gifts

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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     | 5,032 views

    GOOD GIFTS Go to God--he is the source of our goodness on this earth. Matthew 7:11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! This story about Hudson Taylor, a well-known ...read more

  • Return Good For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,164 views

    RETURN GOOD FOR EVIL Let me share with you the story of a lesser known man, Rev. John Perkins. He was a black minister in the South "lived through the worst nightmares of the civil rights movement." Perkins started a church, then a Bible Institute, a radio program, followed by a health clinic, a ...read more

  • The Good Old ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    The Good Old Days A girl who went to college, but she just hated it. She told herself, “If I can ever get out of college, get married and have children, I know I’ll finally be able to enjoy life.” So she stuck with it. She went to classes every day and finally graduated from college. Then she got ...read more

  • God's Relationship With Us.

    Contributed by Rob Roy on Nov 19, 2018
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,276 views

    My best memory of my Grandfather who died when I was four or five. I was four or five and we loaded up with my four older brothers and mom and dad in our sixty-four brown Chevy Bel Air and headed to my grandparents home. My mom announced to all of us that Grandfather was weak and we should NOT ...read more

  • Talk About Doing Good, Or Do Good

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
     | 8,080 views

    Talk About Doing Good, or Do Good In A Pretty Good Person, Lewis Smedes wrote: A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public school to African-American children. The white parents decided that, if they had to let black children in, they would keep their children out. They let it ...read more

  • Goodness That Lasts  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 20, 2001
    based on 19 ratings
     | 2,716 views

    GOODNESS THAT LASTS A little girl said she liked Santa Claus better than Jesus because "you have to be good for Santa only at Christmas but for Jesus you have to be good all the time." Much of the Christmas observance at church is not far removed from that attitude. ...read more

  • The Good Samaritan  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 10,010 views

    Luke 10:30-37 John Darley and Daniel Batson are two Princeton University psychologists. Some years ago they decided to conduct a study, inspired by the story of the Good Samaritan. They conducted the study at Princeton Theological Seminary. They met with a group of seminarians and asked each one ...read more

  • The Problem Of Goodness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,358 views

    THE PROBLEM OF GOODNESS "The simple fact is that for all our moral hesitation and stuttering, many people know goodness and excellence when they see it and they are overwhelmed by the magnetism of goodness. Goodness attracts. Goodness is proclaimed so that the circle of adulation can widen. So we ...read more

  • Good Friday  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Killam on Apr 18, 2003
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     | 7,684 views

    Dennis Bratcher said, Good Friday is not a day of celebration but of mourning, both for the death of Jesus and for the sins of the world that his death represents. Yet, although Friday is a solemn time, it is not without its own joy. For while it is important to place the Resurrection against the ...read more

  • The Goodness Of God..  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,114 views

    THE GOODNESS OF GOD.. His goodness is an ocean that has no shore. A Mountain that has no summit. A Road that has no end. Not meager, but much. Not skimpy but sufficient. Not little, but limitless· Not barely, but bountiful· Not feeble, ...read more

  • The Dawn Of Goodness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2003
     | 2,865 views

    THE DAWN OF GOODNESS There is the story of a young lady who was a bright student. Unfortunately, she did not have assurance. Her name was Marian. She was working her way through college by cleaning the dorm rooms of her fellow students. She was often annoyed by their in ability to say “thank you” ...read more

  • Church Is Good For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
     | 1,764 views

    CHURCH IS GOOD FOR MARRIAGE Married couples who attend church services frequently are happier and more likely to succeed in their marriages than those who don’t attend church often or not at all, finds a Univ. of Virginia study. 70% of husbands who attend church regularly are “very happy” in their ...read more

  • Good Timing

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jun 22, 2011
     | 2,247 views

    GOOD TIMING Actress Shirley McLaine a new ager, was conducting one of her seminars at the Long Beach Arena teaching people about their own divinity. During the seminar, she had everyone light a candle. They turned off the lights so those candles could be seen shining in the dark. She said, "Just ...read more

  • Is God Good?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011
     | 11,040 views

    IS GOD GOOD? Randy Alcorn talks about what happened to his friend, Ethel Herr in his new book, What Good is God. She had had a double mastectomy. Then two months later, doctors discovered that the cancer had spread. One of Herr's friends in shock asked her, "And how do you feel about God now?" ...read more

  • There Is Good In All

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
     | 2,359 views

    THERE IS GOOD IN ALL Norman Vincent Peale tells the story of one Christmas when he was 15 and his father, a physician turned minister, received a call from a brothel in the red light district. The madam had a girl who was dying and was calling for a minister. Quietly, his father explained to his ...read more