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  • No Use But Useful  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 10, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,489 views

    ILLUSTRATION: “No Use but Useful” Elderly Sister Ann in China was born into quite an educated family. She had four brothers who all became doctors. She, however, was not even taught how to read and write. She began to train as a nurse, but her father fell ill and she was required to nurse him. ...read more

  • God's Relationship With Us.

    Contributed by Rob Roy on Nov 19, 2018
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,344 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

  • God Does Not Ask How Many Talents One Has; He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,049 views

    God does not ask how many talents one has; he asks ...read more

  • Just ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on May 1, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,647 views

    JUST REMEMBER... The next time you feel like God can’t use you, just remember... NOAH was a drunk.... ABRAHAM was too old... ISAAC was a daydreamer.... JACOB was a liar... LEAH was ugly... JOSEPH was abused... MOSES had a stuttering problem... GIDEON was afraid... SAMPSON had long hair, and was a ...read more

  • Kill Us, Torture Us, Condemn Us...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Aug 15, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,090 views

    KILL US, TORTURE US, CONDEMN US... An early Christian leader named Tertullian (164-200AD) declared: “Kill us, torture us, condemn us, grind us to dust. The more you mow us down, the more we grow, for the seed of the church is the blood of the Christians. Every single drop of our blood springs up, ...read more

  • Used To It

    Contributed by James Mccullen on May 6, 2005
     | 2,456 views

    ILLUSTRATION: Finding his newly-appointed pastor standing at his study window in the church weeping as he looked over the inner city’s tragic conditions, a layman sought to console him: "Don’t worry. After you’ve been here a while, you’ll ...read more

  • A Guy Came To His Pastor And Said, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2001
    based on 292 ratings
     | 8,776 views

    A guy came to his pastor and said, “Reverend, I only have one talent.” The pastor asked, “What’s your talent? The man said, "I have the gift of criticism." The pastor was wise and replied, "The Bible says that the guy who had only ...read more

  • Using Our Ability

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,202 views

    USING OUR ABILITY S. D. Gordon said, "We have nothing to do with how much ability we’ve got, or how little, but with what we do with what we have. The man with great talent is apt to be puffed up, and the man with little (talent) to belittle the little. Poor fools! God gives it, much or little. ...read more

  • God Cares For Us—every Part Of Us. He Wants Us To ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 29, 2008
     | 3,400 views

    God cares for us—every part of us. He wants us to be whole—complete. This includes a physical well-being. Instead of a story I want to show you a video about a special act—a physical act—that was done for another person. It shows us what it is like to follow ...read more

  • God With Us

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Dec 2, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 550 views

    I started out by describing a song that I had been singing all week long. (I used Leaning on the Everlasting Arms but you can use any song). I spent about 5 - 7 minutes giving all the details of the song. The author, the beat, where it is used at, who sung the song, etc. I keep the title ...read more

  • Listening To Us  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,627 views

    LISTENING TO US While serving as Presbyterian missionaries in Lebanon Ben and Carol Weir learned a great deal about prayer when Ben was suddenly kidnapped by Shiite Muslim extremists in 1984. He was held in solitary confinement, in cramped quarters for sixteen months. Carol wondered whether she ...read more

  • What's The Use  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 20, 2002
    based on 146 ratings
     | 7,617 views

    WHAT'S THE USE There was an old man that lived in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. The old man had a big family. One day one of the old man’s grandsons approached him with a problem. The Grandson said, "Pap, I read the Bible and I don’t understand it, and what I understand I forget as soon as I ...read more

  • Using Food  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Feb 4, 2003
    based on 42 ratings
     | 3,271 views

    Mark Buchanan writes; “Fasting churns the stuff up from the depths. Is there anger in me? I can usually control that with a burger and fries Am I resentful, irritated, overly ambition, fearful? I can smoother that with pizza. Am I depressed or embittered, suffering from a sense of life’s ...read more

  • One Of Us?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,886 views

    ONE OF US? One of 1995’s biggest singles was Joan Osborne’s “One of Us.” The song earned 7 Grammy Award nominations, and made a virtually unknown singer an overnight sensation. It’s a song of spiritual questioning and about conceiving of God in a modern age. These are some of the words of that ...read more

  • Us Magazines

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,457 views

    Magazines Hit Wall: A National Endowment for the Arts study finds that book reading has increased 10% since ’92 and fewer than 47% read any form of literature in the previous 12 months. The Audit Bureau of Circulations data shows that U.S. magazines grew nicely from 245 million copies in ’70 to ...read more

  • God With Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 11,098 views

    GOD WITH US Count Zinzendorf, the founder of the Moravians, was converted in an art gallery in Dusseldorf while contemplating a painting of Christ on the cross which had the inscription, "I did this for thee. What hast thou done for me?" This picture had been painted by an artist three hundred ...read more

  • Get Used To It

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
     | 1,050 views

    GET USED TO IT A missionary was assigned to some remote islands in the Pacific. After three months, he sent a fax to mission headquarters: "I'm being plagued by rats. What shall I do?" Soon a crate arrived, filled with rat traps. However, hardly a month later the missionary sent a second fax ...read more

  • Use What Is There  PRO

    Contributed by Amiri Hooker on Mar 22, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,586 views

    USE WHAT IS THERE My son Omri is large, extremely smart and very active. He has not met a tree or roof that he has not at least mentally pondered climbing. Omri's teacher runs up to me the other day and says, "Your son almost made me lose my mind, my religion and my job." This is not unusual, so I ...read more

  • Evil In Us ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 21, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,150 views

    EVIL IN US ALL In 1960, Israeli undercover agents kidnapped one of the worst killers in Hitler’s army from his hideout in South America. His name was Adolf Eichmann. They took him to Israel to stand trial for crimes against humanity. Prosecutors called a long list of witnesses who had either seen ...read more

  • The Gift Of Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,048 views

    The Gift of Us Marjorie Tallcott was married and had one child during the Great Depression. The family managed to scrape their way through, but as Christmas approached one year Marjorie and her husband were disappointed that they would not be able to buy any presents. A week before Christmas they ...read more