Contributed by Fred Schaeffer on Nov 20, 2008
A CHANGE IN HOPE
Ben was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the age of 16 years old. Hope is the one thing that kept his parents, Kevin and Laura moving forward. Hope is what kept them from giving up. His younger sister, Bethany, always kept her sights on the silver lining.
He went through a series
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 2 ratings
| 2,241 views
Here is a contrasting view - Phil Donahue tells of a time when he was starting out as a young television reporter and was sent to cover a mine disaster... It was late at night. Snow was on the ground. It was freezing cold. The rescue team was down the mine shaft. The worried relatives and friends
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Kent Mishleau on Apr 5, 2010
I would like to share with you something that I have been learning. It is a bit of an imagination bible story game. We pick a face part such as nose eyes ears and mouth. Lest say nose. We close our eyes and imagine a bible story. Let’s think about Esther as she has Haman and the King for a meal.
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Don Hutto on Jan 27, 2001
based on 134 ratings
| 5,093 views
Years ago, my youngest daughter, Marilyn, and I went shopping for Connie. It’s hard. You wives, it’s hard for a man to shop for his wife because we don’t know what you want, and we don’t want to get that for you, anyway.
But Marilyn and I thought we had found the perfect gift: a nightgown. You can
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 8 ratings
| 23,468 views
Dear God, So far today I’ve done all right. I haven’t gossiped, I haven’t lost my temper, I haven’t been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish or over-indulgent. I’m very thankful for that. But in a few minutes, God, I’m going to get
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 13, 2006
God tells us in II Co 6:14-16a "Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.” Did He mean it?
"Yes, but I’m going to date him and marry him and lead him to the Lord." Tell me one person for whom that has happened and I’ll find you 20 where it didn’t. "Yes, but I know someone who did it and he
...read more
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 28, 2009
I can’t say I have ever felt afraid of God, but I have felt the awe of His presence, and I have been overcome by a sense of His majesty. I remember standing out on a mound of earth out on a property and looking up at the stars. Away from the city, the stars seem so much brighter, and I cried out to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 2, 2003
based on 64 ratings
| 2,317 views
ILLUSTRATION… Retold from "The Book of Virtues" Editor: William J. Bennett
There is a story that centers on a king and the members of his court who were continually full of flattery. "You are the greatest man that ever lived...You are the most powerful king of all...Your highness, there is nothing
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 26, 2012
DREAM CENTER
At age 16, Matthew Barnett dreamed of a church that would be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year serving the inner-city’s physical and spiritual needs and bringing a message of hope to the hopeless. In 1994 at the age of 20, he moved from Phoenix to Los Angeles to pastor a small
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Bobby Oliver on Sep 11, 2017
based on 1 rating
| 6,149 views
When I was in Kindergarten, the teachers taught me the Alphabet. Obviously, before you can learn how to spell, you have to learn the alphabet. As you learn to spell words, you learn that the letters are written separate, so you lift your pencil up every time you write a letter.
Then, when I was
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
The boy sobbed, "But Dad, I want my ball..."
"You can play with your ball," I said, "but you’ll have to go downstairs and get it yourself" Now the tears flowed.
Tony’s playroom held the stuffed animals, toys, and games that four-year-old love. He spent hours there. But to turn on the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 3 ratings
| 3,429 views
A stranger came by the other day with an offer that set me to thinking. He wanted to buy the old barn that sits out by the highway. I told him right off that he was crazy. He was a city type. You could tell by his clothes, his car, his hands, and the way he talked.
He said he was driving by and saw
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Nazarene
Contributed by Spencer Miller on May 13, 2013
WE ARE MEANT TO STRUGGLE
You remember the story of the little boy who was playing outdoors and found a fascinating caterpillar. He carefully picked it up and took it home to show his mother. He asked his mother if he could keep it, and she said he could if he would take good care of it.
The
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
"He gives more grace when the burdens grow greater.
He sends more strength when the labors increase,
To added affliction He addeth His mercy,
To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.
When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed 'ere the day is half
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Tobin Crenshaw on Aug 15, 2010
Take a young man from a wealthy family, strip him of all of his money until he finds himself homeless and has to beg on the street, hold him in a cell as a prisoner of war in a foreign land, and turn his family against him and what are the odds you would give for him to impact the world?
Or
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Brethren
Sermon Central