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  • What Do Mothers Want?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2004
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     | 1,705 views

    WHAT DO MOTHERS WANT? Maggie Gallagher is President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and a co-author of The Case for Marriage. As an early-forties mom, she is beginning to regret the children that she never had. She always wanted four, but career and life left her with two. ...read more

  • I Want To Summarize A Statement That An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Richards on May 18, 2005
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     | 3,088 views

    I want to summarize a statement that an Episcopalian minister by the name of Robert Capon made about the greatest threat to Christianity today. I don’t think I could agree with him more. Listen to what he said, "The most critical issue facing Christians is not abortion, pornography, the ...read more

  • Raymond P. Murray—wanted  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 20, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,693 views

    Raymond P. Murray- Wanted The great want of this age is men: Men who are not for sale; Men who will condemn wrong in friend or foe- in themselves as well as others; Men whose consciences are as steady as the needle to the pole; Men who will stand for the right though the heavens totter and the ...read more

  • Wanted: Experienced Designers- It Is The Lack Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
     | 1,495 views

    Wanted: Experienced Designers- It is the lack of emotional security and reliance on past experiences that are core factors in why consumers are reluctant to purchase items online, especially big-ticket ones. For online retailers to succeed, they will have to find an appropriate online substitute ...read more

  • A Classic Is Something That Everybody Wants To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 1,392 views

    A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and ...read more

  • People Want To Be Appreciated, Not Impressed. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "People want to be appreciated, not impressed. They want to be regarded as human beings, not as mere sounding boards for other peoples egos. They want to be treated as an end in ...read more

  • Everyone Wants To Live At The Expense Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,040 views

    Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to ...read more

  • Everybody Wants To Eat At The Government's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,629 views

    "Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody ...read more

  • Know What You Want

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 18, 2009
     | 2,311 views

    KNOW WHAT YOU WANT One day a boy’s mother decided she would make hot buttered biscuits as long as her son could eat them. He loved biscuits and always complained that he never got enough. He ate and ate and ate, and she kept pulling them out of the stove. Finally she looked around and saw him ...read more

  • I Just Want Bread  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
    based on 6 ratings
     | 9,960 views

    "I Just Want Bread" There was a beggar who came and sat before a baker. "I want bread," he said. "How wise you are," the baker assured him. "Bread is what you need. And you have come to the right bakery." So he pulled his cookbook down from his shelf and began to tell the beggar all he knew about ...read more

  • I Just Want The Site

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 28, 2010
     | 1,531 views

    "I JUST WANT THE SITE" London businessman Lindsay Clegg told the story of a warehouse property he was selling. The building had been empty for months and needed repairs. Vandals had damaged the doors, smashed the windows, and strewn trash all over the place. As he showed a prospective buyer ...read more

  • I Want To Buy An Hour

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Jun 17, 2005
     | 1,047 views

    I WANT TO BUY AN HOUR A man came home from work late again, tired and irritated. He found his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door. "Daddy, may I ask you a question?" The dad replied: "Yeah, sure, what is it?" "Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?" The dad got mad and said, ...read more

  • What We Really Want

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 22, 2011
     | 1,351 views

    WHAT WE REALLY WANT A woman lay in a hospital bed, her body ravaged by cancer. Day after day her pastor and others prayed for her healing. Each day they could see her silent disappointment that she was not being healed. Then one day she said, "Let's not pray that I'll be healed. God knows that I ...read more

  • If You Want It Bad Enough

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,838 views

    IF YOU WANT IT BAD ENOUGH When a person first comes to faith in Christ and gets a taste of His grace, they can’t get enough of the Bible. Pat Summerall, the well-known sports announcer, trusted Christ with his life and overcame alcohol in the late 60’s. As he describes his life with Christ, he ...read more

  • He Wants To Be With His Master

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2011
     | 3,778 views

    HE WANTS TO BE WITH HIS MASTER Today’s story is about an old country doctor that dates back to the late 1930s when doctors made house calls. Isaac Pender was his name. Everyone in the area for two reasons respected him. First, he was an excellent doctor who provided compassion care for his ...read more

  • I Want To Go Home

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 11, 2011
     | 4,174 views

    I WANT TO GO HOME Fred Smith, an influential Christian businessman was seriously ill in the summer of 2004. He was hospitalized, semiconscious, and not expected to live. Periodically he would mutter, "I want to go home, I want to go home." After an emotional family conference, the family ...read more

  • If You Want To Walk On Water…  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 2, 2012
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    John Ortberg states: "The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life. And that’s sobering news to most of us, because we’re into comfort...but water walkers master ...read more

  • That's All I Want

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Mar 2, 2013
     | 1,723 views

    THAT'S ALL I WANT Here, I am prompted to share a humorous yet insightful Church story involving a Sunday school girl. Given the task of reciting the first verse of Psalm 23 before a huge Church crowd (including her anxious parents), this girl is said to have uttered unwittingly out of nervousness ...read more

  • Wanting What You Have

    Contributed by Spencer Miller on Mar 10, 2013
     | 3,099 views

    WANTING WHAT YOU HAVE The story was told of a young preacher who was rejected by the other associate ministers of the Church he attended. They said very little to him and would often talk behind his back. One day he went to the pastor and expressed his intentions of leaving the Church and seeking ...read more

  • How I Want To Go  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,611 views

    How I want to go An old preacher was dying. He sent a message for his Doctor and his Lawyer, both church members, to come to his home. When they arrived, they were ushered up to his bedroom. As they entered the room, the preacher held out his hands and motioned for them to sit on each side of the ...read more