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  • When Everything Crumbles

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Sep 22, 2011
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    WHEN EVERYTHING CRUMBLES September 11th is one of those moments frozen in time. It is one of those moments that everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news. When the first plane struck the tower at 8:45am, it was a moment that would reshape the fabric of ...read more

  • Divorce Doesn't Mean Happiness

    Contributed by Jeffrey Wildrick on Jun 29, 2009
     | 2,021 views

    DIVORCE DOESN'T MEAN HAPPINESS Survey of those who had been seriously considering divorce. Five years later, revisited. Some had divorced, some had done hard work to stay together. On repeat survey, those who had done hard work and stayed together rated their lives as happier than those who’d ...read more

  • The Bible Tells Us This About Love, "So We Know ...  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Feb 24, 2006
    based on 21 ratings
     | 2,981 views

    The Bible tells us this about love, “So we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16) In the very same epistle we find that Scriptures warn us with, “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 ...read more

  • God Is Bigger Than Our Box

    Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Mar 20, 2023
     | 2,274 views

    (Have 4 boxes of different sizes for illustration) Here is a box. Its a small one. For some people, what they think of God could fit in this box. They have few expectations and limited knowledge of who God is. Here is another box. It is a little larger. Many people would be comfortable ...read more

  • One Of The Great Paradoxes Of The Christian Faith ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 7, 2010
     | 2,331 views

    One of the great paradoxes of the Christian faith is that God wants us to talk to Him about everything that is going on in our lives, even though He already knows everything. So why pray? If you’ve ever wrestled with that question, perhaps the thoughts of the 19th-century preacher, R. A. Torrey, ...read more

  • Spinning A Web: Andy's Story

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2011
     | 3,315 views

    SPINNING A WEB: ANDY'S STORY Andy Fastow was a brilliant kid in the high school graduating class in New Providence, New Jersey. He was one of the really good kids. In fact, he was the student body president of his senior class. He went on to get a great education and a fantastic job. He climbed ...read more

  • Setting Your Faith Aside

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Oct 4, 2011
     | 1,876 views

    SETTING YOUR FAITH ASIDE Have you ever thought you could separate from God ... just for a little while ... and then later on turn back to God? Unfortunately we all do this ... in big ways or small ways. Any time we decide to live a life INDEPENDENT of God, we run a big risk. I remember a ...read more

  • The Other Side Of Islam  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Oct 30, 2001
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,796 views

    THE OTHER SIDE OF ISLAM As Dr. Samuel Schlorff, an expert on Islam with Arab World Ministries puts it, "The truth is that there is another side to Islam, a side that embraces violence ’in the way of Allah.’ . . . It holds that all men are created to live in submission to Allah, as prescribed by ...read more

  • When We Let Go Of Money, We Are Letting Go Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Aug 6, 2003
    based on 11 ratings
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    When we let go of money, we are letting go of part of ourselves and part of our security. But this is precisely why it is important to do it. It is one way to obey Jesus’ command to deny ourselves.… When we give money, we are releasing a little more of our egocentric selves and a little more of our ...read more

  • The Anthropic Principle States That In Our Own ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2004
     | 1,075 views

    The anthropic principle states that in our own universe, all these seemingly arbitrary and unrelated values in physics have one strange thing in common: They are precisely the values needed to get a universe capable of supporting life. …Physicist Freeman Dyson said: “I find that the universe in ...read more

  • John Howard Yoder Talks About The Person Of ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 9, 2005
     | 1,413 views

    John Howard Yoder talks about the person of Christ and his lordship over all our lives when he writes: “Christians begin to deny their Lord when they admit that there are certain realms of life in which it would be inappropriate to bring Christ’s rule to bear. Of course, non-Christians will ...read more

  • Kyle Idleman On Carrying Your Cross

    Contributed by Kevin Karhoff on Mar 18, 2013
     | 6,396 views

    There is no comfortable way to carry a cross; I don’t care how you position it. I often talk to people who are convinced that some suffering or pain in their lives is an indication that they must not be following Jesus. After all, if they are following Jesus, the Son of God, doesn’t it follow ...read more

  • Once, As An Experiment, The Great Scientist ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,990 views

    Once, as an experiment, the great scientist Isaac Newton stared at the image of the sun reflected in a mirror. The brightness burned into his retina, and he suffered temporary blindness. Even after he hid for three days behind closed doors, still the bright spot would not fade from his vision. I ...read more

  • This Chair I'm Sitting In Is Being Stressed By ...

    Contributed by Ronald Franklin on Aug 7, 2008
     | 1,771 views

    This chair I’m sitting in is being stressed by my weight. As a former engineer, there was a time in my life when I could calculate those stresses – but not any more! So, this chair is under stress - but it is not stressed out! The stresses on it are well within its capacity. Those stresses TEND to ...read more

  • The Cluttered Closet

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 19, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,558 views

    THE CLUTTERED CLOSET Mark 12:29-31 Object: Picture of a cluttered closet Objective: Sometimes we must take the time to pull all the "stuff" out of the closet and go through it piece by piece if we want to bring order to chaos. In my house there is a closet that I call the "junk closet." This ...read more

  • Some Thoughts About Gifts

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Nov 26, 2022
     | 798 views

    Text, 2 Corinthians 9:15, KJV: 15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. Thoughts: This is about the closest verse I can find to use as a text for this illustration. There may be others but please remember that God’s greatest gift ever was His Son, Jesus! Now I’ll share the illustration ...read more

  • Edgar A. Guest Was Born In Birmingham, England, ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 26, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,016 views

    Edgar A. Guest was born in Birmingham, England, became a United States citizen in 1902, and eventually received the title “Poet Laureate of Michigan.” His poem “Sermons We See,” drives home the urgency of being a good, Christlike role model for others to follow: I’d rather see a sermon than hear ...read more

  • Final Week

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,330 views

    Final week The mother of a nine-year-old boy named Mark received a phone call in the middle of the afternoon. It was the teacher from her son’s school. "Mrs. Smith, something unusual happened today in your son’s third grade class. Your son did something that surprised me so much that I thought you ...read more

  • The Difference Between Knowing About And ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 9, 2009
     | 1,898 views

    The difference between knowing about and knowing: I’ve read several books about Winston Churchill … but of course, I never met the man. I admire him and appreciate him, but can’t say that I know him in the way that I know my own father. The difference lies in the fact that I have been around my ...read more

  • You Come To Me

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
     | 5,769 views

    YOU COME TO ME Jimmy, and his son, Davey, were playing in the ocean down in Mexico, while his family -- his wife, daughters, parents, and a cousin -- were on the beach. Suddenly, a rogue riptide swept Davey out to the sea. Immediately Jimmy started to do whatever he could to help Davey get back to ...read more