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Life Is An Echo.

Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 30, 2021

Life is an Echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in ...read more

Scripture: Esther 7:1-10

Tags: What We Send Out Comes Back, It May Be In Us Too

Denomination: Independent/Bible

It Comes Back To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008

IT COMES BACK TO YOU A preacher was making his rounds to his parishioners on a bicycle when he came upon a little boy trying to sell a lawn mower. "I’ve been needing a lawn mower. How much do you want for it?" asked the preacher. "I just want enough money to go out and buy me a bike," said the ...read more

Tags: Dead To Sin

What Comes Out Of Your Mouth  PRO

Contributed by Alan Perkins on Apr 10, 2011

WHAT COMES OUT OF YOUR MOUTH How carefully do you monitor what goes into your mouth, compared to what comes out of it? For example, do you follow a low-fat diet? Do you obsessively track the grams of fat going into your body? Do you watch the number of calories that you consume? Do you avoid ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:14-23

Tags: Relationships, Tongue

Denomination: Baptist

We Have A Dumpster Out Back Of This Church - At ...

Contributed by Robert Azinger on Dec 14, 2006

We have a dumpster out back of this church - at times the truck misses a week of two and the dumpster fills up - the garbage piles up till its over the brim and stacked up - over flowing with garbage and trash!! We call the fellow and the truck eventually comes ...read more

Denomination: Lutheran

Please Come Back  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2011

"PLEASE COME BACK" Max Lucado tells us about a girl named Christina. She lives in a small dusty village in Brazil. She’s bored. She feels like her strict parents have cheated her out of the joys of life. She longs for the excitement of the big city of Rio. One morning her mother Maria finds ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:11-32, Mark 4:1-9

Tags: Parable Prodigal Son, Parable Sower And Seed

It Comes Back To You  PRO

Contributed by Robert Travis on Jul 19, 2001

IT COMES BACK TO YOU Have you ever heard this expression, "It’s enough to make a preacher cuss." It reminds me of story about little boy trying to sell a lawn mower. The local pastor walked up and he was able to persuade him to buy the worn out lawn mower. The pastor pulled on the rope several ...read more

Tags: Commandments God's Name

Denomination: Baptist

Sending Churches: The Fund For Theological ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Sending Churches: The Fund for Theological Education has underwritten a study of congregations that consistently send people into ministry. In summary, the following are five characteristics of those congregations: · Lay people are in ministry. Through collaboration with their pastors, lay people ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 43:18-21

Tags: What Is Evangelism?, Revival

Out Of The Mouths Of Babes Comes A Lot Of What ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

Out of the mouths of babes comes a lot of what they ...read more

Tags: Children

Whence Comes This Idea That If What We Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it cant be Gods will? The God who made giraffes, a babys fingernails, a puppys tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhites call, and a ...read more

Tags: Humor

Come Back To The Plumb Line

Contributed by Carl Allen on Sep 24, 2008

Come Back to the Plumb Line Every carpenter will tell you when they start to build a structure, one of the first things they are going to do is hang a plumb off of the first vertical post the install after it has been trued with a balance. So as they continue on in the building project, they can ...read more

Tags: God's Judgment

Denomination: Baptist

Coming Out Of The Sewer

Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 27, 2008

COMING OUT OF THE SEWER I remember a documentary, it was about a Christian agency that worked with children who lived in sewers - somewhere in eastern Europe - the work of the agency is to re-house these kids - a chance for a new life away from the darkness and filth of the sewers into foster ...read more

Tags: Sin Exposed

Denomination: Baptist

How Is Jesus Coming Back?

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Oct 28, 2019

HOW IS JESUS COMING BACK? We don't know WHEN He is coming......but we do know HOW He is coming. Jesus is coming PERSONALLY – ...read more

Scripture: John 14:1-6

Tags: Revelation, Second Coming, Armageddon, Rapture, The Return Of Christ  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Please Come Back Home.

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 14, 2021

PLEASE COME BACK HOME... Max Lucado, in his book, No Wonder They Call Him Savior, tells the story of Maria and her daughter, Christina that touches the heart and shows the mercy of God. Longing to leave her poor Brazilian neighborhood, Christina wanted to see the world. Discontent with a home ...read more

Tags: Repentance, Prodigal Son, Going Home, Prodigals, Wayward Children, Evangelism, Parenting  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Children Are Messengers We Send To A Time We ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

Children are messengers we send to a time ...read more

Tags: Children

What Are You Like When You Come Back From ...

Contributed by Richard Francis on Jan 4, 2005

What are you like when you come back from church, Moses shone after his encounters with God so much so that he was asked to cover up all that reflected glory. how about you, will you shine like ...read more

Tags: Sharing My Testimony

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Children Are The Living Messages We Send To A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

Children are the living messages we send to a ...read more

Tags: Children

We Can't Look Back At What We Have Done. We ...

Contributed by Bill Burress on Dec 25, 2008

We can’t look back at what we have done. We must look ...read more

Tags: Obedience

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

One Meaning Of Christmas—what We Have To Look ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2009

One Meaning of Christmas—What We Have To Look Forward To A pastor was in his office preparing his sermon. His little daughter came in and said, "Daddy, can we play?" He answered, "I’m awfully sorry, Sweetheart, but I’m right in the middle of preparing this sermon. In about an hour I can play." She ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 24:3-51

Tags: Second Coming

Take Off And Never Come Back

Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 29, 2020

The New York City transit company was missing a bus and a driver some years ago. For over a week, authorities searched with no success. Finally, 10 days after they had disappeared, the bus and driver were found- in Miami, Florida. The driver said, “I’d had it with the cold weather, the ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:1

Tags: Quit, Run Away, Losing Heart

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Truth Will Always Come Out.

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 18, 2022

We live in a generation of government corruption and evil that is unparalleled. How long will God tolerate this? The Bible says in Luke 8:17 (NLT), "For all that is secret will eventually be brought into the open, and everything that is concealed will be brought to light and made known to ...read more

Tags: Evil, Truth, Corruption, Last Days, Lies, Government, Reaping  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational