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  • A Dream For God

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 10, 2008
     | 3,890 views

    "A Dream for God" Many years ago a young man had a dream of telling the story of Jesus everywhere in the world. When he suggested taking that good news to people, an older man said, "Sit down, young man. If God wants to save the heathen, he will do it without your help or mine." This young ...read more

  • Topography, Basketball And The Gospel

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Sep 16, 2008
     | 2,754 views

    Topography, Basketball and the Gospel Jack went to an Ivy League School and was a star on the basketball team and graduated with a degree in topography – that is, the study of mapping. What do basketball and topography have to do with the Gospel? Nothing. Except that years later Jack found himself ...read more

  • Satan's Best Strategy

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Oct 14, 2008
     | 4,574 views

    Satan's Best Strategy Satan called in some of his lieutenants to help him develop a strategy for keeping God’s people living in defeat. One strategy after another was suggested. To keep God’s people living in defeat, it was decided that they could try to keep them from prayer, the Bible, and ...read more

  • Not A Voice, But A Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
     | 3,188 views

    NOT A VOICE, BUT A LIFE The late great Presbyterian clergyman and hymnist, Rev. Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858 - 1901) once wrote: "Christianity is not a voice in the wilderness but a life in the world. It is not an idea in the air but feet on the ground, going [Almighty] God's way. It is not an ...read more

  • Everybody's Doing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 3,938 views

    “Everybody’s doing it.” This is a common phrase used today to excuse our behavior, but it is no excuse. We were shocked a decade ago when youth ministries guru Josh McDowell did an extensive survey of Bible-believing church teens that showed that more than half of them were sexually active, even ...read more

  • Doing Nothing  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,945 views

    DOING NOTHING Make a commitment to be under-committed. (If you don’t hear anything else this morning, hear this... Make a commitment to be under-committed.) Look at your calendar and make sure there are lots of blank spaces. Stop saying "It will slow down when..." Because it won’t. Quindlen ...read more

  • Doing What We're Supposed To Be Doing

    Contributed by Eugene Morell on Jan 15, 2012
     | 2,109 views

    DOING WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING A high school teen came home from school to find his mother in the kitchen making supper. She asked what was new in school today. He said that a lot of the teens in his class were saying that the world was going to end that night and I was wondering what you ...read more

  • Start By Doing Whats Necessary; Then Do What's ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,005 views

    Start by doing whats necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you ...read more

  • Press Forward. Do Not Stop, Do Not Linger In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
     | 2,536 views

    “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set ...read more

  • Start By Doing What's Necessary; Then Do What's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
     | 2,390 views

    Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the ...read more

  • A 16-Year-Old Named William Left Home To Seek His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,875 views

    A 16-year-old named William left home to seek his fortune. His earthly possessions were tied in a bundle carried in his hand. One day he met an elderly canal-boat captain who listened to his story that his family was too poor to keep him, and the only skill he had was making candles and soap. The ...read more

  • What Not To Do  PRO

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
    based on 17 ratings
     | 1,624 views

    WHAT NOT TO DO The new millenium brought out the worst in parenting, and no parenting methods were criticized more harshly than those of captured American Taliban, John Lindh Walker. When Lindh Walker was 10, the family from Washington State moved to socially liberal Marin County, just over the ...read more

  • Do It Again

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 28, 2011
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     | 1,539 views

    DO IT AGAIN G. K. Chesterton wrote: "Because children have abounding vitality, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged... They always say, 'Do it again,' and the grown-up does it again until he is nearly dead... But perhaps God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every ...read more

  • Do It Myself

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,183 views

    It is said that D.L. Moody, in his early days in Chicago, was a regular attendant on the noonday prayer meeting at a local church. At one of these meetings a rich brother rose and told those present of an opportunity to do a certain good thing if only three or four hundred dollars could be raised ...read more

  • Just Do It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
     | 2,375 views

    JUST DO IT Dr. J.B. Gambrel tells an amusing story from General Stonewall Jackson’s famous valley campaign. Jackson’s army found itself on one side of a river when it needed to be on the other side. After telling his engineers to plan and build a bridge so the army could cross, he called his wagon ...read more

  • Do Not Be Ignorant

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 20, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,086 views

    Do Not Be Ignorant Paul opens Chapter 10 by telling the Corinthian Christians to not be ignorant to not be ag-no-eh-o which means the following: The Greek word for "ignorant" - ἀãíïέù, agnoeō, ag-no-eh'-o. Not to know (through lack of information or intelligence); by ...read more

  • Do It Scared

    Contributed by John Bright on Feb 20, 2025
     | 263 views

    Let me share from an email I got from the Navigators about their summer outreach with college students: “This past summer, the students had over 700 gospel conversations with strangers. From those discussions, 22 people gave their lives to Christ and were connected with local churches. For one ...read more

  • Today We Seek To Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Jan 15, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,994 views

    Today we seek to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and we will start with a portion of Dr. King’s "I have a dream speech". …And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this ...read more

  • Words Do Things

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 2,652 views

    Words Do Things One poet tells how a certain man who had performed a heroic act found it impossible to tell his friends about it for a lack of words to describe it. But there was a witness to the event whom the poet refers to as having been "afflicted with the necessary magic of words." He told ...read more

  • Courage Is Doing What Youre Afraid To Do. There ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,629 views

    Courage is doing what youre afraid to do. There can be no ...read more