Contributed by Steve Malone on Jun 5, 2002
based on 41 ratings
| 2,557 views
Listen - God says, don’t buy into the myth of more - thinking that having more (of something or someone) will make you happy.... Don’t buy into the myth of thinking that you are just one purchase, one buck, one promotion, one relationship, one accomplishment, one good time or one gut busting
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Andrew Chan on Oct 12, 2002
based on 53 ratings
| 4,071 views
A story… It was autumn, and the Indians on the remote reservation asked their new Chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was an Indian Chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn’t tell what the weather was going to
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Evangelical Free
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2001
based on 186 ratings
| 6,841 views
What would you be willing to do for $10,000,000-00? In their book, The Day America Told the Truth, James Patterson and Peter Kim reveal some shocking statistics about how far people in this country are willing to go for ten million.
Would abandon their entire family (25%)
Would abandon their
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 15, 2004
based on 6 ratings
| 3,532 views
I AM REALLY CONTENT...
I am really content — until I start looking through the Sears catalogue.
I liked my car — until I saw the new P T Cruiser.
I am satisfied with my clothes — until I stroll through American Eagle, or the other Mall stores.
I love our home — until I think of what it would
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by Rick Stacy on Jan 28, 2006
based on 28 ratings
| 5,618 views
The Rich Family in Church
by Eddie Ogan
I’ll never forget Easter 1946. I was 14, my little sister Ocy was 12 and my older sister Darlene was 16. We lived at home with our mother, and the four of us knew what it was to do without many things. My dad had died five years before, leaving Mom with
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
based on 1 rating
| 2,453 views
HOW MUCH LAND?
In his 1886 short story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" Leo Tolstoy shows how a continual desire for more can ultimately cause us to lose everything.
The main character of the story is a peasant named Pahóm, who at the beginning can be heard complaining that he does not own
...read more
Scripture:
“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness . . 2 Peter 1:5-6
The Greek word for godliness is sometimes translated as piety. Both words have
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2011
based on 1 rating
| 3,377 views
THE RICHEST MAN ON THE ISLAND
In his autobiography Just As I Am, Billy Graham recalls a story demonstrating that apart from God, we will not gain anything from living wisely. He said:
Some years ago Ruth and I had a vivid illustration of this on an island in the Caribbean. One of the wealthiest
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2011
based on 12 ratings
| 2,962 views
WHEN DOES THE SIZE OF A HOUSE BECOME SINFUL?
Several years ago, Millard Fuller of Habitat for Humanity addressed the National Press Club on public radio, on which he recalled a workshop he conducted at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary with 200 pastors in attendance. The assembled pastors quickly
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2011
based on 8 ratings
| 5,423 views
THE RISE AND FALL OF NINE RICH MEN
A popular story recounts a meeting that may have taken place at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago in 1923. There is debate whether the meeting in fact occurred, but what is not in question is the actual rise and fall of the men featured in the story, who were
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2011
based on 6 ratings
| 3,286 views
THE LOTTERY
Did you know that the first modern-day lottery was started in 1963 in the state of New Hampshire?
Did you know that the state of Massachusetts, started their lottery in 1972 with 50 cent tickets and a drawing once a week. It now has 33 different games to choose from their sales have
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by Rick Crandall on May 15, 2016
*God wants us to be givers, because HE is a giver. He wants us to generously give our time, our talents, our tithes and our offerings. In short, God wants us to give our lives and our love to other people, every way we can. They will be blessed, and so will we.
*Sometimes even a small gift can
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 31, 2020
The eternal life I am talking about is best described by Thomas Guthrie: "Eternal life is deliverance from eternal death, deliverance from the curse of breaking God’s law, and deliverance from the doom of a burning hell. Eternal life is eternal blessedness- the pardon from sin’s guilt, and
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ