Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Mar 26, 2018
based on 1 rating
| 5,562 views
Nantucket, Massachusetts is located next to important shipping lanes running along the East Coast. Toward the end of the 1800s, sailing ships were in their heyday. Nantucket Island saw hundreds of vessels passing by each day—all navigating without the advantages of modern technology. Treacherous
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
based on 4 ratings
| 4,099 views
Attributes of a Servant…
1. Humility
In the summer of 1986, two ships collided in the Black Sea off the coast of Russia. Hundreds of passengers died as they were hurled into the icy waters below. News of the disaster was further darkened when an investigation revealed the cause of the accident. It
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 4,433 views
Illustration- Servant’s Heart
A minister shared how in his church they were in desperate need of a person to teach a junior high boys class.
• Those willing to do it came down to a list with one name on it.
• When the minister heard the name he said, ‘You have got to be kidding’.
He says now
...read more
Contributed by John Shearhart on Apr 28, 2008
based on 4 ratings
| 4,261 views
VOLUNTEERS AND SERVANTS
“Volunteers raise their hand to be called on.
Servants are called by the Hand of God.
Volunteers do work for God.
Servants do work with God.
Volunteers get tired of the work,
Servants are tired in the work.
Volunteers pray their work will succeed.
Servants succeed as
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
based on 2 ratings
| 4,258 views
THE BAMBOO SERVANT
Once upon a time, in the heart of an ancient Kingdom, there was a beautiful garden. And there, in the cool of the day, the Master of the garden would walk. Of all the plants of the garden, the most beautiful and beloved was a gracious and noble bamboo.
Year after year, Bamboo
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2011
based on 3 ratings
| 5,364 views
HOW TO BE A SERVANT
You need to answer a very important question this morning. Are you more interested in being served or being a servant?
A first grade teacher asked her students, "What do you do to help at home?"
One little girl said, "I dry the dishes."
One of the boys said, "I sweep the
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 11, 2011
THE SERVANT AND THE CHILD
Think about the differences between a servant and a child:
The servant is accepted and appreciated on the basis of what he does, the child on the basis of who he is.
The servant starts the day anxious and worried, wondering if his work will really please his master.
...read more
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
There was once a servant of God, who had gotten very depressed and tired and went to sleep. He had a vision of an ugly, unlikable frog coming towards him. In the beginning, he didn’t like it. However, the frog followed him, and, whenever he turned around, it was behind him. Finally, when man of
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jim Blevins on May 1, 2009
SERVANTS AND SONS
Imagine at Mt. Sinai with all the lightning, thunder, smoke and the threat of death to any person or animal that even came close to the mountain, and how the people shuddered with fear as God was soon to speak His commandments. How would it have been if, after God had spoken
...read more
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Habits are about the only servants that will work for you for nothing. Just get them established, and they will operate
...read more
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
based on 11 ratings
| 5,356 views
MOODY'S SERVANT'S HEART
A large group of European pastors came to one of D. L. Moody’s Northfield Bible Conferences in Massachusetts in the late 1800s. Following the European custom of the time, each guest put his shoes outside his room to be cleaned by the hall servants overnight. But of course
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Brethren
Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 30, 2012
FRANCIS CHAN'S SERVANT WITNESS
Francis Chan was flying to Africa and seated next to him was a man who happened to be a Muslim. So they were talking about what they believed and the man said "Ya, I know some Christians and I hear their message and it turns me off. I’m not interested."
So the
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Introduction: The Gospel was still being proclaimed but almost exclusively to Jews when this incident occurred. A number of Samaritans (a mixed race of Jews and other peoples from several different locales, 2 Kings 17) had believed and even a high official of Ethiopia had believed in Jesus (Acts
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 2, 2001
based on 98 ratings
| 4,352 views
The most classic example of a modern servant leader was Sam Walton. He despised corporate fat cats. He could, and would, handle the cash register as well as stock the shelves in any of his Wal-Mart stores. He drove an old, rusty, dented pickup not to prove a point but because it still had plenty
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Christ will have no servants except by consent. His people are a willing people. He will be
...read more
Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 2, 2012
The Church of Christ needs servants of all kinds, and instruments of every sort; pen-knives as well as swords, axes as well as hammers, chisels as well as saws, Marthas as well as Marys, Peters as
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Introduction: Wedding feasts were happy times, especially in the days of the Bible. This story describes how a handful of people kept a disaster from taking place!
Text (John 2:1-11, KJV): 1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: 2 And both
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Baptist
Sermon Central