Sermon in a Sentence
Each week these thoughtful and insightful little sayings are in the church bulletins and on the display screens.
We will collect them and display them here for future reference as they provide little nuggets of advice to live as Christ.
To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.
Success is not to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Two marks of a Christian, giving and forgiving.
If Christ means much to you then live so He will mean much to others.
Seek Christ and you will find Him, and with Him you will find everything else you’ve been looking for.
Parenting a child doesn’t come with a blueprint.
There is no more destructive force on earth than a religious person who condemns others out of a sense of service to God.
Never doubt in the dark what God told you in the light.
When you face the Son the shadows will fall behind you.
Your obedience to God today determines what you will be for God tomorrow.
It is not what is poured into the child that counts, but what is planted.
I recently heard how one man got his son to clean up his room…he just threw the keys to the family car into the room once a week!
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
Coming together is a beginning...keeping together is progress...working together is success!
You cannot minister to your neighbors faults, but you must minister to his needs.
Thanksgiving was never meant to be limited to a one day observance.
A sharp tongue has severed many a good friendship.
It’s unfortunate when adults allow themselves to get like concrete … all mixed up and permanently set.
When you meet temptation, turn to the right.
Give your best to God and His best will be given back to you again and again and again...
The Bible says, “train up a child in the way he should go” … and walk there yourself once in awhile!
Faith sees the invisible … believes the incredible … and receives the impossible!
Some people are so heavenly minded they are no earthly good.
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
Can’t sleep? Don’t count sheep - talk to the shepherd.
If you must publish someone’s faults, then why not publish your own.
Put your will in neutral … so the Lord can shift you.
Some people conduct their lives on the ‘cafeteria plan’ — self service only.
God looks at our willingness to give rather than our ability.
The real measure of a person's worth is: How much would they be worth if they lost everything?
“It’s one thing to be active in our work for the Lord, quite another thing to be effective.” — T.J. Bach
When Christ entered our world he didn't come to brighten our Decembers, but to transform our lives.
Selfishness makes Christmas a burden. Love makes it a delight.
Regret not that Christmas comes but once a year ... Rejoice, that in our world Christmas comes!
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Attempt great things. Expect great thanks from God. — William Carey
Plan ahead — Noah didn't build the ark in the rain.
Eyes that look are common. Eyes that see are rare. — J. Oswald Sanders
The purpose of prayer is not to get man's will done in heaven, but to get God's will done on earth.
I'm just a nobody telling anybody about somebody who can save everybody.
The yoke of the Lord Jesus will never fit a stiff neck.
Be humble or you'll stumble!
For the Christians, there is no such thing as bad news — only new challenges to our faith.
Peace floods the soul — when Christ fills the heart.
A bitter world can not be sweetened by sour Christians.
Our love for God must be expressed in loving our fellow man.
Seek Christ and you will find Him, and with Him you will find everything else you've been looking for!
The business of our lives is not to please ourselves, but to please God. — Matthew Henry
What we have done for ourselves dies with us — what we have done for others remains.
Nothing is more dreadful for a sinner nor more wonderful for a Christian than to be alone with God.
Maybe you can’t understand all you read in the Bible, but you can obey all you do understand.
Religion indicates man searching for God ... Christianity shows us God in search of man
Real prayer always does one of two things … it either frees us from the trouble we fear … or else it gives us the strength and courage to meet the trouble when it comes!
People are guided to heaven by following the footprints of others rather than by signposts!
Because He is…we are! Because He did…we can! Because He gave….we have!
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts, but don’t make the mistake of doubting your beliefs and believing your doubts.
