Contributed by Jeffery Russell on Dec 17, 2007
Legend tells us that the first Christmas trees originated with the famous reformer, Martin Luther back in the early 1500s. He was strolling through a forest in northern Germany one evening. Struck by the beauty of the moonlight shining on the fir trees, he went home determined to recreate the
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Baptist
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Feb 6, 2008
One of my instructors in Bible College used to like to say that in the beginning God said, “Let there be light!” and the angels were blinking their eyes for a millennium.
He’d say, “I don’t know how theologically
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Orthodox
Contributed by Don Jones on Mar 1, 2008
Evangelist Fred Brown used three images to describe the purpose of the law. First, he likened it to a dentist’s little mirror, which he sticks into the patient’s mouth. With the mirror he can detect any cavities. But he doesn’t drill with it or use it to pull teeth. It can show him the decayed area
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Baptist
Contributed by Michael West on Mar 17, 2008
The distance between us and the moon is 250,000 miles, but from here to the sun, it’s a whopping 93 million miles. To make it easier, they start talking light years and that’s where I get lost real fast.
For instance let’s take 10 million light years. How far is that in laymen terms? Multiply 5
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Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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Salt Is Used for healing 2000 years ago there wasn’t a drug store on every corner. If a soldier was hurt in battle, if a farmer was gored by a bull, if a child fell down and scraped his knee there was a common treatment. The wound was bathed in salt and water. And it proved to be an excellent
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
: Children’s message used "Horton Hears a Who" by Dr. Seuss
The children’s message this morning gave us one literary vision of being “neighborly”. Horton, the elephant heard a cry for help and did all in his power (even amid the teasing of his friends) to protect the small people, affirming his
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Jesus teaches us that we are to go to the deep part of the world to teach
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
“But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son.”
Ingmar Bergman is a celebrated Swedish filmmaker. He tells the story of how one day he was listening to the works of classical composer Igor Stravinsky. As he was listening to the music, he began to daydream about a 19th-century cathedral.
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 5, 2008
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A man purchased a white mouse to use as food for his pet snake. He dropped the unsuspecting mouse into the snake’s glass cage, where the snake was sleeping in a bed of sawdust. The tiny mouse had a serious problem on his hands. At any moment he could be swallowed alive. The mouse needed to come up
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
AGAIN FARLEY NOTES, “USING WILLPOWER TO OVERCOME WORLDLY SEDUCTION IS LIKE TELLING A MAN WHO HAS GONE WITHOUT WATER FOR THREE DAYS TO CONTROL HIMSELF AND QUIT BEING THIRSTY……
THE WORLDLY MAN IS CONVINCED THAT POPULARITY, SUCCESS, OR WEALTH WILL SLAKE HIS THIRST. BUT THESE ARE LIKE SPIRITUAL
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