Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 14, 2012
LONGING
In his book The Spiritual Life of Children, the famous Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles tells the story of Alice, a ten-year-old girl who came from a family that did not believe in God. She expressed her doubts to him with these words: "I remember... I saw the people next door coming
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Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles of
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Contributed by Charles Jones on Sep 6, 2011
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THE LONGING OF THE SOUL
Now I want you to imagine this: The moment that you take your last breath, it will be your first breath in Heaven, and the Lord and His angels will be right there to welcome you.
One of the first faces you will see is Jesus! He will be there with His arms wide open to
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Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Chad Wright on May 10, 2002
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As long as we are in this world, the physical heart will need help. Science has found one avenue to attempt to help the heart. It has been making great strides on creating and implementing an artificial heart. The world’s first recipient, Robert Tools, lived for 151 days after his artificial heart
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Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 24, 2002
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THE TRUE CHRISTMAS LONGING
C.S. Lewis writes in “Mere Christianity”:
“Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give
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Denomination:
Mennonite
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 18, 2002
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HOW LONG IS MY LIFE
A few years ago People Magazine published an article entitled "Dead Ahead" telling about a new clock that keeps track of how much time you have left to live. It calculates an average life span of 75 years for men & 80 years for women. So you program your sex & age into the
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Mar 18, 2003
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[Long-Winded Driving]
A pastor and his wife were driving to visit Grandma and Grandpa for Christmas.
Their daughter asked the inevitable question, “Are we almost there?”
The father said, “No, we are still 150 miles away.”
She asked, “Well, how long is that?”
“Well, honey, it’s about three more
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Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Brad Beaman on Jul 20, 2003
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Not long after Paul was in prison there was a man, one of the early church fathers, by the name of Pollycarp. He lived his life for the sake and the glory of God. At eighty-six years old the officials called upon him. Even before this he had a vision that he was to by martyred. He could have fled
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2001
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Love then is the giving of self, and as long as we have a body and are working out our salvation, it will always be synonymous with sacrifice, in the Christian sense of the word. Love sacrifices naturally just as the eye sees and the ear hears. That is why we speak of "arrows" and "darts" of
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Contributed by Don Hawks on Feb 27, 2002
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"As long as there is one person in driving distance of our church who doesn’t know the Lord, we want to grow. Nothing is more important than reaching people for the Lord, yet it is easy to be distracted from our
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Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Chris Jordan on Apr 9, 2006
“Faith’s supreme longing is for the return of the glory that has departed from the sanctuary… If we today could rediscover the virtue in that Name, the victory in that Name, the violence in that Name, we
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Denomination:
*other
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2007
How Long, O Lord?
Overview of Revelation—Revelation 1:1-8
A woman went to the doctor’s office, where she was seen by one of the new doctors, but after about 4 minutes in the examination room, she burst out, screaming as she ran down the hall. An older doctor stopped her and asked what the problem
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled,
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