Contributed by Kennith Hughes on Feb 16, 2007
Each ministry has an individual message for the body of Christ (spiritual food for a well-rounded diet in order to make the body healthy). In days past the church’s religionist didn’t allow for the full ministry but basically accepted the Pastor, Teacher, and Evangelist.
Thus we were three fifths
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ray Searan on Feb 21, 2007
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Blind skiers were featured in the 1988 winter Olympics. How did they ski being blind? They were paired with sighted skiers who would simply yell, "LEFT" or "RIGHT" when the time came to turn, and the blind skiers obeyed without question! Their obedience brought reward. When we cannot see what God
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Tony Abram on Mar 3, 2007
Give Me New England!
For three days Edwards had not eaten a mouthful of food: for three nights he had not closed his eyes in sleep. Over and over again, he had been saying to God, "Give me New England! Give me New England!" and when he arose from his knees, and made his way into the pulpit they say
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As you wait to build the relationships with those neighbors let me share with you something we learned a couple of years ago in our 50-Day Spiritual Adventure and that was how to pray for our neighbors using the acronym BLESS.
BODY—we pray for their health, protection and strength.
LABOR—for their
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Nov 17, 2003
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My friend, you can study baking and become an excellent baker, but you can’t bake without flour. You can study the ways of fish and become an excellent fisherman, but it will do you no good without equipment. You can study flying for years and become a certified, licensed pilot, and it will do
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Baptist
Contributed by David Haun on Dec 27, 2003
We live in a world that glorifies "winning." Whether it’s position, power, recognition or acceptance, our goal is to achieve a position of acceptance and worth.
The problem with "position" is that it tends to be based on what other people think, not what really is true. Eric Hoffer, a social
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Jan 27, 2004
In an exhibit hall in Cannes Hundreds of Picasso’s paintings were in chronological display from what he had painted as an adolescent all the way up to his experiments as an 85 year old master. During the exhibit one lady approached Picasso and told him, “She did not understand, his beginning works
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 17, 2004
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Do you have at least one person nearby whom you can call on in times of personal distress?
• Do you have several people whom you can visit with little advance warning without apology?
• Do you have several people with whom you can share recreational activities?
• Do you have people who will lend
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Contributed by Charles Newman on Jul 17, 2004
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Some things are more tempting than others wouldn’t you agree? I just love a Snickers candy bar. I have never tasted such goodness in my life. There is something about that combination of chocolate, peanuts, rich caramel and nougat that seems to satisfy the savage sweet tooth. Don’t put me on a diet
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Methodist
Let me close with a poem that was read out at the Queen Mother’s funeral; which I think sums up the Christian faith very well.
"I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year. “Give me a light that I may tread safely
into the unknown.”
And he replied: “Go out into the darkness
and put your
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Anglican
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 18, 2004
As I mentioned at the outset, “Pride is a killer.” One man in history learned that lesson the hard way.
During the Battle of the Wilderness in the Civil War, Union general John Sedgwick was inspecting his troops. At one point he came to a parapet, over which he gazed out in the direction of the
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Baptist
Contributed by John Gerald on Sep 11, 2004
My youngest brother, afflicted with Down’s Syndrome, could catch and tie up a half ton bull that others were afraid to get near. The bull did not offer to harm him. Mom was busy about her regular duties, but happened to look out toward the lot, and saw the bull standing at a fence post most of the
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Methodist
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British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge once had a discussion with a man who firmly believed that children should not be given formal religious instruction, but should be free to choose their own religious faith when they reached maturity. Coleridge did not disagree, but later invited the man into his
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Charles Darnay, a young Frenchman
condemned to die in the guillotine. But when Sidney Carton, his friend, heard about Darnay’s
sentence, he was determined to find a way to save him.
Carton gained admission to the dungeon the night
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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There are two (2) African tribes who have an unusual way of expressing thanks One of them, the Masai tribe, a pastoral and hunting people of Kenya and Tanzania, West Africa, bow and put their foreheads on the ground, and say, "My head is in the dirt." The other tribe, whose name I do not know, sit
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