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THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
Bill Keane’s comic strip, Family Circus, has communicated a beautiful truth about Christmas. As the children were setting up their nativity set, little Dolly held up the baby Jesus and declared, “Here’s the
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jun 10, 2004
"We are now raised up with Christ, and therefore since He is far above all things, we are to allow our minds and hearts to be transformed so that we no longer seek and pursue the things that are passing away. We are to be focusing on and seeking
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on May 29, 2007
I recently went rock climbing in North Wales, but prior to starting to climb.I needed to be briefed by the instructor and equipped to climb effectivly. Friends we have been briefed by Jesus and we have been equipped through the
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 4, 2007
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Separatists?
A church had a sign in front: JESUS ONLY. One night a storm blew out the first three letters and left US ONLY. Too many churches have come to that. (Vance Havner, from The Vance Havner
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Baptist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
That great truth inspired Count Zinzendorf to write the following lines in the glorious hymn “Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness,” translated by John Wesley:
Bold I shall stand in that great day,
For who ought to my charge shall
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 26, 2008
"True repentance hates sin for what it is-—an affront to God. Knowing that sin is evil and that God hates it motivates the truly repentant person to forsake it. Genuine repentance thus forsakes sin and turns in total commitment to
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Contributed by Donny Granberry on Aug 10, 2008
J. W. Tucker did not save anyone in the Republic of the Congo of Africa. As a matter of fact he was murdered by the Congan people and his body thrown in the Congo River and fed to the crocodiles.
But today, through the blood that Jesus shed, and the martyrdom of Bro. Tucker, the
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Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 4, 2010
I have had cars in which the gas hand was not accurate. You can’t ALWAYS tell the temperature of the engine or the gas in the tank or the oil pressure in the engine by the instruments. But most of the time you can. You can’t always
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 28, 2011
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THE FIRST BIG CHURCH FIGHT
The first big dispute in the church was not over the deity of Christ, the atoning work of the cross, or the reality of the resurrection. It was over what was and was not necessary for salvation. All the players believed in Jesus as God and Savior; they all
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Contributed by Chuck Gohn on Jul 4, 2011
EATING FLESH
The movie "Alive" is about the rugby team that crashed in the Andes Mountains and were forced to decide whether they would resort to eating flesh. I referred to it at the end of my sermon on John 6:41-59
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Christian Church
Charles Spurgeon says:
You look at man as he is, and what can he do? He can do nothing! Jesus already says, 'Apart from Me, you can do nothing.' (John 15:5) But look at man with
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Contributed by Joel Pankow on Oct 25, 2001
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On the TV show called the X-Files, they had a story about a family that used to keep an ugly looking creature in their basement. And what was even stranger was that people would bring their sick and dying family members over to see this creature and they would come back healthy. When Scully and
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2002
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A CORRECTIVE LOOK AT GOD--COMMUNION MEDITATION
"George Buttrick, former chaplain at Harvard, recalls that students would come into his office, plop down on a chair and declare, 'I don’t believe in God.' Buttrick would give this disarming reply: 'Sit down and tell me what kind of God you don’t
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Contributed by Ken Schlenker on Aug 7, 2002
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Humility was a Hebrew word meaning the lowering of the Nile River. Now I know a lot of Egyptians friends that use to come through Galilee and we would talk and they would tell me that the Nile River meant everything to them. They were totally dependent upon it. When the Nile River went down so
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Feb 26, 2006
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ILLUSTRATION: After World War II, a group of German students volunteered to help rebuild an English cathedral that had been severely damaged by German bombs. As work progressed, they became concerned about a large statue of Jesus, whose arms were outstretched and beneath which was the inscription:
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Ever watch segments of a marathon race? If you have you’ve probably noticed marathon runners being handed drinks along the way. Usually it’s water, Gatorade or something similar. One thing you won’t find---you won’t find marathon runners guzzling Mt. Dew, Vault or Starbucks coffee during a race
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Christian/Church Of Christ