Contributed by Mark Adams on Sep 10, 2011
TITANIC: CODE OF HONOR
I bet a lot of you remember the movie Titanic. That song came out, and for a few days we loved Celine Dion, until we'd heard it so many times we started wishing we could put her on that boat to sink with the rest of them.
Titanic was a movie that was loosely based on the
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Contributed by Adam Couchman on Jun 18, 2007
Many people remember former New York Mayor Rudy Gulliani specifically because of his leadership following the World Trade Centre attacks in September, 2001. But he will also be remembered for dramatically reducing the crime levels in New York City.
For many years New York’s reputation throughout
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Anglican
THE BIBLE LEAF
A little boy opened the big family Bible at home. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it closely. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mamma,
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St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome has a holy door called the “Porta Sancta” which is only opened during a Holy Year of Jubilee which occurs every 25 years. The last one was in 2000. On Christmas Eve of 2000, Pope John Paul II struck a brick wall with a silver hammer, opening up the passage. (The
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Contributed by Stephen Wright on Mar 11, 2007
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In country, town or city
Some people can be found
Who spend their lives in grumbling
At ev’rything around;
O yes, they always grumble,
No matter what we say,
For these are chronic grumblers
And they grumble night and day.
They grumble when it’s raining,
They grumble when it’s dry,
And if the
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Baptist
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 9, 2012
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I'D LIMP TOO
We did NOT inherit Adam's sin. But we did inherit something from Adam. His sin altered our DNA (if you will). His sin bent us toward limping in our righteousness.
The story's told of a doctor who was teaching a group of medical students. She points to an x-ray and says, "As you can
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-- John Adams
From Gary
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Contributed by Jeff Armbrester on Mar 24, 2003
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Have you ever watched a 2000-pound horse pull logs? A few years ago, a friend called to tell me that a man who lived over the hill from us was having some trees cut out of his yard and they were using a Belgium horse to drag the logs. Lisa, Adam, Aaron, and I loaded up and went to watch. Like most
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Methodist
Contributed by Sean Smuts on Jan 29, 2003
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"O! what pains do men take to get to hell! Early and late they toil at sin; and would not Divine justice be in their debt, if it
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Mennonite
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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One of the most dramatic examples of the Bible’s divine ability to transform men and women involved the famous mutiny on the “Bounty.” Following their rebellion against the notorious Captain Bligh, nine mutineers, along with the Tahatian men and women who accompanied them, found their way to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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One of the most dramatic examples of the Bible’s divine ability to transform men and women involved the famous mutiny on the "Bounty." Following their rebellion against the notorious Captain Bligh, nine mutineers, along with the Tahatian men and women who accompanied them, found their way to
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Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 6, 2004
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Some may remember an experience I shared in our Vineyard Voice newsletter last year. I had begun a personal tradition on Christmas Eve after the Christmas Eve service, of making a large amount of hot cider and taking it to all the homeless I could find on the corners and crevices of town. On this
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Roger Haber on Oct 24, 2006
Theologian Stanley Grenz points out “…only after the creation of the woman does the narrator suggest that Adam is able to hear ‘the sound of the Lord God as he was
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Baptist
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 19, 2006
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Stephen R. Adams wrote these words:
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is peace;
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is love;
There is comfort in life’s darkest hour,
There is light and
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Christian Church
Contributed by Jay Winters on Dec 27, 2007
Hat-tip to SermonCentral illustration bank: On Christmas Eve of 1906, off the coast of Massachusetts, ships carrying sailors that would have liked to be someplace else than a boat on Christmas Eve received a message from the coast in morse code. “CQ….CQ” it said, indicating that an important
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Lutheran
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