Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Sep 19, 2002
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Bob Russell says, “When we sin we feel dirty. We feel like we need a spiritual bath. Baptism provides this wonderful sense of cleansing and
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 10, 2002
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Let me close off with a baptism I was able to witness in Lexington. A man after the service was baptized, he was in a wheel chair, he had MS. Before he was baptized into Christ, he shared this story. He said that he was so pumped about being baptized that he woke up at 4 in the morning. And
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Philip Gill on Jan 11, 2003
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I am Baptised!
Apparently Martin Luther, the great 16th figure of the reformation used to take great comfort from these words. When it seemed to him that the whole church had left the precepts of the Gospel, when he was under scrutiny from Church officials as to the truth of his beliefs,
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Anglican
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"While visiting in Leningrad, a woman heard the story of 900,000 people who perished in the long siege of Leningrad during World War II. At one point they were trying to save the children from both the nazis and starvation---so they placed them on trucks to cross a frozen lake to safer locations.
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2003
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This happened to a red headed model who was being baptized. She came out in a white robe and entered the baptistry. As she came up from the water I noticed something floating next to my leg, which was a surprize. It seemed to be moving, as I looked at her I realized she had lost her beautiful red
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Contributed by Bill Huffhine on May 27, 2004
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From the time of Abraham to the time of Jesus, the Jewish people were the chosen people of God. They were the only people on the face of the earth who knew the one, true God. From Abraham, God raised up this nation to be his voice to the entire world. It was to them that God introduced Himself,
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 19, 2004
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William T. Barker tells about a machinist that worked at the Ford motor company after it had been first started in Detroit. This machinist over the next few years “borrowed” various tools and parts from the company, which he had never returned. While this practice was not condoned it was more or
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 19, 2004
I heard the true story the other day of a grandmother who was going to be baptized and her whole family was there to watch. They had tried to tell the 6 year old grandson what was happening, how Grandma was dying to sin and being baptized into Christ and so as they waited for Grandma to come out
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Christian Church
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A lad in a Baptist family got the notion that he was going to become a preacher. So he would get up on a stump and preach to the chickens or whatever came by. He decided one day that he ought to practice the art of baptism. He looked around for suitable objects for the ceremony. Their old dog
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Contributed by Ted Mulder on Nov 20, 2004
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Pat Summerall spent 50 years with the national Football League. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1952 and played with the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants until 1961. After his retirement from the game, he joined CBS as a broadcaster, and in 1993 switched to Fox. During his CBS years he
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Contributed by Ted Mulder on Nov 20, 2004
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Paul Harvey wrote in Guidepost Magazine about his own baptism. He said that even though he had received almost every reward for his broadcasting ability that he still felt empty inside.
One summer, however, he & his wife were vacationing in a place called Cave Creek, AZ. Sunday morning came &
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Contributed by Stephen Wright on May 7, 2005
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A man thought that by being baptised he could find salvation. A friend of his tried hard to explain that this was not so. But this man insisted that, as water would purify the body, so water consecrated by a minister or priest would purify the soul. Finally the friend used an illustration. "Suppose
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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As I shut the door of the office after me, it seemed as if I met the Lord Jesus Christ face to face. It seemed to me that I saw Him as I would see any other man. He said nothing, but looked at me in such a manner as to break me right down at His feet. I fell down at His feet, wept aloud like a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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The words of Eleanor Roosevelt ring true:
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words. It is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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Gen. William Nelson, a Union general in the Civil War, was consumed with the battles in Kentucky when a brawl ended up in his being shot, mortally, in the chest. He had faced many battles, but the fatal blow came while he was relaxing with his men. As such, he was caught fully unprepared. As men
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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There is a stage in a child’s life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. I have been told of a very small and very devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself on Easter morning a poem of his own composition which began ’Chocolate eggs
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If you’ve ever made the journey from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, you see this immediately. The whole area is desert, and any drop of water that falls on that desert is immediately swallowed up by the volcanic sand and the sparse vegetation. Ezekiel sees the grace of God flowing from the Temple of
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