WHAT IS NOT GOD'S WILL
Sometimes we want things we know is not God's will.
Jay Kesler wrote of a time when he caused an auto accident. He prayed that it did not happen, but it did.
I know how the young Jay Kesler felt. I've done things that I wanted to undo and said things that I wanted to
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Judge Robert Bork, who was nominated for the Supreme by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 wrote a book a few years ago entitled: Slouching towards Gomorrah. In that book Bork says, that the forces of evil are so deeply entrenched that any cultural shifts will only be superficial unless they are
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Contributed by Don Jones on Feb 22, 2008
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In the movie "Serenity" the crew of the ship Serenity find a planet that was last known to be filled with crowds of people all working together to build a world. The ship lands on the planet only to discover the streets empty of people. When the crew begins to investigate they discover the
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 18, 2008
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Take the Lord's Table to Others
And just as we experience the presence of the Lord, I believe with every part of my being and more that we are to take this presence to share with those around us. We are to take the Lord's Table to other people.
So as I talk about taking the Lord's Table to
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Church Of God
Contributed by Jim Kane on May 1, 2005
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In his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey tells the following story as he rode the NY subway one Sunday morning:
“People were sitting quietly- some reading newspapers, some lost in thought, some resting with their eyes close. It was a calm, peaceful scene,” wrote
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Church Of God
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REMEMBER ME
Lately I have become concerned about the people I represent. I no longer see the Pride in your eyes that I once seen when I traveled down your streets in the Veterans Day parades and on the 4th of July. The people that once saluted me and those that held their hand over their heart as
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jun 28, 2010
BEER COMMERCIALS AND COMMUNITY
Beer commercials do not really sell beer. Have you seen how they really sell "living it up with others" or what Christians call "community"? Do they not sell good looking people partying with other good looking people? Even the losers in those commercials all of a
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Evangelical Free
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And when we,
when people discover the power of the resurrection of Jesus,
this affects how we approach life, how we live.
Many of us have heard of Darren Beadman.
His is one of the celebrity jockeys, in one year the horses he rode earnt $9.6 million dollars.
In 1990 and 1996 he rode Melbourne Cup
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Lutheran
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Dec 19, 2007
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(Thanks to Dennis O’Gorman for this illustration). Ernie Smith was a bit odd, but he was a good man. For Ernie every day was Christmas. Each day he switched on his Christmas tree lights. His house was full of cards.
As he passed people in the street he would wish them a Happy Christmas! On
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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In 1962, missionaries named Don and Carol Richardson went to New Guinea to bring the Good News of Christ to a group of people known as the Sawi. The Sawi was a headhunting, cannibalistic tribe who used the skulls of their victims as pillows. He wrote a book about his experience called "Peace
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Contributed by Rob O'neal on Jul 7, 2009
VESUVIUS: CHECK THE MAP
The people of the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum lived at the bottom of a mountain. They loved the mountain, because they believed it was a place where gods dwelt. The land was fertile, and the harbor was good, so the city prospered and grew. Then in 62 and 63 AD,
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Congregational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Mar 23, 2010
PEACE AT ANY PRICE-----I had Speech professor in college whose specialty was studying group interaction. She studied how groups of people interact differently in formal meetings as opposed to informal meetings. (Pretty interesting stuff huh?)
Be that as it may, she got herself involved in a group
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Contributed by Richard Francis on Aug 19, 2008
I recently heard Robert Fergusson a minister at the Hillsong Church in Sydney define four types of people with a heart for people, people who are inspiring, not comfortable to be around, go out into communities to help the sick, wounded, bleeding, dying ones into a deep pool of blessing, these
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 18, 2009
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Does God exist? Barbers Don’t Exist…
This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen. It’s an explanation other people will understand.
Does God exist? A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work,
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Pentecostal