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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 Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2002
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When my son was just 5 years old, he and I were standing in line at a card store during the Christmas season. He noticed on the counter a small statue for sale, depicting Santa kneeling at the manger of baby Jesus. Curiously he asked me, "Daddy, did that really happen?"
Knowing it had not
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Contributed by Bob Gillchrest on Dec 29, 2008
PREVIOUSLY IN BETHLEHEM...
In order to fix such a mess and to bring the presence of God back into the midst of His chosen people, you have to understand the back story. In the world of drama, every character in a play, or in a television show or movie, has a back story. This is what happened
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
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THE TALE OF THE STAR
Eusebius, a scholarly church historian of the early fourth century, evidently made a considerable study of the literature available to him, and came to this conclusion about the star: "The star was new and a stranger among the usual lights of heaven, a strange star, not one
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The coming of Christ by way of a Bethlehem manger seems strange and stunning. But when we take Him out of the manger and invite Him into our hearts,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
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THE LIGHT OF THE CHRISTMAS STAR
In New York’s Hayden Planetarium a special Christmas holiday show was enhanced by an added feature. A giant lollipop tree was projected onto the planetarium dome, surrounded by a horizon filled with brilliantly colored toys which came to life and cavorted to the
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on May 20, 2002
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Title: Look to the Stars
One night Abraham Lincoln suggested to a young man that they take a walk along a country road. Lincoln lifted his eyes to the heavens full of stars and said, "I never behold them that I don’t feel I am looking into the face of God. A man might look down upon the
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 23, 2007
The Star of David
Unless you subscribe to The Atlanta Journal Constitution, you probably missed the story that was in the May 17, 1987 edition.
A rock hound named Rob Cutshaw owns a little roadside shop outside Andrews, North Carolina. Like many in the trade, he hunts for rocks, then sells them to
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The Tarnished Star
A half step slower than yesterday
a little pain won’t go away
not quite as strong
not near as high
a younger man has passed him by
the tarnished star.
He works so hard, he gives his all
but new stars rise while old stars fall
he was so bright, a brilliant light,
but now a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"We are stars, bold, blazing, light-giving stars No need to shout, scream, or
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Contributed by Michael Gibney on Jun 8, 2002
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THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 29, 2007
Illustration 4300 Star Over Christ’s Birthplace
A Silver Star hanging over the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem was the cause of a war which involved five world powers, lasted three long years, and caused a million casualties as well as a billion and a half dollars. This was known as the Crimean
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John Piper, from our sister church, Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis:
“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. WORSHIP IS! Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When the age is over, and countless millions of
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 16, 2005
ILLUSTRATION... Star Wars Episode I
The Trade Federation is angling to take over the planet of Naboo, placing Queen Amidala, its ruler, in peril. The incursion sets off a galactic political struggle. One of the pivotal points in the movie comes when the Queen seeks out the other inhabitants of
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