Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"God gives you the privilege and the indescribable honor of presenting your bodies to the Holy Spirit, to be His dwelling place on earth. If you have been washed in the blood of the Lamb, then yours is a holy body,
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The Holy Father reminds us of the words of St. Cyril: we "call upon God in his mercy to send his Holy Spirit upon the offerings before us, to transform the bread into the body of Christ and the wine into the blood of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 5, 2003
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I remember as a child, my brother, sister and I used to ‘play house’ outside. Dad had built us a playhouse and we spent many days out there. Like most kids who would play house always had to make something to eat – right?
So there we would go. Gotta have a little water to mix in with that dirt –
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Contributed by Joel Vicente on May 27, 2004
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Susanna Petroysan heard her daughter’s pleas, but there was nothing she could do. She and four-year-old Gayaney were trapped beneath tons of collapsed concrete and steel. Beside them in the darkness lay the body of Susanna’s sister-in-law, Karine, one of the fifty-five thousand victims of the worst
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Jesus said, "I am thirsty."
No wonder he was thirsty. Loss of blood. Exposure. Heat. Exhaustion. Dehydration. He’s been on the cross now for 6 hours. The sweat rolls off him like buckets. It’s hot. And the flies are buzzing around him. The crowds taunting him. The blood mixes with the sweat as it
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Main Idea: Jesus took our place of punishment.
Verse: “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
Illustration: One time there were two brothers. One brother murdered a man and came home with blood all over his clothes. The
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Charismatic
Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Oct 7, 2011
NO TRESPASSING
"No Trespassing" sign in West Texas, with the ranchers name signed in blood red next to the warning:
"STOP. I know you’re thinking about crossing this gate. What you should know is that if the
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Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 30, 2001
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Nancy Spiegelberg captured the scene in the Garden with these lines:
In the dark place of olive trees
You had a chance to turn Your back
on us and say:
¡§Father, forget them; they¡¦re not worth
the price.¡¨
Instead, in the dark place, above
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Fanny Crosby, blinded by an illness at 6 weeks of age, would grow to write over 9,000 poems and hymns. One of her many hymns begin this way:
Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it,
Redeemed by the blood of the
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THE BEAUTY OF CHRIST
Just as we are attracted to the loveliness of a sunset, of the Grand Canyon, of the intricate order of a mariposa leaf or esperanza blossom, we are awed by the deeds of power in the Old Testament and New. But we are also attracted by the beauty of the words of Christ, words
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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
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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