There is the story of a boy who attended a church that had stained-glass windows. When asked the meaning of the word saint, he said, “they are people the light shines through”. (Charles E. Bugg. ed. The Abingdon Preaching Annnual 2002. J.
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United Methodist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 18, 2007
D. L. Moody preached one Sunday night in Chicago. He asked the congregation to think about the message a week and come back. That night Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lantern and the great Chicago fire ensued. Hundreds of people
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The April 16, 2007 issue of Time Magazine contains and excerpt from the new biography on Albert Einstein titled, Einstein and Faith. The last paragraph in the excerpt reads, “For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God’s existence. For Einstein, it was the absence of miracles that reflected
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jul 1, 2007
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, in The Gulag Archipelago, writes: “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Story: According to an ancient Russian Orthodox tradition, the day before Easter was devoted to telling jokes.
Priests would join the people in telling their best jokes to one another. (presumably “clean” jokes!!)
The reason was to reflect the joke God pulled on the devil in the
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
Researcher George Barna notes research outcomes help to better understand the place of Christian belief in American society. He observes, “Many people seem to divide the Bible into two separate and unequal portions: the Old Testament, with what they perceive to be allegorical
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
Top Business Books Good to Great, The World is Flat, and Blink were the top 3 most recently read books by senior-level marketing execs. All -time favorite business books they’ve ever read Good to Great, Positioning, and 7
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2008
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A famous preacher visited a Nursing home that had some patients with Alzheimer's in it. He went around and greeted the people who were very glad to see him. He walked up to one lady and asked, "Do you know who I
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HOW'S BUSINESS?
Peter Drucker, as you probably know, is a management consultant without equal. He says in one of his many books that there are two questions that people in any organization ought to ask themselves -- whether it be a manufacturing plant, the sales division of a large
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 17, 2008
The most crippling time for the church is summer time and vacations. People are traveling and spend their tithe, or drop it in a church they are visiting. Too many come home and having been away for weeks over the summer, have no sense of obligation to “make up” the shortfall in
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 30, 2009
The most famous egg parasites are birds. Cuckoos and cowbirds, for example, sneak their eggs into the nests of other species. The victims often accept an interloper egg and raise the chick.
The people in Jeremiah’s day had become rich dishonestly, and had forsaken the Lord.
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Charles Wallis on May 19, 2009
A family was having a lot of problems with ants. The ants were everywhere and would attack anything that looked like food. One day, some ants got into the salt shaker, but they were dead. Perhaps one ant said to the other, "Hey look, it’s sugar!" In
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 10, 2009
“How you spend the time that is your own will greatly determine what you think about. No doubt about it – Satan brings his greatest temptations to people when they have time on their hands. It takes discipline of character and proper goals to handle correctly the
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Baptist
Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
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“When we give our hearts to Christ in salvation, we experience “peace with God” (Romans 5:1); but the “peace of God” takes us a step farther into God’s blessings. This does not mean the absence of trials on the outside, but it does mean a quiet confidence within,
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Baptist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Sep 22, 2009
Many highways have road bumps or indentations along the side of the road. When the car tires hit those lines, there is a loud noise like a machine gun that alerts you that you are off the road. In the same way, we need boundaries where
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Pentecostal
PUTTING THE BRAKES ON
"Violence puts the brakes on authentic development and impedes the evolution of peoples towards greater socio-economic and spiritual well-being. This applies especially to terrorism motivated by fundamentalism, which generates grief, destruction and death, obstructs dialogue
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Catholic
Contributed by Jorge Acevedo on Feb 17, 2010
St. Augustine, one of the early church fathers (4th and 5th century) wrote,
“People travel and wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass
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Baptist
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