Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 24, 2008
                
                
                
                    The song that we sang earlier, “In Christ Alone,” is a hymn that tells the story of Jesus. Imagine if the song would end with the words,
 “There in the ground His body lay,
Light of the world by darkness slain:”
	But it doesn’t end there. That is not the end because it goes on and this is my
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 10, 2009
                
                
                
                    Keith Getty, who wrote the hymn "In Christ Alone" says there are three signs of the church on decline:
1. The church becomes decreasingly knowledgeable of God. 
2. The church becomes increasing obsessed with itself.
3. The
                    
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                    "Christ’s method alone will give true success in reaching the people.  The Savior mingled with men as one who desired their good.  He showed His sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, won their confidence.  Then He
                    
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                    "Christ’s method alone will give true success in reaching the people.  The Savior mingled with men as one who desired their good.  He showed His sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, won their confidence.  Then He
                    
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                    ALONE ON CHRISTMAS
George Mason’s life was centered in his business. He lived alone and refused all invitations to socialize. His brother’s family had urged him to visit but the children always made too much noise. Besides, he didn’t want to buy presents for his nephews and nieces. Instead he
                    
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                    Each December, millions of people around the world watch Frank Capra’s 1946 film, "It’s A Wonderful Life". Although it wasn’t a hit when it debuted, it has become a Christmas classic.
In a Time magazine essay, Roger Rosenblatt pondered the film’s continuing appeal. He concluded that the
                    
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                    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 2, 2009
                
                
                
                    Consider a new mother home alone with her baby. Suddenly she’s awakened by the smell of smoke. The house is on fire. Her only thought is for her baby. She races down the smoke-filled hall without a thought for her own safety. She grabs him in her arms, shields his face from the flames with her
                    
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                    Contributed by Bernard Dawson on Dec 14, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ALONE ON CHRISTMAS
George Mason’s life was centered in his business. He lived alone and refused all invitations to socialize. His brother’s family had urged him to visit but the children always made too much noise. Besides, he didn’t want to buy presents for his nephews and nieces. Instead he
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 14, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Reed Lessing tells the story of a Native American ritual for training young braves:
"On the night of a boy’s thirteenth birthday, he was placed in a dense forest to spend the entire night alone. Until then he had never been away from the security of his family and tribe. But on
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 29, 2011
                
                
                
                    THAT CROSS ALONE
Clarence Jordan, author of the "Cotton Patch" New Testament translation, and founder of the interracial Koinonia farm in Americus, Georgia, was getting a red-carpet tour of another minister's church.  With pride the minister pointed to the rich, imported furnishings and luxurious
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Feb 12, 2008
                
                
                
                    You can’t have Christ and evolution.  You can’t have Christ and secular philosophy or psychiatry.  You can’t have Christ and Mohammed or Christ and Joseph Smith or Christ and anything.  You may only have Christ alone, or no Christ – and anything else you want because none of it will lead you
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Pierce on May 25, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A grain alone or with many others?
STORY OF ONE GRAIN OF WHEAT:  Farmer plows soil, digs shallow trenches, but must drop only one grain of seed at a time.  Still true.  Farmers pull a “grain drill.”  Notched wheel drops seed through tube exactly one grain at a time.  Single grain gathers moisture
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 9, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GOD ALONE BE PRAISED
"But I entreat those who believe in and fear God, whoever deigns to examine or receive this document composed by the obviously unlearned sinner Patrick in Ireland, that nobody shall ever ascribe to my ignorance any trivial thing that I achieved or may have expounded that was
                    
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