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  • The Sensitivity Argument That Any Reference To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "The sensitivity argument that any reference to Christmas at all might make someone feel bad is responsible for the spread of the anti-Christmas campaign from religious symbols to the purely secular and harmless trappings of the season, including red poinsettias, red-and-green cookies, holiday ...read more

  • I Am Especially Moved By A Story From Last ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Apr 28, 2010
     | 2,407 views

    I am especially moved by a story from last October, of Pervaiz Masih, a Christian janitor at a women's complex in the International Islamic University in Pakistan who purposely blocked the way of a suicide bomber who was trying to reach hundreds of women in the cafeteria. While the bomber was ...read more

  • Skunks And Evangelists

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 7, 2010
     | 2,519 views

    SKUNKS AND EVANGELISTS Don Posterski is an Albertan-born Canadian, living in Ontario. He served as a pastor but is more widely known for his writings and research. One of his books is called "True to You – Living our Faith in our Multi-minded World." He speaks of "emerging cultural etiquette." ...read more

  • It

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Jan 15, 2011
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    "IT" Did any of you see a film that came out in the 90s - "The Adams Family". There's a creature named "it" that is a hand that runs around on its own [mime it]. St Paul tells us the church is the body of Christ. We are all parts of a body interconnected with each other. But if we try to be ...read more

  • Service And Usefulness

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jun 8, 2012
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    SERVICE AND USEFULNESS The great Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer, Niccolo Paganini willed his marvellous violin to city of Genoa on condition that it must never be played. The wood of such an instrument, while used and handled, wears only slightly. But set aside, it begins to ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of The Renowned Conductor ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 7, 2003
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    The story is told of the renowned conductor Reichel who was leading a great orchestra and choir in the final rehearsal of Messiah. They had come to that point where the soprano soloist takes up the refrain, “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” With the chorus quiet, her elegant voice rang out. It ...read more

  • Is It Really Possible To Be In Love With God? ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 11, 2004
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    Is it really possible to be in love with God? Gloria Gather answers this question for us by noting: His Love ... Reaching Right from the beginning God's love has reached, and from the beginning man has refused to understand. But love went on reaching, offering itself. Love offered the eternal ...read more

  • Why Was He Crying?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 18, 2005
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    WHY WAS HE CRYING? Do you suppose it could have been a little like rush hour traffic on the big city expressway? One car stops, then all the other cars stop, like a chain reaction. I can just hear the people way back in the crowd that day saying, "What’s the holdup? What is going on? Why don’t ...read more

  • Speaking Of Pit Stops, Our Church Secretary, Adra ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jun 3, 2005
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    Speaking of Pit Stops, our church secretary, Adra told me about a “pit stop” her roommate from college was forced to make the other day. She was driving to the airport when a bottle of coke that she had in the back seat exploded! Coke went everywhere! Of course that startled her, and she was ...read more

  • Many Of Us Live Our Lives Like Monopoly. You ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Nov 16, 2006
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    Many of us live our lives like MONOPOLY. You know how the game works. Players accumulate property, build houses and hotels, and then wait for the other players to land on their property so they have to pay up. Eventually you hope to bankrupt everyone else and have all the money and property. ...read more

  • W. A. Criswell Tells Of A Man, In The Days Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    W. A. Criswell tells of a man, in the days of Queen Victoria, who was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit. A friend on the outside, convinced of his innocence, worked untiringly for his release. Finally, after years of research, the friend found the information he ...read more

  • But When The Holy Spirit Controls Our Lives He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Jun 23, 2007
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    But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives He will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control’ (Galatians 5:16-17 & 23 TLB). Is living like this really possible? Yes, but you must do four things: 1) understand that ...read more

  • The Laymen

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
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    Leave it to the ministers, And soon the church will die; Leave it to the women folk, And some will pass it by; For the church is all that lifts us From the coarse and selfish mob, And the church that is to prosper Needs the laymen on the job. Now a layman has his business, And a ...read more

  • Though Batttle Scarred She Kept The Faith And ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Feb 6, 2008
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    though batttle scarred she kept the faith and never would give in a teacher and a preacher a great soldier to the end a thousand lives were touched by her, a spirit always strong today she walks in glory another saint has now moved on there is no doubt that she was called her gifts came shining ...read more

  • An Emergency-Room Doctor Wrote, "Recently We Saw ...  PRO

    Contributed by Curtis Rowe on Aug 4, 2008
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    An Emergency-room doctor wrote, "Recently we saw another preview of hell in the Parkland Hospital in Dallas. A woman struck down by a drunken driver. A college student lying semi-conscious following a head on collision with another drunk driver who himself was critically injured. The drunk's ...read more

  • Grace Is A Force A Power That We All Need To ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 26, 2008
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    Grace is a force a power that we all need to experience and to tap because it has power: Grace has the power to transform a life filled with sorrow to a life filled with joy. Grace has the power to deliver one from them self. Grace has the power to bring love into a loveless life. Grace has the ...read more

  • Some Of You Will Have Met My Friend Chris Page. ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Dec 19, 2008
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    Some of you will have met my friend Chris Page. He preached here at Christ Church about two years ago and it was a joy to meet up with him in Rwanda in November 2007. About eight years ago Chris firmly believed that God was asking him to go and live in Rwanda to work amongst orphans and to start-up ...read more

  • There Were Two Brothers Named John And Charles. ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
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    There were two brothers named John and Charles. They grew up in a religious home. They believed there was a God. They had religious training. One even became a minister. But it was not until their 30’s or so, did they truly have their hearts, as one of them put it, ‘strangely warmed.’ That heart ...read more

  • Bill Hybels: Why People Are Lonely

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 14, 2011
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    BILL HYBELS: WHY PEOPLE ARE LONELY Why do we have a sense of loneliness today? Bill Hybels explains it this way: "It is a "me-first” mind-set. This mind-set says indulge yourself, fulfill your desires, satiate your appetites, pursue pleasure, take off all restraints. As much as we might want to ...read more

  • Message To Baylor Students

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Jan 10, 2012
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    MESSAGE TO BAYLOR STUDENTS Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks was president of Baylor University in Texas from 1902 until his death in 1931. On his deathbed he wrote a message to the senior class of 1931 which has become immortal to the students of Baylor. "I stand on the border of mortal life but I face ...read more