Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
This week in my reading I read a question which sobered or stunned me. It comes from the book “The church of Irresistible Influence” and it asks this question; “If your church were to close its doors today,
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Contributed by Dave Kinney on Sep 20, 2008
I read the other day - you show me a man who comes home greeted with a big smile, encouraged to take off his shoes, served a wonderful dinner sitting on a pillow arranged on the floor a special
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Baptist
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We can see greener grass. But greener grass comes from a higher water bill, or the is a septic tank under the green grass. Dealing with people can have great appeal if it is those unknown people over there. Don’t
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Dale Harlow on Jan 14, 2003
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote;
Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. So the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Oct 25, 2009
King Midas got what his heart longed for. How he loved gold! Now everything he touched turned to gold. An oak twig. A rock. He had what his heart treasured, until his little
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Lutheran
Contributed by Bobby Gilstrap on May 25, 2010
Some unknown poet put it this way:
They came to the gates of Canaan,
But they never entered in;
They came to the very threshold,
But they perished in their sin.
And so we are ever coming
To the place where two ways part,
One leads to the land of
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Aug 19, 2007
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Waiting On The Lord
G. Campbell Morgan put it this way: “Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
It is said that a church is considered evangelistically effective if just 1 person in 20 in that church leads a person to Christ in a year. This would mean that a church of 100 people would see five people come to Christ in their ministry in a year’s
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 19, 2009
Stress can be both positive or negative; it can drain us, but it can also charge us!
1. Distress -- demotivates us, brings us down
2. Eustress-- motivates us, it is tiring in the short term by invigorating in the long…
• Meeting a challenge
• Coming
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Independent/Bible
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The highest school of learning in God’s arsenal is the Graduate School of Affliction and Suffering. All of God’s greatest workers had to attend this graduate school. If you are a chosen vessel and have a work to do for God you will attend and learn in
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Assembly Of God
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SHALOM.
Shalom is a word hard to translate, the total meaning is very hard to express in English.
Shalom means total well being.
Shalom is not possible if we are hiding anger, wrath, hurt, disappointment. Shalom, total -- complete -- well being, comes in attitudes that
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2002
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GIVE ME MY CHANGE
A Buddhist approaches a hotdog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything."
The Buddhist gives the vendor a $20 bill and waits. Finally he says, "Where’s my change?"
The vendor replies, "All
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
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Joseph Choate, one-time U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, when asked who he would like to be if he could come back to earth again after he died, replied without an instant’s hesitation: “Mrs. Choate’s second
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