Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Make me a captive, Lord, And then I shall be free. Force me to render up my
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"A Christian man is the most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful
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Contributed by Steve Smith on Feb 26, 2007
Hudson Taylor says it this way: “The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; At just the right time, and in the
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Baptist
Contributed by Clark Tanner on May 19, 2008
I read a little blurb in a Reader’s Digest years ago. A man sent in the story of when he was driving through an animal park where the animals are free and the visitors drive through on a narrow road to look at them.
He said that as he came around a bend there was a large black car with darkly
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Orthodox
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I heard the story of a young man who told his pastor that the Lord had called him into the ministry. And for several months he was busy in the work of the Lord, serving in the pulpit, leading Bible studies, going to prayer meeting, and so on. But then all of a sudden, he stopped coming to church.
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Tim Richards on May 20, 2005
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Consider the Vietnam Wall. When people visit the wall, they remember the events that took place when we were fighting in Vietnam. Even those who weren’t alive at the time are moved as they see name after name of individual soldiers who laid down their lives fighting for our nation. That wall serves
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Baptist
Contributed by David Thompson on Jul 30, 2005
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You see we have the spiritual side of worship, the music we make with our hearts, the bread that represents the body of Christ, the covenant that the cup represents and, the blood of Christ.
And over here we have the physical side of worship. Actually eating the bread, and drinking the fruit
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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I had been teaching my three-year old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord’s Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, she would repeat after me the lines from the prayer. Finally, she decided to go solo. I listened with pride as she carefully enunciated each word, right up to the end of the prayer: "Lead
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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And one particular four-year old prayed, "And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2006
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Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), U.S. poet, novelist. Discordants (l. 1–4). . .
Oxford Book of American
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 29, 2007
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One traditional question Jewish children ask their father as part of the Passover dinner is "Ma Nishtana ha lei la haze," "Why is this NIGHT different than any other NIGHT." Dad then recounts the story of the Exodus.
Comedian George Burns, who was Jewish, tells this joke:
During one of my many
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Independent/Bible
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SUSTAINING FELLOWSHIP- COMMUNION MEDITATION
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and theologian who was an enemy of the Nazis because he refused to go along with their state idea of a church that practiced the anti-semitism of the Nazis. In fact, he was a hunted man who upheld authentic
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United Methodist
Contributed by Eric Stefanski on Aug 3, 2003
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Those who don’t understand the food that God gives, those who don’t see how deep their need is for it, also consider the Gospel and Sacrament as ’fleeting’, and they seek some new ’rush’ in worship, desiring an emotional high, no matter how lacking in nutrition such a meal is. It’s like the
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Lutheran