Contributed by James Buchanan on Sep 12, 2003
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A New England high school teacher taught a course entitled The Bible as Literature. Only seniors in the top 10 percent of the class could take this course. A pre-test was given to evaluate the students’ biblical knowledge. One student defined the Epistles as "wives of the Apostles." A pastor was so
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2003
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A man and his teenage son were on a fishing trip miles from home. At the teen’s insistence, they decided to attend Sunday worship service at a small rural church. As they walked back to their car after the service, the father was filled with complaints. "The service was too long, the sermon was
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Contributed by Chip Monck on Mar 1, 2005
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Richard Foster writes in his book A Celebration of Discipline, “In a culture where the landscape is dotted with shrines to the Golden Arches and an assortment of Pizza Temples, fasting seems out of place, out of step with the times. In fact, fasting has been in general disrepute both in and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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Is There A Hell? A recent USA Today (reported in the 10/31/97 issue) poll discovered 52% of adults are certain that there is a hell, and 27% think there might be. 48% think it will be a real place where people suffer eternal torment, with 46% thinking it will be an anguished state of existence
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Contributed by Tim Zukas on Jan 2, 2005
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First consider what we should not do. Imagine that you made the trip and paid the price to go to a professional football game. Now, imagine that instead of playing the game, for the entire time the teams just had huddles. That isn’t what you paid for, you want to see some action. But we as a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2002
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THE REAL ISSUE
"Even a superficial study of church history reveals that the Spirit of God blows with hurricane force only through those prophets and lovers who have surrendered to the folly of the cross. If there is little power and shallow wisdom in our preaching, teaching, worship, and ministry,
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Contributed by Daryl Bahn on Apr 11, 2002
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Today, we need our eyes opened to Jesus just as much as those early Christians. In one church, a sign that only the pastor could see was taped up in the pulpit. It quoted the words of John 12:21, (spoken by the Greeks who were in Jerusalem for the Passover to Philip) – “Sir, we would like to see
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Apr 18, 2002
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Following the Sunday morning service, the pastor stood at the back of the church, shaking hands with the worshipers as they left.
As one man shook hands, he looked intently at the pastor and said, "Powerful sermons, Pastor. Thoughtful, well researched. I can always see myself in them…and I want
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Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Dec 10, 2001
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A little boy and a little girl were singing their favorite Christmas carol in church the Sunday before Christmas. The boy concluded “Silent Night” with the words, “sleep in heavenly beans.”
His sister elbowed him, and said, “No. Not beans, peas!”
The way many of us feel by the time we are ready
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 7, 2002
(India)--Elsewhere, Christian Aid Mission reports that a ministry
based in Tamil Nadu is seeing a rich harvest of souls. Missionaries of the outreach say over the last year, there were more than 12-thousand professions of faith that eventually grouped into nearly 300 small churches. The ministry
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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Men
Of the estimated 94 million American males 18 or older, only 26 million currently attend church.
An average man has 1 chance in 11 of going to prison.
He has $3,100 in the bank and makes $27,418 a year.
1 in 4 will cheat on their wives versus 1 in 8 for wives.
1.9 million
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Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Apr 23, 2007
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Jim Cymballa, pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle, told his small congregation that “if they called upon the Lord, He had promised in His word to answer, to bring the unsaved to Himself, and to pour out His Spirit among them. If they did not call upon the Lord, He had promised them nothing.”
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Aug 4, 2007
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Revival -- If?
If all the sleeping folk will wake up,
If all the lukewarm folk will fire up,
If all the dishonest folk will confess up,
If all the disgruntled folk will cheer up,
If all the depressed folk will cheer up,
If all the estranged folk will make up,
If all the
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 18, 2008
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"We are not to be dazzled, as many people are, by the person, gifts or office of teachers in the church. They may come to us with great dignity, authority and scholarship. They may be bishops or archbishops, university professors or even the pope himself. But if they bring a gospel other than the
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