Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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Christian Music Illegal: The New York Division of Human Rights has accused a skating rink of discrimination for playing Christian music during a skate party for churches. Rink owners insist they’ve done nothing wrong and that authorities are investigating to
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Contributed by Charles Salmon on Sep 12, 2006
ILUS.: At one point in my early ministry, I was in the hospital emergency room with a Church family when a young man was brought in after a train wreck. His family refused to allow transfusions because or religious belief. He died while a court order was being pursued.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Tony Searles on Nov 24, 2006
Hudson Taylor was scheduled to speak at a Large Presbyterian church in Melbourne, Australia. The moderator of the service introduced the missionary in eloquent and glowing terms. He told the large congregation all that Taylor had accomplished in China, and then presented him as "our illustrious
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Contributed by Tony Dicostanzo on Jan 27, 2003
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Illstration: Tonto and the Lone Ranger were riding through a canyon together when all of a sudden both sides were filled with Indian warriors on horses, dressed for battle. The Lone Ranger turned to Tonto and asked, “What are we going to do?” Tonto replied, “What you mean ‘we,’
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
CHRISTIAN HOME
A family was driving home after church and they noticed little Johnny was sitting in the back seat crying his eyes out. Mom asked him several times what was wrong, but he just kept crying.
Then finally he sobbed, "The pastor said
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 11, 2010
Charles Spurgeon said, “Though the winning of souls be a great thing, though the edifying of believers be an important matter, though the reclamation of backsliders calls for earnest attention, yet never, never, never may we cease from praising and magnifying the name of the well-beloved. This is
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 25, 2010
A farmer was known for his bad language. Parents always kept their children from him. However, he was invited to church, and accepted Christ! There was a great change in his language. He remarked, “I’ve been changed so much that even my horses don’t
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2010
There is a legend from the early years of the church when a serious follower of Christ joined a community of monks to flee temptation. Safe within the walls of the monastery he would avoid temptations of sexuality, covetousness, greed, anger, etc.
Yet one day he was told that his brother
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Apr 1, 2010
"He paid I debt He did not owe,
I owed a debt I could not pay,
I needed someone to wash my sins away
And now I sing a brand new song, Amazing Grace!
Christ Jesus paid the debt that I could never
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Baptist
Contributed by David Simpson on Jan 30, 2018
Dr. John Geddie, a Presbyterian missionary, went to Aneityum, an island in the South Pacific in 1848 and worked there for God for 24 years. On a tablet erected to his memory in the church where he preached, these words are inscribed:
When he landed, in 1848, there were no Christians. When he
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Christian Church
Contributed by Don Hawks on Jul 10, 2007
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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
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Methodist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Nov 15, 2007
A pastor friend asked me to go with him to cleanse a house for a church member that keep having apparations in his house. They lived alone but people kept seeing people in his house when no one was there. We prayed through the house annoiting it with oil and dedicating it to Jesus, and commanded
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 14, 2008
Lucian lived between 120 and 200 AD. He was a Greek satirist and opponent of anything religious (which he grouped together as superstitions). Yet when he saw the generosity of the Christian church he wrote: “It is incredible to see the fervor with which the people of that religion help each other
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2006
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The British busted up of a terrorist plot - one that was within days of blowing up as many as 10 U.S. airliners somewhere over the Atlantic - demonstrates once again that we have two enemies in the War on Terror. These enemies are the terrorists themselves and our own complacency.
It’s almost
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Jesus Christ is about to leave his disciples. He is about to go. He tells them in 14:1, “Let not your heart be troubled; I am going to leave you to prepare a place for you. I will come again to receive you unto myself.” I have to go right now, though.
The disciples had been walking with Jesus for
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Baptist
Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
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Americans are willing to spend billions to lose weight. Marketing products and services to dieters is a cinch, a dream, and a no-brainer big business, and easy money, because more than 120 million or 61% of people in the USA are overweight, obese, or overweight by 30 pounds or more. The common
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Contributed by Jess Bousa on Jan 2, 2005
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In South America, I think Peru, an evangelist was holding a crusade which lasts a couple days and on the day before the last day of the crusade he said to the audience that he wants each person under the sound of his voice to ask somebody to come to the crusade tomorrow. So this little girl who
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Pentecostal
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