Contributed by John Harvey on Mar 31, 2004
Crucifixion was a form of capital punishment reserved for slaves and those who were a threat to Rome. This explains why Pontius Pilate chose crucifixion as the penalty for Jesus Christ, since Jesus claimed a
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Baptist
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A pastor was going through a crisis. His little daughter who was paralyzed was sitting in her chair as he entered the house with a package for his wife. Giving his daughter a big kiss he asked, "where is Mother?" "Upstairs," She replied. " Well, I have something for her" "Let me carry it to
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Contributed by Davon Huss on May 30, 2005
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Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks, and shirt as he went.
He flew into the water, not realizing that as he
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Dec 23, 2005
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I have always held my Father in high respect. I always wanted to please him. But, when I was in 10th grade I lost interest in school. Grades had always been pretty easy and I thought I could just skate by. Besides, everybody knew, baseball and basketball was what was really important. Then I got
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Christian Church
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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I never made a sacrifice. We ought not to talk of sacrifice when we remember the great sacrifice which He made who left His
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"It is the habit of making sacrifices in small things that enables us for making them in
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In his book Dare To Believe, Dan Baumann shared some thoughts about crucifixion that should deepen our gratitude for what the Savior did for us. He wrote, "The twentieth century has forgotten how cruel and hideous crucifixion really was. We have perhaps unwisely and sometimes unconsciously
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
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Lady last minute shopping with kids in tow, this lady was really having a hard time during her Christmas shopping trip. As she shoved her way into a chrowded elevator, she said, "I dont know who’s responsible for all this Christmas stuff, but they ought to arrest him, string him up, and shoot
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Baptist
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Sacrificial Love
Years ago, a young mother was making her way across the hills of South Wales, carrying her tiny baby in her arms, when she was overtaken by a blinding blizzard. She never reached her destination, and when the blizzard had subsided her body was found by searchers beneath a mound of
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Church Of God
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 25, 2008
A cartoon has been found on a wall in the ruins of ancient Rome showing how crazy the Christian message seemed to the people of that time. It’s a caricature of Jesus’ crucifixion, showing a man’s body hanging on a cross - but the body has the head of a donkey! There’s also a figure of a
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 12, 2008
ROCKY
One of the biggest movies of modern times, "Rocky" starring Sylvester Stallone, almost never got made. Stallone was struggling to find work as a screenwriter. He saw a fight against Ali and little-known Church Wepner. Wepner went 15 rounds, and it gave Stallone an idea. Three days later,
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Baptist
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THE SIMPLE STORY
Last week, I met in the worship center with the four-year-olds from the school and we talked about what pastors do. After I was done showing them my robe and stoles and my private Communion kit and talking about the different places a pastor stands in church to talk about Jesus, I
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Lutheran
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OBITUARIES
Jeruselem 33 AD
Calvary
Jesus Christ, 33, of Nazareth died Friday on Mount Calvary, also known as Golgotha, the place of the skull. Betrayed by Judas, Jesus was crucified by the Romans, by order of the Ruler Pontius Pilate. The causes of death were extreme exhaustion, severe torture,
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Contributed by David Tack on May 6, 2009
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SYMBOL OF ATONEMENT
"The cross is a fitting symbol of the atonement, for it represents the intersecting of two attributes or facets of God’s nature. Here it is that the love of God meets the holiness of God. The holiness requires payment of the penalty, and the love provides that
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Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 18, 2009
ONE MOMENT'S BELIEVING
Octavius Winslow said it this way. "One moment’s believing, close contact with the cross will do more to break the heart for sin, deepen the conviction of its exceeding sinfulness, and disenthrall the soul from all its bondage and its fears, bringing it into a sense of
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