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What do Thanksgiving, Easter, Pentecost, Memorial Day, Labor Day, etc. have in common?
They are all holidays which fall not on a specific date, like, December 25 or July 4, but they fall on the “first Monday”, “fourth Thursday”, “fifty days after….”
You see what I mean?
Thanksgiving Day has a
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 7, 2008
The power of Easter is not just a one shot deal… it is an everyday deal as we allow the Lord to open our eyes and minds and thus our hearts and souls to the love and grace of God through Christ.
Eat well today! Eat well everyday! Feed your soul
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it wont stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it up in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Easter Angels Angels, roll the rock away; Death, yield up thy mighty prey; See, He rises from the tomb, Glowing with immortal bloom.
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Message to Garcia
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In all this Cuban business there is one man who stands out on the horizon of my memory. When war broke out between Spain and the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Nigel Heath on May 19, 2009
MESSAGING ERRORS
How skilled are we at communicating? Perhaps not as skilled as we think. It is easy to send the wrong message without knowing it.
There is a famous example of a message that was sent in WWII "Send reinforcements we’re going to advance." But by the time it reached its destination
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 19, 2009
CONFUSING MESSAGES
PARIS (AFP) – Heart attack survivors who eat chocolate two or more times per week cut their risk of dying from heart disease about threefold compared to those who never touch the stuff, scientists have reported.
...the new study, led by Imre Janszky of the Karolinska Institute
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 30, 2010
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A MESSAGE ON LYING
A minister, one Sunday morning, said to his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach about the sin of lying. In preparation for that message, I'm asking all of you to read Mark 17 this coming week."
The following Sunday, he stood up to preach and asked, "How many of you took
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Ordinary people talking. And that’s how it should be. Look at our reading.
Jesus invested a lot of time in his 12 disciples. He invested even more in the four key
disciples; Peter, Andrew,James and John.
Yet it wasn’t the four who first asked to tell the people the good news of the resurection
It
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Anglican
Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Apr 9, 2004
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Bruce Larson said, “The events of Easter cannot be reduced to a creed or philosophy. We are not asked to believe the doctrine of the resurrection. We are asked to meet this person raised from the dead. In faith, we move from belief in a doctrine
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Nazarene
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A few years ago during the Easter season a very unusual cross was constructed on the front lawn of a church in Dallas, Texas. The cross, which was at least 10 feet tall, became extremely controversial. Many people in the community, some of whom were church members, wanted the cross to be taken
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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You may recall that on Easter Sunday I made reference to Charles Schulz’s comic strip PEANUTS. The fact that I have to identify it as “Charles Schulz’s comic strip PEANUTS” just shows you how much things have changed. In the circles where I grew up, you could quote “PEANUTS” with no more
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Spurgeon opened his Easter sermon on April 8, 1855 like this:
AN INVITATION GIVEN.
I shall commence my remarks this morning by inviting all Christians to come with me to the tomb of Jesus. "Come, see the place where the Lord lay." We will labor to render the place attractive, we will gently take
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Keith Wessel on Apr 14, 2001
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Easter is so much more than learning how to face death without fear, with courage and dignity. After all, even philosophers, poets, and scientists can do that. I remember the astronomer Carl Sagan mention in an interview that he was looking forward to death as “the last great adventure.” Walt
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Lutheran