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Jesus displays for us in person the compassion of God for his suffering saints. God in the flesh is able to demonstrate for us what God in heaven feels when we cry out to him in moments of grief or sorrow.
There are certain theological systems of belief that hold to the idea that God is unmoved
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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Anatoli Shcharansky, a dissident Soviet Jew, kissed his wife goodbye as she left Russia for freedom in Israel. His parting words to her were, "I’ll see you soon in Jerusalem." But Anatoli was detained and finally imprisoned. Their reunion in Jerusalem would not only be postponed, it might never
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Contributed by Ronnie Brown on Jun 9, 2006
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The word impenitent means without repentance, without remorse. In one of my favorite movies, Indiana Jones is looking for the Holy Grail. He has certain clues that will take him through the deadly traps that lay ahead. The first clue is this: “The Breath of God. Only the penitent man will pass.”
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Baptist
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 30, 2006
I read of a short French film, illustrating greed that was made some time back about an empty village and a stranger who entered this deserted town. "Where are all the people?" he wondered. All signs of life were there, nothing was locked, food was on the table, smoke curls from the chimneys,
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Christian Church
Contributed by Fred Sigle on Nov 9, 2006
Families can live in the same house and never see each other. The sad thing is, you wake up to a beautiful HOME, a nice manicured LAWN, two cars in the GARAGE—something you WORKED HARD all of your life to get.
Now the house is COLD, EMPTY, the children GONE and the HUSBAND and WIFE hardly
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Nov 16, 2006
A little 2 year old girl stands at the edge of a swimming pool frozen. Her daddy is in the water with his arms raised up toward his little angel saying, “Jump; it’s okay princess, daddy will catch you.”
In that moment that little girl feels for the first time the inner conflict that we have all
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Assembly Of God
A family is like many things, perhaps most like a garden. It needs time, attention, and cultivation. The sunshine of laughter and affirmation. It also needs the rains of difficulties, tense moments, serious discussions about the issues that matter. And there must be spade work, where hardness
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2002
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In the Fall of 2000 and winter of 2001, any time you would turn on the news, you would constantly hear about the
Presidential election and what one side was accusing the other of doing and vice versa. Through all the jokes and news coverage, something did occur to me as I listened while I looked
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Contributed by Corey Arnold on Nov 17, 2003
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Daniel Meyers speaks about a book written by a cardiologist at the University of Tennessee that corroborates an important aspect of the biblical message. In the course of their emergency room work, Dr. Maurice Rawlings and his colleagues interviewed more than 300 people who claimed near-death
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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BLENDING IN
A young police officer was taking his final exam for the police academy and he read the following question in the exam paper:
"You are on patrol in the outer city when an explosion occurs in a gas main in a nearby street.
On investigation you find that a large hole has been blown
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Anglican
Contributed by Joe Fornear on Oct 20, 2004
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Tammy Faye Baker in one of those TV reality series went to a book signing and several other celebrities were with her – She was asked “What advice would you give to a parent who first finds out their child is gay?” – She responded, “Love them anyway – love them unconditionally” – she blew everyone
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 7, 2000
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There is an old story of an eagle who, on an early morning during the Spring thaw, soared high above the forest looking for something to eat.
As he followed the course of a river he looked down and spied a small rodent, trapped on a piece of ice that had broken free and was floating down stream.
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Orthodox
Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 29, 2001
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When skater Michelle Kwan was 13, the junior skater went behind her coach Frank Carroll¡¦s back, submitted her application for senior competition for the next Olympics, and prepared herself for a spot on the team. Kwan then pleaded with her coach to allow her to compete with skaters older than her,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Rob Culler on Mar 21, 2001
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A little girl asked her mother, “Mommy, why do you cut the ends off the meat before you cook it?” The girl’s mother told her that she thought it added to the flavor by allowing the meat to better absorb the spices, but perhaps she should ask her grandmother since she always did it that way. So
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2001
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It was June 18, 1815, the Battle of Waterloo. The French under the command of Napoleon were fighting the Allies (British, Dutch, and Germans) under the command of Wellington. The people of England depended on a system of semaphore signals to find out how the battle was going. One of these signal
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Contributed by Lynell Friesen on May 24, 2001
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Dr. Barnhouse used this illustration to portray this simple truth to his congregation and I would like to share it with you.
A young man, suffering from amnesia, lived a new life amid his old surroundings; he could remember nothing that had happened before he fell off a haywagon. As he fell,
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS
The Late Show with David Letterman, as you may well know, is produced in the heart of New York City. It was Monday the 17th before the show was back on the air and Letterman said that the only reason he was back was due to the strength of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. In his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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When Shackleton, the great explorer, was planning what proved to be his last expedition to the Arctic seas, an interesting incident is said to have occurred. Shackleton was seated in an office in London, speaking to a friend about his forthcoming expedition. The friend said, “I am surprised at the
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