Contributed by Ken Pell on Apr 6, 2010
"The Harrowing of Hell" -- "I have the keys to death and Hades"
An ancient Christian hymn found in the old hymn book "Odes of Solomon" (from the first one hundred years of the Christian church) has a climactic celebration of "The harrowing (robbing) of Hell." It gives us insight into the first
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Nazarene
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 18, 2007
Jesus described hell as a place with a stench. On the southwest corner of I-240 in our city you can smell the oil refinery. In Counce, Tennessee, you can smell the pulp mill or in Bolivar the tannery.
When I lived on Holmes Street I ordered some flytraps for the backyard. They were quart jars
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Richard Wafford on Oct 18, 2007
No wonder the scripture’s say that hell enlarges itself it says in Isaiah 5:14 Therefore the grave (KJV renders this word Hell) enlarges its appetite and opens its mouth without limit; into it will descend their nobles and masses
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Baptist
Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 25, 2007
Charlie Peace, a criminal in England, on the day he was being taken to his execution, listened to a minister reading from the Word. And when he found out he was reading about heaven and hell, he looked at the preacher and said, "Sir, if I believed what you and the church of God say, and even if
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 17, 2002
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Life at the Brink
A man was driving to work when a truck ran a stop sign, hit his car broadside, and knocked him cold. A passerby pulled him from the wreck and revived him. He began a terrific struggle and had to be tranquilized by the medics. Later, when he was calm, they asked him why he
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Contributed by John Hamby on Jan 14, 2003
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I like the story that is told of a chaplain who reported to a new duty station. Upon arrival some of the men came to see him and asked him this question; Do you believe in a literal hell? When he replied that he did not. The men asked him to resign and he asked them why. Their response to him was;
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Contributed by Darrell Jones on Feb 21, 2003
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Not long ago there lived an old bed-ridden saint of God, and a Christian lady who visited her always finding her friend to be cheerful. this visitor had a lady friend of great wealth who always took the dark side of things, and was always cast down although she was a professed Christian. She
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Assembly Of God