Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 26, 2008
Did you know that in June 2006 Israeli doctors and scientists successfully germinated a 2000 year old date palm, found at the Herodian fortress of Masada on the West Bank of the Dead Sea the seed was tagged the Methuselah.
Friends there is coming a time when another seed is going to be
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
I remember when I was fishing with my dad sailing into Yarmouth in the fog, I can’t remember sailing into Yarmouth without fog but that’s a different story. And we’d use our radar as much as we could but we would put a man out on the bow to keep a look out for the light from the buoys. The
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
Win Arn, a leading church consultant conducted a survey:
He surveyed members of nearly a thousand churches asking the question, “Why does the church exit?? The results? Of the church members surveyed, 89 percent said, “The church’s purpose is to take care of my family’s and my needs.? For many, the
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 8, 2008
Israel was No Fluke
I'm a laid-back White Sox fan. All my life, I have had to deal with being out-numbered by Cubs fans. Both Sox and Cub fans have long dreamt of a City series, where the two teams are competing during the World Series. That could happen this year. Statistically speaking, we
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 27, 2008
But God gives us wisdom, His wisdom, much of which, I believe is hindsight that develops our foresight, though we cannot see or know the near future as it develops in front of us. William V. Pietsch gives us the picture of being on a ship in this regard as he wrote, ‘someone once compared God’s
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Church Of God
Contributed by Eldon Reich on May 3, 2005
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Antoine Augustine Parmentier a chemist and pharmacist,
overcame the potatoes bad rap for the French
when he acquired a miserable and unproductive spot of ground outside of Paris.
There, he planted 50 acres of potatoes.
During the day, he set a guard over it.
This drew considerable attention in
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
"IF YOU NEED ANYTHING..."
A wealthy man was moving into a new house, and his next door neighbor just happened to be a Quaker. The Quakers, as you know, believe in simplicity and plainness of life. The Quaker neighbor watched as the movers carted in numerous pieces of furniture, a great deal of
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Apr 9, 2009
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TOO CLOSE TO WHERE I GOT IN
A little boy fell out of the bed in his sleep. His father picked him up and put him back in bed. He asked him, "Son, what happened?" The little boy responded, "I fell asleep too close to where I got in."
I believe that describes too many Christians today...they have
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Baptist
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jun 7, 2009
Many years ago a group of small farmers, being particularly superstitious, kept a corner of their fields uncultivated in order to pacify certain evil spirits. They believed that by sacrificing this one corner to the spirits, the remainder of the field would be left undisturbed and fertile. What
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Anglican
Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on May 12, 2011
VOICE OF AUTHORITY
When I was serving with YWAM in the summer of 1982, we played a concert at a school in Amsterdam. As the concert ended, the students began to come up to us and talking with us, and believe it or not, some even asked for our autographs. At that moment a tall, thin, man with a
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Methodist
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 7, 2011
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BAPTISM IS A LABEL
Some believed that because they were circumcised they were saved. But God never intended circumcision/baptism to do anything.
Consider, for example, labels. They name the products, but they do not bring them into being. So with circumcision: BAPTISM LABELS YOU A CHRISTIAN, BUT
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Mark Tonkery on Jan 27, 2012
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MULLER: SCRIPTURES MAKE ME HAPPY
George Muller, who established many orphanages throughout England in the 1800’s, once said... "I believe that the one chief reason that I have been kept in happy useful service is that I have been a lover of Holy Scripture. It has been my habit to read the Bible
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Feb 13, 2012
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3000 MILES WIDE AND 3 INCHES DEEP
According to a 2008 Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,
57 percent of evangelical church attendees said they believe many religions can lead to eternal life. In fact, 70 percent of Americans with at least some religious affiliation shared that idea.
The
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 2, 2013
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"A part of me loved war. Now, please understand, I am a peaceful man, fond of children and animals. And I believe that war should have no place in the affairs of men. But, the comradeship our platoon experienced in that war provides a moving and enduring memory in me. A comrade in war is
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Main Idea: Explains why believers in Christ are called Christians.
Verse: “the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch” (Acts 11:26 NKJV).
One day a man carrying bananas walked by a house in Central America. A woman cried out, “Hey, banana man!” His name is not banana man. Why does he
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Charismatic
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