Contributed by Matthew Rings on Oct 18, 2012
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STONING THE PASTOR
I bought some small rubber rocks from DC Works and put them on the chairs before people came into the room. As I opened the message, I asked them if I said anything that was blasphemous if they would stone me. I told them not to be shy and to let me have it. I then introduced
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Dec 29, 2007
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The problem in today’s church is that we have developed a low concept of God and are guilty of wanting to make Him into our image. Let me repeat, I am talking about the church, not the unchurched and unsaved. When I hear them talk of God for the most part their ideas are so silly and so
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Orthodox
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
A man went inside a telephone booth and dialed the number of a friend. When the connection was made, the friend kept saying, "I can’t hear you; speak louder; I can’t hear you." All he could hear was the roar of traffic in the background. "Shut the door so I can hear," he said to the caller.
In
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
President Bush Speaks Words of Hope at Memorial Convocation, April 17:
People who have never met you are praying for you. They’re praying for your friends who have fallen and who are injured. There’s a power in these prayers, a real power. In times like this, we can find comfort in the grace and
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 22, 2008
“Sometimes people have used several analogies drawn from nature or human experience to attempt to explain this doctrine. (Unfortunately) they all turn out to be inadequate or misleading on further reflection. To say, for example, that God is like a three-leaf clover, which has three parts yet
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 9, 2008
I was hungry
and you formed a humanities club
and you discussed my hunger.
Thank you.
I was imprisoned
and you crept off quietly
to your chapel in the cellar
to pray for my release.
I was naked
and in your mind
you debated the morality of my
appearance.
I was sick
and you knelt and
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Pentecostal
Hezekiah exalted himself instead of exalting God. These seekers of truth came to see God’s healthy healed prophet and instead he showed them his gold and his silver and his treasures and his defenses. He showed gold to the Babylonians superpower! Is like I got Bill Gates for Bible study and instead
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 4, 2008
EMOTION
The Bee Gees and Destiny’s Child sang a song called "Emotion". The song is about the sadness of lost love.
"In the words of a broken heart it’s just emotion taking me over. Caught up in sorrow lost in the song
but if you don’t come back, Come home to me, darling,
don’t you know there’s
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Pentecostal
Contributed by David Moore on Dec 5, 2008
I remember a neighbour of mine dying with acute Leukemia. He was a believer who needed much encouragement, and one day a woman from his church told him God had revealed to her that He would spare his life, like he spared the life of Hezekiah. He asked me what I thought. I shared some deep
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Baptist
Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 15, 2009
I was tremendously challenged by a conversational exchange in a short-lived situation comedy. It was a comedy where the late Danny Thomas played a doctor. There was a scene in “The Practice” where a nurse overhears Thomas’ character praying. When she comments on it, the doctor denies it. “I was not
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CHARACTERISTICS OF PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS (II Timothy 3:1-4)
Self-Centeredness: People will love only themselves and their money.
Pride and Disobedience: They will be boastful, proud, scoff at God, and disobedient to their parents.
Lack of Gratitude: Ungratefulness will prevail.
Lack of Love
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 7, 2001
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Paul Harvey tells the story about a family on Christmas Eve. This family had a tradition where the Mother and children would go to the Christmas Eve service, and the Father would stay home and read the paper. When the family returns home from church, they would all gather to open up their
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I’ve heard author Frank Peretti compare our culture’s hunger for biblical absolutes to the need for authority on a neighborhood playground in the summertime. Posted on the fence of the playground are some rules: “No hitting. No profanity. Only age ten and under on the monkey bars. Only age eight
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Rex S. Wignall on Oct 25, 2002
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While lonely people shake their fists at heaven and angrily ask, “God why have You forsaken me? Where are you?” we Christians often forget one central fact about God’s personal experience with loneliness. Charles Swindoll reminds us in his eloquent way:
God knows, my friend and He does care.
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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One Sunday morning an old cowboy entered a church just before services were to begin. Although the old man and his clothes were spotlessly clean, he wore jeans, a denim shirt and boots that were very worn and ragged. In his hand he carried a worn out old hat and an equally worn out bible.
The
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