Contributed by Dan Jackson on Jul 3, 2006
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A. W. Tozer pastored in the city of Chicago for many years. On one occasion when a new minister arrived in Chicago, Tozer called him and described the difficulty and spiritual warfare involved in pastoring is such a city. He said, “If you ever want to pray with me, I’m at the lakeside every morning
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 23, 2009
Donald Gary Barnhouse was a powerful preacher with a mind like a steel trap. One New Year’s Eve, back in the late forties or fifties, at the church’s watch night service, Barnhouse was administering a communion service when there was a noisy disturbance outside. A group of loud, drunken voices
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Christian/Church Of Christ
LOVE'S OLD-FASHIONED NOTION
Tina Turner once asked a powerful question, one that became a hit song of the early-eighties. She asked, "What does love have to do with it?" Her song is replete with two, rhetorical questions: "What's love but a second hand emotion" and "Who needs a heart, when a
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Lutheran
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 11, 2025
[077]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – EYES AND EARS - BLIND AND DEAF
Stubbornness is so bound up in most people that it will not release them, particularly when the things of God are presented. Stubbornness refuses to see reason and to see the light, and to hear and obey.
The prophets were frustrated
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Noel Atkinson on May 30, 2010
Jesus and Satan have a discussion as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest, with God as the judge.
They sit themselves at their computers and begin. They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Our forefathers were not so much thankful for something as they were thankful in something. In bounty or in want they were thankful. In feast or in famine they were thankful. In joy or in misery they were thankful. There is a big difference between being thankful for things and being thankful in
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Most children are not naturally aggressive. There are times when children might seem demanding, impatient or even perhaps unreasonable. They do not usually push themselves into the being the center of attention. I once read the story about a tiny boy who was seated at the dinner table in his high
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United Methodist
Contributed by Jessie Manuel on May 8, 2025
Legacy of Blood and Heartbeat
From the heartbeat of ancestors long gone,
Rises a rhythm—a sacred song,
Passed through blood, through bloodlines deep,
A legacy rooted in faith to keep.
Mothers praying in quiet nights,
Holding on through struggles and fights,
Their voices rising, fierce
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Methodist
Contributed by Tim Bond on Jan 24, 2002
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In ancient Greece they had great theatrical events, plays in large amphitheaters. They didn’t have microphones to make their voices heard, and they didn’t have cameras to magnify their images onto screens, so they invented their own system. They developed big masks. The masks made them look like
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. It is the voice of the beggar, conscious of his
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