Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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DEAR ABBY LETTERS – How To Dress In Church
Dear Abby: May I respond to your reply regarding attire in church? As a priest and pastor, I’m appalled at how some people come dressed for Sunday worship. You said that “Dress codes have been greatly relaxed in recent decades,” which I find to be
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Contributed by Rob Clifton on May 23, 2001
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Many people believe that traditional church music is vastly superior to the contemporary church music being written today. But the date on which a song was written does not insure it’s worth either theologically or musically. Milburn Price, a Church Music professor, gave the following example in an
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2008
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While pastoring a church in north Louisiana I was helping a friend with a problem he had with a car. He was a mechanic by trade and profession. His wife made the best biscuits you ever put in your mouth. Having stopped at the right time several times before I knew when she set them on the table. He
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Contributed by Brad Beaman on Jul 29, 2003
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One thing church unity does not mean is uniformity. It does not mean we force everyone into the same mold. I saw a cartoon, which pictured a youth talking to a religious leader. The youth had spiked hair, an earring and a chain around his neck and all the trendy clothes. Apparently this youth had
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 25, 2002
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Behind a church in the small town of Flint Hill, Virginia, you will find the grave of a young seminary student named Albert Gallatin Willis who died on October 14, 1864. Albert Willis’ story is unusual. Albert Willis served with the famedcommand of Mosby’s Raiders during the Civil War. Because of
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 29, 2004
For many years a country church in Iowa set aside one Sunday annually for youth to conduct the entire service. The young people did it all; call to worship, invocation, prayer, special music, announcements, choir, and one young person would deliver the sermon. One year a 16 year old boy was told
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2004
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I served a Church that had a wonderful young married couple. He was 30, she was 26 and they had two beautiful children. The oldest would come up and set with me while I was preaching. The husband worked for the State and had a good job that he enjoyed. She worked for a large nationwide company
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Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Mar 31, 2003
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A large downtown church had three mission churches in the run-down part of town under its care. They came together for a joint worship service on the first Sunday of the year. At the communion table knelt a judge who belonged to the downtown church and also an ex-convict from one of the mission
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 16, 2002
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The Church Has Never Been On Fire Before
By Dan Adkins
One Night At Almost Midnight, We Heard Tile Sirens Roar
Everybody In The Neighborhood Was Looking Out Their Door
Then In Bathrobes And Curlers, They Gathered Round To See
The Church Was Going Up In Flames, It Burned ’Til Way Past Three
Now
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Contributed by James Jack on Mar 17, 2008
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Dr Tim Keller is the senior minister in a church next to the world trade centre – the Redeemer Church. And he talks about a debate he was in with a Muslim scholar before a university audience. The debate went on as most of those debates do with perfect civility as they expressed their point of
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Anglican
In his book, Building a Contagious Church, Mark Mittleberg asks us to join him in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. As you walk up to the large arena, you see a mass of young people in line for a concert. The headline act is shock-rockeer Marilyn Manson (named after Marilyn Monroe and mass murderer
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2003
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GOD COMES FIRST
If you’ve never been, I suggest you go sometime to Jamestown, VA. It is one of the earliest English-speaking settlements in the new world, & it has been carefully restored so that we can see what life was like 350 years ago.
At Jamestown, you’ll discover many interesting things
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Contributed by Darrin Koone on May 10, 2002
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One sunny Sunday morning, Henry Jones awoke to find his wife standing over him,shaking him by the shoulder.
"You have to get up," she urged. "We have to get ready for church.” "I don’t want to go to church," he replied. "I want to stay in bed.” Crossing her arms over her chest, his wife
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Let me give you a for instance. How many people here today have been told by well meaning parents that they just don’t want to impose religion on their children, that they want to wait until they make up their own minds for them to choose?
I am not going out on a limb here, but if there is one
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Free Methodist
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