Contributed by Shane Hart on Aug 10, 2006
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Nine-year-old Joey was asked by his mother what he had learned in Sunday School. "Well, Mom, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. When he got to the Red Sea, he had his engineers build a pontoon bridge, and all the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Early in his career, some one said that Vince Lombardi, the Hall of Fame Football Coach of the Green Bay Packers, knew very little about the game of Football. Thomas Edison’s teachers gave up on him and said that “He was too stupid to accomplish anything.” Henry Ford, failed and went broke 5 times,
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Dec 16, 2002
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Let me close an excerpt from Sharon Jaynes’ book, Celebrating a Christ-centered Christmas:
An African boy listened carefully as his teacher explained why Christians give presents to each other on Christmas day. "The gift is an expression of our joy over the birth of Jesus and our friendship for
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Contributed by Steve Smith on Dec 23, 2006
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Let me close with an excerpt from Sharon Jaynes’ book, “Celebrating a Christ-centered Christmas”:
An African boy listened carefully as his teacher explained why Christians give presents to each other on Christmas day. "The gift is an expression of our joy over the birth of Jesus and our friendship
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Baptist
Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 3, 2011
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RESPONSE TO HURTING PEOPLE
In his book Soul Talk, Larry Crabb writes:
"Which is worse? A church program to build community that doesn’t get off the ground or one person sitting every Sunday in the back of the church who remains unknown? A Sunday school class that once drew hundreds but has now
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Nov 4, 2005
"You and I cannot stuff Jesus or our experience with Him into our old ways of thinking and living. Life with Jesus is a new and exciting thing. He Himself wants to fill us, to expand our personalities, and to reshape us to fit who He is. When Jesus, the Man with all power,
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Wesleyan
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James S. Hewett, former pastor of Saratoga, California’s Presbyterian Church, tells this story: “A class of high school sophomores had been assigned a term paper. Now the day of reckoning had come, the papers were due. The teacher knew that a particular student, named Gene, had not been working
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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JESUS’ WORDS
There is a hopefulness in life as we hear and become empowered by Jesus’ words.
A Sunday School teacher illustrated this concept of hopefulness in life by drawing on the blackboard two pathways. In the middle of one she placed a large rock, covering the entire path. At the end of
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008
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GOD'S PICTURE
There's a story of a third grade student who was asked to draw a picture of what she thinks God looks like. The little girl showed the teacher - teacher said "Wait a minute, that looks like a man - that's not God!"
And the little girl said "Well, I don't know what God
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Contributed by Johnny Creasong on May 11, 2002
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It is a dangerous thing to grow old! An elementary school class had been photographed and the teacher was trying to persuade
them each to buy a copy of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ’There’s Jennifer; she’s
a lawyer,’ or
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 12, 2002
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[Gandhi Can’t Compare to Christ, Citation: Michael Green, The Message of Matthew (IVP, 2000), p. 141]
Author Michael Green writes:
Only Jesus fully understands God the Father.
Great people have discovered and taught many true and noble things about God.
Nobody has known him with the intimacy of
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Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Jan 19, 2004
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Some nine year old children were asked what they thought of death and dying. Jim said, “When you die, they bury you in the ground and your souls goes to heaven, but your body can’t go to heaven because it’s too crowded up there already.” Judy said, “Only the good people go to heaven. The other
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