Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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DIFFERENT THAN YOU WERE
There was a farmer who was known to be a hard man. He was abusive and foul-mouthed to both man and beast. In time he became friends with a Christian, who influenced him to consider becoming a Christian, and he did. His life was immediately marked by dramatic change. He
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Nov 24, 2008
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WE WERE JUST ONE
During World War II, Hitler commanded all religious groups to unite so that he could control them. Among the Brethren assemblies, half complied and half refused. Those who went along with the order had a much easier time. Those who did not, faced harsh persecution. In almost every
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Mar 20, 2023
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A little boy was flying his kite in the windy city of Chicago, Illinois one day. He sent the kite up and let the line out as the wind took it away to the cloudy sky.
About that time, an elderly man walked past the little boy and asked him a question. "What are you doing there, son?" he
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Steve Malone on Feb 4, 2003
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German hung by Nazi’s at the age of 35) in his book life together has a chapter on confession – it is one of the most powerful discussions on biblical confession that I have ever read…. Bonhoeffer writes
Why is that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Jan 14, 2008
"Throw off your old evil nature which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception. Instead, there must be a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and attitudes. You must display a new nature because you are a new person, created in God’s likeness — righteous, holy, and true." (Eph
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Mennonite
Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 29, 2009
Our topic today is worship and service. I’d like to begin by telling a true story that happened to Reverend Forrest I. Sears. He writes:
Wilma had been a member of our church for many, many years. In her later years she needed the assistance of a cane to help in walking. As she was talking
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Presbyterian/Reformed
POPE FRANCIS: FULFILLING HIS ROLE
A wonderful story of a religious leader who really does "get it" is the new Pontiff of Rome, Pope Francis. It is the story of role fulfillment.
One reporter wrote: "Last night, in a break from tradition the Pope, Pope Francis, did not celebrate what is called
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Methodist
Contributed by N A on Aug 29, 2006
QUOTE: “Jesus hung around with sinners, and if we’re too holy to allow people to blow smoke in our faces, then we’re holier than Jesus was… Love acceptance, forgiveness. Those three things are absolutely essential to any ministry that will consistently bring
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 24, 2006
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"A woman can trust her ability to influence and control her husband, or she can trust God and be submissive. A woman can trust her outward adornment, or she can trust God and cultivate a gentle and quiet spirit. It all comes back to
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 17, 2004
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Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God’s near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic
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Baptist
Contributed by Clarence Clough on Dec 23, 2007
In an earlier time a Christian man was being burned at the stake. He was there because he refused to renounce his Christian testimony.
In the final moments of his body being burned he lifted his hands in the air a clapped three times. It seemed he clapped once for the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Peter Bines on Jan 22, 2008
Thomas Watson: ‘In the body of the sun, there are the substance of the sun, the beams, and the heat; the beams are begotten of the sun, the heat proceeds both from the sun and the beams; but these three, though different, are not divided; they all three make but one sun: so in the blessed Trinity,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Chris Surber on May 29, 2009
A couple of weeks of ago I was playing with a friend’s dog who loves to chase a tennis ball; well Jake will chase most any ball if you throw it for him in fact!
After I had thrown the ball for him a couple of times I took the ball, gave it a good wind up, and threw it hard, though I never let go
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Christian Church
Contributed by Elena Bogdan on Apr 18, 2006
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I was in my second year of walking with Christ. Those who knew me closely, heard me say that my mission in life was to live for the same purpose Christ lived on earth: “to seek and to save the lost”.
And that’s how I lived my life from the beginning of my Christian life. Every day, before I
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