Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing
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Contributed by Randall Bergsma on Dec 19, 2006
I think that one of the reasons It’s A Wonderful Life has been a Christmas classic film is because it captures a characteristic of the Christ of Christmas even if unwittingly so. The story is all about fresh starts and second chances. Reflect with me if you’ve seen the film:
When they were just
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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A story is told of a teacher who asked a class of students, ‘What would you wish for if you had one wish?”
One enthusiastic student shouted out, “Mama, I would wish for a big house for my family and myself.”
Another student proudly stood up and said, “I would wish for lots of land, to plant an
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Adventist
Contributed by Arliss Beavers on May 12, 2008
SHOUT
A church ran into difficulty when the elders decided that one man was shouting too much in church. They thought he might disturb the very distinguished guests the church was suddenly now having. So the elders called the pastor aside and notified him that this shouter must be refrained. The
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Church Of God
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 John Sloat on Apr 3, 2001
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Nearly a century ago, a famous English preacher described in vivid detail the practice of one particular lord of the manor. Every year on Christmas day, this lord gave all the poor people who were his subjects a generous basket of food. Every person brought a basket with him and the lord’s custom
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Chris Appleby on May 31, 2003
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There’s an old Indian Fable I heard recently. A water bearer had two large water pots which he carried on either end of a pole slung across his shoulders. One of the pots had a crack in it, so every day as he carried water to his master’s house he arrived with one full pot and one only half full.
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Anglican
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 2, 2007
One time Jesus mentioned to his disciples that the temple and the other buildings in Jerusalem would be destroyed. The disciples asked Jesus when this would happen. He doesn’t give them a straight answer but one statement he says is: (Mark 13:15 NIV) Let no one on the roof of his house go down
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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One day in the 1880’s a little lady lived in a little house. There had been little rain that summer.
This morning there was a little wind blowing.
The little lady woke up one ordinary morning, it was still dark.
So the little lady picked up her little lamp with a little oil in it.
She picked up a
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
Preferences – Being a disciple of Christ also means that you deny, you forgo, you give up many of your preferences for Christ. Before anything that is truly of God can be born, your own preferences have to die. Your desire to serve or lead in this type of church or that, has to be laid on the altar
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Contributed by Kevin Barron on Jul 3, 2001
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Once, when my brother was four or five and
my sister three or four, Dennis came running into the house. “What’s wrong?”
my mother asked. “Wanda hit me!” my brother, in tears, cried out. Not
wanting him to be unable to take care of himself, my mother told him to hit my
sister back if she
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Methodist
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