Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Following the Civil War, a dejected confederate soldier was sitting outside the grounds of the White House. A young boy approached him and inquired why he was so sad. The solider related how he had repeatedly tried to see President Lincoln to tell him why he was unjustly deprived of certain lands
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Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Sep 27, 2007
Self-love under a form of holiness: -- The text may be considered two ways -- relatively or absolutely.
1. Relatively. as it relates to the eighteen sins before mentioned; so this sin is the cloak to hide and cover them all; men will be lovers of themselves, but under a form of godliness. Hence
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Baptist
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Nov 18, 2007
The Last Are First
There is a couple who lived here in Anchorage, who lived in one of the most broken down trailers I have ever seen. There home was, clean, and well kept but the trailer sure had seen better days – a long time ago. Some friends who had a little boy were looking at buying a house,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 21, 2008
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Develop and Attitude of Gratitude
1 Thessalonians 5:18
A woman was visiting some people who lived on a farm, and she noticed a pig limping in the backyard with a wooden leg. She asked the farmer, "What happened to the pig?" The farmer said, "Oh, Betsy is a wonderful pig. One night the house
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 4, 2008
I have a short list of qualities that might mark you as someone from the 'burbs. In other words, this might show what community you belong to.
You might be from the suburbs if:
You have a garage but you can't get your car into it. (Now this could be because you have too much stuff stored there
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Church Of God
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 14, 2008
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IN MARCH
Robert Russell, pastor and author, tells a story of how about twenty years ago there was a house near the entrance of his subdivision that kept their Christmas lights burning long after the season was past. They burned through January. Even through the first of February
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 27, 2009
Gene Perrett gave this list of eight things to be thankful for:
1 - for automatic dishwashers. They make it possible to get out of the kitchen before the family come in for their after-dinner snacks.
2 - for husbands who attack small repair jobs around the house. They usually make them big
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 3, 2010
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LOVE IN THE HOME
If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place, but have not love, I am a housekeeper--not a homemaker.
If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements, but have not love, my children learn cleanliness--not godliness.
Love leaves the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
CATCHING UP
A woman who had recently moved into a small village in Wiltshire, was in the backyard hanging out the washing on the line when an old, tired-looking dog wandered into the yard. She could tell from his collar and well-fed belly that he had a home.
As she walked into the house, the dog
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Brethren
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 19, 2011
IF I'D KNOWN YOU HAD HIM...
Madeline Rockwell wrote of her grandparents:
"My Grandmother was a ball of fire, while Grandpa was slow and deliberate. One night they were awakened by a commotion in the chicken house. Grandma sprang out of bed, ran to the chicken house and found the cause of the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by N A on Dec 14, 2007
QUOTE –GOD CAME NEAR:
“They were too busy. The day was upon them. The day’s bread had to be made. The morning’s chores had to be done. There was too much to do to imagine that the impossible had occurred. God had entered the world as a baby. Yet, were someone to chance upon the sheep stable on the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
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"TO JESUS ON HIS BIRTHDAY"
The American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote a biting, ironic poem called "To Jesus on His Birthday." Surely none of us can deny guilt in some of the areas it includes in its brief scope:
For this, your mother sweated in the cold,
For this you bled upon the
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 23, 2004
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IT WAS PENTECOST SUNDAY. As the congregation filed into church, the ushers handed each person a bright red carnation to symbolize the festive spirit of the day. The people listened attentively to the reading of the Pentecost story from the Book of Acts about how the disciples had heard “what
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Wesleyan
Christmas is a matter of fact, not feeling.
In the famous musical Mame, there is a production number that continually repeats the refrain, "we need a little Christmas, right this very minute." And that refrain expresses the feelings of many people as the Christmas holiday is so quickly
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Lincoln Proclaims National Fast Day
Abraham Lincoln wrote an address to the nation during the Civil War that was at least as important as the Gettysburg Address.
It was his proclamation for a national fast-day, by which he did designate and set apart Thursday the 30th day of April 1863, as a day of
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Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 11, 2007
"It is Well with My Soul" is one of my much loved hymns. I don’t know if you might be familiar with the chronicle behind it or not, but the man who authored the lyrics of this beautiful hymn lost his whole family at sea. Horatio Spafford, a successful businessman, had dispatched his family ahead of
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Illustration:
J. H. Crowell went to work on a sailing vessel at the age of 16. He was the only Christian among a crew of 12. Before leaving home, he had promised his mother he would continue his devotions and pray three times a day. When the other sailors discovered his piety, they taunted him and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 17, 2004
ILLUSTRATION... US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/cesan.txt
What do we spend our money on?
1. Housing
2. Transportation
3. Food
4.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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