Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 13, 2004
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A. Years ago an interesting sign was seen hanging in a store window during the Christmas season. The original message stated, “Let’s make this the best Christmas ever.” Underneath, some perceptive person had scribbled a legitimate question: “How will we top the first one?” God
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 2, 2005
Quote from Jerry Vines, http://elbourne.org/sermons/index.mv?illustration+2567
“Our churches are in serious trouble today. There is virtually no difference between the average church member and the person who is not a Christian. God meant for the Christian to be different, to live a different kind
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Contributed by Dan Waite on Dec 16, 2005
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“He started the whole adventure of Christianity in Nazareth. Nazareth? Yes, Nazareth. Why Nazareth? Because there He found a women who was completely yielded to His purpose for her life. Great works of God rarely start in big places. Rather, they start in small places -- in some
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Oct 21, 2006
Sadly, we see this even in the church today. How accurately God describes us when we says that we have the venom of asps under our lips, just waiting for someone to offend us, just waiting for someone slight us, just
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Baptist
Contributed by Rodney Fry on Jan 14, 2007
All of us have heard the notion of “Safe Sex” proclaimed by the media. Is there any such thing? Some seem to suggest that if you could remove the specter of AIDS, STD’s, or unwanted pregnancy, it would be all right for people to have as much sex as they wished. Sex involves more than
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2007
A father was at the beach with his children when the four-year-old son ran up to him, grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore where a seagull lay dead in the sand. "Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked. "He died and went to Heaven," the
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 1, 2007
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In the Old Testament the High Priest went into the Holy of Holy’s with a rope attached to his leg and bells on his robe so that if he had sin on him and God struck him dead they could drag him out. If you knew this morning that you
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Wesleyan
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
One more chuckle: A pastor arrived at the local ministerial meeting early. The pastor of the church where the meeting was being held was out front changing the message on the church sign. The sign read: “God saved the best for last—You shall not covet.” The
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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The mystery as to those who are saved. The preacher said that conversion was like going through a doorway which had written over it "whosoever will may come" (see Rev 22:17), but as he passed through it and looked back on the other side of the doorway he saw the
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Baptist
Contributed by Russ Barksdale on Dec 27, 2007
Charles Dickens’ The Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge, who had treated Bob Cratchit with such disdain and indifference finally breaks down and shows favor to Cratchit’s family. He brings gifts and food to the Cratchit family on that Christmas day, showing favor to each one
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Baptist
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 Bobby Scobey on Aug 19, 2008
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Theologian Helmut Thielicke said, "A salty pagan, full of the juices of life, is a hundred times dearer to God, and also far more attractive to men, than a scribe who knows his Bible...in whom none of this results in repentance, action, and above
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Oct 16, 2008
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A boy is sitting at an airport with his face pressed against the window looking at the planes. He seems to have a longing to fly into the heavens. We have a desire to see heaven - to see Jesus. Stephen saw the heavens opened and Jesus standing because of his
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Pentecostal
PHARISEES WANT A SIGN
The word peroushim, transliterated "Pharisees," means "separated ones." Their attitude is that external observance of the hundreds of prescriptions of the Law is the essential human response to the covenant of God. They seek a sign–-and remember that Jesus has just given
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Catholic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"In the hustle and bustle, amidst the trappings and the wrappings, it's good to pause and reflect on the reason for the Christmas season. As we rush to buy our gifts, let's remember what happened on that first Christmas morn. The trappings were a stable in Bethlehem, and the wrappings were
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