Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 23, 2009
There is an old pizza delivery joke that when someone comes into the shop to ask for directions the standard reply is, “You can’t there from here.” When you are loaded down with guilt, and all your emotional baggage, and all the comforts and securities of life that you have earned, then you can’t
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Mar 23, 2010
EVANGELISTIC CASTING
We're not told that every fish in the sea swam to the net. We're not told that a certain number of fish were caught in the net. We're told that Jesus first indicated His awareness that they had caught nothing, then gave a command that they cast their net on the right side of
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Orthodox
Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 29, 2010
[Five]-year old Johnny was in the kitchen as his mother made supper. She asked him to go into the pantry and get her a can of tomato soup, but he didn’t want to go in alone.
“It’s dark in there and I’m scared.”
She asked again, and he persisted. Finally she said, “It’s OK—Jesus will be in there
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Contributed by Ken Pell on Dec 25, 2011
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KEEPING CHRIST IN A CRADLE
The World prefers to keep Jesus in a cradle where He is innocent and powerless. the dare not allow Him to be Lord and God much less our suffering servant.
In the movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (a movie I could not watch in its entirety and has no
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Nazarene
Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
A missionary in the South Sea Islands for a number of years was lying on his back in several inches of water reaching up in his boat, trying to repair the inboard motor. He had to get in that position to fix it, and it was a dirty, hot, scummy business. This doctor was lying there doing that so he
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Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Dec 18, 2012
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Billy Graham told of a meeting he had with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, former mayor of Cologne, imprisoned by Hitler for opposing the Nazi regime, and later chancellor of the West German Federal Republic. Adenauer truly deserves the title of "statesman" as he picked up the broken pieces of
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Baptist
Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 8, 2002
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A famous missionary by the name of C. T. Studd said; “If Jesus Christ be God, and died for me, then no sacrifice
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Baptist
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It was said that Martin Luther was observing a painting of the crucifixion of Jesus...
and he was so deeply moved that he
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Nazarene
Warren Wiersbie described a growing Christian as, “Someone who sins less and less and confesses more and more.” The reason is a
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Discipleship is not a second step in Christianity, as if one first becomes a believer in Jesus and then (if he chooses) a disciple, but from the beginning,
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Archbishop Gomez reminds us not to neglect to tell others that in Jesus Christ "they can find the answers to their questions about the
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Catholic