In Africa and the Greek world, there are so many gods believed to be playing special role in men's affairs. Sango is believed to be the god of thunder invoked for vengeance. As it is in Africa and the Greek world, so it was, and is in every other
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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A SABBATH MIRACLE
A Roman Catholic priest, a Pentecostal pastor and a Jewish rabbi were talking one day about their belief in miracles.
The Roman Catholic said that he did believe in miracles and illustrated this by telling of a recent incident when he had flown to Durban. As the aircraft began
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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SUNDAY TRAINS
William Barclay tells this story:
The first Sunday train from Glasgow to Edinburgh ran on the 13th of March, 1842. Our contemporary journalist, wrote that it was filled with peaceful and respectable persons, gliding quietly away on its mission. The Presbytery of Glasgow, however,
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Contributed by Andy Payne on Jan 18, 2009
American humorist, Sam Levenson once said about the Ten Commandments:
"Different people look for different things in the Ten Commandments. Some are looking for divine guidance, some
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Baptist
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Apr 24, 2001
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I SAW JESUS. ~~Author Unknown~~
I saw Jesus last week.
He was wearing blue jeans and an old shirt.
He was up at the church building;
He was alone and working hard.
For just a minute he looked a little like one of our members.
But it was Jesus,I could tell by his smile.
I saw Jesus last Sunday.
He
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
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MARY MOTHER OF JESUS
A capable journalist-author named Jim Bishop wrote a fairly reliable analysis of Jesus’ birth in his book, The Day Christ Was Born. His description of Mary, the young mother-to-be, bears repeating:
She no longer noticed the chafe of the goatskin against her
leg,
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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 Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
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"YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A JESUS."
It is truly heartwarming to know that millions of people around the world believe in Santa. Sure, most are under four feet tall, but still it’s amazing that so many believe in the big guy in the red suit. Consider the following:
Around the globe, today, live
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Contributed by David Schaal on Sep 10, 2003
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BRING THEM TO JESUS
Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, famous evangelist, said that the New Testament records tell of forty people, each suffering from the same disease, who were healed by Jesus.
Of this number, thirty-four were either brought to Jesus by friends, or He was taken to them. In only six cases
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Dan Steadman on Dec 3, 2004
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----- ‘Twas The Night Jesus Came
‘Twas the night Jesus came and all through the house, not a person was praying, not one in the house...
The Bible was left on the shelf without care… for no one thought Jesus would ever come there...
The children were dressing to crawl into bed, not once ever
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Troy Borst on May 26, 2005
ILLUSTRATION... The Life and Teaching of Jesus by James S Stewart, Abingdon Press pg 49
“Finally, Jesus would never violate the freedom of men’s wills. And that, too, the leap from the pinnacle would have involved. It would have been overriding their calmer judgment. It would have been forcing
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Glenn Robertson on Nov 16, 2005
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Oswald Chambers once said,
“We trample the blood of the Son of God if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation for the forgiveness of God... is the death of Jesus Christ... There is absolute reinstatement into God by the death of Jesus Christ and by no
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
JESUS DID RISE
Pollster George Gallup said even 84 percent of people who never go to church believe Jesus rose from the dead. It is historical fact; it wasn’t done in secret. The whole city of Jerusalem and the whole Roman Empire knew about it. It was news. If CNN had been there, they would have
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 27, 2006
This is real – Jesus is alive.
I few years ago I along with others prayed for a man who was miraculously healed. Turns out the very moment that we were praying the man was fully healed. I mean jumping out of the hospital bed – pull out the tubes healed. His family urgently called that afternoon
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 22, 2006
Illust. Jesus BROKEN HANDS
Story told of a large cathedral church that was hit by a earthquake. The disaster destroyed the church, and all that remained was a century old statue of Jesus stand ing with his arms out stretched, only the rubble that fell from the earthquake fell and broke off the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 14, 2007
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1. Give the keys to Jesus.
Letting anyone drive our vehicle is tough. I admit that at times I’m not the best passenger, especially when it’s my vehicle. Just ask my wife.
And just for the record, I think my wife’s a great driver. If I didn’t think so, I wouldn’t let her take my kids
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"The religion of Jesus is the religion of a little child. There is no affectation about a disciple of Jesus, he is as a little child, amazingly simple but unfathomably
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