Brendon Manning tells about hearing the 5 step of an alchohic and then getting a note from that same person the next day. It read:
Dear Jesus, in thankgiving for what You have done for me, I will make known to my brothers and sisters how kind You are toward sinners, and that Your mercy prevails
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Baptist
Rabbi Eckstein also testifies to the willingness of Israeli citizens to unashamedly help others. This should free us as Christians from our hesitant inhibitions in reaching the lost for Jesus. “. . . Israelis are not too shy, embarrassed, inhibited, or intimidated to stand out in a crowd and
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Methodist
Contributed by John Tung on Jan 24, 2007
On my 20th Ministry Anniversary celebration last year, the Praise Team members sang a song to me. The title of the song is called, “That’s What Friends Are For.” Part of the words goes like this:
“Keep smilin’
Keep shinin’
Knowin’ you can always count on me
for sure
that’s what friends are
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We need to continually surge forward spiritually, to prevent sliding backward. I discovered recently that the Australian coat of arms has a picture of an emu and a kangaroo. They chose those particular animals because they both share a common trait that appealed to the Australian forefathers. Emus
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
People sometimes ask why the Bible is not more definite about the right to remarry after divorce for adultery. The answer is simple. In the Bible the right to divorce carries with it the right to remarry. The Fourth Century Latin Fathers tried to make this separation from bed and board. However,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 31, 2010
A shy Welshman went and slipped a love letter under his neighbor lady’s door each week for 40 years. Because of an argument they had years before, she continued to refuse to speak to him. Finally, after 2,184 love letters – with no response of any kind – the now 74 year old man went and knocked on
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jun 15, 2010
Picture again the medieval manor we talked about earlier. No doubt many lords of the manor were more concerned about their own comfort and safety rather than about their people. But a good lord would defend his people. He would fight for them against marauders, raiders, bandits. He might even bleed
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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In 1992 America watched the LA riots after the Rodney King beating trials. Thousands of people in Los Angeles joined in what has often been characterized as a race riot, or a mini-civil war, involving acts of law breaking compounded by existing racial tensions, including looting, assault, arson and
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 18, 2007
A man was walking down a street when he noticed in
a store window a beautiful painting of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. He stood there gazing at the picture for the longest than realized that a little boy was standing beside him. He patted the little boy on the head and said, "Son, what does
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Baptist
Contributed by Chris Willis on Oct 23, 2007
Mark Twain was a brilliant writer who used his fair share of idioms, and he used our idiom this morning when he wrote Pudd’nhead Wilson in 1894. This is what he wrote, Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Todd Pugh on Jan 14, 2008
I asked a pastor friend who is native pastor from India, "What do people in India think about America?" Because many people in the world truly despise us. So I asked him. He said, “People in India think America is heaven on the Earth.” Wow, what an indictment, I thought. They look at us and see
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Michael West on Apr 2, 2008
The more I began to understand His Majesty, the more I realize that I am not all that. I am not a good man and by nature I came that way, but Jesus came to save sinners. I can’t stand and say, “Lord, I sure am glad I haven’t done what that man did.” No, because in deed or thought, I have sinned as
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Independent/Bible
The psalmist, probably in similar trouble, feels like he’s in the depths of the pit, surrounded by darkness. The irony is that if you go to Bethlehem, as we did three years ago, you can celebrate Eucharist in St. Jerome’s cell, where he translated the Sacred Scriptures into Latin. To get there,
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Catholic
Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jan 22, 2009
William Carey [1761 – 1834] ~ God asked him to go to India. He went even though he had 3 small children but his dad was annoyed with this decision of his.
How was Carey obedient to the words of Jesus?
He preferred Jesus above his own dad. Sometimes a profession of faith in Christ leads to being
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Jan 31, 2009
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NO HANDS BUT OURS
After World War II ended, a group of German students volunteered to help rebuild a Cathedral in London. It had been severely damaged by bombing. They did well with most of the Cathedral, except one statue that had been broken into many pieces...a marble statue of Jesus. It once
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 8, 2009
Bruce Thielemann, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, told of a conversation with an active layman, who mentioned, “You preachers talk a lot about giving, but when you get right down to it, it all comes down to basin theology.”
Thielemann asked, “Basin theology? What’s that?”
The
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Here are some thoughts he says to consider before you bash and trash talk - The Church of Jesus Christ:
1. We have to recognize Jesus loves the church (He loved her enough to die for her!)
2. The ‘local church’ is the hope of the world.
3. The church is made up of people.
4. People hurt people –
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