Contributed by David Dewitt on Dec 4, 2001
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PRAISE HIM IN MY HEART
Praise God for Christmas.
Praise Him for the incarnation,
for the word made flesh.
I will not sing of shepherds
watching flocks on frosty nights,
or angel choristers.
I will not sing of a stable bare in Bethlehem,
or lowing oxen,
wise men trailing star with gold,
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 21, 2003
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Picture this: The nation enters WW2, and a son receives notification that he has been drafted into the armed forces. The son ships out, leaving his loving parents behind. He also leaves behind his most prized possession, a 1930 Ford Model A coupe. Will the father of this lad will simply allow that
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009
Two friends run into each other while walking their dogs. One suggests lunch. The other says, "They won’t let us in a restaurant with pets."
Undeterred, the first guy and his German shepherd head into the restaurant. The maître d’ stops them, saying, "Sir, you can’t bring your dog in here."
"But
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 5, 2011
POINT OF VIEW IS EVERYTHING
ABC's "The View" - the winner of the 2003 Daytime Emmy® Award for "Outstanding Talk Show" as quoted by its own website! ABC News correspondent Barbara Walters, the renowned Whoopi Goldberg, comedian Joy Behar, actress/comedian Sherri Shepherd, and The Australian Outback
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Salvation Army
Main Idea: We cannot see God, but we know He is there because we can feel Him.
Verse: “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10 NKJV).
Illustration: A boy in Pakistan was flying his kite very high, so high it could not be seen. A man asked him, “How do you know your kite is up there?” The
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Charismatic
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Feb 13, 2009
King David gave us a great 4pt sermon in his Psalm of repentance (51)
He pleaded, “Be gracious to me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness; According to the greatness of my Thy compassion blot out my transgression.”
He confessed, “Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, and done what is evil
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SOMETHING POSITIVE ALWAYS
When Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a lonely island he thought of both the good and the bad.
- He was cast onto a desolate island, but he was still alive, not drowned as all of his ship’s company was.
- He was separated from mankind, but he was not starving.
- He had
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The Greek Exegesis of the Greek term "I am the gate".
Gate or Door - Thura Thoo-rah! The opening or the closure.
1. Old Testament models for the shepherd image, for going in and out, and for door prediction (especially in the messianic context of Ps. 118:19-21: "Open for me the gates of
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 29, 2010
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A SPECIAL VISITOR
This past Tuesday, it was difficult to drive in and out of our church parking lot because of a barrage of traffic down Webster Street. Where did this traffic come from? Downtown was blocked off because President Obama and Vice-President Biden were speaking at a closed meeting a
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 6, 2011
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EVER HEARD A SHEEP CALL?
Sheep don’t respond to calls they respond to Shepherds.
A man in Australia was arrested for stealing a sheep but he claimed that it was one of his own that had been missing for many days. When the case went to court, the judge was puzzled, not knowing how to decide the
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Ken Gire writes, “Where you would have expected angels, there were only flies. Where you would have expected heads of state, there were only donkeys, a few haltered cows, a nervous ball of sheep, a tethered camel, & a furtive scurry of curious mice. Except for Joseph, there was no one to share
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