Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 27, 2003
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In my study for the Fishers of Men series I came across an essay written by A. J. McClane called, “The Song of the Angler.” In this essay he examines why fishermen fish.
1. People fish for each others company, for the fellowship. Able to share in a common activity. People fish for the
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Contributed by Timothy Shumer on Aug 22, 2004
Should we strive to be like Jesus! Of course! But He was perfect, and for me, there’s always a little sense within that I know I am going to fall short of that perfection. I know I should keep it as a goal before me. Frankly, if I aim for that, I’ll get nearer than if I don’t, and if I am devoted
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 24, 2004
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CONCLUSION... The Matrix (http://www.ozsermonillustrations.com/frames/truth_&_error_frameset.htm)
One of the great films of 1999 was The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves. It’s a futuristic sci-fi movie, where the world has been taken over by computers. The computers need the energy that comes from
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Perseverance--Gianni Poli of Italy won the 1986 New York Marathon in 2:11:06. On March 2, 2003, Mark Yatich of Kenya won the Los Angels Marathon in 2:09:52. To me, however, the real hero of both marathons was the man who finished dead last in both. He is fifty-seven year old Bob Wieland. In
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2004
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… when friends and strangers see Amy and me out with our six kids – hers, mine, ours, and “all ours” – they love to describe us as a ‘90s version if the [Brady Bunch].
We definitely meet all the criteria of a blended family. Somehow in the blending process we haven’t gotten too mixed up.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2004
Imagine you’re a financial counselor. Today you have two appointments, first with an elderly woman and then a middle-aged man.
The woman’s husband died six years ago. She says, “I have no more money. The cupboards are bare. These two dollars are all I have to live on, yet I feel as if God
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2005
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A Prayer for Deliverance
1. Personally affirm your faith in Christ:
“Lord Jesus Christ, I believe You are the Son of God and the only way to God – that You died on the cross for my sins and rose again so that I might be forgiven and receive eternal life.”
2. Humble yourself:
“I renounce all
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Aug 6, 2005
James Abram Garfield was born November 19, 1831, in a log cabin in the back woods of Ohio. His father died at the age of 2. Young James somehow earned enough money to go to college. He graduated from college in 1856, and he became a professor and president of Hiram College in Ohio, the college of
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Story: One man I admire greatly is Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941).
Maximilian Kolbe was a Catholic priest, who was put in a Nazi concentration camp for his faith.
On May 28, 1941, he was transferred to the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
One day a man in Kolbe’s block escaped. All of the men
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Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 23, 2005
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The most natural and most enthusiastic expression of exultation should be used in view of the victories that Jesus Christ won upon the Cross of Calvary and in His resurrection. Our joy in the Lord may be demonstrative and I can assure you that God is not going to censure it.
Our family owns a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2005
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Ernest Hemingway, the literary genius, said of his life: “I live in a vacuum that is as lonely as a radio tube when the batteries are dead, and there is no current to plug into.”
This is a startling statement, given the fact that Hemingway’s life would be the envy of anyone who had bought the
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Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Jun 21, 2006
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A Christian father lives by the instruction of Colossians 3:12, “…as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. James 4:10 says, “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.”
“Humility”
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Some of you may remember the Drop-While-You-Shop activity that the children did back in the spring. They took plastic cups, lined them with newspaper and put soil inside the newspaper. Then they took different seeds and put them between the newspaper and the side of the cup, so you could see the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
A man was watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, He was watch a Church service in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years......
The retired minister was 92 at that time and he wondered why the Church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2007
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H. Page Williams wrote a book called Do Yourself a Favor: Love Your Wife. I wish there were some way to make it required reading for church membership.
In it he said, "I asked one wife what it was that her husband was doing that caused her to want to leave him, and her reply was ’Nothing.’
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Pentecostal
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A few years back the movie the Titanic came out. It was a box office smash. People seemed once again fascinated by this tragedy at sea. About 1,500 people lost their lives in this ship wreck tragedy. This great ship was said by the media to be:
“Unsinkable” – even God himself could not sink her
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