Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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An old story tells of a desert nomad who awakened hungry in the middle of the night. He lit a candle and began eating dates from a bowl beside his bed. He took a bite from one and saw a worm in it; so he threw it out of the tent. He bit into a second date, found another worm, and threw it away
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The story is told of an only survivor of a wreck who was thrown on an uninhabited island. After a while he managed to build himself a hut, in which he placed the little that he had saved from the wreck. He prayed to God for deliverance, and anxiously scanned the horizon each day to hail any passing
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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But in fact, there have been many men of God who had professions, or who came out backgrounds that seemed unusual. There was a man from England, his name was John Bunyan and he worked most of his life as a tinker. That’s a person who makes utensils and stuff out of copper and tin. Well following
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 1, 2007
The web-slinging superhero has gone and done it again! Spiderman 3 opened on May 6, 2007 and on opening night grossed in excess of a staggering M$151 US – and climbing! This movie was different from Spider 1 and 2 in that Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spiderman, was forced to deal with what the overview
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 14, 2007
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Do you remember the children’s game hide and seek..... did you ever get such a good hiding place nobody ever caught you maybe you did?
This opening chapter of Jonah is all about the Christian game of hide and seek from the will of God - Jonah tries to get into such a good hiding place that
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Baptist
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Contrast the poor example of King Jehoiachin with that of the British Royal Family during World War II. King George Vi and his wife Queen Elizabeth remained in Buckingham Palace throughout the War rather than fleeing to the countryside for safety. During the German Blitzkrieg of London from
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Methodist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Dec 11, 2007
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There is a small tree which grows in Southeast Asia known as the Judas-tree. From its branches grow gorgeous blossoms. These blossoms look like scarlet sunbeams. The brilliant beauty of the crimson flowers attracts thousands of tiny insects. Wild bees also try to draw honey from their exquisitely
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 15, 2007
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One afternoon in 1965, Daniel Waswa, a citizen of Kenya, struggled up a hill and was crucified by his wife at his own direction. As he hung on the cross, he told the gathered crowd, “I am dying for the sins of all Kenyans.”
After nailing her husband to the cross, the woman collapsed on the ground
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Assembly Of God
Norman Rockwell painted another famous picture which revealed the value of being able to go and worship God freely in America. The two Big Wars during Norman’s lifetime helped him to be reminded of how blessed we were to worship God freely.
i. He painted this picture along with three others after
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
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Here are some examples of instructions that, for one reason or another, weren’t made very clearly:
• “Do not sit in chair without being fully assembled”
• “Please take time to look over the brochure enclosed with your family”
• at a private school grounds: “No trespassing without
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Christian/Church Of Christ
And Jesus Loved Them All------
I saw a sea of faces in a dream I had one day
and millions stood before a throne
whose sins were washed away
from every tribe and every land
they all had heard the call
the rich, the poor, the black, the white
and Jesus loved them all.
He loved them with their many
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Matthew Mobley on Mar 28, 2008
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Philip Keller in his book ’A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23’ speaks about one flock of sheep he watched as they were being led by the shepherd to what was a most magnificent and beautiful mountain stream…
"The snow-fed waters were flowing pure and clear and crystal clean between lovely banks of trees.
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
You hear the jokes about hell being some big party. Hell can also be a seductive for all those fans of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. One of them, a kid from an Ohio Christian school named Brian Warner is today better known as Marilyn Manson. For more than a decade, he has made millions with his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
Both Fridays and the number 13 have both been considered “unlucky” down thru the ages.
The number 13, for example:
The Turks so disliked that number that they practically removed it from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894).
Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue.
Many buildings don’t
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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In the summer of 1805, a number of Indian chiefs and warriors met in council at Buffalo Creek, New York, to hear a presentation of the Christian message by a Mr. Cram from the Boston Missionary Society. After the sermon, a response was given by Red Jacket, one of the leading chiefs. Among other
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
There are people who are humble, and those who are not so humble. From Mongolian folklore comes this helpful little fable of the boastful frog.
Two geese were about to start southward on their annual autumn migration, when they were entreated by a frog to take him with them. On the geese
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
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Fearfighter, a kind of psychiatric computer, is one of two programs endorsed by Britain’s health advisory watchdog for people with panic attacks, mild depression, or phobias. People uncomfortable with getting advice from a computer can still choose to see therapists, but the option of logging on
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Contributed by Donny Granberry on Apr 20, 2008
W.D. METZGER
He was the town drunk in Fairfield, Texas. He was married to Janie, who was a School teacher, and he was an embarrassment to her and many others. People would have to walk around him as he lay passed out in the streets.
In a revival in Freestone County in 1939, in the same
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Assembly Of God
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