Contributed by Segun Omole on Jan 14, 2009
Judge 16: 1-31
I have heard and read quite a number of analysis of the weakness of Samson, his lack of self control and his inability to resist the power of a woman...well, guess these are all correct in their own ways but I would like to look at this man of God from another perspective. I believe
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Contributed by Troy Borst on May 10, 2001
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OPENING ILLUSTRATION… Mother’s Day Background, Pulpit Helps 1991
It was a woman named Anna M. Jarvis who first suggested the national observance of an annual day honoring all mothers because she had loved her own mother so dearly. At a memorial service for her mother on May 10, 1908, Miss Jarvis
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Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 11, 2001
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If you were to sit down in your living room, hit the remote control and nothing happened, what’s the first thing you’d do?
Call the cable company?
Call KDKA and ask what happened to their signal?
Call ABC & CBS & NBC & Fox?
Probably most of you would check the batteries in the remote.
Or you’d see
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Baptist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 9, 2001
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Tony Gwynn has been one of the best hitters in major league baseball. Gwynn has hit .300 or better in 17 major league seasons. He’s won 8 league batting titles. He has collected more than 17,000 hits. What the secret of his success? It’s not a secret to the people who watch him work every day.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 29, 2002
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WASHINGTON'S REQUEST
"I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and
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The Talmud lists 7 kinds of Pharisees.
1) SHECHEMITE, who kept the law for what he could profit thereby.
2) TUMBLING, who, to appear humble, always hung their heads down & thus often fell.
3)BLEEDING, who, to avoid seeing women, walked with closed eyes & were often wounded,
4) MORTAR, who wore
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Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 1, 2006
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And then there is the issue of His leaving the rich communion that He enjoyed with His Father. C.S. Lewis addressed this when he wrote, "Lying at your feet is your dog. Imagine, for the moment, that your dog and every dog is in deep distress. Some of us love dogs very much. If it would help all the
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Wesleyan
Contributed by John Sears on Jan 18, 2012
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THE RUSTED OUT CAR
A few weeks ago, I was driving home on the interstate and saw a pickup truck pulling a trailer with the rusted out shell of an old car on it. All I know was that the car on that trailer was an antique. And it was covered in rust from bumper to bumper. I could tell from the
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Christian Church
Contributed by Joe La Rue on Apr 1, 2008
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Many of you here this morning know the story of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the American forces in the Philippines when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 and launched their assault on the Philippine Islands later that day. When all hope of saving the Philippines was
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Gary Landsberg on Dec 16, 2006
The Word of God changes the unlovely, and makes them lovely. I had a friend in Africa who was a missionary. He was over there eking out a living and preaching the Good News to all he could. He had spent time in the State penitentiary, but was changed by the Word of God. You see, they were
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by James Mercer on Dec 8, 2009
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THE HOPE OF 3:16
I don’t know about you, but I will be glad to turn the calendar to a new decade in a few weeks. An ongoing war on two fronts, the Great Recession draining our family resources, the growing immorality of our country, tragic accidents and gruesome killers all over the news. The
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Baptist
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Richard Foster in his book "Prayer: Finding the Hearts True Home", says that intercession is a way of loving others. Intercessory prayer is selfless prayer, even self-giving prayer.
"Intercessory prayer is priestly ministry, and one of the most challenging teachings in the New Testament is the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
A Note written by one of the miners who died in the West Virginia mining accident was made public. ‘Tell all I’ll see them on the other side," family members say one scrawled note, found with the body of 51-year-old mine foreman
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Donny Granberry on Nov 17, 2008
Let’s say that I give you a 25-pound sack of corn, and that is all you will ever have. You love corn and want to enjoy it for the rest of your life. The only way that will be possible is for you to invest, or sow a portion of the seed for the future. For the corn to grow, or reproduce, it must be
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 6, 2009
"Friends and foes, chief priests in hate, Pilate in mockery, angels in adoration, disciples in love, Christ himself in lowliness (Acts 22:8), and now the multitudes in simplicity, all proclaim him 'of Nazareth.'
(as cited in Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Hrsg.): The Pulpit
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Contributed by Michael Walther on Aug 29, 2011
KABASH
Micah 7:19 He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.
I love the Hebrew word for "subdue." You may have actually heard it before. It is the word "kabash." Looking ahead to Jesus,
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Lutheran
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