Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2001
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One morning at breakfast, Doug Vogue decided to teach his 4 year old Caleb his first Bible verse, John 3:16. He slowly enunciated the words: "For God so loved…"
The second time he said the verse even slower, encouraging Caleb to fill in certain words. When he got to "…shall not perish but
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Contributed by Stuart Blount on Apr 20, 2001
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Some very well known people experienced major knock downs but got up to win.
FRED ASTAIRE – a memo circulated after his first screen test for MGM in 1933 – “Can’t act !, slightly bald !, can dance a little”
WALT DISNEY – was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. He also went bankrupt
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Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jul 14, 2008
Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life.
Dusk was falling on the Saturday before Christmas in 1927 the S-4 submarine (S-class submarines, were the first class of submarines built to US Navy
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Baptist
Contributed by Tylor Cates on Jan 24, 2004
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Remember Your Sword
Prop: Butter Knife and large Sword
First let me say I collect and sell swords for a living so it wasn’t hard for me to get a real sword you may have to make a prop sword. Be careful if you bring a real one and make sure no one gets near it.
In our church we have a 5 minute
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Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 6, 2004
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As C.S. Lewis describes…
“Men are reluctant to pass over from the notion of an abstract and negative deity to the living God. It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone. “Look out!” we cry, “it’s alive.” And therefore this is the very point at which so many draw back…I
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 30, 2019
The early church understood propitiation, the atoning work of Jesus, and justification by faith, not works:
from The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus, Chapter IX, about 200 A.D.
But when our wickedness had reached its height, and it had been clearly shown that its reward, punishment and death,
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Oct 13, 2010
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In 1999 the church I was serving designated a particular Sunday morning service for celebrating the lives of our shut-ins. Every effort was made to get them to the church that day. We highly encouraged their family to make arrangements but had volunteers step up where that didn’t work. After the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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"An unlettered maid was great in the kitchen and an immaculate housekeeper, but her main strength was that she never ruffled by anything. She was always calm and in control. When asked about her secret, she quoted a verse in the Bible: "It came to pass." When told that this was not the complete
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THE SPIRIT NAMED PAN
Many creatures, or demonic spirits, that have been called mythological gods are not mythological at all. They are real in the kingdom of darkness. Pan’s appearance in mythology is with horns, ears, and legs of a goat on a man’s body. His sudden appearance was supposed to
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Port Royal once situated on the island of Jamaica has been called “the richest and wickedest city in the world."
It was the natural rendezvous for most of the pirates of the Caribbean.
Liquor, women prostitutes, homosexual rendezvous, gambling, dope – every vice thrived in Port Royal “in
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Contributed by David Parks on Aug 15, 2002
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An older minister recently told me he spent the first fifteen years of his ministry answering the question “Did God create the heavens and the earth?” only to realize the people were really asking, “Why did God create me?”
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Fenton, G. 1999. Your ministry’s next chapter. The pastor’s soul
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Christian/Church Of Christ