Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 5, 2009
                
                
                
                    Church- a poem by James Blankinship
I think that I shall never see, 
A church that’s all it ought to be;
A church whose members never stray, 
Beyond the straight and narrow way.
A church that has no empty pews, 
Whose preacher never has the blues;
Where elders ‘eld’ and deacons ‘deek’ 
And none is
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 24, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Time magazine’s cover story this month was entitled, “Does God Want You to Be Rich?”  The header said, “A growing number of Protestant evangelicals raise a joyful Yes!”  The article opens with the story of George Adams, a man from Ohio who had lost his factory job.  His reaction to the job loss
                    
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                    After choosing the title of this sermon I began looking for an illustration that captured the sense of what I meant by a “black market sacrifice.”  And to my great distress I found one – kind of.  The search for an illustration became the illustration.  Confused?  Let me explain.
	When I prepare
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Gibson on Apr 10, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Once a farmer was interviewing prospective workers. The farmer liked one young man especially as he seemed very joyful and able. He asked the man ’What makes you think you can have the job ?’. The man answered, ’I can sleep when the wind blows!’. The farmer thought his answer very strange but liked
                    
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                    “A CHRISTIAN HOME”
O GIVE US HOMES BUILT FIRM UPON THE SAVIOR, 
WHERE CHRIST IS HEAD AND COUNSELLOR AND GUIDE; 
WHERE EVERY CHILD IS TAUGHT HIS LOVE AND FAVOR 
AND GIVES HIS HEART TO CHRIST, THE CRUCIFIED: 
HOW SWEET TO KNOW THAT THOUGH HIS FOOTSTEPS WAVER 
HIS FAITHFUL LORD IS WALKING BY HIS SIDE!
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Aug 24, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    " An organist was practicing one day in a great church in Europe. A man came up to the organ and asked if he could play. The organist looked at him and thought to himself. I shouldn’t let this man play, just look at him, he is unshaven, his clothes are soiled, he looks like a bum. So he told the
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 27, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    You’d have to be living under a rock not to have heard of Star Wars, but if you are not “into” the Star Wars saga you may not know that the two-foot tall, 800+year old character you just saw is Yoda. Now, it’s true, Yoda can’t speak a straight forward English sentence. “Totally backward his
                    
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                    Contributed by David Dykes on Mar 31, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jesus infuriated the Jewish leaders because He claimed to be the “stone which the builders rejected.” This is a reference to the building of Solomon’s Temple. It took 30,000 workmen over seven years to complete the temple. According to I Kings 6 all the stones were quarried far away from the
                    
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                    Spurgeon (1) wrote, " I think I may say to every person whom I am addressing,-If you are yourself saved, the work is but half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ. You are as yet but half formed in the image of your Lord. You have not attained to the full development of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 30, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	The sign next to the expressionless face said: “The Motionless Man: Make Him Laugh.  Win $100.”  So several people gave it all they had.  For hours they pulled their faces into strange contortions, told jokes, made fun of him, did stunts — but nothing worked.  He was totally unmoved and his face
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Hello Kitty, Goodbye Money?  Last year Visa introduced a Hilary Duff gift card in five denominations and urged tween girls to “shop like a star.”  Now MasterCard has announced a Hello Kitty debit card. That can be reloaded.  The primary target is younger girls ages 10-14.  Legend Credit Inc.,
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Maze on Feb 15, 2007
                
                
                
                    Richard M. Nixon served as the 37th president of the United States.
He was a polarizing figure who won the presidential office by a landslide and then later resigned in disgrace just 21 months later.
His disgrace culminated with the Democratic party getting their man, Jimmy Carter, into the White
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 3, 2009
                
                
                
                    AFRAID OF WHAT?
Jack Benson was a missionary to China.  He was held up by some bandits who took all his valuables & then held a gun to his head & forced him to kneel in the road.  They told him they were going to shoot him.
Benson knelt calmly, maintaining his composure through it all.  The
                    
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                    Contributed by Curtis Emerson on Jul 30, 2010
                
                
                
                    I was reading a blog about “who should get the credit” and I wonder if any of you have some of these same ideas.
One person wrote;
“you know this phony god of yours has it good, it gets all the credit for everything good, and man gets all the credit for everything bad ... the best of both worlds”.
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 16, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE CUP ON ITS SIDE
A teacher set a cup on the table in front of his two disciples. He took a flask that had a little water in it and poured the water into the cups, evenly dividing all that was left. Trying to teach the students to be hungry for more knowledge, he said, "Your cup has water, but
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Jun 19, 2007
                
                
                
                    Saturday at about 2:30 a.m., Wade Hawkins, Jr. and his family were sleeping peacefully in their home when a tornado struck. Ogie, as he is commonly called, and his younger son were sleeping in the master bedroom. His wife had fallen asleep on the couch in the living room, while his eight-year-old
                    
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