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CHRISTIAN FOOTBALL!!
Quarterback Sneak - Church members quietly leaving during the invitation.
Draw Play - What many children do with the bulletin during worship.
Half-time - The period between Sunday school and worship when many choose to leave.
Benchwarmer - Those who do not sing, pray, work,
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Contributed by Kevin Higgins on Feb 15, 2003
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In 1928 a group of the world’s most successful financiers met at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. The following were present: The president of the largest utility company, The greatest wheat speculator, The president of the New York Stock Exchange, A member of the President’s Cabinet, The
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Baptist
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A few years ago Dr. Nick Stinnett of the University of Nebraska conducted a group of studies called the "Family Strengths Research Project": Stinnett and his researchers identified six qualities that make for strong families. The first quality and one of the most important to be found in strong
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As Eucharistic Prayer 4 prays: grant in your loving kindness to all who partake of this one Bread and one Chalice that, gathered into one body by the Holy Spirit,
they may truly
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Catholic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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Honesty Ranking: Firefighters top the annual CNN/USA Today Gallup Poll ranking the honesty, integrity and ethical standards of various professions. 90% of Americans rated them “high” or “very high.” Close behind firefighters in the ratings were nurses (84%), members of the military (81%), policemen
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 15, 2008
Loren Mead: The mission of God and His church is “to see that no pain is unshared, not hurt unnoticed, no hunger untouched, no loss grieved alone, no death unknown, and no joy uncelebrated…The Church is to identify itself with the suffering that creeps into every life, every home, every
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Pentecostal
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ILLUSTRATION POINT:
(Hand each audience member a puzzle piece.) His specific plan involves you – look at your puzzle piece which was handed to you when you came in this morning! Here this word from the Lord, "You are an important piece to the vision and to the mission of Christian Hills." God’s
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 3, 2010
Some years ago I was in a discussion with a member of the so-called Unity Church of Christianity. He said he believed the same thing I did -
Unity - Jesus is the Way-Shower. We follow His example of a good life.
Christianity – Jesus is the Way to God. Jesus gives us new life by dying for our
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 3, 2001
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Many years ago, Indian youths would go away in solitude to prepare for manhood. One such youth hiked into a beautiful valley, green with trees, bright with flowers. There he fasted. But on the third day, as he looked up at the surrounding mountains, he noticed one tall rugged peak, capped with
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 30, 2006
There’s an eating disorder called pica. Over the years, doctors have reported cases of people with pica eating dirt, chalk, clay, paste, paint chips, paper, cardboard, ice chips, and Styrofoam. In one case, a 22-year-old woman showed up in the emergency room with undigested pieces of socks in her
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Dec 2, 2001
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I’d like to read you a list of phobias that are out there today. These are all very real, even if they might seem outlandish to someone who doesn’t have them:
Peladophobia: fear of baldness and bald people (by the way, if any of you here have that fear, we will have a healing service for you
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