Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 15, 2003
We recently watched a movie titled, “Behind Enemy Lines”. An American pilot is down behind enemy lines in Croatia, and trying to avoid search parties while making it to his pick up spot.
A professional assassin has been given the task of hunting him down, and this assassin has been required to
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Orthodox
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 23, 2004
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"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love."
"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their
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Contributed by Mary Lewis on Aug 24, 2004
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At my ordination service, my friend Pastor Don Bradley gave the ordination sermon. In it, he urged me to “Remember Dorothy.” It’s all right, I didn’t know what he was talking about either.
He told us a story about a woman who was in nursing school. One day the Prof. came in and said those 7 words
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 4, 2004
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Some time ago I read about an instant cake mix that was a big flop. The instructions said that all you had to do was add water and bake and you had your cake. The company couldn’t understand why it didn’t sell -- until their research discovered that the buying public felt uneasy about a mix that
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Lutheran
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I’ve been a pastor a long time, and I’ve encouraged a multitude of folks to get regular about worshipping. But I’ve also been told a similar multitude of times, Preacher, you don’t have to go to church to worship.
Now, I would say that that is true; I am also certain that if you say you believe
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United Methodist
Contributed by Robert Garrett on Apr 11, 2005
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“HEART OF WORSHIP”
There’s a recent song that was written by a young man who lead the worship at church. He was an extremely talented singer, but the preacher there took him aside and told him that he could not lead the singing at church until things changed because he saw that he was more
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2005
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Out of parental concern and a desire to teach our young son responsibility, we require him to phone home when he arrives at his friend?s house a few blocks away. He began to forget, however, as he grew more confident in his ability to get there without disaster befalling him. The first time he
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Contributed by William Huegel on Dec 30, 2005
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A guy by the name of Herb Forst in Cross River, NY, offered some suggestions to the Reader’s Digest, p. 69 that they thought was so good they printed it. It’s entitled:
“What not to Buy Your Wife”
Although the only person a man usually shops for is his wife, the whole experience is a stressful
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 22, 2006
Have you ever eaten Gumbo Stew from the Gulf of Mexico States or the Low Country around Charleston, South Carolina? If you haven’t you haven missed out on traditional Southern United States quinine that makes your taste buds jump for joy! It’s delicious.
Gumbo is a spicy, hearty stew. It is
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 3, 2006
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Ultra orthodox Jews still today form hedges for instance: Israel’s major airline, El Al, recently rejected a plea by ultra-orthodox Jews with a priestly heritage to fly inside body bags. Why would someone want to do this? Ritual law states that a priest who enters cemetery becomes religiously
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Baptist
Blackaby states this about “Experiencing God” from his book by the same name:
1. Jesus said, “The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name. He will teach you all things” (John 14:26). The Holy Spirit of God will be your personal Teacher. He is the One who will guide you to
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 10, 2011
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THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL
John Wesley: "There is no [conflict] at all between the law and the gospel; that there is no need for the law to pass away, in order to the establishing of the gospel. Indeed neither of them supersedes the other, but they agree perfectly well together. Yea, the very same
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 5, 2011
SET FREE
It all began on Sunday, December 11, 2005, when a fisherman spotted a 50-ton humpback whale tangled up in crab trap lines off the coast in northern California. His call for help was answered by a group of Coast Guard divers and whale experts.
The rescue operation was both difficult and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 7, 2012
HORSE SENSE
I like horses okay, but I am not a horse-person. But for much of history, horses were crucial. As a result, we have developed a lot of idioms involving horses.
"Many terms and phrases in the English language harken back to a time not so long ago when horses were of extreme
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 17, 2012
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Jesus came to be our Savior. To be our substitute. To die FOR us. But while God would be the only one pure enough to die for us... Gods don't die. And while mortals CAN die, no mortal man could ever be the sinless sacrifice the law required to pay for our sins. No ordinary man would be pure and
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Contributed by Ken Pell on Apr 6, 2013
WHO WILL YOU REACH? BLIND AUDITIONS
In 1997 Princeton University conducted an experiment using orchestra auditions as their guinea pig. It was discovered that different people were selected when the auditions were performed from behind a sheet or curtain rather than when the orchestra auditions
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Nazarene
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