Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 4, 2010
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROSS
When a group of churches advertised their Easter celebration, no reference was made to the cross. The omission was deliberate. One church official explained, "The cross carries too much cultural baggage."
The true weight of the cross is not in its
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 4, 2007
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Separatists?
A church had a sign in front: JESUS ONLY. One night a storm blew out the first three letters and left US ONLY. Too many churches have come to that. (Vance Havner, from The Vance Havner
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 16, 2025
[202]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – PICTURES FROM A COUNTING SONG – (PART 2)
THIS SECOND PART OF THE POEM IS PART 2. IT CONTINUES FROM THE PREVIOUS POST.
“ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE” OR “1, 2, BUCKLE MY SHOE” is a counting song dating back to late 18th century in the USA. It was heard for the first
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
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I once heard the late Dr. F.E. Marsh tell that on one occasion he was preaching on this question and urging upon his hearers the importance of confession of sin and wherever possible of restitution for wrong done to others.
At the close a young man, a member of the church, came up to him with a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
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"Economist Robert Heilbroner describes the luxuries a typical American family would have to surrender if they lived among the one billion hungry people in the Third World:
We begin by invading the house of our imaginary American family to strip it of its furniture. Everything goes: beds, chairs,
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Contributed by Davon Huss on May 27, 2013
Bertha Smith is a name that we are not familiar with. Bertha Smith was a missionary many years ago in China. There was an uprising throughout China at that time and the Christian missionaries were forced to leave their congregations and flee to coastal cities for safety. Many of them, while
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 30, 2022
A married couple was reflecting on their 50th wedding anniversary and all of the great times they had been blessed to share together through the years. The husband was sitting in his recliner and the wife was sitting in her recliner.
“You know something,” she said, “things have really changed
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
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Palm Sunday Praises Likened to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
A few years ago there was a pastor visiting the U.S. He had lived in what had been East Germany - from the region of Thuringen, Germany. He spoke to us about November 9th 1989 - and important date in the history of Germany - the day that
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 27, 2005
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American Tourists Mistreated, Pastors Tortured & Church Ordered to Close
· August 8, 2005
CHINA: House Church Pastors Tortured in Prison & Shanghai House Church Faces Forced Closure
China Aid learned that more than 210 Chinese house church pastors and believers have been arrested in Hubei, Hebei
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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Inspired Kindness: A new survey by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago finds that those who attend church weekly and take part in other religious activities perform an average of 128 acts of kindness a year versus 96
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 25, 2007
Shut Up, He who guards his lips guards his soul.
A Church in Kansas City has as its slogan:
Wake up, sing up, preach up, pray up and pay up, but never give up or let up or back up or shut up
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 25, 2008
There is virtually no connection between the Temple and modern church buildings. As we will see later in the series, it really isn’t right to call a church building "the House of the Lord." It is okay in a figurative sense, just as our praise is not an offering in the sense of killing and animal
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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Franklin Clark Fry once said, “A person who says he believes in God but never goes to church is like a person who says he believes in education but never goes to school.” So, if you call yourself a Christian, commit yourself to a local,
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 12, 2008
“Crowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and wane, But the Church of Jesus, Constant will remain; Gates of hell can never ‘Gainst that Church prevail; We have Christ’s own promise, and that cannot fail”. (Sabine Baring-Gould in William
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