Contributed by David Simmons on Feb 22, 2002
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CONDEMNATION OR COMPASSION
Tony Campolo tells the story of a New York City pastor who chose to take a funeral that no other minister would take. The man who died was a homosexual who died of AIDS. The minister agreed to do the funeral. When he got to the graveside, he discovered an audience
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Baptist
Contributed by Izak Shipman on Jun 13, 2002
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Chuck Mistler testifies
A few years ago, we flew back to California late one Sunday night from a seminar in Washington State. Tired and hungry, we still had to face another one-hour drive home from the airport.
Trying to check out of the airport parking lot, we found at least 30 cars in
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
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REMEMBERING JOSEPH BAU--COMMUNION MEDITATION
When someone dies, we remember—we remember all the stories that filled their life. Last week a man named Joseph Bau died. It’s a name you probably don’t know, but a story worth hearing.
Joseph Bau was born on June 18, 1920, in Krakow, Poland.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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J. R. Packard wrote a short story entitled, "The Trouble Is." In that story there is one very moving scene. A riot is in progress with blacks & whites fighting each other. The mother of the little black boy who is telling this story has been hurt. Her family has just gone down & picked her up off
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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One Sunday morning an old cowboy entered a church just before services were to begin. Although the old man and his clothes were spotlessly clean, he wore jeans, a denim shirt and boots that were very worn and ragged. In his hand he carried a worn out old hat and an equally worn out bible.
The
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Some time ago I ran across a wedding prayer that illustrates how subtly this can be done. This is a girl praying on her wedding day:
"Dear God, I can hardly believe that this is my wedding day. I know I haven’t been able to spend much time with You lately, with all the rush of getting ready for
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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One day a pastor had been working all morning on his sermon when His computer crashed and he lost it all. He went upstairs and told his wife, and she was amazed at how well he was taking it. She said, “It’s amazing how calm you are and how happy you seem even though you’ve lost a lot of work.” Then
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COULD YOU IMAGINE? TUNA AND CRACKERS EVERY DAY?
A. There was a hard working young man. He was very poor.
He worked long and hard and saved his money.
He met a beautiful young woman and fell in love.
He later asked for her hand in marriage, and a few years later after saving and
working all the
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 1, 2007
Our community recently suffered a devastating flood. Area churches have partnered with the Salvation Army to pool donated goods for disater victims at a warehouse. I pastor one of the churches involved in the disaster relief. "I was told first-hand by a Salvation Army worker who helped a lady who
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Walker Percy, in his book Lost in the Cosmos, describes a scenario that can help us be a little more introspective. Imagine you’re bringing your garbage can out one evening. You roll it down your driveway, out to the street and you see your neighbor, John.
You say hi, and he says hi.
Then he
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Episcopal/Anglican
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This past Christmas, the Dallas family from our church gave us a wonderful gift of Noah’s Ark complete with hand-carved animals. The problem is that it is especially fascinating to children. We have had to glue poor Noah back together more than once. After one visit from our grandchildren, we
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Methodist
Contributed by Don Hawks on Oct 28, 2007
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There’s an old story of a man and his grand-daughter who go for a walk to the local town park. The man and girl are sitting on a park bench sharing an afternoon snack when they are approached by a traveler.
"Good sir, please tell me. Is this a friendly town? I’ve had the misfortune to live in a
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Methodist
Contributed by Richard Sharp on Jan 10, 2008
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Ben Hooper was born in Newport, Tennessee in 1870 He was born out of wedlock , to Sarah Wade. As a result, He had a tough childhood, being taunted by others. In his early school years , his Grandfather died, and his mother was forced to place Ben in an Orphanage in Knoxville Tenn. At Age Nine,
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2008
From the book "A Love Worth Giving" by Max Lucado chapter 5- Harold suffered from cerebral palsy. The condition left him unable to walk, dress, feed himself, or go to the rest room. My job was to help him with this. And I didn’t like it. I had moved to St. Louis for spiritual training. Fresh
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Contributed by Anne Benefield on Feb 19, 2008
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In the inspiring book, This I Believe: Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, Susan Cosio writes, “I believe in a daily walk just to listen.” A chaplain at a medical center, a writer, and a mother of three, Susan Cosio says:
I believe I have to remove myself from the voices that
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Vera Hughes on Feb 20, 2008
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John 5:1-7 (Impotent man)
1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Most if not all of us have seen a large domino display set off. And we know that once you knock down that first domino there’s a chain reaction that takes place. This verse is talking about our actions having a spiritual domino effect. God doesn’t want us to worship Him in the wrong way because
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Steve Miller on Mar 16, 2008
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I saw that kind of wellspring of abundant life this week on the internet when I saw Nick Vujicic. He’s a 25 year old man, born without arms or legs, but has a marvelous wellspring of Abundent life like no other I’ve seen…
[Play clip from http://lifewithoutlimbs.org/ or read the following excerpt
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