Contributed by Gordon Curley on Oct 21, 2011
THE SERMON ON FAMILY
A young minister, with very small children, preached to his congregation on the theme, "10 ways to raise good and godly children."
Some years later, with his children entering their teens, he returned to his theme, but the same sermon was entitled:
"10 suggestions for
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 27, 2011
The Talmud (Sanhedrin 97a-b):
"The world will continue for six thousand years, the first two thousand of which were a chaos (Tahu), the second two thousand were of Torah, and the third two thousand are the days of the Messiah, and because of our sins many years of these have elapsed, and still he
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Independent/Bible
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LET THERE BE LIGHT
When God said, "Let there be LIGHT". There was LIGHT! And that LIGHT is still EXPANDING.
Kolb and Turner wrote, "Since the UNIVERSE has a finite age, and LIGHT travels at a finite speed, there may be events in the past whose LIGHT has not had time to reach us."
There were
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 28, 2001
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In the 1980’s a retired couple was alarmed by the threat of nuclear war so they undertook a serious study of all the inhabited places on the globe. Their goal was to determine where in the world would be the least likely place affected by a nuclear war -- a place of ultimate peace and security.
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Contributed by David Dewitt on Nov 6, 2001
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Many of you have probably never heard of Daniel Rohrbough--but he is a modern day hero. Daniel Rohrbough attended Columbine High School and was there on that horrible day when two students went on a rampage of violence and terror. Daniel Rohrbough stopped his escape from the building to hold a door
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering we are where and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time,
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Baptism is a lot like a wedding ring. Baptism is symbolic of the washing away of our sins. It is also symbolic of a new way of life. It has been said that Baptism is to the Christian faith what the wedding ring is to a marriage. It is a symbol. "Like the wedding ring, baptism draws a mark on
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United Methodist
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Mar 12, 2002
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FEELINGS
When George B. McClellan was commissioned Major General of the Army, he wrote his wife, "I don’t feel any different than I did yesterday. Indeed, I have not yet put on my new uniform. I am sure that I am in command of the Union Army, however, because President Lincoln’s order to that
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The story is told that, at the end of World War I, Herbert Hoover, who would later become the President of the United States, led the Allied relief efforts in Europe. The efforts of these valiant soldiers kept hundreds upon hundreds from starvation, and a new
word entered the Finnish
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Baptist
Contributed by Guy Glass on Sep 19, 2003
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On Thanksgiving Day, 1713, the governor of Connecticut and the Kings commissioners were just preparing to dine when it was announced that the bear prepared for the occasion had been “shot on ye Lord’s Day.” At the dismal news none would touch a morsel of the roast bear, until it was decided that
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Contributed by Don Hawks on Nov 26, 2003
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There was this parrot who lived in a bar. Well the barkeeper decided to sell the bar and a group of church people who needed a new church bought it to convert it to a place to meet for worship. So the bar was open it’s last night for business. After midnight when the bar closed down and the
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Methodist
Contributed by Ken Gilmore on Jul 7, 2004
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• A forgetful husband thought he had conquered the problem of trying to remember his wife’s birthday and their anniversary. He opened an account with a florist, provided him with dates and instructions to send flowers along with an appropriate note signed, "Your loving husband." His wife was
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