Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 12, 2002
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Suicide is a real and relevant problem in our culture. According to the 2001 Statistical Abstract of the U.S there were almost 31,000 (30,775) people who took their own lives in our country. Over 4000 (4135) of those were by people between the ages of 15-24, young men and women in the prime of
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Christian Church
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In the United States of America, our national symbol is an eagle---the Bald Eagle to be exact. Anyone can look at an eagle and be amazed at its beauty as well as its character. But, what is it that makes eagles so majestic and awesome in their character? It is the way that they are taught to rise
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 10, 2003
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OUR SALVATION “LORICA”—COMMUNION MEDIATION
A lorica was an ancient piece of armor that acted like a breastplate to shield its wearer from physical danger. But to the Celts of early Ireland, a lorica was also an oral chant that the pagan Druid magicians believed invoked magical powers of
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 28, 2003
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The speaker at our women’s club was lecturing on marriage and asked the audience how many of us wanted to “mother” our husbands. One member in the back row raised her hand.
“You do want to ‘mother’ your husband?” the
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Baptist
Contributed by Kerry Kinchen on Nov 10, 2003
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". . . before this month began to prepare our ground against seed-time. In the midst of April we began to set, the weather being then seasonable, which much encouraged us, giving us good hopes of after plenty: the setting season is good till the latter end of May. But it pleased God for our further
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Mark Christian on Jan 10, 2004
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One of the keys understanding our relationship to God is in understanding that God wants us to obey Him not for His sake, but for ours. God loves us so much that He wants us to avoid the pitfalls and disappointments of this life. He knows that when we take on the attitude of Christ, we will be
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2004
The anthropic principle states that in our own universe, all these seemingly arbitrary and unrelated values in physics have one strange thing in common: They are precisely the values needed to get a universe capable of supporting life.
…Physicist Freeman Dyson said: “I find that the universe in
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 16, 2004
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ILLUSTRATION... High Opinion, Our Daily Bread, July 3, 1989
A man who had a high opinion of himself stepped on a coin-operated scale that dispensed a card, giving
his weight and comments about his personality. After reading the card, he handed it to his wife and said, “Here, look at this!” She
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Tim Najpaver on Oct 23, 2004
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Patrick Henry said,
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians,
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Contributed by Tim Stutler on Mar 27, 2006
In our church there are several couples who built houses last year. All of them lived in rental homes until their new homes were completed. How many of them do you think spent a lot of time fixing up those rental homes? Yes, they wanted it to be clean and comfortable and functional, but they did
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by John Harvey on Mar 29, 2006
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Francis Schaeffer said, “Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is clear that the unbelief which he so bitterly deplored was not an intellectual persuasion of God’s non-existence. Those whom he rebuked for their lack of faith were not men who
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