Contributed by John Wright on Jun 28, 2007
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Our church was meeting in a storefront, but we had outgrown it. We found a church building on the east side of St. Paul for $27,000. We literally had no money. We believed God wanted us to have that building, so we signed a contract to pay cash in 90 days ... and we began to pray. Nothing came
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Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Jun 28, 2007
The thermostat on the wall of our homes offers a great spiritual challenge. It contains a thermostat and a thermometer. What’s the difference? The thermostat controls the temperature. You set it at the temperature you want and it starts and stops the furnace or air conditioner at the right
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Mennonite
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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Swindoll challenges us with this thought: “Our friend Solomon, with a limitless supply of money and without any sense of accountability to others, took that trail as far as one could take it. And when it was all said and done, he said, ‘What an empty, futile trip!’ will every young person hearing
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
Our mission of partnering with the Lord to help others come to Christ and be changed through a personal salvation experience must include praise to God for who He is because out of who He is, His
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Church Of God
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 4, 2008
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Our lives are filled with signs and symbols. It has been estimated that we observe over 15,000 images a day. I believe more and more that we need Spiritual signs to help us negotiate this world more so than ever. Baptism is one such important sign. It is sign
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Church Of God
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 16, 2008
Too often our praying is characteristic of the little boy’s prayer I read about. He prayed, "Lord, if you can’t make me a better boy, don’t worry
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Glenn Durham on Mar 25, 2008
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“To the best of our knowledge, the New Hebrides had no Christian influence before John Williams and James Harris from the London Missionary Society landed in 1839. Minutes after going ashore, both missionaries were killed and eaten by cannibals” (John Piper, online paper).
Eighteen years later,
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 5, 2008
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We often lose our joy
Well I brought some joy with me this morning
Joy detergent, Almond Joy, Joystick
What happens when you run out of Joy?
You have an empty bottle, all you have left is Almond, and you video game doesn’t work.
Life just isn’t as good when you run out of joy
Maybe you are here
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
*Last Saturday, I was walking in our neighborhood, and I passed a house where a little girl about 3-years-old accidentally got Mom or older sister wet with the hose. The adult screamed her name and then screamed, “What’s the matter with you?”
-I promise you that the scream did a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-- John Adams
From Gary
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Do we value our Family Time?
Family time is something we all say we value, but few of us actually experience. Surveys suggest that most families rate time together as their number one priority. Those same surveys show that fathers spend only a few minutes a day with their children. In his book If
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 8, 2008
In our own day the dramatic turnaround in the life of such a person as Charles Colson can only be explained by a divine intervention from above. While many were at first wary of Colson’s “born-again” experience, no objective observer, not even his detractors, can gainsay the sincerity of his
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 19, 2008
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Jesus Took Our Place At Calvary
A man named Goho rose to be chief of the tribe. He was a good man, and far wiser and advanced in understanding than his fellow tribesmen. The year he became chief, the tribe brought in 40 heads. He judiciously suggested that the tribe use one head each year as a
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 6, 2008
IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE THE GOSPEL KNOWN ROM:10:14 HOW WILL YOUR LOVED ONES NEIGHBOUS HEAR IF WE DON’T TELL THEM … WITHOUT SOMEONE SPEAKING TO THEM IS TO MAKE THIS MESSAGE KNOWN TO GO AND TELL THIS IS OUR CHARGE – IF YOU’RE A CHRISTIAN THIS MORNING YOU HAVE BEEN COMMISSIONED BY JESUS
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Baptist
Our apartment in Romania was close to the train station. And one of our distant relatives, Emil, who happens to run a small business two hundred miles from us, discovered how convenient is to have a place to stay for free while he was around shopping for his business, in our area. So from time to
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Seventh-Day Adventist
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