Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 18, 2002
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Two first graders were overheard as they left Sunday school class, "Do you really believe all that stuff about the devil?" "No, I
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Mennonite
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"If our faith is not relevant to our daily life in the world and in the parish, then it is no use; and if we cannot be Christians in our work, in the neighborhood, in our political decisions, then we had better stop
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Chapters 40 through 66 of Isaiah were revealed to him during the final years of his life. They provide us many details about the ministry of our Messiah and His Coming Kingdom. Isaiah 40:12 presents the Messiah as our Divine Creator:
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
And
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Methodist
Contributed by Doug Lyon on Dec 11, 2006
Charles Fuller was a radio Bible teacher years ago. He once announced that he would be speaking the following Sunday on the topic of “Heaven.” During that week, he received a letter from an elderly gentleman who was very ill—on his deathbed. The man wrote: “Next Sunday you are to talk about
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 1, 2009
I have a friend who started this church in the lower 48 that was so successful that they had a difficult time finding a place to meet for Sunday services. They had so many people showing up on Sunday they were literally standing in the parking lot waiting for a seat in the next service.
The church
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Feb 23, 2012
A TIMELY TESTIMONY
Jim Cymbala tells an amazing story of one Sunday in his church: (Fresh Faith pp. 78-82)
During the choir anthem, Pastor Jim was touched by the words of one of the young men who was featured as a soloist during the song. As the song concluded, Pastor Jim was strongly prompted
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Lutheran
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 7, 2010
The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at the ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries, published by
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Baptist
Contributed by Curt Cizek on Nov 21, 2008
-The high school that I went to was a big football, track and wrestling school
-All of the best athletes played football
-The coach of the team highly encouraged his best players to not play basketball anymore but to concentrate during the winter on lifting weights instead of shooting a
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2001
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A little girl was observed by her pastor standing outside the preschool Sunday School classroom between Sunday School and worship, waiting for her parents to come and pick her up for "big church." The pastor noticed that she clutched a big storybook under her arms with the obvious title, "Jonah and
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Some people don’t need much of an excuse to stay home from church. If it even looks like it might rain, they don’t want to risk getting a little wet. The hymn writer Frances Havergal gave several reasons for attending church—especially on rainy days.
1. God has blessed the Lord’s Day, making no
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Lutheran
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I shall never the first time that I was able to take communion. For years, I had sat back and took far too much heart and thought into those who took on communion “unworthily.” The first time that I took communion was the Thursday of the preceding Easter Sunday of 1990.
I was at Texas Bible
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Michael Reeves on Aug 20, 2002
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THE OLDER, THE BETTER
An older soman was overheard to say about her husband and their relationship together, "I’m married to an archaeologist, and I get the feeling that the older I get, the better he
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 6, 2005
The little boy was innocently talking to the arrogant pastor. "Today my dad taught me all about Babylon."
Really? replied the pastor. And how did he explain Babylon?
He
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
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PERCEPTIONS OF GOD
Most Christians today perceive God like one person noted: God is a lot like our pastor. I don’t see him through the week and I don’t
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Children leave gift of love at funeral by Paul Harvey
The Rev. Harry Pritchett Jr. is rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta. His church includes specific ministries for the poor, for street people, for college students. It is Pritchett who called my attention to a boy named
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Children leave gift of love @ funeral
The Rev. Harry Pritchett Jr. is rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta. His church includes specific ministries for the poor, for street people, for college students. It is Pritchett who called my attention to a boy named Philip.
He was 9 – in a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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I was a supply preacher for a small town Texas Church, coming in early Sunday, preaching a sermon to the congregation, and then leaving after lunch. Arriving early one Sunday I sat down at a local donut shop, opened my Bible and went over my sermon notes.
A man was sitting down the counter from
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
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Church For Fanatics
One man wrote "I was a supply preacher for a small town Texas Church, coming in early Sunday, preaching a sermon to the congregation, and then leaving after lunch. Arriving early one Sunday I sat down at a local donut shop, opened my Bible and went over my sermon notes. "
A man
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Wesleyan