Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
Marriage Amendment: 37% of America’s voting-age citizens have never even heard of the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), according to a new Barna study. When respondents were told about FMA, 46 % favored and 44 %
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
Churchshoppers.com claims it is the largest on-line U.S. church directory with 103,473 churches and adding more daily. It allows searchers to enter criterion based on a variety of preferences. Search results provide profiles of the churches, web
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 23, 2009
Saturday Night Live had a skit with Hans and Frans, dressed in oversized stuffed sweatshirts to look like body builders with larger muscles. They would say (with a German accent), "We want to pump you up!" Some Christians live that
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Don Hawks on Mar 3, 2004
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THE POWER TO EVANGELIZE
"I’m not a preacher, and I’m not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this," Mel Gibson has said in reference to The Passion of the Christ. "The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the
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Methodist
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The late Dr. A. J. Gordon concluded his last pastoral letter to his church (Clarendon Street, Boston), with these words: "Forget not that your first and principal business as a disciple of Christ is to give the gospel to those who have it not. He who is not a missionary Christian will be a missing
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jul 28, 2006
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States. He was born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872. And he served as President from 1923-1929. Both his dry wit and brevity with words became legendary. His wife, Grace, told of the time when a young woman was sitting next to Coolidge at
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Chris Surber on Apr 28, 2007
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I remember when I first began in the ministry. I was a young Marine Sergeant living in Yuma, Arizona. I had gotten involved with a retired Pastor.
He and I would lead a chapel service every Sunday at various retirement communities, assisted living facilities, and at rescue shelters. I was
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Christian Church
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 Ed Sasnett on Jun 15, 2010
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BURMA-SHAVE AND THE CHURCH
Dan Betzer told about the old Burma Shave commercials alongside the roadside. Some of you remember how advertisers would use several well-placed slogans on signs to promote their product. Burma Shave was famous for their billboard advertisements. For example, one
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Baptist
Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Nov 29, 2011
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EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY
I had arrived only a couple weeks before in the Czech Republic and was living with a retired Czech couple in a small village. Being the only American in the area I was somewhat a celebrity. One day a couple elders from a local church visited me to ask if I would preach in
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2002
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A QUESTION DURING CRISIS
I just saw an interesting cartoon. A man was phoning his pastor during a crisis. With a fraught look, the man asks the minister: "My wife has left me, my kids are on drugs, and my life is falling apart. Can you explain to me the difference between
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