Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 18, 2007
A monastery in Germany trained Christian brothers for various responsibilities within the Roman Catholic Church. One Christian brother in training lived in mortal fear of being called upon to preach the sermon in the daily chapel exercises. As this young man thought about his apprehension, he
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Contributed by Chris Surber on Jun 21, 2008
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My first staff position in a church was as the Associate Pastor of The Kirk Community Church in Dunedin, Florida. I normally arrived at church early but on this particular morning my wife and I had arrived just a few minutes before the worship service was to begin. As my wife Christina unbuckled
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 27, 2009
WHO WAS WEAK AND WHO WAS STRONG?
April 6, 1994 marked the beginning of dark and infamous days for Rwanda, a small country in central Africa. For the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia — mostly using clubs and machetes. It was a genocide of monumental proportions,
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 20, 2011
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BLOOD FLOWS IN THE BOMOKANDE
In November 1964, anarchy broke out in the Belgian Congo. Assemblies of God missionary J. W. Tucker knew he was at risk, but he stayed where God had placed him. One day, a mob attacked and killed him with sticks, clubs, fists, and broken bottles. They took his body,
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OUR WHITE STONE NAME
In the BBC reality show Monastery, a group of five men from diverse backgrounds voluntarily join a Benedictine monastery for a span of forty days. The five men don't have to assent to Christian beliefs, but they do have to respect and follow the monks' communal requirements--a
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Oct 3, 2011
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WHAT THE CAPTAIN MEANS
The storm came suddenly upon the boat loaded with sailors. In a matter of moments hulls were broken, decks were awash, and sailors were floundering. But as quickly came the storm, so came the captain, maneuvering his large vessel between the waves and rescuing one sailor
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2012
TOP TEN ADDICTIONS
The top 10 addictions verify these statements:
Alcohol, smoking, drugs, gambling, food, video games, internet, sexual, shopping, work
People succumb to these addictions in search of peace and fulfillment; but fail to realize either one. It is a sad, circular, dangerous, and
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Story: In March 2004, I was in the second bookshop in Dymchurch rummaging through the books when I came across a second hand Jerusalem Bible.
As I opened up the Bible, a number of loose leaf papers fell into my hand.
And on one of them was written a story.
It was obviously very meaningful to
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Anglican
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WESLEY’S CONVERSION
John Wesley become a priest in the Church of England before he had become a Christian. His conversion story is very interesting:
Not long after the first Moravian missionaries came from Germany, Wesley had left for the West Indies, Wesley found himself on board a ship with a
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Anglican
Though it’s a frequently used word in the English language, it’s one of the least talked about. It’s used as an exclamation, an interjection, and a noun. What word is it? Hell.
Pollsters tell us that most people who use the word don’t believe in the existence of Hell. While 90 percent of Americans
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 29, 2024
[005]. MESSAGE FROM A POEM - A MIRROR ON THE STATE OF THE WORLD
We are citizens of this world, but we also are citizens of heaven. Those dear souls who are unsaved are just citizen of this world. They have singular citizenship.
When we look at the awful political systems the world has, and at
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