Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 12, 2010
The Pianist
An elderly widow, restricted in her activities, was eager to serve Christ. After praying about this, she realized that she could bring blessing to others by playing the piano. The next day she placed this small ad in the Oakland Tribune: “Pianist will play hymns by phone daily for
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A father was having a particularly stressful day at work. So, he decided to take off work a few hours early to watch his son play soccer. His son’s team was made up of boys and girls who were still trying to learn how to play. After a few minutes, the coach blew the whistle and called the players
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 3, 2002
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God Reaches Out to Find Us
During an Aug. 4 Sunday school class at National Presbyterian Church, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice described how she had drifted from her Christian faith -- and how God reached out and brought her back:
"I was a preacher’s kid, so Sundays were church, no
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 28, 2006
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Leonard Bernstein was once asked which instrument was the most difficult to play. He thought for a moment and then replied, "The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm -
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
Paul Galloway, writing for the Chicago Tribune in the fall of 1992, described a “striking linguistic comparison between William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Chicago playwright David Mamet’s Glengary Glen Ross, noting that while both treat human greed and ambition, they are exactly 232
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Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on May 26, 2011
WRATH ON THE MESSENGER
I don't know about you, but one of my all-time favorite TV shows is M*A*S*H. I especially loved it when the company clerk Radar would have to give bad news to the head nurse "Hot Lips" Hoolihan. He would tell her the news and expect to have to face her wrath even though he
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Methodist
Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
THE EMBLEM OF SUFFERING AND SHAME
Crucifixion was a form of execution that the Romans had learned from the Persians. The Persians had developed a method of crucifying victims by impaling them on a pole. Later cultures developed different methods of crucifixion, And Rome employed several of them.
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on May 15, 2001
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A preacher in the Midwest tells about a young couple in his church who boasted to all their friends & neighbors that they were flying to New York City. They were only going to be able to spend one day there, but the highlight of their trip would be to go & see the Broadway play, “My Fair Lady.”
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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STEALING HIS GLORY
Recently, we heard about what happened in the capital in Washington State.
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- An atheist group unveiled an anti-religion placard/sign in the state Capitol, joining a Christian Nativity scene and "holiday tree" on display during December.
The atheists' sign was
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A certain nobleman had a garden which he left to the care of a faithful servant, whose delight it was to water the seeds, support the stalks of tender plants, and to do everything he could to make the estate a paradise of flowers. One morning the gardener rose expecting to find his favorite blooms
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I found these lines in an old book copyrighted in 1911. The title of the book is "MORE
HEART THROBS VOLUME TWO"...
IT WILL MEND
Ex-Governor Pennypacker, in an address that was both kind and witty, said in Philadelphia
of the divorce evil:
"There would be less divorce if there were more
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Holiness
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 14, 2007
Halfway through a rehearsal, with trumpets blaring, drums rolling, and violins singing their rich melody, the piccolo player muttered to himself, “What good am I doing? I might as well not be playing. Nobody can hear me anyway.” So he placed his instrument to his lips but made no sound. Within
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 22, 2010
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FENCE
Pleasure, delight, sweets, is not the way Christianity is usually described. It is described by some as a restrictive life. Let’s think of it as a group of children who are playing on top of a monadnock (Pilot Mountain) and around the point where the rock drops off
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Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jun 22, 2008
“He dropped the ball!”
I’m sure you’ve heard that expression before. We use it to describe someone who has failed to follow through on an assignment or to reach a certain goal. Some people trace the origin of that phrase to the 4th game of the 1941 Baseball World Series. The series was dubbed
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Game Boys In the USA, over 70% of males in the 18 to 34 demographic play video games, according to NPD Group. Young men play 12.5 hours of video games a week, while they watch television 9.8 hours, and 75% of households with a male member age 8
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NEVER HOME
- I was born in a hospital
- Educated in a boarding school
- Courted in a car
- Married in a church
- We eat in restaurants
- Spend our mornings playing Golf
- Spend our afternoons playing bridge at the club
- Evenings we go to movies
- When I die
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