Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 27, 2025
Background on Psalm 37 - How to Have God's Peace in Horrible Times
Anyone who has read a good portion of God's Word knows that there are a lot of prayers provided for us in the Bible. The Dake Annotated Reference Bible lists 222 different prayers in the Bible: 176 prayers in the Old
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
One famous Bible Commentator, Donald Guthrie had this to say about the term ABBA:
(Abba) was originally used by young children but it had acquired an extended meaning in familiar use roughly equivalent to "dear father".
It is a unique form that finds no parallel either in the OT or in Judaism,
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 18, 2004
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Many people think money is security, but I Timothy 6:9 warns that it can be just the opposite. A few years ago, columnist Jim Bishop reported what happened to people who won the state lottery:
Rosa Grayson of Washington won $400 a week for life. She hides in her apartment. For the first time in her
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Contributed by Darron Khan on May 30, 2002
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HOW DOES GOD PURSUE ME?
You know it’s just stunning when you think of how tenaciously God pursues us. I grew up in a thoroughly pagan home. My father was raised a Muslim and my mother grew up pretty much oblivious to God. Yet, despite this, I cannot tell you how many different individuals God
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Melvin Newland on Aug 14, 2001
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ILL. John Todd was a preacher back in the late 1800’s. When he was 6 years old, both of his parents died. So a kind-hearted aunt raised him until he left home to study for the ministry.
Years later, this aunt became seriously ill, & even though she was a Christian, she wrote him a letter
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 20, 2011
LEAVE ROOM FOR GOD TO WORK
There was an amazing story recently that took place during the riots in Egypt. As a backdrop remember that on New Year’s Day of this year there was a suicide bombing of a Christian church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, which killed 23 Christians and wounded 97
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 7, 2011
MERCY ME: HOLD FAST
Mercy Me is a Christian band (I Can Only Imagine) and recently they sang a song called, "Hold Fast." Bart Millard tells the story of the inspiration for "Hold Fast":
"I was standing in the back of the bus going to our next concert. We were in a traffic jam and we passed a
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Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
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During the American Civil War fought between the years 1861 - 1865, over
600,000 soldiers from the South died, but a heartfelt prayer that survived
was the Prayer of the Unknown Confederate Soldier, a soldier¡¦s unrequited but
unsurpassed prayer:
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve,
I
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 13, 2013
PLENTY OF TIME
William Sangster was a hard-driving 19th Century preacher. He wrote about his life, "A busy life, no time to think. No time for rich, rewarding meditation and prayer. No interior life. No quietness and poise. Hence, rush invades restlessness. Repetition. No new thoughts of
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Probably the most significant predecessor to the Pentecostal revival in America was the revival in Wales. Prayerful preparation had gone on for many years, but the spark was kindled through a young miner by the name of Evan Roberts.
In the fall of 1904 he felt compelled through a vision to
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
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READING THEIR NAMES
Jeff Greenfield is a news correspondent for ABC News. He lives in Salisbury, Connecticutt and has attended the same Memorial Day observance in his community for the last 15 years. He writes:
"At 10 a.m., the parade begins moving down Main Street. It is a small parade:
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Contributed by John Browning on Aug 6, 2007
A story is told of a small group study that was done each week a church. Each week it would be held in a different member’s home and the host would provide snacks and the opening prayer. One young lady always provided the best food, had the cleanest home, etc. But she could never say the prayer;
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Baptist
Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
Once upon a time, a congregation outgrew their church building. Everyone agreed that they needed to build a new church; but they couldn’t agree on a blueprint, a budget or a building site. In desperation, the pastor invited everyone to join him for an evening of special prayer. One woman came,
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Free Methodist
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Today we celebrate Holy Communion. In our Methodist and Anglican traditions the spirit of repentance has always been at the heart and center in observing this holy sacrament. Traditionally since the publication of the first BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER in 1549 and John Wesley’s 1784 work THE SUNDAY
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Contributed by Darren Ethier on Apr 11, 2001
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There was a couple who were sitting with a marriage counselor for their first session and the good doctor asked them to identify what seemed to be the root of their problems. The wife responded, "It all started when we thought it would be cute to think up each other’s New Year’s
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