Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 29, 2009
Our topic today is worship and service. I’d like to begin by telling a true story that happened to Reverend Forrest I. Sears. He writes:
Wilma had been a member of our church for many, many years. In her later years she needed the assistance of a cane to help in walking. As she was talking
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 11, 2009
BEGINNING AND ENDING
A Connecticut Baptist named A. Roger Williams (a modern pastor, not the one who founded Rhode Island) once preached, "It is true that if religion begins with the individual--it begins, but if it ends with the individual--it ends." [A. Roger Williams, "The Kingdom of God," in
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Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 20, 2002
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THE FELLOWSHIP OF GOD
The New Bible Dictionary says:
“In his essential life, God is a fellowship. This is perhaps the supreme revelation of God given in the Scriptures: it is that God’s life is eternally within himself a fellowship of three equal and distinct persons, Father, Son and Spirit, and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 24, 2004
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After connecting deeply and intimately with a friend who he’d only had a shallow relationship for years, the German poet Goethe wrote these words:
The world is so empty
if one only thinks
of mountains, rivers, and cities;
but to know someone
who thinks and feels with me,
and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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For centuries educated and literate persons considered it important to start the day by getting out of bed on the right side. The meaning of the verbal formula, which is now more familiar than the ceremony that produced it, is literal. To get out of bed on the left side was to invite
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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:"He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ’other things.’ Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 24, 2006
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"A woman can trust her ability to influence and control her husband, or she can trust God and be submissive. A woman can trust her outward adornment, or she can trust God and cultivate a gentle and quiet spirit. It all comes back to
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Clarence Clough on Dec 23, 2007
In an earlier time a Christian man was being burned at the stake. He was there because he refused to renounce his Christian testimony.
In the final moments of his body being burned he lifted his hands in the air a clapped three times. It seemed he clapped once for the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Chris Surber on May 29, 2009
A couple of weeks of ago I was playing with a friend’s dog who loves to chase a tennis ball; well Jake will chase most any ball if you throw it for him in fact!
After I had thrown the ball for him a couple of times I took the ball, gave it a good wind up, and threw it hard, though I never let go
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Christian Church
Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 23, 2000
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Max Lucado says that “The grave unearths our view of God” And he’s right how often have we heard “God if you existed my child wouldn’t have died, if you’d have answered my prayers my life
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