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THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY
I remember a sermon – years ago, in fact I think I may have preached it during my time here as an intern – where my opening illustration was the difference between the way my father chopped wood and the way I chopped it. You may remember the scene – me as a skinny 18
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This two-part story can frame a message on heaven, hope or the resurrection.
The 1989 Armenian earthquake needed only 4 minutes to flatten the nation and kill 30,000 people. Moments after the deadly tremor ceased, a father raced to an elementary school to save his son. When he arrived, he saw that
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Contributed by Danny Thomas on May 21, 2001
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Bamboo
Once upon a time, in the heart of the Western Kingdom, lay a beautiful garden. And there, in the cool of the day, the Master of the garden was wont to walk. Of all the denizens of the garden, the most beautiful and most beloved was gracious and noble bamboo. Year after year, bamboo grew yet
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Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Jan 21, 2004
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Dr. Frederic Loomis faced the most difficult decision a physician could ever make--whether to allow a deformed baby to live or die. He had only seconds to decide. Dr. Loomis had delivered hundreds of babies, but this one was different. The infant lay in a breech position, promising at best a
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 1, 2024
[008] MESSAGE FROM A POEM - A TALE OF THE FISH’S TAILS
“Take the line of least resistance; go with the flow; jellyfish that drift; leave me out of it; I see both sides; don’t involve me; I don’t want to know!” The world is full of compromise and it gets worse. We can expect no less from this
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Contributed by Sam Mccormick on Jul 5, 2017
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CHOSEN
1 Peter 2:4
…you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious…
I was awful. No one had to tell me – I knew it. In my hometown of Littlefield, Texas, the kids used to find a vacant lot relatively bare of weeds, choose up teams and play baseball.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Once upon a time, in the heart of an ancient Kingdom, there was a beautiful garden. And there, in the cool of the day, the Master of the garden would walk. Of all the plants of the garden, the most beautiful and most beloved was gracious and noble bamboo. Year after year, bamboo grew yet more noble
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 15, 2025
[166]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – KNOW JESUS – KNOW COMFORT AND PEACE
Obviously, the connection here is a vital one, and it’s an eternal one. Those who know Jesus should be living in comfort and peace. That needs defining.
Comfort is not the comfort of materialism by having a great home with
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Contributed by Chris Surber on Sep 4, 2009
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS
As a Marine Sergeant, there were many times when I helped out the young troops in my charge with various sorts of favors. Sometimes I was the local financial aid officer, assisting a young Marine in between pay days with the money necessary for a car insurance payment.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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The following were answers provided by 6th graders during a history test. Watch the spelling! Some of the best humor is in the misspelling. Even funnier read aloud to someone else!
1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jan 4, 2008
Let me give you something else from Corrie ten Boom:
After the war she returned to Germany to declare the grace of Christ.
“It was 1947, and I’d come from Holland to defeated Germany with the message that God forgives. It was the truth that they needed most to hear in that bitter, bombed-out
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 3, 2025
[043] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – CHRIST UPHOLDS THE BATTLING ONE
(Longer Introduction)
Do you face battles? Do trials and opposition buffet you and make the way ahead very hard? This poem partly addresses that.
Well there is good news for you. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Your Saviour goes with you all
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 11, 2025
[161]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – JESUS, REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME IN YOUR KINGDOM
This poem is about the repentant thief on the cross who turned to the Lord for salvation. One criminal did and one did not. Here is the gospel account – {{Luke 23:40-43 but the other answered, and rebuking him
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