Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 9, 2008
There are three huge gates that lead into the Cathedral of Milan. Over one gate there is an inscription in marble (under a beautiful flower bouquet) that says, "The things that please are temporary." Over the second gate, there is a cross with this inscription: "The things that disturb us are
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 29, 2008
It can be tough to buy a ripe watermelon. I have bought them when they are over-ripe, mushy, and inedible. In other cases, the still taste "greenish," like a cucumber with sugar on it. But note that on the outside, they look alike. And you can thump and bump. But it is what is on the inside that
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Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Oct 8, 2008
A four-year-old and a six-year-old presented their mom with a houseplant. They had used their own money to buy it and she was thrilled. The older of them said with a sad face, "There was a bouquet at the flower shop that we wanted to give you. It was real pretty but it was too expensive. It had a
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 28, 2008
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"The fear of man is being more impressed with man's reaction to our actions than with God's reaction. That's bondage. When we have the fear of God upon us, we are impressed only with God's reaction. We are freed from the concern of what people think. That's freedom! That's release! That's great
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ILLUSTRATION POINT:
(Hand each audience member a puzzle piece.) His specific plan involves you – look at your puzzle piece which was handed to you when you came in this morning! Here this word from the Lord, "You are an important piece to the vision and to the mission of Christian Hills." God’s
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 15, 2008
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Many don’t want to serve except to serve themselves. But we all serve something. Some serve the idols of money and materialism. Some serve the idols of addictions. Some serve the idols of entertainment. Some serve gods made in their own image. We are called to remind people that God has created
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Contributed by Richard Francis on Jan 31, 2009
In the Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning puts it like this “In Christ Jesus freedom from fear empowers us to let go of the desire to appear good, so that we can move freely in the mystery of who we really are. Preoccupation with projecting the “nice guy” image, impressing newcomers with our
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Contributed by Frank Gallagher on Sep 13, 2001
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These shepherds were symbolic of Jesus Christ the Good Shepherd, who would also humbly follow God’s will. Their sheep represent us as believers, in several ways:
- Sheep cannot clean themselves. Some animals such as a cat can do that, but not sheep. Likewise, we as unbelievers were not able to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 30, 2001
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FOREVER FAITHFUL
Some of us can remember the Sunday morning terrorist bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, in which hundreds of Americans were killed or wounded as they slept.
Many of us can still recall the terrible scenes as the dazed survivors worked to dig out their trapped brothers from
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
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THE MUSH GOD
The Mush God has been known to appear to millionaires on golf courses. He appears to politicians at ribbon-cutting ceremonies and to clergymen speaking the invocation on national TV at either Democratic or Republican conventions.
The Mush God has no theology to speak of, being a
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Contributed by Jim Kane on May 6, 2002
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CONNECTED BUT NOT ALTERED
David Yarborough tells the story from one of Max Lucado’s books of a lady who had a small house on the seashore of Ireland at the turn of the century was quite wealthy but also quite frugal. The people were surprised, then, when she decided to be among the first to have
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 20, 2002
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SAVING THE SHIP, REMEMBERING THE PAST
"Their hair is gray, their shoulders are slumped and they walk with the shuffle of the aged. Their ship, a rusty antique, wallowed through the Atlantic, battered by a winter storm. For the elderly crew of LST-325, a creaking World War II troop ship that had
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
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A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE
America is a great place to live. Thousands of people reach its borders everyday hoping to live the American Dream.
The Chrisian Science Monitor recently reported a poll that asked the question "If it couldn’t be US, whose citizenship would you want?"
Americans,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
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I WILL SAVE YOU
John Piper puts it this way:
If we only knew it, every one of us is stranded on an ice face in Greenland, and the wind is blowing fiercely. Our position is so precarious that even if we inhale too deeply our weight will shift and we will plunge to our destruction. God comes to us
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Jul 18, 2003
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- Someone once said: A Bible in the hand is worth two in the bookcase.
- And someone else said: A Bible stored in the mind is worth a dozen stored in the bottom of one’s trunk.
- Here’s a pop quiz: Which of the following aren’t in the Bible? -Cleanliness is next to godliness - God helps those who
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Nov 10, 2003
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Well will I remember the graciousness of a camp director that I worked with 23 years ago who showed gentleness in a moment when certainly did not feel gracious. It was the last night of this particular camp and one of my campers headed barefoot to the bathroom in the middle of the night and cut him
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