Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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Follow the example of Deanna Shrodes, the choir director of the North Carroll Assembly of God in Manchester, MD who takes her choir to bars and prisons. Why?
According to Deanna, they go to places "where we were guaranteed to find hurting people." They are taking their message of hope
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 10, 2003
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At Calvary, the Roman soldiers divided the earthly belongings of Jesus, but they gambled for His seamless robe rather than tear it.
These were hardened men, but they saw the beauty of that robe and refused to tear it.
I have heard that the early church used this seamless garment as
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Contributed by Todd Catteau on Oct 31, 2005
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As Christian workers, worldliness is not the trap which most endangers us; nor is it sin. The trap we fall into is extravagantly desiring spiritual success. Never seek after anything other than the approval of God. Unless the worker lives a life hidden with Christ in God, he is apt to become
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 17, 2006
A religious paper tells of the reporters who rushed to see Pastor Martin Niemoeller after his release from prison that they might get some juicy words to print in their newspaper. Instead, they heard a stirring Gospel message and one reporter was heard to say: “Six
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 6, 2006
Statue of Liberty- “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Shouldn’t that be the
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 1, 2007
In Ghana, Africa, the President wanted us to stay in his country and keep preaching what we were preaching because it was changing so many lives. I told him that it was the Word of God that was changing lives. The Lord gave us a wonderful soul-winning
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 19, 2007
Although there were hundreds of people who recognized Jesus as the Messiah on Palm Sunday, they were a small minority. By the end of the 1st Century, perhaps 20% of the Jewish population had accepted Christ, but the leaders and the majority did not.
[Source: An essay by Dr. Louis Goldberg found
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In 1800 a man named William Miller predicted that Christ would return on or around April 3, 1843. All over the Northeast, half a million of his followers awaited the end of the world. Reportedly some of them made their way to the top of mountains, hoping for a head start to heaven. Others were in
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 7, 2004
The cradle of the church was the marketplace. From the preaching and public ministry of Jesus to the daily acts of the apostles, the central scene was the marketplace. Perhaps the greatest need for our day is the need to market Jesus Christ. The church must become expert in marketing: Not in
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According to Charles Haddon Spurgeon, God delights in impossibilities: "One man says, I will do as much as I can. Any fool can do that. He that believes in Christ does what he cannot do, attempts the impossible, and performs it. And of course it was Jesus
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Paul told Timothy to do the work of an evangelist. That was not his gift. He had the pastoral gifts of shepherding, teaching, and administration, but he still had to work outside his comfort zone. He may not have been called to be an evangelist or especially empowered for that type of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2004
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I was speaking with my oldest daughter about spreading rumors, and gossip. I explained that gossip was mean and hurtful and not something Jesus Christ would have us do. I was quiet, while I waited for her to speak. Then she said in a quiet voice from the
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Dec 20, 2004
“Man is beset by neuroses and psychoses that undermine his peace within. The fears of man are so many and varied that psychologists have charted them all the way from a to z: acrophobia, the fear of heights, to zoophobia, fear of animals. People cannot sleep. Americans are the champion
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Contributed by Tom Doubt on Jul 14, 2003
There was a statue of Jesus, arms extended, at the cross-roads in the French countryside [Knight’s Treasury of 2000 Illustrations, p 440]. A fierce battle occurred there during WWI. The hands of the statue were blown away in the fighting. Afterwards, someone placed a plaque on the pedestal:
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Jul 20, 2007
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Charles Spurgeon, The Prince of Preachers, said: “It is the preacher’s principle business… to cry, “Behold the lamb of God.” For this reason was John (the Baptist) born and came into the world… his chief errand was to herald the Messiah, the Son of God. What we have said of
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