Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Today one grave is open, and from it has risen a sun which will never be obscured, which will never set, a sun which creates new life.
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The Russian word for Sunday, woskersicnye, means resurrection. Every communist, every Russian atheist, must speak of the resurrection when referring to the first day of the week!
-- Robert C. Shannon,
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Assembly Of God
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A VOICE THAT DOESN'T SHOUT
On the Easter just before he died, D. William Sangster painfully printed a short note to his daughter. A deeply spiritual Methodist, he had been spearheading a renewal movement in the British Isles after World War II. Then his ministry, except for prayer, was ended by a
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 7, 2009
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GO BEYOND THE CROSS
Every year, thousands of people climb a mountain in the Italian Alps, passing the "stations of the cross" to stand at an outdoor crucifix. One tourist noticed a little trail that led beyond the cross. He fought through the rough thicket and, to his surprise, came upon another
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Christian/Church Of Christ
RUNNING TO A CROWD OR THE CEMETERY
Supposed you are being chased by a madman, and you had the choice of running either to a mall full of people or a cemetery. Where would you run? I think we would all run to the mall, where there are living people who can help you, and not
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Independent/Bible
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CROSSING THE RIVER
Max Lucado in SIX HOURS ONE FRIDAY tells this story:
A missionary in Brazil discovered a tribe of Indians in a remote part of the jungle. They lived near a large river. The tribe was in need of medical attention. A contagious disease was spreading across the village. People
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Brandon Park on Jan 31, 2010
I have heard that possums are smart animals. You wouldn’t think so because you hardly ever see one except when it’s dead on the road. There’s a joke that goes, “why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done!” But possums, it turns out, are smart. They won’t enter
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Baptist
Contributed by Ken Pell on Apr 6, 2010
A TREE GROWS IN ENGLAND
In Tewin, England's St. Peter's churchyard stands a great four-trunked tree growing out of a grave. Its presence there is a constant reminder of resurrection for residents in the community. The grave from which it grows is that of the 18th century's Lady Anne
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Nazarene
Contributed by John Perry on Apr 6, 2010
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EASTER: OPEN CASKET
I was speaking to a woman recently who told me the sad story of her daughter in-law who was killed in a car accident. She explained how she had been the one who was responsible for the identifying of her daughter in-law's body. When the time for the funeral came, the distraught
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 14, 2010
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THE TOMB IS EMPTY
Little Philip, born with Down Syndrome, attended a third-grade Sunday School class with several eight-year-old boys and girls. Typical of that age, the children did not readily accept Philip with his differences, according to an article in Leadership Magazine. But because of a
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Baptist
ONLY A VISITOR HERE
The story is told of an American tourist who paid the 19th century Polish rabbi Hofetz Chaim a visit. Astonished to see that the rabbi's home was only a simple room with a few books, a table and a bench, the tourist asked, "Rabbi, where is your furniture?"
"Where is yours?"
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Catholic
THE NAPKIN
The master of the house sat down to his meal. As the courses were served, the servents would clear the table as the guests finished eating. During the meal however, the master of the house, folding his napkin and placing it aside his plate, left the room for a period of time. A new
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
We are not simply to linger about the shrine of the resurrection, but are to go declaring the fact of it! Mary was changed from a mourner to a missionary when she met the
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Baptist
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