Contributed by Gene Gregory on Oct 21, 2006
Sadly, we see this even in the church today. How accurately God describes us when we says that we have the venom of asps under our lips, just waiting for someone to offend us, just waiting for someone slight us, just
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Oct 13, 2011
GOD BLESS AMERICA: BE SPECIFIC
The blind man's first request is for Jesus to have mercy on him. Jesus asks him specifically, "What do you want me to do for you?" He answers specifically, "Lord, I want to see."
"God bless America," is a very general prayer. It may be as specific a prayer as
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 23, 2008
What we see urged in the NT is zeal, which is not quite the same as the fad word "passion" (which implies the necessity of emotional exuberance and is emotionally driven) or "urgency" (which implies a desperate God and is usually guilt driven). Zeal is a spiritually driven energy grounded in a
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Coz Von on Aug 27, 2017
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The Davinci code will tell you that Jesus was married Mary.
is it so? NO, NO, AND - mil times NO – NOT!
But I want to show you that God did get married.
Blasphemy, you say, NOT SO, It’s irreverent, sacrilegious – and not true
But He really did! Hear me out.
Long, long ago in a land far far away
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Contributed by Erik Stadler on Dec 21, 2007
At Christmas we see more kindness. Last Friday, my wife went to get some coffee at Starbucks and went through the drive through. When she pulled to get her coffee and pay for it, the clerk said someone else had paid for it. It was a random act of kindness, and we
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
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PERCEPTIONS OF GOD
Most Christians today perceive God like one person noted: God is a lot like our pastor. I don’t see him through the week and I don’t
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Contributed by David Thompson on Jul 30, 2005
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You see we have the spiritual side of worship, the music we make with our hearts, the bread that represents the body of Christ, the covenant that the cup represents and, the blood of Christ.
And over here we have the physical side of worship. Actually eating the bread, and drinking the fruit
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Contributed by Neil Richardson on Mar 12, 2008
We can see an illustration of what Jesus’ death accomplished for us when we put both our hands out in front of us. They are both lit by the light above. But if a large black book is placed above one hand, this hand is now in darkness. This represents our sin. Jesus is represented by the ’sinless’
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Baptist
Contributed by Ken Kersten on Mar 18, 2003
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I remember a few years ago seeing an ad in the paper for a drive in passion play. It was like a drive in movie, you could watch the story of Jesus, the passion play without ever getting out of your car. And I’ll never forget the ad. It said this: “Come and experience the life of Christ all from
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 4, 2007
Theologian A. W. Pink wrote,
As [one] sees the apparent defeat of the right, and the triumphing of might and the wrong … it seems as though Satan were getting the better of the conflict. But as one looks above, instead of around, there is plainly visible to the eye of faith a Throne.… This then is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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GOD THE REBUILDER
Three men are hiking and they come upon a large raging river. They need to get to the other side, but they don’t know how. The first man says, "God, give me the strength to cross this river."
Poof! God gives him big arms and strong legs, and he swims across the raging river. It
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A couple had two little boys, ages 8 and 10, who were mischievous. They were always getting into trouble, and their parents knew that if any mischief occurred in their town, their sons were probably involved.
The boys' mother heard that a Pastor in town had been successful in disciplining
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Fred Sigle on Nov 9, 2006
Families can live in the same house and never see each other. The sad thing is, you wake up to a beautiful HOME, a nice manicured LAWN, two cars in the GARAGE—something you WORKED HARD all of your life to get.
Now the house is COLD, EMPTY, the children GONE and the HUSBAND and WIFE hardly
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2002
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God’s Testing
As the Union Pacific Railroad was being constructed, an elaborate trestle bridge was built across a large canyon in the West. Wanting to test the bridge, the builder loaded a train with enough extra cars and equipment to double its normal payload. The train was then driven to the
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 9, 2012
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ILLUS: (I had 6 plastic see through pitchers on stage… one of which was full of water. Holding up an empty pitcher I said…) Imagine this empty pitcher represents that nation of Israel. (I began to pour water from the full pitcher into the empty one).
God poured out His will and wisdom into them.
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Contributed by David Moore on May 26, 2010
GOD-FANATICS
Did you know that an online survey of 20 000 football fans revealed that 51% said they would starve themselves for a week if that would bring victory in the upcoming World Cup to their national squad. More than 40% offered to give up dating for a year, 7% said they would gladly give
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