Contributed by Greg Buchner on May 5, 2005
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Lewis B. Smedes in his book How Can It Be All Right When Eveything is Wrong?” put this admitting into these words…“Grace is rather an amazing power to look earthly reality full in the face, see its sad and tragic edges, feel its cruel cuts, join in the primeval chorus against its outrageous
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Methodist
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 4, 2009
PALM SUNDAY CHANT
We’re going to sing a rap-song together now. What I need you to do is to chant each line after me, and to cheer madly when I lift my arms into the air:
Ho-sann-a; Ho-sann-a;
Hear the people cheer (arms in the air)
Riding on a donkey
See the King appear (arms in the
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 17, 2012
Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Last Supper scene on a dining room wall in Milan. As a visitor stood viewing the finished work, he commented on the realism of several goblets on the table, exclaiming that they were so real he felt as though he could reach out and pick them up. Upon hearing those
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Winners or Losers?
Let's go just a few years forward from Calvary. Another man in the prime of his youth, arrested for heresy by the Jews, a witness to Jesus, Stephen, the first deacon, was dragged out of the gates of Jerusalem and stoned, even as he forgave his murderers. The persecution that
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Contributed by Greg Nance on Dec 28, 2011
PUZZLES AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
At our traditional family Christmas gathering with Jenny's side of the family, somebody always brings a puzzle (usually 1000 piece) to put together as part of the festivities. Later, Jenny's mom will frame it and put it on the wall in their family room where there
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 12, 2011
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THE GOLDEN RULE: IS IT ORIGINAL?
There are people in this world who think Jesus’ Golden Rule was nice but not original. They try to say that Jesus merely borrowed the idea from others.
I once saw a poster that tried to say that.
* Confucius (some 500 years before Jesus) said: "DO NOT unto
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Apr 15, 2010
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
Back in 1991, I did an internship as a hospital chaplain in Philadelphia. At that time, AIDS was a new thing, and honestly, the hospital wasn’t sure how to handle people with AIDS, they were not sure what precautions to take when treating AIDS patients, so they took
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jul 18, 2001
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Did you hear about the farmer that decided to buy a chain saw?
A logging foreman sold him one that he guaranteed would cut down 15 trees in a single day.
A week later, a very unhappy farmer came back to report that the power saw must be faulty - it averaged only 3 trees a day. The foreman grabbed
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
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THE SUFFERING OF THE TRINITY
In the National Gallery of Art in London there’s a picture of the Crucifixion that is so dark that when you first look at it, you can’t see anything. But if you stand and ponder it, and if you do not permit your gaze to falter, eventually you will see in the darkness a
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Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Oct 27, 2004
I’ve not seen this myself, but I have hear about a Museum in Istanbul, where they have a very precious cup (called a goblet). In the center of the inside of that goblet is carved, in gold, a serpent. It has ruby eyes and diamond fangs; its mouth is open and ready to strike. When the goblet is
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Contributed by John Tung on Feb 12, 2009
TAKE UP YOUR CROSS
Christiana Tsai was a Christian woman who developed an eye disease that made it impossible for her to see light directly and was virtually blind. She had to wear very dark glasses.
Yet, she did not withdraw into her own room and say how tough she has it. No, she used her
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Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 20, 2006
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We must first embrace our own old identity, as Jesus said, “if any man will come after me, let him deny himself . . . “ We must embrace it and deny it, then by faith accept our spiritual identity in Jesus Christ. The analogy is given, for purposes of illustrating, of a fifteen year old, unmarried
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Oct 29, 2003
Some day Susie and I hope to build our “dream home,” but before we do we have to overcome some obstacles. First we need to talk together about the house we picture in our minds. We both would like to build a house, but I’m sure that the house I want to build is not the same as the house she wants
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 11, 2007
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Poem: Safely Home
I am home in Heaven, dear ones;
Oh, so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
In this everlasting light.
All pain and grief is over,
Every restless tossing passed;
I am now at peace forever,
Safely home in Heaven at last.
Did you wonder I so calmly
Trod the valley
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