Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 15, 2010
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GLAD TO COME TO THE FUNERAL
Garrison Keillor told the story of the time that his mother and father took him to the city to visit an aunt who was lonely and alone after the death of her husband of 55 years. He describes how she looked to him at 10 years of age. Her dress was stained with food
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Apr 10, 2010
WHY CIRCUMCISION? Why not a tattoo on the arm or something similar? Circumcision was a hidden sign. It seems to me it has something to do with the promise of Abraham having many descendants, being fruitful and multiplying. The sign reaffirms God's promise right at the very place where the sexual
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 6, 2010
Dave McPherson told this story:
A U.S. Air Force transport plane with its captain and 5 crew members was flying over Alaska in the mid-50s when they entered an unusually fierce snowstorm. The navigator contacted an air base only to be told that he had veered several hundred miles off course.
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 30, 2007
Bono of U2 has used his status to increase the Kingdom of God here and now. In 1982, thorugh the Live Aid and Band-Aid he helped Ethiopians. But not only that he traveled there to make sure the funds were used honestly and effectively.
What he saw changed his life. He worked at an orphanage for
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Church Of God
Contributed by James Mcdonald on Sep 18, 2007
This past Tuesday, Stacy and I went up to Freeport to encourage a local homeschooling support group. The group had advertised the event in their area, seeking to increase attendance a bit. I received an email from a friend of mine, Bob, who attends a Reformed church in Southern Wisconsin. Bob was
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 2, 2007
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Ready Or Not, Here I Come!
As children we used to play a game called “Hide and Seek.” The object of the game was for someone to be “It” while the others ran to hide. Whoever was “It” had to hide their eyes, count to a predetermined number, and then go and find all the hiders. The hiders, meanwhile,
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Baptist
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 18, 2009
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THE UNGODLY
"Who does God justify through faith? The ungodly! Who did Christ die for? The ungodly! That means those without God. Ungodly. Why does God justify the ungodly? Why did Christ die for the
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Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 15, 2007
Matteo Ricci, the brilliant 16th century Jesuit priest, went to China to share Christ with the Chinese. He took the time to study the language and the culture to more effectively share the Gospel with those that had never heard of Christ. He was so
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Lutheran
It is said that a church is considered evangelistically effective if just 1 person in 20 in that church leads a person to Christ in a year. This would mean that a church of 100 people would see five people come to Christ in their ministry in a year’s
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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During WWI one of my predecessors at Tenth Presbyterian Church, Donald Grey Barnhouse, led the son of a prominent American family to the Lord. He was in the service, but he showed the reality of his conversion by immediately professing Christ before the soldiers of his military company. The war
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Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 17, 2009
What would it mean to obey this command? Jerry Bridges helps us think through what that looks like in his book, The Gospel for Real Life. Here are just a few points he lists.
To love the Lord your God with all your heart … soul and… mind means…
• Your love for God transcends all other desires
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Oct 19, 2010
There’s a story from the 1800’s of a young couple, William & Elizabeth, madly in love, and engaged to be married. Elizabeth enjoys planning for their future. William on the other hand knows that it’s only a matter of time before he is called away to sea to fight various enemies in far-off lands.
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Anglican
Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 26, 2007
Ever had a time when you felt all alone in life, didn’t know which way to turn? Do you ever have a point in your life where you felt so overwhelmed and frustrated that you just didn’t know what to do?
You might be like a guy who went alone on a vacation up in the mountains and he was walking
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Methodist
Contributed by Ken Kersten on Jan 22, 2004
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Fritz Peterson, former New York Yankee, pictures Jesus as a baseball player. He says, “I firmly believe that if Jesus Christ was sliding into second base, he would knock the second baseman into left field to break up the double
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Contributed by Jim Mazzulla on Apr 6, 2004
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I am personally big on friendship evangelism - loving those who do not know Jesus without snubbing my nose at them. If you want to see hearts open to the gospel, treat them with Christ’s love. Oh, some will not respond, but what a
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jun 10, 2004
“The day of glory may be future, but its arrival is as sure as if it had already come. The hope of glory will then give place to glory realized; but as it is Christ Himself who is now in us the hope of glory, so it is Christ Himself who will eternally be
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 4, 2007
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H. A. Ironside recounted his experience with work:
Illustration: Do All in the Name of the Lord Jesus
“Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Col. 3:17).
When I was a boy, I felt it was both a duty and a privilege to help my widowed mother make ends meet by finding employment in vacation time, on
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