Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 4, 2007
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As I listened to Dr Ron Hawkins on the Counseling Ministry DVD’s he said his dad who was a pastor told him after he had retired, “If I had it to do over I would preach more messages of comfort. People have so much pain in their lives.” It reminded me of the many times God would bring this text to
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Joel Vicente on Oct 16, 2007
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Illustrate Humor: During Superbowl XXXVII, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie Castaway, in which Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker whose company plane went down, stranding him on a desert island for years. Looking like the bedraggled Hanks in the movie, the FedEx employee in the commercial
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Baptist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 1, 2008
What happens when we pattern our Sonship on those around us?
Illustration: 4276 Imitating Each Other Or Christ
In the British Museum a Greek writing tablet, earlier than the Christian era, is shown. It is the classical equivalent of a child’s copybook. The headline has been written by the master.
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Contributed by Ryan Reed on May 30, 2008
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Recently I read an article a pastor wrote on today's church: "I look around at church people who really, by any standards, just love Christ a little bit. They don't care for worship, not much of it anyway. Prayer bores them to tears. The Bible is tedious. Their offering is only a token to ease the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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WHO’S THE BOSS
The young husband was henpecked, and he was going to a psychiatrist about the problem. The doctor told him, "You don’t have to let your wife bully you! Go home and show her you’re the boss!"
The young man got home, slammed the door, shook his fist in his wife’s face, and growled,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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BEING WANTED
I heard of a story this week that really moved me deep. It’s a story of a black girl who had cleft palate (bungi). She was the butt of jokes and was very unhappy. They called her names – ugly names that just drove her deeper into despair. Most people made no attention to her except
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
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ALL PARTS ARE IMPORTANT
One day a young girl came home from school in tears because she had been given only a small part in the class play, and one of her friends had gotten a leading role. After her mother dried her tears, she wisely took off her watch and put it in the little girl’s hand. She
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And I have something else to say it. We share the same story as this crippled man did: we can’t walk and others carry us. The pastor, the elders, church board, somebody from your family… your religion is a second hand religion. Others are carrying you… You are just passive watcher, crippled
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Neal Gracey on Dec 13, 2008
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CHAMELEON COMMITMENT
Studdert Kennedy tells of an explorer who brought back a chameleon which his household affectionately named Billy the Lizard. The explorer left Billy in the charge of his butler, who showed him to his many friends and associates. When the explorer returned, he asked how Billy
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Baptist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 22, 2008
He Comes to Us
During a Christmas program, the children's choir sang. A girl had a solo part and a pretty red dress that she could not wait to wear. When her time to sing came, she forgot the words and fell apart in tears. She walked back to the choir sobbing. Soon, the other children were
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Michael Russell on Jan 12, 2009
I was reading the other day how some computers get taken over as slaves. The owner doesn’t know it, but somehow their computer gets used to send lots of email ads, or to try and gain credit card numbers and passwords to steal money. All sorts of evil goes on, your computer is a slave,, and you
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Episcopal/Anglican
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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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by John Bright on Mar 10, 2025
Since this is the season of Lent, it’s a good time to repent of the unhealthy habits we have developed over the years. That means we tell God: “You’re right, and I’m wrong.” That’s the beginning of repentance. Then we need to make a plan. There’s an old saying: Those who fail to plan, plan to
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Methodist
Contributed by Tim White on Apr 14, 2009
A wealthy man who had lost his son in the war put up his priceless art collection for sale by auction. The first item that was presented was not one of the great works from the masters, but a portrait of his beloved late son done by a local artist. The experienced and seasoned art buyers showed no
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Baptist
Contributed by Jeffrey Powell on May 25, 2009
FOUNDING FATHERS' FAITH
John Adams once remarked, "It is the duty of the clergy to accommodate their discourses to the times, to preach against such sins as are most prevalent, and recommend such virtues as are most wanted. For example, if exorbitant ambition and venality are predominant, ought
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Baptist
One of my distant relatives, a young man, came to me once and showed me four photos of four different girls. This was before Twitter and Facebook… He said:
- Man, I love all of them and I wish to have the power to combine them all in one.
Cecilia – great body;
Martha – a face like an angel;
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Aug 21, 2009
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ZACCHAEUS AND THE DRAGON'S DEN
Imagine Zacchaeus before The Dragons Den, (TV show where businessmen invest their millions). Imagine the corrupt entrepreneur Zack making his pitch. Duncan Bannatyne and the other dragons are not going to invest there millions into such a dubious character (rip him
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