Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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WORLD OF WORDS
We live in a world of words. Words are all about us, words on TV, words on the radio, spoken words by family and friends, words printed in newspapers, books, on computers, and words on the Internet. The world of words have turned us into a people who have been overwhelmed,
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Apr 13, 2009
THE WATER JUG OF THE PROPHET JOEL
So, I’m walking through the Museum of Biblical Archeology in Jerusalem, and I’m walking through an area with various kinds of pottery on display, and there in front of me is this absolutely perfectly preserved water jug.
It stopped me cold.
Now understand, as
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by David Rumley on Apr 16, 2009
Warren Wiersbe said, "Do not say, Why were the former days better than these? You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor
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Pentecostal
BARNABAS' GIFT
Barnabas later becomes the disciple who takes St. Paul in tow on the first missionary journey. It is on that journey that Paul discovers his calling to be the apostle to the Gentiles. So Barnabas’s gift, his free will offering of what he owned
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Catholic
Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 21, 2009
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MAKING IT WORSE
One Sunday morning during announcements, the preacher said, "I need to make a correction to an announcement from last week’s bulletin. It read: The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment, and gracious hostility. It should have read: The church will host
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 22, 2009
Some folk must really get into their Sunday School lesson because they are so worn out by the time the sermon rolls around that they just can’t help but fall asleep! Or maybe they have worked up such a sweat during the music that they are plumb tuckered out! Perhaps those taking forty winks
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Church Of God
Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 23, 2009
Most of us have never been to Nisswa, Minnesota, but I, for one, would like to go there someday. And when I go, I need to plan to stay over for Wednesday night. Not that I want to go to church there (Sorry about that, Chief!). No, the reason I want to visit Nisswa is for the Turtle Races. Every
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Church Of God
Contributed by Colin Bain on May 1, 2009
. It is the story of a blind boy with his father on a hill flying a kite. The young lad had the kite string in his hand and a smile on his face which was pointing to the skies. Eventually someone came and asked the unspoken question “What can you possibly get out of flying the kite?”
The boy
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Contributed by Colin Bain on May 1, 2009
We are directed to the place where everything can be seen and directed – heaven, where God dwells and directs. We are called to that place to gain a perspective that is not our own. It is like that moment when a successful businessman might take his child to his office window, showing the extent of
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Salvation Army
It is equally important, he says, to be attentive “to the various kinds of language that the liturgy employs: words and music, gestures and silence, movement, liturgical colors. By its very
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Catholic
Contributed by David Tack on May 2, 2009
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"My faith is not the means of my salvation. It is only the means in which I secure [appropriate]
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Baptist
EVERYTHING WORTH HAVING HAS PAIN
"In everything worth having, even in every pleasure, there is a point of pain or tedium that must be survived, so that the pleasure may revive and endure: the joy of reading Virgil comes after the bore of learning him; the glow of the sea-bather comes after the icy
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Catholic
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 4, 2009
What Happened Here Today?
One day a man came home from work to find total mayhem at home. The kids were outside still in their pajamas playing in the mud and muck. There were empty food boxes and wrappers all around.
As he proceeded into the house, he found an even bigger mess. Dishes on
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Pentecostal