Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on May 6, 2009
The death of Jesus Christ is the propitiation for our sins. ‘Propitiation’ is a difficult word and isn’t in everyday use. A minister tells the story of going home with a member of his congregation who had under one arm a gift-wrapped box and in his other hand a bunch of flowers. Both of those
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We Christians are as G.K.Chesterton put it, "the most materialistic of religions".
When we reject a crude hedonism that is never satisfied with the material goods it has, it is because we think the things we already have are such wonderful gifts that we should treasure them rather than lusting
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Anglican
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 28, 2012
Television executives tried to reject The Charlie Brown Christmas story because it has the true story of Christmas. Charlie Brown has picked out an ugly tree, everyone laughs at him including Snoopy, and he screams out for someone to tell him the real meaning of Christmas. Linus begins to recite
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Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
Did you know that we spend roughly 68 times more money caring for the average felon than on a church’s ministry to a spiritually hungry child. From George Barna, Transforming
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Charismatic
Contributed by Greg Buchner on Jul 15, 2004
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Bishop Blake of the Oklahoma Area Conference told this story at General Conference…
“In 1999, the Oklahoma Conference met soon after the tragic tornadoes that swept thought the area, the most severe ever calculated by measuring devices. Many homes and many lives were destroyed. That conference
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Methodist
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 6, 2007
Movie – Saving Private Ryan. It is loosely based on the story of four brothers who served during WW II. Because it was believed three of them had died in battle, a Division was sent deep into enemy lines to bring the last one home alive. It is this scene where Tom Hanks, playing Captain John
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Emilia Florio on Feb 15, 2008
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God has a very specific purpose, calling, mantle for you. Maybe you’re finding yourself right now in a place, spiritually or physically, where you don’t quite belong. Where you are struggling and gasping for breath, like a fish floundering around on the shore. Take that fish and put it in the
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Contributed by Bruce Emmert on Jul 11, 2002
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The McIlhenry Tabasco Sauce folks have adopted the Scoville Heat Unit scale to rate the spiciness of their sauce. To give you an idea, catsup would be about a zero on the Scoville heat unit scale. Their mild Tabasco Green Pepper Sauce would rate about 600 Scoville Heat Units; their medium
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United Methodist
Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Apr 26, 2002
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Football practice was over, and Denny was sore from head to toe. Slowly he climbed the graffiti-laden stairway of the aging apartment building.
Suddenly, his mother’s chilling screams pierced the cold, still air. He had heard the sound many times before. Still, a sickening knot formed in Denny’s
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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INTRO: Football practice was over, and Denny was sore from head to toe. Slowly he climbed the graffiti-laden stairway of the aging apartment building.
Suddenly, his mother’s chilling screams pierced the cold, still air. He had heard the sound many times before. Still, a sickening knot formed in
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Illustration of a famous person being filled and empowered with the Holy Spirit from Evangelist John Rice's book called, How Great Soul Winners Were Filled with the Holy Spirit published in 1949.
He wrote this book to show how its the Holy Spirit's power which empowered the great men of faith of
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Contributed by James Botts on Aug 29, 2002
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After spending 3-1/2 hours enduring long lines, rude clerks and insane regulations at the Department of Motor Vehicles, Glenn Vaughan stopped at a toy store to pick up a gift for his son. “I brought my selection - a baseball bat - to the cash register,” he said. "Cash or charge?" the clerk asked.
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Dec 4, 2003
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A young African boy listened intently as the missionary teacher explained why Christians give presents to each other on Christmas Day. ’An expression of our joy over the birth of Jesus and our love for one another’.
When Christmas came the boy brought the teacher a very beautiful sea shell.
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 4, 2007
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Quote: J.C. Ryle in Foundations of Faith said:
Who can estimate the value of God’s gift, when He gave to the world His only begotten Son! It is something unspeakable and incomprehensible. It passes man’s understanding. Two things there are which man has no arithmetic to reckon, and no line to
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If there is anything good in us, it is not our own, it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift then it is entirely a debt one owes to love. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself. Thus my learning is not my own, it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I
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Contributed by Don Parmely on Sep 11, 2006
A [recent] study by The Barna Group shows that despite an intense surge in religious activity and expression in the weeks immediately following 9/11 the faith of Americans is virtually indistinguishable today compared to pre-attack conditions.
The director of the Barna study, David Kinnaman, put
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