Contributed by Sean Smuts on Jan 15, 2003
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HE CHOSE THE NAILS
Max Lucado writes:
...God’s list contains the name of every person who ever lived. For this is the scope of his love. And this is the reason for the cross. He loves the world.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (John 3:16 NLT)
As boldly as the center
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Mennonite
Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Jun 22, 2004
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Joseph Ton was pastor of Second Baptist Church, Oradea, Rumania, until he was exiled by the Rumanian government in 1981. In Pastoral Renewal, he writes of his experience:
"Years ago I ran away from my country to study theology at Oxford. In 1972, when I was ready to go back to Rumania, I
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2004
Imagine you’re a financial counselor. Today you have two appointments, first with an elderly woman and then a middle-aged man.
The woman’s husband died six years ago. She says, “I have no more money. The cupboards are bare. These two dollars are all I have to live on, yet I feel as if God
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Feb 24, 2005
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A teenager’s low popularity convinced her that she was not attractive. She became a top fashion model, hailed by many as the most beautiful woman in the world. All those who had ignored her are now boasting that they had gone to school with Claudia Schiffer!
He was rejected as too awkward and
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Contributed by James Jack on Mar 8, 2005
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Dead Poets Society is, I think, one of the best films of all time. In his first lesson with
his senior class, the rather eccentric but very inspiring English teacher John Keating,
played by Robin Williams, takes the boys into the foyer outside the classroom where
he asks one lad by the name of
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Anglican
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 9, 2006
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There was a ten-year-old boy who decided to study judo, despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident. The boy began lessons with an old Japanese judo master. The boy was doing well, so he couldn’t understand why, after three months of training, the master had
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Christian Church
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 25, 2007
It was January 30, 1994 and Super Bowl XXVIII was being played out at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The NFC champion Dallas Cowboys had just defeated the AFC champion Buffalo Bills, 30–13. Dallas scored 24 unanswered points in the second half, and Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith was named the
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Methodist
Contributed by Curt Cizek on Oct 8, 2007
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-Has anyone ever seen the movie Lorenzo’s Oil?
-It came out in 1992, starring Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon
-If you can still find it, watch it – great movie
-It is a true story about Augusto and Michaela Odone whose 7 year old son, Lorenzo, is perfectly normal until he begins to suffer blackouts
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Lutheran
Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 31, 2012
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MADE IN HIS IMAGE
In 1940 the Battle of Britain took place in the skies over England. Day after day hundreds of German bombers delivered to the targets below a cargo of death and destruction. The only thing stopping the certain defeat of the allies in western Europe was the Royal Air Force, whose
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 17, 2002
Vital Statistics From Operation World (6th Edition, 2001, Patrick Johnstone, and Jason Mandryk) Paternoster, Waynesboro, GA
1. 15-25% of the population of the world is yet to hear a clear presentation of the gospel so that they can personally place saving faith in Christ for salvation.
2. Only
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Melvin Newland on Aug 14, 2001
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ILL. John Todd was a preacher back in the late 1800’s. When he was 6 years old, both of his parents died. So a kind-hearted aunt raised him until he left home to study for the ministry.
Years later, this aunt became seriously ill, & even though she was a Christian, she wrote him a letter
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 22, 2001
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Want to know what your boat is? Your fear will tell you. Just ask yourself this: What is it that produces fear in me - especially when I think of leaving it behind and stepping out in faith?
For David, it is his vocation. He has been a builder for thirty-five years; he is in his late
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