Contributed by Bill Burress on Feb 25, 2012
One Sunday morning the minister asked the congregation, "Whoever wants to go to heaven, stand up!" Everyone stood except one man sleeping in the back of the church. When the preacher told them they could sit down he asked the question, "Anyone who wants to go to hell, stand up!" About that time
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Contributed by Gary Kins on Jun 25, 2007
Hunting Area - Large Oaks
Tree stands last when you put them in oaks because they withstand the winds of winter.
One time the mighty oak was just an acorn covered with soil that
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else’s way; you are a fruitless
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jul 7, 2009
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TRADITIONS
When the Shema prayer (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) was recited during a service at an old synagogue in Eastern Europe, half the congregation stood up and half remained sitting. The half that was seated started yelling at those standing to sit down, and the ones standing yelled at the ones
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Contributed by Perry Greene on May 20, 2013
WHAT IS OUR TRADITION?
It is said that during a service at an old synagogue in Eastern Europe, when the Shema prayer was said, half the congregants stood up and half remained sitting. The half that was seated started yelling at those standing to sit down, and the ones standing yelled at the ones
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Have you ever seen, read about or heard about how a baby giraffe is born and what happens to it? First of all, a giraffe is a pretty tall animal, isn’t it? When the baby giraffe starts its journey down the birth canal, the mother goes to a spot where there are no bushes, just flat dirt.
As the
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 10, 2006
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Thomas Andrew Dorsey was a black jazz musician from Atlanta. In the twenties he gained a certain amount of notoriety as the composer of jazz tunes with suggestive lyrics, but he gave all that up in 1926 to concentrate exclusively on spiritual music. "Peace in the Valley" is one of his best known
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Don Jones on Jan 11, 2007
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Rev. David E. Cox passed along this observation to his congregation one day. My youngest son, Brandon, is quite the newcomer as an author. No, he does not have the capabilities of writing splendid poetry like Maya Angelou nor leaves his readers in suspense like Stephen L. Carter, but with every
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Baptist
Contributed by Jeremy Poling on Dec 30, 2007
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Thomas Andrew Dorsey was a black jazz musician from Atlanta. In the twenties he gained a certain amount of notoriety as the composer of jazz tunes with suggestive lyrics, but he gave all that up in 1926 to concentrate exclusively on spiritual music. "Peace in the Valley" is one of his best known
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 15, 2009
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FRUIT DISTRIBUTION
The Spirit's provision of fruit might be compared to a man standing on a ladder in an orchard, picking the fruit and dropping it into a basket held by a helper below. No matter how much fruit is picked and dropped, the helper
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
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We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so
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Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 9, 2010
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PHANTOM GUILT
Amputees often experience some sensation of a phantom limb. Somewhere, locked in their brains, a memory lingers of the nonexistent hand or leg. Invisible toes curl, imaginary hands grasp things, a "leg" feels so sturdy a patient may try to stand on it. For a few, the experience
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Contributed by John Hamby on Jun 25, 2002
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In his book, “Mere Christianity,” C.S. Lewis declares, “God is going to invade this earth in force. But what is the good of saying you are on his side then, when you see the whole universe melting away like a dream, and something else - something it never entered your head to conceive - comes
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