Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 27, 2005
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American Tourists Mistreated, Pastors Tortured & Church Ordered to Close
· August 8, 2005
CHINA: House Church Pastors Tortured in Prison & Shanghai House Church Faces Forced Closure
China Aid learned that more than 210 Chinese house church pastors and believers have been arrested in Hubei, Hebei
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 22, 2002
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Lee Eclov tells the story of one such person. “People came early one Christmas Eve for the 11:00 pm service at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, in New York City. Among them was a recovering alcoholic, six months sober, who slipped into the eleventh row. This was his first Christmas since having
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2004
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… when friends and strangers see Amy and me out with our six kids – hers, mine, ours, and “all ours” – they love to describe us as a ‘90s version if the [Brady Bunch].
We definitely meet all the criteria of a blended family. Somehow in the blending process we haven’t gotten too mixed up.
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
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Jim Rhodes: God’s Complainer
Driving through Mineral Wells, Texas, one afternoon in 1994, Jim Rhodes noticed many buildings standing vacant due to the shutdown of a local military base. "I always complain to God about things that bother me," says Rhodes, "so I asked him, ’Why aren’t these buildings
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Baptist
The Blessing of the Overcomers
What do the overcomers (the ones who defy gravity) of this world get according to Scripture?
a. Revelation 2:7:
i. 7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which
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I remember something that happened just after I moved to Texas from New Mexico in 1974. I was driving down a street in Alvin and was pulled over by a city policeman. He asked me if I was aware that I was driving over the speed limit in a school zone. Having just moved to Texas, I didn’t know
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Christian/Church Of Christ
WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS?
Not long after I got out of seminary, I decided I needed more training. So, I applied for a pastoral residency position at one of the largest churches in our denomination. It was a church in Prairie Village, Kansas, just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. As it turns out, the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 20, 2011
LEAVE ROOM FOR GOD TO WORK
There was an amazing story recently that took place during the riots in Egypt. As a backdrop remember that on New Year’s Day of this year there was a suicide bombing of a Christian church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, which killed 23 Christians and wounded 97
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Methodist
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 3, 2011
ALBERT'S KIDS
Albert Lexie isn’t a doctor or nurse or specialist. But yet he gets on the bus very early three days a week, every week, all year round, and rides for almost two hours to get to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. In his own way, he does a ton of healing while he’s there.
It all
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Kelly Mitchell on Sep 25, 2012
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Talk about rising to the top of your field, Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her influence on modern dance has been compared to Picasso’s on modern visual arts, Stravinsky’s on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright’s on architecture. We should
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Contributed by Rick Palmer on Oct 14, 2018
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In 1980 I was hired as a City Police Officer in a small Midwest town with a population of 2200. The first week on duty we closed an investigation of a local man who held a position in the School system. He had gained the confidence of the parents, students, and the community. After a traffic
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jul 18, 2008
Can You Be Trusted?
Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, Christians were routinely persecuted for their faith by the Communist regime.
We have many inspiring stories of courageous Christians behind the Iron Curtain who were willing to die for their faith during this difficult period in world
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Aug 5, 2008
Can You Be Trusted?
Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, Christians were routinely persecuted for their faith by the Communist regime.
There are many inspiring stories of courageous Christians behind the Iron Curtain who were willing to die for their faith during this difficult period in world
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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DEATH MAKES PEOPLE ANGRY
Back in September of 2004, Casey Neistat of New York City discovered that the battery in his first-generation 5 GB iPod could no longer hold a charge for more than an hour. So he called Apple. Unfortunately for him, Apple basically advised him to buy a new iPod (their
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on May 23, 2009
THE BEST WE COULD SERVE YOU
There was once a man who went to the office every day in his expensive car, and made important decisions and signed big contracts. Often, the important man would enjoy business lunches with his clients, and would try to distract the attention of his influential guests
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Anglican
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 28, 2025
[068]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – ESTABLISHED NOW AND CHANGED
This poem is made up of couplets and each couplet is a contrast. What we were, to what God has made us to become. For example, in the first stanza, a member of the world system, but now, a member of the Body of Christ.
The last two
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