WE ARE HERE! WE ARE HERE!
From movie, "Horton Hears a Who!"
Clip from movie about 5 minutes.
The "Who" people with the help of Horton shouted, proclaimed, cried out and made themselves heard -- it was life and death by the way -- they did this to let the rest of the world around them know that
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Main Idea: God the Father sacrificed His only Son so that we could live.
Verse: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16 NKJV).
Illustration: Once there was a train engineer who had one
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Charismatic
Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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A compassionate man once noticed an emperor moth struggling to emerge through a small hole in its cocoon and decided to assist it. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the cocoon. The moth emerged easily, but it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The little moth spent the rest of
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Baptist
Contributed by Francis Avila on Apr 9, 2004
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An elderly Christian man was taken to a plaza by the Red Army when the Communist Korea taken over the North. Trying to create fear among the people, they beat up the old man to denounce Jesus in front of many witnesses. But each time he got hit, he exclaims JESUS! as he got beaten repeatedy. After
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Congregational
Contributed by Jeff Simms on Aug 11, 2004
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Rick Warren has said in his book “Purpose Driven Life” that there are 2 main problems when thinking about spiritual gifts. One is called “gift-envy”. This means that we compares our abilities and gifts to others. In doing that, we might feel tempted to feel jealous of others or feel dissatisfied
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 8, 2004
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As David Lieberman explains, “Self-esteem and Ego are inversely related—when one goes up, the other goes down…a person with low self-esteem is highly sensitive…The greater our self-esteem, the less hurt we feel when someone is disrespectful.”
• You can see how important this is to church life;
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Independent/Bible
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The problem for Evolutionists is that the Fossil Record does NOT show gradual development. Instead it shows what is known as the Cambrian Explosion. This is the sudden appearance of animal life, fully formed and unchanged up to the present --- with no record of fossil ancestors prior to them.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by William Hooper on Jul 7, 2007
Third, we need to forgive ourselves. In the award winning film called “The Mission,” Robert DeNiro plays a mercenary who has taken asylum in the local church after killing his brother in a fit of jealous rage. He eventually leaves the church and heads to a mission post located above the waterfalls
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 11, 2009
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SPOILED CHILD OF GOD
Have you ever noticed a parent spoiling his child by allowing him to freely roam, disobey, be out late at night without accountability, talk back to him, etc? At times, parents are fearful of losing their child’s love if they restrict their activity or don’t give in to their
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Baptist
Contributed by Bret Toman on Jun 15, 2009
NEGLECT OF COMMUNITY
"If God designed the Church to function like a body with every member ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit to other members, in regular interpersonal relationship, then would it be surprising to find that the neglect of this regular interpersonal, spiritual ministry
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 16, 2009
I want to conclude with a clip. This movie is the story of a POW camp that was forced to build an important and strategic bridge. In this scene, one man unexpectedly decides to intervene on behalf of another. He does it out of his convictions and the love of God in him.
[Show clip: To End All Wars
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Church Of God
Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 11, 2009
Albert Barnes’ commentary: “If she should marry a heathen, would it not be showing that she had not as deep a conviction of the importance and truth of her religion as she ought to have? If Christians were required to be "separate," to be "a peculiar people," not "to be conformed to the world," how
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 23, 2009
‘Pagans’ leaves us with some fascinating possibilities. We must be careful not to read too much into it but touching down on the options opens our eyes to a different way of understanding ‘pagan’ language. Douglas Harper shows how in classical literature a pagan was a word used to refer to the
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Salvation Army
WOULD YOU JOIN OUR CHURCH IF WE PAID YOUR DEBT?
What do you think would happen if we put out the word that on April 1, 2010, all of the debts of every member of the League St. Church of Christ would be paid off by an anonymous benefactor (maybe a Bill Gates, etc)?
Would that excite you just a
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 20, 2010
RIVER OF LAUGHTER
As he was born my heart was bursting with JOY. I held my son Ben up to the Lord and dedicated him then and there. I was so grateful for the gift of a child. I remember driving home at the beginning of that day laughing and honking the horn so everyone could SHARE THE JOY I had,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Larry Allen on Jan 9, 2012
KNOWING WHERE YOU'RE GOING
Remember Alice in Wonderland when she comes up to the fork in the road and asks the Cheshire cat which way to go.
He asks her, "Where are you going?" Then she replies, "I don’t know," at which he replies, "If you don’t know where you are going, what difference does it
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Nazarene
Contributed by Michael Walther on Jul 11, 2011
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GOD'S WORD IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL
I think you'll agree that all true and sincere spiritual movement in your life has been caused and created by the word of God.
I served for one year as a part-time chaplain at a mental hospital. One of my duties there was to help people suffering from chemical
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Lutheran