Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 6, 2009
UN-CHRISTLIKE CHRISTIANS
A couple of months ago, there was a story on CNN of a Christian school basketball team that beat another team (another Christian school, I think) by the score of 100 to 0. It was a slaughter. The coach of the winning team, even though it was clear that the other team was
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 2, 2009
Now the picture Jesus paints is of an enemy sowing some weeds. The plant most think is commonly called darnel or cockle earning the name “false wheat” as it looks so much like wheat especially in the early stages. It is common in Syria and Israel. The problem is that by the time it is developed
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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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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Nov 12, 2009
Reverend Dr. Mark Roberts, a pastor, author and retreat leader, cites the Barna Research group in relation to startling discoveries in American research, much of which fits the Canadian climate. Roberts quotes Barna as saying, “only 4% of American adults have a biblical worldview. This worldview
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 8, 2011
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A HIJACKING PARABLE
Think of the human race aboard a hijacked jet-liner flying through time. God himself directed its takeoff from the divine control-tower. The initiator of all evil, whom we call the Devil, Managed to get a boarding pass.
When the plane reached its cruising altitude, the Devil
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 31, 2012
THE TRIBULUM
The Roman method of threshing grain has one man stirring up the sheaves while another man rides over it in a crude cart equipped with rollers instead of wheels (sometimes flat boards were used). Sharp stones or bits of iron were attached to the cylinders to help separate the husks
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Here is a letter from the book Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, by P. Brand. “Dear Lord, I have been re-reading the record of the Rich Young Ruler and his obviously wrong choice. But it has set me thinking. No matter how much wealth he had, he could not-- ride in a car, have any surgery, turn on a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Corrie ten Boom, in her book Tramp for the Lord had these words to say regarding forgiveness:
It was 1947--. I had come from Holland to defeated Germany with the message that God forgives. It was the truth they needed most to hear in that bitter, bombed-out land, and I gave them my favorite
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 6, 2007
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Illustration: Always Had an Uplifting Prayer
There are times when we just can’t seem to be thankful. The Scottish minister Alexander Whyte was known for his uplifting prayers in the pulpit. He always found something for which to be grateful. One Sunday morning the weather was so gloomy that one
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 31, 2007
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Lin Smalec writes, "I read recently about a children’s Sunday School class that heard the Christmas story and sang the beloved Christmas carol, “Silent Night”. They were then asked to draw what they thought the nativity scene might have looked like. One little fellow did a good likeness of Joseph,
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Contributed by Glenn Durham on Feb 4, 2008
Jim Collins’ book, Good To Great, sold more than a million copies. The first sentence captures his main point: “Good is the enemy of great.” Collins believes that most organizations fail to become great because they are good, and we settle for good. Good is good enough for most people.
As a
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 3, 2008
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It is sometimes hard to imagine the wrath of God because most (if not all) of our experience with wrath and anger has been selfish anger. The two hundred pound man who flings the hundred pound woman across the room in a drunken rage. The mother of the four-year-old boy that flies off the handle
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Church Of God
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 5, 2009
Church- a poem by James Blankinship
I think that I shall never see,
A church that’s all it ought to be;
A church whose members never stray,
Beyond the straight and narrow way.
A church that has no empty pews,
Whose preacher never has the blues;
Where elders ‘eld’ and deacons ‘deek’
And none is
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 22, 2025
A few years ago at the Women’s Banquet, I was the head cook and decided to make meatballs, along with pasta, Italian bread, and salad. I announced we had plates with 1 meatball for a small serving and 2 meatballs for a regular serving. Some people were saying, “they are going to starve us.” They
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