Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Feb 27, 2012
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THE BEGINNING OF MARILYN MANSON
Brian Warner started going to church with a friend years ago. Brian was a skinny pizza faced nerdy looking kid that nobody liked. He was also a loner who looked out of place most of the time.
The youth group took a trip to an amusement park one weekend and when
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Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
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LITERAL HELL
When it comes to believing in hell I think of the story of Dr. Maurice Rawlings a noted and celebrated coronary care doctor, who writes of his conversion to belief in a literal hell in Beyond Death’s Door. In 1977 he was giving a stress test to a man who was having chest pains. In the
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 3, 2008
PARENTS: HOW DO YOU REACT?
When it came to our children’s younger days in school, they pretty much were raised in a semi-protected environment. They all went to pre-school at our church in Florida. As the minister, they know Daddy was just down the hall; in fact Deb was the Assistant Director.
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Contributed by Michael Elmore on Nov 29, 2001
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A wonderful illustration of how our lives can be transformed by God’s peace is found in the life of Archbishop of the Chicago diocese, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin’s. In his little book, The Gift of Peace, which he was working hard to complete just a year ago, there is a gripping and moving account of
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Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Nov 20, 2002
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John Harper was born into a Christian family May 29, 1872. He became a Christian 13 years later and had already started preaching by age 17. He received training at the Baptist Pioneer Mission in London, and in 1896 he founded a church, now known as Harper Memorial Church, which began with 25
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Nov 13, 2006
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John Newton was a man who knew both the bondage of sin and the liberating power of the Holy Spirit. He was nurtured by a devout Christian mother who prayed that her only son would become a preacher. But she died when John was very young, and he became a sailor, after the example of his
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Methodist
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Ever hear the story told about the preacher who decided to skip church one Sunday morning to play a round of golf? Every Sunday on his way to the church building he’d drive by a golf course----and during warm weather he’d often see church members playing golf. It wouldn’t have bothered him so
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Contributed by Emilia Florio on Feb 15, 2008
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Over the past several weeks I’ve had the opportunity to have conversations with a young man, in his early 20’s, who’s really struggling with the question of “Is God real?” Matt is a self-proclaimed atheist, a sweet young guy, really. But he picks up the newspapers, and he switches on the TV, and
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by David Rogers on Dec 15, 2008
The True Christmas Gift
Twas the night before the birth,
when all the world did not know what was about to happen
Not a creature was stirring, and all men were napping
The rabbis were safe and secure in their knowledge
Old Herod, the king, the Lord he refused to acknowledge
King Herod was
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day
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