Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 12, 2011
David Seamands: I heard a sermon based on the New Testament story of the Rich Young Ruler. You recall how the young man refused Jesus’ challenge to give away his possessions, take up his cross, and follow Jesus. The preacher accurately called him a millionaire, and then commented, "The poor fool!
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The apostles were a great example of the difficulties of loving one another, and Jesus knew it.
There’s a scene in the epic Franco Zefferelli movie, Jesus of Nazareth, in which Jesus arrives at the house of Matthew, the tax collector, for dinner as he told Matthew he would. Peter and the other
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
Anybody who is walking with the Spirit can’t help but to talk about Jesus. What is the Holy Spirit? The witness of Jesus. And Jesus says, “You will be My witness also…” If you can go a month, 2 months, and Jesus’ name doesn’t come up in the workplace, He doesn’t come up in School teenagers, He
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Baptist
Contributed by Tyler Edwards on May 26, 2009
THE APOSTLE JOHN
Here are some of the things we know about John, John was one of the apostles. In fact he was the youngest apostle. His brother was the apostle James who is beheaded in Acts 12. He is the only apostle to not be martyred for his faith. And he walked in the inner circle of Jesus.
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God Almighty is with us in human flesh, and we are liberated from the power of sin and death. We are “more than conquerors through Him who loves us.” The hymn writer John W. Peterson expresses it so well:
No one understands like Jesus.
He’s a friend beyond compare;
Meet Him at the throne of
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Methodist
Contributed by Dean Kennedy on Nov 25, 2002
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Across the street from the bombed out Federal Building in Oklahoma City, where 168 people died needlessly and senselessly, there stands a memorial. At the heart of that memorial is a nine foot statue of Jesus. But this statue is not one of a stony Jesus with arms out wide like you may have seen in
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Contributed by Scott Weber on Mar 14, 2006
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Dan Brown makes a major flaw in logic in The Da Vinci Code. his two main points actually contradict each other. His conclusion is that we should worship Mary Magdalene, whom he refers to as the “sacred feminine” because he claims she was married to Jesus. However, his earlier argument was that
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The Christian sees through kinder eyes-like Jesus.
He gives from a bigger heart-like God.
He speaks with a purer tongue-like Christ.
He serves with more willing hands-like Jesus.
He walks with a greater faith-like his Lord.
He thinks with a spiritual mind-like Christ.
He sees the needs of
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Contributed by Rick George on Mar 19, 2009
"The distinguishing mark of saving faith is not perfection. The mark of faith is not that I never sin...The mark of faith is that I fight. I fight anything that dims my sight of Jesus as my glorious Savior. I fight anything that diminishes the fullness of the lordship of Jesus in my life. I fight
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2004
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A WOMAN’S PLACE
The Los Angeles Times called the 45-year old Karen Hughes one of the most powerful unelected women in the United States, but she resigned from her post less than a year and a half after Bush had successfully won the presidential election. Her husband and teenage son were
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Contributed by Bill Lobbs on Nov 4, 2000
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There are six varieties of wounds that a person can receive in their body.
Abrasive wound - Where the skin is scraped off. This can result from stumbling or by carrying a rough object or by a glancing blow
Confused wound - caused by a heavy blow.
Incised wound - produced by a knife or spear or
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 16, 2007
The most powerful suggestion as to what and why Jesus was writing in the sand comes from William Barclay. He offers that ¡§Jesus was writing in the dust the sins of the very men who were accusing the woman.¡¨ To go on, ¡§Jesus was saying, ¡§Yes, you may stone her ¡V but only if you never wanted to
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Randy Hohf on Feb 6, 2008
Richard Dawkins, the famous Oxford biologist who is one of the most ardent atheist scholars and debaters today, and who recently published “The God Delusion” in which he spews his hatred for religion and especially for the God of the Bible, peddles his own t-shirts stamped “Atheists for Jesus” and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Mar 26, 2009
Old Testament scholar Christopher Wright states in his book Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament,
"I find myself aware that in reading the Hebrew Scriptures, I am handling something that gives me a closer link with Jesus than any archaeological artifact could do...Above all, this is where he
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Methodist
Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
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Augustine the fiery defender of the faith accepted Christ in the most unusual
way. After resisting God for a long time Augustine heard a child playing
nearby, saying, TOLLE LEGE, TOLLE LEGE, which means, Take, Read. He promptly
read a random verse from the Bible, Romans 13:13- 14, and gave his life
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 24, 2002
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HE’S FORGOTTEN- COMMUNION MEDITATION
She was crazy. Everyone knew it because she had the habit of talking to herself in public and it was known that she believed she even talked to Jesus - and Jesus talked back to her. A new preacher came to town and, hearing of the crazy woman, thought that he
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