Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 22, 2008
Let’s tell the truth: SIN CAN BE FUN! Well at least it is fun for a while. The reality is that sin always has consequences. And the consequences of sin are unpleasant.
The National Geographic reported in October 2005 that a 13-foot Burmese python had been found dead in the Florida’s Everglades
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by J.d. Tutell on Mar 31, 2005
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They remind me of a story told by Lee Strobel. When he was still a writer for the Chicago Tribune he received a phone call from a father desperate to find his missing 19 year old daughter. She was a good girl, never in any trouble, not much more than an innocent child-and now she was gone. The
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Baptist
I was about six years old, first grade student… And half of the school facilities were under construction, remodeling the classrooms. So they put all the grades, from 1 to 8 on a condensed schedule. Grades 5- 8 in the morning, from 7:00 to 1:00 PM, and grades 1 to 4, afternoon, from 2:00 to 6:00
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Brian Harvison on Aug 2, 2008
single man named Jerry had a pet cat that he loved very much.
One year, he decided to take a vacation to England, so he left his cat with his brother Dan.
As soon as Jerry got to England, he called his brother Dan.
“How is my cat?” he asked.
“Your cat is dead,” Dan said.
“Oh my!” he shouted. “I’m
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 6, 2002
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Most of us define love by our personalities:
(1) Sanguines (influencers)--- warmth, expressiveness, and intensity of feeling (the heart)
(2) Cholerics (doers) —good works, provision, and services given (help)
(3) Phlegmatics (relaters)—loyalty,listening, guiding,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 7, 2003
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FEAR, LOVE, JOY
In the movie First Knight, Lancelot (played by Richard Gere) is a wanderer and highly skilled swordsman who fights for whoever will pay him. Seeing a princess and her entourage under attack in the woods, he decides to save her. Attracted to the princess, Guinevere, he later visits
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Contributed by Johnny Small on Mar 12, 2003
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God So Loved
I want to paint a picture for you this morning. Picture yourself arguing with a friend and you really lose it. You pull out a gun and kill your friend. You are caught and arrested. You receive your day in court and found guilty of your sin of murder. You are sentenced to die by
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Baptist
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 12, 2003
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A LESSON OF LOVE AT CHRISTMAS
There is a seldom noticed yet preciously tender lesson to be found in Mary’s actions immediately following the angel’s visit announcing her role as bearer of the Christ Child. She had been told that her cousin Elizabeth was also experiencing an unusual, though
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 26, 2004
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LIFE GIVING LOVE
Here is Ruth, a young widow, who chooses a life of singleness, not because she has no choice, but out of love for Naomi. She could have returned to her own people like Orpah, and would no doubt have been able to remarry and live a normal life, but she gave that up, for the time
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Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Nov 11, 2004
Self Love Is Ordinary
Self-love is so ordinary that Jesus used it as a reference point: Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” When I was in elementary school, the teacher sometimes solved the first problem on a sheet of homework to show us how the others were solved. Jesus used our love for
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Charismatic
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 28, 2001
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Illus.: “Love Your Enemies”
We found ourselves on the same track with several carloads of Japanese wounded after we were freed from the Kwai prison camp. These unfortunates were on their own without medical care. No longer fit for action in Burma, they had been packed into railway cars which were
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2002
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LOVE MY ENEMIES
Richard Wurmbrand, who spent fourteen years suffering in a Communist prison, reminds all believers with less than ideal circumstances that “if the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus Christ, and if the heart love Him, you can resist all tortures.” He says, “God will not judge
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Nov 15, 2006
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Illus.: “God’s Loving Son”
A certain rich man died and left no heirs. When his household goods were auctioned off, an elderly lady dressed in shabby garments was the only one to bid on the picture of the dead man’s son. It had been greatly cherished by the wealthy father because his only child
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Wesleyan
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