Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 9, 2010
Pastor's Sermon Aimed At ME
My pastor shapes his sermons
From A to final Z
In clear and forthright language,
And aims them straight at me.
And when he gets to preaching,
I look around to see
If there might be another
Deserving more than me.
But every soul
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Baptist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Sep 17, 2010
70 Die and 200 Are Feared Dead as 2 Boats Capsize on Congo Rivers. Congo river boats are often overloaded. When the fire started and people began jumping overboard, nearby fishermen ignored pleas for help. “Fishermen attacked the boat and started beating passengers with paddles” as they tried to
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Aug 13, 2011
OOPS...
A secretary was leaving the office one Friday evening when she encountered one of the bosses, Mr. Jones. He was standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.
"Listen," said Mr. Jones, "This is important, and my secretary has already left. Can you make this thing
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Brethren
SOUND THEOLOGY
In a Peanuts cartoon Lucy and Linus are staring out the window, watching it rain. Lucy says, "Boy! Look at it pour. What if it floods the whole world?"
Linus, "It won't. In Gen. 9, God promised Noah that would never happen again. The sign of that promise is the rainbow."
Lucy,
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Baptist
Main Idea: Explains why believers in Christ are called Christians.
Verse: “the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch” (Acts 11:26 NKJV).
One day a man carrying bananas walked by a house in Central America. A woman cried out, “Hey, banana man!” His name is not banana man. Why does he
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Charismatic
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“If America upholds God's eternal standards and follows His unchanging ways, then it will be blessed with His favor...His protection...His prosperity....but if America should depart from the ways of God, if it should disregard His eternal standards, then the smiles of heaven, the blessings of
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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I could never believe in God if it were not for the Cross. In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I turn to that lonely, twisted, tortured figure on the cross—nails through hands and feet, back lacerated, limbs wrenched, brow bleeding from thorn-pricks, mouth
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Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on May 16, 2003
"Feddersen’s Fables" has the story of a rancher who rented a famous stallion, to sire a champion by one of his thoroughbred mares. The owner of the majestic beast delivered and unloaded the stallion directly into a corral, and the next day, the rancher rode another horse out onto the meadow and
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Lutheran
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Apr 23, 2004
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“The show went on; many had been slain (in the Roman Colosseum), and the people, madly excited by the desperate bravery of those who continued to fight, shouted their applause. But suddenly there was an interruption. A rudely clad, robed figure appeared for a moment among the audience, and then
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Orthodox
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A Luge Ride is Like Life
While we were away last weekend, we went on the luge at the top of the gondola ride in Queenstown. You go up on the gondola to the hill above Queenstown. The restaurant and café has a luge track running around it.
For those who have not seen it or been on one, the luge is a
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 13, 2007
Law, fulfilled in Christ
The Little Flower
A story is told about Fiorello LaGuardia, who, when he was mayor of New York City during the worst days of the Great Depression and all of WWII, was called by adoring New Yorkers ‘the Little Flower’ because he was only five foot four and always wore a
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Other
Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
Once upon a time, a congregation outgrew their church building. Everyone agreed that they needed to build a new church; but they couldn’t agree on a blueprint, a budget or a building site. In desperation, the pastor invited everyone to join him for an evening of special prayer. One woman came,
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Free Methodist
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