Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 21, 2001
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THE AGE BAROMETER
Change is a fact of life. The older you are the more change you’ve seen. This morning I have a test called "The Age Barometer". By taking this simple test you can determine how old you really are.
Give yourself one point for each item you remember:
1. Blackjack chewing
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Contributed by David Fox on Nov 13, 2001
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“Of thirty Roman emperors, governors of provinces and others in high office, who distinguished themselves by their zeal and bitterness in persecuting the early Christians, one became speedily deranged after some atrocious cruelty, one was slain by his own son, one became blind, the eyes of one
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Brian Mavis on Nov 16, 2001
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In his book "One Lord, One Faith," author Rex Koivisto warns:
We cannot read into the [biblical] text some meaning if it
conflicts with the writer’s intended meaning.
[For example,] in the early 1960’s the folk group Peter,
Paul, and Mary sang a song about a young boy’s
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Fred Sigle on Apr 20, 2005
Several years ago while going home from work, Giles Tate, a brother in Christ from Amarillo, Texas, saw two children playing in a vacant lot. They were dirty, ragged, and hungry looking. He stopped his car and asked where they lived. They pointed to an old abandonded school bus standing near
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Fred Sigle on Feb 14, 2006
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Sue Herzog was 18 when she was KILLED on New Year's Day 1982. Kevin Tunell was 17, so his case went to JUVENILE COURT, where he was CONVICTED of MANSLAUGHTER and DRUNKEN DRIVING.
Louis and Patricia Herzog filed a $1.5 million suit against Tunell, but settled for $936.00, to be paid $1.00 at a
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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Picture a scene from the Old West, sometime in the 1870s. Weary cowboys in dusty Levi’s gather around a blazing campfire after a day on the open range. The lonely howl of a coyote counterpoints the notes of a guitar as the moon floats serenely overhead. Suddenly a bellow of pain shatters the night,
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Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Aug 7, 2006
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A. I was riding with retired Air Force officer Wally Hall. We were approaching the guard house at the entrance to Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan. Wally was about to give me my first tour of a military base. I wondered how I would get in. Would they ask me a lot of questions and make
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Baptist
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Oct 2, 2006
I’ve been reading this week about the true story of Juan Tomaylla (‘Tried by Fire’, ISBN in the UK 1-85424-638-0 or ISBN in USA 0-8254-6236-3). Juan was a humble Christian taxi driver in Peru and on 10 July 1993 he was falsely imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. For the first two days he was
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Anglican
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John Maxwell stated this on page 1351 of the Leadership Bible:
1. What most impresses me about Apollos, however, is his teachability. He never thought he had learned so much that he couldn’t improve his game. Luke points out several facts about this man:
a. He came from a cultured city (v.
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
When people claim that Science and Faith are at odds often point out that back in the Middle Ages the Catholic Church refused to accept Galileo’s theory that the earth revolved around the sun. (rather than the other way around.) That is true --- but the Church did not reject this theory based on
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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In his book The Spiritual Life of Children, the famous Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles, tells the story of Alice, a ten-year-old girl who came from a family that did not believe in God. She expressed her doubts to him with these words: “I remember... I saw the people next door coming home from
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Methodist
Contributed by W F on Mar 24, 2007
Christian missionaries first went to Africa 200 years ago. One of the groups they sought to "convert" there were these bushmen of the Kalahari desert. However, this article pointed out that the bushmen of the Denui village in particular, consistently refused to become Christians. Instead they have
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A few years ago during the Easter season a very unusual cross was constructed on the front lawn of a church in Dallas, Texas. The cross, which was at least 10 feet tall, became extremely controversial. Many people in the community, some of whom were church members, wanted the cross to be taken
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Baptist
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I CANNOT CALL YOU FRIEND!
Unknown...
My friend, I stand in judgment now.
And I fill that you are to blame somehow.
On earth I walked with you day by day.
But never did you point the way.
You knew the LORD,
In His truth and His glory.
But never did you share the story! ?
My knowledge then was very
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Assembly Of God
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