What Child is this?
To the seeker, He's the Way;
to the philosopher, He’s the Truth;
to the penitent, He’s the Life.
He is Joshua's captain,
He is Moses' smitten rock,
He is Ruth’s Kinsman Redeemer,
What Child is this?
He is David’s Covenant King,
He is Esther’s
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Rick Renner suggests that "by praying in Jesus' name, a believer actually stands in the physical place of Jesus who is in Heaven, acting on His behalf and operating in the authority He has vested to that believer as His official representative."
Thus, this prayer of the elders in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A young girl grows up on a cherry orchard just above Traverse City, Michigan. Her parents, a bit old-fashioned, tend to overreact to her nose ring, the music she listens to, and the length of her skirts. They ground her a few times, and she seethes inside. "I hate you" she screams at her father
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The Gift of Us
Marjorie Tallcott was married and had one child during the Great Depression. The family managed to scrape their way through, but as Christmas approached one year Marjorie and her husband were disappointed that they would not be able to buy any presents. A week before Christmas they
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I think, at a childs birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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In 1975, a child named Raymond Dunn, Jr., was born in the state of New York. The Associated Press (AP) reported that at his birth, a skull fracture and oxygen deprivation caused severe retardation. As the child grew up, the family discovered that he had other impairments. His twisted body suffered
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jul 12, 2001
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The story is told of a time when a little child in an African tribe wandered off into the tall jungle grass and could not be found, although the tribe searched all day.
The next day the tribal members all held hands and walked through the grass together.
This enabled them to find the child, but due
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 21, 2001
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There’s a story about a child psychologist who wanted to observe how different children respond to negative circumstances.
They got a room and filled it with horse manure. Putting the pessimistic child in there, they observed how he responded.
Predictably, he whined and cried, and despaired that
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“A young woman, eight months heavy with child, waddles into her mother’s house. Flops on the sofa. Kicks off her tennis shoes. Props her puffy feet on the coffee table. And groans, “I don’t think I can make it.”
Wise from the years, the mother picks up the photo album and sits beside her
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Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 23, 2004
The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System reported an estimated 1,300 child fatalities in 2001.
That means an average
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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One Sunday in a Midwest city, a young child was "acting up "during the morning worship hour. The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew but were losing the battle. Finally, the father picked the little fellow up and walked sternly up the aisle on his way out. Just before
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