Contributed by Curtis Rowe on Dec 11, 2007
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Many cry, “Peace, peace when there is no peace.”
Ill. Old First Church in the Court Square of Springfield is the oldest Church in the City. But, they have long ago departed from the Gospel and the Prince of Peace. For the last several year they have held a vigil to defend a woman’s right to choose
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 5, 2003
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I remember as a child, my brother, sister and I used to ‘play house’ outside. Dad had built us a playhouse and we spent many days out there. Like most kids who would play house always had to make something to eat – right?
So there we would go. Gotta have a little water to mix in with that dirt –
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on May 8, 2006
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’Chaplain Ernst Gordon in his book "Through the Valley of the Quai" tells of the hardship prisoners of War during World War II as they were imprisoned by the Japanese army. These men wrote Chaplain Gordon were reduced to skeletons, riddled with disease, and the only way they could survive was by
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Lutheran
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Unfortunately, there are some people who have no hope at all. They live in a kind of existential pessimism and despair. Bertrand Russell was a brilliant thinker, but because he made no room for God in his thoughts, he could not figure out the mystery of life. He once said, “When I die, I
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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JESUS’ WORDS
There is a hopefulness in life as we hear and become empowered by Jesus’ words.
A Sunday School teacher illustrated this concept of hopefulness in life by drawing on the blackboard two pathways. In the middle of one she placed a large rock, covering the entire path. At the end of
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Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
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Charles Van Gorder was a doctor with the 101st Airborne on June 6, 1944. Captain Gorder and many other doctors were going to do something new on that day. They flew behind enemy lines in gliders made out of tubing, plywood and canvass. Many crashed in the French fields and were severely wounded
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 9, 2024
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SEVEN STAGES OF TEMPTATION
1 THE LOOK --- "When he is drawn away"
2 THE LUST --- "By his own desires"
3 THE LURE --- "And Enticed"
4 THE CONCEPTION ---- "When desire has conceived"
5 THE BIRTH -- "It gives birth to sin"
6 THE GROWTH
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Nov 4, 2006
I never enter this time of remembrance without my mind being flooded with another “fallen soldier”. I cannot forget the heart-wrenching pain of His mother as she watched helplessly as her only Son was beaten to within a hairs-breath of being beaten to death. He waged a war of unsurpassed sacrifice.
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 22, 2007
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ILLUSTRATION: The Hermit
Seeking to know God better, John Chrysostom became a hermit in the mountains near Antioch in A.D. 373. Although his time of isolation was cut short by illness, he learned that with God at his side, he could attend alone against anyone or anything.
That lesson served
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 6, 2010
SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE
There's plenty of evidence of blatant disregard for human life today. Terrorism and suicide bombers? Capital punishment? Human trafficking. Abortion?
So what is God thinking when He asks Abraham to take his only son, the son he loves, and to sacrifice him as a burnt
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