Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2001
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[T]here really is no story about the Resurrection in the New Testament. Except in the most fragmentary way, it is not described at all. There is no poetry about it. Instead, it is simply proclaimed as a fact. Christ is risen! In fact, the very existence of the New Testament itself proclaims it.
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jun 4, 2001
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While on a trip to Switzerland, an America businessman was watching a Swiss clockmaker carving the case of an ornate cuckoo clock. As the businessman watched the clockmaker carve out the case, he was astounded at his slow rate of progress. The businessman finally said, “My good man, you’ll never
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Contributed by David Blizzard on Sep 3, 2001
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Michelangelo the famous artist used a lamp attached to his head when he painted. The reason he did this was to keep the shadow of himself from being cast onto the canvas. We need to keep Jesus, the light of the world, between us and the canvas of life to keep self from being cast in the way. No
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2001
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One critic said he had gone to many churches and heard the preacher say, "Don’t try to impress God with your works" or "Don’t attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don’t try to keep the rules and regulations and thus win your way." He looked around at nearly
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 4, 2004
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“Another aspect of a fully surrendered life is trust. Abraham followed God’s leading without knowing where it would take him. Hannah waited for God’s perfect timing without knowing when. Mary expected a miracle without knowing how. Joseph trusted God’s purpose without
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Church Of God
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When Mahatma Gandhi went to Vatican and saw a portrait of the crucifixion and could not take his eyes off it, wrote later, “It was not without a wrench that I could tear myself away from that scene of living tragedy. I saw there at once that nations, like individuals, could only be made through
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Catholic
Contributed by Steve Smith on May 18, 2006
• 52-62% of all first marriages will eventually end in legal
divorce. Untold others will experience emotional divorce and unsatisfying relationships.
• 60% of all remarriages eventually end in legal divorce.
• 43% of all marriages are remarriages for at least one of the adults.
• 65% of
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Baptist
The wife of Thomas Carlyle (a British historian and thinker) wrote in her diary of her hunger for a word of appreciation and love from her husband. After her death, Carlyle read the diary and with a broken heart, repeated over and over, “If I had only known! If I had only known!” That is
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 10, 2006
Derek McGinnis, a 29 year old war vet, lost his left leg to a suicide bomber in Iraq, but he became determined not to let that stop him from his passion of surfing. With that determination, he gathered other war amputees around him to teach them how to surf.
Transitional
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 22, 2006
When the Emperor Valens threatened Eusebius with the confiscation of all his goods, torture, banishment, or even death, the courageous Christian replied, “He needs not fear confiscation, who has nothing to lose; nor banishment, to whom heaven is his country; nor torments, when his body can be
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Contributed by Clay Hallmark on Nov 20, 2006
LifeWay of the SBC. They found something alarming to me. Here is what they learned:
- 80% of all people who join a church and become active participants in a small group are still active and growing spiritually in that church 12 months later.
Of people who join a church and do not become active
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2007
An Aunt was taking a niece and nephew on a tour of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. She was explaining about in this church tradition they say a prayer and light a candle to allow the prayer to go to God while the candle burns. They all lit a candle and said a prayer. On the
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i. Tadlock states, ‘The loss of perspective is another cost of hurry sickness. Perspective means a balanced way of seeing things-the capacity to see people or things in their relationship to each other. You see things as they are rather than in some distorted manner. It’s hard to
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Apr 23, 2009
Jack Mooring (from the Christian band Leeland): "What changed us wasn’t just going to church. It wasn’t going to youth group. It was being in the altar and experiencing the anointing and the presence of God. We want to bring that to Christian music in a new way and have kids experience the Holy
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Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 18, 2009
ONE MOMENT'S BELIEVING
Octavius Winslow said it this way. "One moment’s believing, close contact with the cross will do more to break the heart for sin, deepen the conviction of its exceeding sinfulness, and disenthrall the soul from all its bondage and its fears, bringing it into a sense of
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Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 18, 2009
GOSSIP: SUBTLE POISON
Charles Bridges in his commentary on Proverbs explains it this way: "We may seem to make light of the tale brought to our ears, and wholly to despise it. But the subtle poison has worked. 'Suppose it should be true. Perhaps, though it may be exaggerated, there may be some
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