Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 21, 2001
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A guide at Blarney Castle in Ireland was explaining to some visitors that his job was not always as pleasant as it seemed. He told them about a group of disgruntled tourists he had taken to the castle earlier in the week.
"These people were complaining about everything," he said. "They didn’t
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Contributed by Tom Conant on Apr 3, 2009
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MONEY MONEY MONEY
Money magazine declared money was the number one obsession of Americans. Newsweek reports there is a new plane of consciousness called "transcendental acquisition." Its cover story of 8/27/01 tells of a woman saddled with debt who charged a diving trip to French East Indies.
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 6, 2009
I am free in Christ to drink any coffee that I want. But if I know that certain brands of coffee or tea have not be grown and bought in a responsible fashion then in my opinion I am abusing my freedom and am hindering my witness to those who have suffered from the injustice. I had a Starbuck’s
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
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As Clayton J. Schmit put it in his commentary on our text, “The moment of birth is one of unspeakable joy. Yet, if parents stopped to count the cost of taking a child home (which, fortunately, they never do) they might be tempted to turn the gift down.
The cost of baby food and diapers, sleepless
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Contributed by Chad Wright on Apr 25, 2002
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Throughout history, women have been treated by men as lesser humans. Athenian women were of inferior status, often guarded by dogs, treated as fickle, contentious, and uncultured in comedy. In Jesus’ day, there was a prayer said by Jewish men thanking God in this manner, “Thank you for not making
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Lutheran
Contributed by Pieter Botes on Mar 1, 2003
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Wabush, a town in a remote portion of Labrador, Canada, was completely isolated for some time. But recently a road was cut through the wilderness to reach it. Wabush now has one road leading into it, and thus, only on one road leading out. If someone would travel the unpaved road for six to eight
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Apr 13, 2004
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I read a true story about a young man who was called into the Civil war between the States. He made it back from the war without even a scratch. But when he got home, he learned that his father had died. He went out to the barn where his father used to milk the cows and saw a strange thing. He saw
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Baptist
SOMETHING POSITIVE ALWAYS
When Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a lonely island he thought of both the good and the bad.
- He was cast onto a desolate island, but he was still alive, not drowned as all of his ship’s company was.
- He was separated from mankind, but he was not starving.
- He had
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Independent/Bible
MAKE THE FIRST MOVE
Many years ago I was preaching in a little mountain church in a close community. There was a division between two men in the church over a cow. Their families had been at odds, and they had brought the argument into the church. One of the men bought a cow and the other man
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Bible Church
Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 12, 2007
ILLUSTRATION
A father is reading his newspaper when his small son jumps up into his lap and tugs at the bottom of the paper, wanting his father’s attention. The father feels a surge of anger within. Why? He at first perceives that his right to read the paper without being disturbed is being
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Charismatic
Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 22, 2007
e. One time while doing training at Fort Riley, I got out of my vehicle. There was no moon light and it was very cloudy. I figured I could find the remainder of my vehicles because I could hear them running. I started walking towards the next vehicle when all four of my vehicles shut off. I
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Lutheran
Contributed by Hugh Laing on Feb 15, 2010
Christ body...the church has became fat, lazy, forgot how to pray, wealthy in possessions, and so worldly and wrapped up in our own things we just forgot how to deny SELF...and the worse part is it happened to us individually as well as (coeporaTELY)to our
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 11, 2010
A friend loans you a car at the last moment. As he rushes off, he says, "By the way, the gas gage is broke." You have no idea whether the tank is almost full or nearly empty.
This is our status in life. Some of us die young, others live to be
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Nov 15, 2007
A pastor friend asked me to go with him to cleanse a house for a church member that keep having apparations in his house. They lived alone but people kept seeing people in his house when no one was there. We prayed through the house annoiting it with oil and dedicating it to Jesus, and commanded
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Daniel Haas on Jan 5, 2009
"I give myself to you to be your husband.
I promise to love and sustain you in the covenant of marriage,
from this day forward,
in sickness and in health,
in plenty and in
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Congregational
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