Children’s Sunday Sermon August 6, 2017 Good morning boys and girls. Today I want to tell you a story about a little ant who felt like he wasn’t being treated […]
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It is interesting to note that Scripture offers not the slightest evidence to support any speculation about Christ’s physical appearance. We don’t know what Jesus looked like. We don’t know
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The story is told of a famous monastery in Greece, perched high on a three-hundred-foot cliff. The Abbey can only be reached by a terrifying ride in a swaying basket.
A young boy always concluded his bedtime prayers with a few requests. “Dear God,” he would say, “please take care of Mommy and Daddy and my brother Evan and Aunt
Around about this time every summer, some people wish that their favorite baseball team had a player who, never strikes out, never makes an error, and plays every position perfectly.
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Children’s Sunday Sermon July 2, 2017 Good morning girls and boys. Will those of you who are perfect please raise your hand? I don’t see any hands. Isn’t anyone here
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More than four hundred years ago, in the great Italian center of the arts, Florence, a block of the purest marble, seventeen feet high, lay on its side gathering dust
The late Theodore Geisel, best known as the author of the “Dr. Seuss” children’s books, was once invited to give the commencement address at a college in Illinois. He began
There is no single thing on earth about which we have total knowledge because all creation is permeated with the ultimate Mystery — which is God. In a story by
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A wise man once said, being “too clever is dumb.”-1 And when we say that someone is “too clever by half,” we often mean that they are actually being devious
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If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to travel like a king, you’ll want to listen to this. . . Earlier this year, Saudi Arabian ruler King Salman
In a “Peanuts” comic strip, Linus is listening to Sally as she boasts about her religious zeal, and her potential as an effective evangelist. She says to Linus, “I could
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When we talk about the jarring contrast between the “haves” and “have-nots” of this world, it is all-too-often through a sentimental haze of vague piety, demanding little more than lip
The beloved author and poet Khalil Gibran wrote, “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” For
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A pastor made an investment in an old farm which he planned to enjoy in his retirement years. Still leading a very active church, he would take one day off
For those not familiar with Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, for more than four decades, those names were big, really big. I’m talking Oprah and Ellen and David Letterman
For Christians, it has often been said that our problem is not that Christianity has failed. Our problem is it hasn’t been tried yet. “If you love me you will
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As the story goes, the Devil himself was having a garage sale. There, displayed on a table were all of his bright, shiny trinkets. There were tools that made it
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A wealthy silicon valley executive decided to take a vacation to a remote island so he could “hit the reset button” and clear his head. One afternoon while strolling along
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In Sholem Asch’s great novel, “The Apostle,” the closing scene is set in a dungeon in Rome. Hundreds of Christians have been lowered into a pit through a little trap
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