I Did Some Checking This Past Week On The ...
Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 12, 2007
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I did some checking this past week on the history and origins of Christmas and from the on-line encyclopedia, Encarta, I read, “… most scholars believe that Christmas originated in the 4th century as a Christian substitute for pagan celebrations of the winter solstice… Although the Gospels describe ...read more
Denomination: Church Of God
Conrad Lehndorff Writes In His East Prussian ...
Contributed by John Herrmann on Nov 7, 2008
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Conrad Lehndorff writes in his East Prussian Diary, that the housewives still did their housework and their Easter baking and the theaters continued to show movies while the Soviet army, near but as yet undetected, launched its deadly pincers movement. “We go to work in the morning and sit in ...read more
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Denomination: Lutheran
They Came To Pentecost From All Over The World!
Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 19, 2022
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Luke’s list of fifteen geographical locations was a group of nations or areas in which known Jewish populations existed and would likely have sent representative groups to the Feast of Pentecost. Everyone there who spoke a language other than Greek or Aramaic heard the message of the Christians ...read more
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Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Are You Packed And Ready To Go?
Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 28, 2023
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The word "maranatha" is a Syriac expression that means: "our Lord comes." It was used as a greeting in the early church. When believers gathered or parted, they didn't say "hello" or "goodbye" but "Maranatha!" If we had the same upward look ...read more
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Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
The Church At Pentecost Was In Tune With Each Other!
Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Dec 4, 2023
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Acts 2 explains that before the Holy Spirit came and indwelt the believers at Pentecost, they were in unity. The Greek word is hom*othumadon, which the King James translates with the phrase “in one accord.” It’s a musical term that means to strike the same notes together. We all know what it is ...read more
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Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Author Leo Buscaglia Tells This Story About His ... PRO
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 4, 2002
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Author Leo Buscaglia tells this story about his mother and their "misery dinner." It was the night after his father came home and said it looked as if he would have to go into bankruptcy because his partner had absconded with their firm’s funds. His mother went out and sold some jewelry to buy food ...read more
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Author Leo Buscaglia Tells This Story About His ...
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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Author Leo Buscaglia tells this story about his mother and their "misery dinner." It was the night after his father came home and said it looked as if he would have to go into bankruptcy because his partner had absconded with their firm’s funds. His mother went out and sold some jewelry to buy food ...read more
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The Catechism Teaches That "Sacred ...
Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 12, 2010
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The Catechism teaches that “Sacred Scripture begins with the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness of God and concludes with a vision of ‘the wedding feast of the Lamb.’” (1602) “God Himself is the author of marriage. . .The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man ...read more
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Denomination: Catholic
Author Leo Buscaglia Tells This Story About His ...
Contributed by Scott Bradford on Nov 15, 2002
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"Author Leo Buscaglia tells this story about his mother and their "misery dinner." It was the night after his father came home and said it looked as if he would have to go into bankruptcy because his partner had absconded with their firm’s funds. His mother went out and sold some jewelry to buy ...read more
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Denomination: United Methodist
Celebration Of The Incarnation PRO
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2003
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CELEBRATION OF THE INCARNATION“Perhaps we need to call December 25th the Celebration of the Incarnation, to greet each other with Incarnation greetings – instead of “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas” we could shout, “God chose flesh!” “God became one of us!”“The Feast of the Incarnation is ...read more
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Judson Cornwall Was A Prominent Teacher In The ...
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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Judson Cornwall was a prominent teacher in the charismatic renewal in the sixties, seventies and eighties. He said a major facet of Israelite worship was gift giving. Three times God discussed the compulsory feast that His covenant people were to attend and all three times He commanded that they ...read more
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Denomination: Pentecostal
Few Who Bear His Cross PRO
Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 18, 2013
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FEW WHO BEAR HIS CROSSIn Thomas á Kempis' book, The Imitation of Christ he says,Jesus has many who love his kingdom in heaven, but few who bear his cross. He has many who desire comfort, but few who desire suffering. He finds many to share his feast, but few his fasting. All desire to rejoice ...read more
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Denomination: Nazarene
Supporting The Poor PRO
Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 8, 2013
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SUPPORTING THE POORIn a 1998 article in Christian History magazine, Rodney Stark said: "In a world lacking social services, Christians were their brothers' keepers. At the end of the second century AD, Tertullian wrote that while pagan temples spend their donations "on feasts and drinking ...read more
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Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
Jesus Honored Marriage And Weddings
Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 7, 2022
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Note the high honor our Lord places upon marriage and the wedding ceremony in his very first miracle. It honors God when we come to a wedding pure and proclaim our trust in God for the marriage to succeed!By his presence at the marriage feast, the Son of God said, ‘This is an honorable thing’ ...read more
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Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Shedding Light On Thanksgiving PRO
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2003
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SHEDDING LIGHT ON THANKSGIVING The Associated Press, New York, carried this short piece on the first Thanksgiving: "This time of year, classrooms across the United States are filled with tales of the first Thanksgiving feast. But children might not be getting the whole story, says Kenneth C. ...read more
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The Reality Of Palm Sunday PRO
Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 19, 2011
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THE REALITY OF PALM SUNDAYPope Benedict himself in his homily last Sunday in St Peter’s Square said this about Palm Sunday:"But what are we really doing when we join this procession as part of the throng which went up with Jesus to Jerusalem and hailed him as King of Israel? Is this anything ...read more
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Denomination: Anglican
The Heavenly Place PRO
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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(3) "Some of us stay at the cross,some of us wait at the tomb,Quickened and raised with Christyet lingering still in the gloom.Some of us ’bide at the Passover feastwith Pentecost all unknown,The triumphs of grace in the heavenly placethat our Lord has made His own.If the Christ who died ...read more
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Many Years Ago I Read Some Words Penned By F. ...
Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 2, 2008
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MANY YEARS AGO I READ SOME WORDS PENNED BY F. BUECHNER. I wrote these words in the front of my Bible. I have studied these words many times. I make an offering of these words to you.THE SKELETON IS YOU!F. BUECHNER:OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS ANGER IS POSSIBILLY THE MOST FUN.TO LICK YOUR WOUNDS, ...read more
Denomination: Assembly Of God
Years Ago I Remember The Kings Commandoes Going ...
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
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Years ago I remember the Kings Commandoes going camping and coming back with insect bites all over their skin. They had been attacked through the night by blood sucking insects which deposit their eggs on living things so the larvae can feast upon it. So under their skin were deposits of larvae ...read more
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Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
What The Word "Dwelling In Us" Looks Like
Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 19, 2009
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WHAT THE WORD "DWELLING IN US" LOOKS LIKEI think Sam Storms, in his book on Colossians, describes well what it looks like for the word of Christ to dwell in us. He talks about the Scriptures calling out to us. "Don’t just read me," they seem to say. "Feast on me! Meditate! Ruminate! Saturate your ...read more
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